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  1. DRM FAIL on Retailer Calls Rivals' Bluff On "HDMI Scam" · · Score: 1

    I have some longer cheap cables and I have serious issues with the DRM failing. I get a picture, and it tells me I'm not allowed to play on this device or ... .A few of the wrong missed bits and you get epic fail. Technically speaking to meet the spec the cable should be tested to fall within specifications for signal delays and losses, but I have a gut feeling the quality control on my cheap cables is not the greatest. So while the short cables you can probably get away with crap, anything on the longer end might be worth getting something other than the cheapest.

  2. Enders Game on The Time Travel Paradoxes of Back To the Future · · Score: 1

    "Time Travel" forward could be viewed in the relativistic sense based on time dilation. So you just have to move really fast to "travel" into the future.

  3. Why Designers Hate Crowdsourcing on The Risks of Entering Programming Contests · · Score: 1
  4. Re:Is it a beer? on The World's Strongest, Most Expensive Beer Served Inside a Squirrel · · Score: 1

    No. But it is still worth the read for the most expensive distilled malt beverage served inside a squirrel.

  5. A lot more than 240 on DIY Synthetic Aperture Radar · · Score: 5, Informative

    "A National Instruments PCI-6014 data acquisition card triggers radar pulses and digitizes the video data". http://sine.ni.com/nips/cds/view/p/lang/en/nid/11442 With a $700 (not counting accessories) data acquisition card.

  6. RIAA on FBI Posts Fake Hyperlinks To Trap Downloaders of Illegal Porn · · Score: 1

    I am more curious about the more widespread precedence this could set. All the RIAA needs to do is get the FBI to set up a link for free music downloads, and they can confiscate you computer. I see a new tactic coming.

  7. So lets try reading the charts! on Diebold Voter Fraud Rumors in New Hampshire Primaries · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If you look at the chart of data though, most of the votes were in large towns. And in large towns Clinton did almost 4% better in hand votes than in machine. Wow, someone pissed off about how an election went is able to twist data.

  8. Soylent Green on Biofuels Coming With a High Environmental Price? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Soylent Green enough said.

  9. WTF on 10 Things To Know About The Upcoming Debates · · Score: 1

    This article lost its merit. I started watching the debates, and yes they are debates. A question is asked of one candidate, he answers, and then the other candidate has a rebutal, and then sometimes there is more back and forth on the question. So where did rice get her info????

  10. Waking Life on What's the Worst Movie You've Ever Seen? · · Score: 1

    This was some movie that wanted to be intelectual with these random talks on philisophical issues, but accomplished nothing. It would constantly start a topic and when it would start to get into it, topics would change. The animation was horrible, i jittered way too much, i was kinda gettting sick watching this movie. However from the reviews, you can see this movie is one of those movies you either love or hate. AND I HATED IT.

  11. Re:They should be liable on Why Can't Microsoft be Sued Under the Lemon Law? · · Score: 1

    so car companies should be liable if someone goes out and modifies your car(i.e. cuts your brakeline), but the car company didn't protect your breakline enough and allowed this to happen. NO. That is what a security breach/virus is. i have my own problems with windows but i haven't had it spontaneously kill everying on my computer. Left to its own devices it runs stable enough for my papers, games, and internet. and the general lack of security, is common knowledge, and if you don't like it don't use it. generally they should not be liable for what other people do to there product (back to the breakline example).

  12. EZ-D suck on Yet Another Degrading DVD · · Score: 1

    I don't know about other experiences but i recently watched an ez-d( given it was left in the car all day). We opened it, started the movie about 20 minutes after opening it and the end was so choppy we could barley watch it. Had we not seen 1.5 hrs of the movie i would have never tolerated such a bad ending. I then immediatly tried backing it up to watch it cleanly and that failed half way through the movie. So the point is if the 48 hr version is like that, i can't imagine how sensitive the 8 hr version is. my 2 cents.

  13. Re:Can it run outlook or palm desktop on Via-based Handheld Game Console Runs PC Games · · Score: 1

    so is this a step up from a PDA or a step down from a computer?

  14. WiFi on Free Software Tracking a Stolen Computer? · · Score: 1

    It has been mentioned several times that many people would be smart enough not to plug the thing in to the net, but with wireless they don't need to. So many people have open access nodes, i know in my house i can log in to my neighbors wireless just as easy as my own. Some sort of snooping would be a nice little perk for this type of program, seeing the common occurance of wireless. my 2 cents

  15. Re:MOO3 on Tough Love - Can A Game Be Too Hard? · · Score: 1

    I must completly agree with this, i don't know how long it took me to figure out i had to organize my fleet before they could be used. And all the controlls of the planets development, sure it seemed in depth, but way to complicated. I can't say i ever masterd it though, because after two or three attempts at playing (before the first patch it was horrible) i gave up. And its not like they didn't spend enough time on the damn game, it was only like two years late.