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  1. Re:I'm not surprised. on 40 Percent of World of Warcraft Players Addicted · · Score: 5, Funny

    "What is it about the human mind that enjoys those dreadful experiences once we grow up?"
    Beer. At 14 you cannot drink.

  2. Re:WoW allows Parental Control on 40 Percent of World of Warcraft Players Addicted · · Score: 0, Troll

    I got in fistfights with my dad for far less than what your recomending. Opression isnt the way to solve problems. You should not have kids they will kill you.

  3. Re:"High Brow" means inaccessible on Why Are There No Highbrow Video Games? · · Score: 1

    So what your saying is that a highbrow game would be a multi million dollar VR porn simulator?
    I think that fits your definition :)

  4. wow on Gaming Memories Helping to Heal Katrina Wounds · · Score: 5, Interesting
    This article is so melodramatic its insane.

    Hanging close to a window now smashed in by Katrina is a limited edition poster of Samus Aran, circa Super Metroid era. Gleaming in her Varia Suit, she kneels among sand and rocks, with her smoking arm cannon raised upward and the lonely Zebian desert reflected in her visor. Only 2,000 were ever made, and he has #1,968. But it is more than some collector's item; this poster is a tintype of the first girl to ever steal his heart. Like every man (and most women) of his generation, part of him still loves Samus Aran. She is his adolescence, his coming-of-age, a symbol of permanence and power and invincibility. What would it mean if she had been destroyed?

    That people still live here, that some of the evacuees have returned to their homes, that must mean something. But what home can stand firm on a foundation of mold and tears?

    The whole article is like that!!!
    But as we clean, I can't help but feel something indistinct and odd has transpired. I notice he avoids looking Samus' direction. Even as he carefully packs away the poster to be sent by mail to our apartment up north, he does not look too closely at her, and he does not idle in his task. Briefly, I wonder if he might blame her somehow for surviving the hurricane. Or, in light of his subtle detachment, if she had really survived at all.

    wow. seriously someone should tell this chick that not everything is an emotional rollercoaster. I get it, hes stoic marble man and your the sensitive girl that brings out his soft side, while probing his mysterious ways. just wow. This puts some of those homoerotic slashdot trolls to shame.

  5. Sort of old on Network Card for Gamers - Uses Linux to Reduce Lag · · Score: 1
    These people have been making these outrageous claims for months. I thought that it must of been on slashdot before, or i would have posted it for the extreme joke level. Firingsquad had a review in july of it, and it seems to be an ongoing joke over there as well.

    Its really quite funny. My favourite "feature" from The manufacturers OWN website PDF:

    Ping Throttle: When other gamers complain that your ping is too low, adjust it a little higher untill they stop whining. Then, dial it back down and go in for the kill!

    The guy who invented it aparently got really fed up with lag and developed special "algorithms" to optimize your packets or something. The original interview is here. The inventor basically comes off as either an amazing exercise in self deception or not terribly bright. If theres even a difference between those two things. I REALLY want to see benchmarks, but it will probably just be the phantom console all over again.

    On March 22nd, we will release some of the details behind our technology. The technology is called LLR, Lag and Latency Reduction. Everyone can read more about LLR at our website on that day. In general, you've said it right, it helps to fight Lag. It does this using a custom designed Gaming Network Processor (the first of its kind) to fight all 3 of the causes of Lag (Client, Network, and Server). If I told you exactly how it worked, I'd have to kill you

    One of the interesting things is that he talks about how the game that drove his lag rage over the edge was UO, which was a really great example of crazy server lag that went unfixed for *years*. You could play on a 28.8 modem and it wasnt even THAT laggy, but everyone would mostly have world lag at the same times. But i guess this LLR tech will upgrade the servers or something. Hes a nutter. Might as well strap some magnets on the side of your nic for all the good that this will do you.

  6. oh those wacky scientists! on The De-Evolution of the Ocean · · Score: 1
    Government officials thought they were helping in the early 1990s when they released fresh water that had been held back by dikes and pumps for years. They were responding to the recommendations of scientists who, at the time, blamed the decline of ocean habitats on hypersalinity -- excessively salty seawater.

    The fresh water, laced with farm runoff rich in nitrogen and other nutrients, turned Florida's gin-clear waters cloudy. Seaweed grew fat and bushy.

    It was a fatal blow for many struggling corals, delicate animals that evolved to thrive in clear, nutrient-poor saltwater. So many have been lost that federal officials in May added what were once the two most dominant types -- elkhorn and staghorn corals -- to the list of species threatened with extinction. Officials estimate that 97% of them are gone.

