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  1. Re:TiVo? on BBC Trial of TV Show Download Service · · Score: 4, Insightful

    yes, you don't get a free TiVo with a UK tv license

  2. obligatory on Unmanned Aircraft Clustered via Bluetooth · · Score: 1

    I for one welcome our bird-like flocking-flying parallel-processing bluetooth-connected linux-cluster overlords !

    what's next ? flying pigs with embedded linux running on hardware powered by blood sugar connected by light-teleportation doing acrobatic displays whilst hosting online PS3 games. I think so !

  3. Re:Without a Doubt on The Worst Foods to Eat Over a Keyboard · · Score: 1

    yes, especially freshly squeezed, from the orange you are eating whilst typing !!

  4. Re:One step closer... on Human Blood For Electrical Power · · Score: 4, Funny

    behold the iClot !

  5. Re:hooray ! on Hyperthreading Considered Harmful · · Score: 1

    Verity K2 actually. But yes.

  6. Re:write in advance, encrypt and email it on Dissidents Seeking Anonymous Web Solutions? · · Score: 1

    kudos, FreezerJam. I knocked out the basic idea trying to get fp, but you've obviously given this some thought.

  7. Re:write in advance, encrypt and email it on Dissidents Seeking Anonymous Web Solutions? · · Score: 2, Informative

    oops, meant pgp, then put it on the floppy

  8. write in advance, encrypt and email it on Dissidents Seeking Anonymous Web Solutions? · · Score: 4, Informative

    write it in advance, take it to the cybercafe on a floppy, pgp it, email it to someone you trust (or an automated publisher)

  9. hooray ! on Hyperthreading Considered Harmful · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I have 2 Dell 6650s, loaded with 4 HT Xeons and 32Gb RAM each. However, I had to disable HT on them as the license for the application I'm running allows 8 cpus only; when it detected "16" cpus across the 2 servers, it refused to start. So this news actually makes me feel better about the fact that `top` only shows 4 cpus on each box :o)

  10. "humans will suffocate at speeds exceeding 30mph" on The Feasibility of Star Wars Tech · · Score: 1

    .. and pigs will never fly

  11. Re:Micro*s*oft on German Robot Dogs Dominate 2005 RoboCup U.S. Open · · Score: 1

    lol, they even have a commercial with a pengiun, classic !! http://www.unox.nl/acties/movie/commercial.wmv

  12. Re:Mmm.... dual core. on AMD's Dual-core Athlon 64 X2 reviewed · · Score: 4, Funny

    forget longer pipelines, it's girth that really counts

  13. Re:My prediction for the future of MS on Microsoft 'under attack' On All Fronts · · Score: 1

    .. and I will refuse to purchase it, also out of spite. Hah! Take that, Micro$haft !

  14. Re:For Us Americans... on Vacuum-Controlled Elevator Developed · · Score: 1

    another fail safe, in that people too heavy would not be able to squeeze in the tube ;o)

  15. Re:Divide and Conquer on On the Horizon: an Apache-License Version of Java · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The great beauty of the linux desktop is that it, like all *x desktop windowing systems, is not standardised - and therefore, you don't have to use a bloated implementation. Personally, I use openbox, which as about as far from bloated as you can get (assuming you something a little more sophisticated than twm..).

    Also, the point of the sun specification for Java is (in part) to ensure that the JVM performs consistently across platforms.

  16. my definition on Kansas Challenges Definition of Science · · Score: 2, Funny

    disproving the existance of $deity in increments

  17. Re:windows already has some on The Open-Source Detector · · Score: 1

    yes, msft do indeed give props in FTP.EXE, as long as you grep/findstr for it. Hence the sig.

  18. tax the software instead on Dutch Pass iPod Tax · · Score: 1

    I'd be quite happy to pay, say 25% tax on my copy of gtk-gnutella. or 100%, 500%, 1000%. whatever.

  19. Re:Stallman was right on Woz, Others Ask Apple To Go Easy On Tiger Leak · · Score: 1

    easy, tiger ;o)

  20. bt on Woz, Others Ask Apple To Go Easy On Tiger Leak · · Score: 2, Insightful

    TFA suggests that bittorrent is at the heart of tiger. Perhaps Apple should look closer to home ?

  21. John Logie Baird on Software Distribution By Vinyl · · Score: 4, Interesting

    John Logie Baird recorded 30 line video onto 78rpm records in 1928. He also demonstrated a 600 line HDTV colour system in 1941.

    See http://www.answers.com/topic/john-logie-baird

    There's nothing new under the sun !

  22. Re:Old News on Napster Has Been Cracked · · Score: 1

    no, you don't have to dump all the frames into one file.. or even dump them to a file at all ! just hold enough in memory so that you can encode effectively (think I/B/P frame principle)

    the real difficulty lies in doing screengrabs of DRMed video....

  23. not as far off as you might think.. on Firefox Plugin Annodex For Searching Audio, Video · · Score: 1

    Virage (part of Autonomy) does some cool stuff

  24. Hacker penetrates Demi Moore and Paris Hilton on Hacker Penetrates T-Mobile Systems · · Score: 2, Funny

    .. now *that* would be a story ;o)

  25. Re:Bittorrent like? on Peercasting Ready for Primetime? · · Score: 1

    The BBC Creative Archive may work that way - see http://alchemi.co.uk/archives/mus/latest_on_the_b. html