If you worry about overhead spy photos being taken of something, don't build it to look like a target.

If you want the overhead google map picture of something to look blurry, build it so the overhead view of it looks blurry.

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"I think Bigfoot is blurry, thatâ(TM)s the problem. Itâ(TM)s not the photographerâ(TM)s fault. Bigfoot is blurry. And thatâ(TM)s extra scary to me, because thereâ(TM)s a large, out-of-focus monster roaming the countryside. Run. Heâ(TM)s fuzzy. Get outta here." ~Mitch Hedberg

Some people are driven to unlock a cure for cancer. Others, the origin of navel lint.

As it turns out, belly button lint is curable by shaving your treasure trail. Cancer, not so easy.

Right now the stations are broadcasting in both analog AND digital, meaning they are putting up the power for 2 signals instead of one.

Once you shutdown the analog signal, you can boost the power to just the Digital signal, giving a far better range. Or for those already at full power to digital already you save on overall electricity costs. a megawatt of electricity isn't cheap, especially at peak rates.

All but PBS comes in like crap on digital for me right now. Yet the analog signals come in static free. So go figure about what "quality" actually means with digital vs analog.

I've gotten into a ~6 month routine of doing this. I have a 40 GB HD that gets the main windows install. After that I have a 160GB drive I dump all my program installation files, pictures, music, ect. Finally a RAID setup that has my games installed into for faster load times, and an extrenal backup as well for ensuring my pictures and music don't get lost.

Every 6 months XP will lag uncontrollably, and I'll start the ritualistic reinstall of Windows and all the applications I love and need. The C drive gets wiped clean, and everything gets a fresh install. 30 mins to get Windows started, 30 mins to install all the hardware drivers, and another 30 mins to setup all the other visuals like background, screansaver, internet bookmarks, and various desktop shortcuts.

I know what you're thinking. That's a lot of effort, and what if I forget to save some of my important stuff in the reinstallation? Well the alternative is that you wait til Windows completely bugs out and you get BSODs on startup, requiring you to do this anyways. I've had that happen and it sucks. Everyone should know how to backup their important stuff anyhow. Because if you don't you're just waiting for trouble to hit.

As inconvenient as it is to spend a few hours reinstalling windows, I find it more annoying to sit at a computer that takes 2x longer to load everything, freezes up when you don't want it do, and potentially crashes and corrupts the files you thought you could save forever.

1. Every game you buy can be downloaded as a backup and saved wherever you like "permanently" (at least as long as your backup lasts).

2. You don't need to log in to play those games any time after they've been verified through Steam the first time you play it. They are all playable in "offline" mode.

3. If you don't like this, you can always buy hard copy games.

Seconded for Ein

An AI computer construct centralized in an underground bunker.

It might also interest you to know that all the extra profits from their high priced glossy peripherals is funding their new weapon's division. They plan on riding out the recession by grabbing military contract money. Their major new project is dubbed the iMissle.

I just built an i7 system, splurged on a few nicer options and ended up at just about $1000 for the build. Had I been more fiscal:
MB = $250
i7 920 = $300
3GB Ram = $100
PSU = $100
Case = $50
Total = $800

But if you already have an AM2 MB, a $250 upgrade puts you back in the ballpark of being on the cutting edge. If someone wants to save $650 on a full system upgrade, it makes a lot of sense to me.

My previous job downsized it's Engineering division, moved it to Cincinnati, and left me without a job to pay my mortgage.

6 months later I moved to a new state, found a job that pays 25% more for 1/2 the work. ...I still can't sell my house though. The bank doesn't even want to take it. I'm having troubles even short selling it.

You might me lucky, but my luck seems to be bittersweet.

If anyone has ever worn sunglasses while looking at an LCD monitor, you quickly discover that tilting your head causes the screen to go black in specific orientations.

Hasn't anyone tried to manufacture an LCD with alternating LCD polarity between adjacent lines of pixels? Mounting cheap polarized films on any frame is all you'd need to split the monitor image between left and right eye. No shutter frames needed, the video card merely splits an image into stripes for the left and right eye at normal refesh rates. Same idea as "progressive scanning" images on some HDTVs

Tom's is way better. If I want to upgrade my PC or video card, they actually do proper benchmarks and realistic budgets. I may never have triple SLI, but only because I don't feel like dropping another $500 on video cards for relatively minimal fps gains.

I dropped a grand on a new i7 system last week. Primarily because I was tied of my old Opteron 170 rig, but a good deal because I'd been influenced by the Tom's hardware midprice build. A grand is not "budget."

Sure, it's 9 years later. But there's no reason to count out Microsoft from being behind the curve.

Yet you post on Slashdot?

It burns!

Send it back to the depths of Hell whence it came!

Wouldn't that be an a-C-ist?