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  1. First thing the military said to the new President on US Army To Use MMOs For Turing Tests · · Score: 1

    Mr. President, we must not allow a goldfarmer gap!

  2. Re:Yawn on How To Cloak Objects At a Distance · · Score: 1

    European chicks have beards?

  3. Re:but..but.. on How Do Games Grow Up? · · Score: 1
  4. Re:Yawn on How To Cloak Objects At a Distance · · Score: 1

    Get implants and shave.

  5. Re:Conservative moralists vs. Fox?!? on Supreme Court To Rule On TV Censorship · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You have a point, Fox is not "conservative", they are just trying to be either entertaining or shocking and their kind of conservatism is deliberately trying to be outrageous and offending because that means people are watching.

    Or pandering to people who actually believe it.

  6. Chernoff Faces on Applied Security Visualization · · Score: 1

    Did it earlier and better. See the article "The Use of Faces to Represent Points in K-Dimensional Space Graphically" or just skim the Wikipedia article

  7. Re:I was born in the 80s. on Video Games Linked To Child Aggression · · Score: 1
  8. Re:Could/Should we push all the junk back at earth on Space Litter To Hit Earth Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    What is this "gentle laser push" of which you speak? Anyone able to show me a laser with a recoil that you can feel? No?

    Robert L Forward and his laser-pushed lightsail would like to have a word with you. I believe you can get a kilogram or so to orbit with a megawatt laser. I think you would feel that.

  9. Re:Shared hosting on Australia's ISPs Speak Out Against Filtering · · Score: 1

    telnet. I don't want it showing up in my browser history, either. It'd make them suspicious.

    Plus, if I was using an open source browser, I imagine it wouldn't be to hard to change the address bar to accept a host name, much like the :port or @username:password functionality.

  10. Re:Technical arguments are counter-productive on Australia's ISPs Speak Out Against Filtering · · Score: 1

    DNS blacklists are pointless. I've already memorized the IP addresses of all my favorite sites after a DNS filter was implemented at work.

  11. Re:IBM Thinkpad T40p series on ASUS and Intel Launch Collaborative PC Design Site · · Score: 1

    I think we can discount magnesium :P
    It'll react with water, and if you scratch it, the flakes can ignite very easily. It is pretty to look at flaming magnesium strips, but I wouldn't like a laptop made of it.

    No, not really, since the T40 did have a magnesium alloy lid.

    Unless you being a pedant about it being magnesium alloy, but then you'd be consistent on it not being elemental titanium either.

  12. Re:The UK on Game Makers Accusing Innocent People of Piracy In the UK · · Score: 4, Funny

    Duh, teenagers are sex offenders by default!

    Pedophilia, underage sexual abuse, child porn. And that's before they get out of bed in the morning!

  13. Re:Improper disclosure? on Student Charged With Three Felonies For Finding Security Flaw — and Report · · Score: 1

    How about "opening a door to which the owner of the building gave you a key". If the key works, it isn't your fault the owner was too cheap/incompetent to set up finer security permissions than "access/no access".

    Anybody with a school account could access this.

  14. Re:Of course they'll see a dramatic increase on Interest Growing For Pre-Paid Game Cards · · Score: 1

    I dunno, maybe the parents could put the computer someplace visible and exhibit some parental responsibility to go with their parental authority?

    While I can't expect parents to learn how to firewall the ports necessary to play MMORPGs, I can certainly expect them to pay some attention to what their children do on the computer. If they can't, don't they shouldn't buy a computer.

  15. Re:Okay so the info is out there... on Gov't Computers Used to Find Info on "Joe the Plumber" · · Score: 1

    Um... Yah, unless you didn't get any tax cuts from Bush. Then you won't.

    I make 100k. If Obama's tax plan goes through, I get like $1600 back, plus possibly extra credits towards my wife's school loans. If McCain's plan goes through, my taxes will increase a tiny bit, ~$100.

    Try one of the tax calculators if you don't have the patience to work it out yourself. Although I'd rather they lower spending instead of bribing us with bread(piddly tax changes) & circuses(media frenzy), I can't stand such a blatant falsehood.

  16. Re:Open your eyes on Gov't Computers Used to Find Info on "Joe the Plumber" · · Score: 2, Insightful

    DPA doesn't matter when you can just sit on the Tube and wait for somebody to leave a CDR with some district's taxpayer DB on a seat.

  17. Re:Fragility on 100x Denser Chips Possible With Plasmonic Nanolithography · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So bit rot is real now? Argh.

    Well, at least I can put it back on the excuse calendar.

  18. Re:Turkey? on Blogger.com Banned In Turkey · · Score: 1

    Sure, Turkey might have tried to kill every Armenian, but at least it wasn't religiously motivated! That makes it all better...

    Right.

  19. Re:So... on PC Makers Try To Pinch Seconds From Their Boot Times · · Score: 1

    Dunno about GP, but my 701 takes 29 seconds from button to desktop and 2 more to firefox(counting the time it takes me to doubleclick).

  20. Of course they'll see a dramatic increase on Interest Growing For Pre-Paid Game Cards · · Score: 2, Insightful

    (Kids+Money)*(PayForPlayGames-NeedForCreditcards)=profit

    A key growth limiter to online games has always been the need for credit cards, either because kids don't have them or adults don't want to risk fraud from either a fly-by-night game company or EA getting their billing department hacked.

    One-shot electronic money transfer are the future, I wish my credit card made them easy to do for everything. Maybe they should go talk to those cell-phone money guys in India.

  21. If you never see it, it never happened on Modern Methods For Sharing Innovation · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And if they make me remember my registration, I'll never read their article.

  22. Re:This would be easy on Shuttleworth On Redefining File Systems · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I bet she can use "open recent"

  23. Re:Poverty on Cellphone Banking Helping To Fight Poverty In India · · Score: 1

    The real question is: are you reacting like this because you are tired of being oppressed or because you feel guilty about privileges you received solely from your birth?

  24. Re:To quote Adam Savage: on Browsing Frugally Without Wasting Bandwidth? · · Score: 1

    Ah, but Pakistan isn't an island. Australia, and by extension New Zealand, share no land borders with any other country. They are pretty much guaranteed to be a leaf node and thus screwed by any communications provider.

    Now if they could get lines to South America and Africa they could become a nexus and maybe have some bargaining power.

  25. Re:Still not transparent on Early Voting Problems, Open Source Alternative · · Score: 1

    That is scary, but kind of awesome. Being able to pile all your votes on one guy is neat.