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  1. How about some game folders? on Steam UI Update Beta Drops IE Rendering For WebKit · · Score: 1

    Does it let you organize your games into more than just "Favorites", "Installed" and "Uninstalled" yet? When you've got past a certain number of Steam games, those 3 options are just not enough.

  2. Re:Contingencies on Microsoft Secretly Beheads Notorious Waledac Botnet · · Score: 1

    Yes, because it's so easy to become a CEO, right?

  3. Re:The School is in Pensylvania on School Spying Scandal Gets Even More Bizarre · · Score: 1

    It was an investment promising great returns with the sale of the first child porn compilations.

  4. Re:Grown up games... on The Grown-Up Video Game · · Score: 1

    So it's basically another Indigo Prophecy?

  5. tl;dr on Confessions of an Internet "Shock Jock" · · Score: 1

    Actually I did skim it, and it looks like the relevant pieces start 2 paragraphs prior to the "A Slippery Slope" section, halfway into the novella. At least they didn't paginate...

  6. Re:Heads better roll on NHTSA Has No Software Engineers To Analyze Toyota · · Score: 1

    I never even know NHTSA existed.

  7. Re:Truth, Justice, and the American Way on 1938 Superman Comic Sells For $1M · · Score: 1

    Don't miss the other obvious implication: Truth and Justice are mutually exclusive.

    If they were, you couldn't fight for both of them now, could you? Unless you're a politician of course.

  8. Re:Terrible Hero on 1938 Superman Comic Sells For $1M · · Score: 1

    Oh please, Batman is overpowered too, brainwise. Hell, he probably has an anti-Chuck Norris spray.

  9. Re:Value, Price, and Worth on 1938 Superman Comic Sells For $1M · · Score: 1

    Heh, I remember when was 5 or 6, I thought diamonds were so expensive because they can be turned into really sharp knives.

  10. Re:Lock, what lock? on Newspaper "Hacks Into" Aussie Gov't Website By Guessing URL · · Score: 1

    FTA:
    - We got a tip on Friday that you could read the government's transport plan by accessing a website called, unsurprisingly, nswtransportblueprint.com.au.

    - Even we did not need help to type in those letters. No password was requested or offered.

    - Instead we were confronted with a dream menu for any reporter: rail services, cycleways, walking and cycling, bus services, paying and road network.

    So the analogy here is being told there's a really juicy book in a library at this specific location, but the book not being in the library's online catalog. The book itself has a full table of contents.

  11. Re:Two Robots in Front of a Judge on Newspaper "Hacks Into" Aussie Gov't Website By Guessing URL · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you put a billboard in a back alley, is it "private look only" just because you don't advertise its existence with a billboard on a major highway?

  12. Re:This isn't that different from the adult world. on Suspension of Disbelief · · Score: 1

    It's more like calling your local police chief "the worst cop I've ever met" in a public forum and being arrested for it.

  13. Re:Repeat on Sony Joins the Offensive Against Pre-Owned Games · · Score: 1

    And we're not talking about armed rebellion, we're talking about piracy. So the ratio still holds.

  14. Re:Sacrificing privacy for games? on Valve's Battle Against Cheaters · · Score: 1

    And like someone else already mentioned: This "option" can be used by everybody, hence the playing field _is_ level.

    And like someone else said, the IRL "option" to murder can be used by everybody, hence there is no reason for murder to be illegal.

  15. Re:Repeat on Sony Joins the Offensive Against Pre-Owned Games · · Score: 1

    Think of a government curtailing civil liberties because of a few anarchists, and said action causing previously law-abiding citizens to take up arms.

  16. Re:Games don't use multiple cores? on Today's Best CPUs Compared... To a Pentium 4 · · Score: 1

    nowadays all major games(dragon age, mass effect 2, battlefield bad company 2, etc..) uses my dual core at 100%

    Hell, Mass Effect 1 uses my dual core (C2D E8400) at 100%. Which is annoying since it means I can't play the game at steady 60fps. The difference between 1920x1080 4xAA, all other settings maxed and 800x600 all settings lowest is maybe 5-10 fps.

  17. Re:"tit storm" on Operation Titstorm Hits the Streets · · Score: 1

    It seems to me that adult women with small tits would stimulate pedophiles about as much as a man with his genitalia cut off would stimulate heterosexual men.

    Get with the program here - unless said man's a fatty with manboobage going on, he's only going to stimulate heterosexual pedophiles.

  18. Re:That'll teach 'em. on Hackers Attack AU Websites To Protest Censorship · · Score: 1

    IIRC an Asian "B-cup" is the same as a normal "A-cup".

  19. Re:"independently funded"? on Studies Find Harm From Cellular and Wi-Fi Signals · · Score: 1

    In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
    In practice, there is.

  20. Re:Makes me wonder... on Paypal Reverses Payments Made To Indians · · Score: 1

    What are you talking about? I only have one card registered on my PayPal account, and never gave them a bank account. By default its used because there is nothing else to use.

  21. Re:DOOMED I say... DOOMED! on Verizon Blocking 4chan · · Score: 1

    In this case better to stick it to them in court, it is a slam dunk freedom of speech thing

    Freedom of speech? Since when have private companies been obligated by this?

  22. Re:Systems need some tactical depth on Game Difficulty As a Virtue · · Score: 1

    A level 10 soldier SHOULD be charging a level 80 orc regardless of his armor. It is just an Orc in armor. The fact that it is completly pointless is just an artifact of the mechanisms which WoW uses to keep your progression (satisfaction) slow.

    Unless said level 10 soldier has just witnessed said Orc in armor punch out a dragon.

  23. Re:Should Be Shot on Image Searchers Snared By Malware · · Score: 1

    Stealing my identity and buying a mansion... thus ruining my life into permenant bankrupcy as well as my family... yeah, you can go and have that done to you while the identity thief gets a slap on the wrist. For ruining my entire family's lives, I'd sure as hell want to see them executed.

    It gives you a few rather hard years while you prove to everyone involved it wasn't you who purchased the mansion, but I doubt it ruins your life. 15-20 years in prison should be enough to pay for that.

  24. And that's why God gave us difficulty settings on Game Difficulty As a Virtue · · Score: 1

    And yet even within a single difficulty setting some games can have inconsistent difficulty.

    I recently finished JK2: Jedi Outcast for the first time - used Jedi Knight difficulty. The early levels were just frustrating, considering the weapons sucked for the most part. The one where you have to protect escaping prisoners was especially annoying, I lost count how many retries I needed there. Fun improved drastically once you got the lightsaber and some force powers (force speed especially), and much more when you got the Force Healing. And yet, Force Healing basically made the game into one of those rather easy "regenerating shield/health" shooters, where you can just charge into the enemies swinging, knowing that you can always just wait in a corner to recharge without having to hunt down med packs.

    However since I sucked at light saber combat, the dark jedi (especially the two bosses, and to a lesser extent encounters with multiple black-armored mass produced fodder) fights were always rather hard. I could barely land a hit on the final boss, so I left the game unplayed for a month or two, before coming back and using the cheap trick of "hang back until he throws the saber, then force speed in for the kill" to win. Didn't get a great sense of achievement out of that one.

  25. Re:US and UK government are melding on UK Government Crowd-Sourcing Censorship · · Score: 1

    There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there, spanning from control of personal finances to end of life care. These rumors often travel just below the surface via chain emails or through casual conversation. Since we can't keep track of all of them here at the White House, we're asking for your help. If you get an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov.

    Sounds a lot like websites asking to be forwarded phishing emails.