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  1. Re:Digital medical records on Microsoft Seeks Patent On Shaming Fat Gamers · · Score: 3, Interesting

    On the other hand I'd love for my IRL military training to count in call of duty.

    Try Operation Flashpoint. I played that with 3 of my friends (CoOp) and we struggled, replaying some missions over 7 times. Then we exchanged one of the players for an active Finnish Army Medic and blasted thru the game with only one casaulty.

  2. Independence War 2 - Game with Newtonian physics on PhD Candidate Talks About the Physics of Space Battles · · Score: 3, Interesting

    As far as I know Independence War series (1 & 2) are the only PC games that implemented 100% true Newtonian physics. They took care of movement, heat issues, detection by heat and visual, whole shebang.

  3. Re:Easy money to be made? on FASTRA II Puts 13 GPUs In a Desktop Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    Where do you get a motherboard that can accept 5 graphics cards?

    msi 890FX-GD70 6x PCIE 2.0 x16

  4. Re:Overclocking on Aussie, Finnish Researchers Create a Single-Atom Transistor · · Score: 1

    Perhaps I can reach over 9000 Ghz ...

    over 9000?????

  5. Re:We know what this is really about on Microsoft Tweaks Browser Ballot As EU Deal Nears · · Score: 1

    It would be rather ironic if this additional exposure to unsuspecting users backfires as people start sharing "avoid the Opera option in the ballot, it's bad", and that creates an overall bad image causing Opera's market share to plunge additionally.

    Except it wont because Opera is great.

    I am an occasional Opera user (and well of all browsers, as a web dev), and appreciate its strengths, but its UI and features have a number of specifics compared to other browsers, not the least of which is a single-click file sharing server. For this type of functiona we know is a security nightmare in the hands of the average user (or unsuspectingly, their children).

    so your saying people are too stupid for this browser? and its browsers fault?

  6. Re:The "bandwidth hogs" aren't using TCP on Hunting the Mythical "Bandwidth Hog" · · Score: 1

    I acknowledged my error on streaming video, but BitTorrent (and other file sharing programs) are still big TCP users.

    uTorrent defaults to UDP when speaking to other uTorrents now

  7. Re:Videos on Over 160 Tutorial Videos Created For Unreal Dev Kit · · Score: 1

    ahaha zipped movies, are they retarded?

  8. Re:NIA out for a year. on Brain-Control Gaming Headset Launching Dec. 21 · · Score: 2, Informative

    OCZ one doesnt work at all, or barely.

  9. I use PirateBay on Best PC DVR Software, For Any Platform? · · Score: 1

    Its cheap, reliable and fast. No DRM.

  10. Re:distributed.net key cracker - was Re:Oops on SETI@Home Install Leads To School Tech Supervisor's Resignation · · Score: 1

    At work we have a large number of dual CPU/eight-core (16 with HT) machines with 24, 32 or 36GB running java VMs, and we notice there's a very big hit on performance if we try and run more than a few VMs on a machine

    Thats what you get for using Intel and Windows for SMP work.

  11. Re:That's pretty evil. on Scientology Charged With Slavery, Human Trafficking · · Score: 1

    And to complicate matters, some people seem to feel compelled to put Scientology in the same group as Christianity and Islam when we ALL know Scientology is just a big SCAM. It is NOT a religion just because they say it is. It is a scam disguised as a religion.

    Oranges and Apples, my friends...Don't give them the credit they so desire.

    So how is Christianity not a scam? Does the leader live in his own Castle/City/State while preaching modesty? Do you know of a single Cardinal/Bishop/whatever that lives in something smaller than a mansion and drives something less than a 100K car?

  12. Re:That's pretty evil. on Scientology Charged With Slavery, Human Trafficking · · Score: 1

    I personally think you took one step too far when you afforded the CoS the respect of referring to them as an organized religion. They're not, catholicism is, there's a huge difference.

    Yep, about two thousand years and a few million followers.

    I would say ~900 years. Just look what Christians did 900 years ago.

  13. Re:That's pretty evil. on Scientology Charged With Slavery, Human Trafficking · · Score: 1

    It isn't religion that is the problem, it is organization and trust. Take any group of trusted people and you will find that a minority want to use their trust for personal gain. In America, corporations, schools, etc. are all looked at pretty thoroughly for abuses, religion usually isn't.

