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Code obfuscators will strip out the unnecessary characters like white space, tabs, newlines and comments. The modern flock of javascript obfuscators will also go through and replace every command and variable in the file with some random key that points to an array which then gets eval’d back out at run time. Generally speaking the code you see in an obfuscated javascript file looks like completely gobbledygook which is sorta the point.

My stance on it is simple; Don’t do it — If you ever catch me encoding or obfuscating my javascript, come kick me square in the jimmy.. I simply cannot abide by people who think they need be secretive with javascript.. And lets be completely honest here, that’s what it’s about. Read more…

Spore is a multi-genre massively single-player online game designed by Will Wright and has drawn quite a lot of attention due to its massive scope and open ended game play.  Add to that the ability of users to customize completely their .. well everything .. from the ground up and you have a very interesting sandbox game (something Will Wright is known for.)

Spore’s major concept, and the reason they call it a “massively single-player online game” is because all of the content is created by players using editors that are a cross between the “play doh fun factory” and Maya 3d modeling software.  All of the editors are designed to be easy to use and powerful, as well as being as similar as possible to one another so that each lesson you learn in one part of the editor can be applied to another part. Read more…

So yet another campus shooting is in the headlines. And yet again people are yelling that video games are the problem! What a complete crock of shit.. Most of these people are extremely religious and they fail to see the irony in what they are saying — but I get ahead of myself.

I myself worship regularly at the house of frag and am a semi-well adjusted person with no aspirations to murder.. I have yet to kill anyone in real life because of some voices in my head spawned by the games that I play.. I’m pretty sure if I play the DVD backwards I wont find Satan’s secret message (I think that would be giving EA or Activision too much credit..) Just as I’m pretty sure playing a game wont make me want to murder someone or confuse my sense of right and wrong.

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Note: this is an ongoing thread.. Please read the comments too..

Subluxation is a real medical term, it is an incomplete or partial dislocation (latin: luxatio) of a joint or an organ. As such if you have a subluxation, a dislocated joint or organ, you need to seek real medical attention.

Recently I hurt my neck — I don’t know exactly what I did, but whatever it was it hurts. I *think* I slept wrong on it and it has hurt for days. We have a sleep number bed and it slowly loses air over the course of a month or so, so if you don’t every once in a while bump it back up you end up sleeping on a really really soft (incorrect) bed. And since I’m no longer 12, any hurt I get seems to take a while to heal.

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I maintain that the RIAA are a bunch of thugs and bullies with nothing better to do than harass not only you the consumer, but the artists themselves by using litigious threats and terrorist tactics to get their way. I ask you, is it possible for the RIAA to display more greed or avarice without actually hiring Satan as its general counsel?

The RIAA is known for alienating it’s fans by over charging, completely failing to embrace any semblance of new technology and then sues anyone who tries to give music fans what they want.

The “Recording Industry Artists Association” (RIAA) has not one damn thing to do with the artists. And now, as a thank you to the artists that made the RIAA what it is, the RIAA is making moves to reduce artist royalty payments.

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So.. yet again the RIAA has decided to sue someone.. I know, shocking.. The RIAA, is suing XM for offering a device that allows people to record songs off the XM satellite service. Recording songs off the radio for home use is 100% legal. However, because those boondogglers had convinced Sirius to pay a bunch of extra money in the form of a licensing fee, they now want XM to pay as well. This is yet another example of how the RIAA are a bunch of greedy shits.

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