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  1. Re:The Wii's big - but stingy - audience on Why Yahoo Turned Microsoft Down · · Score: 1

    Brawl sucks online and the wheel for Mario cart is crap. Most of the Nintendo games out have flaws that drag down sales through word of mouth. Personally I'm waiting for a second generation Wii so all the games for it have cut their teeth already on what is fun and what isn't.

  2. Re:IAAAL (I am almost a lawyer) but... on Who Owns Software? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It doesn't really damage the server but it probably damages the value of the game in the eyes of their customers.

  3. Re:ob... on 500 Thousand MS Web Servers Hacked · · Score: 1

    Start using a MVC pattern the API becomes something you write into your model once.

  4. Invites on Windows Live Hotmail CAPTCHA Cracked, Exploited · · Score: 1

    Remember Gmail invites back in 2004? Bring it back.

    2 invites per account, one month before the new accounts get new invites. Ban the parent account if they invite a spammer and remove invite permission from all the children created.

    You could probably do better but off the top of my head this would dent the 1400 accounts/day per computer.

  5. Re:That's nothing new on Meet the Laptop of 2015 · · Score: 4, Funny

    dual screen is useful until you figure out you can watch video on one while you work on the other

  6. Re:Well, what did you expect? on Posting Publicly Available URL Claimed a "Hack" · · Score: 2, Insightful

    More like: is it wrong to walk into a building open to the public but secretly requires membership and gives you no warning that they assume you are trespassing.

  7. Re:Almost, but not yet, fully bulletproof! on Warner Sues Search Engine, Tests DMCA Safe Harbor · · Score: 1

    The only way the internet is going to survive is if rights holders are only allowed to go after the people hosting the content. Sites that catalog it just make enforcement easier and wouldn't be popular if all the search results were taken down. There is a problem with overseas hosts but that is a totally different argument.

  8. Re:Create job to force automatic reboot or shutdow on Do Any Companies Power Down at Night? · · Score: 1

    If they saved 20,000 they would get 20,000 less next year.

  9. Re:Leave it Forbes... on What Bugs Apple Fans About Apple · · Score: 1

    Most business execs have no idea that macs can now run windows. Personally, the whole idea makes me feel dirty.

  10. Re:Theyre kids of the new generation - deal with i on The Impatience of the Google Generation · · Score: 1

    Yes, Google Scholar is so good it feels like cheating.

    http://scholar.google.com/

  11. Re:MOD PARENT DOWN on What Would You Do As President? · · Score: 1

    Because he is presumably a citizen of the United States he will still have to pay taxes.

    The US is the only country on earth that requires citizens outside the country to pay taxes. Oh and theres something like a two year wait to drop your citizenship. I think it takes longer to not be an American than to become an American.

  12. Re:Do I offset this? on Gen Y Hits the Library the Most -- But Not For Books · · Score: 1

    Bookmans is in Arizona but isn't limited to Tucson anymore.

  13. Re:rubish... on Jimmy Wales Says Students 'Should Use' Wikipedia · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I too use Wikipedia combined with Google Scholar. Scholar is basically cheating when you can write an entire paper with no research and then use edit out any potential problems and find research that matches. Anyway, plagiarism is called research when you quote your sources.

  14. Re:Meh. on CompUSA To Close All Stores · · Score: 1

    EggHead 2.0, same shopping centers too :)

  15. AH64s are efficient killing machines on How Tech Almost Lost the War · · Score: 3, Informative

    Our military doesn't have efficient networked killing machines? Go to liveleak.com and look for some AH64 Apache videos from Iraq or Afghanistan. They are killing people from 1-2 miles away with very accurate 30mm cannon fire all while communicating with the guys on the ground.

  16. I've seen it on David X. Cohen of Futurama Talks About the Movie · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If you like Futurama you will like this movie. The movie dragged on for about 45 minutes to long because the ending was obvious through the last 60 minutes or so.

  17. Re:KDawson on Google Honors Veterans Day, Finally · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I second Jon Katz. Does that guy even post anymore? I think I registered this account for the sole purpose of ignoring his crap.

  18. Re:Easy hack on United Makes Plans to Drop 'Baggage Neutrality' · · Score: 1

    LIFO applies because logic would assume they unload the plane nearly the same way as they load it. Your bag might approach the middle of the stack but it should never switch to the complete opposite side.

  19. Easy hack on United Makes Plans to Drop 'Baggage Neutrality' · · Score: 1

    Something I learned to always get my stuff first.

    Last one to get a boarding pass is the first one to get their bags if they are going strait to their destination.

    If you have an odd number of plane changes, give them your bags early.
    If you have an even number, give your bags as late as possible.

  20. Re:Not actually squatting on IFPI Domain Dispute Likely to Go To Court · · Score: 1
    Couldn't it be said that thepiratebay.org is being used in bad faith with respect to copyright too?

    (iii) you have registered the domain name primarily for the purpose of disrupting the business of a competitor; or

    (iv) by using the domain name, you have intentionally attempted to attract, for commercial gain, Internet users to your web site or other on-line location, by creating a likelihood of confusion with the complainant's mark as to the source, sponsorship, affiliation, or endorsement of your web site or location or of a product or service on your web site or location.

  21. Re:Local Comcast office vs. Post Office on Little Old Lady Hammers Comcast · · Score: 1

    You pay taxes on TV so the $61 for just internet is always cheaper than $60 pre tax TV+internet.

  22. Re:Captcha Problems on Ticketmaster Claims Hacking Over Ticket Resale Site · · Score: 2, Informative

    CAPTCHA = Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart

    A human using the system is beyond the stated scope.

  23. Captcha Problems on Ticketmaster Claims Hacking Over Ticket Resale Site · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'm assuming ticketmaster isn't implementing the captcha correctly. There is only 3 ways to exploit the system:

    1) enter in the captcha before the tickets go on sale, and purchase when available
    2) bypass the captcha because its not a requirement to make a purchase
    3) the captcha not complex enough to fool a computer for a few minutes

    No software should be getting around it without someone typing in the magic letters after the tickets go on sale.

  24. Listserv Idiocy on DHS Injects Itself With DDoS · · Score: 5, Informative

    lol, happened at college all the time

    you get 5-6 idiots that reply to all
    then you get 50-60 idiots telling them not to reply to all
    and 50-60 more idiots trying to have a conversation to the first 5-6 idiots

  25. Crap Website on Bungie Explains Halo 3's Resolution · · Score: 1

    I love how with noscript on I they forward me to a page that claims their site requires javascript with no content. Then when I refresh I get the entire page of content with no warning and no hint of what javascipt was required.

    Fire the web developer.