Bizzeh - Slashdot User

Comment: Bias... (Score 0) 753

by Bizzeh on Wednesday December 14, @04:40PM (#38376092) Attached to: Firefox Too Big To Link On 32-bit Windows

This is something that just "will be fixed at some point" with firefox and everyone seems to accept it. If the same story came out about IE, all of slashdot would be in uproar about how ridiculous it is and how bloated the whole process and application must be to require so much memory to do such a simple task such as linking... Not sure why i read slashdot any more, seems to just say "its open source, so its just better, no matter what the feature base or the bugs or the lack of support, its just better" which is just blind idiocy...

NASA beginning into research into tractor beams-> 0

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Bizzeh

on Tuesday November 01, @02:27PM

Bizzeh writes "From the BBC, "US space agency Nasa has funded a study of "tractor beams" to gather samples for analysis in future missions.

The $100,000 (£63,000) award will be used to examine three laser-based approaches to do what has until now been the stuff of science fiction.""
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DigiNotar files for voluntary bankruptcy-> 0

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on Tuesday September 20, @06:34PM

Bizzeh writes "The BBC writes that "Dutch security firm DigiNotar has filed for voluntary bankruptcy following a series of attacks by a hacker." Seems like the attack did more than damage systems, it damaged DigiNotar's reputation beyond repair"
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Are Small Rocky Worlds Naked Gas Giants?-> 0

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astroengine

on Saturday September 17, @02:51PM

astroengine writes "The "core accretion" model for planetary creation has been challenged (or, at least, modified) by a new theory from University of Leicester astrophysicists Seung-Hoon Cha and Sergei Nayakshin. Rather than small rocky worlds being built "bottom-up" (i.e. the size of a planet depends on the amount of material available), perhaps they were once the cores of massive gas giant planets that had their thick atmospheres stripped after drifting too close to their parent stars? This "top-down" mechanism may also help explain how smaller worlds were formed far from their stars only to drift inward toward the habitable zone."
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Court Reinstates $675k File Sharing Verdict-> 0

Submitted by FunPika on Saturday September 17, @06:20AM

FunPika writes "A federal appeals court on Friday reinstated a whopping $675,000 file sharing verdict that a jury levied against a Boston college student for making 30 tracks of music available on a peer-to-peer network. The decision by the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reverses a federal judge who slashed the award as “unconstitutionally excessive.” U.S. District Judge Nancy Gertner of Boston reduced the verdict to $67,500, or $2,250 for each of the 30 tracks defendant Joel Tenenbaum unlawfully downloaded and shared on Kazaa, a popular file sharing peer-to-peer service. The Recording Industry Association of America and Tenenbaum both appealed in what has been the nation’s second RIAA file sharing case to ever reach a jury. The Obama administration argued in support of the original award, and said the judge went too far when addressing the constitutionality of the Copyright Act’s damages provisions. The act allows damages of up to $150,000 a track."
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Sony asks gamers to sign new terms or face PSN ban-> 0

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Bizzeh

on Friday September 16, @05:33PM

Bizzeh writes "Sony is preparing to ban gamers from the PlayStation Network (PSN) unless they waive the right to collectively sue it over future security breaches."
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Comment: Re:"So why aren't we doing it?" (Score 0) 990

by Bizzeh on Saturday August 27, @02:56PM (#37229416) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Could We Deal With the End of Time Zones?

your clock, and what it says, is actually denoted by the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwich_Mean_Time

UK Government not trying to switch off facebook-> 0

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Bizzeh

on Friday August 26, @06:44AM

Bizzeh writes "The bbc reports that the UK government and police have not sought any new powers to shut social networks, according to the Home Office after a meeting with industry representatives."
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Comment: Re:Xbox 360 - Worst Console In History (Score -1) 209

by Bizzeh on Monday August 22 2011, @03:59PM (#37171574) Attached to: Microsoft Pursues WebOS Devs, Offers Free Phones

Firstly, this is off topic.. secondly

where do you get 65% failure rate from? made it up? or found it on some sony or nintendo or anti-microsoft website? either way, its bollocks. a 65% failure rate would have caused any product ever to have been made to be scrapped.

run most multiplatform games side by side, 360 holds up to PC and ps3 quite well... i know this because i have all 3...

8.5gb of usable space doesnt create a nightmare beyond, "you have to compress your pcm and tiff to ac3 and png" on the most part. all cross ports are built for the 360 first, and then the uncompressed textures and audio are put in place on a ps3 version... the same compressed content is actually used on the PC, which also uses "gimped last gen dvd drives"....

according to game.co.uk, there are over 1100 games for the 360 and less than 700 for the PS3. there are also more high quality games on the 360 compared to the 4 games that the ps3 has that the 360 doesnt.

eye toy comparason would be the 360 webcam, kinect is a 3D motion tracking system. actually look into it.

buy a 360 and a sony bluray player... ohh look at that, you have spent less than what a ps3 costs...

controller weighs roughly the same as a psx/ps2/ps3 controller and was voted by wired as the best controller in the market.

use a laptop or a pc... a games console isnt a pc.

fair enough, the only point you have in this entire long list of utter horse shit is that avatars are based on Mii's, but are far better and less gay.

take your head out of sony/nintendo's arse and take 2 minutes to actually look at the bollocks comes from your keyboard.

you arnt forced to pay anything, you choose to play online.

ripoff accessory prices? where is your backup? last lot of accessories i bought were 2 battery packs and 2 charger cables. both official, £12 each from tesco... not bad really.

US military loses hypersonic aircraft-> 0

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Bizzeh

on Saturday August 13 2011, @01:41PM

Bizzeh writes "According to the BBC, the US military has lost its new experimental hypersonic aircraft. The Falcon Hypersonic Test Vehicle 2 (HTV-2) successfully separated from its rocket but lost contact shortly into its "glide phase"."
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