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  1. Re:Halt! on New Wolfenstein Game Announced: The Old Blood · · Score: 1

    Whoa nice! I have mine in my garage along with the 1541 and 1530 drives but I think the power supply brick is screwed. You have your SN# recorded in the C64 registry? I have a rainbow style decal model, lol. The first games I played on it...Midway, Graverobbers and Telengard...all datacassette, bahahah.

  2. I'd call the Battle of Tours probably the most important battle in Western history and the Battle of Ain Jalut one of the most important in all history. Those are only my opinions as a historical conflict nerd. I'm sure there are other contenders.

  3. If I remember right, other than the the Battle of Chibi at the destruction of the Han Dynasty, the Battle of Leyte Gulf was the most massive naval battle in recorded history. I'm thinking the failed 2-3 Mongolian invasions of the Japanese Islands probably had many more ships involved, though.

  4. Re:Halt! on New Wolfenstein Game Announced: The Old Blood · · Score: 1

    This was from my intentional track error written, pirated C-64 5-1/4" floppy days (made double-sided with a paper-hole punch, of course). I always thought "ausweis" was "aus pass" myself, just from memory. But I always saw "ausweis" whenever I looked at it on the net the first years on the 'Net so I figured I was hearing it wrong. I had no idea WTF they were saying but I got the gist when I knew I was going to have to start shooting the guards, though. This game plus Bard's Tale, Neuromancer, Archon (1 & 2), Lode Runner, Realm of Impossibility, and the magnificent Star Control I....oh man, I'm old but that was a great fucking time to be a gamer.

  5. Halt! on New Wolfenstein Game Announced: The Old Blood · · Score: 3, Informative

    Kommen sie! Ausweis? Heil!

  6. Re:Other possibilities? on Physicists Gear Up To Catch a Gravitational Wave · · Score: 1

    The other possibility being gravity is instantaneous, which would be very much more exciting...but this experiment I don't think could discern this if it were true and gravitational waves were not.

  7. Re:It's cold up there on Statistical Mechanics Finds Best Places To Hide During Zombie Apocalypse · · Score: 1

    Speaking from a scientific angle accounting for what urban legend tells us about zombies and extrapolating from ancient vampire-like mythology (vampyr, revenants, SE Asian penanggalan. Celitic dearg-due, or Africas anbosamthe) which, although need blood to sustain their existence, don't need a working circulatory system or functioning organs. It would seem if a walking corpse, if truly undead, wouldn't be hindered by cold conditions as they would feel no pain. Perhaps incapacitation could start when the remaining or freshly consumed blood began to freeze in the veins and arteries if still present and/or in the stomach or the surrounding area of the lower abdomen. I do assume that higher, more defensible areas with limited realistic passages into or through such as carved out by glacial moraines, sheer cliffs, mountain access with narrow pathways to either shut off or open at will or that would provide "fatal funnels" and optimal locations that could allow defenders with scoped rifles at distance to take advantage of enfilade or flanking/raking shot opportunities and reduce possible organization in a hive-mind kind of sense to attack en mass in a defilade pattern to maximize effectiveness of each cartridge as to conserve ammunition and require less defenders for adequate defense. Vampires would be a totally different scenario because not only would they not fall victim to disorganization but be able to herd people into such areas as "pastures" and of course have access to and probably more proficiency with modern (and ancient) weaponry and technology, as well as complicated motivations and emotions and an indefinite amount of time to plan and a learned spiderlike (humanlike?) patience and enjoyment in the hunt until to the point of starvation or low on blood that animates them - unthinking zombu/ghoul armies each in the millions yet in pockets marauding would be far less terrifying and defensible against than is portrayed I think.

    Not so in a vampiric takeover of the world, which would be more systematic, cunning and disguised for as long as possible and happen incrementally with stealth, bribery, imitation and manipulation at the beginning and rely on apathy and propaganda dissemination by media as well as seditious humans that agree to work with vampires for gain or power, kapos, if you will.

    After all, its happening right now as we speak and most people don't even know or care. I say bring of the zombies and let the cleansing of our species begin.

  8. Re:Check HOSTS For Security Vendors on Pharming Attack Targets Home Router DNS Settings · · Score: 1

    Yes, this is one of 'em. Word.

  9. Check HOSTS For Security Vendors on Pharming Attack Targets Home Router DNS Settings · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Just make sure your hosts file isn't populated with a random bunch of known security software vendors' names like eset, trendmicro, kaspersky, avira or some shit with a loopback to your local before them. I've seen some really screwed up hostfiles on my friends' PCs that look like that. I just trash them in favor of one of the well-known complete hostfiles that some dudes keep updating around the web ...I forget the names of the websites and authors...so...y'know...this advice is a big help lol. I'm sure someone remembers on here...

  10. Bizarro World on Lawmakers Seek Information On Funding For Climate Change Critics · · Score: 1

    .subject comment seE

  11. One can know how to conquer... on US Govt and Private Sector Developing "Precrime" System Against Cyber-Attacks · · Score: 1

    ...without being able to achieve it.
    http://resources.infosecinstit...

