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  1. zerg on The Political Games Surrounding Video Games · · Score: 1

    What I learned from playing Ogre Battle 64 is that war is wrong and my choices have consequences that will come back to skull fuck me when I least expect it. I also learned that if your superiors order you to kill an unarmed man, you have every right to disobey that order... because, hey, you gotta follow your heart.

  2. Re:Article is a troll against Democrats on The Political Games Surrounding Video Games · · Score: 1

    One of the two Columbine kids had a severe mental disorder, the other was just a follower. Being teased didn't have as much to do w/ it as we'd like to believe. There are plenty of books on the subject, all scary because we should have seen it coming a long way off...

    But also definitely not caused by video games.

  3. zerg on NIST Issues Windows XP Security Guide · · Score: 2, Informative

    For any part that says "disable unused services", don't forget to check out XP Service Config Guide by Black Viper.

  4. Re:How Safe is FireFox? on MSN's Slate Recommends Firefox over IE · · Score: 1

    "We've got top people working on it."
    "Who?"
    "Top people."

  5. Re:zerg on GeCube All-In-Wonder 9600XT 128M/TV/FM · · Score: 2, Funny

    Actually I got it off eBay for 1/5th the price, so it would be kinda silly for me to complain... Easier to bitch on Slashdot than actually do something about it.

    You say "for a while", what did you switch to?

  6. zerg on GeCube All-In-Wonder 9600XT 128M/TV/FM · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I know it's just wishful thinking, but I can't wait for a workstation class card that doesn't require a fan... Damn thing (FireGL X1) makes more noise than everything else in my room combined... And according to the article, this new card won't change that.

  7. zerg on Cassini Shatters Titan Theories · · Score: 2, Funny

    Awesome! Now we can start making games and movies about evil aliens from Titan!

  8. Re:Heh, on ACM Eyes Policy Position on Electronic Voting · · Score: 1

    You have to pay to get an ACM account, so they can verify that it's one vote per account per poll.

    We can't verify that they can verify, but you would think a gathering of professional computer geeks could do it better than slashdot.

  9. Re:zerg on India's Digital Village · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but Dell isn't an Indian company and I gotta represent. Then there's the whole "prison labor" thing. Then there's the 2 years in high school I spent servicing Dell computers...

    Honestly, I won't need a new PDA until my Zire 71 breaks and Palm decides not to replace it.

  10. zerg on India's Digital Village · · Score: 2, Funny
    It incorporates the state of the art bio-logon metrics system from Compaq
    haha, Compaq. Those poor bastards are fucked.

    In any case, instead of simputer.org, maybe you wanted this instead? It seems simputer.org's tech specs are out of date. I'm drooling over the 4200.
  11. zerg on ISS Gyro Fixed Via Spacewalk · · Score: -1, Troll

    w00t, rock on!

  12. Re:Fess up on E3 'Booth Babe' Interviews Reveal Comedy, Tragedy · · Score: 1

    My bad ^^;;

  13. Re:Sounds like... on What's the Sound Of A MethaneFall? · · Score: 1
    All without any programming?
    haha, owned.
  14. Re:You don't know the half of it.... on 'Satan' Missile Now Launches Satellites · · Score: 1
    I haven't read any of the stuff after the Soviet Union fell, but I read alot of the stuff that came before, like Marx, Engels, Lenin, Bukharin, et al. As MC Paul Berman would say:
    who's responsible for the predictable results of our actions? I only know fractions of facts and
    I can understand why you wrote what you wrote. Someone just replied to you and said
    If you think NATO's scenario planning was bad, check the Soviet one.
    I agree w/ that too, people who write plans are fucking weird... I wish we would've spent more time talking and less time posturing, but what's done is done. The key is to avoid making these mistakes in the future.
    T-shirt from that era that's a faux rock concert shirt "Soviet World Tour"
    hmmmm (wheels in my mind begin slowly turning)
  15. Re:You don't know the half of it.... on 'Satan' Missile Now Launches Satellites · · Score: 1

    *SMACK* We're all well aware of our expansionist goals, but I hardly see what those have to do w/ Soviet expansionist goals, especially since the parent post was slightly ambiguous on that.

  16. Re:You don't know the half of it.... on 'Satan' Missile Now Launches Satellites · · Score: 2, Informative
    This is a fantastic post, but one nitpick:
    They may or may not have had expansionist goals as well.
    Given the number of countries they invaded (Poland, Check-ican'tspellitwtf, Afghanistan) I'm guessing, yeah, they had expansionist goals.
  17. Re:zerg on The End of Email Cometh? · · Score: 1

    So far, my only complaint is the crappy way they handle sigs. Other than that...

  18. zerg on The End of Email Cometh? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Solution: switch to gmail. Ok, theoretically any webmail system could work, but google appears to be the least evil of the available choices.

    p2p is not going to solve your messaging problems. *SPRITZ* bad use of buzzword, no. *SPRITZ* what did I just tell you?! Your post provides close to zero information other than "email suxx0rz omg p2p". It's as bad as the llamas who come here seeking legal advice.

    Who is in charge of administrating your email server? (servers?) What email clients are you using? Can you send & receive email normally from your personal accounts? Who is providing your other "virtual" (wtf) services? Which IM client are you using? Have you looked at Jabber for your messaging, including setting up your own private Jabber servers?

  19. Re:What, exactly, is the FBI doing about this? on New IE Malware Captures Passwords Ahead Of SSL · · Score: 1

    This country is full of prostitutes and people who smoke pot! If these "hackers" were causing serious problems, there would be movies warning us about the threat, not something as stupid as "Hackers" or "The Net".

  20. Re:So.. on New IE Malware Captures Passwords Ahead Of SSL · · Score: 1

    It will probably claim to be the happy fun time browser enhancement that speeds up your internet experience by 200%! Who can resist?

  21. Re:And meanwhile... on Airport Monitoring of Travellers via Blackberry · · Score: 1

    See, I'm thinking it would be a pretty big win for the administration if that was true, because so far it looks like they've done a fuckup job running this war... I might as well come clean: one of those guys may have been taken from my lab. aka, I got the job because the Feds created a vacancy for me. Oy vey.

  22. Re:And meanwhile... on Airport Monitoring of Travellers via Blackberry · · Score: 1

    Out of morbid curiousity, what's the relevance of Hoboken, NJ? Random city?

  23. zerg on Should Companies Expense Stock Options? · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    This would put Microsoft in the red, right? So go for it.

  24. zerg on Fahrenheit 9/11 Discussion · · Score: 1

    For all you know, Michael Moore's site could be full of propaganda. Better to check a site that normally tracks movies and see what they are saying.

    Also, compare the number of theatres showing this movie to the number of theatres showing the other movies. What's going on here?

  25. Re:Just remember on Spider-Man in India · · Score: 1

    KHAAAAAAAAAAN!