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  1. Re:Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? on TSA Employee Caught With $200K Worth of Stolen Property · · Score: 1

    Where do you live that the minimum wage is $22/hour? Here it's $6.75

  2. Re:Monochromatic dreams on B&W TV Generation Has Monochrome Dreams · · Score: 1
    I wasn't looking for cues though.. I usually consider my dreams to be like movies, and just watch. For a little while I tried to keep the thought of reality checks in mind before going to sleep.. but that only lasted about 3 days before I completely forgot and went on to something else. Then a couple months later, that happened. No desire to attempt a lucid dream or anything. My dream self just new for a fact that it was a dream, and actually appeared to be getting bored with the current setting.

    I did however have that shock of realization hit shortly after flight started though, and woke up.

    No doubt I'll be attempting a lucid dream tonight now that the thought is back in my head.. lol

  3. Re:Monochromatic dreams on B&W TV Generation Has Monochrome Dreams · · Score: 1
    Now.. What if your dream-self.. just downright says "This is all a dream anyway" in dialog response to someone else? Add that with the fact that I still didn't seem to have more control over the dream at that point than I feel I have over any other dream I've had in my life..

    Is that normal?

    And yes, my dream self did begin doing the abnormal shortly after saying it, and I don't recall any thought of "This reality doesn't add up" at any point prior to the occurrence. (abnormal meaning he began jumping until finally figuring out flight and leaving.)

  4. Re:Unauthorized impairment of a protected computer on Hacker Admits To Scientology DDoS Attack · · Score: 1

    Yep no tears for him. But what counts as "Unauthorized impairment of a protected computer"? DRM that stops your OS or drives from working properly?

    Only if it's not somehow vaguely referenced in the EULA that you probably didn't read.

  5. Re:So.... on Playstation Network Gets Revised, More Restrictive ToS · · Score: 2, Informative

    hey, someone mod the parent up. If not funny, then at least underrated. He's making a joke by asking something that isn't unheard of to ask commonly in a net based community, and can't be answered according to the ToS..

  6. Re:The down side to owning stuff is the TAX part a on Rights To Virtual Property In Games? · · Score: 1

    under constitutional laws they can't tax you if you don't acquire it using something owned by the U.S. government. Or with the use of bank notes from the Federal Reserve, as the Federal Reserve can demand the tax for use of it's property. An example would be a telescope given to you in exchange for setting up the person's over-done home theater system. None of the items involved are owned by the government, and money wasn't used. You can't be taxed for the telescope thanks to the Declaration of Independence, and the 9th and 10th amendments.

  7. Re:The question I would have liked to see.... on Blizzard Answers Your Questions, From Blizzcon · · Score: 1
    it's still unlikely to be an issue. There's really no reason that SC2 would require a significant increase in bandwidth over StarCraft, which only need 56k for battle.Net

    I was even able to play on only 26.4k at my house if there were only a couple people in the game. 250k per person should be plenty based off of that alone (my first cable account was only 256k and was way more then enough for starcraft)

  8. Re:The question I would have liked to see.... on Blizzard Answers Your Questions, From Blizzcon · · Score: 1

    what makes you sure the connection requirement will be much more than the original SC? 250 kbits is still 31 kbytes.. 31,000 bytes is a lot of time to say "my 25th unit of class 4 teleports over here, with a waypoint to attack building 3 of player 6" Honestly, that's just for English reading. More realistically, that data would probably look more like this(in bytes, assuming 4byte sections)"x25x4x5534x1157x1x7x3x6" That's 8 references for a single unit, using up 32bytes. That gives roughly 900 messages per second. controlling 200 units? that's still over 4 messages sent per second.

  9. Re:Up next... on Do Nerds Have Better Sperm? · · Score: 1
    where you live matters too. In smaller rural towns you WANT to act macho. There's a much higher percentage of athletic people in these towns due to high counts of farmers and nothing to do outside of home except

    A) walk around and talk

    B) play sports.

    You might think I'm joking, but I grew up in Shoshone Idaho.

    more than 80% of the people back in school played sports

    on an unusual turn, out of the women, all of the smart ones were on the sports teams.

    I'm still friends with one of the smart ones, and she still only dates Joe Sixpack from the basketball team.

    The geeks just weren't wanted in small places like that. Those that didn't want athletes wanted drugs.. or wanted both.

  10. Re:The down side to owning stuff is the TAX part a on Rights To Virtual Property In Games? · · Score: 1
    They can legally tax it too.. -.-'

    It takes place over communication lines, which are federally regulated, and therefore you'd be taxed for it.

    However.. They could only tax you if it's data traveled over the net. If you threw it into storage and never even looked at the storage box you put it in, you could not be taxed for it during that time.

  11. What the?! on Google Brings Ads To Games, Game Ads To YouTube · · Score: 0
    I can't click on the boss' weak spot!!

