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  1. no exotic components you say? on Nintendo To Dominate Next Generation? · · Score: 1

    But.. what about all those wild unconfirmed rumors and unfounded speculation? Are you saying they're ALL just not true?

  2. Re:"good kids" already have playstations on Reducing Crime Through Gameplay · · Score: 1

    how would you go about organizing such a thing? "It's double tokens night next thursday at the arcade! Don't forget to submit for a background check before the cutoff date!"

  3. Re: Slightly more relevent article on Maglev Elevators by 2008? · · Score: 1

    Though if we want two elevators to use one shaft while multiple people at different possible positions all wait for a single elevator which could potentially intersect the path of another elevator, this one may be more relevent.

  4. Re:well that's just stupid... on New Rubik's Cube World Record Set · · Score: 1

    Whenever I disassembled and reassembled a rubiks cube, I just put it back together "solved": no flicking required.

    Some people just lack common sense!

  5. "You aren't going to break it" on What Should People Understand About Computers? · · Score: 1

    I really wish people would learn this: You aren't going to break your computer.
    Attempting to fix a software problem when you don't know about computers can do just as much damage as fiddling with the radio when you don't know about cars.

    Teach people to try doing things. They will /fail/ to do those things. But they won't be any worse off.

    Yes, it's possible to make some things not work the way they worked before. It's POSSIBLE. But you actually have to try. Don't open up a random screen and type in random values into random fields. Do look for anything that looks mildly related to your problem and try fucking with those for a while.

    And then they'll call you can get you to fix them.

    And then one day they won't need to.

  6. Re:Making your own, modified GPL on First Draft of GPL Version 3 Released · · Score: 1

    I swear I read something completely different on that same page a year ago :/

  7. randomness... on New Rubik's Cube World Record Set · · Score: 3, Interesting

    shouldnt records for solving something which starts in a random state be taken as an /average/ of solving times?

    in other inqueries: do competative rubix-cubers use special rubix grease or something for smooth spinning?

  8. Re:Making your own, modified GPL on First Draft of GPL Version 3 Released · · Score: 1

    yes, you are entirely wrong. You can certainly derive from the /spirit/, but the text itself is copyrighted (presumably to avoid requiring users re-read the full text every time they download something new, scanning for changes)

  9. Re:Measurement on U of Michigan creates first Quantum Microchip · · Score: 1

    if a really tiny tree falls in the woods and nobody is there to hear it..?

  10. inaccurate title on Warp Engines In Development? · · Score: 1

    this is obviously a hyperspace motivator.

  11. Re:bittorrent needs... on Is AllPeers FireFox's P2P "Killer App"? · · Score: 1

    I tend to just use screen for now. It has everything I need as far as persistence and tracking goes, but the real goal in creating a script (for me) would be transparency. That much seems like an impossible goal, however. As the network traffic doesnt carry with it enough information to fake the role of client. You'll always need the .torrent somehow. Meanwhile, you'll also need the actual /data/ somewhere too. So for "transparency", I think there will need to be some type of proxy protocol agreed apon by clients. (unless you want two copies of all data)

  12. Re:bittorrent needs... on Is AllPeers FireFox's P2P "Killer App"? · · Score: 1

    a simple proxy plug-in, which all other bittorrent clients can detect and latch on to.
    Maybe I'm the minority, but I always wind up saving the .torrent files and running the curses client on my firewall: even ignoring bittorent port issues, that's the system wich has the most uptime. I would love for bittorrent clients to somehow know about this, and send their .torrents to my more-stable system.

    But I am also of the mind that most communications should happen through a stable proxy.

  13. Re:Non sequitur on Swedish Filesharers Start 'The Piracy Party' · · Score: 1

    I appologize for missing the now obvious subtlety. Of course now it seems an obvious commentary on the overzealousness of those who seek to protect from evil. Bravo to your many-layered pun, a thing I often see enough that I wonder if it is in fact intentional. But I will not pretend that here I simply did not see intent. It was not until your clarification that I realized the true depths of the greatness these few lines convey.

  14. Re:Non sequitur on Swedish Filesharers Start 'The Piracy Party' · · Score: 1

    may want to add some word boundary checks to that regex.

