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Comment Re:And "From Dust" (Score 2) 261

This is one of the games that I was really looking forward to, but I'm not going to support "always connected" DRM. Thankfully I looked it up and it appears that the decision for this game has been reversed.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/111941-From-Dust-Always-On-DRM-Rumors-Denied-UPDATED
*Check the update

Unfortunately the reversal only went part-way. Apparently the game will still phone-home on launch, though, which is basically as bad.
http://www.shacknews.com/article/69474/from-dust-pc-doesnt-use-always-online-drm

Yeah, I'm not buying it.

Comment Re:Welcome to the internet. (Score 2) 175

Also:

* Type /sign for your IRC star-chart reading

* Type +++ for your 1200 baud modem speed doubler

Also, since you're new to the club I'd like to offer you a leech account on our private warez site - use your existing login name and password when you ftp to 127.0.0.1

Quit giving away my warez hosting site! I told you to keep that a secret.

Comment Re:Preventing a murder-by-cop. (Score 1) 203

a) From the article: "Got a cute 'Hostage' huh," Valdez wrote of the photographs. Not to mention other comments, but that should be enough.

b) Also from the article: "Well i was lettin this girl go but these dumb bastards made an attempt to come in after i told them not to, so i popped off a couple more shots and now were startin all over again it seems....."

Comment Re:Who? (Score 3, Informative) 124

Oh, it is two different people. I need to read closer.

A is 24, B is 26. A left hand, B is right hand. A was electrocuted, B was in an accident.

This article was kind of confusingly laid out, but I understand now. Go ahead and mark this thread down for "inability to read".

Comment Who? (Score 2) 124

The summary (and later in the article):

He lost the use of his left hand after being electrocuted at work.

The article:

The patient, a Serbian national who has lived in Austria since childhood, suffered injuries to a leg and shoulder when he skidded off his motorcycle and smashed into a lamppost in 2001 while on holiday in Serbia.

Milo used a hybrid hand before deciding on the operation
While the leg healed, what is called a "brachial plexus" injury to his right shoulder left his right arm paralysed. Nerve tissue transplanted from his leg by Professor Aszmann restored movement to his arm but not to his hand.

I don't get it. Are they talking about two different people in the same article? They seem to be referencing the same person, but for some reason writing two articles on the same page about it.

I'm confused, I think.

Comment Re:Yeah, Right (Score 1) 287

Wouldn't it make more sense for the "I herd you like conspiracy theories" to be parsed as equivalent to "I place you in the appropriate place in the same fashion as conspiracy theories would"?

So, he puts you in a basement with a tinfoil hat. That might even be creepier.

Comment Re:So? (Score 1) 146

Boo hoo, cry me a river. There's enough profit incentive in lending that they'll figure something out.

That was the next paragraph.

If it became illegal to use SSNs for this purpose, then everyone would get lumped in the same risk pool. People who are good about paying their bills on time would see their rates and fees go up. People who are deadbeats and delinquents would see their rates and fees go down. Pretty obviously, that'd be bad for the economy as a whole.

I agree with what he said, and really REALLY don't want to be an anonymous lender (lendee?).

Comment Re:Not really (Score 1) 327

Like I said in another place:
I wish people would stop mentioning her. Yes it's impressive, but not what this article's about.
1) She stayed in the airplane the whole time. She was also pinned under a catering trolly, which probably worked like a seatbelt.
2) The airplane hitting trees to slow down is MUCH more preferable to your body hitting the trees.
3) The plane didn't even fall from that high. According to the 2009 report it was a much lower height.
4) There's much more impressive people with stories that are actually true:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Magee
WW2 guy's plane gets shot over France, he gets out but finds his parachute is damaged, falls 22,000 feet and goes through a glass roof of a train station that "softens" his fall
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Alkemade
Another WW2 gunner who's plane gets shot. It lights on fire, his parachute was destroyed in the fire, so he decides to jump instead of burning alive. He fell 18,000 feet AND ONLY SUFFERED A SPRAINED LEG.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Chisov
Again, WW2 flier who's plane was shot over Germany. His plan was to avoid being a target was to wait to deploy his parachute until he got below the battle, unfortunately it backfired because he lost consciousness. He hit a ravine and had some fairly serious injuries but was flying 3 months later.

THESE stories are what people should be pointing at for this article.

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