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Re: BSG 2 |
Oct 12, 2006, 10:23 |
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Who is the six (Tricia Helfer) that Baltar keeps seeing/nailing? Is she really just a figment of his imagination?
The one in his head is clearly in his head. Nobody else sees or hears her. It's not clear, however, if she's a construct of his subconscious, if she's a program implanted by the Six that was on Caprica when the cylons attacked, or if he's actually a cylon himself...
Note that the one that nearly exposed him was a different Six. She had no apparant knowledge of the one in his head. In fact, nobody appears to know about the one in his head except him... but that one does seem to know a great deal about the cylons and stuff that he shouldn't know otherwise.
Really, this is one of the big secrets of the show; we don't know yet, nor are we supposed to know.
Oh, and note that the Six that nearly exposed him also disappeared from the Galactica without a trace. So there's precedent for at least Six being able to get around on Battlestars without being detected. Can other models? Dunno.
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| News Comments > Op Ed |
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Re: CS |
Oct 11, 2006, 15:29 |
Zathrus |
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Even if it's down to $50 a month, we're at $50 million a year
I'd guess that a lot of those aren't on dedicated hosting services, but being run by people on campus networks, a home network, etc. Those are "free".
And, of course, there's the businesses/ISPs that put up servers for no cost (to anyone but themselves).
There must be a ton of empty servers, and a few loaded ones
Which is how it is for every single online FPS I've ever seen. Largely because those freebie servers (above) often can't handle more than 2-3 remote players, if that.
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| News Comments > Morning Legal Brief |
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Re: No subject |
Oct 11, 2006, 15:25 |
Zathrus |
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That it's god damned easy to sue someone, and that patching an OS isn't.
Ah, so that's why they can push out a patch to fix holes in their DRM in a day or two, but patches to fix security leaks can take weeks or months?
Gotcha.
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Re: BSG |
Oct 11, 2006, 15:06 |
Zathrus |
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What the hell is taking so long?
I'm busy with work for once, and when I'm at home I'm busy with the house and kids.
As for Tumbler, I give up. I've told him three times and it won't sink in. Maybe he'll eventually figure out that nobody on the planet gets to watch new BSG episodes in HD except the studio execs. Yes, Universal HD (which is on DirecTV and some cable networks) shows BSG in real HD, but they're all reruns... usually from the previous season if you're lucky.
Of course, wanting to destroy a show just so you can watch the shitty remnants of it in HD is so utterly absurd it could only come from his mouth.
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| News Comments > Evening Tech Bits |
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Re: IDF Prague: Terascale Computing |
Oct 11, 2006, 10:33 |
Zathrus |
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You are correct. The author of the article fails Physics.
And the effect has been confirmed, repeatedly. It's one of the things that makes GPS systems work.
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| News Comments > Into the Black |
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Re: TPIR |
Oct 10, 2006, 23:15 |
Zathrus |
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I don't get sci-fi in HD
Dude, you are an idiot.
Nobody gets SciFi in HD. Are you thinking about UniversalHD, which is a completely and utterly seperate thing?
And cheering about it moving it to NBC just so you can get it in HD is stupid when they're likely to end up completely and utterly raping the show in the process. The networks have a long and unglorious history of doing exactly that.
What a disaster.
Oh, and frankly, as Heather put it -- do you really want to see every acne scar on Edward James Olmos's face in HD?
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| News Comments > Morning Safety Dance |
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Re: Spamhaus |
Oct 9, 2006, 13:53 |
Zathrus |
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The way to do it is to protect antispam organizations from lawsuits
Yeah, because that's not a legal loophole big enough to drive a mac truck through.
If we're ever going to really take on spam then it'll be through a combination of technological methods, legal changes, and business practice changes.
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Re: Warheads |
Oct 6, 2006, 14:19 |
Zathrus |
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I always assumed it was done by rail or air transport
Rail sure, air? No way... ground is much safer I'd think.
The only thing that surprises me was that the propellant and the munitions were being moved in the same convoy. It seems like a no brainer not to do that.
Ok, the other thing that surprises me is that they didn't shut the tunnel down when a convoy with missile components has a mechanical issue in the middle.
If nothing else, it's a ripe target for any insurgents (particularly since the tunnel is where I'd strike if I were one -- limited access, probably no radio contact, etc).
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| News Comments > Evening Tech Bits |
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Re: HD movies on a PC? Not without a fas |
Oct 6, 2006, 10:42 |
Zathrus |
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It was in the mpeg4 format
Not if it was coming off a real HD source (broadcast, cable, or sat). ATSC is MPEG2, not MPEG4.
If it was coming off Blu-ray or HD-DVD then it could be MPEG4. Or some bastardized non-standard format (like HD on DVD, but in that case it's more limited by the 10 Mbps DVD rate than anything else and is hardly a real test).
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| News Comments > Evening Safety Dance |
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Re: lock pirates out of Vista |
Oct 5, 2006, 11:00 |
Zathrus |
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Maybe some day all games and harware will run on Linux out of the box
And on that day, flying pigs will colonize the moon after obliterating the cows and dung covered monkeys.
