Recent content by Orannis0

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    WHO THE F$%# THOUGHT THIS WAS A GOOD IDEA!?

    As long as the computer is in it's own isolated network with no physical connections to an external host, it couldn't do anything. Hell, if Skynet had been on a supercomputer without a network connection all it could do is sit there and be menacing.
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    World Record Rube Goldberg Machine Traces All of History in 244 Steps

    The Incredible machine was a few years before me, but I remember playing The Incredible Toon Machine, which was essentially a remake with significantly better graphics (for the time at least). Also, anyone else think that "flower" at the end was a Triffid?
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    Watch Out: Your iPhone Knows Where You've Been

    Aaannnnnnnnd there goes any credibility you had left.
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    Watch Out: Your iPhone Knows Where You've Been

    A tinfoil hat is actually useless; tin is highly conductive, and isn't a dense enough metal to properly block waves. You need a lead hat, or at least an industrial steel one.
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    Watch Out: Your iPhone Knows Where You've Been

    A wireless device cannot automatically connect to an encrypted router or modem without the key, or a crack of some sort. Therefore it would be unable to access the network of its own accord.
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    Watch Out: Your iPhone Knows Where You've Been

    Appleture Science.
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    Watch Out: Your iPhone Knows Where You've Been

    There isn't wi-fi everywhere, and routers/modems don't hold location data unless they're also connecting to a 3G network. At best an Itouch would only provide an infrequent and random smattering of location data for a meager few locations, as most people know enough to at least have WEP encryption.
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    Watch Out: Your iPhone Knows Where You've Been

    Yet another reason why I have just have an Ipod Touch in conjunction with a basic $20 samsung flip phone.
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    Valve Stocks Up on Awesome Portal 2 Merchandise

    I really want that "Aperture's Requiem" lithograph, but not enough to pay $40 + shipping to Canada. If they run it off later as a regular poster like the rest of them, I'll buy it.
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    Computer Built in Minecraft Has RAM, Performs Division

    This is... Mineception.
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    Buy the New Alice Game, Get the Original for Free

    IT'S ABOUT GODDAMN TIME. I have no shame in saying I pirated a copy of the original two years ago (though I only got about half through before that hard drive died, and I haven't gotten around to playing it again...) because I refused to pay the absurd amounts they were requesting on ebay...
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    New Nintendo Console "Confirmed" for E3

    Ten bucks says it's Wii3D.
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    Games Can Make You Trust

    I'm only about ten pages in, but it's quite an interesting read.I don't know whether he addresses this later, but at this point the only potential issue I see is that it appears he's quantifying all relative trust as neutral until further evidence is provided, without taking into account the...
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    So, about that piracy... AKA Woman forced to pay $1.5 million for pirating music

    That's just absurd. No one uses Kazaa anymore.
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    Crash Course Graffiti: It's Funny 'Cause It's True

    "cool story bro!" SOMEONE on the development team was a /b/-tard. XD (inb4 rules 1 and 2)