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  1. Bullet time! on Ask Slashdot: What To Do With Old Webcams? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Get some USB hubs and make your own bullet-time setup.

  2. Re:Air taggs along. on Adobe Launches Sandboxed Reader X · · Score: 1

    From Adobe's FTP site. All neatly organized by platform and version.

    ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/

  3. TrueCrypt container + any *nix server on Web-Based Private File Storage? · · Score: 1

    Make a TrueCrypt container and store it anywhere in the world on an SSH-enabled server. Pick up a copy of ExpanDrive to mount the TC store over SSH as a drive letter if you are using Windows.

  4. R2 Mail on USPS Announces Star Wars Stamp Set · · Score: 1

    Maybe this would explain why the post office in Royal Oak MI has painted their blue mailboxes to look like R2D2.

    R2D2 Mailbox

  5. lol? on Symantec Labels Vicars' Software as Spyware · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Turning? Umm it's been a joke for years now.

  6. Good plan on Digital Music Stock Market? · · Score: 1

    People are already confused about buying digial music with the multitude of incompatible devices, stores, and formats. Let's add another variable into the mix with changing prices. That's completely stupid. Jane just wants to buy music, not try to figure out how Suzy got X for Y price.

  7. Fun with signatures on Credit card signatures: Useless? · · Score: 1

    Whenever I go somewhere and they have a digital signing space I always draw faces or cartoons or just random words and stuff. Signatures really don't amount to anything I dont think, so long as somebody marked the paper at some point. All my cards have SEE ID written on the back of them. Most of time people do ask to see it, but not always.

  8. No way on Monday, January 24th to be Worst Day of the Year · · Score: 1

    Not possible becasue the 24th is the day my Mac Mini gets delivered. Woo!

  9. Re:Only in the U.S. on New Battlestar Galactica Series Starts Tonight · · Score: 1

    Hence my comment about it being recorded on some British channel. I don't have U.K. television so I have no idea where it's from.

  10. Re:Only in the U.S. on New Battlestar Galactica Series Starts Tonight · · Score: 1

    fatfingering wooo!

  11. Only in the U.S. on New Battlestar Galactica Series Starts Tonight · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's beened aired elsewhere already. I've downloaded adn watched the first 11 eipsodes. Looks like they were recorded from some British channel.

  12. Free thinking: america's next great danget on Creationist Textbook Stickers Declared Unconstitutional · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What an utter load of crap. Where in the constitution does it say that you don't have the specific freedom to put stickers on a textbook? Exactly what part of the constitution was violated? And regardless, all theories of creation are just that: theories because we weren't there to witness it. Basically, this judge said 'oh no! free thinking! this sticker might cause a few neurons to fire. we can't have that can we?'

  13. Only Newegg on Where Do You Shop for Server Components? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Exclusively from Newegg. They are unmatched.

  14. Most likely... on De-spamming Your Inbox The Hard Way · · Score: 1

    Most likely the host added or upgraded a spam filter. Mail servers keep re-sending for more than 48 hours, so it makes sense that something else was done.

  15. Re:CD hack? on Valve Cracks Down on 20,000 Users · · Score: 1

    I tried this, but no dice. Uninstalled HL2, then re-installed via Steam. The logical thing would be to assume that your CD-Key identifies you to steam as requiring a disc. There really is no way around it right now at least, if you have a retail copy you will need the CD or an image mounted.

  16. Americans Read Fewer Books on Americans Read Fewer Books · · Score: 0, Redundant

    And they needed a study to figure this out?

  17. No TV on TV Losing to Video Games · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I honestly don't even watch TV anymore. I download a show if I want to see it, commercial free. TV in general just blows.

  18. Begin Rant on BMG Stops Producing CDs · · Score: 1

    /Begin Rant. This is a long one folks.

    If and when this bahavior reaches the U.S., I simply stop buying CDs. I will download every album off the internet and send money to the artists directly. This kind of crap just pisses me off and makes me flaming mad. Not everybody is a pirate. Over the past year, I have downloaded and then purchased at least 150 CDs. That's a crapload of money, and if the the RIAA doesn't want it, that's fine with me.

    When I buy a CD, it's mine. I can do with it as I please. That includes copying it onto my computer so I can take it anywhere I want, including sending copes of it to work, my car, my portable player, anything. I've already had problems with protected CDs not playing in my car.

    The RIAA is putting me on a warpath, and I will not stop. I will not buy crippled CDs with jacked up TOCs. This is the end. Since I don't have millions of dollars to fight the RIAA I'll hit them where it hurts: their pockets.

    And what of the average consumer? They want simplicity. They want things to work. I can't see myself explaining to friends that they can't play their CD on their computer or in their car because they might 'copy it'. The RIAA needs to get their head out of their arse and work towards the future, developing good digital formats. Suing your own customers and strangling your consumer base is just stupid. It amazes me that companies fail time and time again to make good decisions that a baby could make.

    Oh and to the RIAA: the reason your music sales are down is because your music blows chunks. I bought less CDs this year, and lots of them were extremely talented independent artists or releases on smaller labels. You might think, but wait, he said he bought 150 this year! So think of how many I bought last year. I'm not interested in the latest Britney, Christina, R&B, Nickelback, pre-packaged crap. Every time I turn on the radio I literally hear the same playlist over and over.

    I am so close to losing my mind.

    Thanks for reading people. /End rant

  19. Re:first!? on Interview with Tribsoft · · Score: 1

    I'm glad to see that more and more companies are jumping on the Linux gaming bandwagon. There is an enormous untapped market here of about 15 million users, so if profits are an isue they should have nothing to worry about. Rejoice, geeks can play geeked verisons of their favorite games.