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  1. Re:let the flames begin on Amiga and Hyperion Settle Ownership of AmigaOS · · Score: 1

    And they will even make future versions of the OS! I wonder who those are for.

  2. That's good news on New Kind of Orbit Could Ease Mars Communications · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's good news for the diplomatic Human / Martian relations.

  3. It was nice to have known you guys on First Black Hole For Light Created On Earth · · Score: 1

    This might very well be the Last Post...

  4. Depends on Should Computer Games Adapt To the Way You Play? · · Score: 1

    I think in the Mario Kart example, it's a good thing, in Oblivion not. In the Mario Kart example, it makes the game more challenging if you're doing good. In the Oblivion example, it means stats are meaningless, which sort of ruined the "leveling up" gameplay.

  5. Re:Systematic copyright indoctrination on 100 Years of Copyright Hysteria · · Score: 1

    I'm wondering if that book is copyrighted.

  6. Re:it's the browser implementation on SSL Still Mostly Misunderstood, Even By the Pros · · Score: 1

    I think there are two separate things:
    -having my password be encrypted on the LAN cables
    -having a site being signed by a third party

    For some reason, the first thing can't be done independently from the second. If I understood correctly, at least. Anyway, is there a possibility for websites to give you a secure line to them, without depending on a third party? I don't care about signing, but I care about sniffing on LAN cables.

  7. Re:Good on Penny-Sized Nuclear Batteries Developed · · Score: 1

    Then why dont't they make it in the old shapes instead of having every company designing their own shape of battery just for the sake of profit? Battery technology sucks, and the fact that every company has to design their own only makes it worse.

  8. Good on Penny-Sized Nuclear Batteries Developed · · Score: 1

    Good, and now let me actually have a cellular phone that can actually be powered for 100s of years. Because I'm tired of these news articles that claim some new more powerful battery is invented. Batteries are NOT more powerful until I see a cellular phone that can run for months. Cellular phones today do NOT run any longer than 15 years ago so every of the so MANY articles about better batteries I've seen are all just lies. Plain damn LIES.

  9. That would make... on Microsoft Leaks Details of 128-bit Windows 8 · · Score: 5, Funny

    That would make Windows a 128 bit wrapper around a 64 bit implementation of a 32 bit extension for a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit operating system, originally coded for a 4 bit microprocessor, written by a 2 bit company, that can't stand 1 bit of competition.

  10. Allo Allo on 2009 Ig Nobels Awarded, For Gas-Mask Bras and More · · Score: 5, Funny

    The bra that quickly converts into two gas masks would really fit in the comical series "Allo Allo", if you know it.

  11. Device invented to see through walls! on Wireless Network Modded To See Through Walls · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's called a window.

  12. Re:Privacy on Auto-Detecting Malware? It's Possible · · Score: 1

    I wonder why they need all that information? Why don't they put software in all internet backbones worldwide that detects all virus traffic, and stop the virus there? You don't need user information or geographical information from people, the internet lines themselves are geographically known and shouldn't that be enough?

  13. Facebook quizzes on Auto-Detecting Malware? It's Possible · · Score: 1

    Cool, this system would also clean out all annoying facebook quizzes, those spread like a virus too!

  14. Re:CRT? Are you from the past? on NVidia Cripples PhysX "Open" API · · Score: 1

    Disagree. CRT's suck. I don't think conspiracy theories like "they stop marketing CRT's because they want money" apply here. I think the reason they sell LCDs instead of CRTs now is because the customers want LCDs.

    The better black levels argument fails simply due to the uglyness of the thick huge rounded (or sometimes attempted to be flat) glass in front of a CRT.

    The faster refresh rate argument might have been valid 10 years ago but not now. Also, with a CRT, 60Hz looks TERRIBLE and any user that doesn't know much about the PC he's using (>90% of users) leaves it at 60Hz. Not to mention computer games that also defaulted to 60Hz in fullscreen. Thanks to LCD's, that sucky CRT at 60Hz thing is now a thing of the past. An LCD at 60 Hz looks smooth.

    So in conclusion, yes CRTs suck and are not supposed to be part of an office or living room imho. Every single aspect of an LCD screen is better than a CRT screen.

  15. As if they can block them on Microsoft Blocks Pirates From Security Essentials Software · · Score: 3, Insightful

    MS also blocks pirates from installing an illegal copy of Windows, but yet they do it. I'm sure they can also install an illegal copy of the Security Essentials Software. If they want to.

  16. So basically same as sports on Gamers Are More Aggressive To Strangers · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So it does the same as e.g. football. So it's the same as sports. So computer games are no more or less dangerous than sports in this aspect. So I hope anti gaming advocates don't conclude something to their advantage from this.

  17. second.kilometer? on 100-Petabit Internet Backbone Coming Into View · · Score: 1

    What exactly does bits / second.kilometer mean? Does it mean that with more kilometers, it becomes slower?

  18. Re:Meh on First Look At Wild New "Level 10" Concept PC Case · · Score: 1

    I LIKE the fact that it has a handle! It's the one thing missing on most PC cases for easy transportation. In my PC, I now use a hole where a floppy disk could be, and some metal in the back, as handle, but one nice solid one on top would have been much handier.

  19. Re:PBS covered this... on 4-Winged Proto-Bird Unearthed In China; Predates Archaeopteryx · · Score: 3, Interesting

    A week ago this news was on Belgian news channels, so there must be something this week that makes it news now.

  20. Re:doesnt matter to me on Cursive Writing Is a Fading Skill — Does It Matter? · · Score: 1

    Hmm, I still use it, I sometimes draw class diagrams by hand, in some situations that goes easier and gives a better overview on paper than using software for it. Same for writing out ideas about how to code something, ... it all goes very well on paper.

  21. Caesar on 60 Years of Cryptography, 1949-2009 · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Didn't Caesar already do this in classic Rome?

  22. That would be a sad change... I don't think I want to have missed the student life.

  23. Re:Fraud-bait... tort-bait on Insurance Won't Cover Smartphones, When Pricey Alternatives Exist · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Indeed... And why would these devices have to be insured if they're cheap anyway?

  24. 'We're talking about code that is 12 to 15 years' on Microsoft Says No TCP/IP Patches For XP · · Score: 1

    I've worked with older code than that... nothing unfeasable about it.

  25. Archlinux on Windows 7 Upgrade Can Take Nearly a Day · · Score: 1

    Hmm, I've never lost more than an evening upgrading Archlinux (if there was some hard problem after the update), and that happened only a few times, usually you lose ZERO time upgrading because it happens in the background and requires no reboot.