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Comment Re:I met Bobby Fischer once (Score 1) 192

I enjoy a challenge, and I purposefully die enough in my favorite shooters that no one thinks I'm a pro, semi-pro maybe. But I often hang out with real pros, elite gamers, and when they appear in a game, guys bail so fast, you'd think we were on the Titanic. Some of the pros change their names every so often, just to get a game. But you know who they are, you know when someone snipes you from the freakin' other side of the damn map, from behind a pillar next to crashed gunship, and you know, you just know it's that damn DeathWolf under another name!

Comment Re:Interesting... (Score 1) 242

Memory in mammals is a complex thing. Just how thorough was this "genetic crippling" of the memories of these mice? Are other genes involved in mammalian memory than just those affected by the experimenters? Where did the mice come from? If from a commercial source, maybe their creation and breeding are somehow flawed. So many questions, so few real answers from this article.

I look forward to future experiments of this sort. Maybe something will come of it; or maybe the experiment was flawed. I'm keeping an open mind until more information is available.

Hardware Hacking

Submission + - Greensburg Tornado - computer damage

rpbird writes: "It's been a little over a week since two tornados destroyed my mom's home. I had been living there with her as her caregiver for several years. Me, my mom, and her two cats survived, but the house was reduced to kindling. A couple days later, several friends and I salvaged the small stuff from the house. My collection of Star Wars PC games was long gone, on Mars, maybe (KOTOR 2, Republic Commandos, Battlefront II, Jedi Outcast, Jedi Academy, Dark Forces II). I guess it'll be a few weeks until Frangible's killing trandos in RC multiplayer. We found my two PCs (hand-built by me, as befitting a /. reader), and my NEC crt monitor, its screen undamaged. One of my two Toshiba Portege laptops survived, but their docking stations are toast. Most of this stuff is sitting in a cousin's garage — I'm at another cousin's house. The four hard drives are probably all right, but is anything else? Oh wise men of /., is it even worth trying to get the monitor and the PCs running, or should I strip out the hard drives and build new machines? What's the probability that the monitor and the PCs will run? Time is crunched for me right now, and I don't have any space yet to tinker in. Should I strip out the hard drives and junk the rest? Any advice would be appreciated."

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