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  1. Re:Zoom In! on Lego Mindstorms NXT Robotics Announced · · Score: 1

    the text says the interface is 6 wires, so they are RJ12

  2. Re:..and then they wonder why people pirate.. on Vista Won't Play With Old DVD Drives · · Score: 1

    but the banks might do well on the commission of converting Swiss Francs into Euros.

    Not even. Since Switzerland is surrounded by EUR using countries, most shops accept both CHF and EUR currencies

  3. Re:..and then they wonder why people pirate.. on Vista Won't Play With Old DVD Drives · · Score: 1

    or, they like to collect all versions of movies
    for instance, "Demolition Man" has 2 versions

    zone 1: they go to taco bell
    other zones: they go to pizza hut

    this being because there's no taco bell anywhere else

  4. Re:...so what? on Vista Won't Play With Old DVD Drives · · Score: 1

    it shows you don't have any kids
    ask any parent with kids how many times they watch those Disney animated movies...
    and ask them how many tapes/DVD they had to buy again due to accidental destruction from kids usage of thee

  5. Re:XML? on National Archives' Digital Woes · · Score: 1

    and I can tell you from experience that processing large volumes of XML (or any text-based markup format, for that matter) is extremely expensive in terms of processor and memory resource usage

    neither of which is really a problem
    throw an unused ascii-something at it and you should be fine

  6. Re:Linux users need not apply on UK Cold War Era Nuclear War Plans Revealed · · Score: 2, Informative

    dude, that doesn't work on my 64 bit machine...

  7. Re:That's ridiculous on IPv6 Transition to Cost US $75 Billion? · · Score: 1

    besides, the 6bone is obsolete as described in http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3701.txt?number=3701
    The 6bone was a test network. it has served it's useful purpose, but now isn't needed anymore, as the production IPv6 network is currently undergoing deployment.

  8. Re:How to pay for upgrades? on IPv6 Transition to Cost US $75 Billion? · · Score: 1

    it's me or this crap just looks like YET ANOTHER sweet deal for halliburton ?

  9. Re:That's ridiculous on IPv6 Transition to Cost US $75 Billion? · · Score: 1

    guess you should have looked a little better.
    http://www.sixxs.org/ is a fine tunnel broker.

  10. Re:What's the cost on IPv6 Transition to Cost US $75 Billion? · · Score: 1

    it's well known that China is a big 10.0.0.0/8 network behind a big ass natting filter/firewall :D

  11. Re:IPv6 is a mess on IPv6 Transition to Cost US $75 Billion? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    IPv6 users will only be able to use "passive" protocols (say goodbye to DCC transfers on IRC, and lots of multiplayer games)

    Bullshit.
    on the contrary, IPv6 will allow multiple people behind that firewall to have dcc transfers, and do ftp much more easily. no more ftp or irc modules required to nat shit around, no more H323 gateways and gatekeepers needed because person A in his 192.168.0.foo network can't connect directly to your 192.168.0.foo machine on your own network (duh, to his H323 client, this would be like connecting to localhost)

    Lastly, who wants to remember an IP address like 2001:0db8:85a3:08d3:1319:8a2e:0370:7334/64

    guess you ultimately don't know jack about what you think you're talking about.
    hey, dude, that's what DNS has been designed for.
    see, if your computing skills were about half of what your BS-spouting skills are, you would have noticed by now that the docs refer to AAAA records to store that info for you. besides, the router affecting the IPv6 addresses with dhcp would also serve as your dns server, and store that info. Whenever your box asks it's IPv6 address to the router in question, it says

    machine1: hello, I'm foo.bar.baz, what's my IP ?
    router: ok, foo, your ip is 2001:0db8:85a3:08d3:1319:8a2e:0370:7334/64

    now, machine2 wants to communicate with machine1

    machine2: hello, it seems you are the manager for bar.baz, what's the address of foo ?
    router: erh, lemme look... there it is. foo is 2001:0db8:85a3:08d3:1319:8a2e:0370:7334/64

    now, can you explain where you see a human being remembering the address in question ?

  12. timestamp videos in this day and age on Debugging Microsoft.com · · Score: 1

    wow, this video has been compressed to timestamp sizes.
    it shows as a 1.25*1 inch window on my monitor, and sounds worse than a cell phone conversation.
    in this day and age, I expected it to be at least 4 times bigger. this is ridiculous...

  13. this is rather expensive stuff on Video Multiplexing on Large Screens? · · Score: 1

    you're in for a wallet shock...

    what you are looking for is manufactured by pro-video hardware companies.
    the 2 items that come to mind right away are :

    the Leitch Neo SuiteView

    and

    the Miranda Kaleido K2

    both are over the 30K USD mark...

  14. Re:Defiance on World Standards Day 2005 · · Score: 1

    the inch is actually defined as 25.4 mm

  15. Re:Great for road trips... wait... on Nokia delays Linux-based tablet · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Only in the USA...

    Do cell phone providers use at least three totally incompatible technologies to piss off users

  16. airport displays on Major Retailer Chooses Linux for its Tills · · Score: 2, Interesting

    apparently, most airports use a windows box for each and every display (such as the ones showing the flight number at the gates). those seem to regularly crash, with nice BSODs that makes the airport look dumb. see for instance LAS (Las Vegas McCarran).

  17. Re:As a Massachusetts Resident on The Massachusetts Office Party · · Score: 1

    this includes also the totally useless invading of sovereign countries, fomenting coups in others (south & central america anyone) and tons of other similar crap

  18. Re:One can hope on HighDef Content to Require New Monitors · · Score: 1

    especially as the chinese will refuse to pay any patent royalties to the hollywood dumbfucks in question

  19. Re:How hard to bypass?? on HighDef Content to Require New Monitors · · Score: 1

    it's much simpler than that.
    take the electronics of a $200 monitor, composed of an interface card & the LCD itself.
    disconnect the LCD from the interface card, use the unencrypted data from the cable that goes to the LCD

  20. Re:HDCP on DVI/HDMI is stuipd on HighDef Content to Require New Monitors · · Score: 1

    you're wrong.
    you need pro hardware, such as http://www.aja.com/products_kona.html
    that will do the trick pretty easily.

    I'm personnally gearing up & buying pro-hardware for my video needs, as I'm pretty sure that one will be DRM-shit less

  21. Re:Right on Businesses To Be Censored on Use of Olympics · · Score: 1

    yeah. go to the event wearing a pepsi bikini... then sue them for sexual abuse when they try to rip the thing off

  22. Re:Windows is actually better for the car on Linux Based CarPC · · Score: 2, Informative

    tried roadster ?

  23. Re:Too much work on Linux Based CarPC · · Score: 1

    my carpc is based on gentoo ...

  24. My DSL already has that on Cable Wants to Cut the Cord · · Score: 1

    http://adsl.free.fr/ offers a DSL modem with voice, video, internet and wifi...

  25. Special NSA Hole ?? on Researcher Resigns Over New Cisco Router Flaw · · Score: 1

    would this be part (just like the master password thing) of the hole designed in the thing by cisco for the NSA to access any and all routers ?