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Comment Re:Oh dear.... (/me wipes drool) (Score 1) 88

Ah gotcha. I wish there were more strategy games across all platforms. About the only type of game made these days is FPS. I have all three major consoles and the only one that offers something different is the Wii, and it has possibly the best interface for an FPS game. That's strange. PC games once had more variety however. They seemed to be more "thinking" games while console games were more action-only. I wish the "quest" games would come back. My favorite RTS so far has been Empire Earth I and II. I wasn't a big fan of III.

Comment Re:Plasma? (Score 1) 417

Man, I'm a troll but he didn't say anything about it being bad for your eyesight. You just wanted to seem intelligent for knowing that. Did you learn that from Penn&Teller? I mean I'll admit that's where I first heard that it wasn't bad for your eyes to watch TV real close. It seems like it would be bad for your eyes. It is, after all, staring into a bright object. It would seem that it would burn something. Listening to loud music messes up your ears. It's only natural to assume that staring into a bright object at close range would mess up your sight.

At any rate, he didn't say it was bad for your eyes.

Also, to follow the argument, CRTs are heavy, become blurry, can be perfect in one spot and then curved or distorted in another no matter how much you adjust it, use more electricity, and take up much more space. I would much rather have a couple dead pixels than adjust another damn CRT ever.

Feed Techdirt: Oops, Your Balance Is: ($211,010,028,257,303.00) (techdirt.com) 2

A few years ago, an honest Virginia man reported a bank error that resulted in an extra $1.8 million dollars in his bank account -- not once, but three times. Where did all of that money come from? Perhaps they have now found the source. This week, a Georgia man was notified that he had a negative balance of $211 trillion at his Wachovia bank account. His debt makes the national debt, which is only slightly over $9 trillion, seem like small potatoes. Luckily for him, Wachovia reports that the balance was caused by an isolated banking error, and that he was not liable for any charges related to the negative balance. In this case, the error was that his account number was entered in place of his balance. Like the $218 trillion phone bill we saw in 2006, why are errors of this magnitude not be caught by some sort of bounds checking algorithm in the bank's software? Furthermore, if an error this size gets through all of the checks and balances, then what other, less noticeable errors are falling through the cracks every day?

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Submission + - SCO Admitting the End My Be Near?

inetsee writes: "According to Groklaw, SCO has admitted in a 10K filing that if the court grants any or all of IBM's six motions for summary judgement, 'We can not guarantee whether our claims against IBM or Novell will be heard by a jury.'"
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Developing Java Software 170

Simon P. Chappell writes "It's good to learn a programming language, but it's a far better thing to learn to write programs in that language. What the world needs are less programming language books and more books on programming with the language of your choice. Enter Developing Java Software, 3rd edition by Russel Winder and Graham Roberts. Dr. Winder is the primary author and I became aware of this book when he mentioned it on the Groovy mailing list. Knowing him to be an intelligent and helpful member of the Groovy development team, I rushed to suggest that I could review it for him." Read the rest of Simon's review.

DRM Hole Sets Patch Speed Record For Microsoft 397

puppetman writes "Wired columnist Bruce Schneier has an article up called 'Quickest Patch Ever', about a patch that was issued within three days to fix a vulnerability in Windows Digital Rights Management (DRM)." From the article: "Now, this isn't a 'vulnerability' in the normal sense of the word: digital rights management is not a feature that users want. Being able to remove copy protection is a good thing for some users, and completely irrelevant for everyone else. No user is ever going to say: 'Oh no. I can now play the music I bought for my PC on my Mac. I must install a patch so I can't do that anymore.' But to Microsoft, this vulnerability is a big deal. It affects the company's relationship with major record labels. It affects the company's product offerings. It affects the company's bottom line. Fixing this 'vulnerability' is in the company's best interest; never mind the customer."

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