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  1. Re:Why stop at 36? on Gamer Plays Over 30 Warcraft Characters · · Score: 1

    Then again, maybe he actually wanted 4 slots open to "show off"?

    More likely he'd sell off his raid spots to people with a lot of gold seeking shortcuts to certain things. Mounts, weapons, tokens, what have you. And aside from that the hardest part of raiding is communicating and having everyone listen... Well he nixed that little problem and can probably do a lot of content with fewer than average characters. imho

  2. Re:Money on Gamer Plays Over 30 Warcraft Characters · · Score: 5, Funny

    What is this "wife" thingy you're referring to? A cool interface addon maybe! I'll go google it!

    It was an alright add on, but after 2.0 was released, it broke and had all these nagging error messages and no ones bothered to maintain it since.

  3. Re:turd post on Hands-On With Microsoft's Touchless SDK · · Score: 1

    You need to explore 'Help & Preferences' to avoid this.

    with this..

    Moreover, the detection routine soaked up 64 percent of McAllister's 1.6GHz Atom CPU

    I can't stop laughing, I mean it took years for me to finally dump my beloved P3 1ghz, and I feel the pain of seeing your light weight processor struggle under the load... Of what, a possible future UI element? Either way, to include that snippet in the summary was beyond hilarious. Methinks he should just go spend 50 bucks at Newegg and get a dual core AMD processor if processor usage in this case really does warrant such attention.

  4. Re:Credit cards are evil. on Huge Credit Fraud Ring Sends Europeans' Data To Pakistan · · Score: 1

    And you don't have to 'Sue', so much as prove to the CC company that you are due the cash.

    Isn't there a similar system in the US? To where you can dispute charges? I assumed this to work for any instance in which the seller was at fault. Although I am not well versed in US credit, I tend to buy locally, with cash, and get those preloaded MasterCard/Visa's for internet purchases.

  5. Re:When I was a kid... on UK Government Says More Spying Needed · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Now ... not so much. Is it really like this? Cameras and eyes on you at all times?

    If you have nothing to hide you can revel in the fact you are safe, or at the very least when you are victimized it will be preserved for posterity!

  6. Re:Keyhole career. on UK Government Says More Spying Needed · · Score: 4, Insightful

    With economies going the way they are. job security will be spying on each other.

    Fear, what can't it do?

  7. Re:About overclockers: on Overclocked Memory Breaks Core i7 CPUs · · Score: 2, Insightful

    and it's not as if the CPUs that are overclocked weren't designed to do so.

    I can remember a time when connecting nodes on circuit boards with a graphite pencil was a good way to increase multipliers and voltages. And it wasn't that long ago, these new fangled extreme processors and enthusiast motherboards are a pretty new thing. So I guess this doesn't surprise me too greatly, I'm sure a lot of minds at Intel Corp. remember the good old days when they were the ones OC'ing chips straight off the assembly line to sell as premium stock and motherboard settings were locked down like Guantanamo. To them it's like, if it runs at it's rated speed with recommended board settings its good enough to sell. To us it's like, the last three processors I bought overclocked by .2-.3Ghz ATLEAST... and ran with my enthusiast memory...

  8. Re:About overclockers: on Overclocked Memory Breaks Core i7 CPUs · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you push the limits of a device, you deserve what you get. Maybe good and cool, maybe broken shit.

    Considering an entire subset of the industry exists dealing exclusively with parts designed to run 'faster-than-spec' I'm more inclined to lay the blame on Intel. They should know full well by now that the enthusiast market drives a lot of personal buying decisions further down the food chain...
    Remember when Tom's Hardware broke this story?
    If you can't release components that will run with existing kit, well someone is going to get the short end of that stick... And when it's the high end consumers, well Oops!

  9. Re:DIG DUG IS THE BEST GAME EVER on Man Uses Remote Logon To Help Find Laptop Thief · · Score: 1
    sorry almost forgot...

