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Comment Oblig. Simpsons Quote (Score 1) 238

by jgbishop on Wednesday July 06, 2011 @07:48PM (#36677216) Attached to: Scientists Put an End To Smelly Socks

Another case of The Simpsons come to life.

Homer: So, a graduate student, huh? How come they can send a man to the moon but can't make my shoes smell good?
Ashley Grant: I'm sorry?
Homer: Ah, nobody's blamin' you.

Comment Re:Remember the simpsons (Score 1) 251

by jgbishop on Sunday November 14, 2010 @10:17PM (#34227254) Attached to: Google Preparing To Launch G-Town

I wonder if G-Town will have a hammock district?

Comment Re:Wikipedia to the rescue (Score 2, Funny) 199

by jgbishop on Thursday June 25, 2009 @04:30PM (#28471633) Attached to: IBM Claims Breakthrough In Analysis of Encrypted Data

Of course holes will be found. It's made out of a lattice!

Against Unknown Viruses, Avira AntiVir the Winner For Now 170

Posted by timothy on Thursday December 04, 2008 @03:37PM from the evolving-bleakosystem dept.

KingofGnG writes "AV-Comparatives, the Austrian team of experts dedicated to antivirus tests acknowledged as a reference point in the field, has published the second part of the mid-year comparative, an ideal addendum to the one already released last September. This time the aim is to evaluate the antimalware tools' effectiveness against unknown threats in a test scenario meant to prove the heuristic part and the generic markers of the on-demand scanning engines." The best in show (of 16 anti-malware packages evaluated), Avira AntiVir was able to find 71% of the unknown malware it was exposed to in the first week, dropping to 67% after the fourth.

Ars Examines Outlandish "Lost To Piracy" Claims and Figures 380

Posted by timothy on Thursday October 09, 2008 @02:03PM from the there-were-more-doubloons-here-I-swear-to-you dept.

Nom du Keyboard writes "For years the figures of $200 billion and 750,000 jobs lost to intellectual property piracy have been bandied about, usually as a cudgel to demand ever more overbearing copyright laws with the intent of diminishing of both Fair Use and the Public Domain. Now ARS Technica takes a look into origin and validity these figures and finds far less than the proponents of them might wish."

Comment Hooray! (Score 2, Interesting) 92

by jgbishop on Wednesday May 24, 2006 @07:02PM (#15398049) Attached to: Half-Life Episode 1 Gold, Details on 2 and 3

While I'm not certain that the "episodic content" model will work in the long run, I'm very excited about these new chapters in the Half-Life universe. Half-Life 2 was an excellent game and I'm looking forward to playing through Episode One (an odd name if ever there were one). Hopefully the content in this expansion will match HL2's quality.

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