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  1. Re:This may be an Indian "April Fools" on Indian ISPs Taxed for Generating "Light Energy" · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's also World Mental Health Day. Indian politicians are challenging us to question their mental stability.

  2. Re:Old News. on The Perception of 'Random' on the iPod · · Score: 1

    In one of my statistics classes, we performed a lab to emphasize the importance of random sampling. We were split into groups and given a set of 30 or so blocks of various shapes and sizes. we were to choose 10 blocks that were representative of the entire set. After each of the group presented their picks, the TA had a laptop randomly pick a set for every group. We added up the results. The random set was closer that the human guided guesses.

  3. Re:Bad Summary on Three Years in Prison for Posting Hatespeak · · Score: 1

    Probably because he was creating hate speech and consuming the child porn. If he was arrested in another order, say for creating child porn and they found a diary of his that says hatespeech made him happy, they would have nailed him to a cross for the childporn. Then maybe spit on him for the hate speech.

    Word of the day: infrared

  4. Re:It's not just Acronyms... on Geekspeak Baffles Web Users · · Score: 1

    The papers at the bottom half of the pile are can be considered as virtual memory in the analogy.

  5. Re:A Small Step on China Claims Successful Fusion Power Test · · Score: 1

    If there are wars to obtain water to fuel our fusion reactors many more than millions would die. ;)

  6. Re:Filtering on The Age of Technological Transparency · · Score: 1
    Don't put anything on the internet that you wouldn't be comfortable shouting across a crowded room.
    One problem with general statements is that they tempt counterexamples. For example, I just farted. See, that caused to harm to anybody on the Internet! Anyway. I'm going for a walk.
  7. Re:All security bugs are zero-day on Hackers claim zero-day flaw in Firefox · · Score: 1
    The vast majority of attacks are still from hackers who are reverse engineering the patches and distributing attacks before the patches are implemented.
    If the vast majority of vulnerabilies are of abused this way, wouldn't it be good to encrypt patches as they are sent to the user base and then release the key a few days later? That way the organisation can take it's time in distributing the patch. When a sufficient majority of the population has the large part, the key can be distributed and most people will get the patch at the same time.
  8. Re:*Ahem* on Computer Analysis Sets NASA History Straight · · Score: 1

    Quack

    Ducks!

  9. Re:Upsampling on Apple iTunes Upsampling Higher Resolution Videos? · · Score: 1
    her friends had them so she bought one without knowing what it it actually was.
    People actually do that? I mean, I wouldn't spend $100 dollars to buy a device that I had no purpose for. That's a pretty expensive piece of techno-jewelery. There must be more to this story, no?
  10. Re:I'd take them too... on Dell Launches Free PC Recycling · · Score: 1

    You mean KVMs right?

    They're actually really cheap these days and a great way to flaunt your geek status.

  11. Re:Uh... on Sony Shows Off PS3 Dashboard Interface · · Score: 2, Funny
    Well ... okay, I see your point. I think a better example of something only the Cell processor can allow is real-time weapon change.

    No, you've missed the point. The PS3's unique internetworking hardware components allow it to connect to a distributed network of other PS3's playing the same game and then dynamically change the price of the weapon for every weapon change. No other platform can match the sense of immersion the PS3 creates. That's where the true power of the Cell becomes apparent.
  12. Re:Old. Old old old. on Play PS3 Title flOw Right Now · · Score: 1
    the optimal level of challenge versus reward for a game to have to keep the player entertained and happy

    Whoa.. that's kinda creepy. Academia is busy reducing us to ratios.
  13. Re:GodGab on Running a Non-Partisan Political Forum? · · Score: 1

    GAOSKEQIAPYCYFOHaHSG(?

    Is this some sort of anti-Da Vinci code??

  14. Re:Projection: on Counter-Strike Opens Weapons Market · · Score: 1

    I like how you interpreted "pistols and everything else" as "desert eagle and everything else". Just goes to show how dominant the desert eagle is in the minds of CS players.

    http://www.steampowered.com/stats/csmarket/?r=1&so rtby=price_change_percent
    Take a look. Night Hawk .50C (the deagle) is projected at $930 (from $650).

  15. Re:Sprachen sie Deutsche? on Co-Founder Forks Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    Wenn ist das Nunstruck git und Slotermeyer? Ja!...
    Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput!

