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  1. Re:awesome! on Toshiba To Launch "Super Charge" Batteries · · Score: 1

    It'd be nice to use this in a cordless drill. It's conceivable that we could build a cordless rotohammer or some other high-power tool and actually be able to use it all day.

  2. Re:Unfortunately... on Former Anti-Nuclear Activist Does A 180 · · Score: 1

    My argument to the landowners who are worried about their view would be: Do you give a shit about global warming? Yes or no?

    What about pollution?

    Then shut up and let us build these. It's actually for your own good as opposed to a lot of other things the government has done lately.

  3. Re:Unfortunately... on Former Anti-Nuclear Activist Does A 180 · · Score: 1

    YOu're correct that we have the ability to generate base load from renewable energy. However, you're missing the fact that we also need grid interconnects that allow us to move power from where its generated to where its needed. Sometimes that even means moving it cross-country, and as far as I know we don't have the interconnects to move enough power. This is why there is a base load issue.

  4. Re:$200 million? on Adaptive Thirty Meter Telescope Sees Progress · · Score: 1

    HOW DARE YOU THINK OF FOOD! Think of all the people who don't even have hands to eat with!

  5. Re:A New Mech Warrior or Shadowrun MMO? on Shadowrun Finds a New Home · · Score: 1

    Lets see, well, my friend who introduced me to Mechwarrior has a test which he runs called the "Used-Car Salesman test." Basically, he tests the versatility of the system by seeing how easy it is to make and stat out a used car salesman. It's pretty easy in Mechwarrior.

    There really aren't any "classes" in Mechwarrior. You can seriously stat out a shopkeeper or a CEO with no weapons skills whatsoever. Or you can stat an engineer and intrigue in a corporation, or any other person that would exist in 3050. The tabletop game allowed for all that, but it was mostly designed toward small-scale fights between single characters, if you're into heavy combat. This is in contrast to Battletech, where any character left alone would have the same stats as any other single person infantry unit. Also, in Mechwarrior it was easier to play all the elements of the story that happened in between the fights. You could do that in Battletech, but there was no mechanical system in place to facilitate that kind of story development.

    I think any Mechwarrior RPG should take this into account, or just drop Mechwarrior and take up Battletech as its name.

  6. Re:A New Mech Warrior or Shadowrun MMO? on Shadowrun Finds a New Home · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Because the whole point of Mechwarrior was that you didn't have to be a mech pilot. It was supposed to expand the scope of the game so that you're a person, not a pilot.

  7. Re:If you want a good laugh, go into repair on Unusual Data Disaster Horror Stories · · Score: 1

    Cmdr Taco is taking me to the crisco factory for some hot grits this weekend! I can't wait.

  8. Re:As usual, only CONSOLE games on Twelve Game Music Tracks Worth Keeping · · Score: 1

    Pretty much everything from System Shock 2, as well as a good bit of the music from Total Annihilation and Total Annihilation: Kingdoms is made of win and god. Oh, and the Tristan town theme from Diablo was a pretty good little tune.

  9. Re:Tutorial on Sneaking Stories Past Miyamoto · · Score: 1

    Have you not seen the Metal Gear Secret Theatre on Konami's website? It's just a bunch of gag cutscenes. One of them features Snake trying to eat The Boss's horse, while Para Medic scolds him for being so cruel to animals.

  10. Re:Ok, but... on An Acerbic Look At the Future of Reading · · Score: 2, Funny

    If degredation of real-world objects is an issue, why not just randomly delete a letter or two per page evry time soone reads the eboo. That way, there would be a ubstantial oss i retal vaue after ony a fw sles.

    Genius!

  11. Re:Is this really news? on An Acerbic Look At the Future of Reading · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That's one of the reasons I'm interested in Ron Paul as a candidate, because he wants to eliminate a lot of the intrusive laws which are entirely beyond the scope of the original federal government as layed out in the constitution. Some of his views I don't agree with, such as that we should eliminate the Department of Education or some of the other highly neccessary departments, but on the whole I think we need to return to the Constitution as the governing body of our nation.