    Invincibility lies in defense, only victory is found in attack.
    http://orbilu.uni.lu/handle/10...

  12. No AI is a Wizard on Artificial Intelligence Bests Humans At Classic Arcade Games · · Score: 0

    I'd like to see AI take me on after a few quality bong hits while I rock the orbits and ramps of Black Knight 2000 with perfect captive ball shots or I slam-tilt a Star Trek:TNG table without losing my 50 cents. ...Or totally get 57 second of playtime and 36,000 points out of another 2 games and 6 lost balls after I hit nothing but the glass and scoreless bumpers while every shot goes down the side gutters or perfectly in the center of a triple flipper gauntlet totally getting screwed over by those damn magnets. Wait, what were we talking about agian?

  13. Better not be Haga on What If We Lost the Sky? · · Score: 1
  14. Re:Good grief... on Bill Nye Disses "Regular" Software Writers' Science Knowledge · · Score: 2

    Hey man, he holds a patent on ballet shoes...are you gonna say that's snooty too? That's what I thought, buddy.

  15. Re:It looks like on Al-Shabaab Video Threat Means Heightened Security at Mall of America · · Score: 1

    lol, I guess I've never fucking tried "ASCSI" characters here before.

  16. Re:It looks like on Al-Shabaab Video Threat Means Heightened Security at Mall of America · · Score: 2

    C'mon dude this whole Islamic Caliphate isn't anything...

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    ( _)>-

    (_) ...to lose your head over.

  17. Re:Greek Myths on Will Greek Finance Minister Varoufakis Support Cryptocurrency In Greece? · · Score: 1

    The problem is that there aren't any truly capitalist states, nor has one ever existed. The capitalists you think are persecuting these ochlocratic countries are just a just a bit more capitalist than they are. A truly capitalist state would be vastly more harmonious and progressive than most any other kind of state, the misery and repression begin when capitalism begins to slip into fascist corporatism. At least IMHO.

  18. Greek Myths on Will Greek Finance Minister Varoufakis Support Cryptocurrency In Greece? · · Score: 2

    I'm pretty sure the River Styx freezing with Aphrodite and Helen of Troy ice skating naked while Dionysus hands out brews and bags of trainwreck is less mythological than the possibility that Greece's economy will start looking up with the current megasocialist nanny state political mindset going on over there. "Crypto" currency is right, like...literally.

  19. Re:Actually on Stephen Hawking: Biggest Human Failing Is Aggression · · Score: 2

    Have you ever seen a Commie drink a glass of water?

  20. Re:Whoa on Delivery Drones: More Feasible If They Come By Truck · · Score: 1

    Jerry, the whole building is brick....

  21. Re:Be A Good Geek on Duplicate SSH Keys Put Tens of Thousands of Home Routers At Risk · · Score: 1

    I guess I left out a lot of info, but I get the point. The gist of this whole scenario is that my neighbor's daughter is pretty hot so it ended up being all good.

  22. Whoa on Delivery Drones: More Feasible If They Come By Truck · · Score: 0

    My FedEx and UPS delivery guys must be early adopters of this futuristic object conveyance methodology.

  23. Re:Be A Good Geek on Duplicate SSH Keys Put Tens of Thousands of Home Routers At Risk · · Score: 1

    Take a valium, If you read my post I let them email me if they needed help and we aren't strangers.

  24. Be A Good Geek on Duplicate SSH Keys Put Tens of Thousands of Home Routers At Risk · · Score: 2

    Every geek should be a good netNeighbor or netRelative and suggest or guide anyone we care about or don't wish to be fucked over by .gov/corporations/prick wardriving kids and suggest something along the lines of DD WRT or TomatoUSB on their routers that may be ripe targets...maybe even offer to help them secure them, I'm getting pissed at all this crap that is going to get all of them and us reamed. I also like the idea of sticking it to all the evil and/or stupid bastards that let this stuff happen. I let an elderly neighbor of mine know a few months ago by naming my SSID something that might alert their kids or whomever is their "IT expert" (who happened to her daughter) to email a disposable account I set up so I could explain what was up and I spent 20 minutes getting it going for them. I told her to let me know if it needed any fixing with another one-time email anytime remotely. But really, Toastman's TomatoUSB is very stable and needs hardly any tweaking or fixing...probably less than stock firmware. Especially for the crappy Cisco FW that was on it - disaster waiting to happen. They are even on 5ghz N band now, the only other one than me (I'm on both 2.4 & 5). PS InSSIDer is a great wireless app.

  25. Imgur/TinyURL on Ask Slashdot: Most Useful Browser Extensions? · · Score: 1

    I love the Imgur Uploader and TinyURL Generator addons. Imgur is my fave pichost, the addon doesn't even make you save the pic to the HDD. A right & left click auto-copies the right code and pastes it...everything's in the pipe 5 x 5, Spunkmeyer.