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  1. Radar != good. Movie != good on Couple Who Catch Cop Speeding Could Face Charges · · Score: 1

    Explain how the timestamps were synchronized on multiple cameras.

    Yep, they're no good either, unless there is overlapping frame coverage that could be utilized to extrapolate a speed.

  2. Re:Nonissue on The Future of Packaging Software in Linux · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Not very popular around here, apparently, but i'd much rather it stay a geek OS.

    It's nicer that way.

  3. Re:Ultima Underworld on Why Computer RPGs Waste Your Time · · Score: 1

    I think you'd find fertile ground for lots of research, but i'd first try out Bartle's book.

    "Designing Virtual Worlds"

  4. morning of 9-11 on How Would You Deal With A Global Bandwidth Crisis? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Yahoo ground to a halt, literally, couldn't refresh. Most news sites were pretty difficult to get a hold of.

    It was congestion, clearly. I know I was working at an IBM hosting facility and it wasn't a good day for us.

  5. Ultima Underworld on Why Computer RPGs Waste Your Time · · Score: 1

    Fun from the start.

    That's the problem, poor gameplay value. It's not an instant gratification thing. It's that WoW is boring as hell to grind because it's all randomized BS with no value or significance that respawns regularly.

  6. Re:I'd slide it a finger allright... on Toshiba Puts Fingerprint Readers on Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    All of these are real and i've seen them all.

    The problem isn't really the cell phone, the problem is the inability of the majority of the population to focus on more than one task at once. There is no cure. I'm pretty convinced that people are just lacking in this talent and as long as we provide 'something else' to do in the car, we're still going to have to watch out for them as if they were drunk drivers.

    Invariably, some politician will 'correct' the problem by restricting *my* right to use a phone.

  7. Re:Mountains, Molehills on Do You Care About Race in Games? · · Score: 1

    I think I refused to even run for it :b

    Pretty much, yeah.

  8. Re:Mountains, Molehills on Do You Care About Race in Games? · · Score: 1

    Probably.

    I'm reminded of something myself and PreviouslySeen experienced back in single-player game days. Specifically Ultima Underworld. UW allowed a degree of char customization but much less than today.

    One of the faces looked exactly like the local PC users group president did. We called him "El Presidente" because of his Hispanic ancestry and because in general he wasn't the most likeable person. A little imperious if I remember right. So immediately my (and maybe PreviouslySeen's too) UW chars became all named "El Presidente".

  9. Re:Pretty much unknown how big an effect ths has on Cosmic Rays and Global Warming · · Score: 1

    With all the recent reports of oil companies paying people to discredit the IPCC should we trust the editor of a magazine? Or a report compiled based on the cumulative efforts of thousands of climatologists?

    With all the watermelons in this field, and all the political and monetary pressure to come up with a "man-made global warming" result, why should we trust the thousands of climatologists?

  10. Bury your head in the sand on Blood Vessel Shunt May Save Limbs In War · · Score: -1, Troll

    The traitors and the Euro fucks have pretty much bullshitted each other into believing that if it hadn't been for Bush, that the world would be a peace party.

    Unfortunately, no matter how many times you repeat something to yourself and like-minded listeners, it will never make it the truth.

    You'll learn the error of your ways when the shrapnel tears your body apart and not a moment before.

  11. Re:cheap Macs for schools on MS Seeks Patent For Repossessing School Computers · · Score: 1

    The LC-LCIII were nothing like the Q605 which was an 040 machine. The others were 020/030 based.

    The Q605 was a rocking little box. The others were sludgy. Also the Q605 had a MUCH nicer case.

  12. Re:yeah on China Creates Massive Online ID Database · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You can't support that statement with any verifiable evidence. If Gore had gotten his recounts he would still have lost.

    That 8k block of Kennedy votes coming out of Chicago, however... please. Luckily, Nixon had more class than Gore. Considering the extent of Nixon's crimes, makes me wonder what's in Gore's closet? Accepting funds from foreign countries during election campaigns might only be the tip of the iceberg.

