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  1. Re:8 MB for a video game? on First Sony PSP Pictures Revealed · · Score: 1

    yes, but the overall displayed resolution is less than the PS2 and the color depth is as well. This means the texture data is much smaller. Trust me, it will work.

  2. Re:This is so fucked up on America's Army - Special Forces Released · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Ha ha. Innovation at its finest- A leftist liberal who hates the military and George W. Bush. Your post seethes with youthful hatred of the military. Maybe I am more sensitive to it as a veteran. Who knows.
    Let me enlighten you a bit- there are bad men out there in the real world (outside the US), and they do some very bad things to other people. The human animal can be the worst one in many ways, and ignoring them does not make them stop. In some cases, you have to kill them. Arguing in a forum will not change it. Protest signs won't change it. Sometimes you just have to kill people and break things.

  3. Re:Dean on What the Candidates are Running · · Score: 1

    Well, he should have, considering he practically invented Blackberry.

  4. Re:useful information on What the Candidates are Running · · Score: 1

    I am a Republican. I think the Patriot Act was the stupidest, most hastily enacted piece of garbage ever. Oh, and Ashcroft wins Worst. Nominee. Ever. BUT... I think Guantanimo is the way to go for war criminals from organizations like Al Qaeda for the short term. There isn't any need, however, to keep these guys much past their fifties.

  5. Re:I know 'someone' who had near 1k files on Millions Delete ALL Music Files? · · Score: 1

    WHO THE FUCK MODDED THIS "OFF TOPIC"?
    I swear there are some serious moron moderators out there.
    way2trivial, who did you piss off?

  6. Re:Empty your recycle bin. on Millions Delete ALL Music Files? · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the advice there, but this is News for Nerds . Most people here probably already know to do that.
    In addition to that, people like my wife use the recycle bin to hold files they don't want to look at anymore. I know this because I have the scheduler set to clean up every weekend, and every once in a while she asks me why I deleted her files. If she had Kazaa I would worry for my life.

  7. Re:RTFA on Millions Delete ALL Music Files? · · Score: 1

    I want to join this study, have them monitor my computer and then search for nothing but "japanese tentacle rape" and "peanut butter and marshmallow creme sandwiches". Also I will learn about the interesting history of Sandusky, Ohio. I could hijack the whole study if I could get others involved. And we'd all download John Tesh and Creed songs.

  8. Re:Global warning on Climate Data Re-examined (updated) · · Score: 1
    3. At this point in time, since evidence is still preliminary, he estimates the chances of the greenhouse effect being a real, scientific fact at about 10%.


    So you're saying that the Kyoto "treaty", which would have placed more restrictions on the US than on China or Mexico, would have been a good idea? I would have figured that in order to meet Kyoto's goals for CO2 emission, the US would either have to shut down 5-10% of its power plants and build new nyu-ku-lar ones or get rid of the steel and oil industries. It seems a risky gambit against a danger that has 10% chance of happening.

    Let's make some safe assumptions. We'll be generous to the environmentalists, too. Lets say that your friend is right, and that there's a 10% chance of human-caused global warming at 15%. We have to assume that there is a chance that it has progressed to the point where it's irreversible. Lets call that chance 40% IF HAPPENING.

    This would mean that, with the figures I have pulled from my @nus, that we have a 6% chance of repairable global warming. Then lets assume that signers of the treaty do not constitute 100% of the world population. What then, if not everyone is trying to fix it? Is the potential damage to the economy worth the risk of not working/ not being needed?
  9. Re:hmm on IBM To Design Technology For XBox 2 CPU · · Score: 1

    I think he meant non-x86.

  10. Re:What is Red Hat thinking? A marketing mistake! on Red Hat Linux Support To End · · Score: 1

    Don't you get it? They are tired of guys like you installing the free version of their software in an enterprise environment. They want you to pay for it. Duh.

  11. Re:Time for a different distro on Red Hat Linux Support To End · · Score: 1

    WAIT- you don't understand-

  12. Re:Heh.. ..ugh.. bleh. on Symantec Says No To Pro-Gun Sites · · Score: 1

    We enjoy your euro-trash patronization as well. We find your snotty arrogance immensely amusing, and your feelings of cultural and racial superiority mildly perplexing. Thanks for the laugh.

  13. Re:Ben Franklin quote on Deconstructing the Patriot Act PR Campaign · · Score: 1

    Your sentence analysis is faulty. Lets remove the emotional aspect and look at the sentence again, while subsituting guns for books, and "regulated militia" for "educated electorate".

    Like so:

    A well educated electorate, being necessary for the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear books, shall not be infringed.
    You can see by the sentence structure, unchanged as it is, that the first clause of the sentence serves to explain the reason for the amendment. The next part, of the People, is used as it is in the rest of the Bill of Rights. If this right were given to the state militia, as you contend, then it would read thusly:

    A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the several States to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.

    Regardless of whether you find this to be one of the more enlightened passages to the bill of rights, the appropriate procedure to remove it is to amend the amendment. If this right is no longer practical, it should be abolished through due legal process, not debated away by the academics and then ignored.
    If you take the position that this is a right to maintain the National Guard, then please explain its position between amendments one and three.

