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  1. Good old BBC on UFO Streaks Through Martian sky · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Hmmm.. what took them so long? That picture was out a week ago.

  2. Re:Ipod Killer? on MSFTs "iPod Killer" Readied for Europe · · Score: 1

    steel his iPod

    It was a very heavy iPod

  3. Re:Ipod Killer? on MSFTs "iPod Killer" Readied for Europe · · Score: 2, Funny

    The "Ipod Killer" is just a Microsoft employee named Ted who steals people Ipods.

    I've heard of this guy working in London. Apparently he chased one of the producers of Lord of the Rings down a few streets to try and steel his iPod.

  4. Re: Slashdot and grandkids on War of the Worlds Remake · · Score: 1

    let alone be getting laid anytime soon

    Your totally right! I really should take a break!

  5. Re:What Rhythmbox still does not have on Rhythmbox Gets iPod Support · · Score: 1

    Er... silly me, replied to my own message instead of yours.

  6. Re:What Rhythmbox still does not have on Rhythmbox Gets iPod Support · · Score: 1

    Welp, your Apples perfect customer in that case. I would rarly buy music any other way, the only exception is buying some FLAC files now and again - stuff that isn't avaliable on CD.

  7. Re:No more imagination.. on War of the Worlds Remake · · Score: 4, Funny

    Don't laugh, in 50 years you may very well be taking your grandkids to a remake of Star Wars..

    Knowing Lukas, in 50 years we'll be taking the grandkids to see the super special enhanced version of the remake of the remake.

  8. Re:What Rhythmbox still does not have on Rhythmbox Gets iPod Support · · Score: 2, Funny

    There's this great new website called Amazon.com, and they actually send you real CD's. Even books!

    Amazing what they can do this day and age.

  9. Re:Worst idea since spell checkers on Fault Tolerant Shell · · Score: 1

    Hm. When did Teal'c replace Spock?

    You know, I was just thinking the same thing. Teal'c would sometimes even raise his eyebrow the same way as Spock.

    Spooky!

  10. Someone... on Using Employee-Owned Technology in the Workplace? · · Score: 1

    Sounds like someone needs a holiday!

  11. Re:anyone else think on PhatBot Trojan Spreading Rapidly On Windows PCs · · Score: 2, Funny

    Nah, would make a good DJ: PhatBot Slim

  12. Not a PC on Trusted Computing Rollout Hits the Desktop · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So this is the dawn of the Unpersonal Computer? One that hides things from it's users and gives control to other people.

    Screw that idea!

  13. Re:Wireless drivers, Linux-based APs etc on Linux Sourcecode To Minitar Access Point · · Score: 1

    As with the Linksys, the wireless driver is contained in a separate closed source binary. And it's that (or the wireless chips firmware) that decides what channels you can broadcast on.

    So until someone reverse engineers these drivers (hopefully soon) you'll have nothing to worry about. I doubt you'd have much to worry about anyway, if people are broadcasting on normally un-used channels then they will be causing you less interference if they'd been on a channel closer to what your using.

  14. Morph! on OED Science Fiction Database Updated · · Score: 1

    From the creaters of Wallace and Gromit, Morph! A cheeky bit of plastercine. More a name than a word, but he could 'morph' into lots of shapes. And this was back in 1980!

  15. Re:Removing the Player Isn't the Good Part! on Microsoft Facing European Sanctions · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Using Windows' APIs would not open up for MS legal action, and even if it did the competition authorities would strike swiftly down upon that as anti-competitive behavior.

    So would this stop what happened to Virtual Dub? The author added support for the ASF (or something similar, been a while) file format and Microsoft forced him to remove it. And this is a Windows program.

  16. Re:Removing the Player Isn't the Good Part! on Microsoft Facing European Sanctions · · Score: 2, Interesting

    But that information may still remain proprietary. MS could share the information and at the same time sue any up and coming rivals for patent violations or something equally silly.

  17. Re:What about Apple? on Microsoft Facing European Sanctions · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Apple are not a monoply. Even if they where, they'd have to be abusing that monoply before they'd run into problems.

  18. Re:Worst idea since spell checkers on Fault Tolerant Shell · · Score: 5, Funny

    just need to learn to spell and to ytype accuratly. -- QED - Quite Easily Done

    <Teal'c> Indeed </Teal'c>

  19. That's really far... on The Sun's 10th Planet... Sedna? · · Score: 1

    I've often wondered just how far from the Sun these objects have to get before the Sun is little more than a bright star and the objects are in constant darkness. Would telescopes even be able to detect these dark planets?

    I'd imagine it's really dark out where Pluto is, and this new object is much further.

  20. Re:Missile Complex on Titan Missile Complex Up for Sale · · Score: 1

    We have some Eugenics wars to finish up first.

    You mean they've started already? Nobody informs me of anything anymore!

  21. Missile Complex on Titan Missile Complex Up for Sale · · Score: 3, Funny

    Missile Complex?

    This wouldn't be in Central Montana by any chance? I hear Dr. Zefram Cochrane's been looking to buy one in that area.

  22. DNA on Spirit Takes Snapshot of Earth · · Score: 2, Funny

    If only they'd put 'Mostly Harmless' instead of 'You Are Here'.

  23. Shiny! on Spirit Takes Snapshot of Earth · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I've noticed in some of the images of Spirit there is what seems to be a very shiny object at the opposite end of the crater:

    Here (top right), here (top left) and here (middle).

    Could it be a piece of Spirits entry/descent stage? In that last image it looks like an oddly shaped rock. If it is a rock, what could have made it so reflective?

  24. Re:Yes, but what about the Lysol JX? on Hitachi Announces 400GB Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    Have you got a link for that? Google isn't helping.

  25. Re:Limited value on ExtremeTech Wages War of the Codecs · · Score: 1

    They *should* have tested against DV output as the standard consumer format, and uncompressed video

    DV is compressed. Infact it's somewhat similar to MPEG except a lot simpler (thus easier to impliment in hardware).

    A friend of mine has a DV camera and you can clearly see the compression artifacts around sharp/bright objects when viewing on a monitor. You don't notice on a TV tho.