    Not meaning to lampoon scientists (science is the best religion weve got) but shouldnt they be a wee bit more careful? that paragraph comes off to me as " I must have put a decimal point in the wrong place or something. Shit. I always do that!!". I also think that i have now traded in my grey goo fears for toxic ocean weeds. Thats some sort of progress i guess.

    One things for sure, go to the beach whilst you still can.

  7. Re:Misleading title on Nintendo and Microsoft in Suit Over Controller Patents · · Score: 1

    whats nintendomicrosoft? oh theres a teeny tiny COMMA there. Thats a really bad headline from a reading point of view. I would use an 'and' not a comma. "Company sues Nintendo and Microsoft over Controller Patent". If thats too long, you could abreviate microsoft to M$. That would also spark at least a few +5 comments joking, commending or damming the use of the monkier.

    im only replying to this becuase its slow ass friday and im really bored.

  8. Re:Saving AJAX on So How Do You Code an AJAX Web Page? · · Score: 4, Funny

    prt scr

  9. samsung = worthless crap on Affordable Laser Printers? · · Score: 2, Informative

    DO NOT buy samsung printers. Every high volume (1 cartridge per month or more) samsung ML series printer i have used has developed weird problems after a year or so. Little plastic and metal bits which are aparently essential to their operation fall off randomly. I have had to crazy glue so many little parts back on these printers.. Not to mention that even a small model number change nessecitates a different type of cartridge (ML-1410 takes a different cart than ML 1510 when they could have easily made them the same(same size printer etc)). They also have some toner cartridges that LOOK EXACTLY THE SAME but! they added a little piece of plastic to make the toner a different shape so that they arent interchangable! The cheap lexmarks do this as well (e240 and e232) and even go so far as to have a chip on the cart so that it will fit in the other printer but it just doesnt print!

    The best printers are HP laserjets 5P 6p etc.. also the laserjet 2100N is a really fine network printer. The other printers that are absolute workhorses and do _not_ die are the HP laserjet 1000s. These things have very few moving parts and they are built so that basically the only thing that will stop it is a bad fuser. Some of the people in my office print on the order of 1000s of pages a week on those laserjet 1000s.

    Old hp's are the best printers no question.

  10. Re:perhaps they should checkout on Defining Clicks and Click Fraud · · Score: 1

    its aboviously a joke site. The other testimonial is from the former ceo of pets.com. They also claim to have 20k monkeys/people in a tanker off the coast. come on.

  11. blob? on Less Than a Minute to Hijack a MacBook's Wireless · · Score: 1

    Never encountered that term before.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_blob
    "a binary blob is an opaque binary object for which no source code is available."

    i guess thats more fun than saying "precompiled binary"

  12. Re:This guy must be a slashdot reader... on Apple's DRM Is Bad For Consumers and Business · · Score: 1

    copyright infringment is me liberating songs that will be locked away from the public in perpetuity. As soon as they make things fall into public domain after something resonable (~15 years) then ill re evaluate my position.

    and dont be stupid. Copyright infringment isnt stealing. Just because the grandparent misused a word doesnt mean you have to parrot it.

  13. Re:Why should the press have rights we don't have? on Ruling to Make Reporters Act Like Drug Dealers? · · Score: 1

    "I am sick and tired of the Times and other blatantly anti war publications like them putting our soldiers and our security at risk."

    Colbert is that you?
    Do americans really believe that reporting on domestic wiretapping endangers soldiers in the field?
    I thought that this sort of rational was a joke.

  14. link jacking on Ruling to Make Reporters Act Like Drug Dealers? · · Score: 1

    Your basically describing link jacking. I hate it with a passion as well. The myspace generation - how many pageviews i get shows how cool i am - is responsible. The first thing i look for in any linked blog is the link to the next level of blogosphere (aka hell) or heaven permitting, i can ascend to the highest level and get to the actual news source. Everyone thinks that their opinion matters and is important, but odds are its probably not. (yes i am aware of the irony in making such a statement. pretend i deleted this instead of posting)

  15. Re:Is this on the level? on Stephen Colbert Wikipedia Prank Backfires · · Score: 1

    I actually thought that he had an aide using vnc or something controlling the machine so all he had to do was approve the edits. Thats only if i wanted to believe he was doing what he says hes doing. Colbert usually does what he says hes doing so i thought that would be how he could have gotten away with that, and stayed true to himself.