  15. Re:no, it shouldnt. on Grokster Launches Fear Campaign · · Score: 1

    no, but if it were your opinion that such was the case you certainly wouldnt need to say "without mother nature herself's permission" when talking about it.

  16. Re:no, it shouldnt. on Grokster Launches Fear Campaign · · Score: 1

    It was in quotes for a reason. Try clicking "parent".

  17. Re:no, it shouldnt. on Grokster Launches Fear Campaign · · Score: 1

    perhaps you haven't met my friend Context. Allow me to introduce you.

  18. Re:no, it shouldnt. on Grokster Launches Fear Campaign · · Score: 1

    "Taking things which don't belong to you is wrong."

  19. Re:The Freudian interpretation of Hulk's failure.. on Hulk Smash! Lacks Subtlety · · Score: 1

    mostly I meant "as a racing game with a spiderman instead of a car, it's good"

  20. Re:The Freudian interpretation of Hulk's failure.. on Hulk Smash! Lacks Subtlety · · Score: 1

    "movie-to-game conversions must suck"
    The parts of spiderman 2 which didnt involve the movie were good!

  21. Re:Don't expect to understand. on Quantum Trickery - Einstein's Strangest Theory · · Score: 1

    PLEASE be sarcasm.
    .

  22. how can anyone seriously ask this question? on Does Faster Broadband Matter? · · Score: 1

    The only way to ask this question is if you have not actually done any research at all. The minimal amount. That is: turn off your broadband, see how long you can now survive on dialup.

    It is arguable that all the percieved "speed difference" is due to ineffective queuing and scheduling (*and lazy screen rendering) methods. While the world might benefit from forcing everyone to use slower connections until everything has been optimized-the-hell-out, that does not seem very realistic.

  23. self-describing sentences on How Would You Design a Captcha for the Deaf-Blind? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    There have already been captchas designed which show a semi-randomly created arrangement, and ask the user to solve something based on the image. (I dont remember the example, but someone untrusted in my head is saying "where is the person in relation to the bowl?"). Couldnt be too hard to construct a sentence the way you construct an image. Note that the image doesnt need to make sense, it just needs to have its basic components be recognizeable by a person.

    But then someone will complain "By using sentences, you're blocking out all the blind deaf non-native-english-speakers, who can't determine the subtleties of meaning any better than a computer!"
    Eventually there has to be a cut-off point.

    Yes, I am talking about trying to get a computer to randomly generate riddles.

  24. Re:let's just disconnect them on ISPs Race to Create Two-Tiered Internet · · Score: 1

    - The proper expansion of 's in "let's" is "us", not "we"
    - "us" refers to myself and anyone who decides to become part of the "us". It is volentary. I group no one in preemptively. This should be obvious to any native english speaker.
    - I am "The" Lord and Master Bitman on High, Master of All. Enable sigs if you want to know who people are. I was voted Lord on High by a council of tall distinguished nobleman and was subsequently granted the title "Master of All" by the International Board of Mastersy(*Not A Typo) five years later following completion of a three week course in general mastry and inclusiveness. The honorary "The" was added mainly to distinguish myself among the large number of others with the name "Bitman", though this is now largely unneccessary as most formally educated in general superiority have chosen to take courses in supremacy rather than mastry.
    - I am not a plural. I, personally, can block anyone I wish from accessing any of the few systems I have the slightest control over. No individual part of the "us" is a plural. To best reduce chaos, however, it is better to not act on ones own, so it is in fact the "us" who would be taking any action. Therefor the non-"us" awaits the formation of a relevent "us" for suggestions to be directed to.
    - This is for information purposes only: By assuming you had any idea what I was saying, you failed.

  25. Re:Not flamebait on Analog Hole Legislation Formally Introduced · · Score: 1

    "yes well how about this": I covered this exact scenario in my "flawed idea". It was the only part of my message which wasnt a question, so how you could simultaneously refute it and ignore it is beyond the scope of this memo.
    My flawed idea (again): All donations would be pooled for a grace period. The pool's actual value is not known to anyone until the grace period expires. Because all donations for the period are pooled, when the value is known it cannot be determined who donated how much.

    Of course it's a flawed idea, which would not work. (the whole concept of forced anonymity is somewhat anti-free-speech). But if you assume a magic number is the only way to communicate identity in the first place, that much is simple to solve.