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  1. Re:202586 on Final Mars One Numbers Are In, Over 200,000 People Applied · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'm pretty sure that being picked as one of the lucky few does not suddenly rob you of the right to say you've changed your mind when you see the rocket put together by the cheap brand of duct tape. On the other hand, this publicity stunt might actually make people in power realize that there are people out there who will volunteer despite the risk, and that maybe it's worth a try after all.

  2. Re:Dear Comcast, fuck off on Comcast Threatens TorrentFreak For Posting Public Court Document · · Score: 2

    You mean like the 'for Dummies' books?

  3. Re:Blizzard seems to have gotten a handle on it on Biggest Headache For Game Developers: Abusive Fans · · Score: 1

    There was another massive bug with CRZ. Two-seater mounts like the Sandstone Drake, which allows a party member to ride on your back wherever you fly. These are quite useful for ferrying low-level characters around during events and the like.

    But do you know what happened when you crossed a zone border? That character riding on your back fell to their death because they got dismounted. Now that only happens if you cross two zone borders in rapid succession, so it's good that that WoW has these perfectly square zones that don't zigzag oh wait that's not how zones work.

    And in Pandaria it seems that riding across certain phased areas (in particular your farm at Halfhill and south of the serpent statue in Jade Forest after completing all quests in the zone) will not just dismount your rider, but actually disconnect them from the game entirely. Try it.

    These are the kinds of bugs where people rightfully go "Hold up, wait, WTF is this doing on live servers?" A 100% reproducable bug where you get someone else to disconnect is not something that should EVER make it live.

  4. Re:Couldn't have happened to nicer people... on Biggest Headache For Game Developers: Abusive Fans · · Score: 1

    Yes. You should quit your job so your family can't get food to eat or keep a roof over their heads because the company you work for made a sub-par computer game.

    Perspective, people.

  5. Re:Who else should comment on your games? on Biggest Headache For Game Developers: Abusive Fans · · Score: 1

    They ARE treating them as actual threats.

    They are choosing that their lives are worth more than the games and quitting the industry.

  6. Re:WHAT AND CALL IT NURSE WHO ?? on Should the Next 'Doctor Who' Be a Woman? · · Score: 1

    To be honest men are just outright terrible at nursing.

  7. Re:NO on Second SFO Disaster Avoided Seconds Before Crash · · Score: 3, Funny

    Because action movies are also documentaries.

  8. Re:This story sounds familiar on Epic Online Space Battle · · Score: 2

    it's the only major single-server MMO, i.e., the only one that doesn't just cheat by only having as many people on any given 'instance' of the game as their server code can handle.

    Anarchy Online merged their servers earlier this year and now only runs a single world server, and while there are instances for missions (think 'dungeons') the world server itself really does just shove all the players together.

    Now, whether Anarchy Online can boast 4000 active players is another matter entirely ...

  9. Re:wouldn't the spoofer be piloting blind? on College Students Hijack $80 Million Yacht With GPS Signal Spoofing · · Score: 1

    GPS is not the only way of navigating at sea. Compass, for instance, would be a quick and easy way of making sure you are on course yourself.

    There is also a difference between GPS blocking and GPS spoofing. If you are spoofing, and you know that you are shifting the signal by, say 30 degrees west, then you can make corrections to your own course based on that knowledge.

  10. Re:Darmok and Jihad at Viagra on Signs Point To XKCD's Time Ending · · Score: 1

    Or maybe it's shot AT the 3D printer for giving weird and vague error messages. PC Load Letter? What does that mean?!

  11. Re:Darmok and Jihad at Viagra on Signs Point To XKCD's Time Ending · · Score: 1

    There is no Matrix?

  12. Re:Darmok and Jihad at Viagra on Signs Point To XKCD's Time Ending · · Score: 5, Funny

    There are too many information streams.

    Just don't cross them and you'll be fine.

  13. Re:A JEW! on US Academy President Caught Embellishing Resume, Will Resign · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Leslie COHEN Berlowitz. A stinking, rat-faced JEW. What a surprise.

    I expect he will immediately cry 'anti-semitism' and claim that he was gassed four, no five times, and escaped 'the Holocaust' (TM)...

    Berlowitz falsely claimed to have received a doctorate from New York University, and has also been criticized for her behavior towards scholars and subordinates, and for her compensation package ($598,000 for 2012) relative to the size of the non-profit organization she led.

    Next time you want to make people angry with anti-Jew posts at least get the gender right, you silly troll you.

  14. Re:Only a matter of time on UK ISP Filter Will Censor More Than Porn · · Score: 1

    But is the list of blocked sites written by the establishment or the average Joe Citizen?

  15. Re:Bullshit on Chinese Firm Huawei In Control of UK Net Filters · · Score: 1

    Unless porn is illegal in the UK, which I'm fairly sure it isn't, looking at porn will then not make them 'guilty' of anything in a legal sense and they will retain their innocense anyway.

  16. Re:The Achievement of the Glorious Gamer in Splend on Blizzard Breaks For Independence As Kotick Plans $8.2 Billion Dollar Buyout · · Score: 5, Funny

    What Diablo III? There were only two games released in that series, though I really wish they'd make a third sometime.

  17. Re:Three words... on Rise of the Warrior Cop: How America's Police Forces Became Militarized · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Full disk encryption. & Call my attorney.

    Do not talk to police without an attorney.

    Last year, after a Utah man's home was raided for having 16 small marijuana plants, nearly 300 bullets in total were fired (most of them by the police) in the ensuing gunfight, the homeowner believing he was a victim of a home invasion by criminals.

    I don't think either of those would have saved this man.

  18. Re:White and Dark Stripes on Rethinking the Wetsuit · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, they do. How many zebras are eaten by sharks every year, huh?

  19. Re:US rental industry is insane on Piracy Rates Plummet As Legal Alternatives Come To Norway · · Score: 1

    Actually it's just called 'Broen'. 'Om' means 'About'.

  20. Re:False Flag on Apple Sued For Man's Porn Addiction · · Score: 1

    We do, however, blame the guy standing on the street corner handing out free samples of dope trying to get people hooked.

    Exactly. That would be the porn websites.

    Blaming Apple here is like blaming the city for building the street corner where the dope dealer is standing. (I know Apple didn't make the internet, but it's as close as we get in the analogy)

  21. Re:Again, biometrics are not good for authenticati on Iris Scans Are the New School IDs · · Score: 1

    So umm, wouldn't revoking authentication be as simple as banning eye #1234 from the scanner?

    This is a school, not a top secret research lab. The chance of a student being killed and his eye pulled out of its socket in order to get through a locked door is minimal. It would usually only work once, too, after which the eye would decay too much to be used in the scanner anyway, which serves as a built-in revoke.

  22. Re:I, for one, will be happy when Hubble is dead on First Exoplanet To Be Seen In Color Is Blue · · Score: 1

    Fourth, WHOOSH.

  23. Re:a/s/l? on Spanish Chatbot Hunts For Pedophiles · · Score: 1

    About/Settings/LAN?

  24. Re:It was bound to happen on Bitcoins Seized In Drug Bust · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    You know what they say, though.

    Time flies when you're having fun.

  25. Re:Ok.... on Ikea Foundation Introduces Better Refugee Shelter · · Score: 2

    Most IKEA products aren't -designed- to be exposed to the elements, though. They are designed to be placed indoors in a controlled environment.

    I'm pretty sure these shelters are designed with weather in mind at least until something else is proven.