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  1. Re:Crunchy Goodness! on Mozilla Starts To Follow a New Drumbeat · · Score: 2, Insightful

    yea, i went that route (6GB of RAM on Vista x64), problem is that Firefox shits the bed long before my OS runs out of memory. in my experience, once FF hits about 1.2GB of RAM, it crashes.

  2. Re:GRRRROOOAAANNNNN on Duke Nukem Forever Not Dead? (Yes, This Again) · · Score: 4, Informative

    3d realms is not 'done' and Take Two does not own the rights to Duke Nukem. Take Two is suing for the assets to Duke Nukem Forever (possibly to finish the game) saying 3D Realms breached their contract with Take Two for failing to deliver the game. By the time the court case is finished, those assets will almost certainly be worthless, if they're not already.

  3. Re:Wait, I still have to move? on Control Your Apps Without Your Finger · · Score: 4, Funny

    despite what most psychologists these days seem to claim, not everyone has ADD. some of can focus on thing at a titties.

  4. Re:Ohh, really? on World's First Integrated Twin-Lens 3D Camcorder · · Score: 4, Insightful

    if you've ever shot anything professionally you'd know that what you see and what the camera sees are never quite the same thing. the parent has a legitimate point, and I don't think many professionals would make use of this camera. although the article is a little light on details, and in my opinion what you'd really want instead of a dual eyepiece is the ability to display each shot individually by hooking up two monitors. its also possible there's a button or something to allow you to choose which frame is displayed on the eyepiece or an external monitor.

  5. Re:The diodes can stay, but the processor's gotta on Blu-ray Capacity Increase Via Firmware · · Score: 3, Informative
  6. Re:Citation Gambit! (Sorry Mods, Offtopic!) on HP Patents Bignum Implementation From 1912 · · Score: 1

    so to sum this up, you "opened seven tabs" and spent clearly considerable time to ultimately prove that one of the posters three claims was unverifiable and at best an exaggerated anecdote, though no evidence exists that anyone other than the poster has ever told said anecdote before. oh, and you threw in a bizarre claim that challenging an assertion on a message board is libel, and made up numbers to go with it. nice work, and definitely time well spent.

  7. Re:What I want to know is... on HP Patents Bignum Implementation From 1912 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    [citations needed]

    very badly since you seem to be the only person on the entire internet to have ever heard any of these stories.

  8. Re:The entire Internet is a panic then? on The Top 5 Technology Panics of 2009 · · Score: 1

    well, "the internet" is slightly less portable than a cell phone. maybe if you took apart the tubes and put them in the back of a truck, but even then it's still harder to fit in your pocket than a cell phone.

  9. Re:I use it because... on Is OpenOffice.org a Threat? Microsoft Thinks So · · Score: 3, Informative

    Not really gonna weigh in either way here, but Office 2007 has a free plugin from Microsoft that lets you print to PDF and it does preserve links.

  10. Re:Say they do... on Google About Openness · · Score: 5, Insightful

    actually, i think a lot would change if they opened up their search algorithm, since the first page on every search would be nothing but links to viagra and malware.

  11. Re:Newspapers? on Wikileaks Targets the Local News Frontier · · Score: 2, Informative

    The two weeks is NOT so that the local newspaper can 'spoon feed snippets' it's to give an actual journalist time to verify the accuracy and authenticity of the information. Without that, wikileaks is really nothing but a gossip site.

  12. Re:I've never really understood this device on The Software Router As MiFi Killer · · Score: 1

    Mmh, I did miss that. I usually don't think of it, so yeah.
    But I rather do like the idea of a dedicated device handling that.

    yea, its pretty easy to miss that one, i never think of it. someone should write an article about that type of setup, especially since i hear windows 7 has that functionality built right in. then someone could post that article on slashdot and we could all discuss it.

  13. Re:Heads Up and Activision Statement on Leaked Modern Warfare 2 Footage Causes Outrage · · Score: 4, Informative

    it appears to be both. from the video, it looks like you are a CIA operative undercover in a terrorist cell, and you join in with them on a terrorist operation. unclear whether you HAVE to kill the civilians with them, or just CAN.

  14. Re:Sony's historical 2D bans on Can Nintendo Really Be Planning Another DS Variant? · · Score: 3, Informative

    you say that like it's a fact (much like the douchebag who wrote the blog you link to) but neither one of you has a shred of evidence, and the list of 2D games for PS2 would seem to directly contradict this ridiculous statement (see http://www.racketboy.com/retro/sony/ps2/2007/10/best-2d-ps2-games-playstation-2.html for a list).

  15. Re:Wait a minute here on Legal War For WA State Sunshine Law · · Score: 3, Insightful

    except they didn't go into a voting both and pull a lever or press a button. when you walk into a closed voting booth, there's a presumption of anonymity. when you sign a petition a street corner, there is not.

  16. Re:Who verifies the source? on Wikileaks Plans To Make the Web Leakier · · Score: 4, Insightful

    generally journalists spend significantly more time trying to verify the information rather than verifying the source. Even in your example, Woodward and Bernstein spent their investigation verifying Deep Throat's information, not his personal credibility, since his any information about him obviously couldn't be used in the article.

  17. Re:A novel concept... on Why the FBI Director Doesn't Bank Online · · Score: 1

    No, if you RTFA, he's a man. Is he expected to know anything? That's for the wife to take care of.

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

    yea, anyone who claims they took half a million dollars out of a single online savings account because of concerns about password security is someone who has quite obviously never had a half million dollars.

  19. Re:And because of piracy... on Why the Sony PSP Had To "Go" · · Score: 1

    Well, it's not quite a mop, not quite a puppet, but man..... So, to answer you question, I don't know.

  20. Re:Price Drops on Why Games Cost $60 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    anyone remember the Virtua Racer for the Genesis? First time we ever got real polygon's on a home console, cost $100 when it was released.

  21. Re:That's what you get on Take-Two Faces $20 Million Settlement For "Hot Coffee" Scandal · · Score: 3, Interesting

    actually, an R rating only gets you tits and ass. show a cock in any sort of sexual context and it's NC-17.

  22. Re:Easier solution - *.bank.se on Swedish Regulators Ban Word "Bank" In Domain Names For Non-Banks · · Score: 1

    yea, but if that works, so will
    www.secure.chase.com.clientlogin.app37o7.se
    so what's the point?

  23. Re:MS needs to be thinking about the 720 on Microsoft Drops Xbox 360 Pricing · · Score: 1

    there's nothing stopping consoles from having MMOs hardware wise. the reason that no one's making one for XBOX is because MS doesn't like monthly subscriptions on XBOX Live.

  24. Re:Dress up a pig on US Call-Center Jobs — That Pay $100K a Year · · Score: 1

    Call Center != Telemarketer
    RTFA

  25. Re:Two words on Drug Vending Machines · · Score: 1

    yea, except the pyxis is designed to be used by doctors, not patients, not a small difference.