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  1. Re:TV? on One In Eight To Cut Cable and Satellite TV In 2010 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There are still ads on the internet? I haven't seen one in about 4 years now.

  2. Re:Why this is sad on Man Spends 2,200 Hours Defeating Bejeweled 2 · · Score: 2, Funny

    The way it is worse is that bejeweled has a very limited repertoire of activity. This guy programmed his brain full of that limited range for 2k hours. At least with tv and wow you get a variety of social inputs.

  3. Re:Security through obscurity? on Don't Talk To Aliens, Warns Stephen Hawking · · Score: 1

    You don't understand what it would mean for the universe if that law were violable.

  4. Re:Don't panic on Don't Talk To Aliens, Warns Stephen Hawking · · Score: 1

    or?

  5. Re:His Master's Voice on Don't Talk To Aliens, Warns Stephen Hawking · · Score: 1

    I will also posit that intergalactic travel is near impossible without the ability to understand anthropology.

    Then we're in luck, because it is challenging to study anthropology anywhere in the universe but earth.

  6. Re:His Master's Voice on Don't Talk To Aliens, Warns Stephen Hawking · · Score: 1

    An alternative view: as humanity has evolved over the years, the gene(s) for human murdering is slowly getting wiped out as we imprison such people or grind them up in the war machine before they reproduce.

  7. Re:Security through obscurity? on Don't Talk To Aliens, Warns Stephen Hawking · · Score: 1

    I don't know, your post was definitely tickling my cannabalistic bone.

  8. Re:Security through obscurity? on Don't Talk To Aliens, Warns Stephen Hawking · · Score: 1

    Quantum encryption is security through inviolable physical law. If quantum encryption isn't secure, it hardly matters since the universe is f****d.

  9. Re:Security through obscurity? on Don't Talk To Aliens, Warns Stephen Hawking · · Score: 1

    You think aliens are using wimpy nukes? They'd at least antimatter us from orbit, if not something more exotic.

  10. Re:France: a nation of warriors. on WhiteHouse.gov Releases Open Source Code · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    It would be hard to claim the french were the 'french' before the invasion of the (german) franks in 496, and have therefore known warfare at best for about one thousand years, not thousands. A more realistic date for the foundation would be at least 843.

    And history suggests they pretty much suck at war, though they may have been brave, it's hard to imagine they were more brave than people who have been successful in war. France has been chronically conquered by others (including the franks!).

  11. Re:What a whiny knob on HDTV Has Ruined the LCD Market · · Score: 1

    It's what he's always wanted because he's never gotten anywhere close to the practical limit where more is not better.

  12. Re:No one wants to be behind the times on How I Saved the Gaming Industry · · Score: 1

    AAA titles don't cost that much to make or market. Generally under 5M to develop, under 20M total costs including marketing. That's down in the noise compared to the typical gross.

  13. Re:It's a heavy burden, to save an entire industry on How I Saved the Gaming Industry · · Score: 1

    Man, every time I see you post, I think to myself ... why did Meept have to leave us?

  14. Re:No one wants to be behind the times on How I Saved the Gaming Industry · · Score: 2, Informative

    While it's true that you can have both, the question is what do you play after you've finished those 3 games.

  15. Re:No one wants to be behind the times on How I Saved the Gaming Industry · · Score: 1

    indie games profits reach a peak at bejeweled, which grossed about 250mil, and reaching that level is about a one in 100,000 shot. AAA titles begin life right around there, at 200-300mil, for the failures.

  16. Re:Is it my imagination? on Steve Jobs Recommends Android For Fans of Porn · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's your imagination. Specifically, you were imagining that he was not at least this douchey all along.

  17. Re:Is it me or is he sounding more desperate? on Roger Ebert On Why Video Games Can Never Be Art · · Score: 1

    Exactly. When you find yourself the critic who says that the works of the new generation are worthless, you've consigned yourself to the dustbin of history. No one who takes that tack is remembered as a visionary. Instead, they are remembered as the blindsided.

  18. Re:Is it me or is he sounding more desperate? on Roger Ebert On Why Video Games Can Never Be Art · · Score: 1

    What the Mona Lisa does do is entertain, and in a unique, interesting way. It's incredibly fun. Hilarious, clever, and a bit chilling at times. But is it art? I sure don't think so.

  19. Re:Bicycling on Life Recorder · · Score: 1

    Nope. Your car (assuming you are driving something built in the last two decades) will easily protect you from a 35 mph collision, while the cyclist has almost no chance of surviving a comparable incident.

  20. Re:Bicyclist Deserves to die on Life Recorder · · Score: 1

    Riding on the freeway is generally illegal for bicyclists or non motorized traffic of any sort.

  21. Re:Rogue-like on Life Recorder · · Score: 1

    Exactly. Not prosecutable as libel.

  22. Re:How many ways are there to do simple things? on Why Computer Science Students Cheat · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Typically even an introductory level course is more involved than that, even for the first assignment.

  23. keyword: caught on Why Computer Science Students Cheat · · Score: 5, Interesting

    They're cheating just as much in other disciplines, it's just in CS we have a lot of good tools to catch them. Plus, we get a lot of false positives with no defense, so we get to inflate our successful catch statistics.

  24. Re:Bicycling on Life Recorder · · Score: 1

    Well sure, if the bicyclist is on the freeway like that, they get what they deserve. On surface streets where the speed restrictions and modern auto safety designs have been used, no that wouldn't threaten you at all.

  25. Re:Bicycling on Life Recorder · · Score: 1

    No, I don't do that. I don't know anyone who does. If I'm in the traffic flow, I'm doing it for a reason (typically: hazardous levels of glass along the right, potholes, etc that will cause me a flat or a fall, or for left turns.)