    Most Computer manufacturers also provide embedded support for Computrace in the BIOS or Firmware of the notebook computer.

  10. DIG DUG IS THE BEST GAME EVER on Man Uses Remote Logon To Help Find Laptop Thief · · Score: 1

    The Agent can survive a hard drive re-format, F-disk command and hard drive re-partitioning.

    dban.org How it Works :)

    • You install the client software on your computers using your preferred method â" this could be an MSI installer, login script, image or any other deployment method that works for you. It's easy and itâ(TM)s secure. The client software is small, stealthy and hidden on the computer. The end-user will not even know it is there.
    • Your computer reports location, user, hardware and software information to our confidential, secure Monitoring Center every day it connects to the Internet.
    • You track and manage your computer assets, including remote/mobile computers, using reports, alerts and administration functions from the secure Customer Center website.
    • If your computer is lost or stolen, the Absolute Recovery Team works with local law enforcement agencies to track the location of the computer, secure subpoenas and warrants and return your stolen computer to you.
    • If you choose, and at your request, an optional Data Delete function can be performed on your stolen computer to keep sensitive data from falling into the wrong hands.

    Them ten dollar words sure do make it sound like much more then glorified software over protective parents would use after they install on a governer on little snow flakes 93 civic....

    What... where... am i?

  11. Re:Makes sense on Man Uses Remote Logon To Help Find Laptop Thief · · Score: 3, Funny

    Laptops get in the way...

    Yes but the thermal stimulation is well worth it on a cold winter's eve as you watch your favorite bukkake vid by the light of an open fire.

  12. Re:no, i don't have 10 minutes. on Google, Circa 2001 · · Score: 1

    In the currently charged political climate, I could care less about the troll or flamebait mods anymore so I might as well as fun.

    YES COMRADE I AGREE. GO YANKEES A NUMBER 1 BASE BALLS.

  13. Re:What Has Changed? on How Big Should My Swap Partition Be? · · Score: 1

    and 8GB of space is still trivial with a 750GB hard drive.

    Yeah when you are talking about a straight 8gigs of space, but we are talking about using 8 gigs of hard disk in place of ram... regrettably as size of media has increased access and read times have not kept pace. Hence 8 gigs could be far worse then 1, but in reality all one must do is figure out when, if ever, the system is using the swap. In windows xp this is easy, Control Panel > Admin Tools > Computer Management > Performance Logs and Alerts

    Highlight "Counter Logs", right click and select "New Log Settings", Enter a Name... And hit the Add Counters button.

    You'll notice a "Paging File" counter... Feel me now? You can count Usage and Usage Peak and go from there. I believe the task manager also shows PF Usage, personally I went with 1024mb years ago and haven't looked back since.

  14. Re:Key exchange. on Spammers Targeting Microsoft's Revised CAPTCHA · · Score: 0

    DEAREST ONE,
    If by box of bullets you mean a fist and a roll of quarters, then sign-me-up.

  15. ISeekYou on Managing Personal Electronics and Software In the Workplace · · Score: 3, Funny

    No matter how many times we told users they weren't allowed to install ICQ

    Ahhh, 1998 was a great year, wasn't it?

  16. Re:So a nearly-wimax review of something else? on WiMax Is Finally Coming — Here's How It Performs · · Score: 1
    Sounds like your splitting hairs to me...

    Clearwire currently uses Expedience wireless technology, dubbed Pre-WiMax, transmitted from cell sites over licensed spectrum of 2.5-2.6 GHz in the U.S. and 3.5 GHz in Europe.

    On May 7, 2008, Clearwire and Sprint Nextel's wireless broadband unit Xohm announced their intent to merge, combining Sprint's 4G WiMax network (Xohm) with Clearwire's existing pre-Wimax broadband network.

