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  1. Re:$4/gb is highway robbery on Rogers Shrinks Download Limits As Netflix Arrives · · Score: 1

    That seems rather expensive, adjusted for currency exchange i pay $15 for 6MB/s up/down and no bandwidth cap. As much as i can upload and download it's ok. And this is only the international speed, local peering is even faster.

    I live in Bulgaria btw and i get a very low latency with the entire european union/ asia.
    With the Americas you can still download/seed but it's no good for real time playing like in FPS games.

  2. Re:The guy is amazing on The Chipophone — an 8-Bit Chiptune Organ · · Score: 1

    He'll record more tunes on it. At which point an enterprising records company should make a CD of his works. The cd should be an audio/data mix cd. Audio tracks with his recording and the data one with .sid/mod files of the original songs.

  3. Re:Moddable fighting games on PC Gamers Too Good For Consoles Gamers? · · Score: 1

    You can find a torrent of different versions of it. With different characters and you can make your own.
    All fighters have their sprites ripped, sounds taken and moves replicated for it. There's mega packs as well as game specific cast selections.

    Also the stages have been ripped from lots of games. It's truly a marvel to fight the entire cast of King of Fighters/Street Fighter with Millia Rage from Guilty Gear.

  4. Re:Boop, boop, boop on PC Gamers Too Good For Consoles Gamers? · · Score: 1

    :] He is right next to you, don't you think any such cheating will result in a prompt slap upside the head :D

    As for the 8keys problem. It's no problem if you use two keyboards. There's just now comfortable way to have two players use the same keyboard.

    If you are playing this on linux it could possibly make the difference between the two keyboards (? can some one more in the know how tell me)

  5. Re:Boop, boop, boop on PC Gamers Too Good For Consoles Gamers? · · Score: 1

    What boop boop? You mean the sticky keys feature of the os? You disable that. I'm using a lousy HP keyboard and it works fine the arrow keys can't ghost so it's ok.

    Player Number two uses a second keyboard and a different set of keys then you. If your Punches and Kicks are QWE and ASD he can use some other combination. For his arrow keys he can use the numpad.

    Just plug a second usb keyboard it's fine.

  6. Re:Duh. on PC Gamers Too Good For Consoles Gamers? · · Score: 1

    Mouse? You don't need one in a fighting game. Keyboard is different but viable input device for fighting games, you can play any arcade game in an arcade Emulator and the Street Fighter series works well.
    Also i've had much experience with playing Guilty Gear on the PC ( it was ported by the devs ) with keyboard and I manage to do better then with my usb joypad.

  7. Re:Moddable fighting games on PC Gamers Too Good For Consoles Gamers? · · Score: 4, Informative

    There's the big one MUGEN, I'm sure if you dig some into it you can find others.

  8. R136a1 or Rieshai on Scientists Discover Biggest Star · · Score: 1

    Maybe they should have named it Rieshai instead of using numbers.

  9. Re:IBTL on Swedish Pirate Party Launches ISP · · Score: 1

    No they don't. People need to have full anonymity online.
    Keep your grubby ass backwards notions in real life where they belong. We don't need that kind of bullshit on the internet!

  10. Re:From TFA, wind is fine. on In Oregon, Wind Power Surges Disrupting Grid · · Score: 1

    Clearly the president has to go over there and kick some governor butts. Just have the two states make a joint operation and fund the upgrade. It's THAT simple.

  11. Re:Cool on Remix This Game — a Free Software Experiment · · Score: 1

    I noticed those things too, but the developer COULD have worked a little bit more on the graphics and sound. Hell any off the shelf free sounds could have been better...

    Still this could have some potential if some one makes a more streamlined/faster paced version.

  12. Re:Horrible on US Deploys 'Heat-Ray' In Afghanistan · · Score: 1

    How about neither? I'd rather use an incapacitating agent. Something like BZ/Agent 15 or Kolokol-1.
    It'd be nicer if there was one that acted fast and didn't have any too long lasting effects because i'd rather have a crowd of sleeping people then a nightstick melee with the police, burned eyes or tear gassed suffocations.

