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  1. Re:WTF? on Blizzard Punishing Griefing On Warcraft III Ladders · · Score: 1

    that might not be legal unless they put it explicitly in the retail game eula that they reserve the right to revoke multiplayer priviledges at their discretion

  2. Re:Refined on SCO Offers $250K Bounty for MyDoom Author's Arrest · · Score: 2, Interesting

    That's more valid than SCO's business plan. If they wanted to emulate sco it would be more like this: 1. Release virus to DDoS SCO 2. Antivirus companies release a fix 3. claim the fix infringes on your intellectual property & demand everyone who removed the virus pay you $1000 in licensing fees 4. Profit!

  3. Re:Thoughts on infrastructure on FreeBSD 5.2 Review · · Score: 1

    You are a windows noob. Get a clue about it before you bash it.

  4. DDR on Namco's Taiko Drumming Games To Debut In West · · Score: 1

    I think dance dance revolution is a regional fad. In St. Louis, I had never even heard of it, but when I came to UIUC, (that's champaign, illinois), I heard about it within 2 days and almost everyone here has played it. Anyway, it takes a totally different kind of muscle coordination than a FPS shooter. I've seen people who are ridiculously, impossibly good at DDR. I makes me wish there was a DDR equivalent of an aimbot so I could pwn them!

  5. Sophomoric article on Are 64-bit Binaries Slower than 32-bit Binaries? · · Score: 1

    It all depends on the specific architecture you're dealing with. neither is inherently faster. 64-bits just requires more transistors to deal with.

  6. The fundamental flaw in all these studies on P2P File Swapping on the Rise Again? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is self-reported usage So all the figures represent is the percentage of people who download music and are dumb enough to admit it to anyone who calls claiming to be a pollster. Of course this percentage would go down in light of the RIAA witch hunt regardless of whether there is any change, up or down, in actual file sharing.

    All statistics based on self-reported data should be taken with a large spoonful of salt!

  7. Title Bushism on Child's Play-Spawning Game Critic Praises, Apologizes · · Score: 1

    "Child's Play-Spawning Game Critic Praises, Apologizes"

    That makes no english sense unless you replace spawning with spurning.

  8. Re:Old news on Games X Copy Stirs Backup Controversy · · Score: 1

    Playstaton games are black on the bottom. It's a whole different kind of media. Of course it won't recognize any CD-R without a bit of hacking.

  9. Re:Old news on Games X Copy Stirs Backup Controversy · · Score: 1

    My trusty old Lite-On 48x/12x/48x coupled with Alcohol 120% in "General Copy Protected CD" mode has never failed to make a perfectly functional backup, if that's what you mean. It even worked for (long list of "backups" censored). Lite-On CDRW drives are the way to go for breaking any copy protection.

  10. Re:Useless, but... on NASA Scientists Get Custom 24h39m-per-day Watches · · Score: 1

    But even without the magical library it would be easy enough to do it in 10 lines. You'd have to manally enter in the starting mars time.

  11. First GNAA post at +1 on UK Government Surveillance - Book It Online (!) · · Score: -1, Troll

    NT

  12. Re:Which begs the question... on IPv6 Success Stories? · · Score: 1

    I meant it more literally, not the specialized idiom used in logic. Don't be a dick.

  13. Article title is grossly inaccurate on 100 Year-Old Drug Halts Progress Of Alzheimer's · · Score: 5, Informative

    100 Year-Old Drug Halts Progress Of Alzheimer's Rather, all the drug has been shown to do in this study is stop a few of the many chemical abnormalities that are coincident with alzheimers. It is unknown whether these chemicals actually do anything to cause alzheimers. They may as well be a byproduct of it, for all we know. It is also unknown how else this drug alters brain chemistry and what the side effects of that could be. So proclaiming it a miracle cure is very premature.

  14. Re:Useless, but... on NASA Scientists Get Custom 24h39m-per-day Watches · · Score: 1

    Or better yet, 4 lines of code (generously) could display mars time on their PCs or laptops.

  15. First alpha = public????? on MySQL 5.0-alpha Released to the Public · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm having flashbacks to the Doom 3 leak...

  16. Re:Which begs the question... on IPv6 Success Stories? · · Score: 1

    Then it'll just be that much easier for trolls to evade IP bans. It won't really be of any use to the average consumer. It's already no problem for any number of nome networked comps/devices to share the same internet IP address through a DSL router and a $20 8-way 100mbit switch. It's just plug and play & it works, if you're on windows. Oh wait... This is a linix site. Well that's your problem.

  17. Which begs the question... on IPv6 Success Stories? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What's the point in using IPv6 on small private networks? It's a whole lot of work for absolutely no benefit.

  18. Re:Avoidance on Games X Copy Stirs Backup Controversy · · Score: 1

    nah, to bite means to confuse the troll with an earnest post.

  19. Re:Avoidance on Games X Copy Stirs Backup Controversy · · Score: 1

    but I will say that Free Software advocates, hackers, and the like have proven themselves to be simply criminals by supporting things like DeCSS. If you can't play DVD on linux than don't break the law. Lobby to companies to legitimately get that feature or try to get governmental intervention.

    You might as well wear a 10-foot billboard that says "I'm a troll"! That wasn't a subtle enough troll to make any but the stupidest slashdotters bite.

  20. Old news on Games X Copy Stirs Backup Controversy · · Score: 4, Informative

    There is already a 3.5mb shareware program that will copy any and all games. Google Alcohol 120%. CloneCD is crap, i've seen it fail on numerous games, whereas Alcohol 120% never fails to make a perfect copy. I doubt even this overpriced Game X Copy program will even match it. There were better free DVD copying programs around on the internet long before DVD X Copy came out. Google Gordian Knot, by the way.

  21. $299 for an S3 POS?? on More ApeXtreme Info · · Score: 3, Interesting

    S3's latest line of GPU's is utter crap by comparison to anything from ATI or Nvidia, even at similar prices. The flagship is like a geforce 2 Ti but less stable. It won't even run a lot of directX 8.1 games. Geez, by now the radeon 9600 GPU chip is cheap to make and under $40 wholesale. Why didn't they use that to give their $300 console some good performance?

  22. Re:Rumor has it... on Where Will IBM Drop Windows? · · Score: 1

    "I really can't imagine why they wouldn't be posting it on billboards." Because not everyone is a microsoft-hating slashdotter?

  23. Re:cygwin on Kernel 2.6.1 Released · · Score: 1

    hey, I tried installing it on windows 98 and got the blue screen that says "WE WILL CRUSH YOU"

  24. Re:Junk in search results? Where? on Knock, Knock: Information Pollution Is Here · · Score: 1

    Yeah, the first page is 100% adult related if you search for asian teens! W00T for asian girls, anyway. The main reason they're so popular is that they look really young.

  25. Re:run ordinary 32 bit linux on it for now? on Is it a Good Time to Get an Athlon64? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Of course. The athlon64 is backwards compatible with all 32 bit x86 instruction sets. In short, anything that can be run on an athlonXP can be run faster on an athlon64 without so much as a recompile. It still supports MMX, SSE, SSE2, 3dnow!... Unlike itanium it actually performs very well on 32 bit applications, in fact better than any other processor currently in existance, including the G5.