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  1. Neither on Do You Go Out to the Movies or Wait for the DVD? · · Score: 4, Funny

    I watch it on region free DVD before it comes to the cinema

  2. Seeing as you're going commercial on Distributed Development of Closed Source Software? · · Score: 4, Insightful


    If you want the proper answer to your commercial question then you need to ask me in my commerical consultant capacity, reasonable rates available.

  3. Factoum on Single Sign on Solutions on the (Very) Cheap? · · Score: 2
  4. Re:Watch your AUP/TOS on Dynamic DNS - The Good, The Bad and The Cheap? · · Score: 1


    It hasn't always been the case, it used to say "no servers" but I've *always* run at least a web server since day 1

    They didn't spend all day port scanning. I think it's just one of those clauses that they put in so they have an excuse when they need it. Same as the 1Gb per day cap. It's not auto-enforced and I've had plenty of days over 1Gb but still no letter.

  5. impressive on Impress Your Friends With A 3D Desktop Pager · · Score: 1


    for lower values of friend

  6. Re:Watch your AUP/TOS on Dynamic DNS - The Good, The Bad and The Cheap? · · Score: 2, Informative

    yawn

    check your facts. homegurl

    Here's the relevant section of ntl:'s TOS for their cable modem service :

    17. Servers

    (i) You are solely responsible for the setup and security of all servers that you may run on your PC. You are also responsible for all traffic that may pass through your PC. ntl cannot be held liable for any losses or damages that may occur as a result of a compromise of your server. Please note that your account may be subject to immediate suspension or disconnection without notice, if any security breaches do occur or any server causes any degradation in network performance. You should also note that running servers on your PC may cause your own connection to operate in a less than optimal manner.

  7. thanks george, it was looking shabby on Star Wars DVD Changes XBox Dashboard · · Score: 1, Funny

    I, for one, welcome our new Lucasian overlords. :)

  8. Find tokens on eBay 1 day later on Verisign Develops Token for Age Verification · · Score: 1


    Verisign age tokens, what a great currency for paedo's.

  9. Re:Question for Europeans on Ceefax Turns 30 · · Score: 1


    In the UK the same 1200/75 service was called "Prestel" and run by the state Post Office (subsequently called British Telecom when sold).

  10. Re:What's the scam ? on Ireland Cracks Down on Online Scammers · · Score: 1


    The correct answer is : "but you can demonstrate reasonable doubt".

  11. Re:More awareness would help too. on Ireland Cracks Down on Online Scammers · · Score: 1


    my cable modem doesn't send/recieve faxes

  12. Re:What's the scam ? on Ireland Cracks Down on Online Scammers · · Score: 3, Funny

    Physicians, Judges and Laywers across the world hear this :

    Even if I am lying in a coma, I don't want my cronjobs stopped!

    Yours of sound mind and body,

    Dr, T. Skwid Esq.

  13. Re:Lets loose premium rate dialup. on Ireland Cracks Down on Online Scammers · · Score: 2, Funny


    They are just breeding grounds for porn sites

    and you call that illegitmate ?

  14. Re:What's the scam ? on Ireland Cracks Down on Online Scammers · · Score: 2, Insightful


    You can't *prove* you didn't make the call legitimately.

  15. Re:China and CEO's on CA's Ex-CEO Indicted on Fraud · · Score: 1


    hey, Mr. Big-Fun

    "Actually chickens don't cross roads"

    woosh

  16. Re:anto-spam on SpamAssassin 3.0 Released · · Score: 1

    "They claim"

    "But Ive heard"

    Thems some pretty solid facts, wtg!

  17. My car checks it for me on Automotive Tires Without Air · · Score: 1


    hola

    After all, it is the 21st century

  18. Re:openness is hardly a concern to mplayer develop on Interview With BBC Dirac Developer Thomas Davis · · Score: 1


    Eventually someone will make a program that the MPEG people don't like (such as an easy converter to Dirac)

    mencoder, with mpeg and dirac codecs should be able to do just this.

    it is a command line program, which immediately eliminates the possibility of it becoming very popular with nontechnical users

    don't believe the hype

  19. Re:PSone + PStwo = ? on Smaller Networked Sony "PStwo" Officially Announced · · Score: 1

    Does anybody else get a little annoyed by this kind of thing?

    No

    Will anyone that owns a regular PS2 buy one of these?

    Yes

  20. Re:openness is hardly a concern to mplayer develop on Interview With BBC Dirac Developer Thomas Davis · · Score: 2, Insightful

    mencoder is a simple movie encoder, designed to encode MPlayer-playable movies to other MPlayer-playable formats. It encodes to DivX4, XviD, one of the libavcodec codecs and PCM/MP3/VBRMP3 audio in 1, 2 or 3 passes. Furthermore it has stream copying abilities, a powerful plugin system (crop, expand, flip, postprocess, rotate, scale, noise, rgb/yuv conversion) and more.

  21. My new hammer is so easy to use on Numerical Computing in Java? · · Score: 1


    but it won't drill holes, what do I have to do to my hammer to make it drill holes?

    ---

    object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing.

    -- Rob Pike

    other witicisms

  22. Re:Is the govt. of Slashdotia included ? on Microsoft To Share Office Source Code · · Score: 1


    lol, yeah I didn't even notice that part

    I for one welcome our 30 new MS source code reading overlords

  23. Is the govt. of Slashdotia included ? on Microsoft To Share Office Source Code · · Score: 2, Funny

    Because then we too can have the benefit of a world class spell checker

    "30 different world governements"

  24. fastest driving evar on EA vs. Xbox Live · · Score: 2, Insightful


    no surprise re: network play, NFS:Underground wasn't exactly the pinnacle of network gaming. The PS2 networking was plagued with cheating.

    It's a shame because Project Gotham 2 really set the standard for how online driving should be approached; with games suitable for both the HPB and the LPB, the world ladder system is fabulous.

    Burnout 3 does kick every other driving title in the nuts when it comes to adrenaline fuelled racing. We were determined to finish it before it was released like we did the other two titles but the deadline beat us. BO2 was too easy imho but EA hve really done the business with 3. NFS:U2 will be another stormer as it uses the same engine. Can't wait.

  25. Re:ProPolice on Comparing Linux C and C++ Compilers · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The OpenBSD team use it, and I think they know better than you or I.

    Not by technical choice, they want to use plan9's C compiler but have licence quibbles.

    Quoting Theo : "in particular we were interested in the c compiler"