    I *did* take it to mean that we should all go edit wikipedia in that way. He had a half laughing smirk on his face when he said that because he knew we would all do it. He LOVES the fact that he has like one of the most popular shows on TV and is always trying to get little memes started.

    I dont think this article defames anyone. He was making a joke about the nature of truth and reality in the media and tied it to wikipedia to show that hes hip with the kids.

  16. Re:Good point, but.... on Children Arrested, DNA Tested for Playing in a Tree? · · Score: 1

    similar thing happened to me the other day. I was out running and i look over and see this guy kicking the shit out of another guy on the other side of the road. Now this is a major road with cars streaming by. No one stopped. So i went over and the guy was yelling about how hed just got out of detox so i backed off and ran to the closest store. The people in the shop had aparently already called the cops. I waited 20 minutes. No cops came. This is in a major city on a major road with the suspect and victim still in the street. By that point they were sort of sitting together talking. Looked like some kind of meth related relationship and troubles. So after about 30 minutes of waiting, i say fuck this and take off. The cops never came.

    This was last week.
    Yesterday, running again, about 1 block south from the exact same spot, i see a patrol car that has pulled over another car in a traffic stop.
    This is why people hate the police.

  17. Re:talk about over protective on Big Mother Is Watching · · Score: 1

    "Imagine we had a more flexible payment system, where you could put in a block in your paycard to prevent yourself from gambling, ... Do you think it would have helped? My answer is: of COURSE it would!"

    You obviously never knew anyone who was hardcore addicted to gambling. They would go out, buy a TV and then take it to the pawn shop, get 60% of the value back and use that money to gamble. These are the same types of people who pay $50 convience fees at money mart so that they can cash their cheques right away. Most people have shitty self control. I do believe that you can control any behavior with the power of the mind, but you have to want to first. A block on a credit card is barely a speed bump thats more like a symbolic gesture than anything else.

  18. Re:From IRC, the reason: on Lead PHP Developer Quits · · Score: 1

    That email was written july 18th. They were bombed on july 24th or july 25th (cant recall). I'm sure that he would be writing to a different tune now. Of course since he is mising and presumed dead, we cant really ask him now can we?

  19. Re:Israel is not "attacking the civilian populatio on Lead PHP Developer Quits · · Score: 1

    "Israel has taken pains to inform civilians (and thereby tip off Hezbollah too) before attacks by dropping leaflets that basically say "We know there is a Hezbollah ammo dump here, flee now because we will attack soon"."

    Well thats one way to look at it. Another way would be that isreal is doing this to terrorize civilians into leaving their homes and encouraging them to live in a constant state of fear (btw this is what terrorism means). This article talks about isreali commanders basically panicing people to move out, and then calling back an hour later saying "be safe".

    Personally im glad that white people are starting to say this shit. Even if its just some obscure PHP developer. Isreal has had carte blanche by basically everyone for way too long. Their treatment of palestine and their use of chemical weapons is highly documented. Even if the only chemical they are using out there is white phosphorus, thats still mighty disgusting. ( i know the USA and british use it as well but thats another topic ).

    "No state, including Israel, can tolerate either unprovoked attacks on its military or any attack at all on its civilian population. Hezbollah is not a state. It has no sovereign right to maintain an army or make war. Those are rights restricted to states."

    Im sorry but just because your bigger and more "official" doesnt give you the right to slaughter an entire country. One persons terrorist is another persons freedom fighter. Im sure the first americans would have been regarded the same way by england as isreal regards the people of palestine, lebanon, syria, iran and hezbola.
    Who the hell cares if hezbollah isnt a state in and of itself? Hamas was democratically elected but isreal didnt care about them either. If hezbollah got 90% of the vote in lebanon, would you then recognize their desire to defend themselves? or would you still consider them not a state sanctioned organization.

    What this all comes down to is a new isreali president/prime minster flexing his muscle at the expense of civilian lives and with a cost to us all (unless you thought that airlifting and cruise shipping civilians out was free). Will isreal reimburse the governments of the states that had to spend tax payers money evacuating citizens? Or will the USA give more money and arms to isreal so that they can continue the slaughter.
    Fuck isreal indeed.

