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  1. Re:I've been following this... on BBC Tells World About The Warden · · Score: 1

    Hu? No it just scans EVERYTHING you do and compares it to hashes of known cheating activity. So yes if your friend is a known cheater maybe. I'm guessing that the software doesn't care if its email or what, it just scans EVERYTHING. Its not sending it to the Blizzard server though, just comparing it to known cheats.

  2. Re:Good. on Google To Resume Scanning Books · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yes, and no. Digital information while easily lost can be copied indefinatly. Joe shmo making a scanned copy of a book is more likly to lose their data before that book is destroyed. But we are talking about a consistantly archieved raided to the max system of storage. Googles storage of the huge amount of material from website caches to searching index is googles product. There is litterly billions of dollars invested in Googles data. If they wern't being discustingly obnoxious in their backup system, their investors would have a cow.

  3. Re:I've been following this... on BBC Tells World About The Warden · · Score: 4, Insightful

    As other poster said, if you don't like it don't play the game. As well does it compare hashes client side? As long as its sending no information to blizzards server than "He's cheating!!" I really don't see why anyone cares what it sniffs.

  4. Re:Does this mean... on The Definitive Guide to MySQL 5 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well in this one case its accurate, MYSQL 5 includes many new features that wern't included in MYSQL 4.x. So while the definative guide on MYSQL 4.x might have been definative concerning 4.x it is inferior when it comes to dealing with 5.

  5. Re:Somehow on SBC CEO: Pay up if you want to use our pipes · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No google pays a very high rate for its broadband lines, consumers pay as well for broadband. Basic simple contracts, SBC can't change these just cause they see a new revenue source.

  6. Re:Empty Threat on SBC CEO: Pay up if you want to use our pipes · · Score: 1

    Reason price is regulated is because government funded the phone companies and payed for a lot of the lines. So they arn't really SBCs lines, they are the government lines. You unregulate them, suddenly they will truly "own" the lines. We have a few years yet to go where a truly unregulated market could survive.

  7. Re:Asymmetric Threat on SBC CEO: Pay up if you want to use our pipes · · Score: 1

    Cable has a lot of bandwitdh it can up as well as it downs, but you'd have to pay more for a higher up because it would slow the communal down.

  8. Re:yawn on Xbox 360 Launch To Be Gradual · · Score: 1

    As previous posted stated, the PS2 shortage was mostly self creating. Scalper buying them up to sell at a "shortage" premium created most of the shortage.

  9. Re:doesn't need to be 100% on PS3 Price, Compatibility In Question · · Score: 1

    Simple google search shows this to be a rumor that Nintendo has not officially confirmed. They have implied many games may be free and or offered as part of promotions and ultimatly its up to the individual game developer. Personally a dollar (or .99 cents most likly) will hit that magic hotspot that iTunes has. Afterall bandwidth cost too, free would cost them money in the long run.

  10. Re:Gimick!?! on Epic's Mark Rein Expounds On The Revolution · · Score: 1

    Tomb Raider was just a gimick ...

    Hate to break it to you... but Tomb Raider still is just a gimick, the style of gameplay was done before, its just the boobies and the marketing that made it a sucess.

  11. Re:Hard to make a business on 10 percent? on Epic's Mark Rein Expounds On The Revolution · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Exactly, infact as this was a gamer expo, you'd be hard pressed to find much more than 15% of people exclusivly having a PS2 or Xbox.

  12. Re:Ma Bell? Yo no entiendo on Ma Bell is Back · · Score: 1

    Ok as the other commenters didn't explain it very well. Back in the early 1900's (20-50's I guess don't know exactly) Most of the telephones in the US were run by one company AT&T. This company had rediculus policies like making your rent your phone (rental fees were high and it was illigal to use any other phone) and very high rates. Eventually AT&T was split up due to a monopoly charge into several smaller companies, the smaller companies where known as baby bells and the original company was refered to as ma bell.

  13. Re:Itchy and Scratchy Land on Xbox Live Points On Pre-Sale · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Hehe, as southpark said, Simpsons has been around for more than 10 years of course they have said everything and done everything possible by now.

  14. Re:The price is very reasonable. on PS3 Price, Compatibility In Question · · Score: 1

    Well the N64's use of cartridges hurt it, developers didnt' want to spend that kinda of money.

  15. Re:doesn't need to be 100% on PS3 Price, Compatibility In Question · · Score: 1

    Free? Yea right.. My guess is $1 for NES games 5 for SNES games 10 for N64 games, of course these prices will be for highend games, discount games will be had for much less. Hell I'd pay $20 for the original SNES NBA JAMS.

  16. Re:A++ and ++A are NOT the same on Overloading and Smooth Operators · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure exactly what he is saying. I think he is saying that with groovy you HAVE to use a.next().. Which is stupid.

  17. Re:D-Link Airspot Line of Wireless Routers. on Rental Home Wireless Networks? · · Score: 1

    I wonder if there is a certain section of D-Link products you buy. For instance with NetGear anything in a blue case works great. Anything with a grey box or some other fancy case works like crap. Thus I only buy their "commerical" line in the blue boxes and everything is fine. Linksys has a similar structure, buy only their commerical products, not their home products. My experience with Dlink on the other hand has shown they have equal low quality across the board so I don't know what I can trust.

  18. No skill? on The H-1B Swindle · · Score: 1

    Saying that these H-1B visas have no skill is a bit stretching it. Even for California 53K is a lot to pay for an unskilled worker.

  19. Re:D-Link Airspot Line of Wireless Routers. on Rental Home Wireless Networks? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Sounds great, but my experience with D-Link products have been bad at best. The products I've bought from them were badly made and never worked as advertised. Have anyone used this product that could recommend it?

  20. Re:Wondering on Windows Drives Company To OpenBSD · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yes, but thats just silly.. Running your home network on two domain controller is just showing off that you can.

  21. Re:Wondering on Windows Drives Company To OpenBSD · · Score: 1

    Then you have to factor out the huge loses they have been encountering using Windows for the last X years. BTW while they may measure cost in lost wages + lost sales its kind of stretching it because sales are supposed to balance cost of wages etc which are a fixed cost. So while you could count lost wages, a better overall estimate is simply lost sales + any overtime extra pay in order to catch up on other work.

  22. Re:Wondering on Windows Drives Company To OpenBSD · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If you've already have a tech-staff thats large enough they can often train themselves. Using your existing assets

  23. Re:obligatory whine.. on Get Ready For The 20-inch Laptop · · Score: 1

    Yea I noticed that.. Is the monitor wireless? I didn't see any wires..

  24. Re:Errors and Omissions Insurance on Insecure Code - Vendors or Developers To Blame? · · Score: 1

    Yea I always thought it was interesting the difference between shares and normal debt. With shares you "borrow" money with a promise that they will get a cut of possible future earnings but nothing if your money disapears. Debt on the other hand is borrowing with a set percent garunteed return unless you go backrupt, in which you still have to give them as much as you possibly can. Borrowing through shares is the obvious preference, though one has to wonder why a company can pretend it has no debt when its borrowed to the teeth from shares.. Guess its the zero liability.

  25. Re:Errors and Omissions Insurance on Insecure Code - Vendors or Developers To Blame? · · Score: 1

    People are rarly that smart. I was about to say no buisness would run itself in debt with credit cards the way many consumers do. But then I taught of the airlines etc.