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  1. Re:The old trick of deflecting attention on Blizzard Asserts Rights Over Independent Add-Ons · · Score: 1

    My theory is similar- they'll only police the most disruptive prompts. I doubt they'll go after the small fry.

  2. Re:Good - Assert control & prevent account hij on Blizzard Asserts Rights Over Independent Add-Ons · · Score: 1

    Whatever way you did this, it would be found out quickly, the addon would be banned and you would have a lynch mob after you before you got enough accounts to do anything lucrative with.

  3. Re:This is rediculous on Blizzard Asserts Rights Over Independent Add-Ons · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately WoWMatrix steals bandwith by deep linking amongst other things.

  4. Re:This is redeculous on Blizzard Asserts Rights Over Independent Add-Ons · · Score: 1

    Anyone know if they compensate the addon authors for this? Kudos or cash?

  5. Re:A concentrator! on Princeton Student Finds Bug In LHC Experiment · · Score: 1

    The problem is that a lot of physicists I've met don't want to be programmers or don't have time to learn to be good programmers on top of everything else. They want to use computers to help them solve problems but they don't want the hassle of dealing with memory allocation and all that.

    Programming is a secondary activity for me (I'm a musician) and I'm very happy to leave memory allocation and low-level crap to other people and program in a higher-level language. Getting MIDI signals into my Lua program on my Mac required understanding C++ (Objective C was beyond me) and multiple levels of abstraction with MIDI ports, and compiling and linking.

    When I say "understand", I mean be able to randomly tweak things until they work.

  6. Re:Or they're terrified on Study Finds the Pious Fight Death Hardest · · Score: 1

    Hehe, the price of sentience is the compulsion to explain one's existence...

  7. Re:No kidding! on Auto Safety Tech May Encourage Dangerous Driving · · Score: 1

    I hired a van a couple of months ago that had a metal panel behind the driver where there would normally be a window. It had good mirrors, but merging without a head-check felt like going blind.

  8. Re:Neal Stephenson's Mother Earth, Motherboard on The Men Who Fix the Internet · · Score: 2, Informative

    This article details the building of the first transatlantic cables in the 1850s & 1860s. Definitely trickier to repair back then (lay another one)...

  9. Re:RP vs. G on A Veteran GM's Preview of the D&D Player's Handbook 2 · · Score: 1

    I agree can be hard to find good RP on WoW. But surely consenting adults in a room together can RP to their hearts' content?

  10. Re:No comments....... on A Veteran GM's Preview of the D&D Player's Handbook 2 · · Score: 1

    Tell me, sir, who is the man responsible for this?

  11. Re:Lobby price too low on Latest World of Warcraft Expansion Blocked In China · · Score: 1

    It's a shame because Northrend is a beautiful place. I wonder what "Death Knights" will become. You can't miss the "unharmonized" skeleton dragon. The noise it makes is annoying the 100th time you hear it.

  12. Re:WTF? on Latest World of Warcraft Expansion Blocked In China · · Score: 1

    And yet the female undead are stacked. One of Azeroth's enduring mysteries.

  13. Re:Suso on Why Do We Name Servers the Way We Do? · · Score: 1

    As you can see, I'm fond of renaissance composer names.

    I enjoyed identifying composers by their first names so much that I'll throw a few more into the fray: Pyotr, Aaron, Claudio, Frédéric, Elliot, Modeste, Karlheinz, Dietrich.

    And pairs of composers with the following first names, increasing in difficulty: Johann, Alexander, Johannes.

  14. Re:i like dvorak but stick with the standard qwert on Dvorak Layout Claimed Not Superior To QWERTY · · Score: 1

    *Has hayz memories of tzping emails home from Germanz*

  15. Re:Watch the video on The Technology Behind the Magic Yellow Line · · Score: 1

    It somehow reminds me of back in the day when you could store digital audio on video tape.

  16. Re:Perhaps not, but... on Oops! Missed One Fix — Windows Attacks Under Way · · Score: 1

    She'd better be careful not to stick just any floppy disk into that thing!

  17. Re:YaY! on Prescription Handguns For the Elderly and Disabled · · Score: 1

    Which is why you'll never see something as brazen as the Mumbai attacks happen in this country.

    9/11 was pretty brazen. And guns are useless against stealth (Madrid, London, Bali).

  18. Re:Botnet, starting to grow on New Massive Botnet Building On Windows Hole · · Score: 4, Funny

    Denial of Service to one's botnet can be disheartening.

  19. Re:It would be so easy. on New Massive Botnet Building On Windows Hole · · Score: 1

    ...or to simply use the masses of drones to slow down anti-phishing efforts by distributing the fake page across hundreds of bots (after all, you can run a web server using 500k of RAM and 200k of disk space, plus space for the pages, i.e. a Paypal clone takes up about 5MB on a drone.)

    Interesting... if I wanted to host a web page on my computer, I'd have to log into my ISP to unblock port 80, direct port 80 on my router to my computer, and turn on web sharing on my computer. But I guess a lot of people still connect directly to the internet and the worm wouldn't have much trouble activating services.

  20. Re:Update on Fundraiser For "White Male" Illness Dropped · · Score: 1

    But as the most common genetically transmitted disease (especially given that the majority of the population is of European descent), many of the students may know or know of someone with CF. Even perhaps one of the 50% of sufferers who is female.

    I don't give intimate medical details to everyone I meet, but of the people I do tell that I have CF (disclaimer: dammit, I'm a white male), a surprisingly high proportion of them have a niece or cousin or know a friend's child with CF.

    I only have a mild form of CF, but still have to do lots of work to keep healthy and cough up all manner of disgusting stuff in revolting quantities. I've got to the stage where poor health is impeding what is (finally) a promising career. Is that charity-worthy? It's hard for me to say, but I wouldn't wish the disease on anyone, especially a more serious form.

    It's good to know student politics hasn't lost its passion. The Australian government is as passionate as I am about tax returns yet still makes dumb decisions.

  21. Re:Fuck that on Obese Have Right To Two Airline Seats · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I don't imagine all that high-fructose corn syrup is helping either.

    Though we eat cane sugar in Australia and have an 'obesity epidemic' all our own.

  22. Re:Google Docs on A Web App For Real-Time Collaborative Writing · · Score: 1

    Hehe, I've been using SubEtha Edit for years because of its coding friendly features and have never collaborated with anyone.

    If I need to create a word-processing document I use Google Docs too.

  23. Re:batteries ftw on Feds Can Locate Cell Phones Without Telcos · · Score: 1

    So if it's got to the stage where someone cares about where I am, maybe abandoning the phone while it's still on is a better option.

    After all, a phone without batteries isn't much good for making calls.

  24. Re:Everyone who cares.... on Second World of Warcraft Expansion Launched, Conquered · · Score: 1

    And still you clicked on "Read More" link and posted a comment. Like a little old lady scanning her buff young neighbour's house with binoculars in order to get offended.

  25. Re:Will 80 mph do? on Pentagon Clears Flying-Car Project For Takeoff · · Score: 1

    If the traffic's at a crawl, 80mph looks pretty good.