  14. Re:Even if you didn't do anything... on Deconstructing the Patriot Act PR Campaign · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Government security agencies are wary of (hostile to) Greenpeace because in international waters, Greenpeace practices piracy. Here in the US, you only see the "peace" side of Greenpeace. Let me assure you that at sea, they carry machine guns and the only time you see unarmed Greenies in the water is on a dinghy or zodiac boat, in a harbor, and in full view of the press (after calling the press and inviting them). I know you want to support protecting the environment, but internationally, Greenpeace will KILL HUMAN BEINGS to save trees and dolphins.

    For this reason, plus the RABID anti-American slant that Greenpeace has, donating to them while simultaneously sucking at the government teat is ill-advised (and conflicted).

  15. Why have a Big Mac when you could have a WOPR? on Factual 'Big Mac' Results · · Score: 1

    WOPR wins in my book, Big Mac doesn't have cool lines and blinkenlights. Clustering is cool, but lacks that Ubergeeky bassy sound that the WOPR made. I don't want a smaller computer, I want one the size of a Honda Civic.

  16. Re:Scandalous! on Are Review Units Better Than Store Versions? · · Score: 1

    Duh, you just take an average prostitute and cut a clear window and add LED fans and some glowtape from Thinkgeek. Then you overclock her. This can be done with biological based hardware overclocking componds such as the one made of natural coca leaf extract. Homemade biooverclock compound can be procured in front of any convenience store between 2 and 7 AM.

  17. Re:He just got fired? on Microsoft Fires Mac Fan For Blog Photo · · Score: 1
    If MS wants to be secretive about their location and has her reasons for that, they are fully in title to.

    Which title of which statute? Oh, maybe you meant "entitled" but you parsed your spoken word through a speech to text engine? /sn
  18. Re:Why he was fired on Microsoft Fires Mac Fan For Blog Photo · · Score: 1

    I think you're misguided. Security professional does not equal hit man. Security professional may = security guard plus proper security policy.

  19. Re:Why he was fired on Microsoft Fires Mac Fan For Blog Photo · · Score: 1

    I suspect that Microsoft would also desire some control over the access that the press has to its campus. When this guy started a blog he became an amateur reporter. As long as Microsoft wasn't injured by this hobby they would have no reason to object to it.

    This guy, though, showed he was willing to surreptitiously photograph and document the inside workings of Microsoft Corporation. That was stupid as hell, because Microsoft had no choice but remove this dufus before he does actual damage to MS's interests.

    Every company has policies that all contact with the press is to be through management. That's not "excessive control", it's good management policy. You can't have some third rate middle manager on CNN talking about his company's market strategies. You can't have a TEMPORARY WORKER reporting from the inside.

    I have hated windows from 98 to ME but XP is a fairly good product in my opinion (and in comparison), and I have to say this is the right thing to have done.

  20. This is only NOW being noticed? on Grand Theft Auto - The Scarface Connection · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Um, Uh, GTA and Vice City are '80's gangster/organized crime games.
    The difinitive '80's gangster movie is Scarface.
    Der.

  21. Re:OK. I just had to run the numbers on this on Star Trek Enterprise Tested to Mach 5 · · Score: 1

    You forgot to take into consideration the fact that during that 2.73 hours the enterprise gets to radiate some of that energy back into space, didn't you? aluminum radiates heat fairly well. don't forget that this "wind" will also cool the craft. Or did you take that into account already? IANAMOP
    I Am Not A Mathematician Or Physicist.

  22. Re:What does this matter if... on Star Trek Enterprise Tested to Mach 5 · · Score: 1

    "It's all real"

    "I Knew it!"

  23. Re:too bad.... on Athlon 64 Motherboard Triple Threat Round-Up · · Score: 1

    Not too sure how you managed to get so many bad processors, but I do need to clean the heatsink and fan assembly every two months because it's in a carpeted room with 2 cats. If the fan stops for a minute, the chip will die. Sorry about your luck.

  24. Re:w-xp on LG CD-ROMs Destroyed by Mandrake 9.2 · · Score: 1

    Yeah, except that Microsoft gets to communicate with the manufacturers. The manufacturer builds the hardware to do one thing: Work in Windows. They do not document their hardware, and don't use a jumper select for firmware updates. Also keep in mind that this is happening during NETWORK install, not installation from CD. This means that in querying the hardware, the firmware is hosed. Not very good hardware design, wouldn't you think?
    In addition, MandrakeSoft wasn't told what exact data would flip the write to firmware flag bit, so it's not really the hardware that's responsible. Heck, a poorly written Media Player application could destroy this piece of crap CD drive, from what the article states.

  25. Re:Mandrake is a horrid distribution on LG CD-ROMs Destroyed by Mandrake 9.2 · · Score: 1

    Never heard of this. Maybe you should check the Mandrake forums? Maybe you did something silly? Even the noble Slackware can be totally screwed with one command entered as root.