Hmm, for such a record attempt, do you actually have to calculate all these earlier digits? They're already known. Can anyone prove the computer calculated the already known digits first (instead of getting them from a table) before finally getting to the 120 million new ones?

No, it wasn't more than a WoW shard. It is also a much simpler game. And they continue to not be able to handle large scale battles when advertising the opposite.

While the above is fact, my opinion is it is an extremely boring game except for the people who can dedicate a lot of time to it. It is quite tedious to play as someone who only plays like 8 hours a week. I have tried to get in to it a few times and just die of boredom after a week or two.

I don't care if he DID set that up for himself, that is the absolute funniest post I have ever read on slashdot!

My educated guess is that they tried to bring the server to the knees with the load, then be assembled and ready for the restart and get an edge that way. Because even with a reinforced node, a group jumping in sync does not necessarily appear at the other end simultanously. Instead, my guess is the idea was to pop in, crash the server, log back in together and be actually assembled and battle ready while the other side is still trying to muster and/or log back in.

Unfortunately, the node didn't crash.

I have to admit, occasionally I'm not the good little computer geek I tend to be. I have a naughty side. A very naughty side sometimes. Not often, mind you, but even I have the urge from time to time, and...

Hey! Why do I have to explain myself? Like you never did it! Admit it! Everyone does it from time to time. And I'm on the 4th floor, not doing it would be a crime against nature. Those things hold WAY more water than the average balloon!

The RIAAs strategy seems to rely on people confusing downloading with uploading; the mere fact that I am downloading a song does not prove any intent by me to redistribute said content

To the best of my knowledge, all the lawsuits have been focused on distributors, not downloaders. So, far from them relying on people confusing the two, they have solely gone after the uploaders.

But traditionally, "small pieces" has been considered fair use.

Typically, using a small subsection is a necessary, but not sufficent, condition for fair use. Fair use turns on the motivation (commentary, satire, etc.) Since the purpose is to allow the entire file to be recreated, I doubt any reasonable fair use argument could be made.

It's analogous to arresting somebody for grand theft because they are the 100,000th person to steal a penny from the penny jar -- they haven't stolen $1[0,]000, they've only stolen $0.01!

It's more like going after a bank theif who steals a penny/dollar at a time. Even if they just moved one bill at a time, they may have stolen $10,000. and if the gang was so large their share is only $1, do we forgive the crime?

As much as such silliness may be in vogue, no its nothing of the sort.

The present law was written under very different conditions, with very different situations in mind, and political bickering and general incompetence prevents legislative change.

You might want to see a shrink, delusions of persecution are a major sign of schizophrenia.

And you know what INTERPOL's official business is in the U.S.? Handing information provided by other nations' police forces over to U.S. police forces. That's it.

Really? What about INTERPOL's official business in any other country? Same INTERPOL right? "Handing information provided by other nations' 'police forces'* (* hello INTERPOL via proxy) over to Brand X Nation"

Mr. Burke. I'm going to advise to bend over, open up and get ready for some good ol'fashion information gathering.... nope no one's gonna hear you scream.

But we would never have INTERPOL officers colluding outside of "national channels" even though they are the representative channels of a national police force!? Wait, what? ONE INTERPOL Doesn't talk to the other? Are these autonomous state sponcered diplomatically immune agencies? I asks because I'm curios. I'd like to know if INTERPOL NYC, talks with INTERPOL Paris.... maybe there is nothing of this but someone not signing has name enough and needing practice...

It was midichlorians. Happy now?

Not really gonna weigh in either way here, but Office 2007 has a free plugin from Microsoft that lets you print to PDF and it does preserve links.

Office 2007 SP2 aded built-in support for saving to PDF as well as support for the OpenDocument file formats.

Well, not to speak for ginko or non-science, but it's not like eating weeds that grow in exotic jungles hasn't helped save a life or two.

So that means that Paxil is equally ineffective?

That is completely false and was not interpreted that way until the 1960's when the Supreme Court decided to change the meaning of the constitution. The Fourteenth Amendment was written to give freedmen the rights to enter contracts, sue, and own property. This was done to override the Dred Scott decision.

Senator Blaine introduced what came to be known as the Blaine Amendment to remove the states' rights to control religion. Prior to being a senator Blaine was a representative and would have voted on the fourteenth amendment, so his understanding of the amendment would have been crystal clear, so the very fact that he submitted an additional amendment is very strong evidence against the argument that the Fourteenth Amendment was suppose to change the First.

There were discussions during the creation of the constitution about how a Supreme Court could virtually take over the country by changing the very meaning of the constitution, and that is what has happened on so many issues, particularly pertaining to any power held by the states. I think they got away with the 1960's decisions largely because the states no longer controlled the Senate.

A book I recommend everyone read is The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History by Thomas Woods. Very factual, no crackpot stuff and lots of references.

1-20: 2000% range
21-40: 100% range
41-60: 50% range
61-80: 33% range
81-100: 25% range
101+: infinite range

That's why the largest one always has an uptick. It's because it encompasses all the options above a certain value. You see it in legitimate surveys, like population charts: the 85+ category exceeds the 75-79 and 80-84 groups.