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  1. Re:Feature list on Psystar Offers $399 "OpenMac" Computer · · Score: 1

    So you download the service manual and find the part number... Plenty of places will sell you a replacement... No different than a lot of other manufacturers... And if they told you that they couldn't give you the cost over the phone then call somewhere else...

  2. P-Fleet on Russia To Build an Orbital Construction Plant · · Score: 2, Funny

    It sounds like Captain Pirk has definitely arrived in our time...

  3. Re:Duh - we all do. on Who Pays for Rebuilding the Internet? · · Score: 1

    ISPs in New Zealand already do this - Traffic is monitored as local (within the host network), national, and international.

    Typically, any traffic within the ISP's network is free while national and international traffic are billable... Billing depends on the ISP with some offering set caps and others billing by the MB...

  4. Re:Fist fights at 30,000 feet. on Cell Phones To Be Allowed On UK Planes · · Score: 2, Funny

    Listen and repeat...

    "Vous retournez chez toi dans une ambulance."

    "You are going home in an ambulance." ...

  5. Speech recognition on Gmail CAPTCHA Cracked · · Score: 1

    Was thinking out loud before - should really have said speech recognition...

  6. Voice recognition on Gmail CAPTCHA Cracked · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Would this not be a reliable way to bypass almost all captchas?

    Since most have a spoken option for visually disabled people, would it not be possible activate that and then run a voice recognition app on that sound clip?

    Since many voice recognition apps are able to filter noise to some degree, even introducing background clutter would not make it difficult to pull the captcha information.

  7. Re:Article Mentions Problems in U.S. Also on Tainted Pills Hit US Mainland · · Score: 1

    Palmyra Atoll isn't actually uninhabited - it has researchers there all of the time and a few people who live there full time...

  8. Apple - memory card sockets??? on Smartphones Patented — Just About Everyone Sued 1 Minute Later · · Score: 1

    They seem to be trying to say that Apple produce a device with "one or more replaceable memory card sockets for receiving a blank memory card for recording data directly from the Internet"...

    Hmmmmmm.....

  9. Binatone TV Master Pong on What Was Your First Gaming Experience? · · Score: 1

    Made in 1977 - picked one up as a kid at a car boot sale in the early/mid 80's... Funky orange joystick things...

  10. Re:Awesome on US Government To Release Electronic Passport · · Score: 1

    Negative - I am a meat popsicle...

  11. Re:smarter monitor on The LCD Panel vs. The Crossbow · · Score: 5, Funny

    No need to build - Shop smart - Shop S-Mart.

  12. Re:But what is a criminal? on Judge Rules TorrentSpy Destroyed Evidence · · Score: 1

    It's a bit more like if AppleSpy steal one apple, plant their own orchard and then put up adverts showing where to find their orchard and how to grow your own....

    Stretching the analogy a bit much but hey ;->

  13. Re:"State-wide" agreement? on Time Warner Wins Ohio-Wide Cable Franchise · · Score: 1

    State-wide!!!

  14. Re:Terrible bug on Data Loss Bug In OS X 10.5 Leopard · · Score: 1

    What would give a clearer picture would be to either pause the virtual machine running Windows, or preferably use a physical Windows machine and pull the network cable during the transfer - that would halt the transfer cleanly rather than clicking a turn off share option which as pointed out, might result in an unwanted completion code being returned to the originating mac.

  15. Re:What's the draw? on New iPod Checksum Cracked, Linux Supported · · Score: 1

    Which model is it? (you never actually said)... Have you tried the HD test in the diagnostic mode?

  16. Re:What's the draw? on New iPod Checksum Cracked, Linux Supported · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a messed up hard disk.... Considering a hard bump (drop) can mess up a HD it's not surprising that HD based iPods suffer this kind of issue - just as other HD based players do. In your case it might just be that the connectors have worked loose, so opening up the ipod and reseating the HD cable (both ends) might fix the problem, and if not, a replacement HD isn't particularly expensive.

    Moving to a flash based player - Apple or not - would avoid this issue but it really doesn't sound like an iPod specific problem...

  17. Hunt for Red October on Going to Yosemite? Get Your Passport Ready! · · Score: 1

    This reminds me of an exchange about travelling around America from the movie...

    --------------

    Do they let you do that?

    Yes.

    No papers?

    No papers.

    State to state.

    --------

  18. Re:my thoughts on iPhone Can Now Run Apache, Python, Vim · · Score: 1

    I can say that the numbers bought are a lot higher than the numbers activated - especially because a significant number of iPhones have been bought and immediately taken/shipped outside the US at which point they will be cracked to activate the non-phone functionality.

    This may seem pointless, but a good number of web designers feel the need to test their work against the iPhone (as well as having a new toy to play with).

  19. Re:Hold on. on Lawyer Asks RIAA To Investigate Bush Twins · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hopefully it also eschews going up against a Sicilian when death is on the line...

  20. Re:Cowboys on China Crafts Cyberweapons · · Score: 1

    The only Russian thing was a war surplus artificial heart...

  21. Re:Those generic eBay ads on Google buys DoubleClick for $3.1 Billion · · Score: 5, Funny

    Still doesn't compare to the "Buy Steve Irwin Dead on eBay" offers that were popping up after the event...

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/05/ebay_steve _irwin/

  22. Not exactly a new idea... on Patent Filed for Underwater GPS · · Score: 1

    Relative positioning systems have been available underwater for years - you can even buy handheld ones for SCUBA... Just put the base station at the anchor and swim off and then the handset tells you how far and in what direction the base is. The only difference here is that it calculates the position relative to a location specified by the base and so displays absolute coordinates rather than relative ones.

  23. Re:SPACED on Star Trek To Return Christmas 2008 · · Score: 1

    Meh, it's a quote...

    OTOH, X wasn't a bad movie with the exception of who they killed off...

  24. SPACED on Star Trek To Return Christmas 2008 · · Score: 1

    It's inevitable, just as night follows day, sure as eggs is eggs, just like every odd-numbered Star Trek movie is shit...

  25. Re:Who's the @**hole now! on Aqua Teen Hunger Force Brings Boston to a Halt · · Score: 1

    But only three of the stations blew up... The fourth was just dragged a thousand years back in time ;->