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  1. Re:Vanishingly on Why Won't Macromedia Release 64-bit Flash? · · Score: 1

    Running flash is also a problem for Windows 64bit users.

  2. Re:Bad Move on Xbox 360 Playable at Wal-Mart · · Score: 1

    Yes I'm responding to a troll, but specs alone make this comparible to any high end gaming PC today. So compare graphics to newest games out there should be accurate.

  3. Re:No fraud needed on Banks to Use 2-factor Authentication by End of 2006 · · Score: 1

    Thats not what I'm saying, just the service plan with no phone can require a credit check with many carriers. Hell landline long distance companies are starting to do it as well an require a deposit if you don't have good enough credit.

  4. Re:Vanishingly on Why Won't Macromedia Release 64-bit Flash? · · Score: 1

    But it still implies the suggestion that the number is decreasing does it now?

  5. Re:No fraud needed on Banks to Use 2-factor Authentication by End of 2006 · · Score: 1

    Actually many cell phone companies won't give you a calling plan without a credit check. So you don't rake up thousands of minutes and 900 number calls or whatnot then skip out.

  6. Re:Probably the usual difficulty on Why Won't Macromedia Release 64-bit Flash? · · Score: 1

    Actually that is a very good idea. If the people willing to invest their time rewritting GNU flash for 64 bit would just fix this problem in mozilla, they would save everybody a lot of agrivation.

  7. Re:Simple economics on Why Won't Macromedia Release 64-bit Flash? · · Score: 1

    Flash player users on 64-bit platforms are a vanishingly small percentage of Flash player users.

    Good arguments, but it falls right there. 64 bit use isn't vanishing at all. With Dell and other manufactures pushing their 64 bit systems for workstations more and more people have 64 bit systems. Hell the newest of our office computers are 64 bit though they are all still running 32 bit operating system. That doesn't mean the demand to switch isn't there, just that we can wait.

  8. Re:The Meat... on TransGaming Releases Fast Software 3D Rendering · · Score: 1

    Yes, but for example there are many mid range graphics cards that don't support pixel-shading. And I have yet to see a game the requires pixel-shading in which directx took up the job and did it for you. Other poster explained why this simply isn't feasible though.

  9. Re:The Meat... on TransGaming Releases Fast Software 3D Rendering · · Score: 5, Interesting

    What I really want to know is can it use the 3D capabilities of your card while software rendering the things your card doesn't support. This would be the killer app for Linux and Windows.

  10. Re:More info at WSJ Story and Jon's Blog on DVD Jon to work for Michael Robertson · · Score: 1

    Your wardriving.. for a job... :) I want.

  11. Re:It was inevitable on PTO Eliminates "Technological Arts" Requirement · · Score: 1

    Next on the list: the patent office stops rejecting discoveries as being "too theoretical". Imagine working around those patents! Actually you have to have a working system, in order to recieve a patent. Theoreticals aren't allowed at all. Nice try though troll.

  12. Re:Yeah. PayPalPowered on Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show · · Score: 1

    Do you ever shop online? I'm just wondering why you don't trust paypal with your CC info and yet you trust any other online store.

  13. Re:Yeah. PayPalPowered on Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show · · Score: 1, Informative

    If you ever dealt with merchant accounts with real banks, you'd realize its the same shit, really it is. Of course half the bitching people do is that they arn't a real bank. Only different I've seen if the Federal Insurance, and lesser fees.

  14. Re:Yeah. PayPalPowered on Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show · · Score: 1

    Such is the cost of buisness in taking credit cards, your disagreement is with the credit card company that allowed him to reverse the charges. But if paypal had done what you wanted they would have had to shell out the money themselves, something they arn't going to do.

  15. Re:Yeah. PayPalPowered on Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show · · Score: 1, Troll

    You do realize most of the anti-paypal stuff out there is just people bitching and complaining because they were attempting some sort of fraud and paypal caught them on it. There are a few valid complaints yes, but I've never heard of anyone without an account paying through them having any problems. They havn't had any breaches in security that would cause your CC data to be worrysome.

  16. Re:Correction on 1/5 of All Human Genes Have Been Patented · · Score: 1

    Currently there really is only one way that I know of, I'm sure people are working on methods, and you can expect those methods to be patented quickly..

  17. Re:Correction on 1/5 of All Human Genes Have Been Patented · · Score: 5, Informative

    Good to see someone asking this question. A gene patent is actually a patent on the method they use to detect the gene (essentially detection is done through a mirror DNA sequence if it sticks its what you where looking for). There really is no patent on that actual gene, but if you can't create this mirror sequence to bind DNA to the detectors there is no real way to do much medical research on it and you have to pay licensing fees to the discover of the gene for the rights to detect and use it. Now know that the patent will end some day.

  18. Re:Education on Holding Developers Liable For Bugs · · Score: 1

    Ok thats sad. Maybe I'm romancing for a time when College taught skills.

  19. Education on Holding Developers Liable For Bugs · · Score: 1

    This got me thinking. Compare a CS degree to an English degree. With an English degree you come away with a good understanding of the language, grammer rules as well as history of other writings and in general the ability to write very percise sentences or elegant sentences to fit the needs of any given situation. Most English majors could immidentily write a reasonably readable book. I couldn't say any of this about the average CS major.

  20. Re:Wireless Mouse Pad on Splashpower Boasts Wireless Power · · Score: 1

    Splashpower Ltd., established as the result of a business competition at Cambridge University, has developed a wireless charging system that uses electromagnetic induction to accomplish wireless charging of devices.

  21. Re:so wait.. on Stanford's Stanley wins DARPA Grand Challenge · · Score: 1

    ground assault vehicles should be placed by supply delivery vehicles. Or atleast thats what the congressional mandate was for.

  22. Re:The RIAA is irrelevant. on Record Labels Unveil Greed 2.0 · · Score: 1

    Of course it should be allowed. But just like any small buisness don't expect to be able to open with 20 employees without some startup capital and a damn good plan.

  23. Re:The RIAA is irrelevant. on Record Labels Unveil Greed 2.0 · · Score: 1, Funny

    WTF kind of band has 10+ members? Either your band is an orchestra which sorry to say yes touring bars ain't gonna work. Or you have a bunch of freeloading friends who just HAD to be part of your band, and you couldn't turn them down.

  24. Re:oy vey on Oracle Acquires Innobase · · Score: 1

    Support for InnoDB is one of the primary features people use MySQL for. I know I would drop MYSQL in a heart beat if they dropped InnoDB or even if some new critical bug was found and MYSQL didn't fix it. They really don't have a choice but to pick up InnoDB development if Innobase drops it (they might have to change its name though, which could cause some confusion)

  25. Re:seems like there could be more to this story. on Consultant Convicted For Non-Invasive Site Access · · Score: 1

    Lucikly banks are covered by insurance. But if my bank wasn't insured and left money laying around so that I would might try pulling on the locked doors at the entrace one time just to check. If that was unlocked I wouldn't go in but I'd notify someone. So yes.