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  1. Re:Obligatory... on Seagate Announces First 1.5TB Desktop Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    Yeah, because putting all your backups on one massive hard drive is a good idea.

  2. Re:This isn't about GPS. on US Justice Dept. Sued For Cellular Tracking Information · · Score: 1

    If the location finder on my iPhone is any indication of the accuracy of how phone companies 'find' you... In my area, all it does is say "You're somewhere within this 5 mile area that includes two towns."

  3. Re:8.7 million? on AOL Users Will Need to Pay $2 a Month For Phone Support · · Score: 1

    Except they're legally required to offer a $10/mo plan for DSL. Google around, you'll find links to the hidden sites on the ATT website.

  4. Re:Ugh. The opposite of what I want. on An App to Boil Down Online User Reviews · · Score: 1

    So, use this plugin to get your choices from 50 items down to 5-10, and actually read the reviews for those 5-10 items. The best of both worlds.

  5. Re:Hmm... on AOL Users Will Need to Pay $2 a Month For Phone Support · · Score: 1

    For the most part, Accounts Payable pays any bill they get. Unless it's super weird, they won't question it. And even if they do, they're likely to send off payment before investigating.

  6. Re:Keep getting billed on AOL Users Will Need to Pay $2 a Month For Phone Support · · Score: 1

    Actually, you're wrong about the reoccurring charge thing. They can EASILY block all charges from a company, and I've had it offered to me (and taken them up on that offer). This was with HSBC.

  7. Re:8.7 million? on AOL Users Will Need to Pay $2 a Month For Phone Support · · Score: 4, Informative

    ATT DSL comes with free unlimited dialup. And you can get it for $10/mo.

  8. Re:"The internet has confirmed it" on TV Viewers' Average Age Hits 50 · · Score: 1

    But look at what the Internet has done to the Newspaper. Look at what the MP3 player is starting to do to radio.

  9. Re:"The internet has confirmed it" on TV Viewers' Average Age Hits 50 · · Score: 1

    Don't forget Trick my Truck, the show that puts lipstick on pigs. "Lets make it look pretty, but just totally ignore the engine with three quarters of a million miles on it."

  10. Re:"The internet has confirmed it" on TV Viewers' Average Age Hits 50 · · Score: 1

    There was a time where MTV showed rock videos and had shows like 'Beavis and Butthead' and 'Sifl and Olly.' Where their target wasn't the pop loving 'tweeners.'

    That was when it was cool. Once people realized there was more money in appealing to the 'tweens' who LOVE boy bands and no-talent whores, MTV started down the hill of suck.

    What gets me, is that M2 (which, when it came out, they said would ONLY play videos) now has more Real World/Road Rules/Other Shitty Show than actual videos.

  11. Re:So what's the point of having ratings? on Minnesota Pays Video Game Industry $65K In Fees · · Score: 1

    Unless you have sex with her, you're not committing statutory rape.

  12. Re:Also fun on AMD/ATI cards-- Raytracing on Modders Get Nvidia's PhysX To Run On ATI Cards · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure I can run it just as high on my 1680x1050. As I said, it's a terrible game, and I have no desire to play it.

    There aren't really any NEW games that will stress your video card out right now. Excluding Crysis, which nobody actually plays.

  13. Re:Also fun on AMD/ATI cards-- Raytracing on Modders Get Nvidia's PhysX To Run On ATI Cards · · Score: 1

    1280x1024. I have a new widescreen monitor now, but considering how Crysis is a godawful game, I have no motivation to see how it runs.

  14. Re:Also fun on AMD/ATI cards-- Raytracing on Modders Get Nvidia's PhysX To Run On ATI Cards · · Score: 1

    Pretty sure you can run anything that's out right now and anything that will come out in the next year or so on an 8800, and it'll look great. I played Crysis on medium-high settings, and (while it was a godawful game once the aliens showed up) it looked great. I paid like $220 for my GTS 320MB last May.

  15. Re:Also fun on AMD/ATI cards-- Raytracing on Modders Get Nvidia's PhysX To Run On ATI Cards · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And that performance is about 15-25% over my 8800GTS 320MB that I paid just over $200 for over a year ago.

    The latest round of cards came WAY too soon.

  16. Re:speed on SSL Encryption Coming To The Pirate Bay · · Score: 1, Redundant

    You're only download the actual .torrent file through the encrypted connection. All the downloading done with your client will go through your normal (unencrypted) connection. Unless you sign up for TPB's paid encrypted connection service.

  17. Re:Linux Support on NVIDIA To Enable PhysX For Full Line of GPUs · · Score: 1

    Maybe we can get a Windows game/app that uses it, too. So far we've had some tech demos with awful gameplay, but nothing worth buying.

  18. Re:Does Red Cost You More? on The Red Team Wins · · Score: 1

    Except you're wrong. "Your taillight was dirty," is a reason to pull you over. Going UNDER the limit is a reason to pull you over. Changing lanes in an intersection, rolling through a stop sign, not yielding to an emergency vehicle (even without lights on) are all reasons to be pulled over.

    If you know any cops, ask them about pulling people over for 'improper hand signals' for flipping other people off.

  19. Re:Does Red Cost You More? on The Red Team Wins · · Score: 1

    If you go to carfax or any of those sites and you enter your VIN, it will tell you the make, model, year, trim, and color of your vehicle.

  20. Re:DAOC 2 ?? on Warhammer Online Information by the Truckload · · Score: 1

    Before the battlegrounds in WoW people cried for instanced PvP because world PvP was poorly done.

  21. Re:Does Red Cost You More? on The Red Team Wins · · Score: 1

    You'll still get pulled over going the speed limit more than a silver/grey/black car will. Red is a "LOOK OVER HERE" color.

  22. Re:Does Red Cost You More? on The Red Team Wins · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Red is more of a 'HEY POLICE OFFICER, CHECK MY SPEED' color. And you'll end up getting more tickets. And since it's a flashy red car, the officer will be less likely to make it into a warning. So, yes, your insurance rate will be higher.

  23. Re:good on Microsoft Goes After "Career Pirates" · · Score: 1

    Fuck yeah, Sea King.

  24. Re:Wrong approach on Warhammer Online Information by the Truckload · · Score: 2, Informative

    Except that WoW has never handled PvP well. That's one of the major things that the fine folks behind WAR have looked at and made sure to get right.

  25. Re:ugh on Warhammer Online Information by the Truckload · · Score: 1

    So, it's a clone MMO. Except the dev says "We don't want to do it like all the other MMOs do it."

    Do you not want to play it because it's like all other MMOs, or because it's nothing like other MMOs?