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  1. Re:Technicalities on IsoHunt To Court: Google Is the Bigger Problem · · Score: 1

    Mod Parent Up I guess the issue would still be that their whole business model is for indexing torrents though

  2. Re:News at 11 on Angry Birds Exec Says Console Games Are Dying · · Score: 1

    Got back to this late, but I guess that depends on what innovation is. Merriam-Webster defines it as Definition of INNOVATION 1: the introduction of something new 2: a new idea, method, or device That demo wasn't made with just upping the polygons. I would say without full knowledge that a lot more thought went into creating that demo than went into AngryBirds. Using three graphic cards is outside of my gaming rig but is that power not possible in a few years. They are pushing the boundaries. I would say that is very innovative,

  3. Re:News at 11 on Angry Birds Exec Says Console Games Are Dying · · Score: 1

    I couldn't agree more. None of the major publishers are coming out with anything amazing. Like the other day I was watching Epics Unreal Engine 3 Samaritian http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHgWuxzuTIQ and was totally floored on how crappy the real time rendering looked. I mean I almost feel like it would be more innovative if Unreal made a *tanks* physics style game were you shoot stuff from a rubberband at blocks. Now that is innovative! Seriously who gives a fuck if EA/Ubisoft isn't releasing anything amazing there are publishers that are. There is no way you could label Angry Birds as innovative, why because it uses a touch screen? The game is like playing a game of BASIC Bananas or Tanks and barely runs on most phones.

  4. Re:I'd better not be able to... on 10% of IT Pros Can Access Previous Jobs' Accounts · · Score: 1

    Do you really want to be on the logs trying to access using your account? Not that someone that incompetent to disable the accounts would actively go through logs but why risk it. I bet a lot of the times when someone takes over they have a list of accounts and no one knows what does what or what job was created using that account so don't break what isn't broken "I got more pressing shit to do".

  5. dont leak to the wrong people on Openleaks Goes Live · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I wonder how long it is until a government or "evil" corporation creates one of these to get the leaks first hand.

  6. ConnectBot on Droid A855 on Smartphones For Text SSH Use Re-Revisited · · Score: 1

    I use this quite frequently the app is awesome but the keys on the phone suck. I have found that if i really need to do some work it's just easier to tether the phone to a laptop

  7. Re:Quick, change the DNS on 4chan Has Been DDOSed · · Score: 1

    You can but it is not recommended as some mail servers will ignore the mx when finding a cname

  8. Re:Quick, change the DNS on 4chan Has Been DDOSed · · Score: 2

    since amazon has so many A records and can change if needed wouldn't it be best to use a CNAME just this once? fuck the mail

  9. FML on CIA Launches WTF To Investigate Wikileaks · · Score: 1

    NWO is small potatoes. Its the FML that I'm really concerned about

  10. Re:global standards for policing the internet on UN Considering Control of the Internet · · Score: 1

    Do we really need global standards? If some country says it is illegal to post hate speech or classified documents or what have you that on that country to police for it's citizens. If the citizens do not want those laws, push back, if no change revolt.

  11. Re:But... on 'Reading Level' Filter Added To Google Search · · Score: 1

    For fun try it on a porn site!

  12. Re:But... on 'Reading Level' Filter Added To Google Search · · Score: 1

    A junk filter indeed. If you click on basic it restricts the page results to the FAQ, Login, and pages relating more to how slashdot works (is that the right word?). The intermediate seems to be most articles and the main page. Then the advanced are other articles that I guess are more complex discussions? -mm

  13. Re:Sounds like a dump idea at first... on Tap Tech Brings Touch To Dumb Phones · · Score: 1

    I'm sure it works great as the subway passes by

  14. Reason #1 our website greets you with a flash ad on Six Reasons Why Flash Isn't Going Away · · Score: 1

    How else would we make money?

  15. Re:This is mostly true on Video Quality Matters Less If You Enjoy the Show · · Score: 1

    I guess it depends on which medium is more important. Most shows the dialog is more important than the visuals but not always the case. Sometimes the joke is in the sheer look of a character in response to something said. While you brought up demonstrations though, at least for me, there is nothing worse than some CLI demonstration on a video compressed to high hell where you need to try a decipher the text between frames of the melded pixels.

  16. Re:Huh? on Windows XP SP2 Support Ends Tomorrow · · Score: 5, Insightful

    While I can't vouch for the majority of windows xp users I know a bunch of companies that are still at SP2. Also I would guess that many home XP users have found their computer infected enough times to find that it was cheaper to buy a new one than it was to pay a shop three hours to clean it up, thus they ended up with Vista or 7 eliminating them from the statistic. This leaves companies that are making a decision to stay at XP and IE6 since it breaks their hack code Intranet, many of those may be for similar reasons at SP2.

  17. slackware on IE Flaw Gives Hackers Access To User Files · · Score: 1

    slackware does

  18. Browsing habits on Heavy Internet Use Linked To Depression · · Score: 1

    These 'internet addicts' spent proportionately more time browsing sexually gratifying websites, online gaming sites and online communities

    I thought thats all the internet is

  19. Re:Coding For Patterns of Anomalies on Can Curiosity Be Programmed? · · Score: 1

    Another thing about curiousity is what attracts people varies from person to person. So when you hear about break throughs that people have found it is often because they have a curiousity for certain patterns, like how many tile knights moves away they are from another person at a urinal. They walk around look at things in life through one lens and find things that match that while others find different matches and applications.

  20. Re:Do we really need these on The Future of Portable Linux Distros · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So you're complaining that UNR, Moblin & all exist and that you have to choose which distro to install?

    ahh no that isn't at all what i said. what i mean is, is there really any difference between UNR and Ubuntu besides like one or two packages and a hotkey mapping. Couldn't that just be included as a prompt after the nic works to install the NBR package and the hotkey mappings based on your model that can be found using dmidecode. If i change a splash screen and add a game should i really call it another name than the distro it is? Is there really that much change in the NBR is what I am getting at?

  21. Do we really need these on The Future of Portable Linux Distros · · Score: 1

    From what I have seen the NBR only does some hotkey mappings, fullscreen force, and that annoying (my opinion of course) navigation thingy to get to your applications. On my eeepc 1000H I prefered to just install the full version and fix the few things wrong. Couldn't the install just run like a dmidecode and then say hey your running a netbook model blah blah blah do you want the hotkey mappings?

  22. Re:Hope and Change, baby! on Obama DOJ Sides With RIAA Again In Tenenbaum · · Score: 1

    Which makes me also wonder if ever presidential canidate has a ton of dirt that could take them down if ever the think to lead astray.

  23. Re:And the applications? on Are There Affordable Low-DPI Large-Screen LCD Monitors? · · Score: 1

    A quick tip for most internet browsers is that you can change the size of things on a web page by holding control and then using the scroll wheel on your mouse
     
    Along with the third party program problem is the issue with websites not working correctly when you bump up the font size. Issues with tabling and such. It would be interesting if everything was vector but that would probably have other issues.

  24. Missed last gate? on Skiing Robot May Not Be Useful, But Fun To Watch · · Score: 1

    From the video it appears that it missed the last gate. It seems to identify a gate, maneuver around it and try to counter back to identify the next gate which seems like the logic you would use. Its hard to see what looks like the last gate as there appears to be a person standing behind it and maybe that is what threw it off, but it looks like it over steered on the second to last gate and could not identify the last gate because of it.

  25. iPhone but not a newspaper on Lawyer Demands Jury Stops Googling · · Score: 2, Informative

    Perhaps because a newspaper often is more shock and awe stuff and really doesn't cover laws and loopholes as a Google searches might.