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  1. *Yawn* on Supercomputer To Use Optical Router · · Score: 2, Interesting

    So how is this any different from using gigabit fiber instead of copper? Although for most large clusters gigabit is too slow when you need to move around a terabyte of data. Look into NUMA.

  2. Re:What application? on What's Keeping You On Windows? · · Score: 1

    Cybercorder is what I found to work the best. It calls the windows codecs so you can pick lame mp3 or even ogg. Check out http://skyhawktech.com/

  3. True on What's Keeping You On Windows? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I won't switch until linux can do all these jobs flawlessly:

    1. Run the latest games
    2. Capture/encode video into divx or mpeg2 streams using commercial quality programs such as Cinema Craft
    3. Play the latest media format (Sorenson, Windows Media, Realplayer(gag)
    4. Run about a million win32 programs dating from 1992-present

    Heres a good example of where windows wins and linux loses. I wanted a program for grabbing audio from my sound card and encoding to mp3 in realtime for archiving radio shows. In linux I had to fight with lame, cron, and some sketchy recording programs which produced files that skipped. In windows I downloaded a program, set the timer and picked my bitrate and had it working in minutes.

  4. ROFL on HomeSec In the News · · Score: 1

    In case you haven't noticed yet republicans typically want fewer laws and smaller government. Almost every liberal idea has backfired and created the opposite intent. I sleep well at night knowing Republicans are in office.

  5. its fake? on Go Go Gadget Minisaw · · Score: 1

    I'd like to see a complete list of every object he supposedly carries. In fact can he even rattle off all 1300 from memory? Probably not. Lets not even get into space considerations.

  6. talk about zealots on State Coalition Approves Internet Sales Tax Plan · · Score: 1

    I think you have taken the award for zealot of the year away from RMS. Only here could someone turn an article about sales tax into a masturbation session about free software.

  7. wtf? on Web Page Entanglement · · Score: -1, Troll

    So what is the point of all this?

  8. Blame the left on EU Anti-Hate Laws On The Web · · Score: 2, Interesting

    See what happens when things move too far to the left? Now you can't call anyone in europe a nigger/honky/kike etc etc. I wonder if you are still allowed to buy Tupac's "for my niggaz" cd.

  9. Its still alive on New Audio Disc Formats and Copyrights · · Score: 1

    MD players are still in use in japan and the only reason you can still buy blanks in the US is for concert bootlegging. Yeah I know its compressed audio but the codecs do get changed with new models. The high end magazine AudioXpress had a review of a MD deck a while ago. Why would a supposedly dead format still get printed in magazines?

  10. right here on Indecision 2002 · · Score: 1

    http://money.excite.com/jsp/nw/nwdt_rt_top.jsp?cat =TOPBIZ&feed=reu&src=201&section=news&news_id=reu- sta438301&date=20020504&alias=/alias/money/cm/ nw

  11. Proof? on Indecision 2002 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Any proof to these claims? No links from salon please, we all know which direction they lean. By the way I read a book about how the holocaust was faked. Its not true but yet its a book. I can't believe people like you can continue to exist without imploding from the vacuum in your head.

  12. absentee you dumbshit on Indecision 2002 · · Score: 1

    If you can't make it to the polls on time then you should have used an absentee ballot. Thats why they were invented.

  13. Great! on Linus Explains his Patch Policy · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    "It's as simple as that. I take stuff that I feel is good."

    Forget about technical merits or performance issues, its whatever he feels is good. Now I'll go back to being a smug BSD user.

  14. You're all idiots on Uncap Your Modem, Get Visit From the FBI · · Score: 1

    The reason the FBI is involved is because of the claimed dollar value of the excessive bandwidth. Yes it was unauthorized use of software on the cable modem which did not belong to them.

  15. Re:In other news .. on Namibia Says "No Thanks" To Microsoft Donation With Strings · · Score: -1, Troll

    Now if only they would tell people that raping babies won't cure aids and that you can't grow food in they desert they'll be ok.

  16. we can only hope on Adult Swim Revamps; Removes Most Anime · · Score: 1

    I hate all this anime shit. Why not read some real domestic comics like The Maxx or Eightball? Anime suddenly got popular and most people joined the bandwagon to look l33t. Well I've hated it from the very beginning, l33t enough for you?

  17. proof on DivX DVD Players Arrive · · Score: 1

    I've yet to come across an ogg file itself much less a divx with ogg audio. Where are these new movies coming from?

  18. haha on Critical Kerberos Flaw Revealed · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Good thing I use a secure protocol like telnet. When was the last telnet remote r00t exploit?

  19. And in further news on Direct Marketers Association Asks To Be Regulated · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hell has just frozen over.

  20. oh right on Internet Backbone DDOS "Largest Ever" · · Score: 1

    Try buying a handgun in canada, you can't.

  21. Re:Where's the Inter in the 'Net? on Internet Backbone DDOS "Largest Ever" · · Score: 1

    Please enlighten me on any other countries where people enjoy freedoms such as:

    1. Owning a firearm
    2. Writing an unfavorable newspaper article about someone
    3. Not being required to always carry a federal ID card

    The reason for most of these bullshit laws is that money talks.

  22. Bottom line on Is Linux Used in Production Telephony? · · Score: 1

    Use the right tool for the right job. If windows works the best then please don't let your bias affect how the company runs.

  23. Sure on Open Spectrum: The New Wireless Paradigm · · Score: 4, Funny

    This has about as much chance as the US switching over to the metric system tomorrow.

  24. Re:Walmart, thinking of the children on Retailers Won't Sell New Acclaim Game · · Score: 1

    "the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

    Pretty much says it all. When guns are finally outlawed by the left wingers, do you think the criminals will turn theirs in?

  25. no its not on Microsoft PR Rep is the Switcher · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Do you think those idiots on the apple commercials are the actual people? This is such a non issue it isn't even worth talking about. I'm sure if you dissected everyones advertising this closely you'd be suprised.