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  1. Re:Fuel cells? on Thorium, the Next Nuclear Fuel? · · Score: 1

    And how do you get Hydrogen out of water? oooh, electricity? Who would have thought....

  2. Re:Legal? on Battle.net Accounts Becoming Mandatory For WoW · · Score: 1

    October has 31 days.

  3. Re:Legal? on Battle.net Accounts Becoming Mandatory For WoW · · Score: 3, Informative

    The change was announced about half a year ago and the deadline was announced 31 days ahead so I have no idea what you're on about.

  4. Re:After reciving an e-mail that appeared... on Why the FBI Director Doesn't Bank Online · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Personally I find the access to account history with the lower security level (just password) convenient and it massively cuts down on how often I need to use the security token since you usually want to check account balance/recent history much more often then you do transfers to outside accounts.

    Anyhow the option to turn off low security banking all together should exist for the paranoid, what good exactly is a low security login to a phisher if you assume the telephone banking isn't doing bad assumptions about what is and isn't secret?

  5. Re:After reciving an e-mail that appeared... on Why the FBI Director Doesn't Bank Online · · Score: 1

    Wikipedia:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_token

    For my bank it's a small device that you login to with your PIN. Then after you've logged into your bank the website will tell you to enter in a number, then the device will give you another number to give the website.

    So basically to log into the secure part of the bank you need both the physical object (the token) and the password (the pin for the token)

  6. Re:After reciving an e-mail that appeared... on Why the FBI Director Doesn't Bank Online · · Score: 1

    Well, if you can find atleast one bank that does it then your online banking is reasonably safe.

    Ofcourse you're still vulnerable to MITM attacks if you don't pay enough attention.

  7. Re:After reciving an e-mail that appeared... on Why the FBI Director Doesn't Bank Online · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't that be a security issue with the telephone banking system rather then the internet one?

  8. Re:After reciving an e-mail that appeared... on Why the FBI Director Doesn't Bank Online · · Score: 1

    I thought all banks used security tokens for online banking.

  9. Re:Too early yet on Legal Code In a Version Control System? · · Score: 1

    That is not how separation of church and state works. Religious organizations are not barred from receiving taxpayer money, the government is barred from favoring any particular religion.

    Thus religious organizations can get funding the exact same way secular organizations.

  10. Re:Interesting double standard, too. on Comparing Microsoft and Apple Websites' Usability · · Score: 1

    Technically unix like freedom is probably more like communism "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need" then free market capitalism.

  11. Re:Dragon Age will never have the community of NWN on BioWare On Building a Community For Dragon Age · · Score: 1

    That's uhm, wierd.

  12. Re:don't believe it on Artificial Brain '10 Years Away' · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What the heck are you talking about? None of this is metaphysical, it's theoretically possible with good enough imaging tools to make a 1:1 copy.

  13. Re:Who protects us from corporate greed? on EPA Quashed Report Skeptical of Global Warming · · Score: 1

    The problem with climate change(compared to good old environmental destruction) is that it's really really slow and you can't really claim damages from someones descendants.

  14. Re:Yes, makes sense on Japanese ESRB Bans Rape Depiction In Games · · Score: 1

    Actually there is a correlation, the question is how strong it is.

  15. Re:D&D meets Mudflation=current MMOs on Throwing Out the Rulebook For MMOs · · Score: 1

    I don't think there's much demand for games where you power up slowly.

    Fundamentally white wolf and D&D are the same system.

    You have X hit points, you do Y damage per attack and you have a number of attributes that affect the value of X and Y.

    The question is not really about using another system, the question is more about how much emphasis do you want to put on non combat attributes?

    WoW has close to zero emphasis on non combat attributes, everything you do in the game you do to become stronger in combat.(Except gathering vanity items).

    However I really don't think that you'll get a large audience if you insist on making the game annoying. Limiting the mobility of the player by having stamina affect for how long you can run etc doesn't add anything fun to the game, and fun is the core element of a successful game that a lot of "hardcore" players keep forgetting.

    Some people have tried putting more emphasis on non combat things such as crafting and player housing etc but so far I havn't seen it work out very well.

  16. Re:Something larger than WoW? on Throwing Out the Rulebook For MMOs · · Score: 1

    It would be really hard to make an accurate comparison between a subscription rpg and free to play+premium content rpg.

  17. Re:Been there, done that on Robot Warriors Will Get a Guide To Ethics · · Score: 1, Informative

    The laws worked perfectly, the book was all about how things went wrong when people tried to modify them.

  18. Re:Better off not working for them... on In France, Fired For Writing To MP Against 3 Strikes · · Score: 1

    At least in Sweden all emails to the government default to becoming government documents and thus public.

  19. Re:Plus, electrical demand is != bandwidth demand. on The Grid, Our Cars, and the Net · · Score: 1

    I think the idea is that future electrical cars will consume heck loads of power, if they all started charging at the same time when everyone gets home they'd probably break the grid however if they're connected to the "smart grid" then they could be nice and spread out their charging through the night so everyone is charged by the morning.

    Fully charged cars could even help the grid out by sending out power at peak times.

  20. Re:Not too worried on Bill Would Declare Your Blog a Weapon · · Score: 1

    Wikipedia:
    Death

    Soon after opening an account on MySpace, Meier received a message from Lori Drew, using a fabricated account attributed to a 16-year-old boy, Josh Evans. Meier and Josh became online friends, but never met in person or spoke. Meier thought he was attractive.[19] Meier began to exchange messages with this person, and was described by family as having had her "spirits lifted".[14] This person claimed to have just moved to the nearby city of O'Fallon, was home schooled, and did not yet have a phone number.[15]

    On October 15, 2006, the tone of the messages changed, with Drew saying (via the account) "I don't know if I want to be friends with you anymore because I've heard that you are not very nice to your friends". Similar messages [20] were sent; some of Megan's messages were shared with others; and bulletins were posted about her.[14] After telling her mother, Tina Meier, about the increasing number of hurtful messages, the two got into an argument over the vulgar language Meier used in response to the messages and the fact that she did not log off when her mother told her to.[14] After the argument, Meier ran upstairs to her room. According to Meier's father Ronald Meier, and a neighbor who had discussed the hoax with Drew, the last message sent by the Evans account read: "Everybody in O'Fallon knows how you are. You are a bad person and everybody hates you. Have a shitty rest of your life. The world would be a better place without you." [14][21][22] Meier responded with a message reading "You're the kind of boy a girl would kill herself over."[7]. The last few correspondences were made via AOL Messenger instead of Myspace [23]. She was found twenty minutes later, hanging by the neck in a closet.[7] Despite attempts to revive her,[24] she was pronounced dead the following day.[14]

  21. Re:Guesstimates? on The Problem With Estimating Linux Desktop Market Share · · Score: 1
  22. Re:Mistrial? on Judge In Pirate Bay Trial Biased · · Score: 1

    Being the member of the same organization is probably not very uncommon, I bet most judges and prosecutors are members of the Swedish bar association and other legal organizations.

    The problem is that the judge is part of several organizations that are clearly against the accused.

  23. Re:Figures! on How Piracy Affected the Launch of Demigod · · Score: 1

    I think it only shows that the person designing TQ's DRM didn't think it through, all the people downloading TQ assumed it was the developers fault that it was so buggy and spread really bad PR leading to poor sales.

  24. Re:Being informed about the rules on Swedish Tax Office Targets Webcam Strippers · · Score: 1

    What the heck do you think currency is?

  25. Re:Obama has done less good on Obama Administration Defends Warrantless Wiretapping · · Score: 1

    In what way exactly is Obama left footed in international relations?