    You say its not religion ... and then describe religion :/. Religion is a belief shared by many in imaginary things. Doesnt matter if its an alien warlord or bearded pedophile.

  14. Re:automated tool for locating cells? on Sprint Revealed Customer GPS Data 8 Million Times · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The minute your phone makes/receives a call or SMS they know which tower it's on.

    Its worse than that, EVERY SECOND they know where you are, MS (mobile station = phone) logs into every tower it sees fit. Every tower that has this MS in range logs its position (signal strenght, time drift).

  15. Re:Post on Dell's forums on Dell Defect Turning 2.2GHz CPU Into 100MHz CPU? · · Score: 1

    The symptoms are much more highly correlated to elevated NVIDIA GPU temperature than elevated CPU core temperatures.

    So its a workaround for Nvidia crappy GPU bug that was famous a year ago and still persists. Im guessing DELL didnt bother to turn this workaround off for the Intel models. You cant imagine how many laptops have Nvidia chipset/gpu reballed monthly.

  16. Re:Did Peta Read The Article? on Scientists Create Artificial Meat · · Score: 1

    And how will the "synthetic" solution be made? From "synthetic" fetuses?

    Human ones will do just fine, ;)

  17. Re:Yeah, great idea on India Hanging Up On 25 Million Cell Phones · · Score: 2, Informative

    they immediately ban that number and report the offending number to the CEIR, which in turn ensure the offending IMEI number is banned across the world.

    Living in fantasy world, are we? Getting an IMEI block on your stolen phone in Poland is impossible, even with Police report, even when you got friends in Police.
    Its NOT across the world, its not across the continent, its not even across one country. At best is provider wide.

  18. Re:Wow... on NASA Campaigns For Safer Launch Requirements · · Score: 1

    NASA is funned by taxes and no one wants to support people dieing in explosions.

    So THATS why you invaded Iraq .. and stayed there.

  19. Re:Hypocrisy on Hacker McKinnon To Be Extradited To US · · Score: 1

    The crime took place on British soil. Why is he being extradited?

    Or, if you want to take the view that the servers were on US soil, why have people posting to US servers been prosecuted in Britain for hate speech? You can't have it both ways.

    Actually you can have it three ways, just google "cia kidnapping italy"

  20. Re:No P&S camera on Ten Things Mobile Phones Will Make Obsolete · · Score: 2, Informative

    SE K800i 3Mpix, SE K850i 5Mpix, Sony sensor. Better than N95. Better than most old 2-3Mpix cameras.

  21. Re:This only works on poor passwords on US Government Using PS3s To Break Encryption · · Score: 1

    Powerful GPUs are known to perform extremely well on password cracking, and PS3s certainly have them.

    Geforce 7800 is not "powerful"

  22. Re:Nvidia on AMD Radeon HD 5970 Dual-GPU Card Sweeps Benchmarks · · Score: 1

    In other news Nvidia just released a sub 100$ card. http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/11/17/2035200/NVIDIA-Ships-Decent-DX10-Graphics-Card-For-Under-100 The technology idols can fall over-night. Let's hope they can come back, it's bad for consumers to have only 1 option.

    Nvidias new sub $100 card is slower than last generation sub $100 9600GSO 384MB and TWO generations old sub $100 8800GS 384MB.

  23. Re:Any good audio engineer will tell you- on Can We Really Tell Lossless From MP3? · · Score: 1

    This sort of comment is a bit frustrating to me. Some can tell the difference between even the most minute differences in lossy vs lossless.

    Tell the difference? Yes. Tell which one is the lossy one? NO. They are just audiomorons.

  24. Re:Yay! Re-badged 9800GT FTW! on NVIDIA Ships Decent DX10 Graphics Card For Under $100 · · Score: 1

    Come on, nVidia... Stop with the re-branding already.

    This is just a die-shrunk 9800 GT

    and somehow its slower than my 8800GS 384MB

  25. Re:Hello 1980... on Fujitsu's Latest Mobile Phone Splits In Two · · Score: 1

    Well, that's partly because a cell phone is the wrong implementation for this sort of thing.

    Fluke has new multimeter that does this .