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  1. Re:1.6ghz? on Rubik's Cube Proof Cut To 25 Moves · · Score: 4, Funny

    A cooling fan at 2.4 billion revolutions a second would probably sound more like atoms tearing apart. :)

  2. Re:Which 25 moves? on Rubik's Cube Proof Cut To 25 Moves · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Building the rainbow tables would be insane. And no need to hash; that would take extra time and use a non-efficient amount of key space. Just search by the configuration of the cube.

  3. Re:Proper syntax on US Ignores Unwelcome WTO IP Rulings · · Score: 2, Informative

    What's with the style? How about ?

  4. Re:Thank God on Blizzard Sues Creator of WoW Bot · · Score: 1

    Yeah they're suing for it and I'm fine with them getting a say in court, but they're wrong. No crime was committed- especially not copyright infringement.

  5. Re:That's nothing new on Meet the Laptop of 2015 · · Score: 1

    Tell that to the people who are putting 50GB movies on blu ray disks.. personally I don't want to wait 10 weeks for my movie to load from my S3 space.

  6. Re:1.6ghz? on Rubik's Cube Proof Cut To 25 Moves · · Score: 3, Informative

    And to save people from opening calculator, that's about 62 days of operation.

  7. Re:Excitement on Lack of Molybdenum May Have Delayed Life on Earth · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It's the 1910s. Where do you get a high-energy-density fuel that's readily available? Certainly not from corn; chemistry was just accepting the Rutherford model, they're not exactly modern chemists.

  8. Re:Thank God on Blizzard Sues Creator of WoW Bot · · Score: 1

    What law would that be.

  9. Re:Copyright? Maybe not, but maybe trademark? on Blizzard Sues Creator of WoW Bot · · Score: 2, Informative

    Since when is reverse engineering code illegal? Reverse engineering is specifically protected by the DMCA, as long as you're not breaking encryption.

  10. Re:And you are surprised because ... ? on US Ignores Unwelcome WTO IP Rulings · · Score: 4, Insightful

    But what do you want us to do? It's our policy to regularly destroy hard drives after they've been subpoenaed by a federal court.

  11. Re:Proper syntax on US Ignores Unwelcome WTO IP Rulings · · Score: 2, Informative

    You might use sarcasm for just one sentence in your comment though; it doesn't make sense to mark the whole thing as the same tone.

  12. Re:Thank God on Blizzard Sues Creator of WoW Bot · · Score: 1

    Oh my "actual monetary losses"? Well we've let the programmers play their little games, but this is the real world, costing us real mercedeses and butlers, and it's time to bring. them. down. Playing just as dirty as the botters is worth is as long as dollahs are involved.

  13. Re:Copyright? Maybe not, but maybe trademark? on Blizzard Sues Creator of WoW Bot · · Score: 1

    Nah, if it's untouchable by the cheat protection, it must load the game code itself, stripping out the part that detects it :D

  14. Re:Copyright? Maybe not, but maybe trademark? on Blizzard Sues Creator of WoW Bot · · Score: 0

    Anti-cheat measures are stupid anyway. I can run whatever I want in my own memory.. all they should be able to do is provide a minimalist client and do their best to check for botting from the server, like Guild Wars.

  15. Re:In the future nobody touches anything on Meet the Laptop of 2015 · · Score: 1

    No way when I switch keyboards, I don't adjust. I'm a good typist that can type a word or so a second on my keyboard, but I have to stare at my hands when typing on an unfamiliar keyboard.

  16. Re:Thank God on Blizzard Sues Creator of WoW Bot · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Wow that's total BS. How is Blizzard abusing the legal system someone standing up to make the game better? This has far wider consequences than you being annoyed in some MMO. And paying to use has nothing to do with it, other than that Blizzard is more likely to be jealous and sue him out of business.

  17. Re:Copyright? Maybe not, but maybe trademark? on Blizzard Sues Creator of WoW Bot · · Score: 4, Informative

    If you're creating some legitimate program that requires WoW, you think you should have to request Blizzard's permission just to say on the packaging that you require World of Warcraft? Definitely not.

  18. Re:That's nothing new on Meet the Laptop of 2015 · · Score: 1

    That's because they don't make 3080x1050 monitors. I need a 1600x1050 one and a 1400x1050 one to get that kind of size/resolution. Whereas if you were insane enough to want a laptop 3 times as wide as it is deep, they could just build in a screen that size; you wouldn't build in two separate screens next to each other since they're part of the laptop..

  19. Re:That's nothing new on Meet the Laptop of 2015 · · Score: 1

    You mean like a tablet PC? That works fine with one screen and wouldn't make any sense to have 2?

  20. Re:Anyone have any idea... on Computers May Thwart 2010 Census · · Score: 1

    The cost of government. I could probably throw this thing together myself in my spare time in a month, but when you bring in executives and contracts and managers, everything gets muddled up.

  21. Re:In the future nobody touches anything on Meet the Laptop of 2015 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    My fingers land right on the middle of the keys; there's no fumbling around the edges until I get good purchase on the middle and finally press it. I'd have no problem with no tactile feedback, though it would be really hard to type without looking at the screen.
    Also come on, really? We have an article on the front page about how stupid futurism is and then a futurist article. Trying to appeal to everyone I see. Anyway it's not like all of that has interest to anybody except the PC World grandpa crowd; I'm far more interested in seeing those number of cores go up up up and being able to run xbox 360 games (oh haha I remember that old thing; sent it in 15 times for repairs before microsoft's games division closed) on my entry-level cell phone.

  22. Re:That's nothing new on Meet the Laptop of 2015 · · Score: 3, Funny

    The difference is that it's a gaming machine, not anything that matters. The dual screen is a terr-rrr-rrr-rrr-ible idea and it will never be on a successful laptop.

  23. Re:3 questions... on ODF Editor Says ODF Loses If OOXML Does · · Score: 1

    No it's actually not. A better map.

  24. Re:SSD power consumption ? on Western Digital's "Green" Hard Drives · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Which is more expensive, the power to run a magnetic hard drive and a tree to absorb the pollution or whatever, or a SSD?

  25. from the blog on City-Provided Wi-Fi Rejected Over "Health Concerns" · · Score: 4, Insightful

    When it's at it's highest power level, you hold it next to your head to conduct a conversation. Ever notice that your skin gets warm after a long call? That's the only side effect of RF energy - warming.
    Uh I thought it was because it's a computer that has no way to shed heat other than to bleed it out into the air / someone's face.