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  1. UK google on Google Removes Links in Response to DMCA Complaint · · Score: 1

    What I'd like to know is why the UK google has removed the sites also. The Canadian google is the same.

    Are these international based Google's served from the USA?

  2. Re:Makes no sense on Consumer Electronics Industry: Linux is the Future · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I'm sure most all toasters are using multiprocessor support!

    Not all of them.
    Would you like some toast?

  3. Re:Why a hardware decoder? - Because - It's a VIA on Reverse Engineering an MPEG Driver · · Score: 1

    I've built around 7 or 8 of these myself

    They are great ain't they!

    Just curious, are you using those little Morex cases, or standard ATX? And have you had any problems with the onboard LAN not receiving packets?

  4. Hey! on Close Mars Means Close-Up Pictures · · Score: 2, Funny

    You can see my house from here!

  5. My guess... on Guessing Linux 2.6.0 Release Date · · Score: 4, Insightful

    To quote a famous game developer: "When it's done."

  6. Re:There? Where? on Software Patent Demonstrations Taking Off · · Score: 1

    There on the stairs, right there!

  7. Re:will slashdot be gone tomorow? on Software Patent Demonstrations Taking Off · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Slashdot isn't based in Europe, so I doubt they would join the demo. Would be nice for them to do so anyway, show there support!

    One can hope!

  8. Website defacements on Is Linux as Secure as We'd Like to Think? · · Score: 1

    I'd say the majority of those defacements are because of mistakes or bad design by the websites developer. I've made a few of those mistakes myself, but caught them before anyone else did.

    If it was a vulnerability caused by Apache or the Linux kernel, you'd soon hear about it!

  9. Re:Digital Cameras in freezers on rockets. on Infrared Telescope Lifts Off · · Score: 1

    By the way, the parent post is modded Funny. Why is that?

    Same reason dolphins are always smiling. They know something we don't.

  10. Re:Digital Cameras in freezers on rockets. on Infrared Telescope Lifts Off · · Score: 3, Funny

    They will soon be needing LONG exposure times.

    As long as they can point accuratly, it shouldn't be a problem.

    Things in space inevitably drift a little, but the beauty of digital cameras is that you don't have to do the exposure all at once. You could pause, re-aim the telescope then begin again.

  11. Re:SMTP on Postfix: A Secure and Easy-to-Use MTA · · Score: 1

    Troll? Honest question! Sheesh

  12. SMTP on Postfix: A Secure and Easy-to-Use MTA · · Score: 2, Troll

    SMTP is a fairly simple protocol, so why are there so many security problems with mail servers? Am I missing something obvious?

  13. Re:There's more to it than just that... on Sun Mad Hatter Linux Desktop Revealed · · Score: 1

    Nah, a nosey boss would simply make sure he could watch every desktop remotely!

  14. Re:Sound Mixing.... on Dave Phillips' Linux Sound Updated · · Score: 1

    Mabye it's just my sound card?

    Yes.

  15. Re:AWESOME, yet so many questions...? on BBC to Put Entire Radio & TV Archive Online · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What will the RIAA say?
    What will the MPAA say?

    Who gives a crap?

    Hint: The last A stands for America. No matter what they may have you believe, neither of these organisations mean a thing outside of the USA.

    Thankfully!!

  16. Re:I think I speak for all of us when I say on BBC to Put Entire Radio & TV Archive Online · · Score: 1

    DIVX? Euuu! Better to use XVID.

  17. Re:in societ russia... on Drink Coffee, Support Mozilla · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    An on-topic soviet russia joke!!!

    *The Horror*

  18. Re:RPG & COBOL - still popular on The Origin Of Sobig (And Its Next Phase) · · Score: 1

    To be honest I had never heard of RPG until yesterday!

    Then again, in the late 80's I was using a Commodore 64 ;)

  19. Re:Quit using C/C++, lose the buffer overflows on The Origin Of Sobig (And Its Next Phase) · · Score: 1

    just think how COBOL and RPG were the most popular languages of their days

    *thinks*

    No .. can't do it .. I just can't imagine COBOL being popular.

  20. Re:Quit using C/C++, lose the buffer overflows on The Origin Of Sobig (And Its Next Phase) · · Score: 1

    buffer overflows? Segfaults? Library conflicts?

    I've seen all these things in many other languages. Some languages have there own unique way of messing up on ya!

    The reason they all have these problems is simple! Programmers make errors. No language will ever prevent that. No matter how simplified it gets, there will still be conflicts, buffer overruns .. etc.

    btw, you never mentioned what programming language you now use?

  21. Re:Some info on current space missions... on Brazilian Rocket Explodes on Launch Pad · · Score: 1

    I hadn't heard about Venus Express before!

    It's about time someone sent a mission there again. It is in many ways a more interesting planet than Mars, but I think because people know that you can't land there (for long) they are less willing to send missions. No chance of landing == boring for public. But if the 'volcanic pressure cooker' idea is correct, that would make Venus the most violent planet in the solar system! (Io dosen't count, it's a moon ;-)

    A shame there will be no lander like Mars Express. It wouldn't have to be expensive, because it won't last long. But they should at least try! Maybe they should consider a balloon instead of a lander, keep it up in the cooler upper atmosphere where there might just be life.

    Anyways, very exciting news! Your right, there is loads happening right now!

    </wannabe planetary scientist>

  22. PROSCO on SCO Says IBM is Beating Up on Them · · Score: 3, Funny

    PRO-SCO

    Sounds nasty. Is there a cure for it yet?
    I hope it's not contagious!

  23. Re:Spoilers on Matrix Revolutions Trailer Released · · Score: 1

    You may be right... near the start where you see the three 'matrix' screens, it dosen't look all that healthy. Not the nice smooth code as before.

  24. Nooo! on Junji Hirayama 's Home Flight Simulator · · Score: 4, Funny

    I am building Boeing 747-400 type "My Cockpit " for flight simulators

    "My Cockpit"? I bet he has a briefcase with the label "My Documents" on it.

  25. Foolish Earthlings! on Satellite Views Of The Blackout · · Score: 5, Funny

    *viewing from space*

    Kodos: Foolish Earthlings! Relying on such a primitive thing as electricity!
    Kang & Kodos: HA HA HA HA ... !

    *the ships lights go out*

    Kodos: You forgot to feed the hamster again didn't you?