  20. Re:I quit my job due to game addiction... on Game Addiction Clinic Swamped · · Score: 1

    "Not meaing to be insensitve, but doesn't anyone else think 20 hours (4 evenings) a week devoted to a video game is still an addiction?"

    so i guess most people are addicted to TV then? Personally i appear to be addicted to cooking and working as well. Just because you do something alot doesnt mean you are addicted to it. Its a loaded word that is quite overused.

    "I doubt that most people on their deathbed wished that they had spent more time playing video games. At those times, it's regrets about people and relationships that seem to matter the most when it's all too late."

    Well if it really is your death bed, you can take comfort in the fact that your sorrow will not last long.

  21. dr who tangent on Babylon 5 Coming Back? · · Score: 1

    "I'm kind of pissed at the new Doctor Who. Not having any Daleks"

    Are you high? there is probably more dalek plotlines than non dalek plotlines in the whole of the new seasons. The season finale two-parter as an example.. Anyways, my big problem with the new doctor who comparing it to the old is that they have no story arcs at all! Every episode is, for the most part, a self contained story. The old ones, as im sure you are aware, had like 4 or 6 episodes per story. The doctor would always get into a cliffhanger situation at the end of each episode and then it would be resolved in the first 5 minutes of the next show.

    And they really need to stop making episodes where the character is "possessed" by an alien being. I think the episodes that didnt involve daleks all had some form of possession going on. Thats really lame and i sincerely hope that they have more otherworldly adventures that do not involve a) london and b) possesion. Another key thing that i think they are doing wrong is not emphasizing the unstableness of the tardis. The current doctor and elikson as well, seem to be more in control of their tardis than any before. I thought the whole idea was that the machine picked the targets and the doctor was just sort of along for the ride.

    oh and lastly, they need to go back to the 1960s black and white openning sequence. That effect was downright scary when i was a kid and i knew alot of other people who wouldnt even watch the show - even into adulthood - because of that sequence. You will *never* achieve a similar reaction with CG. Its probably the best opening sequence of anything ever and watching it on lsd gives you such a crazy rush. Still chills the spine everytime i see it.

  22. Re:Big brother here we come! on License Plate Tracking for the Average Citizen · · Score: 1
    I hope that post was completely sarcastic. If not thats the scariest thing ive ever read. Tagging people so we can all spot judge them? Have you ever met _anyone_ who didnt think they were in the right after having a bout of road rage with someone else? So now they both log on and tag eachother as "violent psychopath" or "WARNING: suspect pedophile". So your life is vanillia plain and dont care if your monitored. Thats great, no ones stopping you from tracking yourself and bloging about it. Odds are that no one does care about that information. But you do acknowledge that alot of people do things that they wouldnt want others to know about dont you?

    FRED: Sorry bob, i cant go out drinking with you after work because my boss is a devout muslim and if he sees that my car was at the bar for 2 hours, id probably be lectured the next day and i really cant afford that.

    Im half expecting a reply of an arrow and a little man to show that this joke was flying over my head, but i fear you might have been serious with what you wrote.

    "- I'll call this "public neutrality" where I, as an endpoint user of the public space am not restricted from what I can and cannot record and analyze."

    yeah there are laws against stalking. For fucks sake, i dont even like people taking my picture on the subway without my permission. All the little teenie boppers with their cameras.. it used to be required, if not legally then out of politeness, that if someone was photographing you they would come over and ask if it was ok. Do i have to wear a balaclava in public now because people aparently have the right to monitor me without my consent, with their only reason being that i left my house?

  23. blame wistleblowers ftw on Air Marshals Place Innocents on Secret Watch List · · Score: 1
    "They haven't invested the time/funds to train the marshals enough to recognize who they're looking for."

    What makes you think they arent properly trained? Perhaps, - and this might sound absolutely crazy - but perhaps there just arent that many terrorists flying domestically in the USA!

    I know that sounds completely crazy, not sure what i was thinking in that last sentance. Its a post 9/11 world after all...

  24. Re:IT? on Air Marshals Place Innocents on Secret Watch List · · Score: 1

    so your saying that this is more an IT story? maybe the watchlists are on COMPUTERS! yeah!

    sorry no. As i said before to someone else, YRO can be both "your rights, online" and "your online rights". This article is clearly your rights, online , as the "article" was posted online.

    I think they put it in IT because of people like you who complain everytime its posted into YRO because they dont understand a phrase can mean more than one thing. They put it here to taunt us with how much more wrong it could be. Its a tease by the editors.

  25. Re:Give some support on CEO Shawn Hogan Takes on MPAA · · Score: 4, Funny

    got a torrent?