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  1. Re: Seriously? on Enthusiast Opts For $2200 Laser Eye Surgery To Enhance Oculus Rift Experience · · Score: 1
  2. Re: Seriously? on Enthusiast Opts For $2200 Laser Eye Surgery To Enhance Oculus Rift Experience · · Score: 1

    Must be nice. I have the same in both eyes, and the lenses would never sit still. Tilt my head for any reason, they would spin to align with gravity, making things worse. If I blinked, they would shift and take a (short, but noticeable) moment to move back. Looking near the extremes of my eyes would shift them (presumably pressure from my eyelids) also making things worse.

    Basically they worked great for looking straight ahead with a perfectly level head. Anything else and they would make my vision worse.

  3. Re:Reality not sufficient, on Enthusiast Opts For $2200 Laser Eye Surgery To Enhance Oculus Rift Experience · · Score: 1

    Interesting... I'd like to pick your brain as I have astygmatism myself and am considering asking about laser correction.

    Did you ever find the degree of... well, vision inaccuracy to fluctuate day to day? Some days one eye is worse off than another, some days all is better than normal. The glasses still help when it's all wierd, but not as much (which tells me the angle is the same but the degree is worse).

    I'm afraid that if I get it corrected, the stable state won't be what is corrected for.

  4. Re:Reality not sufficient, on Enthusiast Opts For $2200 Laser Eye Surgery To Enhance Oculus Rift Experience · · Score: 1

    VR may not have been the reason, but one of many - and the one that tipped the scales for him.

  5. Re: LOL on The FBI Is Infecting Tor Users With Malware With Drive-By Downloads · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    By replying to obvious trolls?

  6. Re:Bubbles on Inside the Facebook Algorithm Most Users Don't Even Know Exists · · Score: 1

    I don't think culling baby photo posts counts as encouraging an echo chamber...

  7. Re:Why WiFi on Planes Can Be Hacked Via Inflight Wi-fi, Says Researcher · · Score: 0

    The plane has a data connection. You get access to a data connection via the on-board wifi.

    You don't see a connection between the two? Let me fill it in for you: they share the same path outside the plane.

    Note that this data connection isn't required for the plane to continue flying, but I don't know how it's used by in-cockpit warning or navigational stuff.

  8. Re:Jump start the US space industry again? on Putin Government Moves To Take Control of Russia's largest space company Energia · · Score: 1

    Copenhagan... and I think another... well, they're not all that far behind SpaceX.

    Privatization of space is coming, and bullshit like this is only going to push it harder.

  9. Re:Well at least they saved the children! on Google Spots Explicit Images of a Child In Man's Email, Tips Off Police · · Score: 1

    It would be interesting to compare two large files of raster image data that happen to have a sha256 collision or the like. Given the additional constraints on the data format, that may not actually be possible (you could have collisions theoretically, but what are the chances of the data resulting in the collision being a valid image file?)

  10. Re:Not sure why this is a question on Ask Slashdot: IT Personnel As Ostriches? · · Score: 1

    Don't just decline to comment, that's far to open to interpretation.

    Play dumb instead.

  11. Re:So what? on Free Copy of the Sims 2 Contains SecuROM · · Score: 1

    Steam at least brings something to the table - fast downloads, huge catalog, chat and matchmaking, workshop, community forums, etc.

    SecuROM just breaks shit.

  12. Re:Who cares? on Free Copy of the Sims 2 Contains SecuROM · · Score: 1

    There's probably some license thingy hidden away somewhere that mentions it in a vague fashion.

  13. Re:Anybody know? on Free Copy of the Sims 2 Contains SecuROM · · Score: 1

    AFAIK it's a wrapper. It loads itself in RAM, decrypts the actual game binary, and runs it's code. I think there are hooks available for use, as well (think "level 25 boss has infinite health if integrity check fails")

  14. Re:So what? on Free Copy of the Sims 2 Contains SecuROM · · Score: 2

    You're missing the point entirely.

    The problem is that it is there. Period. End of story.

  15. Re:Why stop there? on SpaceX Executive Calls For $22-25 Billion NASA Budget · · Score: 1

    Why would russia need to stay saddled with that boat anchor?

    Bring everyone back down, and just leave it. It's constantly aerobraking anyway, without recurring thruster maneuvers it will meet it's end.

  16. Re:Desired lethality? on The Army Is 3D Printing Warheads · · Score: 2

    Hmm, so if your target was someone who has been killing innocent people, and the three choices for you were:
    1. Ignore it and hope the target just decides to stop
    2. Go in with ground force, with all the casualties on both sides that would result
    3. Drop a bomb to wipe out the threat with as little casualties as possible

    You're telling me #3 isn't the better choice here? Because it is... and because it is, that's what happens. When it happens, are you trying to say you'd rather we drop fuel-air bombs in crowded neighborhoods instead of precision munitions? Because I have to say the controlled destruction is just a teensy bit better than blowing the whole neighborhood to shit...

  17. Re:GOG discovers DOSBOX works on Linux on GOG.com Announces Linux Support · · Score: 1

    I should retract that. After finding my old forum post about this, I realized that it's been quite some time. I've since got new hardware, moved on to Windows 8, etc... and possibly they have updated their build too.

    In any case, the freaking thing ran fine out of the box. I am absurdly happy right now!

  18. Re:GOG discovers DOSBOX works on Linux on GOG.com Announces Linux Support · · Score: 1

    Sometimes all that crashing happens anyway. Try to play IWAR on anything build in the last 10 years... good luck! If you manage it, do let me know because I REALLY would love to play that.

  19. Re:It is near on Ebola Outbreak Continues To Expand · · Score: 1

    I think this is appropriate.

  20. Re:NPC on Empathy For Virtual Characters Studied With FMRI Brain Imaging · · Score: 1

    You don't need to know why, because what they were measuring is what steers the reasoning. You either have the emotional response or you don't.

  21. Re:fMRI? on Empathy For Virtual Characters Studied With FMRI Brain Imaging · · Score: 1

    True, but this isn't the case. In the case of the dead fish, they didn't filter the results (google "multiple comparisons correction") and got bullshit data because of it.

  22. Re:fMRI? on Empathy For Virtual Characters Studied With FMRI Brain Imaging · · Score: 1

    All that proves is why multiple comparisons correction is so important, and why everyone uses it.

  23. Re:unimpressive study on Empathy For Virtual Characters Studied With FMRI Brain Imaging · · Score: 1

    You didn't actually read the article you linked to, did you?

  24. Re:Gömböc on Empathy For Virtual Characters Studied With FMRI Brain Imaging · · Score: 1

    Hell, even if traffic laws didn't, running out into the highway (or just stopping your car on it) is not exactly safe. The nice thing to do would be to rescue the thing, but not at significant risk to your own health/life.

  25. Re:Coming to a plane journey on Ebola Outbreak Continues To Expand · · Score: 1

    It helps that it doesn't travel by air or aerosols.

    Even if that were true (not going to beat a dead horse there) all it takes is one (unfortunate for us, fortunate for the virus) mutation to throw that out the window.