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  1. Re:Old on New WoW Patch Brings Cross-Server Instances · · Score: 1

    Here you go:
    http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=1778017311&sid=1

    i'd recommend setting it to value of 255, which means that the OS will handle the load balancing on all your cores

  2. wtb more booklike reader on Barnes & Noble's Nook, Reviewed · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Wake me up when there's an ebook reader that works more like a real book.

    It should have softish covers, and once you open it, there should be 2 screens inside (one for each page).

    This way the screens would be protected all the time, and it would feel more natural as a reading tool

  3. Re:What is Mbp/s? on Spain Codifies the "Right To Broadband" · · Score: 1

    1.1920929 × 10-9

  4. Re:Analogy? on The LHC, the Higgs Boson, and the Chicago Cubs · · Score: 3, Informative

    I don't get it, can you give me a cars' analogy?

    Imagine you just got your dream car.

    Everytime you try to go on a drive with it, something happens to it.
    The kids poked the wheels, a meteor fell trough the engine compartment, the steering wheel just fell of...

  5. Re:The games... on Nintendo, Sony Take Big Financial Hits · · Score: 4, Informative

    I also use a really nice DLP HDTV projector for games and movies, and I cannot tell you what a PITA it is to set up that IR bar underneath the projector image in the front side of my living room but yet have the Wii sit in the back of the room where the projector and my amp sits. I have to disconnect everything when I'm done or my dog will trip over all the wires.

    Wireless IR bars have been available a few weeks after the Wii launch. Those really solve the issue with Wii + Hometheater.

    The bar does no actual communication with the Wii, just gets power from there.

  6. Re:My microwave is Passwindow protected. on Is Battery-Free 2-Factor ID Secure? · · Score: 1

    If you lock the door of your house or your car, you should take PassWindow seriously, because clearly you believe that "trivially breakable security is better than none." If you didn't, you'd leave your house and car unlocked.

    All my locks are Abloy Protec

  7. Re:TRIM is not a final spec on Windows 7 Hard Drive and SSD Performance Analyzed · · Score: 5, Informative

    According to one of the Win7 developers blog post, the TRIM is already being used in the Windows 7 RC release.

    It's just a matter of getting firmwares that support said TRIM command out in to the existing SSD's now.

    Yes, Trim is already in the Win7 RC.

    Trim is enabled by default but can be turned off. You can use the "fsutil behavior query|set DisableDeleteNotify" command to query or set Trim.

    from the comments section of this:
    http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/archive/2009/05/05/support-and-q-a-for-solid-state-drives-and.aspx

  8. Re:Dethroning WoW on Spurned Chinese Publisher May Create WoW Knockoff · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This all assumes that the coders:

    1. Knew what good design was.
    2. Weren't told to ship ASAP and screw 'design'.

    We are talking about Blizzard here, not a random software house.

    they are famous for shipping late because they weren't happy enough with it yet.

  9. Re:Yay I suppose on FileFront Reopens Its Doors · · Score: 1

    MegaUpload's current captchas. Oh lordy are those awful.

    On the subject of CAPTCHAs, the one used in gmail is just horrible, I could not get it right and had to resort to the voice option to get past it

  10. Re:And will be unavailable anyplace else.... on World's Cheapest Car Goes On Sale In India · · Score: 1

    The UK and Europe as well as the USA will never EVER see this car.

    Really? I just read today on magazine that the Tata NANO already has an european release date. the price has gone up a bit tho, as Europe has stricter safety requirements that they need to implement.

  11. Re:Yawn. on If We Have Free Will, Then So Do Electrons · · Score: 1

    I can't believe he's spending 6 weeks on "If we have free will then so do things that we interact with." I wouldn't think that was meat enough for a good paper, more less six weeks of lectures...Though I guess that's snarky, since I've read innumberable goddamn books about free will, even one's with this guy in 'em (Freedom Evolves by Daniel Dennet, had a long bit about the Game o' Life.)

    You misunderstand, the publics requirement to attend the explanation is an age requirement of atleast six weeks. Looks like he managed to simplify the matter a lot!