    Perhaps the cheaper slower access plans will use the older tech? Either way, they seem similar enough to warrant talking about them both in this instance. But as someone who in the past used Clearwire for 1+ years. I will say it was generally acceptable. Latency was an issue and Bittorrent wasn't usuable, though I've heard otherwise from a few people. However, in the end it was the latency that made me move on... I just couldn't justify paying what they wanted when half the time I was over 3secs away from my needed servers. In the end I posted a days worth of latencys with timestamps to the tubes and received an email, out of nowhere, from someone with Clearwire corporate. But really there was nothing they could do, it was a physical limitation of the service as far as I can infer. As it only occured in certain areas of town, most notably the areas I ate, slept, showered and generally lived. Too bad it wasn't as portable as the commercials would of lead one to believe, but something about a modem the size of a hardcover A Brief History Of Time with a wall wart doesn't scream mobility to me.

  17. Re:yeah, yeah, yeah.. they said this the last time on Inside Intel's Core i7 Processor, Nehalem · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Still, if one can safely enable hyperthreading without slowing down your system, unlike the last time we went through this, we should consider it a success.

    Aye, I remember the joys of the first HT tick back when tom's hardware was a less cluster fuck of a webpage. I do remember intel saying that although it wouldn't be found on later chips they did in fact plan on using the technology in one for or another eventually.

  18. On a limb on Baseball Coverage Coming To Consoles · · Score: 0, Troll

    i think coverage of the latest advancements in the arts and sciences or streaming lectures by insightful minds to be a cooler feature then some dudes hitting a ball with a stick.

    oh no he didint

  19. Good News Everyone on Wealthy Mexicans Getting Chipped in Case of Abduction · · Score: 1

    etc. are swiftly banished by handwavium, ignorefactium and the ever popular technologyisjustmagicium.

    Well if they are banished I shall simply reinstate them with some Robobium, Diamondium and a Chronoton or two.

  20. Re:Wonderful on Wealthy Mexicans Getting Chipped in Case of Abduction · · Score: 1

    What the fuck are you talking about? The Polish are not the issue here, Dude. I'm talking about drawing a line in the sand, Dude. Across this line, you DO NOT... Also, Dude, Polish is not the preferred nomenclature. Slavic-American, please.

  21. Re:Please make it stop on Wealthy Mexicans Getting Chipped in Case of Abduction · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Because the number of abductions in Mexico has jumped almost 40% in the past 3 years

    Okay, well 40% increase doesn't neccesarily mean its a large number or ever was to begin with.

    Xega, the Mexican security firm which makes the chips, has seen a sales jump of 13% this year.

    Once again, if the their sales were only a handful prior... But really the big issue is we're afraid that at some point in the future we will see this mandated by the government and a case like this will be used as justification of the need. Really though, I would think those with the most wealth and/or power would be the least likely to want to be tracked.

  22. Re:By pc... on Microsoft Releases Photosynth · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah, teenage boys need 3D trips inside the human body...

  23. Re:prerecorded on FTC Bans Prerecorded Telemarketing Drivel · · Score: 1

    It's pretty vicious, I mean on one hand I used to think well it's just a phone call it can be ignored. But the people doing this stuff have little regard for anything but themselves. It was amazing to me the kind of people they had working there, marginalized people I guess one would say. Too bad a regulatory body can't mandate empathy for predatory businesses.

  24. Re:Or else what? on Comcast Has 30 Days To 'Fess Up About P2P Throttling · · Score: 1

    The FCC rejects Comcast's insistence that it does not have the authority to take these steps. The Commission notes that while the Supreme Court's Brand X decision classified cable ISPs as "information services" rather than "telecommunications services," it added that the FCC "has jurisdiction to impose additional regulatory obligations" on ISPs via its interstate commerce powers.

  25. Re:Unix scheduling model for bandwidth? on Comcast Has 30 Days To 'Fess Up About P2P Throttling · · Score: 1

    it works for utilities like water, gas, electric etc why not here too?

    I've been wondering that for quite some time, a little something like this, no?

    Public utilities are subject to forms of public control and regulation ranging from local community-based groups to state-wide government monopolies.