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  1. Re:Are you a human being? on Following FEMA's Zombie Preparedness Plan Could Land You On Terrorist List · · Score: 1

    Just to clear up the slight misunderstanding.
    At first the German airforce was bombing strictly military targets in England, in order to soften it for invasion. However, one night. a single German pilot became lost and accidentally dropped his bombs over central London, prompting a retaliation by the British airforce, during which they bombed Berlin for the first time during the war. This so outraged Hitler that he ordered all strikes on military targets, such as the RAF, to be stopped and ordered a merciless concentrated bombing attack on London itself, now known as "The Blitz". Before this started leaders of the RAF had estimated that they could only hold out maybe a couple more weeks, before loosing so many aircraft, so much equipment and personal that they'd become completely ineffective as a fighting force. This break allowed the RAF to rebuild and resupply their airfields, repair their equipment and planes, and allowed the pilots and ground crews a respite from constant bombing. So yes, it was a rather dramatic turning point in the Battle of Britain.

  2. Re:Are you a human being? on Following FEMA's Zombie Preparedness Plan Could Land You On Terrorist List · · Score: 1

    I am so sorry for your losses and those of your friends/family.
        But think objectively about it for a minute if you will, and you'll have to agree that your experiences are a bit of a statistical anomaly.

  3. Hmmm... on Despite Clay Minerals, Early Mars Might Have Been Dry · · Score: 2, Interesting

    How does this explain away the alleged river channels, deltas, salts found by the rovers, etc... etc... and other evidence of large amount of water?

  4. Hmmmm..... on Facebook Says It Has 'No Intention' To Abuse CISPA · · Score: 0

    Because lord knows, a multi-billion dollar business doesn't care about protecting IP, and facebook's ALL ABOUT privacy *ahem*

  5. Re:Easyway on Anti-Smoking Vaccine Is Nearing the Market · · Score: 0

    Lets see, I can read 224 pages, and take weeks learning why I smoke, how to combat withdrawal, and work on changing my life to remain smoke free..... OR.. I can take a quick lil shot and be done with it?? hmmm let me think

  6. Re:Everything works for me on Gaming On Windows 7 · · Score: 0

    If you're using nVidia's drivers, yes, it is. On Windows, it works with any graphics adapter you're likely to find in use, and you don't have to dick around with "restricted drivers."

    hmmm... yeh.. Because, under Windows, EVERY driver is restricted

  7. Re:I like that phrasing. on Proposed Canadian Law Would Allow Warrantless Searches · · Score: 0

    Those warrants look so pretty with those genuine Saskatchewan seal skin bindings..

  8. Re:Color me not impressed on KOffice 2.0.0 Now Open For Firefox-Like Extensions · · Score: 1, Informative

    It doesn't use QT or GTK but that doesn't make it inoperable on a KDE or Gnome desktop.

    Umm.... Call me crazy, but Im pretty sure OpenOffice uses GTK as it's GUI toolkit, even if it is it's own "internal" version ( at least on Linux and Windows )

  9. Re:They're called digital cameras on Polaroid Lovers Try To Revive Its Instant Film · · Score: 0

    You make cookies with your username and password in them? Where'd you buy the cookie cutter? What are they molasses cookies? I'm guessing this is so you can eat them in a hurry when the FBI/NSA/HLS is knocking on your door? Keep a cold glass of milk handy!

  10. Re:Recollection on Usenet Group Sues Dutch RIAA · · Score: 0

    Or just send Odo back to the great link, to cure the founders, so they'll surrender.. I do believe it might just work!!!

  11. Re:screenshots? on Ubuntu 9.04 Is As Slick As Win7, Mac OS X · · Score: 0

    Am I the only one who thinks the default look of OS X, with that *gag* wallpaper, is cheap lookin?

    Personally I prefer a subtle background, and slighty dark default color scheme. Most of my time I'm looking at the information IN the application, not the application itself. A muted color scheme lets the UI features fade to my eye, while I concentrate on what I'm doing.

  12. Re:Do not underestimate Western-security procedure on Computer Spies Breach $300B Fighter-Jet Project · · Score: 0

    When the actual F-35 is deployed, it will defeat those countermeasures and deliver its nuclear payload to Beijing -- on time and on target.

    An F-35 to deliver a nuclear payload to Bejing?

    I shutter to think of what might have happened to all the submarine launched missiles, land based ballistic missiles, B-2 stealth bombers, B-1B bombers, even cruise missiles?

    What form of catastrophy would leave the US in the position of needing to nuke Bejing, and having no more approriate asset left to do it with, then it's second line fighter?

  13. Re:Darren isn't one to brag on Controversy Over 140-Year-Old Math Problem · · Score: 0

    > Why shouldn't he be aloud to be proud of it?

    Call me cynical, but what a funny way for a former grad school student to spell "allowed"!

  14. OK ok... call me anal, but.. on The Next Big Thing — Why Web 2.0 Isn't Enough · · Score: 0

    "Go to far".. should be "Go too far".

  15. Re:i bet on Windows Media Player 11 and Urge · · Score: 0

    Or with a sound card that supports it, just set the recording source to wave output, and use Audacity to record it, then save as an mp3.

    Would a DRM enabled player, be able to disable this sound card feature, upon playing?

  16. Distribution Idea.. on Jobs Offers Free Mac OS X For $100 Laptops · · Score: 0

    I was just thinking to myself as I read the article, about how to distribute a commercial version...

    How about having a base price, of say $200, so every purchase helps fund the project... plus, the option of paying another $100, which would directly pay for one child's laptop in a developing country. Possibly allowing a website where this child, and the donator could exchange e-mails back and forth ( a form of indirect moderated contact, would be better than direct contact, for various reasons I believe ), or something similar.

