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  1. Re:Balanced view. on "Anonymous" Takes Scientology Protest to the Streets · · Score: 1

    No, that's the law, at least in some countries it's punishable to ignore an accident if help was needed.

  2. Re:Balanced view. on "Anonymous" Takes Scientology Protest to the Streets · · Score: 1

    You mean it's necessitated by the definition of reincarnation (if nothing was retained it wouldn't be connected at all and therefore not reincarnation) but that's not a really useful statement since there's nothing that indicates reincarnation may be true. It's like proving a fire breathing dragon must have a beefy arm, as long as we're talking about fiction the proof is of no use.

  3. Re:Intellectual Property on Security Research and Blackmail · · Score: 1

    FWIW, there are security firms that specialize in exactly that. House being one of a personal residence, a corporate office, a warehouse, or any secured facility that a company wants audited. What better way to audit one's security than to hire people with technical knowledge on how to enter establishments they shouldn't be in? It's one of those niche businesses that savvy reformed criminals tend to start up because they're the ones with the unique skill sets to do so.

    That still requires the consent of the owner of the property being audited, you cannot have them audit someone else's property.

  4. Re:Thank goodness on Has Ron Paul Quit? · · Score: 1

    Wasn't the gold standard abolished in first place because they found out that they had given out more dollars than there was gold in the vault?

  5. Re:Social or physical sciences? on Science Debate 2008 · · Score: 1

    Oh, one can get certainity. Once it happens you know for certain it happened :P.

  6. Re:Thank goodness on Has Ron Paul Quit? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Backed by something? Other currencies aren't backed by anything tangible either. That's not the reason the US dollar is crapping out.

  7. Re:The market there was too saturated anyway. on Namco Blames Wii for Arcade Closures · · Score: 1

    Supposedly MS Sensen 0079 for the Wii is a decent Gundam game and of course Dynasty Warriors Gundam is pretty popular but I'm not sure that counts.

  8. Re:I don't get it on Intel Sued Over Core 2 Duo Patent Infringement · · Score: 1

    Hm, blocking the divider? Isn't that thing pipelined or was pipelining not available back then? In an exercise at university we were using a pipelined divider, you could feed one word per cycle into the thing so throwing a wrong word in there would only cause a delay of one cycle until you can throw the next one in, only if you've got a dependency on the result you'd have to wait but if it's executing two paths parallely there should be no dependence, right?

  9. Re:I don't get it on Intel Sued Over Core 2 Duo Patent Infringement · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Maybe it's not a patent of a low-level piece of hardware? Hardware development these days happens a lot in high-level languages, just like other programming so a low-level implementation may not be of any real use, depending on how high-level this optimization is. In other words, it's like demanding a binary (or assembly code) for an algorithm, not gonna be pretty.

  10. Re:Effect on cost on Cell Hits 45nm, PS3 Price Drop Likely to Follow · · Score: 1

    Probably not too much different from adaptive computing.

  11. Re:Effect on cost on Cell Hits 45nm, PS3 Price Drop Likely to Follow · · Score: 1

    Not sure that's a good idea, they effectively dropped prices a few months ago with the 400€ model, too many pricedrops too quickly may shake consumer confidence.

  12. Re:This is great news on Blizzard Patches No-CD Support Into Warcraft III · · Score: 1

    Try some Spring, the mods do have occassional balance issues but since they're still being maintained any such issue won't last for long and there shouldn't be anything major remaining.

  13. Re:CD checks for online games on Blizzard Patches No-CD Support Into Warcraft III · · Score: 2, Informative

    Steam allows you to unregister a key and sell it to someone else but you have to pay Valve to do that.

  14. Re:Patch notes on Blizzard Patches No-CD Support Into Warcraft III · · Score: 1

    Don't underestimate what some people are willing to upload.

  15. Re:Poor subnet on Mac Hack Contest Redux · · Score: 2, Funny

    At first I read that as "So many idiots who will just sit there with a hammer". Definitely the easiest way to crack a system...

  16. Re:Potential for rigging on Mac Hack Contest Redux · · Score: 2, Funny

    It might be more fun to see which OS annoys the user enough to launch the CPU across the room.

    I don't know about you but when I'm annoyed I don't have the patience to remove the case, CPU cooler and finally the damn chip itself just to throw it around.

  17. Re:how about a taste test on Mac Hack Contest Redux · · Score: 1

    'sides, who'd want to win a Vista PC?

  18. Re:12 Years on Duke Nukem Forever 'Confirmed' For Late 2008 · · Score: 1

    When I was young we had the patience to wait for the hardware to become obsolete and then buy it for a pittance with a crapload of software included.

  19. Re:12 Years on Duke Nukem Forever 'Confirmed' For Late 2008 · · Score: 1

    I wish people wouldn't make up silly joke reviews like that last one to describe bad games. Reviews like that could probably make Super Mario Bros 3 look like the worst game ever.

  20. Re:Who writes this stuff? on Reform Could Kill EFF "Patent Busting Project" · · Score: 1

    I think what the parties are doing internally is their thing and not the job of the govt to regulate (though maybe applying antitrust legislation to break up the party duopoly might be a good idea...).

  21. Re:Article Mentions Problems in U.S. Also on Tainted Pills Hit US Mainland · · Score: 1

    Advertising allows you to make informed decisions? I thought the whole point of advertising is to prevent those.

  22. Re:Am I the only one... on The Dungeons and Dragons Fourth Edition Preview Books · · Score: 1

    True, the mere thought of a sane person charging ahead to draw all enemy attacks toward himself seems stupid. Well, maybe if he wanted to become a martyr or something... Definitely not something the character should come out of alive.

  23. Re:"small government" on Creative Capitalism Gets Microsoft $528M Tax Break · · Score: 1

    Christianity preaches they're better off dead, especially if they're poor because the worse off you are on Earth the better off you are in Heaven.

  24. Re:Cue... on Fourth Undersea Cable Taken Offline In Less Than a Week · · Score: 1

    But looking for an external foe to distract from internal problems.>

    Here in Germany we once had a politician who said "Bush is using external issues to distract from internal problems, same as Hitler" and was forced to resign...

  25. Re:Brandon Jacobs trucks Charles Woodson on The Physics of Football · · Score: 1

    Cause HIV isn't very helpful for getting some cheerleader ass?