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  1. Re:I didn't think it was that difficult on Tricking Vista's UAC To Hide Malware · · Score: 1

    I think what is most unfortunate is some businesses will disallow the ignore setting and make you endure these popup warnings until hell freezes over.

  2. Re:How ... on 'Killer' Network Card Actually Reduces Latency · · Score: 1

    The NVIDIA Linux drivers give the user a choice between network throughput or less CPU usage. I'm not sure what they put on the CPU though.

  3. Re:so, what this seems to say on Office 2007 UI License · · Score: 1

    It seems to me like an attempt to bake the 'windows' UI into a specific application suite. Then they will probably give this UI away for free with windows by default, but still claim its part of office?

    This would seem to be an attempt to keep other office programs from using any new UI candy present in Vista. Nothing more, nothing less.

    I't won't matter because when people start 'working' they are not concerned about how pretty the UI is but how well things work. MS Word for one is a terrible program performance wise.

  4. Re:My prediction on CCP and White Wolf Games To Merge · · Score: 1

    I agree completely. Each region has a history of who owned it and who fights over it. Then you can build stations that exist permanently in game. Its great.

    I just hope this White Wolf does not add more of the one thing Eve online players lothe. Dice rolls...

  5. Re:World beyond x86 on ATI's Stream Computing on the Way · · Score: 1

    I think people became immunized to CPU makers hype after the first intel MMX that was supposed to replace modems and graphics cards etc...

    Graphics card manufacturers have yet to cease pumping the 8hit. It is however peculiar that ATI would announce a technology that could potentially devalue their parent companies (AMD) product. I suppose next AMD will announce more Graphics processing capabilities on their CPUs. Whats good for the Goose right?

  6. Re:DRM is a hassle on iPod Users Buy CDs, Shun iTunes · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Music makes memories. Hardly when I am playing an old game do I remember the old times with it. So there is no urge to play old games as their is to listen to old music on occasion.

  7. Re:I'm easy to please. on Star Trek - Special Edition · · Score: 0

    Why not fix up Shatner's bad acting. What about his now famous, rediculous flying kick? And I detected many instances of emotion from Spock.

    If they are going to sanitize it, why stop with just props?

    The more 'flaws' you remove, the more people will notice the other flaws. I think its better left alone. Hell, TNG was propwise superior, but who can match the depth of the original series?

  8. Re:Obligatory meme reference on Avatars Need Personal Space Too · · Score: 1

    I have to disagree totally. Risk taking is very much in line with the real world. It all depends on what is at stake. People in eve-online dont go around shooting people willy-nilly. You can loose a lot of stuff which translates into real world time which translates into real world money if you are not careful.

  9. Re:Horrible idea, but thats par for the course for on Vista Startup Sound to be Mandatory? · · Score: 1

    Same here. I believe it is EA GAMES that has this annoying "challenge everything" tagline each time you start the gate. Its so annoying that I scoured the internet to find the switch to turn it off...

  10. Re:Backups don't need to be tricky these days on It's 2006 and Backups For Home User Still Tricky? · · Score: 1

    This is true? Where does the home user store their off-site backup data?

  11. Re:Backups don't need to be tricky these days on It's 2006 and Backups For Home User Still Tricky? · · Score: 1

    I believe his son plays games. Everyone knows you need to be an administrator to play games.

  12. Re:OK then, $100mill question on Apple Settles Creative Lawsuit for $100 Million · · Score: 1

    Its probably limited to handheld devices.

    Also I am not sure if this is a design or utility patent!?

  13. Re:Doesnt it sound like... on Apple Settles Creative Lawsuit for $100 Million · · Score: 3, Funny

    Actually, to me it sounds like he is saying touché.

  14. Re:LCD backlights will fade unevenly on Are Plasma TVs the Next BetaMax? · · Score: 1

    So your going with a "grass is greener" theory? Since there are more LCD owners you will have more going from LCD to plasma due to issues with LCD aging than from plasma to LCD due to issues with plasma aging?

  15. Re:That's not quite what he said. on ESR Advocates Proprietary Software · · Score: 4, Insightful

    We call those initials, not an acronym. Now if someone were to say "The ESR" that would be a different story.

  16. Re:From what I've learned about wireless on The Military Aims to Develop 'Smart' & Secure WiFi · · Score: 1

    This is all interesting considering the internet and wifi were both creations to come out of military organiztions.

  17. Re:Inevitably on Experiences with Replacing Desktops w/ VMs? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Also with such a setup GF could never get help anywhere else. She's locked in, muahahaha.

  18. Re:Circuit City has cash for the fight on Circuit City Ripping DVDs for Users · · Score: 1

    Id call that a fair use. Again, you want everyone to buy their own hardware?

    Sure I know Kinkos would object to me copying a book, but technically if its mine its fair use. They just don't want to be involved. CC has bigger balls.

  19. Re:Leveling the playing field on A 'Witch Hunt' in Silicon Valley · · Score: 2, Informative

    I have to assume when they say backdated they mean dated to a period before they were issued. Furthermore, that they mean the date of issuance was altered when the party was ready to redeem the options.

  20. Re:Psssh. on New 'No Military Use' GPL For GPU · · Score: 1

    Did they do a study on what positions Children of Congresspersons tend to hold in the US military?

  21. Re:Psssh. on New 'No Military Use' GPL For GPU · · Score: 1

    Those sabre tooth tigers are always going to be eating us so its time we just face facts.

    When you stop striving is when you stop evolving.

  22. Re:8% false positives? Absolutely useless. on Biometric Terrorist Detector · · Score: 1

    Right there the system has illustrated that it can be fooled. Companies try to get the US government to make us taxpayers into suckers everyday.

  23. Re:Decimal Arithmetic on The Trouble With Rounding Floats · · Score: 1

    But since we are not using infinite number of decimal places, you are basically asking for a bigger float no?

  24. Re:The problem with signing on The FSF, GPLv3 and DRM · · Score: 1

    I think the GPL makes it perfectly for you to take that Tivo code modify it, compile it and run it. It does not say you can run it on the Tivo hardware. Hell, was the code born on Tivo, or its its origin some other piece of hardware?

    Linus is correct. What hardware you can/can not run on is not something for software license to enforce. Isint this a form of DRM through license?

    As you said you have two rights here. The right to the Tivo since you bought it. The right to the software in the Tivo since its GPL. GPLv3 is trying to roll these into one. I think they are going to produce a licence that won't hold water.

  25. Re:Sporting Analogies on An Open Source Security Triple Play · · Score: 1

    Or Mortal Kombat. "FATALITY!"