    There's a freakin banner in the way that won't leave!!

    Why did they have to name the boss Supreme Commander?!?!?

    Why!!!!!

  12. Turn it off only when sober? on Prevent Gmail From Emailing Under the Influence · · Score: 1

    I don't know about anyone else.. but I'm a pro at turning settings off when drunk...

  13. Re:Not news on Overclocked Memory Breaks Core i7 CPUs · · Score: 1

    Know a good article on how to make a motherboard? I wouldn't mind reading up on it and seeing if I can get it right.. (even something that only runs a Pentium 2 would be a cool start.)

  14. Re:Google: $10M in prizes, MS: an XBox on Microsoft Programming Contest Hacked and Defaced · · Score: 1
    is only thing having me foaming at the mouth is that out of all of my tech friends.. NONE OF US KNEW ABOUT THIS CHALLENGE!!!

    I'm really poor.. I could use a few things to sell on eBay :(..

  15. This just in on Sysadmin Steals Almost 20,000 Pieces of Computer Equipment · · Score: 1

    Washington man trying to enter supercomputer race with a computer containing 18,000 Pentium 2 cores.

  16. Re:That seems really odd... on The Stigma of a Tech Support Background · · Score: 1

    and people are rarely honest about why you didn't get a job

    I know how that one goes. I couldn't get a job at Best Buy here selling computers (who's better than the tech guy that can fluff up hardware requirements by simply saying what all Vista does simply during start up?)

    I was told I wasn't charismatic enough for a sales position, and that they only promoted the sales people into geek squad.

    I'm fairly sure the actual reason was that the manager was a guy in maybe mid 20's, and my friend who I was applying against was an attractive woman a couple months away from her 18th birthday... lol

  17. Re:Steam is a good example on Steam To Begin Hosting Game Mods · · Score: 1
    oh, and here's a higher quality version for Subaru

    http://www.carburner.com/images/0/01/Certificate_Of_Origin_Edited.jpg

  18. Re:Steam is a good example on Steam To Begin Hosting Game Mods · · Score: 1
  19. Re:Steam is a good example on Steam To Begin Hosting Game Mods · · Score: 1

    Well, with the ACs not believing me, and them not getting an email of my reply to them I'll just post a source under my own post.

    http://www.freedomsite.net/car.htm

    READ THE FINE PRINT NEXT TIME!

  20. Re:Steam is a good example on Steam To Begin Hosting Game Mods · · Score: 1

    actually, you have the 'right' to travel, and since the government owns the roads, and does not have rights in itself, the license isn't permission(rights can't be controlled by the government, that's why they are rights.) to use the roads, but permission to use the vehicle. You don't own your car. You own a copy of a title. The state you purchased the car in owns your car. Unless you requested the Manufacturer Seal of Origin when it was purchased. If you didn't, they sent it to the state.

  21. Re:That seems really odd... on The Stigma of a Tech Support Background · · Score: 1
    That can depend on the type of tech support they did. Some companies will focus on hardware support only (mainly the computer vendors.) So also make sure they were responsible for more software support than just the Windows OS that probably shipped with the computer.

    I worked for Dell for a little while in their Gold tech support center. (only 2 in all of the U.S. and those 2 ONLY supported U.S. customers.) I was responsible for hardware troubleshooting due to the customers being fortune 500 or government agencies only, and ONLY if they paid out the rear for a special support contract. I dealt with the occasional typical user. Mainly when management had a company desktop/laptop out of the office, but I never dealt with standard business software.

    I only encountered software if there was a networking problem and was instructing how to route into their router's management page, or if there was an issue with the operating system.

  22. Re:Its what you did. on The Stigma of a Tech Support Background · · Score: 1

    The person who interviewed you was the one who called you two weeks ago. They said, "the computer beep is too loud" and you said, "ok. first, we have to reinstall windows from the recovery disk."

    that's rubbish. the FIRST thing always asked on any kind of sound question is if you usually have your speakers turned up all the way.

  23. Re:get what you pay for.... on CA Legislature Torpedoes IT Overtime · · Score: 1
    Interesting. However, I asked about the open position not just because I'd like to make money (because obviously that's always a goal :P) but because I don't even have $10 to spare at the end of a pay period after just staple payments (rent, utilities, food. Those things) to try and start any type of business at all. :(

    Also, I'm not a big fan of setting my personal computer up as a server..

  24. Re:All code is self-documenting... on Microsoft Documentation Declared Unfit For US Consumption · · Score: 1

    you're right. Compiler errors document the rest of the actual behavior.

  25. Re:Fair and balanced on Microsoft Documentation Declared Unfit For US Consumption · · Score: 1

    Easy. Speak to any gamer, and ask them how much Whine likes windows PC games. Oh, then go to a high school and ask if teachers accept slide show presentations in ODP format.