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  1. Re:Storm of the century?? on 26 Nuclear Power Plants In Hurricane Sandy's Path · · Score: 2

    Yes. It's only Cat 1. It's being hyped up mostly because of its size and the noreaster that's going to strike it.

  2. Re:If only more companies acted on their thoughts on Valve: Linux Better Than Windows 8 for Gaming · · Score: 2

    It's all fluff. Developers still have no reason to migrate to Linux. It's not going to be as if, "OMG Win 8 is the new Windows platform so we need to Linux!" No, there's going to be plenty of gamers who are still running Win 7 (and possibly even Win XP) machines that are running perfectly fine for them. Developers won't alienate the base so it's fully a matter of if they're going to commit resources to make the game viable on Linux.

  3. Re:Game Controls on Wired Proclaims the Death of the Game Console · · Score: 1

    You really don't understand Nintendo's hardware development. Supporting one tablet means that they're supporting divergent gameplay.

    Let's go back to the Gamecube era. The Gamecube permitted you to use a link to connect a Gameboy Advance to the Gamecube. The most basic usage of this was to provide benefits to link a Gamecube game to a Gameboy Advance version. However, there were some games where the link provided the players with different data because the GBA was linked up (Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles). This is the early revision of what you can see happen with the Wii U.

    With the Wii U supporting a tablet, they permit 1 player to have a vastly different view of information from other players. The tablet itself is not meant to be a controller but to provide exclusive information to a single player or allow that player to do something that the other players cannot.

    So what would be an example of such gameplay? I'm immediately drawn to Mario Party as a source of inspiration. It is not uncommon for Mario Party to feature 1v3 minigames in the roster. In most of those minigames, the player who is by himself has vastly different controls from what the other three players do. By having a tablet, Mario Party could create a 3v1 game (rather than 3v1 minigames) in which the the 3v1 minigames use the tablet. Additionally, it would permit the tablet player to do thing such as potentially modify the gameboard or add traps or other such little things for the players so they don't know that they're three.

  4. Re:Photoshop? on Experts Warn About Security Flaws In Airline Boarding Passes · · Score: 2

    However if it is random and the indicators for a random search can be known, it's still security theater. Get a boarding pass, scan it for the random search indicators. If the boarding pass has them, then the agent just aborts and gets a new boarding pass under a new ID.

  5. Re:Blame the victim much on Judge Rules Defense Can Use Trayvon Martin Tweets · · Score: 1

    Zimmerman's jacket had four bloodstains containing Martin's DNA, so there's your blood.

    I hadn't heard that. Thanks. I also would not be surprised for a small caliber bullet injury to have blood on the shooter either.

  6. Re:Blame the victim much on Judge Rules Defense Can Use Trayvon Martin Tweets · · Score: 1

    Most likely, not. I think you misunderstand what bullets do. For the size of the round that we're talking about, the bullet hole would be a hole. It wouldn't rip flesh on entry and certainly doesn't have the penetration to cause an exit wound. So what would happen with such a wound? Well, first the cavity created by the bullet would begin to fill with blood and the blood would the leak out of the wound with the majority of it being absorbed by the clothing of the victim. It would take a bit for blood to accumulate to the point where it would begin to drip and would also require that during the entire time, Martin was above Zimmerman or for Martin to have been laying across Zimmerman. For blood to splatter out onto Zimmerman, Martin would have almost certainly needed to be shot in a major artery.

    If you consider what Martin probably did after being shot, there's a high probability that he got up to run away after being shot leaving only a second or two (insufficient for the blood to drip) where blood could have gotten on Zimmerman.

  7. Re:Sure on Former Australian Cop Wants Jail For Internet Trolls · · Score: 1

    And before that it was Georgia, IIRC. Then they had a little spat over taxes and lost it.

  8. Re:Do Not Want! on Former Australian Cop Wants Jail For Internet Trolls · · Score: 1

    That's offensive to people who walk into bars.

  9. Re:*shiver* on Former Australian Cop Wants Jail For Internet Trolls · · Score: 1

    I fill mine with alligators. To ensure I am not liable I have signs posted every 5 ft that say "BEWARE OF MOAT ALLIGATORS".

  10. Re:Before anyone panics... on Steam Protocol Opens PCs to Remote Code Execution · · Score: 1

    I've had problems with that on Windows 7. When I fresh open steam after a restart sometimes it won't show any games recently played. Then after playing a game that game will show up. Then later, after something happens, I'll get my 6 most recent games to pop up. The unreliability of the method means I no longer use it. I also don't care enough to figure out why it does it.

