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  1. What about the real flu? on A Flu Pandemic? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What's the current mortality on the regular flu this year? I'd bet good money that it's killed a fuckton more than 60 people this year.

  2. Re:Finally! on Sony's EULA Worse Than Its Rootkit? · · Score: 1

    rAmen.

  3. Re:Fair's Fair? on ESRB Should Stand Down? · · Score: 1
  4. Re:Damn Crackers on Ohio Cracker Confesses to Attacks For Hire · · Score: 1

    Who modded this flamebait, it's humor.

  5. Damn Crackers on Ohio Cracker Confesses to Attacks For Hire · · Score: 1, Funny

    Those damn whiteys finally getting what they deserve.

  6. Re:Zamyatkin's We on An Experiment in A New Kind of Music · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Music generated from algorithms could ultimately be analogous. It might not be "art", but it could still be beautiful... with the beauty arising from the same simple, natural, relationships which underly a lot of how the world works.

    Modern Classical composers(and neo-classical) do this to an extent. Music that is only composed if it conforms to certain rules of any given style. Yngwie Malmsteen for example, a hugely technically accomplished guitarist, plays and composes neo-classical guitar instrumentals that conform to rules of arpeggiation, chord structure...etc. It's an amazing thing to listen to, but it holds little of the emotion and imagery that can be made when composing without your first thought being about musical rules. Imprecision is one of the things that can make music the most beautiful.

  7. Dupe...or Something on Microsoft: We've Been Killing PC Gaming · · Score: 1

    Is it just me or are there like 5 of these stories every week? Does every self-important blogger feels like he's entitled to editorialize on the subject of how gaming is dying, or dead, or about to boom, or experience a renaissance, or experiencing the end of a renaissance? Seriously people, no one wants to read this for the 80th time.

  8. More Free Software Disappearing? on Intel Enters Anti-Virus Market · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Does this mean that they're no longer going to release AVG updates?

  9. Excuse me... on GoldenEye:Source · · Score: 1

    while I change my underwear.

  10. Re:Obvious issues... on Chief Justice Rehnquist Dies at 80 · · Score: 1

    It's not so much right-wing activism as a whole that should be scary, Renquist was a staunch republican, but never allowed any politics to interfere with his judicial oppinion. What should really be feared is the die-hard nutjob Conservatives, who will do anything to make their agenda into judicial precedent. Most people wouldn't want green-piece eco-terrorists on the SCOTUS, why would you want a minister?

  11. Re:What am I missing? on Fuddruckers Called Out on Hotlinking · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Fuddruckers did this without so much as giving credit to the author, let alone using their own bandwidth to host it. They passed it off as their own material.

  12. And of course... on Study Shows One Third of All Studies Are Nonsense · · Score: 1

    79% of statistics are made up on the spot.

  13. Re:Klunky AND slow? on Sneak Peek at ATi's CrossFire Graphics System · · Score: 1

    With nVidia's SLI, sure you need 2 expensive and matching cards to work, but that is it, you don't need any specialized motherboards. I think this will be CrossFire's major downfall, the requirement for specialized hardware, especially if VIA decides not to make their own CrossFire compatible chipset.

    You very much do need a specialized motherboard to run nVidia SLI. It requires two full length PCI-E expansion slots, and an nvidia manufactured chipset to boot.

  14. Beaten to it on Guitarists, your Days are Numbered · · Score: 1

    For several years now there has been a robot exaclty like this at the Experience Music Project in Seattle.
    http://emplive.org/

  15. Re:Trademark in Question on Owner of the Word Stealth 'Protecting' Rights · · Score: 1

    Serial Number : 78286127

    This link is good http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/gate.exe?f=doc&state=p4 cp35.8.1

  16. Trademark in Question on Owner of the Word Stealth 'Protecting' Rights · · Score: 2, Informative

    I believe that this http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=2 cq9aq.5.2 is the trademark that this guy holds, and it seems to cover an extremely large array of products and services. Special event planning, training services in the field of trademark law, litigation and trademark licensing; amusement arcades, amusement parks featuring amusement rides and attractions, animal training, arranging and conducting education conferences, arranging ticket reservations for athletic competitions, shows and other entertainment events, educational testing, modeling for artists, motion picture theatres, movie studios, multi-media entertainment software for production services; music production services; news analysis and features distribution; news reporting services; officiating at sports contests; organizing community sporting and cultural events; photography services, physical fitness consultation, planetariums, portrait photography; preparing subtitles for movies and live theatrical events; production and distribution radio, television commercials and motion pictures, production of radio and television programs and film studies; providing a computer game that may be accessed network wide by network users, providing continuing legal education courses and fitness and exercise facilities; providing information on-line relating to computer games and computer enhancements for games, providing news in the nature of current events reporting and information in the field of employment training; providing recognition and incentives by the way of awards to demonstrate excellence in the fields of law, medicine, sports, computer hardware, accounting, nursing and secretaries; publication of journals; rental of artwork, rental of computer game programs, rental of films, rental of golf equipment, rental of photographic equipment, rental of video games and rolling skating rinks

  17. Re:One of the Worst Judges on Justice O'Connor Retiring · · Score: 1

    "Fox News" Sealed the deal on the credibility of that snippet.

  18. Fully? on How to Build a Mainboard: ECS Production Tour · · Score: 1

    I don't think "Fully Functional" is the way to describe ANY ECS board.

  19. Good Luck on Halo 3 Rumours Surface · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    On getting a computer with 512 MB to run 50 players on a huge map with insane graphics. If it takes 1 GB of system ram and more for the video on BF2 to run 32 players it'll be a nice accomplishment.

  20. Re:Verifying the Theory on New Model Solves Grandfather Paradox · · Score: 1

    Stephen Hawking has an ongoing bet regarding the so-called Chronology Protection Hypothesis, i.e. that the laws of nature conspire to prevent time travel on a macroscopic scale. Just because it leads to some problems that our brains find difficult to comprehend doesn't mean it's somehow unscientific. I meant that there's no way to prove possibility or impossibility, while it's certainly possible that any theory is correct about either subject, it's not a product of the scientific method, but rather hypothesis by "scientists" with no scientific evidence.

  21. Re:Verifying the Theory on New Model Solves Grandfather Paradox · · Score: 1

    Exactly, theorizing about time travel is about as scientific as "Intelligent Design."

  22. OS/2 on Who Will Google Buy Next? · · Score: 1

    Google's going to buy the source code to OS/2 of course.

  23. Re:PS3 on Self-wiring Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    That statistic is including all the calculations only suitable for specific uses, such as graphics. The graphics alone clock in at nearly 2 terflops.

  24. Eniac II? on Self-wiring Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    This seems like another Eniac to me. It took 6 days to prep Eniac to perform one single function, by altering connections between the vacuum tubes. Every time these guys have to do something new they'll have to write new code like an Eniac in firmware.

  25. Re:Fine. on Illinois Game Law Passes · · Score: 2, Funny

    If I weren't allowed to play violent video games at all, I'm certain I would be one of the most violent people I know.