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  1. But Perth's not on the equator on Highlift Systems' Space Elevator In The News Again · · Score: 1

    AFAIK tradition geostationary orbits are above the equator.

    Afterall a geostationary orbit above the southpole isn't a orbit at all. IE a geostationary satellite above the pole, would not be orbiting the earth, it'd be spinning on its own axis.

  2. There's plenty of no OS laptop companies on Buying a Small, Light Linux Notebook Computer? · · Score: 1

    I can think of 3 off the top of my head

  3. 100 years ago mutton was more popular than lamb on Goodbye, Dolly · · Score: 1

    It was considered much more flavoursome

    But cross breed sheep over time helped make lamb tastier than what it was

    Me I prefer saltbush hogget

  4. outrageous patent claims will encourage reform on NCR Patents the Internet · · Score: 1

    The best thing that could've happened would be BT's hyperlink patent being upheld

    That would've forced reforms onto the world's patent offices.

  5. Anyway they're Israeli on Israeli Firm Claims Unbreakable Encryption · · Score: 1

    Does anyone remember the Promis Software hooha?

    After all that there's no whay I'd ever trust a Israeli software firm in regards to security.

  6. Patents are not retrospective on Microsoft Applies For .NET Patent · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I assume if Mono dates from the period before the Patent application then MS is too late.

  7. Bit like Powell's evidence on Even Sun Can't Use Java · · Score: 1

    IE they could've been 2 Arab-Americans at Langley talking into microphones, not 2 Iraqis

  8. that's their responsability on Circuit Court Okays Vote Swapping Site · · Score: 1

    Unless you think people should have the right to sue Mc Donalds for being fat?

  9. Just include it in the price on California Considering More Internet Taxes · · Score: 1

    Than the customers would be none the wiser, as it won't be marked as added on

    Gez the US must be about the only place in the world where price marking doesn't includ the sales tax - you go buy a bottle of coke that price marked a dollar & you get to the cash register & by the time they add 7% (or whatever) federal tax, 7% (or whatever) state tax, 7% (or whatever) local tax, you end up being billed $1.20 or something. WTF is up with that.

    Gez here in Oz & in Europe the bottle would have been pricemarked $120 in the 1st place & the shop just sends off 10% or whatever to the federal govt as sales tax. Then the federal govt funds the state govts directly, so there's no need for them to have a seperate sales tax.

  10. Those cleaver Japanese on Corporate Espionage Leads To Faulty Motherboards · · Score: 1

    I wonder if they intentionally sold the 'stolen' faulty capacitor formula to the Taiwanese

  11. He means they both hot 'n cold lines attached on Priest Brews in Washing Machine · · Score: 2, Informative

    & you can then set the machine to do cold, warm or hot washes.

    But many machines, such as quite a few European frontloaders, also have their own instantaneous line heating elements in them (the opposite of a draught beer cooler). These are often 3 phase & consist OF 3 rods in a tube in which the water runs past. So if you only a cold water tap in the laundry you can still do a warm or hot water wash. Some also have heating elements for the tub, so if you're soaking stuff overnight in a outhouse laundry in rural Bavaria, you washing won't end up frozen.

  12. use 6.X not 7.X on Opera 7.0 Security Holes ... Fixed · · Score: 1

    6 is no where near as buggy as 7 & has much more mature features.

    Afterall 7 is a beta.

    The bookmarking folder setup is much more flexible too

  13. Re:Civil vs Criminal laws on E.U. Commission Suggests Permissive Copyright Rule · · Score: 1

    criminal provisions doesn't mean there's no civil provisions.

    So saying 'Copyright infringement still comes under CIVIL law' doesn't mean one is denying the existence of criminal statutes too.

    Anyway it's only a EUC suggestion. There is at yet no conflict between the EUC & any British criminal statutes in regards to copyright.

  14. there were no criminal statutes in old c'right law on E.U. Commission Suggests Permissive Copyright Rule · · Score: 2, Informative

    traditionally copyright law was no different to patent law - if someone infinged on your copyrights it was up to you to sue 'em.

    IE copyright was traditionally only a part of civil laws.

    Really the addition of copyright provisions to the criminal statutes is only relatively recent (post 1970?). All that's being suggested is that copright law should teturn to its traditional status in regards to infringment by individuals for personal reasons.

    Even if this suggestion became law, record companies would still have the right to sue individual non-commercial copyright infringers in the civil courts

  15. RTFA on Steam Powered Underwater Jet Engine · · Score: 3, Informative

    The drive was invented by Australian engineer Alan Burns and developed in Britain by engineers at Pursuit Dynamics in Royston, Hertfordshire. Last week, New Scientist witnessed a version just 20 centimetres long develop around 30 horsepower (22 kilowatts) in a test tank, enough to power a speedboat. But the company says it can be scaled up to about 300 horsepower.

