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  1. Re:What I want on In UK, Two Convicted of Refusing To Decrypt Data · · Score: 1

    is an encryption system with 2 keys.

    One decrypts the files or filesystem while the other key overwrites the contents with random data.

    If they're doing it right they will not mess with the original data, but with a copy. So your idea is quite useless.

  2. Re:Windows 2000 on MS — Dropping IE6 Support "Not an Option" · · Score: 0

    That light you're seeing doesn't come from the fluorescent lighting in the office, it's actually the end of the tunnel.
    It will only cost more when you keep delaying.

  3. Re:paint.net? on Best Free Open Source Software For Windows · · Score: 1

    Paint.NET hardly approaches Photoshop at all. Paint.NET lacks quite important features like a soft eraser, and the ability to select the area in the current layer that has been painted on.

  4. Re:The list, for those who don't care about pictur on Best Free Open Source Software For Windows · · Score: 1

    Yes, but I can not use OO.o for everything. Being able to print from any application to PDF is very useful.

  5. Re:Compared to flash... on HTML 5 Canvas Experiment Hints At Things To Come · · Score: 0

    Java != JavaScript

  6. Re:Slideshow on HTML 5 Canvas Experiment Hints At Things To Come · · Score: 2, Informative

    Runs quite well on my old Toshiba Satellite Pro M10 (Pentium M 1.5, 512MB RAM, FF3.5.2, Windws XP)

  7. I don't care on Wipeout HD Loading Ads Scrapped After Uproar · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'm not even going to consider buying Wipeout HD, and I'm giving a second thought when I'm buying anything else form the same developer/publisher.

  8. Re:Valve are more evil than EA. on New Left 4 Dead DLC Coming Next Month · · Score: 3, Informative

    now say they'll charge XBox 360 owners for what was promised to be free

    I'm not a Valve fan, but this isn't due to them. It is Microsoft who doesn't want free DLC on XBL.

  9. Re:Depressing, but not uncommon on Student Sues University Because She's Unemployable · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wait... high/low education is related to terrain!? Then the people in the Netherlands must be quite dumb considering a large part of the country is below sea level.

  10. Re:Motivation? on Student Sues University Because She's Unemployable · · Score: 2, Funny

    why doesn't she use her business degree and start her own business. Find a niche and go with it. It will be more rewarding.

    I think she's actually trying to do that. But I'm not sure how profitable a business around suing your past educators will be.

  11. Re:only mp3 players left on Google CEO Schmidt Leaves Apple Board · · Score: 5, Funny

    turtle necks => t-shirts

  12. ign.com review of the iPod on Apple Tries To Gag Owner of Exploding iPod · · Score: 1

    "it will blow you away" - ign.com

    ps, not really IGN

  13. Re:We need to lock everyone in their houses on Even More Restriction For German Internet · · Score: 1

    But then the small indoors is in danger. We need to move everybody to the moon, starting with the people who create laws like these.

  14. Re:Remind me... on Even More Restriction For German Internet · · Score: 1

    I'm just reminding you to never move to Germany

  15. Errors in the article on From Doom To Dunia — the History of 3D Engines · · Score: 5, Informative

    They list an engine called Voxel, which isn't an engine but a technology. And they list a bunch of games which use the same engine as NovaLogic's Comanche, but it's complete bullshit. Tiberian Sun and Red Alert 2 (for example) didn't use that engine at all, the just used the voxel technology.

    Then they list StoneKeep, but StoneKeep didn't even use a 3D engine.

    They call Outcast "A popular voxel engine", the engine was used only once. And showed it severe limitations. How can something used only once be popular.

    And for some reason they decided to split up some engines into multiple generations (like UnrealEngine) and keep others as a single entry (like LithTech, GameBryo)

    And for an history article they surely didn't bother to put everything in chronological order. And for a visual article they sure didn't bother to find the best screenshots to show of the engine.

  16. Re:Crusader: no remorse/no regret on Which Game Series Would You Reboot? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Crusader: no remove/no regret aged terrible. A while ago I tried to reply the games, it partially ruined my fond memories of it. I would love a reboot of the series.

  17. Re:Rainbow Six & Ghost Recon on Which Game Series Would You Reboot? · · Score: 1

    Completely agree. I (and my friends) loved every R6 game (and expansion) up to and including Raven Shield (R6:3). But after that they went to less tactical more action FPS route, where your characters even had hit points. In the original R6 games you were lucky if you would only get wounded. Same thing does for the original Ghost Recon game, it also changed from a tactical outdoor FPS to an action FPS.

  18. Re:*Sigh* on Gamerscore Hacking and Its Underground Economy · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you take sport seriously, can you still call it a game?

  19. Re:anonymous coward thinks this is first post on Opera CTO Thinks IE Will Be Forced To Support SVG · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Congratulations, you win the internet!

    Everybody can go home now.

  20. Re:Insert Your Morbid Tag Line Here on Chinese Employee Loses iPhone Prototype, Kills Self · · Score: 1

    "The iPhone 4 - you'll be in seventh heaven"

  21. Re:Buying used games? on US Videogame Sales Have Biggest Drop In 9 Years · · Score: 1

    NPD doesn't track:
    - PC game sales by retail anymore (they used to)
    - digital distribution of PC games (i.e. steam/impulse/d2d/...)
    - digital distribution of PSN/WiiWare/XBLA
    - various online retailers

    So... once again... it's statistics, damned statistics, and lies

  22. Re:they should be kept practical and useful on The Amazing World of Software Version Numbers · · Score: 1

    YY.MM might work for software bundles, like operating systems. But version numbers are of great importance for internal use, thus:

    major.minor.micro.somethingForDevs

    major -> major + 1 = major products differences... a lot of new stuff... don't blindly install this stuff (or, this requires clients to renew their license)
    minor -> minor + 1 = might need configuration changes, 3rd party software linking to this might break
    micro -> micro + 1 = just bugfixes, everything should still work as before (without the bug of course)

    somethingForTheDevs = build number, revision number, build date; something you can use as internal identifier

  23. Re:When was the last LAN party you went to? on The Evolution of Multiplayer Games and Online Play · · Score: 1

    In 1999, USB allowed connecting multiple gamepads to a computer through a hub.

    With Gravis GrIP you could hook up multiple gamepads on a single PC joystick port, this was released in 1996 iirc.

  24. Re:News at 11 on Strong Passwords Not As Good As You Think · · Score: 1

    So write it down and put it in your wallet with your credit card.

    Unless - of course - you routinely tack your credit card to your cubicle wall. No? Didn't think so.

    Guess what my password is :)

  25. Re:The only thing I got out of TFA... on Shuttleworth's Take On GNOME 3.0, Coordination with Debian · · Score: 3, Insightful

    In computer-space we have either directories/files or folders/documents.

    MS Windows uses "Files" and "Folders". Actually, the type of a folder is "File Folder". A "document" is a subtype of "file", because a "file" can also be an "application" or "program". A "file" could also be an "archive", which contains "files" and "folders". Some "archives" are called "cabinets". And of course all these files, folders, archives, cabinets, etc. can be seen in windows. Of course to be able to see those windows you first need to use a key, to open the lock. And to add protection from outsiders to see you files, etc. we have walls of fire. All the files, folders, etc. are stored on something called "drives"... why on earth are they not called "rooms"? And I wonder where the "roof" is in all this stuff.