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  1. Re:Sounds like all of the systems they make! on Dell XPS 'Gaming' PC Review · · Score: 2

    Any sensible business would also not buy their employees systems designed expressly for video games...but then again...what is a sensible business these days anyways?

  2. Re:Heroscape on 2004 Board Games Gift Guide · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I've got 7 sets...but then I'm a very large geek.

  3. Re:Heroscape on 2004 Board Games Gift Guide · · Score: 1

    I concur, Heroscape is an excellent game. A good primer for children interested in fantasy wargaming, a decent value and quite a bit of fun for adults.

  4. Re:Buffy? on Joss Whedon's Firefly Coming To The Big Screen · · Score: 1

    I rather liked the show. I also, enjoyed the movie (especially PeeWee), but you need to keep in mind that the original movie was also written by Whedon, so he really didn't need to do anything to make it his own.

  5. Re:Ethics? on Brain Prosthesis Ready For Testing · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That's assuming that the power of attorney is given to a family lawyer. Often guardianship/power of attorney is obtained by family members who care for a person who is no longer able to take care of financial/medical decisions.

    As a person in that situation (my wife had a stroke 3 years ago that left her with communication/cognition difficulties) I'd be willing to see what something like this would do, and given the choice of "would you like to be like you were before" I'm fairly certain she would agree. I'm not sure what would qualify as "living well otherwise" with some forms of brain damage.

    Unfortunatly, things like this are still a long way off, but here's hoping.

  6. Re:Am I missing something? on CERT Advisory On Malicious HTML Tags · · Score: 1

    Add this line above the rest:

    $_ =~ s/%([\dA-F][\dA-F])/pack ("C", hex($1))/ige;

    Which would help with one of the problems /. has that was brought up on a previous thread, this decodes the URL encoded characters so that your swaps on > and < work all the time (ie, not subverted by passing in an encoded sequence).