    The commercial version could even have special graphics on the case to indicate the owner made such a donation, like a status symbol of sorts.

    Just a quick thought I had anyway..

  17. Re:almost hesitate to mention it on Nvidia Drivers Enforce Macrovision's Rules · · Score: 0

    However you seem to missing the point.. chances are your card's TV out chip DOES support macrovision ( though personally I'd no idea what you chip might be), therefore you have no problems.
    My older GeForce2 MX400 contains a Conexant Bt868 which does not support macrovision. I can not watch DVDs no matter what I do, even using TV Tool, PowerDVD XP will complain "cannot ply cpoy protected DVD with TV Out enabled" or some similar message. Even if I DISABLE the Overlay video mirroring feature.
    I have been stuck using a really old 22.80 version of the driver under XP, since it's the only version where everything worked as it's supposed to, with my card, AND I can play DVDs.
    I have tried the newest drivers, and they also work great, but, I can't play DVDs... SO back to 22.80.

  18. Screen Shots on QT 2.3, With Anti-Aliased Fonts · · Score: 1

    I posted a few screen shots of my KDE desktop here

    http://personal.nbnet.nb.ca/grantl/kde/

    Taken of KDE 2.1.9=>20010223 ( ie.. a recent cvs snapshot ) and QT 2.3.0

    ps. my real colors aren't quite that ugly, blame it on the jpeg compression effects ( ie. more reddish less "muddy" )

  19. Re:Hauppage WinTV on Embedded Linux And Video Capturing? · · Score: 1

    I have a US Robotics Big Picture video camera, which is really, just a simple composite video camera (although the one I have is NTSC not PAL, though the card will support PAL), and a composite only capture based on the BT848 chipset, ( ie, same as the Hauppage WinTV PCI, without the tuner, or audio capture, in fact I use the Haupagge drivers under WinMe ) which works great under linux.
    As a bonus compared to the WinTV card you mentioned, the card is rather light with only a single RCA composite video in connector, and a small power outlet for the camera, and the board itself is only a half height board.
    Last I know of 3Com took over the manufacture if these, and currently don't even list them on thier page, so they might not even make em anymore, but, it maybe possible to find some on Ebay, or elsewhere on the net.

  20. Re:You would be suprised ... on The Starchild Project Claims to Have Alien Skull · · Score: 1

    "But what about Squids / Octopi / Starfish / other non bilaterally symmetric creatures? "

    They aren't?? hmm.. that just depends on how you cut them I guess.. ;-)

    For a Squid, cut him down from the middle the tail, down through the body, leave 6 tentacles on each side, cutting right though that little protruding thingy ( OK Im no marine biologist ) ta da you have 2 symmetric sides

    Same deal with Octopi. just leave 4 tentacles.

    And ok, now, what says you can't just cut one of those 5 legs of a starfish in half, when you cut it, and ta da, 2 even sides..

    Sorry just think about your examples a little better ;-)

  21. Ultra DMA on ULTRA66/DMA mode 4 in Linux? · · Score: 1

    This is how I got UltraDMA 33 working on my machine, RedHat 6.0 with an Asus P5A MB.
    First go download the source code for kernel 2.2.10 ( the patch wont apply very well to the RedHat kernel source ) check www.kernel.org for a mirror near you, get linux-2.2.10.tar.gz
    cd to /usr/src and rm linux
    then tar xvfz ~/linux-2.2.10.tar.gz
    Now you'll need the patch for Ultra DMA, you can get this at http://www.linuxhelp.org/linuxide/
    The current filename is 2.2.10.uniform-ide-6.20.eridanus.patch.gz . download this file and place it in /usr/src the gunzip it, and type this command
    patch -p0 2.2.10.uniform-ide-6.20.eridanus.patch.gz
    now you can cd linux do a make menuconfig or xconfig and configure as you require, the new IDE drivers will be under block devices.
    make and install your kernel as normal :-).
    With a Quantum Fireball 6.4 gig UDMA drive I get a hdparm -t /dev/hda speed of around 13 Mps

  22. Re:Why even release it . . . on XFree86 News · · Score: 1

    "a fix to get XFree86-3.3.x to compile under glibc-2.1.2 "

    Ack.. I hope by previous releases you dont mean 2.0.x . just finished downloading all the source, and about to try compiling with 2.1.1 on RedHat 6.0

  23. Re:What hardware/software does it use? on Digital VCRs · · Score: 1

    The Hauppage WinTV PCI card works for a simple live feed, and I assume with proper software you could do MPEG-2 recording.. but it's not in hardware.
    Besides the driver is included right in the Linux Kernel ( the bttv driver ) thanks to Alan Cox :-). Just need a program to display the video, like Xawtv, etc.. search freshmeat.net for em lots out there..

  24. Re:Bad 3dfx, bad! on 3dfx sues Creative Labs over Glide · · Score: 1

    > Do we have a link to this story? Check out http://www.3dfx.com The announcement is there.

  25. Microsoft Office for Linux : A Paradigm Shift on MS Office on Linux (Continued) · · Score: 1

    But, really?? How many people who actually buy a Microsoft Distro of Linux?
    It's just wrooong... wroong... just wrooong.. it's just wroong.. ;-)

    Besides, how long before RedHat+Caldera+Suse+etc.. etc... would drag MS's butt right back into court if MS was the one making violations of the GPL?
    Ouch ;-)
    At best, I might expect in the face of Linux competition MS would simple add more "Unix like" API's to NT, and maybe even a binary compatibility layer for Linux apps.. And then use it's marketing might to say "It does everything Linux does.. PLUS what NT does.."


    ps.. that would be crash right? ;-) he he