Comment The only winning move (Score 1) 328

by jgeiger on Tuesday January 15, 2013 @10:53AM (#42591037) Attached to: How Do You Detect Cheating In Chess? Watch the Computer

is not to play.

Comment Re:Solution (Score 2) 174

by jgeiger on Monday June 18, 2012 @05:54PM (#40364117) Attached to: Samsung Galaxy S3 Face Unlock Tricked By Photograph

Use someone *else's* face as your unlock.

Like Teddy Roosevelt.

And then put that picture as your login screen, so it'll log you in if you point at a mirror.

It'll still be a problem if Zombie Teddy Roosevelt steals your phone, but how likely is that...

So you now have a cell-phone that's only useful near mirrors.

And completely useless if you're a vampire.

Comment Re:umm... (Score 1) 116

by jgeiger on Saturday October 29, 2011 @08:54PM (#37883082) Attached to: Google Street View Moves Indoors

Why not? It's working just fine for Blizzard and World of Warcraft...

Comment Re:go (Score 1) 219

by jgeiger on Monday October 10, 2011 @01:18PM (#37665886) Attached to: Google Starts to Detail Dart

Go = backend
Dart = frontend

Comment Streaming in Blu-ray quality? (Score 1) 481

by jgeiger on Monday September 19, 2011 @09:37AM (#37440260) Attached to: Netflix Creates Qwikster For DVD Only Business

Until they stream in 1080p with full audio the online portion of the service is useless for me. I have a home theater with the big TV and big audio system so I can enjoy the whole movie. If I'm on a plane then streaming might make sense otherwise I want the physical disc quality.

Comment Re:Microsoft (Score 1) 661

by jgeiger on Thursday September 15, 2011 @10:40AM (#37409542) Attached to: Windows 8 Won't Support Plug-Ins; the End of Flash?

Leopards don't change their spots.

They just become snow leopards.

Comment So that's what he's been doing (Score 1) 961

by jgeiger on Thursday August 25, 2011 @01:11PM (#37208506) Attached to: Michael Mann Vindicated (Again) Over Climategate

since Miami Vice...

Comment I want less life, (Score 1) 288

by jgeiger on Friday August 19, 2011 @01:10AM (#37138380) Attached to: Ridley Scott To Direct New <em>Blade Runner</em> Movie

fucker.

Comment Also relevant xkcd (Score 1) 104

by jgeiger on Tuesday January 25, 2011 @03:45PM (#34998402) Attached to: Spam Levels Lowest Since 2009

http://xkcd.com/810/

Comment MISSION ACCOMPLISHED! (Score 1) 104

by jgeiger on Tuesday January 25, 2011 @03:40PM (#34998334) Attached to: Spam Levels Lowest Since 2009

We're done here guys. Nothing more to do.

Comment Seriously, a tie? (Score 1) 775

by jgeiger on Wednesday December 15, 2010 @04:24PM (#34565418) Attached to: First-Sale Doctrine Lost Overseas

Isn't the point of having 9 members on the Supreme Court to avoid ties? If they can't ALL take part they shouldn't be dealing with the case until they ALL can...

Comment Re:Agreed. (Score 1) 393

by jgeiger on Tuesday December 14, 2010 @02:53PM (#34549852) Attached to: Stallman Worried About Chrome OS

...Likewise I bought Final Fantasy 10 for $20 and have been playing it for ten years.

Not really very good at gaming, are you?

Comment Life finds a way... (Score 1) 478

by jgeiger on Thursday November 04, 2010 @12:34AM (#34120856) Attached to: Immaculate Conception In a Boa Constrictor

You're implying that a group composed entirely of female animals will... breed? No, I'm simply saying that life, uh... finds a way.

Comment Re:Blizzard (Score 2, Informative) 149

by jgeiger on Friday September 03, 2010 @07:25PM (#33471050) Attached to: Game Publishers Using Stealth P2P Clients

Blizzard lets you know but they have a very bad habit of using 100% of your upstream bandwidth which ends up slowing your download since you can't acknowledge all the incoming data fast enough. It may have gotten better but they still need to limit it to 90% or something.

Comment Great release (Score 5, Informative) 110

by jgeiger on Monday August 30, 2010 @09:13AM (#33414110) Attached to: Rails 3.0 Released

A lot of the changes have made the code much more modular. You don't need to include everything if you don't need it. This also allows you to plug in other database adapters if you want. One of the nice routing changes allows you to call Rack or Sinatra applications from within your Rails application. I'm really looking forward to using this going forward.