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  1. Re:Europe goes intergalactic tonight on Television For an Audience 45 Light Years Away · · Score: 1

    What's XM? eXtraterrestrial Modulation? Nah, in all seriousness though, even if it's in some digital format, it's still going to use FM or AM (or PM, but I can't claim to know anything about that). The simplest radio message AFAIK, is to blast some meaningless but obviously-not-natural AM pattern across the spectrum (and the galaxy) with massive amounts of power.

  2. Re:It All Depends on Their Maturity on Would You Hire a Former Black Hat? · · Score: 1

    The way my friends and I know a police vehicle from any other is that police vehicles don't signal their turns or lane changes.

  3. Re:But when... on XFire is Sony's Answer to Xbox Live · · Score: 1

    One company has a working gimmick, multiple with the same gimmick is a fad.

  4. But when... on XFire is Sony's Answer to Xbox Live · · Score: 2, Insightful

    But when does Nintendo release XCube (XWater, if you want some other ironic/humorous tie-in) to compete with XFire and XBox Live?

    Does anyone else detect a rather lame naming gimmick catching on across the board?

  5. Re:Gameboy? on Spore to be PC Only, For Now · · Score: 1

    GameBoy? Or Spore running on a computerized (PC) trapper-keeper! (South Park anyone?) Ha! The article has been reasoned into your interesting comment to create a valid loophole using popular (more or less) culture! I'll be quiet now...

  6. Re:Boo-Hoo on Facebook Scrambles after Unexpected Privacy Fumble · · Score: 1
    Thank you
    The following has also been posted in a note on my facebook:
    The Nature and Mindset of a Stalker

    Be in control of your own information. Don't throw papers containing your SSN in the trash, don't post things online you don't want people to see. The bigger problem is people in one's network having full access to your profile without befriending you first. Someone stalking you is going to be psychotic about viewing your page anyway.

    Perhaps someone familar with the psycology will comment below, but the privacy settings are quite sufficient, unless you want your interests, etc private. I tried setting my cell phone number to friends only and discovered friends only to be the default. I don't believe that a stalker would settle for using the news-feed, they would go directly to the page everytime (probably having it bookmarked) obsessing over every detail as if it were indeed new.

    Plainly put, this is like parents defering to the government to make the decisions for them. The Man should not be expected to protect your information; we DON'T like him, or have you forgotten that?
    (end)

    I honestly don't understand people's problem with the Feeds. If you don't want people knowing the info, you shouldn't have put it up in the first place. People just don't understand the concept for some reason. It's like the movie Saw. Noone wants to be self-sufficient and independant anymore (I'm not saying I am, and I will say I wish I was). I do like the new privacy setting capabilities, but I still think people made rather too much of a deal out of it. Anyone that agrees with this should join the facebook group "The Pro News-Feed Group".
  7. Re:Interesting spin on Windows Vista RC1 Impresses Critics · · Score: 1

    I know what you mean. One of my harddrives died, luckily not my main (boot) drive. I've always had random reboots especially when using a lot of processes at once, and when windows would come back up, it would tell me it was having CD driver problems. Later on, it got a virus (Norton had screwed up with the "title of update file unparsable" error) (I've switched to AVG), which destroyed Windows Installer. I "fixed" that by installing every WI version upto 3. MSI files still don't work right. The odd thing is, the first time installed something since getting Windows Installer back, the install file (for AVG oddly enough, don't remember if it used an MSI though) told me I needed to update my CD drivers, which I did and the computer hasn't randomly rebooted since. Really wierd that Windows Update never told me that. My computer really needs to be wiped and re-install everything as I've been using it pretty much nonstop (yes, I really need to pee) since '02 (and on Administrator, I know, not good, but I was 14).

    My comp is more jurry-rigged than letting Scotty near a transporter.

  8. Re:Mini-bangs? on No Shadow From the Big Bang? · · Score: 1

    You realize that the Big Bang created The Universe, not Our Galaxy. Savy?

  9. Re:Profiling is worse than random searches. on You Have Been 'Randomly' Selected? · · Score: 1

    And for the articulate rant above, I thank you.
    Expand that to include the ni... *cough* black guy that stole my bike.

  10. Re:Of course people left on Duke in Trouble? · · Score: 1

    Then what do outdustries produce?

  11. Re:It sounded good until... on New Web Browser Leaves No Footprints · · Score: 1

    That became quite clear when it popped up a "Internet Explorer JavaScript Error"ish box within the first two minutes of "browzing".

