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  1. Re:Why? on UK Government Wants To Kill Net Neutrality In EU · · Score: 1

    Worse than that, they actually got less votes than the Tories in England, yet they control the country thanks to votes from Scotland and Wales.

    So what your saying is that only English votes should count towards who governs the UK? Lets just ignore Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. What do they know, eh?

  2. Re:Uranus .... on Mars, Mercury May Have Formed From Earth and Venus · · Score: 1

    Gas. Lots and lots of gas.
    It's very windy there too.

  3. WTF? on Windows 7 Beta Released To Public After Delay · · Score: 1

    Minesweeper needs Direct X???

  4. Re:Why the X hate? on Running Android On Netbooks · · Score: 1

    You can't blame X for what runs on top of it. Replace X and you'll be none better off.

    Unfortunately, GNOME is caught in the dealings between Novell and Microsoft and suffers from the patents risk against Mono

    Gnome has its problems but this isn't one of them. I run a Gnome desktop don't have Mono installed.

  5. Re:What's wrong with X? on Running Android On Netbooks · · Score: 1

    The basic X server is very tiny (it already runs well on very limited devices), and they'll still need something to provide that functionality anyway.

  6. Why the X hate? on Running Android On Netbooks · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Since Android does not rely on X11, but has its own framebuffer graphics, that would indeed be a cosmic shift

    I'm curious what your reasons are for wanting rid of X?

  7. Re:ABit has been gone for a while now on Abit To Close Its Doors Forever On Dec. 31, 2008 · · Score: 1

    Good to hear about the Tyan reliability. I choose them for my home server, but it's only been running a few months so can't say much about it yet.

    A few people have recommended AOpen .. I'll probably try them next when replacing the dead Asus board.

    Thanks!

  8. ABit has been gone for a while now on Abit To Close Its Doors Forever On Dec. 31, 2008 · · Score: 1

    I got stung by the bad caps problem back in 2003. (Pic). I never trusted them after that, and I've used Asus boards since. They're good boards but a recent encounter with Asus UK support has changed that. It was just awful. Never again will I buy Asus.

    So which brand to go for next time .. that's the question? Who to trust?

  9. That sounds like a really good plan on UK Outlines Plan For Internet Black Boxes · · Score: 4, Interesting

    But I've got a better plan. How about I give you the finger, and you give us our country back.

  10. Splat on 1000-mph Car Planned · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'd hate to be a bug on that windscreen. Ooch.

  11. Re:what are the technical probs with Theora? on Ogg Theora In Firefox, With Wikimedia Support · · Score: 1

    rom the links, I don't see much evidence that Theora has caught up significantly in relative performance to the standardized-but-patented codecs

    But it doesn't need to be better. It just has to be good enough.

  12. Re:Microsoft's niche on Microsoft Engineers Invent Displays That Top LCDs For Efficiency · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm not so sure. Didn't they invent the F-lock key?

  13. Re:Why!? on Dublin Air Traffic Control Brought Down By Faulty NIC · · Score: 3, Funny

    A long time ago I went on a school trip to London, and it was the first time I had ever been on a plane so I was a bit nervous. In the airport shop there was a magazine (can't remember which now) with a plane in flames on the front cover, with the large headline "Why Planes Crash". Whoever put them out must have had an evil streak too, they had spread them out to fill the entire top shelf.

  14. H2G2 on Richard Dawkins to Appear on Doctor Who · · Score: 4, Funny

    Dawkins is the author of many best-selling non-fiction books, from The Selfish Gene and The Blind Watchmaker to The God Delusion,...

    ... and Who is this God Person Anyway?

  15. Symantec Guide on The Symantec Guide To Home Internet Security · · Score: 4, Funny

    The first rule of Symantec Home Internet Security, is don't install Symantec Home Internet Security.

  16. Santa Wonders Why on Jingle Bells Played With Graphics Card, Santa Wonders Why · · Score: 3, Funny

    He's not the only one.

  17. Re:Well, that's great... on BBC iPlayer Welcomes Linux (and Macs) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    can you suggest an open source solution that the BBC can use instead of iPlayer that is not proprietary and works on Windows/Mac and Linux???
    How about the BBC's *own* open source codec ... Dirac.
  18. DRM? on Nokia Claims Ogg Format is "Proprietary" · · Score: 1

    That's the worse excuse I've ever heard. I wonder if Nokia would have objected all those years ago when JPEG was selected as a baseline image format for the web -- it has no DRM you know? And as we all know, without DRM it'll be doomed! Oh wait...

    I've always viewed Theora as the video equivalent of JPEG - it's quality is not the best, it doesn't have all the features of the shiny newest codecs - but it can be made to work everywhere. You don't need permission, and don't need to pay anyone for the privilege. There may be patent leech issues sure, but that's a risk with every other single codec - Theora is no more at risk than any other developed in the last 10 years.

  19. Re:Nokia article summary on Nokia Claims Ogg Format is "Proprietary" · · Score: 1

    H.264 and AAC were developed in standards organizations where members need to declare what patents they have that a new standard might infringe
    That doesn't work if the company holding a particular patent is not a member of the standards group.
  20. Duke Scientists Map 'Silenced Genes' on Duke Scientists Map 'Silenced Genes' · · Score: 0

    Hail to the gene, Baby!

  21. Re:Sounds like on iPhone Signal Strength Problems In the UK · · Score: 1

    I have a O2 phone (XDA Mini S in fact)
    You have my deepest sympathy. :-(
  22. Re:Why not both? on MS, Mozilla Clashing Over JavaScript Update · · Score: 1

    On Error Goto Hell

    Any language where that is valid can't be all bad! Right?

  23. HD on Japan Moon Probe Snaps First Photos · · Score: 4, Interesting

    These pictures are fairly low quality, probably from an engineering camera rather than a scientific one.
    One thing I noticed on the website is that they also carry an HDTV camera! Can't wait to see some nice HD video from lunar orbit.

  24. Re:Two Words on The Journey of Radios From Hardware to Software · · Score: 3, Informative

    You can use a capture card with a BT878 chip as a cheap entry into SDR and GNU Radio. See Here

    The card I have didn't require any kind of modifications, and I've successfully captured signals all the way up to about 400kHz directly from the air simply using a long wire, including digital radio (the unfortunately named DRM) signals.

  25. Best headline ever on Monster.com Attacked, User Data Stolen · · Score: 5, Funny

    This story has the best headline I've seen on the BBC in a long time:

    Monster attack steals user data

    Ruh-roh! Someone call the Scooby Gang!