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  1. Re:Well on Good Online FPS Games/Servers For Beginners? · · Score: 1
    kind of. if you're in a clan for awhile, you eventually know who in your clan will always make good calls about vote-kicking, so you don't even bother checking it out and you just vote yes.

    until one day, his hands get ahead of his brain and accidentally votes to kick himself and everyone just hits yes, because they're used to it, all the while he's screaming, "NO! VOTE NO!" on teamspeak.

  2. Re:Worse than hail on Preempting Hailstone Formation To Protect Cars · · Score: 1

    every car comes with a free "chicken" dinner.

  3. Re:Reporters.. on The World of Virus Writers · · Score: 1
    yes and no. I think the vast majority of the issues we run into with windows users is that the bulk of them are careless.

    these kinds of people won't recompile their kernel, will run everything as root, and will click the hell out of Britney_Spears_Naked_Rootkit.AVI.RPM

    the only thing that switching them from windows to linux is going to do is increase the stability of the DDoS zombies.

  4. Re:While they were there... on The World of Virus Writers · · Score: 1
    nah. they left it as "an exercise for the reader":

    Mario, a k a Second Part to Hell, Austrian virus writer.
    Benny, Czech Republic. 21-year-old master of malware and member of the international virus-writing group 29A.
    Stephen Mathieson, Detroit. The 16-year-old virus writer is dismissive of hackers who release other people's viruses: "The kids just cut and paste."

  5. Re:What is Urban Terror? on Urban Terror To Go Stand-Alone With Enemy Territory · · Score: 2, Informative

    provided they haven't changed it since I played it about a year ago, it's basically counter-strike, with better graphics.

  6. What happened to the other DeCSS? on Seth Schoen Reveals Himself Author of DeCSS Haiku · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Reading back on the other articles, I dug up this article where the MPAA went after someone that had made a program to remove CSS from HTML called DeCSS.

    Anyone know what happened to that guy?

  7. Re:looks like... on Avalanches Simulated With 500,000 Ping-Pong Balls · · Score: 1

    so what you're saying is Badger, badger, badger?

  8. Re:Unspoken on Growing Your Own Gold · · Score: 2, Interesting
    IANASME (I am not a subject matter expert), but, the concept is that the microbes make the gold soluable and then consolodate it by the microbes clumping together, so I'd say it'd work just as easily in water as on land.

    the problem that they're running into is that they don't know which microbes they're looking for. it's a "they'll know it when they see it" kind of thing.

    Of course, it's all just a theory. He could be wrong. But it certainly sounds plausible.

  9. Re:Note to Adrenium: Hire an artist on Sega On Western Games, Samurai Jack, Astro Boy · · Score: 1
    Why not cell shaded? Are you afraid it will look cartoony? Seriously, ladies and gentlemen, it is a cartoon.

    It looked cell shaded to me. 3-D models with flat colors. give em some time to add more to it and I think they'll do an OK job. I don't expect them to do an outstanding job, there's almost no good games based off of cartoons.

  10. Re:CD Jewel Case on Buying Boxed Games - Important To The Gaming Experience? · · Score: 1
    not really. I'm throwing the jewel cases away, regardless of the method that I use. warming up my scanner bed and printing off a copy of the sticker would take more time than simply snapping a chunk of it off.

    the actual piece of plastic I take from the jewel case is relatively small, anyways, since I only take enough of the plastic to get the sticker.

  11. Re:CD Jewel Case on Buying Boxed Games - Important To The Gaming Experience? · · Score: 3, Informative
    I have a giant 400-disc CD wallet and roughly 300 game discs. (I've been playing games too often for too long).

    First person shooter discs go towards the front and adventure/RPG/RTS/etc go towards the rear.

    Dividing the two sections are two pages that I have all of the pieces of paper, fragments of jewel cases, and cardboard with the CD keys on them.

    Dismantling a jewel case to get at the piece of paper, or artfully breaking a piece of the case off because they glued the CD key to it and stuffing it into a pocket on my CD wallet is a simple chore that I do while I'm installing the game.

    The end result is I have at least 5 shelves worth of games in the space of a 3-ring binder, relatively well organized, with my CD-keys easily accessable in case I need to reinstall.

    That's my solution, anyways.

