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  1. Re:xbox sales :) on Nintendo's Busy Week · · Score: 1

    And yet, we also have a story about Apple's iPod domination in Japan. ;)

  2. Re:lucid dreaming on Top 10 Strangest MP3 Players · · Score: 2, Informative

    Since lucid dreaming is just a mental thing, if a person is convinced that the binaural waves will induce a lucid dream, they likely will. Psychologists talking patients through lucid dreaming don't use special diets or chakra stimulating or whatever crap like that, they mostly just reinforce in the patients that they can and will lucid dream (through whatever -- hypnosis, mantras, talking to them...).

  3. Re:Let me get this straight... on Rumsfeld Requests 24-hour Propaganda Machine · · Score: 1

    That would be because they were sent the tapes. Nothing sinister there, it's just the TV news busineses. Extreme things like that tend to garner quite the viewership.

    I wouldn't put it above FOX/CNN/etc. to show them just the same if they had the exclusives instead of Al Jazeera. Though to be fair the US news would likely censor it more ("think of the children!" and so forth), give it an insane spin, and add brainless conjecture.

  4. Re:That demo shouldn't have StarForce... on Sony Rootkit may Lead to Regulation · · Score: 1

    StarForce is included with some demos, presumably so that the developer doesn't have a copy floating around without the protection enabled, or perhaps just out of lazyness. Track Mania Nations is the only example I can come up with off the top of my head, but I have unwittingly had the crap installed a few times through downloads.

    If I actually bought a game with StarForce, I'd be likely to bring it back for a refund just because I can't easily crack it (unplugging my CD/DVD drives is a hassle). I hate CD checks.

  5. Re:And in other news... on Christian Churches Celebrate Darwin's Birthday · · Score: 1

    Ben Watson wasn't quite as confident. His father, a pastor in Staten Island, N.Y., had let him skip a day of second grade to attend. Ben went to public school, the Rev. Dave Watson explained, "and I thought it would be good for him to get a different perspective" for an upcoming project on Tyrannosaurus rex.

    Oh hell. It's not only bad for the kids, think of the poor teacher that has to mark that.

  6. Re:AVG on Microsoft Anti-Spyware Removes Norton Anti-Virus · · Score: 0

    holy christ you're dense

    Neutron-star level dense.

  7. Re:Halo redefines the FPS clone...? on Halo 2 Only on Vista · · Score: 1

    "Respect" for a video game?

    In any case, he was countering the "redefined" marketing term, not whether the game is fun or not. It doesn't have to have been revolutionary to be a good game, but whether it was good or not wasn't part of his post ;)

  8. Re:A browser with native BitTorrent on Opera 9 with Widgets and BitTorrent Now Available · · Score: 1

    I read it as "I don't want the site to require any plugins". Besides, Java applets seem to bog down any browser I use, besides taking quite a while to start up.

  9. Re:Freespace SCP on Galactica's Moore Keynotes GDC Track · · Score: 1

    Exactly. One of the best aspects of the space battles in BSG is that the ships actually have intertia. They seem to move as you'd expect space ships to move.

    From the trailer for the BSG mod, it looks like none of the vipers so much as manuever at the same rate as those in the show, let alone follow proper newtonian physics.

  10. Re:I'm a Shaw BT user on BitTorrent and End to End Encryption · · Score: 1

    It seems like download is getting more sluggish. But that's across the board, not just bittorrent.

  11. Primarily useless benchmarks... on ATI All-In-Wonder X1900 PCIe Review · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The review didn't really test much that stressed the video card beyond Doom 3. A look at Half-Life 2 Lost Coast and/or some other HDR game(s) would have been far more useful than testing Unreal Tournament 2004, which the review admitted had more of a CPU bottleneck than anything else. They didn't do any overclock tests either, and the image quality tests are a little dubious.

  12. Re:Go for it on Microsoft to Enter Handheld Market? · · Score: 1

    It's not a pointless port ;)

  13. Re:Smells like the same old snake oil... on Fast Track to Fine Wine? · · Score: 1

    But only as much as putting it into a green glass would. How much does the green glass cost, hmm?

  14. Re:Eeeeeyyyyyyy, Azureus! on BitTorrent Clients Reviewed · · Score: 1

    I know they let you selectively choose files, but do they let you do that from out of an archive? (I didn't know Azereus even did that)

  15. Re:blank admin password on WMF Vulnerability is an Intentional Backdoor? · · Score: 1

    It used to be an option in XP Pro's Group Policy Editor (and somewhere in Home's, I think). It was not enabled by default. However, I've noticed some time after installing SP2 on my Home PC that it seems to be working on this one as well. That is, one can't use "Run As..." or anything else that connects to a blank password account except for actually logging into it. Probably was added in SP2.

    Slightly off: the last time I got a worm was when I had DMZ'd this computer with the router, thinking that Windows SP2 would be smart enough to disallow Internet access to openly shared folders. Of course, it wasn't, and a worm plopped itself into one of them, where it was eventually run (either from curiosity, or it tacked itself onto another executable as a virus, not sure).

