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  1. Re:Fuck Hurt Locker on Hurt Locker Studio Begins Requesting Canadian ISP's Subscriber Info · · Score: 1

    I did the same recently as well
    In addition, they match charitable donations to OpenMedia.ca, highly publicized by Michael Geist

  2. Re:Another 10 bucks wasted on NZBMatrix Closes Their Website · · Score: 1

    $10- 3 years ago. Definitely the best. I wonder what this means for sickbeard and the like.

    SB has its own indexer for episodes (SBIndex, it's in the config).
    As for "the like", however, if you can find a free/premium provider still around (look around on this thread, and you'll probably find a couple) that support the same arguments in their search as NZBmatrix does (there are a few), then you can get by with adding your own providers

  3. Re:About .. eh.... time? on Valve Officially Launches TV-Friendly Steam Big Picture Mode · · Score: 1

    Except that right now, in conjunction with the release of Big Picture, Steam has opted to put 30 games on sale that are fully playable with a controller, many of them were (at one time) major steam titles (L4D 1/2, Counterstrike, etc)
    Further, Steam is starting to put in icons as to the control method used for games (i.e. multitouch-screen, controller, M/K).

    Most major studios don't make PC games controller compatible because gamers don't have controllers for their PCs, having opted for the more "traditional" M/K UI years ago.

    Until gamers start getting controllers for their PCs (e.g., if a major game provider starts serving a 10' UI that gains traction, wink-wink, nudge-nudge), games won't start being controller-compatible or playable.

    The old UI is still there, but, personally, I dislike having my keyboard on a tray at my couch for my HTPC, and would prefer a few wireless gamepads, a la XBox/PS3

  4. Re:About .. eh.... time? on Valve Officially Launches TV-Friendly Steam Big Picture Mode · · Score: 3, Interesting

    No problems, other than having to use a mouse to pick which game they wanted to play, and, potentially, having to sit closer to the screen to see the list (unless they upped their font-sizes).

    This is a different UI for Steam
    It's geared towards the 8' or 10' user (sitting on the couch), and accessible via Remote Control or Gamepad, instead of mouse.
    It essentially cleans up your coffee table (removing the kb/mouse from being needed, unless the game you choose requires it)

    I, as a person looking for a similar frontend to emulators (that is easy to use and will do the scraping of my collection for me, like Sick Beard and EmberMM did for TV/Movies), welcome this new UI, and might start using Steam more again (lately have not been playing too many PC games)

  5. Re:Conquest on Vega Older Than Thought: Mature Enough To Nurture Life · · Score: 1

    The Vegans should not pose a problem for us. Their strict adherence to a non-carnivorous lifestyle, shunning even protein rich foods like cheese and eggs, ensures that we would be able to beat them in a fair fight.

    Unless, of course, they have Vegan Super Powers
    Oh, you didn't know?

  6. Re:Vega STRIKE on Vega Older Than Thought: Mature Enough To Nurture Life · · Score: 1

    So do you suggest a Hadouken or Yoga Flame?

    Definitely a Hadoken...
    Blackmage made those things absolutely devastating, ask Lefein

  7. Re:Problem with set top boxes... on Microsoft Reportedly Working On Xbox TV Device · · Score: 1

    Sickbeard is a damn fine show aggregation tool. It doesn't use torrents[...]. I just check my unwatched shows on XBMC.

    Sickbeard drops torrents fine into any blackhole, such that uTorrent, Transmission, or most other current torrent downloaders can pick up, then can grab the resultant file from wherever your torrent app downloads it.

    To the GP/Sibling; while it's true that XBMC is not TiVo, parent's note about "checking unwatched shows on XBMC" relates to the fact that XBMC can automatically pick-up the sorted downloads managed by SB+Transmission/SAB
    Process is akin to this:

    Configuration:
    1. Configure blackhole + download path in torrent client, or SAB
    2. Define usenet host/torrent blackhole in SB (match [1])
    3. Define download path from SAB/Transmission/uTorrent to search for "new" downloaded shows (match [1])
    4. Define output path in SB to place scraped + sorted (by show/season) shows
    5. Define XBMC library path to match [4]
    6. Define "show" in sickbeard (or multiple shows)

    [automated part]

    1. SB downloads show information (ep guide, air dates, etc) from internet (tvdb)
    2. SB starts searching news feeds or torrents for "missing" shows
    3. SB either queues DL in SAB (usenet) or downloads a torrent and places it in black-hole (torrents)
    4. SAB/Torrent client downloads show to downloads folder
    5. SB identifies new show in downloads folder, parses filename + scrapes against internet for all requested metadata, moves file + writes metadata to library path
    6. XBMC identifies new (fully scraped) media file in library path, adds to library DB, flagged as "Unwatched"

    And you get TV shows, usually within hours of their airing, appearing automatically for you.
    SB also has reports on Missed and Upcoming episodes, (i.e. it's already looking ahead to start downloading next-week's ep of current-running, or next-season's start of on-hold shows)

  8. Re:Sounds like a great idea on 'Ban Killer Bots,' Urges Human Rights Watch · · Score: 1

    I would trust the robot more. You could program it to not take things like emotions into account. You can have it judge if someone is hostile or a combatant and only exercise the force required. Humans are far more likely to overreact.

    Just like ED-209 only exercised the force required, and did not in any way overreact.

