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  1. Spam analogy on Has Wikipedia Peaked? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Perhaps like 90% of e-mail is spam, 20% of all wiki edits were vandalism and that's been stamped on now.

  2. Quantum computing??? on Cracking Go · · Score: 1

    You feed in the starting position of the board, it instantaneously computes all the possible moves and then tells what the most likely outcome is. This is generally the computer winning.

  3. Re:Where the money is ... on Gods and Heroes Canceled · · Score: 1

    I know, but it's Star Trek. It's got a ready made mythology that people know before they even logged onto the game and how many Trekkie are there out there?

  4. Where the money is ... on Gods and Heroes Canceled · · Score: 1

    I suspect Star Trek Online will do better than yet another Sword & Sorcery game, so they are going to be concentrating on that from now on. Also the comment about licensing middleware to Bioware. Smart move.

  5. Re:Heh on A Brief History of Slashdot Part 2, Explosions · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's a typo, he means yanking ...

  6. Re:That comparison is the point. on Defending Games For Adults on National Television · · Score: 1

    Why are films like Saw or Hostel allowed to air FULL STOP.

  7. Nice summer job on iPhone, iPod Touch 1.1.1 Firmwares Jailbroken · · Score: 2

    I bet Sony and Apple both have an intern whose sole job it is to churn out new FW for the PSP and iPhone/Touches. Ocasionally they will slip in a few bug fixes and patches for security holes. Other than that they will end up releasing one update a week with the hackers always a week behind.

  8. Re:It doesn't "remotely shut down vehicles" on Stalling Cars Via OnStar · · Score: 1

    Thing is, there is a % of /. readers who can see the negative side of practically everything. Just because 'they' can trace mobile phones doesn't mean we should all chuck ours away. Just because 'they' disagree with you, they are wrong. Did you see the pic of the person who submitted the story?

  9. Re:It doesn't "remotely shut down vehicles" on Stalling Cars Via OnStar · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but democracy means that the COUNTRY gets the president/ruler that the COUNTRY wants. It may not be the one that you particularly want but that's the way it goes. Eventually, you will keep voting and another party will get in.

  10. But is it any good? on Defending Games For Adults on National Television · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If we are talking film analogies then I suspect Manhunt 2 is more Saw or Hostel than Godfather or Scarface. In which case I suspect the answer to my question is no.

  11. Re:It doesn't "remotely shut down vehicles" on Stalling Cars Via OnStar · · Score: 1

    I agree. How is it that some people can find a government conspiracy in everything they read? It is not like you live in communist china or anything. You live in the US of A, one of the largest democracies in the world. God knows if you lived in Burma you would have something to complain about.

  12. Re:It's a generational thing. on Defending Games For Adults on National Television · · Score: 1

    I think the distinction is which were the first games to involve killing people on screen. YOu can't count Space Invaders and Pac Man as the characters are too abstract to relate to. Games like Tekken and Commando are different as those sprites are recognisably people.

  13. Re:Halo != Halo on Churches Use Halo To Spread the Word, Raise Eyebrows · · Score: 1

    or the Covenant.

  14. Re:The possibilities! on .Asia Internet Domain Launched · · Score: 1

    On the contents of that post I would suggest euthan.asia.

  15. Re:Tired game ideas on Manhunt 2 Rejected By BBFC Again, Rockstar Appeals Again · · Score: 1

    Cheers. My mistake.

  16. You mean like ... on Seagate Releases Hybrid Hard Drive · · Score: 2, Informative

    this?

  17. Tired game ideas on Manhunt 2 Rejected By BBFC Again, Rockstar Appeals Again · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Lets face it Rockstar are the GWAR of the computer games industry. Using 'supposed' shock tactics to look a bit rebellious and hip in an attempt to sell units. GTA was good, Bully was a bit sick and this just seems a bit sad. It's like the team behind the film Scarface doing a cheap straight to DVD nasty afterwards.

    My real complaint is that ever since Tekken first ripped someone's spine out and dangled it in their face, games have been trying to out gore each other . It doesn't really add much to the game and just appeals to teenage boys the same way "Dead or Alive" games do. Maybe they could do a Mike Diana game. The kids would really love that.

  18. Re:Translation on Is the Internet Bad For Professional Writers · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sorry, you lost me after "I think that means".

  19. Uwe Boll on New Hope for Jackson Hobbit Film? · · Score: 2, Funny

    We could always get him to direct it. I hear he is quite good.

  20. Re:Horrible on In the UK, Possession of the Anarchist's Cookbook Is Terrorism · · Score: 1

    From the article.

    The first charge relates to the possession of material for terrorist purposes in October last year.
    The second relates to the collection or possession of information useful in the preparation of an act of terrorism.


    While I agree owning the book should be legal, it looks like him and his mate were going to do something. Whether it was blowing up a dustbin or something/one else we will have to wait and see.

  21. Re:What a crock on Microsoft's Ballmer: Google Reads Your Mail · · Score: 2, Funny

    Can I recommend the following item for you as well. I hear it stops M$ and Google reading your thoughts as well.

  22. Bubble burst 2.0? on Microsoft's Ballmer: Google Reads Your Mail · · Score: 1

    This whole current Dot Com boom is based on the assumption that Google had found a way to supply relevant ads to all the page views out there. If this assumption is wrong (and lets face it, when as the last time you clicked on a google ad) then we have some pretty shakey foundations out there.

  23. Both got new jobs ... on Thunderbird in Crisis? · · Score: 1

    with the same company? Seems a bit suspicious they both leave on the same day without saying what they are going to be doing. I suspect they have been head hunted.

  24. Re:Radiohead provided the inspiration on New Head of EMI Says 'Embrace Digital Music or Die' · · Score: 1

    Lets see, the collectors will buy the box set for £40 and everyone else will pay 50p for the new album on download come Wednesday. It will shoot to #1 in the download charts and everyone will go oooohh! In the end Radiohead will sign to another label and the record will come out on CD.

  25. indie labels??? on New Head of EMI Says 'Embrace Digital Music or Die' · · Score: 1

    Is it all record labels that are evil or just the big ones? In the old days there used to be such things as indie record labels like factory, creation, sub pop, mo wax, etc. They started small, built up a great rosta of artists who eventually went off to the major labels. Either that or the major labels simply brought them out. no one could ever claim they screwed their bands, Factory even gave their artists the complete rights to their recordings. are we saying they were bad? Dischord is a good example of how a record label could and should work. it is run by the bands, for the bands with the profits going to the bands.

    I just don't see how a world where every band, doing all its own work, would work. Every band would end up employing its own engineers for recording, designers for packaging, publicists for advertising, bookers for gigging, etc. And just because Dave has a transit van it does not mean he can book a 50 date tour round Europe by himself. Eventually companies would pop up that did this for you, for a fee, and you would be back where you started.