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  1. Re:Ladies and Gentlemen: The Scientific Method on What If Dark Matter Really Doesn't Exist? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Even though I try to believe six impossible things before breakfast, some propositions I just can't swallow

    Then you need an Electric Monk (tm).

  2. Re:Speedball 2 on Neglected Classic Games That Deserve Remakes? · · Score: 1

    Looks like its been out on GBA since 2001. I'm buying this tommorow.

  3. This GDM monitor ? on Who Still Uses Old Monitors? · · Score: 1

    Is this the post you are looking for ?

  4. Re:Old Sci-Fi? on Solar Powered Jacket Charges Your Gadgets · · Score: 1

    That wasn't a sci-fi show. That was the 1980's..

  5. Re:Cebit 2003 on Kiss Technology Counters MPlayer GPL Arguments · · Score: 1

    Only the subtitle code it seems. I often use mplayer (well mencoder) to transcode (I use that too) files the kiss player wont play. Strangely it also barfs on some of the subtitle formats that mplayer handles just fine.

    Personally I think the best resolution to this case of licence infringement would be for Kiss Technology to remove their own player and replace it with mplayer and the relevant free codecs, and of course offer the source to Kiss player owners.

    I expect that any mplayer developers who are also Kiss player owners would be very happy with this, if it also came with an apology.

  6. Re:What, like movies? on Will TiVo Destroy Ad-Supported TV? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Subliminal' advertising - [...] happened once, as part of a carefully-controlled experiment, in one cinema many decades ago

    No it didnt.

  7. Re:This is actually important on Booting Linux Faster · · Score: 1
  8. Re:a link between on Mystery Tiles From Around the World · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Reminds me of the Space Invader

  9. Read the license. on Is Wizard-Code a Derived Work? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Usually the software's license will exempt generated code but you will need to read it to check.
    In fact you should read the license before you pay for the software and certainly before you commit to using it.

  10. MMO ? on Star Wars Galaxies - Fastest Selling MMOG Ever · · Score: -1, Troll

    It's MMOG.
    What the hell is a "Massive Multiplayer Online" ?

  11. Re:Story mirror - site slashdotted :( on Incas Used Binary? · · Score: 2, Funny

    The original hieroglyphs, dating from about 5,000 years ago, were etched on stone and were elaborate and time-consuming to fuck,

    Painful too I'd imagine.

  12. Re:Physical spam in the UK on UK And EU May Make Unsolicited Email Illegal · · Score: 0

    Fill in "Occupier" as your surname ?

  13. bytemark on Finding Decent Unix Server Hosting? · · Score: 1

    Debian geeks may find Bytemark in the UK to be agreeable.
    You get a full UML virtual machine to play with.

    I'm not using them myself, still thinking about it.
    I found them via this Debian Planet Article

  14. Re:Section bar on Announcing Games.slashdot.org · · Score: 1

    Preferences, Home Page, Collapse Sections (show stories from all sections, unless specifically excluded)

  15. Re:Free as in Freedom? WTF? on Linus on DRM · · Score: 1

    Free software comes with it's own Declaration of Independance and First Amendment.
    That means it can't lose its freedom.

    Open Source can be enslaved.

  16. Other services on Building a Town-Wide LAN? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The vast majority of a town's population won't be die hard geeks like us. I expect only about 20% to happlily accept the $40 fee without some obvious non internet benefits.

    With a fiber network in the town you can offer very high speed local networking to the people and only limit bandwidth for external connections. Most people wont know what they can do with that, so you'll need to set up a few services that people can start using right away.

    A few ideas off the top of my head for people with PCs:

    Free video telephony.
    Your own tv channel
    Local news
    Video on demand

    The last one being the killer app of course. It would require some kick ass servers or 9000 dvd players at the local 24 hour video store, but trust me, its what people want.

    I think you need make all the services you provide available at a flat rate (at least initially) just to promote usage and experimentation.

    Discuss

  17. Aaaarggh ! on New Service from NOAA - Real-Time Solar Imaging · · Score: 1

    I can't see ! I can't see.

    Shouldn't there be some kind of warning ?

  18. Re:Google the Broad on Do Privacy Fears Allow Terrorism? · · Score: 1

    or just go to her employer's website

  19. Re:In perl/shell on Security Expert Paul Kocher Answers, In Detail · · Score: 1

    Thats beautiful. Thanks.

  20. Re:A fork would be *bad* on XFree86 Politics · · Score: 1

    The truth is that since both speak the same protocol it doesn't matter at all.

    But what if it appears to speak the same protocol and then without warning switches to Welsh ?

  21. Re:You misparsed the original post. on LGP Announces Game Development Team · · Score: 1

    > Remember, this is an English Language Query, NOT a boolean.

    LOL! More of this please.

  22. Re:Good Luck on LGP Announces Game Development Team · · Score: 1

    I don't know either but planeshift is looking quite good these days.

  23. Re:Only fast forwarding through ads on Study Finds Tivo Less of a Threat to Advertisers · · Score: 1

    Select Play Select 30 Select.

  24. Re:analogous to water/electric company IMHO on Bad Behavior on the 'Net - Who Pays the Bandwidth Bill? · · Score: 1

    The next day, the credit card called me..

    One of those smart cards eh ?

  25. Re:I wonder... on 419 Scam Costs Britons 8.4m GBP in 2002 · · Score: 1

    There are certainly lots of Americans loitering in hotel lobbies !

    I'd say that while there are more stupid rich Americans than Brits, the percentages are likely to be similar.