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  1. Article hazy, try again later? on Sony Says No To Central PS3 Online Service · · Score: 1

    Source says that PS2 games "not doing well online" is apparently due solely to the merits of the online service, and doesn't even fathom how well they were designed into the equation. It also notes a few titles did well. So... what's the problem?

  2. Did Lucas give his kid a bigger role for the DVD? on A Closer Look at Star Wars on Film and Off · · Score: 1

    His kid is playing the jedi teenager who gets blasted in front of Bail Organa at the landing platform. Now, as I remember in the movie theater (and the timestamped bittorrent copy), he did a somersault between the two groups of stormtroopers, then tried to deflect their shots before being hit multiple times. In other words, he went out like a punk. But on the DVD, he does some crazy flying jump, kills three or four guys, then turns around to face the second set, and gets his in the chest. Or am I just imagining things?

  3. Re:Sue on More on Sony's "DRM Rootkit" · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Based on the grounds that it re-routes the windows instructions on how to play *all* audio CDs. If you remove the DRM by force, you lose the ability to play other music as well.

  4. All I'm interested with in a game is... on Serious Games Taken Seriously · · Score: 1

    How soon can you beat the money back out of the prostitute you just patronized?

  5. Re:News for nerds? Nerds don't talk this dumb on Using Cell Phones to Track Traffic · · Score: 1

    We already have this. It's called Traffic Watch on about 12 different tv channels and at least one radio station.

  6. Re:What about airplanes? on Using Cell Phones to Track Traffic · · Score: 1

    The plane suddenly explodes without warning, taking out all other aircraft in a 50-mile radius. And if you're in a hospital, the patients all spontaneously combust, hemmorage, and implode at the same time. Actually, simply thinking about a cell phone causes cancerous cells to rampage unchecked throughout your body.

  7. Re:Does powering off work? on Using Cell Phones to Track Traffic · · Score: 2, Funny

    You gotta shut it down, lock it up, and dig a moat around it

  8. You clown on Google DVRs and TV Advertising · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That's how tv started out. That's how radio started out. Eventually, you get offered a "better" serivce (cable, sirius in the above instances) with no ads. Then the ads come back. Rinse, repeat. Eventually google will start charging, and offer ad-free for a fee, but it's more of the same shit.

  9. Re:People still watch news... on television?!? on 'NBC Nightly News' to Be Shown on Internet · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I can see that. For me, though, laying back and relaxing IS being on the computer :)

  10. Re:People still watch news... on television?!? on 'NBC Nightly News' to Be Shown on Internet · · Score: 2, Interesting

    HAHAHAHAHAHA! Oh, you almost had me there for a second. That's classic. TV/Movie/Music moguls would break into your house at night and forcibly inject advertising via a reverse spinal tap if they could get away with it.

  11. Re:People still watch news... on television?!? on 'NBC Nightly News' to Be Shown on Internet · · Score: 1

    Eh, that's what papers are for. 5 minutes in the morning. Who has time to wait for thirty minutes to drag out? Local stuff is always on the ass end, and half of that is commercials anyway.

  12. People still watch news... on television?!? on 'NBC Nightly News' to Be Shown on Internet · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why watch a whole news show when you can simply fire up the 'ol internets and check CNN?

  13. Re:OMG!!! on Fully Automated IM Worms on the Way? · · Score: 1

    Hey, if kids can't use the internets anymore, they'll start -- *groan* -- going outside again. And pestering the rest of us. You don't want that, do you? //and get them off mah lawn, too

  14. Yeah, but... on Fully Automated IM Worms on the Way? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Can it find Sarah Connor?

  15. What is this, high school? on US Passports To Recieve RFID Chips · · Score: 1

    Being a grown-up means you're entitled to spelling things however you damn well please. And I always start sentences with prepositions.

  16. Re:Wonder how long it'll be... on US Passports To Recieve RFID Chips · · Score: 1

    The point of RFID is that it's a self-sustaining unit. It doesn't get upgrades or bugfixes because it's cheap and too small for advanced mechanisms. If the encryption is cracked, that means re-issuing Three hundred million of these things... each time it happens!

  17. Go Directly to Jail on US Passports To Recieve RFID Chips · · Score: 3, Informative

    US Passport, page 6, paragraph 2: US Government Property. "This passport is the property of the United States Government. Upon demand made by an authorized representative of the United States Government, it must be surrendered." Paragraph 4: Alteration or mutilation of passport. "This passport must not be altered or mutilated in any way. Alteration may make it INVALID, and, if willful, may subject you to prosecution (Title 18, U.S. Code, Section 1543).

  18. We have a more compelling mandate... on US Passports To Recieve RFID Chips · · Score: 1

    "That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed," -Declaration of Independence

  19. Re:Lincoln blew it on Is The U.S. Becoming Anti-Science? · · Score: 1

    They had all the natural resources (food, wood, ore, stone, tobaccy). Guess who's be a third-world-country by now?

  20. Re:Suprisingly, I thought kids are becoming dumber on Everything Bad is Good for You · · Score: 1

    Your first two sentences were very concise and made a good point. The rest was kinda a tangent :) Touche. I doth been riposted.

  21. Re:Colorizing testimony on Is There Such A Thing As A Final Cut? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Colorizing was doing your best to re-insert something that was present in the original, but lost due to technological limitations. What Lucas is doing is changing his mind the morning after.

  22. Re:Suprisingly, I thought kids are becoming dumber on Everything Bad is Good for You · · Score: 1

    A burger-flipper (etc) doesn't need to converse with their manager as much as the customers on a daily basis. "like" and "ya know" aren't professional for *the manager* -- but they probably click quite effectively with the customers (who are proportionately around the same age)

  23. Re:Suprisingly, I thought kids are becoming dumber on Everything Bad is Good for You · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How is this a "problem?" Kids are changing the language, yet still seem able to communicate sufficiently with each other. Sounds like an optimization to me. Perhaps you meant to add "...and get those dang varmints off mah lawn!" too?