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  1. Compatibility on Valve Starts Promoting Steam For Linux To Windows Users · · Score: 4, Interesting

    As soon as the games I already own and play work on Linux I will switch in a heartbeat.

  2. Re:bad wine, bad! on Blizzard Reportedly Planning A Linux Game For 2013 · · Score: 2

    I haven't played since Lich King days but I used to be in quite a hardcore raiding guild. Half a dozen of us ran WoW on Linux as it actually gave a better framerate than Windows did. We cleared all content up to LK 25HC before I quit playing so my wife wouldn't leave me for ignoring her.

  3. Re:This stunt by Apple on Apple Hides Samsung Apology So It Can't Be Seen Without Scrolling · · Score: 1

    They changed the site and most if the other regions sites to do this 2 days ago. I wonder why.

  4. Re:But...it can never replace gasoline. on Crushed Silicon Triples Life of Li-Ion Batteries In the Lab · · Score: 1

    Ford GT40 (new one) has a range of 80 miles per tank according to Jeremy Clarkson.

  5. Re:Messed up on Pirate Bay Co-Founder In Solitary Confinement · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They can hold him for a year for the Pirate Bay conviction possibly longer if they add on time for non payment of fines. However they think he was involved in hacking Logica but as yet they can't prove it. Most people break eventually in solitary and will say and do anything to get out of it. They probably plan on leaving him there for his whole sentence "for his own safety" unless he confesses.

  6. Re:non-trivial legal liability? on YouTube Alters Copyright Algorithms, Will 'Manually' Review Some Claims · · Score: 1

    Never as far as I know but there has never been a company as large and with as much influence as Google on the other side before either.

  7. Re:Politics on You Can't Print a Gun If You Have No 3D Printer · · Score: 1

    All you need to make a gun is something to hold the bullet and something to hit the firing pin. Of course if you want more than one shot or some level or accuracy it gets a bit more complicated. In theory a pair of pliers to hold the bullet and a hammer with a pointy bit to hit the pin is all you need.

  8. Re:I wish this was the case in the UK on Full Disk Encryption Hard For Law Enforcement To Crack · · Score: 2

    But it also depends what you have on the encrypted volumes. If it's evidence of tax avoidance then it might be worth giving it up. If you have the plans to the sequel of 9/11 then it's better to do the time for withholding the key.

  9. Re:Nothing from Hams? on Patent Troll Says Anyone Using Wi-Fi Infringes · · Score: 1

    My uncle got arrested in the UK for receiving government data over Amateur radio in the late 80s/early 90s. He was receiving text via some program on an old BBC computer although it wasn't old at the time. I'm sure someone with more Ham knowledge than me can say how long they have used computers over the airwaves.

  10. Re:Is there any role you regret? on Ask William Shatner Whatever You'd Like · · Score: 1
  11. Value on Massive Diamond Found Orbiting Pulsar · · Score: 1

    How much would a diamond the size of Jupiter be worth? Obviously if you could get it to earth somehow then diamond would be the most abundant material we have so it would be worthless but at todays prices I wonder how much it would be worth.

  12. A few billion years on New Research Cracks AES Keys 3-5x Faster · · Score: 1

    Surely a few billion years is the time it takes to try all the possible passwords. Although the chances are slim is it not entirely possible that a file could be cracked in seconds if you got lucky?

  13. Re:With just a 27% share of the U.S. search market on Microsoft Betting on Bing for Mobile Search · · Score: 1

    I wonder if there's a way they could tie in Bing search to the search feature in the start menu of Windows 7 without being pulled up for antitrust. Even just a sneaky "Powered by Bing Search" might be enough to get people to go and try it.

  14. Move outside the US on Oracle Ordered To Lower Damages Claim On Google · · Score: 1

    If Google runs into problems surely they could set up a European company and sell them Android for $1. That way they could at least continue with Android everywhere except the US. Maybe if all the large software companies started moving out of the US then the government would do something about software patents.

  15. Re:Idea on Activision Trying To 'Reinvent' Guitar Hero · · Score: 1

    You might actually be on to something. Imagine if by playing the game you could eventually play an actual guitar. I would pay for that. Might seem too much like hard work for most people though.

  16. Re:Would MAC address filtering counter this proble on The Wi-Fi Hacking Neighbor From Hell · · Score: 1

    Although it can have security issues itself HomePlug is a good option. I live in an old granite 3 storey house so I can't get a decent wireless signal throughout my house so HomePlug works great for me. I doubt many hackers check to see if they can access homeplug in their neighbours house via the electrical sockets in their own house.

  17. Re:Does it work? on Apple Wants To Block Some HTC Products From US Under Tariff Act of 1930 · · Score: 2

    Didn't some company stop Microsoft from selling Word in the US for a few weeks recently?

  18. Re:You have..... on Just Months After Jeopardy!, Watson Wows Doctors · · Score: 1

    It was once in season 4 episode 8.

  19. Re:You have..... on Just Months After Jeopardy!, Watson Wows Doctors · · Score: 1

    It's never Lupus.

  20. Reward on The Cost of US Security · · Score: 1

    If they had offered a 1 trillion dollar reward for him we would have had him 10 years ago and saved 2 trillion. Wouldn't actually happen because most of that 3 trillion went to companies that the politicians have interests in.

  21. Re:Weird coincidences on Kentucky Man Builds Bourbon Powered Car · · Score: 2

    Marine Turbine Technologies got around this problem by having the turbine running full speed the whole time and using a clutch type system to control power delivery. The issue with their motorcycles was the cost as they used turbines from Bell Jet Ranger helicopters and these are still expensive even when they are no longer fit to be used in aircraft.

  22. Re:...liabilities on StunRay Incapacitates With a Flash of Light · · Score: 1

    I have heart disease so I probably have a greater change of survival from a bullet wound.

  23. Why bother with proxys on HBGary Federal Hacked By Anonymous · · Score: 4, Informative

    If the hackers were UK based then they just have to buy a wireless dongle. You just lie about the information on the registration screen and away you go untraceable. Granted they will be able to triangulate the signal but its easy enough to drive somewhere quiet with a laptop and do it. Failing that they could just hack some poor old ladys wireless and use that. Both of these options are simple to do and less hassle than proxys.