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  1. Re:Insurance? on Hacker Releases 1.7TB Treasure Trove of Gaming Info · · Score: 1

    I assume the guy is planning to release the source code chunk by chunk but hes at risk of being interrupted and arrested. His insurance policy makes sense because hes saying "you can arrest me but if you do then hundreds more will have access to the source and then you'll have to find them all too"

  2. Re:Too large to be useful... on Hacker Releases 1.7TB Treasure Trove of Gaming Info · · Score: 2

    Perhaps he will take a wikileaks like approach. Release individual games slowly over time but have the larger file available should he be interupted

  3. Still sucks to own a phone in Canada on CRTC Unveils New Wireless Code To Protect Canadian Customers · · Score: 2

    A lot of Americans are complaining about their American telecom service. But aren't American monthly phone and data plans far far better than Canada?!

  4. Re:Does it eat Cane Toads? on "Lazarus Project" Clones Extinct Frog · · Score: 3, Insightful

    indeed. i'd be more comfortable if they were cloning dinosaurs. the big ones we have a hard time NOT killing off.

  5. Re:Nothing else to fix? on EU To Vote On Proposal That Could Ban All Online Pornography · · Score: 1

    I agree with you but parallels are is not infinite. This pointless legislation IS taking up man power and time that could assuredly be used for something even if only a little bit more worth while.

  6. Nothing else to fix? on EU To Vote On Proposal That Could Ban All Online Pornography · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I guess all the other problems facing EU have been solved?

  7. Re:here's the problem on Seagate's New SSHD Hybrids Have Dual-Mode Flash Caches · · Score: 2

    what is the price difference? the prices listed above look pretty close to current HDD prices anyway. so if you're going to get a 1tb hdd for a laptop why NOT get the one with an 8GB ssd flash in it?

  8. Re:Whitelist!? on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With an Advanced Wi-Fi Leech? · · Score: 1

    i do no such thing!

  9. Re:Whitelist!? on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With an Advanced Wi-Fi Leech? · · Score: 1

    but you'd have to know the mac address!?

  10. Whitelist!? on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With an Advanced Wi-Fi Leech? · · Score: 0

    I use a MAC filter whitelist. You can too :)

  11. Re:Hyper Farming on Senior Game Designer Talks About Game Violence, Real Violence, and Lead (Video) · · Score: 1

    well I enjoy being wrong lol but if everyone was playing that then we'd have to deal with the sudden and shocking farming in our schools and theatres

  12. No one would play a hyper realistic farming game. On some level though we all seem to enjoy throwing stuff at moving stuff, even if simulated. It seems logical to me that repeated simulated murder could warp the mind of a young or weak mind. But what I heard was Adam Lanza played WoW...

  13. Statute of limitations! lol on Nortel Executives Found Not Guilty On Fraud Charges · · Score: 1

    Nortel? How long does it take? No wonder the banks haven't been charged with anything...

  14. Re:Shouting is a form of protest, how do you feel on Anonymous Files Petition To Make DDoS Legal Form of Protest · · Score: 3

    I am not against protests... In fact I highly respect someone for sacrificing their time and comfort, or sacrificing their health and freedom, for a worthy cause. It convinces ME that they really believe in their cause and maybe I and others should listen. Yeah real people can shut down service to a store or whatever by protesting in the way and forcing people to see them. But a single person can shut down a store in other ways too like with bomb threats. Do the ends justify the means? Is a DDoS attack really like protest at all!?? I don't think so. I don't see any human connection and what does it force people to see? Why should I pay attention to them when they do it in comfort and out of public view. If they can do it easily with no sacrifice of their own that I can see how can i tell if they are protesting or pranking?

  15. Re:Not akin to hitting the refresh button. on Anonymous Files Petition To Make DDoS Legal Form of Protest · · Score: 1

    Its more like a string of computers that handcuffed themselves together. When people do that its compelling; they are willing to sacrifice their time and comfort to make society aware of something. Protesting ought to be difficult. Otherwise we'd be in a world of mess.

  16. Mannequin Attack on Anonymous Files Petition To Make DDoS Legal Form of Protest · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I think I could agree that hitting refresh over and over again on a website would be a valid form of protest. But wouldn't having a program do it for you be like using mannequins to occupy wallstreet?

  17. Re:Gingrich & Huckabee Weigh In on School Shooting Prompts Legislation To Study Violent Video Games · · Score: 1

    They make it sound like the removing of religion is an active force with evil intents. But the fact is people are leaving the church because it is no longer relevant in their lives. There is no spiritual satisfaction there in this modern era.

  18. Re:Gotta keep moving on Algal Biofuels Not Ready For Scale-Up · · Score: 1

    my mistake!

  19. Gotta keep moving on Algal Biofuels Not Ready For Scale-Up · · Score: 1

    Well hey it was a good effort. One peg down. Lets try to find something else renewable that will work.

  20. Re:Why? on Windows 7 Not Getting A Second Service Pack · · Score: 1

    who would switch to windows 8 over this. "OMG all these updates I only have to do once! I'm so bad I'm switching to windows 8!"

  21. Re:Why are you installing Win7 pre-sp1? on Windows 7 Not Getting A Second Service Pack · · Score: 2

    I reload windows all the time at work and I simply create an image with all the updates and programs already installed :) When it gets over 40 updates I make a new image!

  22. Re:My SSD is bad! on Ask Slashdot: How Do SSDs Die? · · Score: 1

    I also updated the drive firmware since, that may have helped stability!

  23. My SSD is bad! on Ask Slashdot: How Do SSDs Die? · · Score: 2

    I have a G.Skill Falcon 64GB SSD that is failing on me. Windows chkdsk started seeing "bad sectors" (whatever this means for SSD... I think its really slow parts of the SSD) and started seeing more and more and windows would not boot. A fresh install of windows would immediately crash in a day or two. I had done a "secure erase" and that seemed to the job, a chkdsk found no "bad sectors". But a weeks later chkdsk found 4 bad sectors. But its going on a month now and I have yet to have windows fail.

  24. nooooo! on Entire Cities In World of Warcraft Dead, Hack Suspected · · Score: 5, Funny

    OH THE HORDEMANITY

  25. Cloning!? on Lab-Made Eggs Produce Healthy Mice · · Score: 1

    Are these the same Japanese scientists who are trying to clone a mammoth? Because this research seems rather pertinent towards that goal.