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  1. Re:get a lawsuit on Careful What You Post, the FBI Has More of These · · Score: 1

    Only thirty years? I'd go further back than that.

  2. Re:How do lines of stars stay straight? on Milky Way Is Square(ish), According To New Map · · Score: 1

    I'm still not convinced that it's a bar as much as it's two large clusters on opposite sides of the center that are "throwing off the measurements." I can only speculate though.

  3. Re:No, they have it wrong... on Milky Way Is Square(ish), According To New Map · · Score: 2, Funny

    They already think that space is a large chunk of fabric with giant marbles on it...

  4. Re:Square-shaped on Milky Way Is Square(ish), According To New Map · · Score: 1

    Did monoglith do it, or was it Mr. Godwin?

  5. Re:Well shit on Final Fantasy XIV Launches To Scathing Reviews · · Score: 1

    I always hated voice chat. Sure, it's nice for cooperating in raids, but it detracts so much from the world of the game.

    I also feel the same about fast travel. I'd rather the devs work on content from newb to max in a particular area and "restrict" people to playing in the same general vicinity their whole playtime while not allowing them to port all over the world because their guild is doing X. You should be able to travel to a new area, but it should be dangerous/expensive/both. Items/resources should be commodities from one area to the next. If someone is going to risk there neck to get an axe from X dungeon to the other side of the world, they should be able to sell it for a sizable chunk. The same applies to resources. Certain spells should require components from the top of Mount Omgithurts, but they should be powerful spells because of that.

  6. Re:Hmm on Pope Says Technology Causes Confusion Between Reality and Fiction · · Score: 1

    I'm more concerned over that particular word. What makes it "bad" and/or "foul"? Did the Bible say, "Here is a list of foul words you should not use:" or was it a Church or a group of people?

  7. Re:Hmm on Pope Says Technology Causes Confusion Between Reality and Fiction · · Score: 1

    The Bible is technology. Adam and Eve didn't have book presses. ;)

  8. Re:Hmm on Pope Says Technology Causes Confusion Between Reality and Fiction · · Score: 1

    Who ever said that word was "bad"?

  9. Re:Hmm on Pope Says Technology Causes Confusion Between Reality and Fiction · · Score: 1

    The Omnipotent God would treat your atoms just as preciously as the atoms in the iron chariot... unless you follow the egotist angle that humans are somehow above the rest of the matter in this universe.

  10. Re:Hmm on Pope Says Technology Causes Confusion Between Reality and Fiction · · Score: 1

    The entity (if truly omniscient) would know the outcome of the game if the goalie decided to block the ball or not or any combination of choice... so what purpose would you have for watching the game?

  11. Re:Hmm on Pope Says Technology Causes Confusion Between Reality and Fiction · · Score: 1

    But if you can see the end of the game before you replay it each time (different choices or not) you still know the outcome.

  12. Re:Hmm on Pope Says Technology Causes Confusion Between Reality and Fiction · · Score: 1

    A truly omniscient being would be able to see all outcomes, no matter what the choice.

  13. Re:I don't believe it... on Study Finds Most Would Become Supervillians If Given Powers · · Score: 1

    Or, in other words, good actions are only good with good intent.

    Good intent for whom? I mean, there's a nice gray fuzzy line that says it's wrong to kill a person, but what if that person is running around killing other people? ...dogs? ... dolphins? ... snakes? ...butterflies? Different people would have different answers to those questions. Your morality is guided by some "God" figure (by your Clockwork Orange" quote: I'm guessing) but what about those people who would rather do best for their community oblivious to some higher power? What if that good intent hurts the neighboring community? (with or without the contributor's knowledge)

    You cannot simply use intent as a compass for morality. I could intend to save a plane full of people, but if I set said plane down in a neighborhood crushing a day care center, is it still moral because I intended to help the people on that plane? (Who says I knew about the kids inside that building?)

  14. Re:I don't believe it... on Study Finds Most Would Become Supervillians If Given Powers · · Score: 1

    How about just being selfish and pretty amoral?

    You'd have to define a what set of morals I'd be defying... In themselves morals are usually selfish. These can vary widely from one person to the next, but they are mostly centered around making oneself "feel good about themselves."

