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  1. Re:Congratulations! on Sci Fi Channel Becoming Less Geek-Centric "SyFy" · · Score: 1

    Anime is a very polar genre. You get timeless, amazingly groundbreaking work, and you get utter, utter crap.

    And you get plenty of stuff in between. Which is really the case with all forms of media, isn't it?

  2. Re:and who ISN'T going to pay up? on Swiss Banks Making Concessions On Secrecy · · Score: 1

    What ever happened to freedom, the right to privacy, search warrants, due process and innocent until proven guilty ?

    However if there is an applicable search warrant, the authorities should be able to gain access to all of that specific person's accounts.

  3. Re:Where have I seen this before? on What Does a $16,000+ PC Look Like, Anyway? · · Score: 5, Funny

    This way when the server is crashing, instead of beeping it can yell out.

  4. Re:Free and Open Source? on Is Free Really the Future of Gaming? · · Score: 1

    Oh, how I miss the days when you actually had to *think* between firefights.

    Ah yes, Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Quake.... Wait a second, which days were you talking about again?

  5. Re:Reminds me of my childhood on Latest World of Warcraft Expansion Blocked In China · · Score: 1

    Now is this a social thing or a government policy thing? Cause, you know, thinking about death and what happens afterward leads some people to religion.

  6. Re:Speaking as a valve fanboy and steam early adop on The Age of Steam · · Score: 2, Informative

    You should still back up the Offline blobs. That way next time the steam servers are down you'll be able to start in Offline mode. Otherwise it's a Catch-22 situation - you won't be able to switch to Offline mode until you log in.

  7. Re:64-bit key? on Self-Encrypting Hard Drives and the New Security · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry, I couldn't read your post. Could you post the algorithm and key to unencrypt it?

  8. Re:Sweet! on Emulation Explosion On the PS3 Via Linux · · Score: 1

    Quake 2 ran on a Pentium/90 with 16MB.

    Sure you're not talking about Quake 1 here (at least for software mode)?

  9. Re:The ending is ruined though on Watchmen Watched · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Which would you find more believable - an alien invasion from parallel world, or a superbeing that you know exists causing the catastrophy?

  10. Re:No, they don't on Should Job Seekers Tell Employers To Quit Snooping? · · Score: 1

    Problem is that through googling employers could find out all the personal information they are not allowed to ask at an interview. Age, religion, political leanings, sexual orientation, etc.

  11. Re:What a dumb question, don't they play games? on Does a Game Have To Fail To Get a Real Ending? · · Score: 1

    Gee, thanks for the spoiler alert!

  12. Re:Politics of health care on Why Doctors Hate Science · · Score: 1

    The most efficiently run medical payment service in this country right now is medicare with over 95% efficiency in terms of money going to treatment vs. overhead.

    And the only thing more incredible than the efficiency of medicare is the amount of time and effort it takes to find a doctor that actually accepts it.

  13. Re:Mod parent down on Gamer Claims Identifying As a Lesbian Led To Xbox Live Ban · · Score: 1

    Even if you choose to ignore all the atrocities that have been committed because of faith, at the very least it provides a fertile environment for superstition.

    Same goes for sexuality. Hormones lead to all kinds of messed up thinking. Aggression, possessiveness, "unfriendly" competition. The world would be be a far better place if human beings reproduced asexually.

  14. Re:Mod parent up on Gamer Claims Identifying As a Lesbian Led To Xbox Live Ban · · Score: 1

    As opposed to a (non-average) hetero teenage male gamer, who runs around saying "I LOVE PUSSY!", or "I'm God's gift to women. Behold my cock!"

    To me, that sounds like an over-compensating (non-average) homosexual teenage male gamer still in the closet.

  15. Re:Mario Kart?? on The Most Influential Games In History? · · Score: 1

    Ultima Underworld came out before Wolf 3d, and did things that the Doom engine didn't even come close to until Heretic/Hexen.

  16. Re:Censorship on Australian Internet Censorship Plan Torpedoed · · Score: 1

    No, they would only censor the information about censorship, which I don't think they'd mind too much. Think of it as a gag order.

  17. Re:contractor position? on How To Handle Corporate Blackmail? · · Score: 1

    I love the "Gut a fish on your desk" idea. Please get video of this for youtube!

    I believe there's already a whole movie about that.

  18. Re:Electronically? on Functional Neurons Created From Adult Somatic Cells · · Score: 1

    I know it's a direct quote from TFA, but, dear God, I hope they mean "electrically active". Unless UCLA is now working for Cyberdyne...

    I guess you haven't been paying attention. The age of Cyberdyne is over, it's all about ZeiraCorp now.

  19. Re:Did His Contract Specify "Internal Waters"? on How To Rack Up $28,000 In Roaming Without Leaving the US · · Score: 1

    The german magazine c't ran an article recently about how it is possible to rack up charges on a prepaid card, and they explicitly mentioned international roaming charges.

    So how exactly do they intend to collect the charges which are over the prepaid amount?

  20. Re:How do you give odds for that? on Race For the "God Particle" Heats Up · · Score: 1

    Children only come in whole numbers.

    Tell that to King Solomon. Or Christopher Columbus for that matter.

  21. Re:Book Suggestion on Collective Intelligence in Action · · Score: 1

    What's there to debug? Terry Pratchett has already found the problem - "The IQ of a mob is the IQ of its most stupid member divided by the number of mobsters."

  22. Re:And this is a Good thing!? on Drug Deletes Fearful Memories · · Score: 1

    And this drug won't actually erase the memory of the bad things happening, it would erase the emotional component of the memory. So you'll remember what happened, you just wouldn't remember how terrifying it was. But I'm sure it won't be a pleasant memory nonetheless.

  23. Re:A DRM ban clause should be added as a constitut on Draconian DRM Revealed In Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    I might not trust him to handle my social calendar or financial affairs, but my compiler, bootloader, etc, yes.

    So I take it you don't manage your social calendar and financial affairs through your computer?

  24. Re:No it wouldn't on Draconian DRM Revealed In Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    Oh, and applications have always been able to add exceptions to the firewall, just as they can in any other OS I've ever run. Firewalls are designed to prevent *external* attacks; if you go through the effort of installing an application, obviously you've given it your blessing and that application can modify firewall settings.

    Actually, I tell my software firewall (ZoneAlarm free version) which applications should and which should not be allowed to access the internet or set up servers. Whenever the application changes and bumps into the firewall (for example IE after a Microsoft security patch), I get a pop-up giving me the option to either grant or deny the permission. On the other hand, I don't know how secure the ZoneAlarm installation is, and whether a trojan could easily grant itself the permissions.

  25. Re:What about the kids? on Student Satirist Gets 3 Months; the Judge, Likely More · · Score: 1

    The article said the average rate of sending youths to juvie was 1/10, and the judge was sending them at a rate of 2.5/10. That means approx. 3000 youths were sent to prison that should not have been. 3000 people had their lives affected by this.

    Worse than that. Even the 2000 people that would have been sent to juvie by other judges were given longer sentences than their crimes called for.