  12. Re:Secure audio path on Universal to Offer Music for Free · · Score: 1

    Of the existence of this "secure audio path", I was not aware. Man, that bites.
    What I'll have to do now, is create a small device with a 3.5mm input, encodes Vorbis on the fly, and outputs to a parallel connection. hehe, right. Well, actually, a RAM unit, one 386, ROM for encoder... no. Is conspiracy to commit piracy a crime yet? Odd that it's spelled cons-piracy. Now I'm rambling.

    To be more succinct, I realize the desire of the companies and artists to make money, but it's amazing how out of their way they'll go to eliminate every avenue for copying. When they add out-of-human-range signals to prevent recording what's in the air, then I stop listening to music.

  13. What about... on Universal to Offer Music for Free · · Score: 1

    the analog loophole, eh?
    With Audacity, one can record using the setting "What U Hear" which records not from the mic, but from the output of the soundcard. Encode to MP3, burn CD, sync to iPod, there ya go.

  14. Re:Youtube Wins on Bob Saget 2.0 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Annoying perhaps, but some of few videos that were funny, wouldn't have without the voiceover.

  15. So... on Neuroscientist Halts Research to Stop Extremists · · Score: 1

    all of a sudden it's okay to kill people to save a couple of lab animals?
    Doctor: "Are you for animal rights?"
    Nutjob: "Yes."
    Doctor: "No penicillin for you. It was tested on mice." (with an Indian accent, of course)
    Nutjob: "But... but... I have a cold." (obligatory, unrelated reference to prescribing antibacterial medicine for viral infections.)

  16. Re:How about an ansible? on Physicists Control the Spin of a Single Electron · · Score: 1

    What are you getting at? That a RAM bank would be affected by Heisenberg?
    I don't think so, mainly because they just have to measure local fields (I think).

  17. Re:How about an ansible? on Physicists Control the Spin of a Single Electron · · Score: 1

    I must be loosing my touch; I didn't even think of that. Where'd my geekiness go? Oh, wait, that's good thing.

  18. Re:How about an ansible? on Physicists Control the Spin of a Single Electron · · Score: 1

    Never mind data transfer, what about distributed computing with quantum computers?

  19. Re:In Schaumburg on Can a Gaming Cafe be Successful? · · Score: 1

    Isn't that pretty much entrapment. It gets complicated, but there's a legal line that is the government going to far to put it in the person's head to commit the crime.
    Oh, and I rarely get carded, 7/11 and White Hen card only 25% of the time. Even less in Chicago. Pipes N' Stuff never cards. High quality, inexpensive hookas.

  20. Re:In Schaumburg on Can a Gaming Cafe be Successful? · · Score: 1

    A quick Wikipedia search shows that to be correct. Thanks for setting me straight.
    This leaves me wondering what Schaumburg is deliberating, since I had skimmed something in the paper about it. As long as they don't ban outdoor smoking, I don't care about inside....\

  21. Re:These...are...great on Star Trek... Inspirational Posters? · · Score: 1

    Or you get lucky in having a gal that likes both sex and SciFi, in that order.
    Admittedly, we both prefer StarGate, especially since it's still running.

  22. Re:In Schaumburg on Can a Gaming Cafe be Successful? · · Score: 1

    Towns can reject that ban, and must explicitly opt-in (AFAIK). Schaumburg is currently considering it (banning smoking).

  23. In Schaumburg on Can a Gaming Cafe be Successful? · · Score: 1

    In Schaumburg, Zactec on, I think it's on Schaumburg road has been going strong for years. I've never been in there, but I'm told it's smokey and people steal mouse balls.

    It can work, but you're going to, as you said, need incentive for non-gamers to go, as well as kids who may already do as much gaming as they need with a big screen TV, 3 friends and XBox Live.

    Smoke! Smoke! Are you smokin' yet? Obligatory Family Guy reference. Anyway, it's possible. I don't have the money to go. That's another issue in itself. Us gamers are lazy slobs... Do you really expect us to pay?

  24. Re:Form over Function? on What's Wrong with Modern Console Design? · · Score: 1

    I think a lot of NES enthusiasts would disagree with this.

    The cart goes in sideways on the door'ed models. There's an actual top-loader (the cart fits in from the top like the genesis). It doesn't have the 10NES lockout chip, but it's downside is an apparent error in the PPU resulting in a bad vertical bright line every 8 pixels.

  25. Re:Today? on More Worst Videogame Ads · · Score: 1

    I have no idea why, but I feel like I have should be applying something directly to my forehead.

    (I hate that commercial SO much..)