  15. Re:Nothing to hide on High-Tech Microphone Picks Voices From a Crowd · · Score: 1

    I think OP was referring to having an array in a mall, along with the video from surveillance. When a criminal walks into a store and robs the place, the cops could then get a recorded audio history of that person from the moment they walk in the door.

    I'm not sure what you plan on capturing as far as evidence (accomplices?) but I'd bet storing 300 streams of audio for analysis later might be better than extracting that audio and tying it to an individual record.

  16. Re:FTFY on High-Tech Microphone Picks Voices From a Crowd · · Score: 1

    Well of course, there's always video vector recognition. They will be able to tell what direction your pencil travels on page and decipher what you are writing. The same with typing on a phone keyboard. The only way to truly get around that would be a keyboard that has moving keys!

  17. Re:MS Garbage Products: Xbox,Kin,Bing,... on Microsoft Unveils Windows Phone 7 Lineup · · Score: 1

    30-40% is "some"?

    I'll admit, I'm no fan of Windows 7 (I actually bought Pro edition for my gaming PC) but the only thing Microsoft proved with the 360 is that gamers will buy crap if you put a headset and gamer scores on it. While the controller is a neat setup (I had a N-64 "Super Pad 64" that was pretty much a dead ringer for the 360 left side and I loved it) you cannot still be oblivious to the fact that more than "some" of the 360s were terrible build quality.

  18. Re:holding hands with the box on Microsoft Unveils Windows Phone 7 Lineup · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    As a co-op gamer who hates achievements/trophies I have to say: "I hate you!"

    I can't get away from my friends who took it as a personal masturbation post to point out how they are "better" because they have a higher trophy/gamerscore count... and they can't seem to get it through their thick skulls that I don't care. It's getting so annoying that I'm debating completely ignoring them and removing them from my friends list, but I hate to have to remove them to get them to shut up about the stupid things because I like cooperative games opposed to competitive games and it sucks playing them alone.

  19. Re:Laughable on Motorola Sues Apple · · Score: 1

    For years, people have been storing digital photographs outside of a camera... Kodak found a way to put them inside!

  20. Re:It's not "the" guide on The Hackintosh Guide · · Score: 1

    Actually, it's telling me:

    Pardon our server... it's being serviced at the moment. Please refresh this page (F5) or use your browsers "Back" button.

  21. Re:offtopic but hilarious on Indian Military Organization To Develop Its Own OS · · Score: 1

    Well, multiple groups within Microsoft have had enough and switched to git for day-to-day work (using a gateway to push their changes to an upstream p4 repo).

    Are you trying to give the network auditors more work? ;)

  22. Re:early on Ubuntu 10.10, Maverick Meerkat, Now Available · · Score: 1

    69 is the Yin Yang (sp?) number... I mean look at it!

  23. Re:Tipping Point on Chinese Nobel Winner's Wife Detained · · Score: 1

    I think the Nobel committee needs a new motto:

    "The Nobel Peace Prize Committee: Stirring up the pot of conflict!"

  24. Re:Oh, it gets even BETTER! on DMCA Takedown Notice Leveled Against Ohio Congressional Race Ad · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure what you are getting at. Being an Ohioan with a bit of knowledge about local history and current affairs in this state, I can tell you there is much more than one filmmaker here. Just because you might have had a bad experience driving through the state (or whatever it is you might have done here...) does not make one an expert. I usually don't get all uppity about where I live, but it appears to me that you're obviously trolling or aiming to "bash" Ohio for some foul reason.

    http://www.discoverohiofilm.com/
    http://midohiofilm.com/
    http://filmdayton.com/
    http://www.southernohiofilm.com/
    http://www.filmcincinnati.com/

    There is also a long history of Hollywood actors from Ohio:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Actors_from_Ohio

    As much as I dislike Strickland's record, he has been pushing tax cuts for the motion picture industry here in Ohio, so it's not something the government has taken lightly:
    http://www.cleveland.com/news/index.ssf?/base/news/1228383239108270.xml&coll=2

  25. Re:But, but... on China Blanks Nobel Peace Prize Searches · · Score: 1

    Well, technically you could have terrorist porn. Could you imagine if someone were having sex somewhere along a busy New York street (or having a XXX film played in Times square)? That might cause more accidents and traffic than bombing a store. ;)