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  1. Re:Surprising to me on Car Hackers Mess With Speedometers, Odometers, Alarms and Locks · · Score: 1

    The only thing I've got is that I've had cars with an analog (2012 Camaro) and a digital (2008 Civic) speedometer that allow you to switch between mph and km/h making that an additional function they have. Didn't read TFA, but making it appear slower than actual? km/h to mph would do that.

  2. Re:Killer App? Really? on PS Vita TV's Killer App: Remote Play · · Score: 1

    They say that it will work with every game and work better. I thought it was a pretty lousy feature on the PSP as it seemed to need too much bandwidth to be worthwhile. It's neat for about ten minutes to play a PS1 game from a disc in the PS3, but the lag...

  3. Re:About Time on CRTC Unveils New Wireless Code To Protect Canadian Customers · · Score: 2

    Apparently my "sorry" is where an accent is more apparent for some Americans I know. And it's not just because they don't know the word :P

  4. Re:Why doesn't price drop after phone is paid off? on AT&T: Don't Want a Data Plan for That Smartphone? Too Bad. · · Score: 1

    What about porting your number? In theory, it works in Canada - I've never done it personally, but I was damn near thinking of doing that with an unlocked phone every month or two - except for the fact that Bell and Telus are the same network so it wouldn't matter. But no carrier here offers a discount to bringing your own phone afaik... And then there are the 3 year contracts up here... Blah..

  5. Re:easy on Mystery of the Shrunken Proton · · Score: 1

    So if this new measurement is related to charge in the proton, could it be an impact of how close or perhaps more likely how fast the muon orbited the proton? As muons (and taus) are heavier than electrons, I would expect them to move slower around the proton which could cause a shift in how the quarks are positioned or interact within the proton. Mind you the muon is huge compared to the up or down quarks. And this is where my brain stops processing once I read that quantum chromodynamics is responsible for the majority of the mass-energy of the proton.. :P Oh well :P I tried!

  6. Re:Closed Room + Faraday Cage on How Do You Detect Cheating In Chess? Watch the Computer · · Score: 1

    at the rank-and-file tournaments

    Somehow you got away with this blatant pun..

  7. 10x the population on Election Tech: In Canada, They Actually Count the Votes · · Score: 1

    10x the votes to count, but maybe it would be worth it. If you can mark an X, you're my kind of people.

  8. Re:Missing the point? on Alternative To QR Code Uses NFC and Cheap Rectennas · · Score: 2
  9. Re:Final Fantasy fanboy on Review: Theatrhythm Final Fantasy Is Game Music Nostalgia At Its Best · · Score: 1

    Hmm.. My 3DS is kaput for repairs atm (R button broke from Find Mii.... :P), but I was going to buy this game pretty blindly. Responding to your comment directly because I love FFXI's music.. But looking at their track list.. Yeah.. Not so good. Ronfaure is good, but the others are skippable. They should have had more of the unique songs from it and they have 5 discs minimum from the extra OSTs to choose from. Looking at my iTunes ratings for songs, best are - regional songs (eg. San D'Oria/Ronfaure), battle songs and a handful of songs from the later expansions: Wings of the Goddess, Aht Urghan.
    Looks like they picked: Ronfaure (good), Vana'diel March 1/2 (Ugh), Awakening (poor song from the original OST.. should have been a battle theme easily especially since that's what it's supposed to be for that category.. it's actually a cut scene song) and the intro song is fair enough. Could have been some better choices, but Ronfaure is great.

    I guess I'm at least in the right demographic for the game if nothing else. I've spent $40 on worse things too, but hopefully I do find enough enjoyment in this.

  10. Re:Patent good in this case on Time Warner Cable Patents Method For Disabling Fast-Forward Function On DVRs · · Score: 1

    Can't this be a good thing? Because implementing the same system in other TV service would need licensing which would be money which would be skippable then. Time Warner customers are boned, but hey, better for the rest of us

  11. Re:What a surprise on Anonymous, Decentralized and Uncensored File-Sharing Is Booming · · Score: 1

    I had spoken to a university IT department on how sweet Adblock was to smoothing out the web browsing experience. Their response? Effectively that ads are essential to the internet in that their revenue allows websites to stay up..

  12. Re:Japan and Europe is where the industry is on Chevy Volt Meets High Resistance, GM Suspends Sales · · Score: 1

    http://jalopnik.com/5559767/i-sold-everything-to-buy-a-lamborghini-and-drive-across-the-country

    Interesting story I read quite awhile ago.. 91000 miles on a lambo :P

  13. Re:Not even close on Canada's Internet Among Best, Report Says · · Score: 1

    I live in Calgary and there is a business park that is Telus only - no Shaw. They won't run the lines out unless it is at cost to the business. Considering the normal situation is free install for residential, the infrastructure is obviously in place for that, but it would cost them thousands of dollars to have them lay cables for let's say a block away. The word from the complex owner about internet is "too bad" and no other businesses wanted to split the cost across all of them for something better than Telus there. I don't know the details on both provider's service map, but a city of a million should have each block lit up...

  14. Re:My ex wanted this. on Teens Share Passwords As a Form of Intimacy · · Score: 1

    Just like how every legislator who ups the ante against child pr0n is guilty of it too...

