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  1. Re:Title on Bad Guys Use Open Source, Too · · Score: 1

    I fixed this sentence:

    According to this report from Seculert Research the makers of Citadel, a variant of the Zeus Trojan, are using open source models to hone their code and make the Trojan more dangerous.

    The original sentence made it out to sound like Seculert Research were the makers of Citidel, and a variant of the Zeus Trojam was using open source models.

  2. NYC Subway on Why Computer Voices Are Mostly Female · · Score: 5, Interesting

    One day I had the interesting observation on the New York Subway that the recorded voices with informational statements were female, and the statements asking the passenger to do something ("Please stand clear of the door") were all male.

  3. Re:That would be a Steiner/Waldorf School? on A Silicon Valley School That Doesn't Use Computers · · Score: 2

    I went to a Waldorf preschool as a kid. They are nutty. I was an early reader which was something the school wasn't too happy with. I also really liked technology at a young age, which was also discouraged. I remember going to friends houses and having computer games, electric guitar, etc, be a taboo, even though all the kids were doing those things.

    And yeah, besides educational practices, there's a certain amount of psuedoscience and woo, for example the belief that the phase of the moon determines a good time to plant crops. (See biodynamic farming.)

  4. Re:NOT Free, NOT Open on Ciphire, A Transparent, Easy PGP Alternative · · Score: 1

    Yeah. If their software isn't free (as in freedom) from the start, they obviously know nothing about open source.

  5. Public Domain on Wired on Defeating the Olympics Censorship · · Score: 1

    Does anybody think footage from an event such as the Olympics should be public domain?

    Or at least let seperate TV/webcast crews set up or somthing.

    This is a bad start of the 21st centuary.

  6. Re:Project of the year--- How can you tell? on Linux Journal Editors Choice Awards · · Score: 1

    create an audio track, then drag the audio in from a good file manager, or set the edit point to where you want the audio to start, right click in the tracking area to bring up a context menu, then go to edit, then insert external sndfile.

    Paul did actually say you could drag things in somewhere in this thread I think.

    And while I have the chance, thank you for all the things xiph has done.

    - Sharp

  7. Re:Already up for sharing... on They Might Be Giants Open Their Own Music Store · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You suck dude.

    If an artist requests that you don't file share their music, don't. If they support filesharing, then fine, thats where most of the good music is anyway (even though i am a HUGE fan of TMBG).

    If they're giving you (trusting you with) good-quality non-DRM mp3s (mp3's yeah yeah ok ogg is better), don't abuse that.

  8. Re:TMBG has always been into this stuff on They Might Be Giants Open Their Own Music Store · · Score: 1

    My guess is that they take around 35% of it.

  9. Re:This is good, to be sure... on They Might Be Giants Open Their Own Music Store · · Score: 1

    Ok first of all, thats 48khz, or 48,000hz, not 48,000kbps.

    Second, 44.1khz is fine for listening to music, because most lossy formats that you will want to use will lowpass under 22khz. CD's are 44.1khz.

    Don't mind me i'm just picky about stupid things.

  10. Re:Nice. on They Might Be Giants Open Their Own Music Store · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Fortunately we have independent artists like TMBG who do own their own music.

    Independent...as in...they don't have a label.

    They're not just starting to release their music. They've been doing it for a while.

    The RIAA doesn't represent the entire music buisness. Go check out cdbaby.com where other indie musicians are releasing their own work, without a contract.

    You don't need a label to sing a song. (or be good at singing a song.)

    And while we're on the subject of labels and contracts and stuff, let me just plug this now famous document in case you haven't read it: http://www.negativland.com/albini.html

  11. Freematrix and Freestream on Interesting Tech-Related Online Talk Radio? · · Score: 1

    google them

  12. SCO?? on SCO Says No Way To a GPL Solaris, Moves Trial Back · · Score: 1

    I thought they were dead or somthing.

    Or at least not taken seriously.

  13. Re:low light photography - personal tip on Digital Photography Composition 101 · · Score: 1

    Setting the ISO.......

    That gives me an idea.

    I wonder if you could have a liquid crystal thing in a film camera to simulate lower film speeds.

    Of course that would mess with polarized light, but its just an idea.

  14. Re:Tip #10: Don't use a digital camera. on Digital Photography Composition 101 · · Score: 1

    Thats a good tip. Thank you.

  15. My prediction on Recording Industry Hopes To Hinder CD Burning · · Score: 1

    I predict one of the following things will happen.

    1. People will throw out CDs and switch to a new media, because of the copyright protection, just like they did for DAT and SCMS.

    2. People will override protection. The end.

    3. Nothing.

    In any case, maybe I don't fully understand it, because if its CD-DA, I can rip it, and if I can rip it, I can burn it unlimited times.

  16. Re:I hardly see a point in this on Solid-State Mini-ITX Linux Recording Studio HOWTO · · Score: 2, Informative

    I real "pro" would have a good soundcard, with a digital input/output. He/she would then use an external DAC/ADC to get sounds in and out of the computer without (as much) fear of interference.

  17. Re:Interesting But on Solid-State Mini-ITX Linux Recording Studio HOWTO · · Score: 1

    Have you tried ardour?

  18. 47 on Slashback: Indy, Kaneko, Swindling · · Score: 1

    is this the same 47 who made that video with DJ Spooky (that subliminal kid!)

  19. Re:Not stupid or Wrong... on Renewable Energy From Algae? · · Score: 1

    Its okay. Text is such a low bandwidth form of communication, that at the end of it all, everybody hates everybody. Don't you love slashdot? :P

  20. Re:Are you aware.... on Renewable Energy From Algae? · · Score: 1

    I may be completely stupid and wrong about this, but wasn't Straight Edge __Ian MacKaye's__ lyrics, that he wrote about many of his friends choosing to do drugs? (Notice how Ian MacKaye's name is not Brian Baker)

    And if you think being straight edge is about knowing who Brian Baker is, or even about punk and its offspring genres, I think you're missing the point.

    A lot of people don't know "roots" of a lot of things. Its not wrong, but slightly sad.

  21. Re:Or we could switch to Hemp on Renewable Energy From Algae? · · Score: 1

    here is an honest statement.

    i am straght edge and pro hemp.

    sorry if i offended you.

  22. Re:I'm sorry... on Firefox/Thunderbird Plugins: Is Less More? · · Score: 1

    It can also mean "isn't the shlt"

    Yizzle gizzle some slangizzle on this slashdizzle. For RIZAAALLLL!

    You knizzal?

    Goodbizzle.

  23. Re:Quit bitching. on 100% Open Source Helix Player 'Alpha' Available · · Score: 1

    Real has been supporting Linux for years now.

    They are still evil.

  24. Solution on WiFi Signals In Between Television Frequencies · · Score: 1

    TV over WiFi.

    Take up the entire VHF/UHF band for WiFi.

    Trash radio too.

    Now thats WiFi.

    Now enjoy internet radio and soon to be invented internet TV.

  25. 4 channels? on Super MP3 Will Feature User Tracking · · Score: 1

    What are you going to do with 4 channels?
    Everybody has ether 1 channel (mono), 2 channels, or 5 channels. (or maybe 7 in some rare cases.) Who has 4???

    Unless you're one of those people with quadraphonic surrond, but that whole idea is based around processing two channels anyway...

    so... wtf?