  12. Re:IMHO, but I must admit IAAL on Web Ad Trademark Law To Be Retested · · Score: 2, Insightful
    If I do a search for "playmate," and a banner ad pops up for a non-Playboy adult-oriented site, how is that not trademark infringement?

    Is trademark infringement using similar verbage for similar concepts or for identical usage?

    If someone uses the word "playmate" in the context of porn, but without the Playboy style, is it still infringment? After all, someone could easily pull fetish or word play connotations from the word "playmate" that are not present in Playboy's usage of the word. Is that infringment, or just coincidental?

    I can think of several uses for the word "playmate" within porn without obvious confusion between it and Playboy and I'm not even that dirty minded.

  13. Re:not like we haven't seen this before on Photoshop Fails At Counterfeit Prevention · · Score: 1

    holy shit. that's fucking great! you mind if I link it around a bit or should I mirror it before doing so?

  14. Re:Bio-decryption. on Photoshop Fails At Counterfeit Prevention · · Score: 1

    or hack someone ELSE's body. :D *brandishes an axe*

  15. Re:Did Somebody Say BADGERS????? on Photoshop Fails At Counterfeit Prevention · · Score: 1

    That just got added to my article on badger mania

  16. I'm a US Army Soldier headed to Korea on Gaming With An Opponent Who's 'Over There'? · · Score: 1

    And while this would be great for me, I've already hacked my Xbox. :p

  17. Re:and there's only one problem on Warp Records Reject DRM, Go Bleep · · Score: 1
    "Intelligent Dance Music", a name that sounds incredibly stupid and pompous now, especially since much of the music categorized in that genre isn't danceable.

    A friend of mine once said that the reason why they call it IDM, is because if you're intelligent, you don't try to dance to it. :p

  18. Re:and there's only one problem on Warp Records Reject DRM, Go Bleep · · Score: 1
    while being on a major movie's soundtrack gets people visibility, I can't say that it makes the average person that's not interested in the genre any more likely to recognize the name.

    after all, how many people outside of the Electronic music scene know that the blood rave song in Blade is "Confusion" by New Order, much less that it's the Reconstruction remix by Pump Panel?

  19. Re:Funny AND true, but system still bad on Warp Records Reject DRM, Go Bleep · · Score: 2, Informative
    actually, releasing artists' music DRM-free would probably help the artists out more than it would hurt them.

    previously, in order to get your material out to the public, you had to set yourself up as an indentured servant. if, at any time, you didn't want to play ball with the record company anymore, you dropped out of print and vanished from public eye.

    getting the public to get used to downloading music from "official" record company and artist sites and music services means that if an artist ever decides to give their label the finger, all the public needs is a quick check on their search engine of choice to find out where they are now and continue getting their music from them.

    word of mouth is one of the most powerful tools in the music industry and word spreads pretty fast online.

  20. Re:"Disney" != The Walt Disney Company on Disney Shuts Down 2D Animation Studio · · Score: 1

    "So much fun it should be illegal. Like copyright infringement. Ho ho. See you at the game, Joe." Peter Griffin "The Family Guy"

  21. Re:And why would a web bug be illegal ? on Feds Thwart Extortion Plot Against Best Buy · · Score: 1
    Please think before posting !

    he did. he thought it was funny. mods seem to agree. you drink too much coffee, man.

  22. Re:Internet Protocol Address Verifier? Pfft... on Feds Thwart Extortion Plot Against Best Buy · · Score: 2, Funny
    Damn, I should have checked that "post anonymously" box

    He should have, too. :p

  23. Re:IP Address Verifier == web bug on Feds Thwart Extortion Plot Against Best Buy · · Score: 1

    true, but he said his firewall doesn't have the default HTTP and HTTPS ports open, so if anything told IE to wake up, it'd just get a 404 error.

  24. Re:Why guilt? on Ohio Also Passes Law Against Recording In Cinema · · Score: 1
    Of course, then they'll just start pirating the book as well.

    Free exchange of books without fear of repercussion, you say?

    What? You mean, like a library?

  25. Re:Pity on poor Nokia? on N-Gage Opts To Give Away Lara, Not Bury Her · · Score: 1
    3 words: They've been bought.

    Never trust reviews from a site that sells ads for the products that they review.