I'm sorry. You were complaining about a news (Yes, news) story about a talk from CCC (Which is highly popular with, and immensely relevant for, nerds), posted on Phoronix (A website that devotes itself almost entirely to information, news and reviews on hardware and software from a Linux-based perspective), about a lot (120+) of security holes (Things that matter) in the X11/X.org servers (Which are the basis for (almost) all GUI-driven applications in Linux, *BSD and some of OSX).

By my count, that makes this story "News", "For Nerds", and "Stuff that matters". Oh, and the irony in posting that Phoronix is a "Link Farm" on /. is almost entirely palpable.

Probably one of these: http://www.realtruck.com/images/products/curt-trailer-hitch-multi-ball-mounts-class-iii/thumbs-480x360/curt-trailer-hitch-multi-ball-mounts-class-iii.jpg The aforementioned "Three Prongs" are to accomodate the 3 different sizes of trailer ball receiver there currently are on the market with a single unit.

How on earth did this get +2 "Interesting"? The ravings of a madman (Really! No mixed-fibre clothing! No shellfish! No shaving of any part of the head! And Heathens are perfectly fine to buy as slaves. And let's not forget "An eye for an eye") whose ideas of morality and correctness were way out of line when the "Good Book" was written (4-legged insects are unclean! As is pretty much everything else, ever!) has precisely what bearing on our lives?

If you want to live by the rules Leviticus (and most of the rest of the Old Testament) dictates, do feel free. I'm sure such draconian dictates will ensure you die an early death as you struggle to deal with impossible to live up to standards, "Original Sin", and pre-medieval healthcare (Really! Even Obamacare is better than the crap in Leviticus for dealing with illness!).

Of course, there is always the possibility that you are merely trying to force your ideals down everyone else's throat, and grabbing the very first passage from the very worst parts of John's Book of Ravings that enables you to take a supposedly pious and "Enlightened" stance on something that has been socially acceptable since at least 800BC.

Or you're a troll, using a quasi-religious stance to get a rise out of the /. community. In which case, well done. You got me.

Well, I knew it was one way round. And I also know that 1/3rd of mine aren't working properly.

And it depends on what part of the eye you're talking about. The Rods (The detail-oriented parts of the eye) see at around 30Hz. The Cones (The black-and-white but higher light sensitivity and faster responding parts) see at around 70Hz. This is why CRT monitors were recommended to be set at 72Hz or higher to avoid eyestrain - at 60Hz the Rods couldn't see the flickering of the display, but the Cones could, and the disparity caused headaches (You could also see the effect if you looked at a 60Hz monitor through your peripheral vision - it appears to shimmer).

Maybe, but there are some enterprising people working on it

There is the "iDisplay" app, and I believe there's a port of VNC too, but they're nowhere near low enough latency for this. And I'm not suggesting using android phones, just their displays (Which are generally speaking, standard sizes).

In fact, as they were showing, this display has a wider horizontal FOV than you can actually see, leading to wasted space. They also seem to be using last-gen 7" tablet displays (1280x720 or 1280x800), which are good, but something like the display from an iPhone 5S on each side would make it lighter, higher resolution, and somewhat more immersive. Though it also seems to me that this system could be driven by most higher-end video cards natively (albeit with an added software shader to create the fisheye-like effect needed for the fresnel lenses). So make a standard head-tracking mount, with modular and interchangable displays that run off a standard connector (MicroHDMI, for instance, or Micro DisplayPort). You could even have the same lenses, so it's just the display being changed, and then the displays themselves could also be used as tertiary information displays on systems. It would give the product longevity, and upgradability, and would require no software changes (Other than to pick the new, higher resolution for the displays in-game), and no hardware changes to the HMD if you use a standard size and mounting (5" smartphone screen, say).

You mean like this one

The thing with graphics improvements is that GPUs are getting better in linear scale, but quality improvements need to happen in logarithmic scale. Going from 100 polys to 200 polys looks like a huge leap, but going from 10,000 polys to 10,100 polys doesn't. I personally think the next big thing will be on-card raytracing (As NVidia has already demonstrated some). Massively parallel raytracing tasks are like candy for GPGPUs, but there is a lot of investment in Rasterising at the moment, so that is their current go-to method.

Sorry, but as Webster's dictionary notes:

Obduct
Ob*duct"\, v. t. [See Obduce.] To draw over; to cover. [Obs.]

So this isn't made up (At least, not by Cyan) at all. Perhaps you should endeavour to expand your vocabulary somewhat. Or, to put it in terms you might more easily understand: "Use dictionary, learn words, speak better."

Time flows the same in England as it does in the US, and they get the information at the same instant as the US (Barring marginal transmission delays). If it was a case of hours and timezones, I might agree with you somewhat, but as the freakin' summary quotes: "During an experiment in late September," (Emphasis mine).

Even assuming that means September 30th, that's 7 days the US press has had to sit on this. At that point, the fact that the UK is 5-7 hours ahead doesn't make an iota of difference (Well, technically I guess it makes 4.1666% of difference, but that's hardly the point).

Oh, and why is <sup> getting stripped out of /. HTML?

Half-Life 2: Episode 2, Part 2. 'cause everyone knows VALVe can't count to 3. On another note, I'm surprised they didn't have this already trademarked.

And, because nobody asked for it, but I might as well while I'm playing, re-skinned the comments section to look a little more familiar. Stylish preset is now on pastebin.

Oh, and with the extra width, the "Hero" images don't look as stupid either (After a tiny bit of tweaking). The frontpage images also float nicely, with a touch more tweaking.