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  1. Re:voice recognition on The Future PC as a Set of Pens? · · Score: 1

    Voice recognition is ridiculous.

    Thinking and saying commands is so much slower. The speed at which people can talk as well as pay attention to what they are being told is much slower than being a ble to type and receive visual feedback.

    The thing no one has mentioned yet, is the notion of removing the in-between carrier technologies (like a motherboard where there are a lof of chips doing nothing more than routing traffic as opposed to actually processing information).

    For all the people likely to lose their $2000 pens I'm sure they can build larger casings.

  2. Re:One nit on this... on The World's Safest Operating System · · Score: 1

    Actually Windows gets patched 6 mos after the people who can do something about it find out.

    The 2.2 holes were just discovered.

    I don't want to know how long it takes before a Windows hole gets discovered.

  3. Re:Nice try, but if there is no support... on Do Anti-Cheat Systems For Online Games Work? · · Score: 1

    I was thinking more along the lines that some types of games can't be cheat proofed, but I could be wrong there. As for the cash motive, well I hate to say it but you'd see more games supported if users were to pay for it rather than game companies that might feel insulted by the proposition that someone outside fix something that really isn't a bug just simple inevitable environment abuse.

  4. Nice try, but if there is no support... on Do Anti-Cheat Systems For Online Games Work? · · Score: 1

    how can you even ask the question in terms of unsupported games? You are suggesting that people are overlooking unsupported games. We can't know whether it works for those games until we try it out, but so far we do know that it does work for supported games.

    So really your question is Is there anything holding back support for those games?

  5. Re:I'm afraid I disagree on Porn Rewards Users To Get Past Anti-Spam Captchas · · Score: 1

    There are no flagelators. There are only flagelations performed by people and you are admiring the flagelating capability of the flagelating person which can be based off their commitment to any task not just flagelation even though you may despise flagelation. So in admiring the flagelation you are actually projecting your admiration for the commitment to a task onto the flagelation activity of the person.

  6. Re:E-Bay... on TeacherReviews.com Forced Offline · · Score: 1

    Cave-ins bring up the cost for those who might not cave in at a later time.

  7. Re:I'm afraid I disagree on Porn Rewards Users To Get Past Anti-Spam Captchas · · Score: 1

    You can't applaud uses but you can applaud methods.

    The same way you should be able to ban bombs that are produced but not books about producing them.

  8. Re:Slightly funnier take on URLs Patented, Domain Registrars Sued · · Score: 1

    She/He moves in mysterious ways. Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.

  9. Re:No kidding on Biometrics in the Workplace · · Score: 1

    Touch screen button whatever you like, but enough of this X-files prop reject posing as a solution. It only inflates the PHBs ego, paranoia, and reality distortion field.

  10. Re:exactly- prevents theft on Biometrics in the Workplace · · Score: 1

    The extra precision is beyond the scope of the purpose and only feeds the paranoia and anal retentiveness of PHBs. Friend's don't let friends use overbearing security products.

  11. Re:Slightly funnier take on URLs Patented, Domain Registrars Sued · · Score: 1

    Patents mean that even if you have a good idea you can't do anything with it so might as work 16 hours a day at a company that uses the same idea you came up with on the toilet like in some Ayn Rand novel.

    Read Ayn Rand again not the Cliff's Notes.

  12. Re:No kidding on Biometrics in the Workplace · · Score: 1

    They can use a button instead. There is not the feeling of working within the confines of a prison which will reduce potential postal tendencies.

  13. Re:exactly- prevents theft on Biometrics in the Workplace · · Score: 1

    The problem is that there is no more communication between employer and employee. That pretty much leads to sexual harrassment, fear of losing one's job if one does not work some extra hours even though no one else does, and the generally that the menager has baton up his ass which is confirmed by the phrase "control people".

  14. Re:In other news... on TiVo sues EchoStar for Patent Infringement · · Score: 1

    So's putting up a roadblock until you say yes to the squeegie army.

  15. Re:Slimier than slime . . . on Filter-foiling Gibberish Becoming A Spam Staple · · Score: 1

    If you are a member of a citizens action group taking issues tot he streets then you've just shitlistedyou own mailing list.

  16. Re:In other news... on TiVo sues EchoStar for Patent Infringement · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure an Amiga 4000 could do just that. At that time.

  17. Re:Fanboys suck... on Microsoft Rolls Out New Anti-Linux Ad Campaign · · Score: 1

    One windows update for Windows, apt-get, zeroinstall, and red carpet for Linux... um yeah i'll be switching to Winows about as soon as they care to run it on this PegasosPPC I'm typing on.

  18. Re:Uh oh? on TiVo sues EchoStar for Patent Infringement · · Score: 1

    The software runs on Linux. Only an idiot company would reinvent the software which cost many man-hours when they could just use a faster CPU. It's a single purpose device. There aren't the same costs as the generic desktop PC. They have plenty of wallet space to put in a better processor.

    I'll give you a hint: the system most likely keeps a buffer full ready to start recording when the user decides to pause live TV. Or did you think there is some pause live TV protocol that all the TV stations use but none of the TV manufacturers know about?

  19. Re:In other news... on TiVo sues EchoStar for Patent Infringement · · Score: 1

    I can make a Tivo out of standard not Tivo data structures using a Mini-ITX case and a VIA C3 based mother board for half that price.

    Admit it, TiVo knows exactly how clueless the public and courts are.

  20. Re:In other news... on TiVo sues EchoStar for Patent Infringement · · Score: 0

    Adding 2+2 using 2 chickens and 1 spatula is not a patent-worthy improvement on using 1 chicken and 1 spatula.

    Sticking a Linux loaded hard drive in a case to provide the same features I get from my computer running Linux is not a patentable implementation.

    I can capture and view video without any of their innovations.

  21. Re:In other news... on TiVo sues EchoStar for Patent Infringement · · Score: 0

    I can download and watch video clips at the same time right now with no Tivo at all. The Tivo runs Linux. It is not much different than a stripped down computer. This is patent-worthy?

    I think not!

  22. SCO is preparing for its harrassment suit on OSDL Releases New Paper on SCO's Claims · · Score: 1

    Playing nice with those who could hurt them and trying to fund the trials with cash from those who can't even spell class action lawsuit.

  23. ftp://www.kiarchive.ru/pub/misc/sounds on Free Sound Samples? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Home of the tracker instrument repository.

    Free as in "get it now while it's still there."

    The tracker instrument repository used to be mirrored all over but less and less mirrors can be found. .xi instruments are in samples/ft2. Cheesetracker and Soundtracker can use them.

  24. Linux training/publishing companies will keep you on Who Owns Your Weblog? · · Score: 1

    They barely have any idea what to do by themselves. It's not the economy it's the desperation of the employer to get the document finished.

  25. Games are as social as any other activity on Most Dubious Videogame Claims Explored · · Score: 1

    People can read alone and knit alone. People can play a one player game together just as easily as they can watch a movie together.

    But let's face it... if the public is afraid of something it must be anti-social.

    I must be anti-social.
    I hate awards shows.
    I hate karaoke.
    I hate bars.
    I hate cliques.

    I love RPGs.