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  1. Who needs free XP on Blizzard Beefs up World of Warcraft's Recruit-a-Friend · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Using Glider you can get a character to 70 in a couple weeks (if your a "casual" botter), less if your more experienced and have the scripts setup already, etc.

    What ends up happening is you chain your accounts together through the refer a "friend" program, so when you pay up your bot accounts each one in turn gets free time.

    I had stopped playing WoW for quite awhile...Glider actually made the game fun and got me started playing it again. I never got banned.

    Looks like with this new system Blizzard is trying to reinforce their "real" player base.

  2. Re:Show us the machine! on The DIY Dialysis Machine · · Score: 0
  3. As seen o Hackaday... on The DIY Dialysis Machine · · Score: 0, Redundant
  4. Re:Torrents = crashy on Why Do We Have To Restart Routers? · · Score: 1

    You may be thinking of Soekris Engineering. I run OpenBSD on a Soekris net4501 and I've had wonderful uptime with no problems. http://www.soekris.com/ http://www.caseybanner.ca/2007/08/19/hackback-1-soekris-router/

  5. OpenBSD Soekris Router on Why Do We Have To Restart Routers? · · Score: 1

    I had over 100 days uptime at one point on my Soekris OpenBSD router. http://www.caseybanner.ca/2007/08/19/hackback-1-soekris-router/. I think that winning streak lost out to accidental nudging of the power bar. However recently there has been some hardware issues (nic died), and I've been using a Linksys BEFW114 (or something) wireless B router. I've had to reboot it because it just locks up after a while.

  6. It doesn't work for me... on OCZ's Brain Wave Interface Headband Reviewed · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...they said I should remove my tin foil hat.

  7. Re:Not much choice, I'm afraid on Robotic Aircraft To Supply Troops · · Score: 0

    I'm not saying be a pacifist, just don't kill everyone and everything that moves. I'm saying use a little common sense.

  8. Re:I'm tired of this shit on Robotic Aircraft To Supply Troops · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I hardly think the US would be willing to replace their "Hellfire" missile hardpoints with aid-dropping hardpoints. The sad part about this is that they talk this up like its going to to be used for good, when really that is never going to happen,.

  9. I'm tired of this shit on Robotic Aircraft To Supply Troops · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Yea, its great that you can now drop bombs on unsuspecting "insurgents". Its great that you can level a city block in Iraq from your comfy seat in Nevada.

    I really am tired of hearing about all these new "safer" ways of killing people. Your still fucking killing people. Stop it you sick fucks.

  10. Boycott on Boy Scouts Ask Open Source Community For Help · · Score: 1

    Yep, their asking a group of the most open-minded people (OSS devs) to help their organization which is still fucking around with discrimination. If they want help they are going to have to move on.

  11. Re:iPod? on iCall Brings Seamless VoIP To IPhone Users · · Score: 1

    Don't you need a mic for that? Or does the iPod touchy have a mic.

  12. Re:So...contracts? on iCall Brings Seamless VoIP To IPhone Users · · Score: 1

    Ah, I was under the impression that data was on a $x/mb, so that didn't make sense to me at first.

  13. So...contracts? on iCall Brings Seamless VoIP To IPhone Users · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'm surprised that the contract between Apple and AT&T doesn't cover other ways of using the iPhone to call people (ie off AT&T's network). I mean this is great, don't get me wrong, I just expected Apple to not allow these kinds of apps on the iPhone because of a contract issue with AT&T (given their current track record).

  14. Thats funny on Windows XP SP3 Causing Router Crashes · · Score: 2, Funny

    My OpenBSD router is fine...oh wait, I don't run Windows either.

  15. Re:No mention of Extreme Programming on 'Extreme Programming' Controls Phoenix Mars Lander · · Score: 1

    I was dissapointed as well. I thought they might have been writing code on the fly to counter some bad thing happening. All we basically got was a compile delay :(

  16. Re:Upgrades to cotrol systems needed on IBM Water-Cools 3D Multi-Core Chip Stacks · · Score: 1

    Yea, but for this application, where the water is actually flowing through the chip, its pretty critical that it keep flowing...I mean yea, the shutdown will happen, but its kinda like how some UPSs work...they tell the computer, "ok I'm gonna run out of juice soon, better do a clean shutdown"...

  17. Re:180 Watts per layer on IBM Water-Cools 3D Multi-Core Chip Stacks · · Score: 1

    These are not you average Centrino procs, these is server hardware running at close to 100% load probably. It gonna get hot :P

  18. Upgrades to cotrol systems needed on IBM Water-Cools 3D Multi-Core Chip Stacks · · Score: 2, Informative

    Right now, if the pump is off, or if the flow isn't flowing, the processor is none the wiser and happily starts up. I've seen my Core2Duo hit 100C when my pump died, my only warning was when the comp just shut off when it hit the temp cap. There needs to be some sort of control system that is actually linked in to the processor, so that it won't start if the flow of water through the block (or now the CPU itself) is below a certain rate. Most people who do use watercooling, however, know what they are doing and this usually isn't an issue, it would just be nice to know the server rack won't melt itself when someone blows the pump breaker.

  19. Re:Don't Worry! on Researchers Tout New Network Worm Weapon · · Score: 1

    But my UID Yours

  20. Don't Worry! on Researchers Tout New Network Worm Weapon · · Score: -1, Troll

    I can explain how this works with a simple cat analogy!

  21. Re:We are going to have two layers of storage on Sun Adding Flash Storage to Most of Its Servers · · Score: 0

    I'm not sure how much they have improved flash, but I know CF cards can only handle like 200k writes to the same sector before that sector dies. In my soekris router I have logging turned down, but I haven't actually seen any real evidence of cards dying from too many writes. Anyone have any real evidence of this?

  22. Re:New feature? on Games Come to Pidgin · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yea, as well as the send message box resize issue. I mean they literally got into an argument over whether or not the resizing of that box was allowed. Now someone tell me where I can get a copy of the code where resizing the box is possible, I liked that feature (its too small so that if I type a long message, it expands and scrolls the text up a little bit, very annoying).

  23. Re:So... let me get this straight.... on Hiding Packets in VoIP Chat · · Score: 1

    No, you didn't.

  24. Re:Why haven't they started releasing GPU CPUs yet on Supercomputer Built With 8 GPUs · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They are useful for applications that can be massively parallelized. Your average program can't break off into 128 threads, that takes a little bit of extra skill on the coder's part. If, for example, someone could port gcc to run on the GPU, think of how happy those Gentoo folks would be :) (make -j128)!

  25. Re:Awsome on Breakthrough In Plastic Lasers · · Score: 1

    Cover story!! They only let one conspiracy photographer into the event and all he got pictures of was the Loch Ness monster