  11. Re:Are Printing Presses A Tech Issue? on Iran Running Out of Physical Currency, Satellite Broadcasts Dropped in Europe · · Score: 1

    Except that the article doesn't mention Bitcoin and it's a word tossed in there by the submitter.

  12. Re:Revenge? on Teen Suicide Tormentor Outed By Anonymous · · Score: 1

    The girl found no one to talk to because her parents didn't want to parents and just shipped her off to relatives.

  13. Re:Outing is not the best solution on Teen Suicide Tormentor Outed By Anonymous · · Score: 1

    But the Internet is the Cloud! And the Clouds are all up in the air. The Clouds aren't on the ground you will never run into them with your car.

    Now you might run into the Internet when flying a plane but so far it doesn't seem to cause any damage to the plane. I bet you lag is whenever a plane runs into a Cloud! /sarcasm

  14. Re:Loophole on Will EU Regulations Effectively Ban High-End Video Cards? · · Score: 1

    Except that many people do not buy gaming PCs (which would potentially meet the definition) as a whole unit but rather construct them. If you buy just the video card as a consumer then it would likely not be exempted regardless of end purpose.

  15. Production Capacity on Commercial Amphibious Vehicle Is Part ATV Part Jet Ski · · Score: 2

    It only takes 50 days for them to hit the quote they're expecting to sell. That's roughly 20% of their capacity. What are they using the other 80% on? Otherwise they'll see some massive layoffs.

  16. Re:THERE GOES CABLE! on FCC To Allow Cable Companies To Encrypt Over-the-Air Channels · · Score: 2

    TV broadcasting has 10 years to unfuck itself. That's when their NFL contract expires.

  17. Re:There are still wires on Is a Wireless Data Center Possible? · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'll be honest here. We're just kind of throwing science at the wall and seeing what sticks.

  18. Re:Why kill the 1 Jew when you can 1 million chine on Einstein Letter Critical of Religion To Be Auctioned On EBay · · Score: 1

    They're they nice guys out of pity due to the ass reaming they took from a pair of atomic bombs.

  19. Re:misleading title on Libertarian Candidate Excluded From Debate For Refusing Corporate Donations · · Score: 2

    Hmmm.... where can I get some $5000 people. I would like to breed them for $5000 babies to sell.

  20. Re:So on Linux Foundation Offers Solution for UEFI Secure Boot · · Score: 1

    Then you boot WINE.

  21. Re:Do you know what real animals eat? on Seafood Raised on Animal Feces Approved for Consumers · · Score: 1

    Anybody who has spent any time on a farm can tell you that cows eat a lot of their own shit, literally.

    Alright. So cows eat their own shit.

    I remember once watching a cow grazing on some tall grass, while another cow was shitting all over the first one's head and of course the grass it was eating.

    The expectation you set did not match what you uttered. You made an expectation that cows actively ate cow shit like dogs eat dog shit rather than passively eating it because some other cow shit on their face and the grass they were eating.

  22. Re:God bless the free market! on Seafood Raised on Animal Feces Approved for Consumers · · Score: 1

    I'm glad you listed comprehensible information.

    That information should already be available on the product in the form of the product code. The product code contains a lot of information regarding the manufacturing process and other factors related to the food.

  23. Re:What's the value here? on US Election's Only VP Debate Tonight: Weigh In With Your Reactions · · Score: 1

    Those 90,000 women, who every year are unfortunate enough to have an ectopic pregnancy will have to choose either dying for lack of an abortion or face execution for premeditated murder, since virtually no ectopic pregnancies occur without their being detected before the premature death of the fetus. And this is "reasonable"?

    Considering that Ryan straight out called "rape, incest, and life of the mother" as acceptable exceptions I'm not sure what your point is.

  24. Re:What's the value here? on US Election's Only VP Debate Tonight: Weigh In With Your Reactions · · Score: 0

    The Constitutional issues are quite valid. In fact the history of the constitutionality of Obamacare stretches all the way back to before World War II.

    Decades of decisions in the Supreme Court based off decisions made by an extorted Supreme Court do not mean that the current decisions are valid.

  25. Re:What about the speed of information? on Mathematicians Extend Einstein's Special Relativity Beyond Speed of Light · · Score: 1

    Everything that has mass and moves emits gravitational waves) are far away. The ones that are left are predictable (planets, the sun, nearby stars), can be used to check the speed of gravitational waves (since they coincide with a visible event) or are extremely rare.

    How would spacecraft affect this?