  9. Re:A must have for air travel now on Band Uses Nuclear Isotopes To Make Music · · Score: 1

    I prefer the Fermi anyways; the Bose have issues with condensation

  10. Obligatory on New Dinosaur Named After the Eye of Sauron · · Score: 1
  11. Re:Why settle for the lesser evil? on Physicist Explains Cthulhu's "Non-Euclidean Geometry" · · Score: 1

    He ain't dead, he's restin'. Remarkable tentacles on him.

    In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu lies dreaming

    He is both quite dead, and, at the same time, functioning
    Altered reality can do that for you, too.

  12. Re:Starship fate on Black Hole's "Point of No Return" Found · · Score: 1

    Have you noticed how your peers cringe whenever you try to tell a joke? Trust us, you don't need to *duck* because we feel you are more to be pitied than censured.

    That, and this is /.; we're geeks not "pro-sports guys"
    Even if we tried throwing things at him, we'd miss... he's better off standing where he is, instead of moving (and then potentially getting hit by a stray shot)

  13. Re:So... on Canadian Spying Case Proves Floppy Drive Isn't Dead Yet · · Score: 1

    They could have modulated the death star ray to transmit data.

    Communication lasers (those used to transmit data over short distances like within a star system) are used regularly in SF over shorter distances (like a few dozen km) as weapons.
    Within those shorter distances, the beam is still powerful enough (read: not yet attenuated/diffracted so much) that it can cut through the hull of another ship (or melt the power-supply of a General Products hull)

  14. Re:bracelet or RING!!!! on Microsoft's Hand-Gesture Sensor Bracelet · · Score: 1

    So I says to the guy
    "Hey, turn that music up!" ... That's when I lost it!!!

    And ever since I've been The Champ...

    Kudos

  15. Re:It all sounds vaguely familar... on US Air Force's 1950s Supersonic Flying Saucer Declassified · · Score: 1

    The possibilities (let alone the probabilities) are infinite!

    However highly improbable

    I'm not sure exactly how improbable, though... I'm only on my second cup of Brownian Motion Generator.

  16. Re:Description reminds me of... on Bruce Perens: The Day I Blundered Into the Nuclear Facility · · Score: 1

    > ENTER POOL

    You have jumped into the pool.

    You have died from radiation poisoning.

    Your irradiated corpse will now be eaten by a grue

    There, FTFY

  17. Re:So... I read the article. on Bruce Perens: The Day I Blundered Into the Nuclear Facility · · Score: 4, Funny

    That is they would rub you down with lotion

    Doesn't sound like the sort of place they should let children into.

    It's better than giving them the hose, again

  18. Re:Rosetta Stone on Gold Artifact To Orbit Earth In Hope of Alien Retrieval · · Score: 1

    If they are using javascript for space flight, all we'll need to do to defeat them is fly Jeff Goldblum and Will Smith up to their ship to infect them with NoScript.

    It's a good thing, then, that he developed the Oscillation Overthruster, without which he might not be able to get into the ship.
    Hopefully John Lithgow isn't up there, though, as he could put a damper on things.

  19. Re:crazy technology on Neil Young Pushes Pono, Says Piracy Is the New Radio · · Score: 1

    Yes but I wonder if that is good enough. I suppose in theory it could be if you do it for different volume levels of pink noise - in case there are nonlinearities and other weirdness. But the phase could be important too, not just the frequency response.

    My own receiver isn't even really high-end (around the $1,000 range)
    It's built-in speaker configuration detects and warns of phase variance, has you put it's microphone in multiple "listening" spots around the room, and calculates all of them to give you what it thinks is "best".

    It's basically becoming part of the norm for non-one-stop-shop/stereo-in-a-box audio equipment nowadays.

  20. Re:FLAC on Neil Young Pushes Pono, Says Piracy Is the New Radio · · Score: 1

    Jane was addicted to that.

    So Jane says...

  21. Re:Why not a vacuum on WD Builds High-Capacity, Helium-Filled HDDs · · Score: 2

    Can an SSD dive in insulating oil without causing long-term damage to it?

    No more than the ICs on the motherboard or video card you submerged

  22. Re:Bootstrap on Activision Blizzard Secretly Watermarking World of Warcraft Users · · Score: 2, Informative

    FTP which on windows workstations is handled, by default, by IE and to get a ftp client like filezilla you will probably use a browser, - chicken vs egg

    [Start] => Run => cmd.exe
    >ftp ftp.mozilla.org

    A native CLI FTP app has been included in Windows since (iirc) Win95.

  23. Re:If I recall..... on Quantum Teleportation Sends Information 143 Kilometers · · Score: 1

    If we'd only put hyperwave on Voyager, we could talk to it instantly!

    Hyperwave radio, just like hyperspace transportation, was not instantaneous.
    Hyperwave just bridged the distance between points A and B in real-space, to a much shorter distance in hyperspace, wherein hw radio transmission was still limited to light-speed.

    When Nessus was sitting outside the Fleet of Worlds' gravity well, talking to his cohorts on Earth, there was a transport-delay of about an hour in the conversation (granted that was over, what was it, some 30 light years?)

    There was also still the need for hw relay/buoys, as the signal attenuated (just as in normal space) over increasingly large distances.

  24. Re:Criminal Investigation on Should We Print Guns? Cody R. Wilson Says "Yes" (Video) · · Score: 1

    but wow , an amendment is needed to stop people with a history of mental illness?

    Three days? But I want to kill someone now!

  25. Re:Maple Syrup Strategic Reserve? on Police Probing Theft of Millions of Pounds of Maple Syrup From Strategic Reserve · · Score: 1

    How does it taste?

    Like Bacon