  15. Re:Honda's bait and switch on Another Stab At Sorting Hybrid Hype From Reality · · Score: 1

    I have a 2008 Civic Hybrid in Calgary and the update was applied in January 2011 iirc. I was getting 46.6 mpg on a good tank (the mission was to always get the L/100km to read 5.0 not 5.1).. Now it's around 33 mpg with winter, new tires ( http://www.goodyear.ca/tire/assurance-fuel-max/ which you would think would be good...?) and the firmware update all worked in. It went in for a B12 service a month or two ago and after that, the car now revs to 2500 rpm pretty frequently. Thought it was another update like that, but they explain it with just a replacement to air filters.. Ugh..

    Although there's also this story: http://ca.autoblog.com/2011/12/21/honda-extends-2006-2011-civic-hybrid-warranty-over-gas-leak/ which I don't know if that helps.. When asked about that a couple days after that was posted, the Honda service rep I had didn't know anything about it. Could be a Canada difference too. (For whatever reason [sales], only the US got 2009-2011 Civic Hybrids.. I'm still waiting to see about test driving a 2012 Civic Hybrid. My car is paid off though so no need to do anything)

  16. Re:Well, there goes Nintendo... on Nintendo Announces Wii Successor for 2012 · · Score: 2

    I thought you trusted that Nintendo didn't release hardware just for the sake of releasing hardware. The 3DS is a speed bump, but does add 3D, a gyro from the wiimote tech and a pedometer from the pokewalker. The play coins are a cool feature and improves upon the chances of finding someone to streetpass which is also a cool feature. No one knows the feature list of the next home console (being more important than the spec sheet) and so no one can really say. That said, it is disappointing to know that there are games that are still in development for Wii (like Dragon Quest X) and will look outdated after a new console comes out..

  17. Re:Not all that impressive, really. on NESBot: Tool Assisted Speedrun On Real Hardware · · Score: 1

    And I had a dream to build a mechanical setup to control a 360 controller to "TAS" Trials HD. That game begs to be demonstrated as a perfect play. But alas, I don't have any skills like that so the dream is dead.. I suppose it would be easier to try to take apart a controller, learn the signalling and basically have a minute long macro button. Any takers?

  18. Re:I bet "The Industry" loves it.... on CD Sales Continue To Plummet, Vinyl Records Soar · · Score: 1

    Obviously, one drawback is the cost, but another is that it only works on black vinyl. Between 1/4 and 1/3 of my collection is clear or coloured which adds to the list of problems.

  19. Mitch Hedberg called this one on Malfunction Costs Couple $11 Million Slot Machine Jackpot · · Score: 4, Interesting

    "I saw a billboard for the lottery. It said, "Estimated lottery jackpot 55 million dollars." I did not know that was estimated. That would suck if you won and they said, "Oh, we were off by two zeroes. We estimate that you are angry!""

  20. Re:Freedom? on South Korea Announces Daily MMO Blackouts For Youths · · Score: 1

    In short, I think this law would have little impact on the types of kids who are out and about at that time of night.

    You're right about that part.. What I don't get is why enforce a curfew on a subset of youth? If you're going to try to straighten out youth, I would figure that you would want to target teens who would be more likely to commit crimes rather than a group that is less likely to do so.. To punish people for not committing a crime? Bad form imo..

  21. Re:The first thing to come to my mind... on Valve Confirms Mac Versions of Steam, Valve Games · · Score: 1

    I think you're thinking of Aqua not Cocoa.. Cocoa is Objective C programming for the game engine which is a different ball of wax than what it would be like to port to linux. The graphics libraries being OpenGL - yeah that will help a move to linux, but it's obviously not 100% to the point of running a mac binary on a linux box.

  22. Re:Not the best idea on Angry AT&T Customers May Disrupt Service · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If emergency calls cannot go through under "100%" usage of the tower, something is seriously wrong. There needs to be bandwidth provisioned and reserved for emergency calls for every tower and trunk.

    If this does affect emergency calls, AT&T really does need to get their shit together. I assume there are laws in place to enforce the transmission of emergency calls. Hell AT&T gets a free stress test of their network which is something they should be doing anyway. Real world data of extreme usage. Study, learn and yes: build a better network because of it.

  23. Re:Street fighter 4 PC does localization right... on Inside Video Game Localization · · Score: 1

    The first .hack series had Japanese or English audio which was great. The fact that the game was spread over four games wasn't so good... But the tone and intonation was lost between the two and is a frequent thing. I'm enough of a japanophile to notice/care/whine about things like that.. When you get things like MGS4 which they claim fills the 50 GB BD DL without room for multi audio, I get suspicious, but it's mainly RPGs that I care about anyway... Theory goes that Bluray's capacity will help this process along.. It makes no sense to have all that work and just throw it out when it adds value to the game.. How hard is it to maintain a list of audio files j0001.wav vs. e0001.wav? The second .hack series didn't have this option, but you should search online about undubs.. There are people who splice in the Japanese audio into US games.. (Mainly PS2) They are really neat except for when you come across a game that has better dubs than the original like Persona 4.. Igor sounds pretty badass and cryptic in English and like a fruitcake in Japanese.. I only hope Tales of Vesperia PS3 makes it here and with full audio in English and Japanese..

  24. Re:This will end badly on How Micro-Transactions Will Shake Up iPhone · · Score: 1

    Actually (at least for Canada), you CAN'T buy iPhone apps using a gift card. It's only good for music/TV/movies.. Not sure if the allowance could work for iPhone apps, but hopefully that's just a temporary "iPhone apps are new and it's not implemented" type thing rather than a decision...

  25. Re:Economic recovery on Wife of Harried Pirate Bay Witness Gets Buried in Internet Love · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't want to go anywhere without my wonderful towel

    Be careful what sentences you use though