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  1. Re:"Hot player" detection on Computer-Based System To Crack Down On Casino Card Counters · · Score: 1

    if you do play strategically just do it when the crowds are around. nobody is going to care even if you walk out every day up 500 or 1000 if you are playing when there are crowds so you attract 5000-10000 in other gamblers losses.

  2. Re:People are not thinking out the box on Computer-Based System To Crack Down On Casino Card Counters · · Score: 1

    if you have 80 people working together who trust each other with sums of money, i think you will have a much higher rate of return working a real business.

  3. Re:If you are going to count cards and win big... on Computer-Based System To Crack Down On Casino Card Counters · · Score: 1

    you don't even need to spend most of it back, just be legit about it and play during busy times so your winning brings other suckers over to lose money.

  4. Re:remember the important part on Sneaky Microsoft Add-On Put Firefox Users At Risk · · Score: 1

    firefox can only control addons added via it's interface, if microsoft pushes a patch that edits the firefox config files and drops in an addon, the only way to prevent that would be with some sort of cryptographic protection on the config files, which would make manual offline editing (such as when you break something and can't get in via about:config) difficult or impossible.

  5. Re:As a Publisher on Google Takes On Amazon With Own E-Book Store · · Score: 1

    publishers pay up front, and unlike RIAA typically a publisher just won't pay MORE if the sales don't end up paying off your advance. you won't end up massively in debt as the publisher takes on the financial risk of the book.

    electronic onloy or electronic + on demand printers would be great for people writing a book in their spare time but full time authors who aren't wealthy from either their previous sales or other income are likely to prefer traditional publisher contracts.

  6. Re:The price matters on Google Takes On Amazon With Own E-Book Store · · Score: 1

    that's because they are pretty cool dudes and not really afraid of anything. they also offer a bunch of stuff for free in the Baen free library.

  7. Re:Is "net neutrality" really neutral? on Cisco, Motorola, and Other Companies Take Aim At Net Neutrality Rules · · Score: 1

    My experience with this type of government regulation is that it usually favors some group (usually a corporation or group of corporations) over some other group (often individuals and groups of individuals).

    you make a very specific claim here, please provide some sort of example, this should be easy.

  8. Re:60-70% of Americans consistently poll to want on Cisco, Motorola, and Other Companies Take Aim At Net Neutrality Rules · · Score: 2, Informative

    that ship already sailed with medicare/medicaid.

    the "free market" has failed dismally in the health care and health insurance field.

  9. Re:Wow. on 1Mb Broadband Access Becomes Legal Right In Finland · · Score: 1

    so you really think that business monopoly regulations are the same as jim crow laws?

  10. Re:What about the need for uniformity? on EFF Warns TI Not To Harass Calculator Hobbyists · · Score: 1

    zshell? i wrote a TI-86 fake delete program that simulated the menu structure in TI-86 Basic

  11. Re:are our brains leaking out of our heads? on Is Valve's Steam Anti-Competitive? · · Score: 1

    for that you can usually use bin/cue blanks. not whole images but ones that have just enough to pass the CD check, so usually around 100k or less, sometimes a lot less.

  12. Re:Nonpolluting straw burning? on From Turbines and Straw, Danish Self-Sufficiency · · Score: 5, Informative

    except the natural gas is being depleted when used, the straw converts energy from the sun. gas is also carbon trapped millions of years ago, the carbon you burn from straw was absorbed that summer.

    so yea it is the same in a superficial and meaningless sort of way.

  13. Re:Personally I'd rather you were honest with me on When Do You Fire a Headhunter? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    i would prefer to notify them that the first time was the last time and they are to destroy or return to me any copies of resumes or other records pertaining to me, along with a signed certification that it has been done. any further deflection or waffling and they will get to talk to my lawyer instead of me.

    if you are lying on my behalf your behavior reflects on me and i do not tolerate that kind of horseshit.

  14. Re:An un-level playing field on MIT Axes the 500-Word Application Essay · · Score: 1

    any reviewer who can't tell the difference between a professionally polished turd and a genuine essay written by a student should not be reviewing these essays.