  13. Re:Question.... on US Deploys 'Heat-Ray' In Afghanistan · · Score: 1

    Yes. Depending on the thickness of the sheet and the frequency used. You COULD in theory make a parabolic antenna and bounce the beam back at your enemy.

  14. Re:Uses? on Researchers Synthesize Real-Time Fracture Sounds · · Score: 1

    Sound in space is so jarring. I'd much rather have music ( opera choirs, BSG style battle drums etc ) then cheap sounding zooms and booms.

  15. Re:Where does the value come from? on Bitcoin Releases Version 0.3 · · Score: 1

    Can not be regulated by a central power. Why don't you read The FAQ already.

  16. Re:Where does the value come from? on Bitcoin Releases Version 0.3 · · Score: 1

    Same thing that provides value to gold and other currency.
    People's willingness to substitute it for goods. Once this thing gets established and you can trade for it in games,online,reallife it will have a real value. And when the 21 mil limit is reached no one can make more money.
    Thus no inflation.

  17. Re:More information on Bitcoin Releases Version 0.3 · · Score: 1

    Remove your paranoia spectacles. How are they gaining anything. This is not a pyramid scam.

  18. Re:too hypothetical on Has Any Creative Work Failed Because of Piracy? · · Score: 1

    It is clear FOSS enthusiasts should work with Microsoft to develop a night unbreakable copyright protection system for Windows. When people have to shell out of their pockets the exorbitant prices Microsoft wants for their os people will stop using it.

  19. Re:*Some* people will pay on Has Any Creative Work Failed Because of Piracy? · · Score: 1

    That's not a useful rule of thumb, that's a gross exaggeration.

  20. Re:Techno Puzzle on Antibody Discovered To Boost HIV Vaccines · · Score: 1

    Surely they can make an exception for people who's blood actually helps.

  21. Re:Progress on this front is good on Antibody Discovered To Boost HIV Vaccines · · Score: 1

    Can't the same technique "target binding site parts of virus" work for every other type of virus?
    Does this mean we're about to win the virus arms race?

  22. No big loss. on Blizzard To Require Real First and Last Names For Official Forums · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I know i'm not going to use that forum if they make this mandatory.

  23. Re:Use file permissions. on Photo Kiosks Infecting Customers' USB Devices · · Score: 1
    Virus makers could theoretically update their libraries in things like metasploit to detect for this. Doesn't mean you shouldn't do it just to thwart a good chunk of the viruses that are already out there.

    Yes i have autorun disabled. Have had it that way since forever. You can do this on your virus removal toolkit usb. The one you use to fix people's stuff.

    Two things should happen to stop this problem fully and permanently once and for all:
    • Emergency Security update disabling autorun for all devices.
    • The big hardware manufacturers getting together and making write protection switches on usb sticks a minimum. And i mean REAL write protection the kind that's done on hardware level, not just a flag the device parses to the os.

    With the advent of USB3 devices this could be a chance for a good thing.

  24. Re:Use file permissions. on Photo Kiosks Infecting Customers' USB Devices · · Score: 1

    Requiring people to use fat32 is a little barbaric. Why would anyone have to be forced to use a file system without file permissions or password encryption is beyond me.

  25. Use file permissions. on Photo Kiosks Infecting Customers' USB Devices · · Score: 4, Informative

    More people need to know about this:
    You can make your usb stick immune to all autorun viruses. Simply make an empty autorun.inf file on the usb stick, set file permissions for username " everyone " to Full control: Deny all.
    Now noone can delete, write, rename that file and viruses aren't smart enough yet to take over control or delete permissions on the file. The file system on the stick would have to be ntfs. If the file system on it is fat32 you'll need to run from cmd
    convert Z: /FS:NTFS /X
    Where Z is the partition letter of your usb stick. You can also disable autorun on all partitions using TweakUI