    *dies*

  16. Re:Critical Updates on Segway Recalling 23,000 Scooters · · Score: 1

    Critical updates have been installed. Would you like to get off your scooter [now] or [later]? later. ...
    Would you like to get off your scooter [now] or [later]? later. ...
    Would you like to get off your scooter [now] or [later]? later. ...
    Would you like to get off your scooter [now] or [later]?

    *User is typ^H^H^H^Wshifts one foot the scooter.*
    *Scooter immediately resta^H^H^H^H^Hthrows user.*

  17. Re:Little Suzy. on Newest Job Qualification — A Good Credit History · · Score: 1

    Curious: Do you have idea why they just didn't make the score go from 0 to 500?

  18. Re:Is there really a market for this? on Gaming Tourneys Coming to U.S. Television · · Score: 1

    It would be a very small leap for an announcer to control a view of both sides. (With the assumption that the announcer is a former player). Remember that announcers wouldn't be controlling both teams or directing the action at all (we'll leave that to the commander), so they would have much more attention to dedicate to spotting interesting events (battles, non-standard strategies, interesting deployments etc.) and directing the audiences view.

    Using the football example, think of how a football coach must go from the player perspective to directing the plays (the Grand Strategy of the field ;).

  19. Re:Is there really a market for this? on Gaming Tourneys Coming to U.S. Television · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I didn't think of the fact that they are 3D. I do believe that the CS maps have 3D controls and it wouldn't surprise me if most other FPS replay applications had 3D interfaces. My assumption would be that the view shown to the audience would be controlled by the commentators or at least directed by their comments. As with sports commentators, video game commentators are probably former gamers themselves, so controlling these interfaces would be second nature for them.

  20. Re:Is there really a market for this? on Gaming Tourneys Coming to U.S. Television · · Score: 1
    The main problem with this is going to be the FPS games as there is no way to see everything at once. They would have to come up with a complete interface for the audience to see the whole field at once for the genre. Otherwise, if the action is taking place in two places, you're going to miss out on something.
    Doesn't CS have a map interface where you can watch the match from a bird's eye point of view? You could hire people who understand the game to comment about the action as it unfolds. Since the game is presumably being recorded, you would instantly replay any segment from any conceivable angle. Commentators and instant replay are pretty catchy names.
  21. Re:Is there really a market for this? on Gaming Tourneys Coming to U.S. Television · · Score: 1
    Tip: Use the
    tag to quote something (don't forget the
    closing tag), so those reading your post don't have to skim a repeated chunk of text before getting to your content.
  22. Every culture has its own weird customs on Gaming Tourneys Coming to U.S. Television · · Score: 1

    Every culture has its own weird customs. About a year ago, I spent six weeks in North Korea where the principal form of recreation was juggling geese. Baby geese. Goslings. They were juggled!

  23. Re:Not long now guys, warm up your Shock rifles. on Gaming Tourneys Coming to U.S. Television · · Score: 1

    Welcome to Slashdot. As we are nerds, we like to organise our discussions in a hierarchy. Posts are organised in a tree like format where replies form the branches of the tree. The philosophy of Slashdot is that no posts should ever be deleted; they are only hidden. This poses a problem for replies to posts that have been moderated below your viewing threshold. GP (the grand parent post, aka the post you have replied to) was responding to a post that has been moderated down to -1. At -1, you cannot see this post and must click the "parent" link to view the hidden post (as the default viewing threshold is set at 0). You can also click the "2 replies beneath your current threshold" to view these hidden posts.

    HTH HAND (Have a nice day. Hope that helps.)

  24. Re:I still don't get it... on Facebook Scrambles after Unexpected Privacy Fumble · · Score: 1

    Exactly, it seems like this is the first time that many people are learning that everything you post on the Internet is public. Web 3.0 kids will look at us and won't believe that we could be so silly about such common sense things (just as we are amused by those who came before us).

    Oh, and Hello future historians!!

  25. Re:This sounds like... on Xerox Reveals Transient Documents · · Score: 1
    Term papers
    1. Write term paper.
    2. Print term paper with transient ink.
    3. Hand in term paper.
    4. Term paper disappears.
    5. ...
    Profs won't know what hit em. Suckers.