  15. Re:Totally faked. on Nvidia Fakes Fermi Boards At GPU Tech Conference · · Score: 1

    NVidia just kicked a hornet's nest the other day by not allowing their cards to run as a physics accelerator unless another of theirs was used as the display adapter. That is my guess as to why people are getting worked up over this.

  16. Re:Aimed at Freenet? on House Committee Passes "Informed P2P User Act" · · Score: 1

    no, it's not. Freenet could easily bypass this by notifying the user that "c:\program files\freenet\data.bin is being shared"

  17. Re:Blizzard uses P2P, so does this affect Warden? on House Committee Passes "Informed P2P User Act" · · Score: 1

    no, they got their panties twisted because they were busted using WoWGlider, the rest were just excuses to distract from their cheating and make it look like blissard was the bad guy. kind of like a teenager yelling that his parents violated his privacy when they grounded him for having a bag of pot and a bong hidden in his room.

  18. Re:Why P2P on House Committee Passes "Informed P2P User Act" · · Score: 1

    if by "maybe this new law will" you mean "nothing in this law will" then you are correct.

  19. Re: Licensed books on Company Uses DMCA To Take Down Second-Hand Software · · Score: 4, Insightful

    we are comfortable sheep because we are comfortable. our system, for all it's flaws, makes sure that most people have quite a bit of what they want and all of what they need. people don't go out and risk life and limb due to some theoretical injustice against them, even if it is very severe and real. for example look at the relatively low frequency of slave revolts prior to the civil war, despite millions of people being kept as chattel slaves with no rights whatsoever. the trigger for revolution is not going to come from overbearing government intrusion or even squalid living conditions, but rather from a large scale sudden, severe, and perceived to be permanent change in both directions. people are easy to scare into trivial action, but it takes a whole lot all at once for people to decide to give up "ok" living in favor of killing the bastards who screwed up their previously "good" lifestyle.

  20. Re:oh well on NVidia Cripples PhysX "Open" API · · Score: 1

    no, but the fact that they are pulling petty bullshit on stuff like this indicates a lack of confidence in their own technology to compete, that could well be a predictor of doom if their insecurity is justified enough.

  21. Re:Anti-trust? on NVidia Cripples PhysX "Open" API · · Score: 1

    legalities aside, it's just plain stupid. I have an ATI/AMD graphics card and NVidia is going out of their way NOT to sell me an NVidia card to use for physics acceleration? in particular i would consider buying a lower end card for not a whole lot of cash as an easy and inexpensive gaming upgrade, and who knows, if i like it i may end up getting an NVidia card for graphics next time i build a system (it's been 2 years so it is getting close to time for me to do that again.)

    oh well, if they don't want my money i will give it to AMD/ATI instead, and instead of buying a second card to do physics i will spend more on a beefier CPU from ... gee what do you know... AMD good jorb NVidia.

  22. Re:Charging speed. on Growing Power Gap Could Force Smartphone Tradeoffs · · Score: 1

    please explain to me how storing compressed flammable gas on my desk and in my pocket is more desirable than a high powered electrical system.

    The best solution is to standardize on a certain set of rechargeable battery shapes and power outputs and make them cheap enough that you can keep an extra battery on every charger.

  23. Re:Mr and Mrs Smith on Hardware Hackers Create a Cheaper Bedazzler · · Score: 1

    if the lunatic is strong enough you could hoot him through the heart and still get brained before he succumbs to the bullet wound.

  24. Re:Simple: arrest people making them on Revisiting DIY HERF Guns · · Score: 1

    armor piercing bullets? i have a sub $200 rifle that can shoot through just about anything short of interceptor armor with plates, and thats with standard copper jacketed lead ammo.

    Oh! you meant AP pistol rounds to imply that anyone who opposes anti-crowd weapons wants to kill cops. GFY

  25. Re:Methods of crowd dispesal?? on Revisiting DIY HERF Guns · · Score: 1

    it has been documented and proven on numerous occasions, just because a coward without the balls to attach his fake name to a post doens't want to believe it doesn't make it less true.