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Re: Buzkashi |
Oct 4, 2006, 21:38 |
Zathrus |
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The barrel is rifled for greater accuracy, unlike those smooth-bore American ones that just hit something *waves arounds around in circles* over there.
Which is why the "Lethality Improvement Program" for the Challenger 2 involves replacing the main gun with a smoothbore version, right? 
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| News Comments > Evening Legal Briefs |
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Re: Morals? |
Oct 4, 2006, 13:30 |
Zathrus |
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I guess you'd prefer it if your government rolled out the red carpet to captured terrorists known to have participated in the murder of Americans
Why is giving them habeus corpus rights "rolling out the red carpet"? Particularly since if they are, as you allege, "known to have participated in the murder of Americans" then getting the suit thrown out should be completely and utterly trivial.
Meanwhile we've determined that about 20% of the people we've detained thus far were no threat whatsoever... after detaining them for years. And now what little legal recourse they may have had has been removed.
you'd have no qualms about seeing someone like that tortured intensively and for a long, long time
Then you're a fucking sick whacko too. I would have a problem with that. I wouldn't have a problem with putting a bullet in his head after a fair trial though. Personally.
What you don't seem to understand is that if we're going to win the "War on Terrorism" then we have to take the high road. Removing rights from people, whether they're citizens or not, is not doing that. Instead it feeds the terrorists exactly what they want propaganda wise and puts us down near their level.
And frankly, the rhetoric about supporting Democracy in the Middle East is complete bullshit. The last Palestinian elections showed that -- I don't like Hamas any more than you do, but they were the duly and fairly elected representatives for the Palestinians. And what did the West (not just the US; Europe too) do? Told them "no, sorry, you voted for the wrong people in a 2 party system."
Yeah... that's some real support of Democracy there. What a crock of shit. We'll support you, as long as you vote the way we want you to vote...
Treating these people with civility and restraint for decades paid off for us with 9/11
You don't even have a fucking clue what the US policy in the Middle East has been, do you? It sure hasn't been about civility and restraint.
And what's this have to do with online gambling? Nada. Both parties use the "morally correct" gambit when it suits them.
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| News Comments > Morning Consolidation |
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Re: PS 3 Pricing Poll |
Oct 4, 2006, 12:09 |
Zathrus |
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E, with a slight leaning to D.
That said, it really boils down to three answers -- A, C, and D/E.
Pretty much if you're a Sony fanboi (c.f. -- the culture) then it's A. Anyone willing to pay $600 is willing to pay more. And stores know this. The same was true for the Xbox 360.
If you simply like console gaming, then it's more likely to be C or maybe D.
If you don't care about console gaming it'll be E or maybe D.
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Re: CTF |
Oct 3, 2006, 15:45 |
Zathrus |
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1. Newer house?
2. Very expensive?
3. Not far from the AP?
4. Models of AP and NIC are the same?
5. Not going through more than 4 walls and 2 floors?
1) 1996.
2) No -- $150 for 3 routers. $50 ea from Best Buy.
3) At this point, it would be difficult to be very far from an AP, since I have three.
4) APs are Buffalo WHR54GS running dd-wrt 0.23SP2. NICs are Intel and Netgear.
5) I don't think that's possible....
Like I said, I have 3 APs and they're all running WPA and being WDS bridges. The magic here is dd-wrt -- I don't know of a stock AP that can do WDS w/ WPA (only WEP -- ick). Once I finally stopped dicking around with trying to figure out openWRT and just went with dd-wrt (both are free), it took me an evening to reflash and configure all three. I had to do this because TiVo does not support WPA yet, and I wasn't about to spend nearly as much money on wireless adapters that could still only do WEP. And now I can plug anything I want into the APs and have the device work over wired ethernet and the bridge takes care of getting it to the net. Plus I have absurdly good coverage in the house for anything that does need wireless.
We have occasional times when we can't get a network address (it can see the network, but the network won't hand out a DHCP address for some reason), but rebooting the master fixes that. We had this happen with the old AP too, so I'm not sure what the issue is.
As for wired -- love it, hope to use it again. But running the cables in this house will be a massive project. There's no access anywhere w/o cutting open drywall ceilings.
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Re: CTF |
Oct 3, 2006, 13:03 |
Zathrus |
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My main concern i guess, is how far does a media pc have to be from a cable source and its output tvs to still be effective, or is that not an issue?
Depends on what you're trying to do... if you're sending audio/video directly from the PC to a TV/speakers -- you're pretty limited (RG6 quad shield will greatly extend the range, but it's bulky and even it has its limits).
If you're just sending data to another system (PC or something like a slingbox or mp3 player) then cat5/6 can go 100m before needing to hit a switch/hub.
I'd suggest reading some on www.avsforums.com -- there's a few good forums there for this kind of stuff.
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Re: CTF |
Oct 3, 2006, 12:07 |
Zathrus |
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For me, playing online Quake, Quake 2, & UT CTF was the single greatest gaming experience of my life
I don't think I've ever enjoyed a FPS as much as I enjoyed Threewave CTF in Q1. Spill the Blood is still my favorite map ever.
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