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  1. Re:RESPECT on Proposed Legislation Would Outlaw "Cyberbullying" in US · · Score: 1

    So a person's leisure and enjoyment should be impeded because someone doesn't like them and is willing to harass them and create false slander to tarnish their reputation? Well I prefer the term "GTFO off the Internets and take their fail with them", but yes quite frankly.

  2. Re:Why does the internet change anything? on Proposed Legislation Would Outlaw "Cyberbullying" in US · · Score: 1

    I wonder what a "hate criminal cyber-bully" would be sentenced to... The government will make up a furry fan art site and tell /b/ the HCCB owns it.
  3. Re:Wrong, the video game taxes come next. on Proposed Legislation Would Outlaw "Cyberbullying" in US · · Score: 1

    Like getting rid of voice chat would help. Faggot.

  4. Re:Shouldn't we outlaw bullying in schools first? on Proposed Legislation Would Outlaw "Cyberbullying" in US · · Score: 4, Funny

    You're gonna get such a wedgie after work.

  5. Re:Umm, no. on iPhone's Game Potential As a Threat to Java Phone Games · · Score: 1

    The Apple dude could have totally Godwined it if he'd said "put the inferior Java based cellphone gaming market to death."

  6. Re:Well, there goes the myth of the EU saner than on Cell Phone Tracking Reveals Users' Habits · · Score: 0, Troll

    so, when are you voting out the people who did this? at least most western nations outside the US have more choices than tweedle-dee and tweedle-dum Hey tweedle-dee is about change. People that support tweedle-dum are worse than Nazis.
  7. Re:How Long? on Happy Birthday! X86 Turns 30 Years Old · · Score: 1

    That sounds like marketing fluff "we built it from the ground up with less layers of abstraction for gaming".

    The kernel comes from Windows 2000.

    http://www.windowsfordevices.com/news/NS3988467635.html

    Since that kernel sits on the HAL I'd bet that is still there, especially as they probably had plans to move from x86 early on. You could compile the HAL into the kernel image though, and make the DirectX a very thin layer over the graphics driver.

    But a games console could obviously lose most of the code in a desktop OS.

  8. Re:DNF cannot be completed on Duke Nukem Forever Preview On Jace Hall Show · · Score: 1

    Overlord had sheep. And it rocked too, good sense of humour and the game play was unique. Unless you count Pikmin, but who does.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overlord_(2007_video_game)

  9. Re:How Long? on Happy Birthday! X86 Turns 30 Years Old · · Score: 1

    He claimed he did. Btw, the Xbox/Xbox360 doesn't use the Windows kernel HAL. The XBox used a "modified Windows 2000 kernel" according to Wikipedia.
  10. Re:Add a download link! on Duke Nukem Forever Preview On Jace Hall Show · · Score: 1

    I have fiber -- that's not the bottleneck.

    The bottleneck is how pitifully slow Flash is at playing videos -- maybe it's just me, maybe it's just 64-bit Linux, but anytime I actually want to watch a video fullscreen, I look for an FLV download.

    Since your streaming seems to require actual streaming, I can't seem to even use the Firebug trick -- so I had to watch it in a tiny chunk of a browser window, or watch it fullscreen in laaaggy HD.

    So no, your video is absolutely horrible compared to Vimeo, which also has 720p h.264, but provides an un-DRM'd MOV download. Funny, it played fine in Vista.
  11. Re:DNF cannot be completed on Duke Nukem Forever Preview On Jace Hall Show · · Score: 1

    I used to sell 6800GTs remarked as GTXs.

  12. Re:it might be real? on Duke Nukem Forever Preview On Jace Hall Show · · Score: 1

    You know what's scary? This looks like it would have been fun. What they showed in the video looks like the original Half Life running in the Doom 3 engine. (i.e. Yet Another FPS(TM)) They should have padded that out to a game.
  13. Re:Reality, learn to live with it on No, David Pogue, Ebook Piracy Is Not a Given · · Score: 2, Funny

    It is because nobody cares about the content. If you're an author and you can't write something more popular than Fecal Incontinence - Diagnosis and Treatment - C. Ratto, G. Dogglietto (Springer, 2007) WW.pdf (a random pdf from hfrarg), it's time to consider a new line of work. ;) Hey, I read that. It was The Shit. Totally Bad Ass.

