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  1. Re:Another reason not to gamble online on $33 Million In Poker Winnings Seized By US Govt · · Score: 1, Troll

    There are no house odds in poker.

  2. Re:Stop asking for the other kind of free on Dungeons & Dragons Online Goes Free-To-Play · · Score: 1

    Don't bother with trying to secure the client - it won't work. Just verify everything server side that you actually care about and let them do whatever they want with the client.

  3. Re:Stop asking for the other kind of free on Dungeons & Dragons Online Goes Free-To-Play · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "The client is in the hands of the enemy" -- any MMO developer who's working on security.

  4. Re:Rotate the backups! on How To Store Internal Hard Drives? · · Score: 1

    at $500/TB/Month it's not worth it for any large volume of data.

  5. Re:Same as any other profession on Why Is It So Difficult To Fire Bad Teachers? · · Score: 1

    We've had two fired in the last year for incompetence.

  6. Re:I'll repeat what I heard elsewhere on WHO Raises Swine Flu Threat Level · · Score: 2, Informative
  7. Re:Rhetorical Question ... on Obama Calls For Nuke-Free World · · Score: 1

    You're kidding right? Chaney was the one who engineered most of what Bush is so hated for.

  8. Re:Adapt on Windows and Linux Not Well Prepared For Multicore Chips · · Score: 1

    That sounds a whole lot like cell.

  9. Re:Adapt on Windows and Linux Not Well Prepared For Multicore Chips · · Score: 1

    Just like CPU manufacturers have topped out where they can push the clock speed to (for now) there is likewise an upper limit on how many cores are actually useful. One is much better than two, but 1024 doesn't get you anything more than 512 did.

  10. Re:Is anyone surprised? on Taxpayers Fund AIG Lawsuit Against US · · Score: 1

    I'm getting sick of hearing "too big to fail". PLEASE explain to me what the frak that is actually supposed to mean, and how this doomsday scenario would actually play out.

    Simply enough "Too big to fail" means that Chapter 11 (or worse 7) is not going to help. The amount of damage such a move would cause is far outweighed by the cost to keep it going while it can be reorganized and or dismantled outside of bankruptcy. All 'TARP' is is Chapter 11 writ large. AIG is quickly moving from Chapter 11 to Chapter 7 where the government will liquidate it and sell the parts. These things however take time - possibly years - to work out.

  11. Re:Chilling effects. on Solar Panels Reach $1 a Watt · · Score: 1

    This is why I've always been a little leery of the thought of solar panel satellites beaming power to Earth - that is adding energy to the system.

  12. Re:Wow on Solar Panels Reach $1 a Watt · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The point of these installations isn't to keep going without the grid - it's to generate your power either greener or cheaper depending on what angle you're coming from.

  13. Re:$1 per Watt or per kW? on Solar Panels Reach $1 a Watt · · Score: 1

    Are you sure you don't mean kW/h?

  14. Re:Wow on Solar Panels Reach $1 a Watt · · Score: 1

    Grid-tied and you don't have to.

  15. Re:Good Joke on Bill Would Require ISPs, Wi-Fi Users To Keep Logs · · Score: 1

    The answer to this is to include an IP address that is government hardware that you plug into your router and it logs everything there. Now you're not out any new money since most routers can already do this.

  16. Re:Good Joke on Bill Would Require ISPs, Wi-Fi Users To Keep Logs · · Score: 1

    Unless the Government kindly hands out an IP address for you to send all your logs to.

  17. Re:Generate your own 'fake' logs on Bill Would Require ISPs, Wi-Fi Users To Keep Logs · · Score: 1

    Be careful with that. What could happen is a government mandate that all routers report to a central server cluster and they'll just store those logs for you...

  18. Re:Blur-o-vision on Amazon Announces Kindle 2, With Slew of New Features · · Score: 1

    eInk is very different than a screen. At a 6" screen this is about 120 dpi which is actually better than many print publications.

  19. Re:I'm all for an action based MMORPG on An Early Look At DC Universe Online · · Score: 1

    Latency is still the killer of action MMO's. Any twitch game will be destroyed by even a minor spike in latency and you've got geometric progression issues with adding more players to it.

  20. Re:Republicans are Flat-Earth Economists on $2 Billion For Broadband Cut From Stimulus Bill · · Score: 4, Informative

    I don't see stimulating the economy listed as a federal government responsibility in the Constitution

    "Promote the general welfare"

  21. Re:$400 a month? on Switching To Solar Power — Six Months Later · · Score: 1

    Arizona already has laws to permit you to install solar on your roof no matter what the HOA's say.

  22. Re:I'd rather have 4/36 on How Does a 9/80 Work Schedule Work Out? · · Score: 1

    When you trip up the Alternative Minimum Tax

  23. Re:I'd rather have 4/36 on How Does a 9/80 Work Schedule Work Out? · · Score: 1

    Unless you trip up the Alternative Minimum Tax. Then working less (to get back below it) can indeed net you more money.

  24. Re:This will make the spooks happy on New Memristor Makes Low-Cost, High-Density Memory · · Score: 1

    you'd think that would work for hard drives too wouldn't you? non-volatile memory can be read dozens of writes back. No reason to believe memristors would be different.

  25. Re:"New" Math on ACM Urges Obama To Include CS In K-12 Core · · Score: 1

    If you must make computer science a part of primary eduction it should be the equivalent of a high school elective. Like auto mechanics or shop.

    You're mixing up Computer Science and Software Engineering.