    But you conspiracy theorists just keep on...

  13. Re:yeah on China Creates Massive Online ID Database · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Neither was Clinton (twice) or JFK in 1960.

    At least by your bullshit standard.

  14. Re:Cost Effective? on NASA May Have to Buy Trips to Space · · Score: 0, Troll

    The only breaking up we'll be doing is when our depleted uranium rounds strike your body.

  15. Re:do the crime, do the time? on Gorbachev Asks Gates to Intervene in Piracy Case · · Score: 1

    That is one awful pun. Congrats!

  16. Re:Please explain Republican attitudes toward this on Congress Hears From Muzzled Scientists · · Score: 1

    How old are you?

    It's a serious question. I grew up during the Cold War. These people were aiming tens of thousands of warheads directly at the US at one time. In addition to starting brushfire wars around the world to increase the extent of their hegemony. All the while talking up 'peace' and sponsoring 'peace organizations', as Lenin advised from the very beginning.

    The Communist way of life is just not compatible with American values in any event. Yes, I hate the whole concept, whatever spin you put on it and whomever happens to be engaging in the 'science' of Marxism/Leninism.

  17. Re:Please explain Republican attitudes toward this on Congress Hears From Muzzled Scientists · · Score: 1, Troll

    1) Environmental organizations are the 'new' home of the ex-Communists. Green on the outside, Red through and through. These are our enemies.

    2) The 'cure' is having the Commies listed above dictate to us how we are going to live. ie. more nanny state bullshit. Nearly all on this side will fight tooth and nail against that crap. Including denying things.

  18. Re:Well on Linux Kernel Devs Offer Free Driver Development · · Score: 1

    Seems the "Linuzzzz" probably did it.

  19. Re:Purpose of such contests on Street Fighting Robot Challenge · · Score: 1

    Is there risk to identifying the agency you work for?

    In the US Army, there is no such risk as long as one obeys the rules. If you possess a clearance, no discussion of information associated with that. No distribution of sensitive information. Follow those basic rules and everything is generally ok.

  20. Re:Really? on Scientists Unveil Most Dense Memory Circuit Ever Made · · Score: 4, Informative

    Original text from NARA
    Wikipedia

    Microsoft Word say:

    3 pages
    8 paragraphs
    111 lines
    1338 words
    6782 characters
    8114 characters (with spaces)

  21. Really? on Scientists Unveil Most Dense Memory Circuit Ever Made · · Score: 5, Funny

    The cell is capable of storing a file the size of the United States' Declaration of Independence with room left over."

    Not in Microsoft Word format. Maybe ASCII.

  22. Re:It's going to involve a lot of murder on Chinese Official Vows to "Purify" the Net · · Score: 1

    Because he'll have to pry my porn from my cold, dead hands.

    You forgot 'sticky'.

  23. Re:7.62mm by what length? on Listening Robot Senses Snipers · · Score: 1

    The vests aren't just Kevlar, they have ceramic inserts as well, or other solid substances.

  24. RTFP on Extraterrestrials Probably Haven't Found Us - Yet · · Score: 2, Informative

    He covers these issues. The article summary is misleading.

    Self replicating is ruled out due to risk. That sounds fairly silly since computers are computers. They do what we tell them to and not a thing more. But I suppose a few worrywarts are a good thing.

    The number of probes is more like 2.08 million probes, if i'm reading him right, as his simulation was done at 1/260000 scale.

  25. Re:There's a simple solution on NASA Slashing Observations of Earth · · Score: 1

    Actually, it's going pretty well as far as that goes. Piles of terrorist bodies and no oil embargo, far cry from 1973 or 1979, isn't it?

    Don't worry, your precious traitors (aka the Democrat party) are rapidly destroying their credibility via their attempts to censor political speech, amongst other idiotic measures that remind me a lot of "Gays in the Military" as a first issue for Clinton. Their majority won't last long at this rate.

    Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch.