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  1. Re:Flight 587 on Another Plane Down in New York · · Score: 1

    This was flight 587, headed to the Dominican Republic.

    An American Airlines A300, reportedly. CNN says it originated from Boston, (two of the WTC planes did also?).

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  2. Re:640 Newtons on Odyssey Arriving at Mars Tonight · · Score: 1

    Actually, the NASA page says:

    The engine provides 695 newtons, or 156 pounds of thrust.

    Weird. I wonder where 640 came from?

  3. From the FAQ on Nokia 5510 - Cell Phone and More · · Score: 1

    FAQ

    Can I play downloaded MP3 files on the Nokia 5510?

    Yes, the Nokia 5510 can play MP3 files in protected format. Copies of the downloaded music files are added to the Nokia Audio Manager database. Nokia Audio Manager encrypts the music files and downloads the protected MP3 format to the memory of the Nokia 5510.

    MP3 files can be transferred to the phone fine, but getting them off again might be more tricky... the phone might not even be capable of playing MP3 files and rely on them being preconverted by the music manager.
  4. I don't think so. on MS getting rid of SAMBA? · · Score: 1

    I doubt that MS are going to ditch support with all of the previous versions of Windows just to get rid of SAMBA, somehow.

    They might add some funky new .net only features, but I bet SMB will be around for a long time to come.

  5. Re:Can they fight the haX0rs? on More Napster Than You Can Shake A Copy-Protected MP3 At · · Score: 1

    rot13 anyone?

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  6. Re:Cluster whores on Intel Says 10GHz By 2005 · · Score: 1

    "It shouldn't be too hard to introduce some sort of auto-moderation scheme that automatically -1's all cluster-mentioning posts to not-cluster-mentioning stories"

    Like yours?

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  7. Re:Stop and think a minute about this. on Another New (Minor) Planet In Solar System · · Score: 1

    But couldn't you argue that the only reason that *this* planet is special, is because it's the only one we have? If humans were spread across hundreds of different planets, why would one of them being fucked up, as you say, be such a big deal anyway?

    I'm not saying fucking planets over is a good thing, but I think you've got to decide whether you'd prefer humans or planets..

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  8. Re:Still not a viable DVD pirating solution - yet. on A Drive With The Works: DVD-[R,RW] And CD-[R,RW] · · Score: 1

    CD-Rs used to cost £5 a piece, so it was barely worth copying, say, singles onto them. Now I buy them for 20p each -- surely the same thing is going to happen to DVD-R eventually? Then the MPAA/whoever is going to be really upset. Especially if you can do a bit by bit copy of a film, including the encryption, onto another DVD..

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  9. Re:Neder? on The Full Nader Plus a Taste of Bush and Gore · · Score: 1

    I don't know. But then again, I don't know who Ralph Nader is either..

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  10. Disagreeing with himself? on Is UNIX An OS? · · Score: 1

    "Unix is no longer an operating system"

    Fair enough.. but in the same line, he says:

    "An operating system is the software that comes with a computer (or OS distribution)"

    So a distribution is separate from the OS?

    "Today, an OS is not just the kernel and a few command line utilities. It may include a.."

    Does the word "may" there not mean something? As in, that is perfectly possible for it to _not_ include them?



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  11. Old news? on Watch Camera · · Score: 1

    They've been selling this at firebox.com for a while now, for £169.95, in a choice of colours.

    How is this "news"?

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  12. Re:temporal density on Net Security With "NanoProbes" · · Score: 1

    isn't this just a marketroid way of saying twice as fast?

    Nooo... it's all to do with Virtual Chaos!

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  13. Nohican on Yup, Somebody Cracked Slashdot · · Score: 1

    Nohican.
    {} is not a valid user..

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  14. The point on An Interesting Boot Log On Alpha · · Score: 3

    People seem to be complaining that "this isn't news".. no, it's not the kind of thing that you'd see on your local TV news, but it's "News for Nerds". Which is, as I'm sure you're aware, what this is all about. Why should I care that you don't like this story? I didn't like the last one, do you care?

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  15. DSL Problems on On the Reliability of DSL Providers... · · Score: 1

    I wish I even had the chance to have an unreliable DSL connection.. you don't know the meaning of the word 'unreliable' until you try browsing the internet with a mobile phone....

    Anyway, this guy seems to have a fairly complex horror story about his DSL problems.

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  16. Re:Multiple email accounts on Microsoft's New Spamming Technique · · Score: 1

    Outlook syncs to my mobile phone, point me to another program that does that, and I'll use it.

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  17. Viruses on Microsoft's New Spamming Technique · · Score: 1

    Well, it's certainly going to write it easier for the macro virus programmers anyway.

    Just call:

    sendspamtoeveryoneinaddressbook();

    And you're well on the way!


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  18. Multiple email accounts on Microsoft's New Spamming Technique · · Score: 3

    I have several email accounts, for different reasons. If they all spontaneously decided to tell everyone to use one account, where would I be?

    I don't see why this shouldn't be an /option/, but as the default it does seem a bit weird.


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  19. Amiga on More Information on Total mPOWER? · · Score: 4

    These sound a lot like the PowerPC boards that have been used to keep the Amiga alive (well, almost) after the 680x0 chips became old news.

    There's a load of links at http://www.suite101.com/linkcat egory.cfm/amiga/4027 if any one's interested.

    Basically, the system libraries are all replaced with versions that use the PowerPC for anything remotely complicated, while any older programs just go on using the original processor.

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  20. Mess with the network on Guiding Air Traffic Sans Radar With GPS · · Score: 1

    So, what's to stop me setting up my own transmitter to overload a given area (say, the 70,000 square miles around my house) with a million fake planes?

    Or what if I know the id code of a plane before it gets to me, and I start broadcasting that I'm that plane? What happens when it arrives?

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  21. Re:Cross Wiring 56K on Sharing a Cable Connection w/ Your Dreamcast? · · Score: 1

    http://www.dc-united.com/utilities/D C-PPP.html tells you how to do exactly that.

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  22. Re:Mirror? on Emugaming Responds To Sega's Threats · · Score: 1

    http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:http://www.xt remehw.net/Dreamcast/+&hl=en (dcisos.com seems to be a namezero redirect)

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  23. The site talked about on Emugaming Responds To Sega's Threats · · Score: 4
  24. The link on Sharing a Cable Connection w/ Your Dreamcast? · · Score: 2

    .. doesn't work.

    However, e3.sega.com/show /from_the_floor/ftf_games_peripherals.shtml has some details on the "Dreamcast Ethernet LAN Card."

    Dreamcast on broadband! You wanted a faster connection, you got it. Connect it to a cable modem, DSL modem, even the Ethernet LAN in your company. It's network standard and allows for smoother video phone quality, state of the art graphics, and quick downloads of the hottest games.

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  25. Re:Umm, what new breed? on Revelation Space · · Score: 1

    The article: "Alastair Reynolds is one of the breed of science fiction writers who is also a professional scientist." You: "This is hardly a "new breed" Me: So? It's hardly a yellow breed either, but no-one's pretending that it is..

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