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  1. I'm safe anyway on DARPA Contract Hints At Real-Time Video Spying · · Score: 3, Funny

    4 inches?

    They still won't be able to see me masturbate!

  2. Re:My estimate on Number of ET Civilizations In Our Galaxy Is 37,964 · · Score: 1

    The mice built the earth, why do you think they'd live on it?

  3. Re:Where to find them? on Number of ET Civilizations In Our Galaxy Is 37,964 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What is the problem with more activity as long as you can get away? It's not like stars crashes into each other every millionth year or so is it?

    Wouldn't the extra radiation if any increase the number of mutations (if they worked as life on earth) and thereby increase their development speed? Same with shorter generations I guess.

  4. Re:yuck. on Number of ET Civilizations In Our Galaxy Is 37,964 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    But that one is terrestrial.

    Heck, it may even be the intelligent one!

  5. But how many of them have hover-bikes?! on Number of ET Civilizations In Our Galaxy Is 37,964 · · Score: 0

    It's all in the subject stupid!

  6. Re:What's to stop Apple? on Lawsuit Between Apple and Psystar Moves Toward Settlement · · Score: 1

    Seems to have been rather common "knowledge"/belifs earlier:
    http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=65786

    I appologise that I was incorrect.
    I thought they had stored the key there.

    Where are the keys store / how are they decrypted? I'm to lazy to read all that stuff.

  7. Re:What's to stop Apple? on Lawsuit Between Apple and Psystar Moves Toward Settlement · · Score: 1

    Well, what they are trying to do is to just sell it to people with macs, so ..

    If that fits you better.

  8. Re:What's to stop Apple? on Lawsuit Between Apple and Psystar Moves Toward Settlement · · Score: 1

    Feel free to sue Apple, don't settle in advance, claim your point in court and see if they agree or not.

    Personally I have no problems with EULAs being valid if they are, the developers wrote the product and it should be up to them to decide who gets the right to use it and for what.

  9. Re:What's to stop Apple? on Lawsuit Between Apple and Psystar Moves Toward Settlement · · Score: 1

    Or not, since OS X can be installed on it, not just legally.

  10. Re:What's to stop Apple? on Lawsuit Between Apple and Psystar Moves Toward Settlement · · Score: 1

    Monopoly in the mac sales area omg!

  11. Re:What's to stop Apple? on Lawsuit Between Apple and Psystar Moves Toward Settlement · · Score: 1

    Probably way easier to remove the check from code than to break the key.

    Since you already have the OS on a real mac in that case what's stoping you from getting rid of the key check during installation?

    And Macs already use encrypted binaries against TPM but the key for that is known so that's why regular PCs can install a decrypted version.

  12. Re:What's to stop Apple? on Lawsuit Between Apple and Psystar Moves Toward Settlement · · Score: 1

    Feel free to but write your own OS.
    The OS is Apples so...

  13. Re:Anyone actually read the review? on "BlueTrack" Mouse More Advanced Than Laser, Optical · · Score: 1

    Yeah, in the case of my mouse it can't be that the problem is that of the high contrast surface which probably gives excellent image differences back to the sensor (unless it uses some weird way of trying to figure out the exposure settings as well) but should rather be in the area of threating these images and understand what they mean when it comes to mouse movement.

    I guess.

  14. Re:OpenCL on S3 Jumps On GPGPU Bandwagon · · Score: 1

    Yeah, Nvidia supports Cuda on everything above the 6000-series I think.

    Two other reasons is probably that:
    a) It's faster.
    b) Transgamings Cider software don't support the Intel graphics, and now with this one EA:s "mac games" such as C&C 3, Spore and such will run on the Macbook aswell.

  15. Re:what on S3 Jumps On GPGPU Bandwagon · · Score: 1

    Off-topic my ass, funny or insightful :D

    Why ISN'T enhancing photos the business of the central processing unit? Does it matter how it's done as long as you get the results you want?

    Anyway, all enhanchments will still try to fix what the exposure didn't.

  16. Re:what on S3 Jumps On GPGPU Bandwagon · · Score: 1

    Except in Aperture there the GPU acceleration is much slower than Lightroom thanks to Apples retarded decision of using 128 MB vram. Hurray for less choice.

  17. Re:not the first time we hear that S3 can compete. on S3 Jumps On GPGPU Bandwagon · · Score: 2, Informative

    3Dfx got bought by Nvidia, so no.

  18. Re:Anyone actually read the review? on "BlueTrack" Mouse More Advanced Than Laser, Optical · · Score: 1

    But that isn't the general knowledge and opinion of me and many others. A friends MX revolution or whatever it was called, MX 1000 maybe? Some early laser one anyway jumped around a lot, my MX 300 was way less picky. I got the DeathAdder (optical) but haven't liked that it can't track on white surfaces or say a surface with lines in some pattern because it seem to fuck up by that, so obviously at least that one have some issues but I doubt it's worse than the average laser one. Also laser mice are well known for not working good on the glass pads and such, where optical mice do work.

  19. Warning for incredible retarded web design on "BlueTrack" Mouse More Advanced Than Laser, Optical · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The linked review is one of those pages there the article uses at most 15% of the space but still had to be split amount 6 pages or so.

  20. Weird on "BlueTrack" Mouse More Advanced Than Laser, Optical · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I was very convinced that optical sensors was LESS picky than laser ones. Everyone I know have had issues with laser ones (ok, I may not have heard any complaints on the Logitech G5 but..)

    Haven't read the article though, just woke up. (My mouse is an optical Razer DeathAdder and works good as long as there are no huge contrasts on the material or on my white melamine (?) desk or white paper. Brown table, piece of unbleached paper box, pants, all good.)

  21. Re:Outrage! on A Brief History of Features Apple Has Killed · · Score: 0

    lol

  22. Re:Outrage! on A Brief History of Features Apple Has Killed · · Score: 1

    May also be to make it even easier for consumers which don't have a clue what ports and technology they have. Of which Apple have many.

  23. Re:Outrage! on A Brief History of Features Apple Has Killed · · Score: 1

    800 mbps vs 480 mbps.

    But still better for diskdrives.

    But since almost everyone buy USB 2.0 anyway I guess it doesn't matter.

  24. Re:Peace on LittleBigPlanet Delayed Due To Qur'an-Sampling Audio · · Score: 1

    Benefit of doubt of that? That I didn't knew what it was or doubt of the religion?
    Ok, get it, in Sweden the book is called "Koranen", or well, I guess Qur'an and Koran is quite similar, but I for sure didn't get it.

    Ok, understandable then, still silly, call back a game where one of the characters say "oh god!"? :D

    Oh well, back to drawing Muhammed dogs I guess, on upsidedown turned crosses, WITH BEARDS!

  25. Re:Peace on LittleBigPlanet Delayed Due To Qur'an-Sampling Audio · · Score: 1

    just watch how much I care about your flamebait/troll(/offtopic) moderations:

    Wtf?!

    "Even the bible has some pretty dark lines surpassing this one."

    What is that supposed to mean?
    Like if any of the christian religions would be peace loving. No shit the bible has dark lines. It's just a lot of punishment and judgement all the way. Behave or else!

    The sooner we get rid of all that kind of bullshit the better. Please stop the old fairy tales from affecting society, our lives, laws and science!

    On topic: I don't get what this article is about at all. What is Qar'an? What language is that? How does it matter if the samples contain it? Due to religious meanings? The message? Is it copyrighted?
    What a waste of pressed discs, shipping, time and so on. Unless it's copyrighted and solvable why care?

    Everyone will die and the earth will cease to exist. So what?