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Comment The Fix (Score 5, Informative) 422

by Pawnn (#33109770) Attached to: Is <em>StarCraft II</em> Killing Graphics Cards?
This 15 page thread has some people who say they've had melted cards. A lot of the problems seem to be with laptops. As a corollary, people are reporting that the "fix" also helps with Alt+tab speed if anyone cares about that. http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/starcraft2/show_msgs.php?topic_id=m-1-55785055&pid=939643&page=2 Since I haven't seen anyone else post the fix, I will: Add the following lines to your "Documents\StarCraft II\variables.txt" file: frameratecapglue=30 frameratecap=60 You can add them to the beginning, end, or wherever. The game doesn't care.
Google

Submission + - Google Voice can't phone home

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Anonymous Coward
Anonymous Coward writes: "Several dozen users (perhaps more?), myself included, are having troubles with Google Voice calling their phones. Symptoms include not being able to dial out with Google Voice because it never rings your phone before continuing to call the requested number. Also incoming calls to your Google Voice go unanswered because it never rings your phone so you can answer the call.

Search in Google help for "Is Google Voice down today, 6/22/10? I tried placing a call and it says it's dialing my home phone but nothing happens." to find the thread describing everyone's troubles.

This is an unfortunate situation to develop on the day that Google Voice is made available to everyone that wants to use the service."
Government

Submission + - Biden to file sharers: 'Piracy is theft' (cnet.com)

Submitted by suraj.sun
suraj.sun writes: Do people commit theft when they share unauthorized copies of film and music over the Internet? U.S. Vice President Joe Biden thinks it is.

"We used to have a problem in this town saying this," Biden told reporters Thursday at a press conference in Washington D.C. "But piracy is theft. Clean and simple. It's smash and grab. It ain't no different than smashing a window at Tiffany's and grabbing [merchandise]."

Biden spoke to the media alongside Victoria Espinel, the U.S. intellectual property enforcement coordinator, to introduce the government's strategy on the protecting ( PDF: http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/assets/intellectualproperty/intellectualproperty_strategic_plan.pdf ) the country's intellectual property.

Espinel issued a report that included more than 33 recommendations, such as cooperating with foreign governments to go after foreign-based pirate sites.

CNET News: http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-20008432-261.html
Movies

Submission + - Lawyers Assert 5,000 "Does" Are Tied Through P2P (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by eldavojohn
eldavojohn writes: The five thousand John Does who were named as defendants by a Virginian Law Firm in a single copyright case looked to be in the clear after a judge ruled that you can't just up and name so many John Does by just their IP addresses and the case should be reduced to one at a time — you know just like other file sharing suits. The lawyers fired back claiming that since this is BitTorrent, it is special and gave a riveting account of how modern P2P networks should work, "Unlike the older P2P protocols, each new file downloader is receiving a different piece of the data from each user who has already downloaded that piece of data, all of which pieces together comprise the whole. This means that every 'node' or peer user who has a copy of the infringing copyrighted material on such a network--or even a portion of a copy--can also be a source of download for that infringing file, potentially both copying and distributing the infringing work simultaneously. Essentially, because of the nature of the swarm downloads as described above, every infringer is simultaneously stealing copyrighted material through collaboration from many other infringers, through a number of ISPs, in numerous jurisdictions around the country." The EFF and ACLU who are fighting the good fight will undoubtedly persist in their logic that the file sharers never knew of each other and should therefore be named separately instead of comprising a massive target for the "US Copyright Group" (an alias that Dunlap, Grubb, & Weaver have registered). Will we soon see judgments requested by the plaintiff not based per song title but per song fragment?

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