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  1. just one little thing... on WePad Tablet Will Use Linux To Rival the iPad · · Score: 1, Funny

    ... what no camera??

  2. "Stepping Softly, In a Danger Zone... on Star Wars To Air As Animated Sitcom · · Score: 1

    ...No Weapon in my hand
    it's just this brain,
    designed by man, got me
    in trouble again,
    in trouble again...

    Ahhh! Remember that intro? ;)
    The origional cartoon!!

  3. Re:Unless... on Stalker Jailed For Planting Child Porn On a PC · · Score: 2, Insightful

    in the UK all you would need to do is place an encrypted volume on the system and the software on the machine (don't need to worry about a weak or strong password.) or it's contents:

    1) The police ask him for the password.
    2) He refuses because he does not know the password and asks for a Solicitor.
    3) Police think he's lying due to CP allegations
    4) ???
    5) Police charge him with withholding passwords
    6) He spends up to 2 years in jail...
    7) Stalker wins :D

  4. Re:Used it for a few days.. on Ubuntu's "Lucid Lynx" Enters Beta · · Score: 1

    It's a choice :P

  5. Used it for a few days.. on Ubuntu's "Lucid Lynx" Enters Beta · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ... and I like it!
    Boot times are FAST on my laptop down to 27s (85s booting on 9.04)

  6. Re:Pro / cons on House Passes Massive Medical Insurance Bill, 219-212 · · Score: 2, Informative

    The 30+ Democrats voted against it for other that "it's a bad bill".

    12 or so were against it because it didn't overturn "Roe V Wade" and some of the money may find it's way to abortion clinics.

    Others were against thing bill because it didn't go too far as it didn't include a "single payer" option.

    As for the rest.. well i'm not sure what they were thinking...

  7. Re:Hmmm... on US Intelligence Planned To Destroy WikiLeaks · · Score: 4, Funny

    "If you have nothing to hide..."
    ...Then you're doing it wrong...

  8. Simple fix, No need for Hacking/Cracking... on Toyota Black Box Data Is More Closed Than Others' · · Score: 1

    1) Learn to drive "Stick" / "Manual Clutch"
    2) Toyota starts a free "Kamikaze" exchange program
    3) Bring in your faulty Automatic Gearbox car for a nice new Stick-shift one.
    4) No more runaway cards with sticking Gas peddles!!!
    5) ???
    6) Profit (Well live till you get home anyway)

    Problem solved :D

  9. Re:BBC Celebdaq on Hollywood Stock Exchange Set To Launch In April · · Score: 1

    CelebDaq is not closing! it's just changeing to a new site. (bit more flashy than the origional and a bit worse, but playable!)

  10. So it's a real version of... on Hollywood Stock Exchange Set To Launch In April · · Score: 0

    BBC's "Celebdaq" game?
    ooh! I've amassed well over £20Mill in the BBC game....
    Think I might give the real lief one a go... lol!

  11. I can see it now... on Laser Fusion Passes Major Hurdle · · Score: 1, Funny

    1) May: ramping up power
    2) June 1st: Flick the switch
    3) ???
    4) June 2nd: They are now the proud owners of a 2mile wide smoking crater...
    5) Tourist industry profits...

  12. Now where did i ... on 80% of Cell Phone Encryption Solutions Insecure · · Score: 1

    put that old source code for PGP-Phone...

  13. Re:Easy on How To Spread Word About My FOSS Project? · · Score: 1

    In reality it's more likely to be:

    1) Post a message to slashdot
    2) Include a link to your project
    3) Site get's Slashdotted
    4) ??? 404 ???
    5) no Profit (it IS foss after all!!)

  14. All I'm wating for.... on Apple's "iPad" Out In the Open · · Score: 1

    ...is to see iFixit's teardown if the iPad...

