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Comment Re:Yawn... (Score 1) 164

by pasv on Wednesday December 29, 2010 @04:37PM (#34702968) Attached to: IBM Makes a Super Memory Breakthrough

Here is a press release from a couple of years ago basically trumpeting the same thing. I think it is policy to recycle this every so often to prop up their stock price.

You do have a valid point, the weekly view says it has been rising steadily since monday, but more than likely they made this "breakthrough" earlier and decided when to spit it as the stocks bottomed on a certain threshold. Just because the announcement was strategically planned does not mean that the breakthrough is any less real though.

Comment Re:Everyone does it (Score 1) 249

by pasv on Friday December 24, 2010 @01:55AM (#34658002) Attached to: Bank of America Buying Abusive Domain Names

Psychopaths have the ability to emulate morals, just like we emulate manners. I see no reason to exclude them from their current label. An evil pretending to be good is worse than a purely outward evil.

Comment Re:Pub, social, dollars (Score 1) 439

by pasv on Friday December 10, 2010 @01:15PM (#34515310) Attached to: Single-Player Game Model 'Finished,' Says EA Exec

I mean, just look at Star Craft 2! Oh, how the once-great have fallen; in Starcraft 1, you could use the second disk to create a multiplayer-only spawn install for an essentially unlimited number of LAN players; now, every single multiplayer game has to be authenticated via Battle.Net, even if it's just going to be played over the local network between two full copies of the game (which is, I suppose, something of a misnomer, because now there's nothing but full copies of the game).

As much as I love Starcraft 2 (Ive been a fanboi of sc for a decade) even I can agree blizzard has really dropped the ball on this issue. Just the other day I got booted at the net cafe because they ran out of sc2 logins and started reusing them (which causes the first player to get dropped...). This isnt my ideal gaming experience.

Comment dot dot dot (Score 0) 358

by pasv on Thursday March 26, 2009 @07:48PM (#27350741) Attached to: Huge Supernova Baffles Scientists

boom!

Comment Re:No way in hell! (Score 1) 690

by pasv on Sunday February 15, 2009 @10:40PM (#26868075) Attached to: Do We Need a New Internet?

Good bye net neutrality~

Submission + - Does Earth harbour shadow biosphere of alien life? (cosmosmagazine.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 15, 2009 @09:18PM

An anonymous reader writes: A 'shadow biosphere' of 'weird life' — unrelated to life as we know it — might exist on Earth, giving new insight into how common life is elsewhere in the universe, astrobiologists say.

Submission + - Does whitehouse.gov Need Tweaking?

Submitted by

theodp

on Sunday February 15, 2009 @04:55PM

theodp writes: "On Friday afternoon, the White House blog announced that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 was posted online for public comment. While it's a good indication that the President intends to fulfill a campaign promise to post legislation online and take public comment for five days before signing it, it's not great evidence of that, since the bill is likely to be signed Monday, three days after it was "pre-posted." Also, while the public is encouraged to use a form to "send us your thoughts, comments, and ideas," the feedback isn't shared with the public. Any thoughts on how this process could be improved?"

Submission + - Net Neutrality Still Alive?

Submitted by BuhDuh on Saturday February 14, 2009 @12:44PM

BuhDuh writes: Despite previous reports, and as subsequently discussed here on /., it appears that Sen. Feinstein's ammendment[pdf] did not make it into the approved "HR1 version of the bill[pdf]
Of course, I cannot aver to having read all 680 pages, but searching for the terms Ms. Feinstein used came up blank, so can we breathe a collective sigh of relief until someone tries to bury similar proposals in the next wide-ranging legislation?

Submission + - Pirate Bay - Pirate Bus En Route

Submitted by

IDOXLR8

on Saturday February 14, 2009 @10:48AM

IDOXLR8 writes: "The Harvard Law students defending accused file-swapper Joel Tenenbaum are doing their best to turn his upcoming trial into a media event, but when it comes to pure spectacle, they have nothing on The Pirate Bay. They are referring to the event as a "spectrial," a combination of "spectacle" and "trial." They have also set up a site where you can track their current location, complete with journal entries. The trial begins next Monday and comes complete with a live audio feed and Twitter translations."

Comment Re:operation of the air traffic control system (Score 1) 110

by pasv on Wednesday February 11, 2009 @01:26PM (#26815127) Attached to: FAA Network Hacked

It doesn't matter I'm afraid. The system is compromised because the people operating it are. The reason for this is simple, every piece of identifying information on those employees is leaked... Imagine what a decent social engineer could do with this information. Hell, with that information you wouldn't even need much talent to control the aviation systems. It's probably more stupid to attack this system from the network/computer vector because it's the most likely to be targeted.

Comment Re:Neat but.. (Score 4, Insightful) 207

by pasv on Wednesday February 04, 2009 @05:16PM (#26729753) Attached to: Malware Spreading Via ... Windshield Fliers?

My god, the frustrations I could take out on him!

Also, we could use violence.

Do you think the people putting these flyers on cars are the real authors. i could just as easily pay some little kid 40 bux worth of weed to go around that parking lot of that nice corporate office over there and put these flyers out :P

Comment Re:Open Source Old Games (Score 1) 402

by pasv on Wednesday October 15, 2008 @10:24PM (#25393695) Attached to: Blizzard Answers Your Questions, From Blizzcon

Totally a good point. If the Bliz releases the source of say, Starcraft: the most popular RTS game of all time, there is no telling what creative minds will pop up to expand the game to new heights. SC will be limited only to the creative minds of the avid fans. And I've seen some pretty spectacular hacks, it'd be interesting to see what happens when there's no need to go searching through memory for internal functions.

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