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  1. Re:If I wanted consequences on Balancing Choice With Irreversible Consequences In Games · · Score: 0

    So why even bother completing Life 1.0?

    If you start looking at facts, you'll realize that Life 2.0 is just like Santa Claus. A nice story to make sure people behave like the people in control of the beliefs want you to.

  2. Re:iPhone on Dual-Core Chips Coming To All Smartphones In 2011 · · Score: 1

    The cores can still run at the same rate as the current single-core chips. They'll be just as fast as they are now, only with the option for multiple cores.

  3. Re:What about the law that says you have the right on Microsoft To Disable Windows Phone 7 Unlocking · · Score: 1

    There are laws that say a car manufacturer can't refuse to honor a warranty if you do work yourself, as well as various other things to keep from locking you into dealer-only service. Why are electronics different?

  4. Re:He's worried about the US in Sweden not the *UK on Assange Could Face Execution Or Guantanamo Bay · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but "consent" isn't one of those things you can do "take-backs" on.

    From what I've heard of the women's testimony and everything, it seems like they're just having second thoughts. That should never be something illegal, just regretting a bad decision.

  5. Re:What's Next? on How To Use a Real Guitar With Rock Band 3 · · Score: 1

    Isn't that what playing a real guitar is for? To allow you to act like a snob? At least, that's the impression I get from reading half of the comments in this story...

  6. Re:He's worried about the US in Sweden not the *UK on Assange Could Face Execution Or Guantanamo Bay · · Score: 2

    So being a jerk is illegal now?

  7. Re:Oh really? on Assange Could Face Execution Or Guantanamo Bay · · Score: 1

    He won't face the death penalty until after he's extradited and the charges change. Duh. The US knows how to play ball.

  8. Re:Random Question: on OLPC Halves Power Consumption For XO 1.75 · · Score: 1

    Will your laptop run from a hand crank?

  9. Re:AMD has taken ATI to a new level on AMD Puts Out Radeon HD 6000 Open-Source Driver · · Score: 1

    Does it have VA-API support for the 3000/4000 series? That's the main thing that's making me keep my Nvidia 220 in the machine instead of using the integrated GPU. I want to watch my HD videos, but it pretty much needs GPU acceleration with the relatively slow machine that's running it.

  10. Re:Put your money where your mouth is on AMD Puts Out Radeon HD 6000 Open-Source Driver · · Score: 1

    Token? They've been working on open source drivers for the GPUs ever since AMD bought ATI. What more do you want? They can't just dump their current drivers into GPL due to patent and copyright issues, so it takes time to redevelop them and do it the Linux way.

    ATI is the ONLY way to go if you want decent performance and open-source drivers.

  11. Re:Top Gear showed that this is possible now. on New Cars Vulnerable To Wireless Theft · · Score: 2

    How will the car know? It's the fact that the key isn't very strong that determines the range. If I get a more powerful antenna, there's no way the car could tell that it was coming from outside the car versus inside.

  12. Re:Hacking Pays Off on First Pictures of Chinese Stealth Fighter · · Score: 1

    Firefly?

  13. Re:Epic Fail? WTF? on Playstation 3 Code Signing Cracked For Good · · Score: 1

    No. My new laptop is much faster than an old PS3/360, and with minimal changes it can be brought down to the current price of a PS3.

    The point is that the game systems are outdated, and you could assemble a much more powerful system for less than the price that they're selling at from current hardware if MS or Sony put their mind to it. The problem is that the majority of console gamers don't realize how shitty their graphics really are. No current console can really push a game at 1080p.

  14. Re:Epic Fail? WTF? on Playstation 3 Code Signing Cracked For Good · · Score: 1

    Cut down the CPU, the amount of RAM, remove the FullHD integrated monitor and implement an economy of scale that a console gets and it'll be very much in the same ballpark. I got mine for a hair over $1000 new (list price isn't actual price with hardware from HP), and a PS3 is what, $300? That's about 3x the price. Easily doable.

    Current gen consoles are woefully underpowered. Especially when playing games in full 1920x1080 resolution.

  15. Re:Should anybody really be supprised... on Amazon Cloud Not Big Enough For Feds and WikiLeaks · · Score: 1

    Oh, right. Blame Wikileaks, not Mugabe.

  16. Re:Mugabe on Wikileaks and Democracy In Zimbabwe · · Score: 1

    Assange is a rapist? Since when? His charges are nothing near what anyone would consider rape.

    Just FYI, it's not Patriotism to support your government unconditionally. That's called Nationalism. That can lead to bad things because you have given over all of your critical thought to someone else. Go you.

  17. Re:Epic Fail? WTF? on Playstation 3 Code Signing Cracked For Good · · Score: 1

    You're kidding, right? The graphics card in my freakin' laptop is more powerful than any of the chips in the PS3 or the XBox 360, and my laptop weighs in at just over 5lbs. And it runs with just a 120W power brick, not even maxing that out (I'd only need the 120W supply if I had an i7m instead of an i5). The PS3 is around 380W, and the 360 is still a hefty 160W.

    They are seriously outdated.

    The laptop's an Envy 15 if you care.

  18. Re:Comfort Level on Playstation 3 Code Signing Cracked For Good · · Score: 1

    Depends. I got my 60GB PS3 through Craigslist. It was worth it to me and the guy who was selling it, pretty simple transaction.

  19. Re:Should anybody really be supprised... on Amazon Cloud Not Big Enough For Feds and WikiLeaks · · Score: 1

    What shit did Wikileaks release that needed to stay secret? Seriously. I need examples. Because otherwise you're full of shit. I haven't seen one thing Wikileaks released that I didn't think I should know about as a citizen of the US.

  20. Re:Cost:Benefit? on London Police Credit CCTV Cameras With Six Solved Crimes Per Day · · Score: 1

    Except that Texas borders Mexico and gets a lot of spillover violence.

    Try looking elsewhere in the US than Texas. How did this get modded insightful?

  21. Re:The Gist on Why WikiLeaks Is Unlike the Pentagon Papers · · Score: 1
  22. Re:atleast on Mozilla Posts File Containing Registered User Data · · Score: 1

    Are you sure you were affected? It wasn't all users of addons.mozilla.org, just a subset.

  23. Re:As apprehended.... on 4chan Has Been DDOSed · · Score: 1

    Yeah. Tell that to Wal-Mart

  24. Re:Solve yes... on London Police Credit CCTV Cameras With Six Solved Crimes Per Day · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Sure you can: http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/linkscopy/GlasgowCCTV.html

    The drop in crime with cameras is the exact same as the drop in crime everywhere. If the cameras themselves had anything to do with it, you'd see a larger drop in crime where they're used.

  25. Re:Cost:Benefit? on London Police Credit CCTV Cameras With Six Solved Crimes Per Day · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The problem is that sentencing in the UK is pretty lax for non-petty crimes as well. And victims are often prosecuted if they do anything to try to protect themselves. It's a system that rewards violence, punishes resistance, and doesn't provide any incentive to change for the criminals.