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  1. Media Streaming Too on Game Publishers Using Stealth P2P Clients · · Score: 2, Informative

    Just a heads up, but media streaming is also heading this way. The "OctoStream" plugin for streaming video (Major League Gaming stream, etc) is also a P2P streamer.

  2. Some observations on Fermilab Calls For Code Crackers · · Score: 1

    Three points:
    1.) The top may be some sort of binary, with spaces counting as 1s, 0s, or flips.
    2.) The middle part uses numbers between 0x00 and 0x0F. Coincidence? Maybe.
    3.) Although the bottom appears similar to the top it might actually be a different type of cipher. It never has 2 double-I's in a row. Therefore the double-I may be a delimeter.

  3. Cheap SSD style performance from USB Flash Drives on Performance Showdown - SSDs vs. HDDs · · Score: 1

    I just recently did some raw read/write speed tests with a raid0 of a bunch of USB Flash Drives. The price for performance ratio is really good compared to standard SSDs.

    I've got it up on my site here.
    6x USB Flash Drive Raid

  4. Re:It's available? on Sun Says Java Source Already Available · · Score: 2, Informative

    Its partially available, on a windows system its here:
    C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0_06\src.zip

  5. Re:Almost a direct link to the ruling on Illinois Videogame Law Struck Down · · Score: 1
  6. Almost a direct link to the ruling on Illinois Videogame Law Struck Down · · Score: 1

    http://www.ilnd.uscourts.gov/RACER2/recent_opinion s.cfm?judge=Kennelly
    First on the list (as of this posting)

  7. Re:Acronimous on Illinois Videogame Law Struck Down · · Score: 1

    or any of these:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESA_(disambiguation)

    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
    Jump to: navigation, search

    ESA is a TLA that can stand for

            * European Space Agency
            * Entertainment Software Association
            * Ecological Society of America
            * electrostatic self-assembly
            * Epsilon Sigma Alpha International, a women's service organization.
            * Endangered Species Act, an important piece of US environmental legislation.
            * Environmental Site Assessment
            * EFTA Surveillance Authority
            * The "end of selected area" control code in the C1 control code set.

  8. Re:No Limits? on Illinois Videogame Law Struck Down · · Score: 1

    No, the ruling did not say the opposite.

    Here is a direct quote:

    "Though the Court believes that many of the measures of aggression used in violent video
    game research are likely valid, we agree with Dr. Goldstein and Dr. Williams that neither Dr.
    Anderson's testimony nor his research establish a solid causal link between violent video game
    exposure and aggressive thinking and behavior. As Dr. Goldstein and Dr. Williams noted,
    researchers in this field have not eliminated the most obvious alternative explanation: aggressive
    individuals may themselves be attracted to violent video games. Goldstein Aff. 33; Tr. 133.

    That is quite clear.

  9. Re:No Limits? on Illinois Videogame Law Struck Down · · Score: 1

    The ruling wasn't that there was eminent violence. The ruling said even if there was eminent violence it does not justify banning certain media.

    The violence debate is not new, it was often attempted to be used to to silence disliked political parties that called for the downfall of government's in power.

  10. ESA's reasoning. on Illinois Videogame Law Struck Down · · Score: 3, Insightful

    From http://www.theesa.com/archives/2005/07/video_game_ indu_1.php
    "It's illogical that video games would be treated more harshly than R-rated movies or music CDs with parental warning labels, both of which can be legally viewed and sold to minors. We should be treated the same way as those industries." - Douglas Lowenstein, president of the ESA

    It is NOT illegal to sell rated R movies to kids. Most retailers have methods to prevent this from happening. The video game companies aren't trying to get special treatment but rather semi-equal treatment.