  12. This was only for select Microsoft Keyboards on Wireless Keyboard "Encryption" Cracked · · Score: 2, Informative

    The crack described in the article was only for select models of Microsoft keyboards. It doesn't affect every single keyboard in existence, especially since there is no standard. Other manufacturers may use more powerful encryption than Microsoft.

    The Slashdot article is very misleading.

  13. Re:That's why a soundcard on Wireless Keyboard "Encryption" Cracked · · Score: 1

    The soundcard can also sample multiple simultaneous channels. But the real reason to use a DAQ board is that you can make DC measurements, and it also has many more channels than most computer sound cards. It's also nice to have a sample rate in the hundreds of KHz range instead of just in the 48 kHz range, since it gives you a much larger bandwidth where you're guarenteed not to have any aliasing.

  14. Re:Why a soundcard ! on Wireless Keyboard "Encryption" Cracked · · Score: 1

    That's why you use a DAQ board instead of an oscilliscope. Some of those have sample rates in the Megasample range. And with the right software you can easily store all the data you're acquiring.

  15. Re:"Food" supplies on A Look at Microsoft's Security War Room · · Score: 1

    Actually, that kind of stuff is probably just what employees brought in to provision the room.

  16. Re:Truth also banned . on A Look at Microsoft's Security War Room · · Score: 1

    That's just one of Twitter's fingerpuppets. Everyone in the know has long since foe'd him and is ignoring whatever he says.

  17. Re:Thoughts? on Crime Wave Thwarted in Second Life · · Score: 1

    If you die in the game, you die for real!

  18. Re:What is Verizon's Provisioning for FIOS ? on Is Comcast Heading the Way of the Dinosaur? · · Score: 1

    Sir, I'm writing to inform you that you have the amazing capacity to ream people in quite an amusing fashion. I would like to subscribe to your newsletter/drink your koolaid. Please send me more information.

  19. Re:My humble 2 cents... on Discovery Channel's Games Documentary Impresses · · Score: 1

    Then any statements about one decade being better than another are meaningless since we have to depend on your intuitive understanding of what makes music "good."

  20. Re:That's what is being asked, more or less on RIAA Must Divulge Expenses-Per-Download · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The question I'm asking is whether damages are a form of punishment. If they are, then asking the defendant to pay 1000x the value of a work could constitute cruel and unusual punishment in my eyes.

  21. Re:Amazon bestsellers on Why Microsoft's Zune is Still Failing · · Score: 2, Interesting

    One of the things I hate about the music business in general is the assumption that because I live in the United States I'm automatically not interested in anything that hasn't seen a domestic release here. What I don't understand is why the multinational corporations insist on fragmenting the market when their business crosses these market boundaries.

  22. Re:Listen up on Feds Have Access To Cellphone Tracking On Request · · Score: 1

    But Big Brother is always looking out for us! He sees everything! He loves us so he watches over us always, awake or asleep. He even loves us enough to bring us back into the fold when we stray.

  23. Re:Well, duh. on Worry Over VZW, Sprint Phones' 911 Alarm · · Score: 1

    What about texting? Doesn't SMS somewhat replace the TTY? Or can you get a mobile video phone now?

  24. Re:Priorities on Study Finds Games Stores Still Selling to Minors · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure if we decided to make a legal bread-eating age children would be stuffing themselves with that. In Europe it's commonplace to have a little beer or wine with a meal, and parents typically model a healthy sense of moderation. So the children see this, realise that beer/wine are perfectly normal. Here in America, it's typically very taboo to even speak of alcoholic beverages let alone imbibe one with dinner in some circles.

    Consequently we have children trying to defy the taboo, just like they do with piercings and tatoos and drugs.

  25. Re:IDs? on Study Finds Games Stores Still Selling to Minors · · Score: 1

    A girl I worked with at a convenience store got busted because she accidentally sold alcohol to a minor. It's a felony in my state, and gets you considerably more than just a $300 fine.