  15. Re:Laudable, but misguided on SETI Founder Outlines Ambitious Future Plans · · Score: 1

    Oh! I Think groups like DARPA have burned through a hell of a lot more money on screwy projects that don't get far past an idea on a napkin that SETI ever will...

    I seem to remember DARPA working on "Inteligent Hive Mind" LandMines, which can hop around in groups to cover an area and reposition themselves when one blows up or is a dud!

  16. Re:Laudable, but misguided on SETI Founder Outlines Ambitious Future Plans · · Score: 3, Funny

    Ah Nukes ourselves!! The good old "Judean People's Front crack suicide squad" Manoeuvre, they'll never see it coming!

    From "Life of Brian"
    Suicide Squad Leader: We are the Judean People's Front crack suicide squad! Suicide squad, attack!
    [they all stab themselves]...That showed 'em, huh?

  17. Re:Avatar was cool... on Designing the Computer UIs In Movies · · Score: 1

    The UI in "minority Report" is a REAL user interface developed by a company called "Oblong". The UI is called "G-Speak"

    They did the initial design and animations in "Minority Report" for the UI in the movie (And trained the cast to mime the required gestures). After the movie they created a working version of the Gesture UI which you can buy...

    http://oblong.com/

    If you have a few tens of thousand of $'s handy that is...

    Also with the new AMOLED transparent screens being developed, it's not too far off...

  18. Re:Automatic erasing etch-a-sketch on A Practical LCD Writing Tablet · · Score: 1

    If they were creating an automatic "etch-a-sketch"

    Then it would be powered by a dynamo which ,when you turn it upside down, (so you don't accidentally erase your image) and shake it to produce power to erase the image....

  19. Re:I haven't used DIVX in years on HandBrake Abandons DivX As an Output Format · · Score: 1

    Well I use Ubnuntu 9:10
    Your milage may vary on other OS's with other media players

  20. Re:I haven't used DIVX in years on HandBrake Abandons DivX As an Output Format · · Score: 4, Informative

    You could just use "greasemonky" plugin in Firefox and install the "YouTube Without Flash" script and videos will play using your default media player...

  21. A couple of Classic Brit Sci-Fi's for a reboot.... on What SciFi Should Get the Reboot Treatment Next? · · Score: 1

    How about "Space1999" & U.F.O. I'd love to see a reboot of those shows.

    It might be a good time for a Reboot of U.F.O. since it's getting the big screen treatment for 2011
    (Gerry Anderson's got a hand in it so it won't be a disaster like the Thunderbirds movie!!!)

    They have already got "Joshua Jackson" (Fringe) signed on. But there's a push to get "Neal McDonough" (Minority Report) cast as Ed Straker

  22. Re:Max Headroom on What SciFi Should Get the Reboot Treatment Next? · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately we've caught up with the 10 mins into the future of Max Headroom.

    It's basically tuned in to "YouTube" where everyone can stream a TV channel 24/7 from their caravan....

    lol!! But love to see a reboot / remake of it!

    Max Headroom 2: "Max Tube"

  23. Re:Blakes 7 on What SciFi Should Get the Reboot Treatment Next? · · Score: 1

    Think it was SKY TV in the UK had bought the TV rights and was doing a script! But that was a good +5 years ago!

    I hope it does eventually come out of Development Hell and get on screen!

  24. Cool tech, all they need to do... on Samsung Develops a Transparent OLED Laptop Screen · · Score: 1

    ... Is make it a touch screen and shrink the components to a "hand size" grip along the side.

    Or

    Like a few others suggested; Stick it in a high end luxuary car's windscreen, no need for the driver to move his eyes from the road to see readouts.
    (Obligitory M$ joke follows!) Just don't let the car windscreen run windows or the phrase "Blue screen of death" might take on a more perminent meaning.... ^_^

  25. Re:Plenty of consulting dollars to be spent on Massive Solar Updraft Towers Planned For Arizona · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hm.. My first thought was "Perfect for one big ass Pot farm..." ^__^