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  1. Re:Neverwinter Nights 2 on Have You Hit a Gaming Wall? · · Score: 1

    Patience young padawan. Unless you are extremely familiar with D&D esoterica and have FPS reflexes combined with Starcraft mastery strategy skills, you should be using the pause button to plan your next few attacks pretty damned often. What class did you play, a bard?

  2. Re:Linux Unified Key Setup on Bitlocker No Real Threat To Decryption? · · Score: 1

    Sooo, use the hidden volume feature from Truecrypt, encrypt the entire drive, and just give them the secondary password. Problem solved.

  3. Re:Well for one on Bitlocker No Real Threat To Decryption? · · Score: 1

    I wasn't aware the individual pay scales for No Such Agency was public knowledge.

  4. Re:Tom Cruise Missile on Scientology Critic Arrested After 6 Years · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Meh, it's California, land of PC. It'd be stupid to expect anything else.

  5. Re:The Goods on Top 20 PC Games on Windows XP · · Score: 1

    The online aspect and the expansions to NWN were worthwhile, but the official campaign sucked ass.

  6. Re:Smart Move? on Dreamworks Dumps Wallace and Gromit · · Score: 1

    Because hey needed smarmy, and it's much easier to do a smarmy french guy than a smarmy british guy without making the brit look like a poor copy of Snidely Whiplash.

  7. Re:Simple reason on Dreamworks Dumps Wallace and Gromit · · Score: 1

    Yes, because the brits have been sooooo concerned over the Darfur situation.And Brance, especially France, they've just been as attentive to the problem as could possibly be.

  8. Re:That's nice... on Sony Open to Considering PS3 Price Cuts · · Score: 1

    The PS3 is advanced enough that the demo units are basically high end computers put in a tiny little enclosed box with no airflow. How long do you think a computer running a P4 and 7900GTX would last in the same environment?

  9. Re:This puts a grin on my face. on Teen Accuses Record Companies of Collusion · · Score: 0, Troll

    I'll support the ACLU as soon as they actually defend the entire BoR, until then they're just a bunch of fucking poseurs.

  10. Re:Oh really? on Global Warming May Have Killed the Dinosaurs · · Score: 1

    Here's the more pertinent question. Without wrecking every economy in the world and more or less completely stopping third world development, how do you even plan to begin to slow the supposed cause of the problem appreciably, let alone fix any part of it?

  11. Re:Oh really? on Global Warming May Have Killed the Dinosaurs · · Score: 1

    Nah, Cheney did it, he just made Bush the patsy.

  12. Re:Interesting, as WSJ reports Sony losing format on Games Analysts Weighs In On Console War · · Score: 1

    My neighbor's a pretty damn successful stock broker, and while the WSJ and such CAN be useful information sources, he never uses them for their actual predictions. He just uses the backround information they give and then runs with it on his own. It's waayyyyyy to early to say who's winning or losing currently. Especially since SED tech isn't out yet and so HD stuff is still far from mainstream. I live in Lake Forest, and even here the saturation of both HD-DVD and Blu-Ray is sparse indeed since most people already had upscaling DVD players. Until one or the other takes over 10% of the market, neither is really winning or losing as they are both still quite likely to go the way of the dodo.

  13. Re:Sorry Grandma- you looked like a burka-wearing on US Military Tests Non-Lethal Heat Ray · · Score: 1

    Actually, bullets can only be traced to specific weapons if a highly improbable series of events occur. The easiest way to stop this from happening is for the person who used the weapon to fire a couple of magazines off point blank into a concrete of thick steel wall. This will both deform the bullets shot, and it will line the barrel with lead thus changing the 'signature' of the gun. Now casings, on the other hand, can at least be narrowed down generally to the type of gun, and sometimes the specific gun if something's off with the extractor.

  14. Re:Licensing, licensing, licensing on The Insanely Great Songs Apple Won't Let You Hear · · Score: 1

    Eh, go trawl around in the indian ocean for awhile in a rich looking yacht, I'm sure plenty of boarders will come your way. You might want to bring along some guns to hold them off though.

  15. Re:The problem with high clock is not just heat .. on Pentium 4 631 Overclocked to 8 GHz · · Score: 1

    Many. Electricity in a wire can be likened to those pendulum ball desk thingies. But without the strings holding them in place. However, you are correct in that the electrons turn on the light faster over the same distance than it would take light to travel. The individual flow of electrons is quite slow, in fact you can walk faster than any individual electron moves through the wire.

  16. Re:It's Microsoft, not Sony on Sony and Universal Prohibit Sharing Via Zune · · Score: 1

    Except, the iPhone is technically a computer with phone and audio playback capabilities, and is not being marketed primarily as an MP3 player. I'm pretty sure that makes a difference when it comes to lawsuits, as there haven't been lawsuits over iTunes streaming capabilities.

  17. Re:Conspiracy theorize all you want on Bill to Treat Bloggers as Lobbyists Defeated · · Score: 1

    No they're not. They're supporters of the popular movement of the democratic party party for the moost part(This does not include movements for censorship and the like instigated by the party leadership). They have yet to come out in favor of the 2nd, even though when one considers the matter dispassionately and takes in all of the availible facts, there is no real doubt about it's meaning and which stance they would have to take as supporters of civil rights. End of story. The moment they decided not to do so because they find guns scary is the moment they violated their mission statement whatever their stated excuse. Being able to own a weapon and defend yourself from harm is the ULTIMATE in individual civil liberties. No more, no less.

  18. Re:Conspiracy theorize all you want on Bill to Treat Bloggers as Lobbyists Defeated · · Score: 1

    Actually, republicans have been spitting on them and telling them to come up with a better plan. They DON'T have any. On many issues.

  19. Re:Cause or effect? on Bilingualism Delays Onset of Dementia · · Score: 1

    Except they don't. The children do, but that's because if exposed frequently to both languages before the age of 5, they are relatively easy to pick up. However, there are plenty of adult peasants who find it hard. The difference is their livelihood can depend on it, so they buckle down and learn.

  20. Re:Fantastic! on Neal Stephenson's "Diamond Age" To Be Miniseries · · Score: 1

    But, then they wouldn't be Discworld novels. Everybody important gets screwed over some way in the end of a pratchett novel, whether or not the consequences of said screwing over will be beneficial to the person overall.

  21. Re:Finally? on Toshiba Touts 51GB HD DVD · · Score: 1

    Short run, the Wii will pwn. end of story. Long term, it will probably be the PS3 unless M$ can pull some truly miraculous stunts with the 360.

  22. Re:FrostWire on Alan Cox Files Patent For DRM · · Score: 0

    No you're not. Stealing something requires a physical object or an idea that you then proceed to utilize commercially. Now, it's arguably still wrong, but it is NOT stealing. However, this is why I burn all my CDs through the library. No pesky legal problems.

  23. Re:Fight.. on Canada May Lose Copyright Fair-Use Rights · · Score: 1

    The newer warheads have a surprisingly low amount of fallout. Do it when the prevailing winds are blowing the right way, sayy late spring, and there wouldn't be that many problems

  24. Re:Fight.. on Canada May Lose Copyright Fair-Use Rights · · Score: 1

    Because when they hit Vermont and New Hampshire the canadian army would be stopped dead? Long enough for reinforcements from most of the SE and southern states anyway to come up and assist. Mind you, if they just came down through New York into Philly and then onto DC from the maryland side the problem would be negated.

  25. Re:Fight.. on Canada May Lose Copyright Fair-Use Rights · · Score: 1

    Gotta love Prohibition, it instilled the obsession with love in a small boat beer that remains today. Luckily it's slowly disappearing.