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  1. Re:Urban legend? on Coping with Gaming Addiction · · Score: 1
    Though, you never know, it's a small world right? As I recall this was in southern VA, who's knows maybe it's the same kid.

    How common of a name is Shithead?

  2. Urban legend? on Coping with Gaming Addiction · · Score: 1

    A guy I used to work with told me this story too. His mom used to work as a nurse, and a woman named her baby the same thing. Though in this case it was spelled the same way: Shi-thead. Due to the similarities in stories I wonder if this is one of those things that we always hear about third hand, but never see for ourselves? My brother in law's name is Michael Hunter, though not exactly Mike Hunt caliber. It dosen't stop my brother from calling him that.

  3. Re:Ignorant Q from non-gamer on Anatomy of a LAN Party? · · Score: 1
    His problem is that he can't get any space. All the potential owners that he gets interviews with have turned him down. Even for seemingly desperate places (buildings about to get demo'd in three years). He told me that he thinks that it's appearence, early twenties with a ponytail, that's causing the rejection, though who knows the real reason.

    I mention the school thing to him, though as of right now, I'm sure he'll be happy to get any place :)

  4. Re:Ignorant Q from non-gamer on Anatomy of a LAN Party? · · Score: 1

    Actually my friend is currently in the process of starting up this type of business. Right now he's tied up in finding a place to put the center, but he mentioned to me some of the costs with liscencing the games. This is off the top of my head, so I can't vouche for it's accuracy. Blizzard games go for 1000 a series a year. I assume that's per pc, but I don't know for sure. Valve is 10 per month per pc per game. MS games he gets free through his trade guild. Those are just what I remember off the top of my head.

  5. Re:Well on File Trading Law Would Include 'Willing' Traders · · Score: 1

    There are two congressional houses in congress. The Senate and the house of reps. The House of reps has a certain number of reps based on the population and how the state is segmented up, while the senate has 2 reps per state. Bills need to pass through both of these houses before they can be made into laws. Just from what I can remember from the old school house rock songs.

  6. Re:Cart before the horse..... on Verisign Develops Token for Age Verification · · Score: 1

    as opposed to a pedophile stealing a kid and inserting him into his or her USB socket?

  7. Re:If only MacGyver had one of these... on The Swiss Army Knife of USB Drives · · Score: 1

    He took the the magnets out of a handset, wraped them in paper, and then twisted the ends so they looked like a big hersey's kiss. He then lit the end of the paper on fire and threw it at the robots. The heat from the burning paper was enough to confuse their intrusion detection, which detected body heat and they shot eachother up with the red lasers.

  8. Re:What I'm trying to do.... on Sleeping Problems? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I second that. Since I've given up caffeen almost entriely (used to down massive ammounts of mountain dew), I've had very little problem going to sleep at night. The upside is your body dosen't have the tolerance to the stuff, and when you really need it, it works great. Just don't get hooked on the feeling awake feeling.

  9. Possible Explanation on New IE Malware Captures Passwords Ahead Of SSL · · Score: 1
    According to this site:
    Microsoft has also significantly changed the way "browse in a new process" works in IE 5.01. In previous versions of Internet Explorer, there was an option in Advanced Options to allow each browser window to open in a new process. When selected, this meant that each browser window controlled its own memory space: If one browser window crashed, it couldn't take down the whole operating system, a pretty embarrassing problem when you're integrating the Web browser into the OS. In IE 5.01, this feature is not available as a user-selectable option. Instead, Microsoft has hard-coded behavior into the system based on the amount of RAM installed. If the system has 32MB of RAM or more, this feature is turned on by default. Otherwise, it's off. Frankly, this was a good decision: There's no reason for a user to need to tweak this kind of feature.
    Probably why I can't seem to find this feature in the version of IE that I've got here at work. That said, I haven't actually tested this out to see if it works as advertised :)