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Comment Re:Wait... (Score 1) 386

It isn't. The only copies of Avatar are cams - there is no R5 yet, much less a 3D version. If you stumbled upon something like that, rest assured it's a fake, used as a honeypot by the MAFIAA, or contains an exe with malware.

I'd reply telling you it's not fake but I'm currently too busy oogling blue babe boobies (3B?) hovering in front of my face...

Comment Re:No Fate But What We Make For Ourselves... (Score 1) 386

Someone said Avatar has smoking hot 10 foot tall alien women? I am SO there for that...

Why? If you think you're hung about average for someone who's average height (about 6 foot), how will you compare to their usual blue-headed monsters?

The answer to that question is curiously similar to the answer for this question:

Q: How can you tell when a woman has reached orgasm?
A: Who cares?

Comment Re:I do use it, but only to some level. (Score 1) 263

Wouldn't implementing this stop most external mailing lists from sending one of your user's email back to himself (or worse, that email from your user to another user of your system)?

My system has been receiving a bunch of spam as described looking like it comes from domain but the envelope is external. Several users (including myself) are active on various mailing lists, so it seems I have my hands tied unless I construct a white list - which would be high maintenance and piss users off until it hit critical mass.

Comment Re:CRT? Are you from the past? (Score 2, Interesting) 393

What is the capability difference between their overpriced "partnered" LCD monitors and my 120Hz-capable CRT? Two things: Jack and Shit.

I wonder if CRT persistence would become a problem at that high of a refresh rate. I had a similar system (Asus had 3D goggles that were tied to a dongle on the VGA port, pre-DVI) but the 3D would get really blurry at refresh rates higher than 60Hz due to phosphor persistence (essentially 30Hz per eye, though it's probably not that simple since they're alternating). IIRC, that 60Hz was interlaced as well.

Made for some serious migraines, but it was neat to play Descent II in 3D for 15 minutes at a time until my head asplode.

I do have a 120Hz LCD monitor now, but I haven't sunk the extra dollars in for the 3D glasses. I love the frame rates I'm getting now - movement in FPSers are liquid smooth... very reminiscent of my CRT days, but I'm not sure I want to revisit the 3D stuff again until I see more user feedback.

Comment Re:I've done similar experiments before... (Score 5, Funny) 237

Dear eldavojohn - thank you very much for your interest in our research.

Unfortunately data collected on targetted facial responses is strictly limited to third-party hear-say information since the data collection stopped shortly after levitation was achieved due to personal safety risks to the research team if they were to have remained on-site. The time period of this research predates the "YouTube" era, and indeed no video recording devices were available that wouldn't prove too bulky for safe movement during the personnel evacuation window.

While my submission cannot be considered authoritative in this subject by peer review, it is refreshing to see other researchers interested in this field of study.

Good day to you and keep your head down!

Comment Re:Um, here's a thought. (Score 1) 849

That would never work... Us mods assume the commenters read something (TFA? summary? other comments?) and we just pick the ones that might have something to do with something based on some criteria... But if the mods had to read TFA as you propose, then why should commenters have to read TFA as well?

You're confusing me...

Comment Re:Wait... (Score 5, Insightful) 186

Funny, but this is a serious credibility whack as their products are considered top notch for business. They'll find out when they interfere with business being done, it's a long fall down...
Somehow I think someone in management is busy whacking the undo button as furiously as possible as the media exposure rises.

Comment Re:There goes my argument... (Score 4, Funny) 171

I've always wondered about the sanity of fully screening flight crews after an episode I witnessed a few months after 9/11...

A few flight attendants cut in line in front of me just before the x-ray machines at the terminal security (which they are entitled to do, no complaints if they're cute) and the last one through set off the metal detector and had to be wanded. She asked the TSA guy "uhhh, what exactly are you looking for, anyway?"
He replied, "anything you may have on your person that you could use to attempt to gain access to the cockpit." That seemed like a logical and fairly intelligent response from someone moments away from digging through my skivvies on my carry-on to find the suspicious USB cable.
That is, until she pulled the key that was on a laniard around her neck into the open, and remarked, "Oh, you mean something like THIS?"

*facepalm*

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