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  1. yawn on DSL Gateways to Fight Piracy by Marking Video · · Score: 1

    How long until someone writes a small app to scan each video frame for the watermark?

  2. Its been free for a while on Sun Is Giving Away Solaris 10 DVDs · · Score: 4, Insightful

    At least in downloadable form. I remember getting Solaris 8 iso images from them almost 5 years ago. Theres plenty of hobbyists and admins that need or want to run it at home. Their attitude is much better than SGI, IRIX cds still cost plenty on ebay. O2 and Octane workstations are dirt cheap now.

  3. Hey retard on 5 Strangest Materials · · Score: 0, Redundant

    It said "below zero" and does not specify which scale. Below zero celsius and fahrenheit are easily attainable with liquid helium. Below zero kelvin is another matter.

  4. A famous quote on Origin of Quake3's Fast InvSqrt() · · Score: 5, Funny

    "English motherfucker, do you speak it?" Anyone care to explain what that function does?

  5. The funny part on Why Do Gadgets Break? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Is seeing how much older electronics are still around compared to new. I have tube amplifiers that are over 50 years old and still operate because the parts are easily servicable. IMHO most of the electronics that fail early are due to bad solder joints. Your average tv is probably assembled by children in an open air factory somewhere in the pacific. Parts are bought from different suppliers constantly to save a penny here or there. Remember the recent rash of motherboard failures due to leaking capacitors?

  6. Right on Life Without Traffic Signs · · Score: 0

    That would last about one day here in the US. The amount of lawsuits in one day of operation would be staggering.

  7. Re:If they wanted a have a sound I like... on Making the Sounds of Vista · · Score: 1

    So replace their startup file with your own.

  8. Re:ps3 on Wii and PS3 Camp-Out Guide · · Score: 1

    Because setting a reserve costs the seller money. Guess prices aren't going to blow up like the xbox 360 did.

  9. Why not on CCTV Cameras In UK Get Loudspeakers · · Score: 1

    Look into the root cause of the problem instead of merely deterring current behavior. What is causing crime to be this bad that you need 100% saturation of CCTV?

  10. WAAAHHHHH on Facebook Changes Provoke Uproar Among Users · · Score: 0, Troll

    WAAAAHHHH A free website that I waste time on added features I don't like... WAAAAHHHH

  11. What? on Solutions to the Frustrations of Video? · · Score: 1

    What difference does analog or digital make in regards to the content?

  12. Cable blows on Learning to Love the Cable Guy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Ever do a comparison between cable and satellite? The quality is like night and day. Comcast and Adelphia both have lots of pixelation and the first 80 channels are still analog feeds. They are grainy as hell and one with Adelphia had permanent ghosting from the local UHF channel. Flipping through channels on cable takes longer for the picture to fill in compared to satellite. My parents had a cable modem and it was fine for a few years and then they had tons of disconnects and signal problems. The final straw was the bill increasing $10 in one month. I got them DSL and called to cancel the cable modem. I told them going up $10 was my reason for cancelling. The guy told me it was because we were now on the "silver" plan. I told him it was the same thing as before but under a new name and just cost $10 more. Then he tried telling me their cost for ESPN went up 500%. Well make an ESPN package then, when was the last time you watched a major sporting event on ESPN? Never. Ooops sorry for the rant :)

  13. Bah on Dell Issues Laptop Battery Recall · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Lithium is nothing compared to these two alkaline metals

    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-213426665 4801392897&q=alkaline+metals&hl=en

  14. Don't worry on New Code Discovered in DNA? · · Score: -1, Troll

    Bush will veto research soon enough so we don't go messing around with god's work.

  15. Actually on Astronomers Awaiting 1a Supernova · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It happened long ago and the light is just now reaching us.

  16. Nigga please on Data Sharing, Government Style · · Score: 1

    Statistically who is more likely to carry a weapon on an airplane? Grandma or Mohammed Habib over there?

    http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0212088/tertime.ht m

  17. Yay on Fully Open Source NTFS Support Under Linux · · Score: -1, Troll

    Only 10-12 years after NTFS was launched?

  18. Yes on Things To Download · · Score: 1

    And its not the first. Anyone remember the fastest most "extreme" thumbdrive they reviewed?

  19. Thats great but... on Interstate Highway System: 50th Anniversary · · Score: 1

    Here in Pennsylvania they built all these wonderful roads and bridges and never thought to do any maintenance in the past 50 years. Now you have bridges with chunks of concrete falling off and roads that look worse than an iraqi highway. Hell one of the overpasses on I-70 fell in last year. Don't even talk about the layout of the roads in western PA...

  20. Great on Flock, the Web 2.0 Browser? · · Score: 1, Funny

    Sounds just as productive as Netscape 4.0, probably works just as well too. Such a great piece of software that was... print preview gave a divide by zero error.

  21. Amen Brother! on Refund of Long-Distance Telephone Taxes · · Score: 1

    The company I work for admitted they don't like hiring young people because middle aged (50 year old grandmas) are better workers. No wonder any young people flee this state after school. Its impossible to get hired unless you're over 35.

  22. Live donor? on Invasion of the Body Snatchers · · Score: 1

    So who is going to let themselves die in order to sell their organs to a foreign interest? Unless by donor you mean victim.

  23. Cheaters on Computer Science Students Outsource Homework · · Score: 1

    Before anyone forms an opinion they should watch a movie called "Cheaters". http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0218094/
    It made me think differently about cheating.

  24. How much? on Blazing Dual Channel Thumb Drive · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How much do advertisements like this cost? Sure could use some publicity like this for my business. That summary sounds like it was pasted from some webstore. The most extreme thumbdrive? Please.

  25. Netboot? on NetBSD 2.1 Released · · Score: 2, Informative

    Guess you missed the install document detailing how to netboot a VAX.

    http://vaxarchive.pimpworks.org/swdist/bsd/bdc/VAX -netboot-HOWTO.html