  12. Re:Ok then... on Researchers Hack Biometric Faces · · Score: 1

    Exactly how is someone going to get photo of you of sufficient quality to fool the recognition system without you knowing about it? You'll see the person taking the photo, and thus be able to deal with the potential breach before it ever happens.

    And how exactly would I be supposed to deal with it? Visit my plastic surgeon?

  13. Re:race? on Race For the "God Particle" Heats Up · · Score: 1

    No if we had worked together things would still be tied up in a international comittee and at best we would have a non-binding resolution to send a strongly worded letter to the moon stating our intentions to visit it someday.

    And said letter would have been delivered in person by a private courier company

  14. Re:How nifty! on Google Buys Finnish Paper Mill · · Score: 1

    Actually, Googles current servers reside in Sweden, where it recently became possible to snoop on all traffic passing trough the country.

    Google itself, or maybe after some prompting from Russians might have found it prudent to move to a country that at least yet does not allow any snooping.

    Lex Nokia is currently encountering resistance in all media, so it might not pass after all.

  15. Also affects OS X and linux on Aging Security Vulnerability Still Allows PC Takeover · · Score: 5, Informative

    This same vulnerability also affects OS X as reported here: http://blog.juhonkoti.net/2008/02/29/automated-os-x-macintosh-password-retrieval-via-firewire

    As well, as Linux, as reported in an earlier 2005 report about this firewire feature: http://www.matasano.com/log/695/windows-remote-memory-access-though-firewire/

  16. Re:10 More Years of Region Locked Movies on Toshiba To Halt HD-DVD Production · · Score: 1

    Region locks were being planned for HD-DVD also, because some of the major studios would not have even thought about HD-DVD if that wasn't possible (Disney to name one). Just because Region coding wasn't used at the start didn't mean it would never have existed.

  17. Re:If comcast want'sto do this on Comcast Defends Role As Internet Traffic Cop · · Score: 1

    Option 2. is the correct way to proceed. BUT they are not telling their custoemrs there are limits, they are just throwing them out of the restaurant when they go over these invisible limits.

  18. Re:Fantasy, as a genre, is pure shit anyway on Tolkien Trust Sues New Line, May Kill "Hobbit" · · Score: 1

    On my last attempt to reread LotR, I had to quit at the first Tom Bombadil dance and song scene.

  19. Re:Seems like HD-DVD is dead on Paramount to Drop HD DVD? · · Score: 1

    The word is bigger than United Stated. Those Nielsen numbers you are quoting only take US into account. Also, if you check the Amazon Sales rank for DVD's (contains DVD's, Blu-Rays & HD-DVD's), it often has Blu-Rays in the top10, beating even normal DVD sales.

  20. Re:cNet UK review. We scratched it. on The LCD Panel vs. The Crossbow · · Score: 1

    And this piece of jewelry didn't happen to be a diamond? or another Sapphire?

  21. Re:Upon further digging on Microsoft Giving Away Vista Ultimate, With a Catch · · Score: 1

    The whole point of RAM management in Vista is to utilize your RAM as much as possible. It's always better to have stuff in RAM than to have to read it from the HD.

  22. Re:MS OSes overpriced in general on Microsoft Withdraws Vista's Kill Switch · · Score: 1

    Well, you guys in US can consider your selves lucky with the pricing. Here in EU, Vista Ultimate retail costs between 400 to 500 euros. Might be MS trying to get back on the EU antitrust rulings.

  23. Re:"wants to"? on QR Codes - Internet to Cell Phone via Camera · · Score: 3, Interesting

    So that's what those weird pictures are. I have been wondering for awhile what exactly they are as a pretty large portion of housing sales ad's now days seem to have those. (in Finland).

  24. Re:But who's affected? on Trojan Found In New HDs Sold In Taiwan · · Score: 1

    The Virus definition at: http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/downloads/personal_storage/ps3200-sw says that it's a Keylogger to steal username:password combinations for popular computer games at eastern Asia. World of Warcraft is the only western game that it is looking for.

  25. Re:Prior Art? on Monitor Draws Zero Power In Standby · · Score: 1

    Tell that to iPhone users!