  16. Re:Who buys this? on New Fatal1ty Gaming Mouse · · Score: 1

    The people who care are those who want badly to be hardcore gamers, and think that knowing of a "celebrity" will make them fit in.

    Everyone else just plays the games that they enjoy, may watch or follow the occasional ladder for fun, and gets on with life.

  17. Re:Looks Interesting on New Fatal1ty Gaming Mouse · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How would it help you switch weapons? What endless possiblities with the buttons? By the looks of it, or what I can gleam off the weak article, it has adjustable weight (how hard is it to control a mouse, really?), a fourth button somewhere (there's a little red thing on the left side, but the article describes a button high and to the right), and a scroll wheel.

    Other than the weight changing, which I doubt is worth the high price tag that this is likely to earn, this mouse has nothing special going for it. Take the 5+ year old Intellimouse Optical that I'm using, which was one of the first optical mice that didn't require a special mousepad. It has a clicking scroll wheel, and buttons on the left and right sides which are large and easy to press. That's five buttons and a scroll. The endless possilbities!

    Honestly, I don't have a clue about what the parent is on about, or the point of this article at all.

  18. Re:True of most journalism try blogs on The Pointlessness of Current Videogame Journalism · · Score: 1

    Most blogs I've seen are usually completely taken in by hype (estimate: 90% or more). There are blogs and less popular review sites that present excellent reviews, but they're few and far between. Just generally saying "trust blogs" isn't any improvement.

  19. Re:I have an uneasy feel about this on Google Video Store Announced · · Score: 1

    What is the likelyhood of any of the networks agreeing to work with Google on this if it didn't have DRM? Google has to abide by the content supplier's rules if they want to provide a way to distribute that content to people, and that's that. So long as they don't pull a Sony and install a nice friendly rootkit with it, I see no evil here.

  20. Re:Please mod above as TROLL on Accused Molester Hunted On Xbox Live · · Score: 1

    Right...

    When the suspect was with the victim the suspect touched the victim in a sexual manner. The victim refused the suspect's advances and the suspect stopped. (From here)

    Santa Rosa police arrested Watts on Dec. 15 after the 14-year-old boy revealed details of the alleged relationship to his mother. (From here)

    ^ Indicating that the molestation was unwanted. As well, if he didn't "understand the power difference", it's unlikely that he would report it to his mother.

    Besides that, even if he was a gay 14 year old, meeting a strange man one met over the internet is still a stupid thing to do.

  21. Re:Please mod above as TROLL on Accused Molester Hunted On Xbox Live · · Score: 1

    Santa Rosa police arrested Watts on Dec. 15 after the 14-year-old boy revealed details of the alleged relationship to his mother.

    I don't remember being such a dumbass at 14. I remember logging into an online chat room once just to laugh at all of the people pm'ing me about "cybersex" and such shit. I can't comprehend how anyone could actually go along with anything like that and expect the outcome to be positive, just as I can't comprehend what the pedophile himself was thinking.

  22. Re:Yeah, but does it play MP3s? on 10 Million Nintendo DS Units Sold Since Launch · · Score: 1

    I've got one for homebrew DS development, but the sound quality of the player itself (and of the homebrew DS players) is horrible. It's all scratchy and hissy sounding.

    That said, I don't know anyone who would actually use their PSP as an MP3 player. The price of memory sticks, the size compared the dedicated MP3 players, and the quicker to use interfaces of dedicated MP3 players just make it a pain. The games are what should sell it, and what do sell the DS.

  23. Re:Um not exactly on Why Video Blogs Will Suck · · Score: 1

    Is there any difference?

    Let's go to the Wikipedia: A vlog is a weblog which uses video as its primary presentation format. It is primarily a medium for distributing video content. Vlog posts are usually accompanied by text, image, and additional meta data to provide a context or overview for the video.

    You can easily interchange the obnoxious word "vlog" with "video podcast", and they both seem to come out as pretty much the same thing.

  24. Re:Say it with me people on Santa IM Worm Hits AOL, MSN and Yahoo · · Score: 1

    You know, oddly enough, I have sent links to executables, and transferred executables to friends. I don't always provide a lengthy explanation as to what it is either. How can you really define "strange", especially to people who don't have a built-in scam detector?

  25. Re:Antibiotics, fungus and cancer on Colds May Trigger Childhood Cancers · · Score: 1

    I'm seeing a lot of bullshit consumer reviews when I look that book up (they're ringing bells in my head at least, and I naturally distrust such things), and most results on google regarding cancers being fungal in nature lead me to conspiracy cook sites. I'm seeing some information on Google Scholar, but none of that suggests that the fungi is causing the tumours, just that it may be opportunistically infecting cancer patients.

    I may just suck at searching academic resources, do you have any links to more information on this topic? I'm not being bluntly closed minded, I'm actually pretty curious, just can't find any information on my own.