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Comment Security of the inept. (Score 1) 512

Security has become enough of a concern for Final Fantasy XI players that browser recommendations and plugin advice abounds on almost every site and forum anymore. Years of playtime lost to a compromised account can go for months before being restored by Square-Enix.

Security became enough of a concern that one enigmatic third-party developer has banned IE6 users from his site for their own protection (IE6 accesses redirect to that page), because even his own site has been hijacked, exploited, and injected with iFrames and scripts to steal credentials and push keylogging and hijacking methods.

I think the standard response to users of IE6 not being able to access pages when the security of their own browser is more important to them than they know is 'Tough Shit'.

Comment Re:Still gonna suck. (Score 1) 589

By your mention of 'unfilmable' I could pose that Watchmen was considered unfilmable on the same virtues of complexity and such. The Watchmen movie gets the same treatment now as the 1984 Dune movie; the visuals are perfect, but the acting and script fail to convey the entirety of the source material.

Comment Re:Real or trained response (Score 1) 643

I'm of the following that psychological reaction turning into physiological reaction is the entire mechanism of allergies in the first place.

Many of my friends growing up who had Bee-sting allergies said they were stung multiple times at a young age and the allergy developed, which instead suggests to me that psychological trauma attributed to the pain and swelling is what develops the severe reaction.

Comment Hit my Garmin too. (Score 1) 269

Last year I had my Garmin GPS's traffic module enabled for a year 'subscription', which is effectively a code that tells the unit 'enable yourseilf until xxx date'. It expired a few months ago. Now, come Jan 1st, 2010, its magically back on without any reactivation. Not sure if I want to tell them straight away, I, and many others I'm sure, just saved $70 by their programming error.

Comment Re:Subtitles? (Score 3, Interesting) 157

What they're being specific about is where in the third dimension the subtitles are placed. If you have a space or city scene at mostly infinite focus, its a major strain to suddenly focus on screen-depth subtitles.

This issue has been around a long time in first-person-shooter titles when using any of several 3d methods, including the shutter glasses once sold by E-Dimensional and now NVidia and even just red/blue anaglyph, when attempting to aim with a flat screen-depth reticle at an object at much further focus (real gun sights do not utilize binocular vision) and each eye views the reticle to be aimed at a different point.

It would actually take some artistic meddling and forethought for each scene of a movie as to where the subtitles should be placed. The same depth as whichever character is talking should suffice.

Comment Re:All you slim theoreticians... (Score 1) 978

Was fixing for a good place to chime in with the same 'parallel science' approach already run the gamut.

The fat gives you extra weight for exercises like push-ups, sit-ups or pull-ups. Sure you use more energy but don't neglect the psychological effect, how miserable and ashamed you feel without breath after two push-ups.

Theres plenty of discussion about losing fat only to gain muscle, and having all that weight in the first place can turn any exercise into having a strength-training component. Exercising heavy is like being on the weight machine for anything you do, while light persons have to find more strain (by specifically doing weight training) to build that same amount of muscle mass.

Comment Re:Don't see why this is a problem (Score 1) 1364

Or even, as confusing as the referendum itself is, they didn't even really know what they were signing. Or their intention was merely to put things to a vote without any personal tilt. More spectacular, I find, is the careful organization of the referendum that voting against it will repeal the civil union law and all rights granted. Likely this same underhanded strategy was employed in obtaining signatures, even to the degree of 'sign this petition to initiate a referendum to uphold the rights of same-sex unions', even though its a blatantly anti-gay maneuver.

Comment Re:What about the need for uniformity? (Score 3, Interesting) 405

When you take most tests, the test takers take this in to account and force you to reset your calculators, deleting all of your programs that you could have stored your notes in. There is no way to check for a different OS

Except this is easily circumvented by faking a memory reset in the calculator's own programming. There are even assembly-programmed 'calculator in a calculator' tricks through ZShell and other means to even make the calculator appear to have wiped itself clean and empty, even a fake and working 'memory' screen and an apparently complete working emulation of the base calculator (Xzibit would be proud). One little button combo or phrase and the calculator exits the fakeout to access whatever you like, and can even be put back to the emulation by a panic button.

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