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  1. Re:Subscribers? on The Economy of Wikileaks · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What if subscribers simply got to see content before non paying viewers got to see it.

  2. Re:Awesome. on Star Trek Online Open Beta Starts Today · · Score: 1

    You do know open beta means "ANYONE", follow the links and you'll get a beta key

    Meh. Why would you want to though, it's just another MMO. I see nothing unique or inventive about it, and that's not from lack of desire. I love Star Trek, but I've also played many MMO games none of which seemingly do anything to change the basic formula established by EQ and somewhat perfected by WoW.

    What with the ships and planetary surfaces it sounds an awful lot like how Star Wars: Galaxies was suppose to go.

  3. Re:That is positively asinine. on CES Vendors Kicked Out of Hotels For Showcasing Wares in Room · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I call BS on the whole post. Sounds like a Penthouse Forum letter more than anything.

  4. Re:yes on Does a Lame E-Mail Address Really Matter? · · Score: 1

    8 bit color and a staggering ~320x240 definition.

  5. Re:Thanks but no thanks. on Here We Go Again — Video Standards War 2010 · · Score: 1

    You may care about xvid and x264 and whatever other codec or container you want. But your average media consumer is more than likely not even aware of such things in any meaningful way. Convenience and ease of use are the name of the game for your average person.

  6. Re:Hang on... on Here We Go Again — Video Standards War 2010 · · Score: 1

    You say that now, but once they get a system like that that just works. It'll have a real shot as your average Joe is easily parted from their money for the sake of convenience.

  7. Re:Just because the math works doesn't mean it's t on The End Of Gravity As a Fundamental Force · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The one funny thing about the way the majority of people use math, "close does count", until you get to a certain advanced point. Then we say "this works for all but a few special cases... close enough"

    Obviously Newtonian gravity is much more understandable to your average person than say general relativity and also offers a good aproximation of expected behaviors of the physical world.

  8. 856 504 567 982 344 98-8 on Futuristic Sex Robots Now Just "Sex Robots" · · Score: 4, Funny

    So I take it you did finish the job?

  9. Re:opportunities on Wireless Power Group Sees Standard Within 6 Months · · Score: 1

    Depending on the circumstances 5 watts is more than enough to kill someone.

  10. Re:I just don't even open the door on Recession Turning Software Auditors Into Greedy Traffic Cops · · Score: 1

    Adobe products apparently "phone home".

    Which is easily circumvented with a quick edit to the HOSTS file.

  11. Re:ambivalence on Microsoft Patents DRM'd Torrents · · Score: 1

    Until they simply spoof the relevant info to make 'em looked DRMd.

  12. Re:How obfuscated protocol? on Details On Natal's Motion Capture Technology · · Score: 1
    You could still use an ARM on the machine itself, I think the first reply covers that nicely even though they are referring to a different architecture.

    Link:

    "What you have to do is write a program that runs on the AVR (using for instance WinAVR) and this program talks to Robotics Studio running on a PC."

  13. Re:It's not just the algorithm on Encryption Cracked On NIST-Certified Flash Drives · · Score: 1

    Govt regulation != socialism ...

    Looks like someone just finished the operator section in their VB book!

  14. Re:::1 on At Current Rates, Only a Few More Years' Worth of IPv4 Addresses · · Score: 1

    Which is great if users are able to connect to said address.

  15. Re:Sorry on Bono Hopes Content Tracking Will Help Media Moguls · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Kudos to you sir, seems no one wants to talk about population management.

    And we're proving ourselves fools by not addressing it.

  16. Re:This is a joke, right? on Is Early Childhood Education Technology Moving Backwards? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I certainly hope this post is a joke, as there is absolutely no reason while bigger, faster, shinier more energy intensive devices are going to be necessarily better than a simpler device.

    My early child hood technology consisted mainly of books, Play-doh, LEGOs, magnifying glasses, hammers, nails and scrap blocks of wood from a paint brush handle factory down the street. And I fail to see how that early education "tech" could have been improved by an e-version of anything.

  17. Re:Raw data on Ideas For Exploiting NASA's SRTM Data · · Score: 1

    the data is supplied through google maps I couldn't see a way to get at the raw data

    It's in the Digital Elevation category in step 1, the SRTM dataset. Enter your search string and go!

  18. Re:Games on Ideas For Exploiting NASA's SRTM Data · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's just perfect use for games

    Probably if you could find the data being talked about. Hard to imagine what I'm going to do with it if I don't have it!

  19. Re:Times change on Why Apple Denied the Google Latitude App · · Score: 2, Interesting

    it's WAY better than the pre-Apple cell phone world

    Personally I preferred when phones were just phones.

  20. Re:Getting off the train to crazytown on Google Chrome Displaces Safari As Third In Survey · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The rise of Google's Chrome browser is all about add ons being introduced and the fact it doesn't look like total ass in a default install on Vista or 7.

  21. Re:not news on Did the US Take the Back Seat In Science In 2009? · · Score: 1

    In the age of globalism this concept of national scientific achievement isn't nearly as meaningful as at first might appear. And I see no evidence of western scientific output (let alone US output) declining.

  22. Re:Obviously on China Moving To Restrict Neodymium Supply · · Score: 1

    Replace it with what you ask? Where do you think the Chinese get their cheap shit made? Places like Vietnam.

  23. Re:and why not ? on China Moving To Restrict Neodymium Supply · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I think both China and Russia will be starting to have a lot larger influence on global economy soon

    China currently has unprecedented influence on the US, even if none of us wants to come right out and say.

  24. Re:conundrum on Man Tracked Down and Arrested Via WoW · · Score: 2, Insightful

    yeah doing the job we give them includes tazering the fuck out anyone from the kids to the feeble

    we give them orders but positions of authority pervert thinking.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment

  25. Re: There are still bugs .... on Apple Fails To Deliver On Windows 7 Boot Camp Promise · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    This is exactly why retards, err I mean Mac Users shouldn't be mucking about with the disk management tools without properly backing up first.