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  1. Re:Guns used to train terrorist too.... on Videogames Used to Train Terrorists? · · Score: 1

    Well, and don't mention zergling rushes! Just imagine terrorists producing as many children as possible as fast as possible and flooding your home with them! *THAT* would be terrorism! Kekeke! P.S. it's "vespene* :D

  2. Re:Flip3D is aesthetic? on A Mac Fan's Take On Vista · · Score: 1

    Heck, exposé runs marvelously on my 400Mhz blue/white G3 with 16 Mb vram!

  3. Re:Let me be the first to say... on Wii Opera Browser is Free Until Next Year · · Score: 1

    I once heard of this special device called a "laptop computer" ...

  4. Re:Gapless Playback! on Apple Announces iTunes 7, Movies, Set-Top Box · · Score: 1

    Yup, it does, I just tried it on mine! Great news for the lovers of Dj-sets and other things you don't want gaps in.

  5. Re:Great!! on The Apple News That Got Buried · · Score: 1

    he means the coffee cup, silly!

  6. Re:I liked the old nano... on Apple Announces iTunes 7, Movies, Set-Top Box · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The major complaint about the Nano was that its surface got scratched too easily. Apple fixes this by going back to alluminium while keeping the same size factor, and adds "fancy" colours (ok, I'm not a big fan of those either, but you can get a black or silver one anyway), and people keep complaining? Geez.

  7. Re:Little boys on Are Videogames Art? · · Score: 1

    The target audience doesn't really matter, nor does the public view. Moving pictures started as a simple entertainment form for the masses, especially the poor, young masses. At the dawn of cinema, watching movies was frowned upon by the high society, all sorts of sociocultural élites and the public view in general, and yet since about 90 years nobody would deny that cinema can be art.

    I'm quite certain that the case of videogames can be comparable. It is a mature form of entertainment and has in some cases reached artistic heights.

    The question "are videogames art?" in the headline is misleading. The correct question is "can videogames be art?". And of course they can, it all depends on the minds and efforts behind them (and not especially the money, as the summary would suggest. Hollywood blockbusters are not the best examples of "art"...)

  8. mod the gene redundant on Humanity Gene Found? · · Score: 1

    Mod the gene -1 redundant.

  9. Re:Sounds bleak on The Future of NetBSD · · Score: 1

    It's like a safari, isn't it!

  10. Re:Why Are People Still Playing WoW? on Official WoW Expansion Talent Information · · Score: 1

    And Pokémon TGC? Where have all Pokémon TC players gone?

  11. Rival? Killer! on SanDisk Releases New iPod rival · · Score: 1

    The correct term is Killer! Geez, what happened to good editorialism?

  12. Re:Proof of Immunity? on First Phase of AIDS Vaccine Trials Successful · · Score: 1

    Yes, I thought about that, but then test subjects taking the actual vaccine and test subjects taking placebo would act the same way, wouldn't they? Which would differ from the behaviour of people not in the test program.

  13. Re:Proof of Immunity? on First Phase of AIDS Vaccine Trials Successful · · Score: 1

    I was asking myself the same qiestion as the GP post, thanks for your reply. But doesn't that "bunch of people" that has been vaccinated behave in a different way in regard to AIDS than any other random bunch of people would, therefore making the statistical analysis worthless? I'm just curious.

  14. Re:Memory Spot RFID? on HP Announces Tiny Wireless Memory Chip · · Score: 1

    A system such as the one you need already exists, but it requires the cat to wear a collar with an integrated chip. A friend of my parents has one for her cat and it works like charm. Your cat just needs to get used to the collar (which is thin and lightweight anyway).

  15. Re:My idea of celebrating World Firefox Day... on World Firefox Day · · Score: 1

    ... or Camino, which is even better and cleaner in my opinion (if you can live whitout RSS support).

  16. Re:control on U.S. Soldiers Recipients of Newest Prosthetic Technologies · · Score: 1
    I noticed that too. I suppose they are really insisting on the fact that they are controlled, and that they don't just move at random. That would be very annoying for the soldier wearing it.

    It would probably grant the bearer big bucks from the Ministry Of Silly Walks, though.

  17. It's great, but... on BitTorrent Beefs Up Network Capabilities · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It's great that somebody is organizing a legal pay-per-download service based on bittorrent on a large scale, but teaming up with Warner Bros? Shouldn't they have first started by teaming up with some smaller, possibly independent production house? Or test it with short movies first? I would certainly pay to download beautiful short movies, they take up less time to dosnload and you often only get a chance to see them at film festivals or collected on dvds several years after their release, if you are lucky. A bittorrent hub dedicated to selling short movies (and not just independent ones) would be a winner, in my opinion. With the general increase of bandwidth for home lines in both directions, you could easily get a short in less than a hour.

  18. Re:Sequel on World of Starcraft? Not So Much · · Score: 1

    Zerg rush kekekekekekekekekeke!

  19. Sequel on World of Starcraft? Not So Much · · Score: 1

    I'd be much happier with a sequel to the original game. It is an awesome strategy game, I still play it today (it's one of the best real-time games you can get running on an old G3, in my opinion) and I'd definitely be glad to see a new episode of it that keeps a similar, real-time strategy gameplay

  20. Re:Nuclear Powerstations and Missiles on 'BlueBag' PC Sniffs Out Bluetooth Flaws · · Score: 1

    Paris Hilton's phone's content wasn't "hacked" using bluetooth, a teenager exploited a flaw in T-Mobile International's code to gain access to her web account, which to my understanding mirrored the content of the phone.

  21. VOIP on Bluetooth Headset Roundup · · Score: 1

    Interesting article. I'm experimenting right now with a bluetooth adapter for my G3 tower with OsX Tiger installed and I was wondering if any of those bluetooth headsets would work with a VOIP program such as skype on my computer. Are these made especially for cellphones or are they supposed to be universal? The article doesn't seem to mention it. I'd be glad to know before buying one of those.

  22. Re:Purpose for defense or offense? on U.S. Considers Anti-Satellite Laser · · Score: 1
    Our satellites give our military and NIMA a detailed view of pretty much every square meter of the planet, and we use this to blow shit up. No other nation on the globe has this capability to the extent we do. The United States government wants to keep it this way.

    They should maybe start by nuking Google Maps headquarters from orbit then!

  23. The real challenge is... on U.S. Considers Anti-Satellite Laser · · Score: 1

    making it small enough to be fitted in a shark's helmet.

  24. The most appropriate comment would appear to be... on Microsoft May Delay Windows Vista Again · · Score: 4, Funny
    Hasta la vista!

    Sorry, sorry.

  25. Re:Any word on the fix? on Homeland Security Uncovers Critical Flaw in X11 · · Score: 2

    Reinserting the parenthesis, duh