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  1. Re:Great - 10 more sites blocked on What Are The Best Free Games Online? · · Score: 1

    ever considered their firewall might have been setup in a way that makes it possible to bypass it?
    at least that's what i'd to were i an it guy at a college - slightly increasing the difficulty level on each upgrade, but making sure it's still possible for the students to get around it...

  2. Re:www.Orisinal.com on What Are The Best Free Games Online? · · Score: 1

    those really are beautiful games. thanks for the link... (and try not to spend too many friday nights that way)

  3. Re:First Post... on Japanese Online Connectivity Ahead of EU/US · · Score: 1

    Sucky upstream to the rest of the world, eh? ;)

  4. Re: Not that hard when you look at the size on Japanese Online Connectivity Ahead of EU/US · · Score: 1

    Hm? Didn't read the summary? There's no profit in there for them, not directly at least. They're just creating infrastructure. Why would they do that outside their own place of business?

  5. Re:So there are no time based security attacks? on Debian Refuses To Push Timezone Update For NZ DST · · Score: 1

    ...and os/2.

  6. Re:How about this... on Out With E-Voting, In With M-Voting · · Score: 1

    The original poster did not just take a stab at a certain party, he also depicted a way the binding of a cellphone to a person might be abused by anybody in power - a very much more crucial point imho, one which warrants discussion. Merely attacking his obvious political affiliation doesn't lead anywhere.

  7. Battery life? on PS3 Rumble Controller Confirmed · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'd imagine that rumble feature to be quite power hungry, so what will that do to sixaxis' battery life? Get it down to wiimote level or even worse?

  8. Re:Pure gaming bliss. on Is nVidia Support for Older 3D Games Fading? · · Score: 1

    Hm? Two of the three consoles are backwards compatible, and the third at least offers many old titles as downloads.
    At least I usually have a lot more trouble getting a 2001 PC game to work than a PS2 game from the same time. Not to mention PS1 era PC games...

  9. Re:How is this different? on Germany Plans To Email Trojans · · Score: 1

    A lot more data maybe?

  10. Re:Does it run on (Net||Open)BSD or Solaris yet? on Wine 0.9.44 Released · · Score: 1

    insensitive clod...

  11. Re:What are they whining about? on New York Taxi Drivers To Strike Over GPS · · Score: 1

    There's a huge difference between the employer visiting your workplace, and him watching you over CCTV. In the first case there's some social interaction, a good thing to have, in the latter case it's pure surveillance. Sure, you're not constantly being watched, just like you're not constantly reading your network logs. But it's a lot easier to watch CCTV than it is to read those logs, as it's a lot less data to process - lower inhibition treshold.

  12. Re:What are they whining about? on New York Taxi Drivers To Strike Over GPS · · Score: 1

    Sure. I don't know how the job market is at your place, sounds like it's quite good. But not everyone has that luxury.

  13. Re:What are they whining about? on New York Taxi Drivers To Strike Over GPS · · Score: 1

    Of course not. Would you want to have your employer and law enforcement track your movements, just in case? Same thing, as far as I can tell.

  14. Re:Imbedded image encryption on Forensic Analysis Reveals Al-Qaeda's Image Doctoring · · Score: 1

    there might be some use for things like forensics, but not journalism. pictures, especially the ones meant to be published, are edited in some form, and it makes sense to do so. but in your scheme, any alteration of the picture would invalidate it, there wouldn't be a difference between some cropping and gamma correction and actual forgery.

    no cryptographically signed pictures for me, thank you very much.

  15. Re:Quaint on Winnie Wrote a Math Book · · Score: 1

    "recent". ;)

  16. Re:Being cool doesn't work either. on Winnie Wrote a Math Book · · Score: 1

    True, many things, mainly books, get ignored by their teenage target audience for trying too hard to sound cool. Being cool seems to be highly successful in tv shows and (especially) commercials though, so why shouldn't it be possible in textbooks..?

  17. Re:Imbedded image encryption on Forensic Analysis Reveals Al-Qaeda's Image Doctoring · · Score: 1

    The point being? Photographs are inherently editable, and that's a feature, not a bug.

  18. Helping Halo3? on GTA IV Delay Rumoured · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why would it be in Take-Two's interest to help boost the sale of Halo3?

  19. Re:DVD! on Valve Releases Recent Hardware Survey Results · · Score: 0, Troll

    when exactly did the 360 go to an hd format?

  20. Re:Where's your 'haha' tag now? on RIAA Wins In Court Against UW Madison · · Score: 1

    Because the major labels' marketing power, which iTunes relies on too, lets artists sell more than twice the amount of recordings some website would. Basically.

  21. Re:Grrrrr on The Making of Grand Theft Auto · · Score: 1

    I found them very frustrating too - until I tried to change the camera perspective to 'in cockpit'. After that those missions were relatively easy.

  22. Maybe too soon.. on Too Soon For A Columbine Videogame? · · Score: 1

    But a lot of posts seem to claim it can't be done at all. But there are tons of games about some kind of tragedy, the first that come to mind are games about:

    • old style imperialism (slave trade etc.)
    • WW2
    • Vietnam

    So, most likely there'll be a games about Colombine. And not only this relatively tame RPG, but also an FPS. And, given time, probably an 911 flightsim.

  23. Re:it's been ongoing for a while on Why Sony is Ready to Self Destruct · · Score: 1
    It costs MS money to sell one to me

    Does not. While they might initially sell the XBox at a loss, don't forget it's still good for business as it increases the total revenue. Also there are the n-consoles-sold bragging rights, which translate to more games, and thus to more income.

    [...]most of the space on games nowdays is used to store pre-rendered cinematics.. now that we can render that all in real time, well, you do the math[...]

    Don't worry, they'll find a way to fill those discs. Textures probably...

  24. Re:IP "borrowing". on Chinese Scientist Admits To Stealing Chip Research · · Score: 1

    Sure... That maglev train that mysteriously appeared on some campus in Shanghai was merely inspired by the Transrapid, eh?

  25. Re:Bam! Dead from the start. on Google Calendar · · Score: 1

    Really, how dare them targeting the most widespread browser first? The nerve..