  14. Re:vaporware until it's in my hands on Duke Nukem Forever Preview On Jace Hall Show · · Score: 1

    Microsoft Bob The Search Doggie in Windows XP used technology leveraged from the Bob project.
  15. Re:A bit let down on Duke Nukem Forever Preview On Jace Hall Show · · Score: 1

    That's why I switched to USPSA. Same thing, real guns. Puts the "shooting" back into first-person shooter. Your link is wrong. Should be

    http://www.spreekillers.org/

    CSK is a truly global sport.

  16. Re:Flash 9 required. on Duke Nukem Forever Preview On Jace Hall Show · · Score: 1

    When Adobe stormtroopers kick down your door and put a big metal cage labelled DRM around your GNU/Linux system you'll be the sorry one.

  17. Re:DNF cannot be completed on Duke Nukem Forever Preview On Jace Hall Show · · Score: 1

    They should announce they have hired John Romero to 'tighten up the graphics' and release a poster saying "Duke is gonna make you his bitch".

    Then when it is released everyone will be surprised how little it sucks.

  18. Re:DNF cannot be completed on Duke Nukem Forever Preview On Jace Hall Show · · Score: 2, Funny

    MOO3 was the only game I've ever pre-ordered. Is that the cow game on the Wii?

  19. Re:DNF cannot be completed on Duke Nukem Forever Preview On Jace Hall Show · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It's one thing to have things teleporting into a room when you first arrive there (a la Doom 1), but it is entirely another thing to have some monster waiting in some tiny, undetectable compartment, ignoring you until you've walked past it exactly 7 times. The irrationality of such rubbish spoiled the immersion, and thus the game... Didn't Duke Nukem 3D spoof this with the monster in the toilet?
  20. Re:Oh! How I long... on Sneaky Blackmailing Virus That Encrypts Data · · Score: 1

    How I long for those halcyon days of yore when my backups actually fit on a DVD-R. u need to lrn brevity
  21. Re:They think they're pretty clever. on Sneaky Blackmailing Virus That Encrypts Data · · Score: 1

    If you live in DC, go to a nice crack neighborhood find some 'hungry looking' kids tell them for $100 a month if they run 'notes' to the bank, and bring back the 'envelopes' while either wearing a disguise, so they can't identify you or whatever, you got yourself a nice bunch of runners who even if they get caught, couldn't identify you, and will only go to juvenile hall, where they'll get fed better than by mommy crack addict, they got no down side man no down side. All the best business plans involve handing out $100 a month to crack addicts.

  22. Re:Step 4 on Sneaky Blackmailing Virus That Encrypts Data · · Score: 1

    That wasn't Cheney's friend. He was a terrorist about to assasinate the Commander in Chief.

  23. Re:LET'S HOPE SO on Sneaky Blackmailing Virus That Encrypts Data · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but criminals don't use Western Union. They'd have a numbered bank account in some tax haven. You pay into that and then they log in and transfer the money somewhere else and close the account. Even if a government could force the tax haven's authorities to force to bank to give you information, they might not have any to give you at that point. In fact if you wanted this sort of service from a bank, one of the things you'd insist on was that they don't have any way of knowing who you are.

  24. Re:Anti-Malware Response on Sneaky Blackmailing Virus That Encrypts Data · · Score: 1

    Or the extortionist could take your money via some offshore anonymous bank account and send you a random number. Or nothing, safer since he can't be tracked.

  25. Re:Anti-Malware Response on Sneaky Blackmailing Virus That Encrypts Data · · Score: 1

    The mafia (not the MAFIAA, the real mafia) should provide an illegal equivalent of class action. Basically all the victims of this dude should be able to pay into a fund. Then, paid by this fund, Tony "DiMaggio" Gotti would visit the him with his baseball bat and beat the answer out of him.