  16. Humbug on First HDD MPEG4 Video Camcorder · · Score: 1

    The reason Samsung bought it out with a 1.5g harddrive is so they can bring it out with a bigger harddrive next year

  17. Anyway how could grace be libeled? on Attorney Sues eBay over Negative Feedback · · Score: 1

    Afterall only anonymous nics get libeled, not real people.

    Grace can simply get a new nic

  18. P3 - 1/2 the L2 cache = Celeron on XBox Chip With Legal BIOS · · Score: 1

    In everything but name

  19. Just a P6 + NForce + custom BIOS/ROM on XBox Chip With Legal BIOS · · Score: 2, Informative

    Really the 1/0 logic aint much difference to what's on a NForce Athlon board, only its a GTL+ bus NForce chipset rather than a EV6 bus NForce chipset

  20. W95 OSR2 introed FAT32 on Should The Next Windows Be Built On Linux? · · Score: 1

    W95 used FAT16

  21. If he meant DOS he would've said DOS on Should The Next Windows Be Built On Linux? · · Score: 1

    He was just dumbing things down for the masses.

    Fact is, if he thought XP was ontop of DOS he would simply had said so.

    All he was basically stating was that there are parrallels.

    Look at his background as a journo & a TV doco maker. Fact is American television networks tradition dumb down everything to the adult with a mental age of 10 level. Great production values yes, but script wise American television is really dumbed down - just compare Columbo to Morse. It's piss easy to work out who the killer is in Columbo (It's always the really helpful person who Columbo keeps annoying till the point that he/she get the shits), in Morse you actually have to follow the nuances of the script right to the end.

    Cringly just dumbed his blurb down to the same 'adult with a mental age of 10' standard.

    Because, fact is the parrallels are there:

    Linux Kernal -> Windows Kernel
    sh -> cmd.exe
    X server -> GDI.exe
    Window Manager -> Explorer.exe
    CORBA -> (D)COM

    Just as people are building a BeOS API & GUI layer onto the Linux kernal, the same can be done with Windows.

    But for what, there's really nothing that great about the Linux kernal. Sure a non X linux GUI OS could potentialy (but not necassarily) be a vast improvement over the graphical enviroment/window manager/X/Linux-GNU mess we have now, but what does MS gain? XP & its NT kernal's fine

  22. Wrong on Should The Next Windows Be Built On Linux? · · Score: 1

    He was just dumbing things down for the masses.

    Fact is, if he thought XP was ontop of DOS he would simply had said so.

    All he was stating was that there are parrallels.

    Look at his background as a journo & a TV doco maker. Fact is American television networks tradition dumb down everything as they're designed for adults with a mental age of 10. Great production values yes, but script wise American television is really dumbed down - just compare Columbo to Morse. It's piss easy to work out who the killer is in Columbo (It's always the really helpful person who Columbo keeps annoying till the point that he/she get the shits), in Morse you actually have to follow the nuinces of the script right to the end.

    Cringly just dumbed his blurb down to the same 'adult with a mental age of 10' standard.

    Because, fact is the parrallels are there:

    Linux Kernal -> Windows Kernel
    sh -> cmd.exe
    X server -> GDI.exe
    Window Manager -> Explorer.exe
    CORBA -> (D)COM

    Just as people are building a BeOS API & GUI layer onto the Linux kernal, the same can be done with Windows.

    But for what, there's really nothing that great about the Linux kernal. Sure a non X linux GUI OS could potentialy (but not necassarily) be a vast improvement over the graphical enviroment/window manager/X/Linux-GNU mess we have now, but what does MS gain? XP & its NT kernal's fine.

  23. The parrallels are there on Should The Next Windows Be Built On Linux? · · Score: 1

    Linux Kernal -> Windows Kernel
    sh -> cmd.exe
    X server -> GDI.exe
    Window Manager -> Explorer.exe
    CORBA -> (D)COM

  24. He was just emphasising the parrallels on Should The Next Windows Be Built On Linux? · · Score: 1

    Linux Kernal -> Windows Kernel
    sh -> cmd.exe
    X server -> GDI.exe
    Window Manager -> Explorer.exe
    CORBA -> (D)COM

    As someone above mentioned

  25. But it was greed htat sucked them in on Spammers Busted · · Score: 1

    The greedy wanting money for nothing.

    So its karma