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  1. reinventing the wheel on What's the Matter with HDMI? · · Score: 1

    there's an already existing standard that could have been used, that's HD-SDI, which is used in the pro market. it does everything DVI and HDMI does and more over a simple coax cable that costs almost nothing.

    why did they reinvent the wheel in a more expensive and complicated way ?

  2. Re:Whoa on Nvidia To Recall Every 8800 GTX/GTS Card · · Score: 1

    the first article pointing back to here :D

  3. Re:Glue? on The Air Car Nears Completion · · Score: 1

    the roll cage is made of composite materials.

  4. Re:You're thinking of someone else. on The Air Car Nears Completion · · Score: 1

    that was the self destruct, after a fatal software bug was encountered

  5. Re:There's always a bigger fish... on The Air Car Nears Completion · · Score: 1

    darn, too bad I don't have any mod points :D

  6. Re:Lack of good info on The Air Car Nears Completion · · Score: 1

    Nuclear Power is not scary when managed properly.
    now, give nuclear power plants to manage to private companies whose shares are held by money grubbing hedge funds, and I'm scared.
    God knows what cost cutting measure those morons will ask for to save a penny here and a quarter there, jeopardizing the safety of us all

  7. Re:Lack of good info on The Air Car Nears Completion · · Score: 1

    the car has it's own set of air filters inside that's used when you refill with the integrated electric motor.

  8. Re:Environmental considerations on The Air Car Nears Completion · · Score: 1

    ever heard of composite material that stronger than steel, and yet much lighter ?

  9. Re:You forgot one on The Air Car Nears Completion · · Score: 1

    see, that's the trick here.
    the small company that couldn't isn't actually producing the thing, the *licensed* the design to a much larger firm, in fact, the larger manufacturing firm in india, Tata motors

    http://www.tatamotors.com/

    *they* have all the lawyers and money to do all the required tests to get the cars accepted in other countries.
    guess Ford and General Motors soon shall see their bottom line flounder

  10. Re:This says it's a "fiber" tank on The Air Car Nears Completion · · Score: 1

    the tanks have been designed in collaboration with arianespace, the company that builds the european rockets

  11. Re:Apart from Elephants... on The Air Car Nears Completion · · Score: 1

    the electric motor inside that is used as a generator when using the car, allows using the actual engine of the car as a compressor. you just need to plug the car in a power plug

  12. Re:India on The Air Car Nears Completion · · Score: 2, Insightful

    then you should stop watching TV and look more at real tests like this one on youtube :

    http://youtube.com/watch?v=biYLn47VwJs

    It's not the amount of steel that makes a car properly protective, it's the way it's folded. in that case, the above mentionned smart is probably much better than your ford gas guzzler

  13. hmm, that's what you get when... on The Pentagon Wants a 'TiVo' to Watch You · · Score: 1

    ... someone in washington goes to watch "Déjà vu" one too many times...

  14. Re:article text to avoid annoying 6 pages on The State of Video Connections · · Score: 2, Insightful

    because it doesn't specify the useless DRM shit ?

  15. maybe this would be a good thing on Web Censorship Proposed For Norway · · Score: 1

    and lead to the fast adoption of IPv6.
    there are two ways IPv6 would counteract this

    * every web site would use it's own (so that they don't get blocked if some other schmuck is on a different virtual box)
    * the blocked sites would change address every few days to avoid detection

    now, blocking millions and millions of IPv6 addresses would be rather, erh... undoable

  16. Re:Why change.... on How Can We Convert the US to the Metric System? · · Score: 1

    2x4's are really 1.5 * 3.5, which is 3.8 * 8.9

  17. Re:I'll let you into a secret about Britain on How Can We Convert the US to the Metric System? · · Score: 1

    gah, bloody slashdot doesn't like UTF-8...
    of course, I intented to insert the EUR symbol

  18. Re:I'll let you into a secret about Britain on How Can We Convert the US to the Metric System? · · Score: 1

    next step is to start spelling prices in on that online hardware store

  19. Re:nothing is perfect on HD-DVD and Blu-Ray AACS DRM Cracked · · Score: 1

    and you can probably run the app inside a software simulator to analyse what it does...
    you can fake everything, even TSCs and whatnots, the program won't have any way to find out the type of "hardware" it's running on.

  20. Re:It takes a while... on HD-DVD and Blu-Ray AACS DRM Cracked · · Score: 2, Interesting

    That key is then encrypted repeatedly with all of the device keys that are currently authorized to play that disc.

    This is a classic error in cryptographic software implementation, that can lead to revealing of all keys.
    once you know the title key, you can then get all the player keys by using a known plaintext attack... and instantly crack all keys encoding your title key

  21. Re:Watch out, MySQL. on PostgreSQL 8.2 Released · · Score: 1

    you can also connect to your postgres remotely and even use ssl encryption from your home machine with psql...

  22. Re:AMD's new Power HOG on AMD QuadFX Platform and FX-70 Series Launched · · Score: 1

    the announced quad core AMD has a shared L3 on the chip itself...

  23. Re:Why bother? on Google Sponsors the LinuxBIOS project · · Score: 1

    take for instance the Via EPIA M 10000, with the latest bios drop from nvidia... I use PXE to boot the thing remotely. problem, I need to power cycle the motherboard for the PXE part to actually correctly function. a standard reboot will just have the PXE stuff hanging there with no chance of booting. talk about useless crap

  24. Re:Communism on The Dark Side of the PlayStation 3 Launch · · Score: 1

    yep... between $1200 and $3000, as shown here : http://search.ebay.com/ps3_W0QQssPageNameZWLRS

  25. Re:Here is an idea on Global Privacy Rankings Released · · Score: 1

    pardon me, but I'm not from the US, I'm french.
    also, the official theories appear to be sooo far-fetched for someone with common sense, considering the verifiable facts, that the conspiracy theorists may not be the ones that most people would expect.