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  1. I don't have Asperger's Syndrome. on No More "Asperger's Syndrome" · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'm unsympathetic and uncommunicative because I don't like you and I think you're all twats.

  2. Re:Advice from a DAE veteran on Slashdot Asks: SATA DVD Drives That Don't Suck for CD Ripping? · · Score: -1

    The software you actually want to use is Exact Audio Copy. [...] Sadly EAC isn't open-source (and despite many years passing, there still is no open-source software that does a Secure Mode), and runs under Windows...

    Okay, so run a binary-only proprietary application recommended by an AC on a binary-only proprietary OS, for something that several large organisations would like to consider illegal?

    Get the kettle on, the RIAA goons will be at your door in a couple of minutes.

  3. Re:hum.....If thats correct.... on The Promo Bay Blocked By UK ISPs · · Score: 1

    Works on Orange (EE, now), too, although thepiratebay.org is blocked

  4. Re:Will someone please make a gaming tablet? on PengPod Hits Funding Goal, Plans to Ship Linux Tablet In January · · Score: 1

    Like what? All the emulators I've seen have been pretty much Linux-only.

  5. Re:Will someone please make a gaming tablet? on PengPod Hits Funding Goal, Plans to Ship Linux Tablet In January · · Score: 1

    Here you go

    It's not Windows though, but I guess you can figure out how to port it across somehow. Do people still use Windows?

  6. Re:There goes the tablet experience on PengPod Hits Funding Goal, Plans to Ship Linux Tablet In January · · Score: 0

    Well, an "iPad killer" shouldn't be that hard. Android does require a bit more processing power than iOS but it looks and feels so much better. The iPad got left behind a while ago, with its clunky hard-to-use UI.

  7. Re:SMS - yuk! on Happy (Early) Bday! :) SMS Txt Msgs Turn 20 · · Score: 1

    What's expensive about it? It doesn't cost anything to provide or use...

  8. Re:You don't supppose, do you... on Humans Evolving Faster Than Ever · · Score: 1

    The point still stands. We've developed a lot of things in 8000 years. The Bronze Age began about 5000 years ago, at which point man was exposed to industrial pollution for the first time.

  9. Soundmodem and AX.25 on Ask Slashdot: Software For Learning About Data Transmission? · · Score: 1

    Set two machines up with their soundcards hooked together - you don't need radio for this, although if you've got an appropriate licence you may as well - and install soundmodem on them. Set it up so it appears as a network device.

    Now when you ping from one machine to the other, you'll see (or hear) the ARP request and response, and the ICMP messages. You'll need to use something like ping -t 5 to make the pings slow enough. You will also need a suitably patched version of tcpdump or wireshark, that supports AX.25 as layer 2.

    This lets you watch IP work in "slow motion" with each packet taking about a second. By adjusting the frequencies in soundmodem you can make the two machines sound slightly different (but not so much that they can't decode each other) which helps trace what's going on. You can even browse the net, *slowly*...

  10. Re:But, think of the strippers! on Is It Time For the US To Ditch the Dollar Bill? · · Score: 2

    RFID tags in their outfits, and when you go in you get given a "watch" wristband that will read the tag and credit that stripper's account. You prepay at the bar or on the door, and you charge your drinks to it too. If you go over, just top it up with the handy credit card machine that a hostess will bring to the table with your next round of drinks.

    You can keep it anonymous, or you can register with the system for a discount on drinks and to make sure you always get a dance from your favourite girl.

    This one's free, bitches. You know who you heard it from first.

  11. Re:Cool on UK Government Mandates the Teaching of Evolution As Scientific Fact · · Score: 1

    From a faith-based point of view, I have some problems with Evolution,

    You sound like a reasonable person. Which bits do you have a problem with? I ask out of curiosity, not some desire to change your beliefs.

  12. Re:Line of sight is important. on Ask Slashdot: DIY 4G Antenna Design For the Holidays? · · Score: 1

    And remember, a drip loop does not involve a cable tie. Just sayin...

    It *does*, but it's really important to put it in the right place ;-)

  13. Line of sight is important. on Ask Slashdot: DIY 4G Antenna Design For the Holidays? · · Score: 2

    If you get a USB adaptor for your 4G signal, and stick it outside on a long pole nice and high up plugged into a USB extension cable it'll work just fine. Remember to tape the whole thing up with self-amalgamating tape (not lx tape) to keep the water out, and leave a drip loop where you bring the cable into the building.

    It's the simplest thing that could work.

  14. Re:$1500 for a 1366x768 TN display. on Dell's Ubuntu Ultrabook Now On Sale; Costs $50 More Than Windows Version · · Score: -1

    It seems likely that you're American (Walmart, "frickin'", dollars) so I know reading comprehension isn't your strong point, but perhaps you missed the bit about the 256GB SSD, the 8GB of RAM and the Core i7 processor. If you're buying laptops with that spec for $400, I'm sure we'd all love to know where.

  15. "List of flaws"? on Ask Slashdot: Which OSS Database Project To Help? · · Score: 1

    Where's the list? The link was to a "video" with a static image and a whiny voice gabbling on - tl;dw.

  16. Re:Why cloud? on Amazon and Google Barred From UK Government Cloud · · Score: 1

    Governments have a kind of corrosive ineptitude that creeps into everything they do. I think it's something to do with the fact that no matter how bad they screw up they can't go bust and they can't fire permanent staff.

    It's a problem with right-wing government, where the idea is to get everything making a profit, keep as many of your friends in highly-paid government jobs as much as possible, and keep making government bigger and bigger and keep makings taxes higher and higher.

  17. Re:Sure I will pay.... on Hotel Keycard Lock Hack Gets Real In Texas · · Score: 2

    voided support contracts

    Voided the support contract that says they don't have to fix a lock that doesn't actually lock in any conventionally meaningful sense of the term?

  18. Re:not so sure about the sound analogy on The White Noise of Smell · · Score: 1

    Harmonics would be higher, not lower.

  19. Re:not so sure about the sound analogy on The White Noise of Smell · · Score: 1

    I don't know about you, but at 39 I can still hear 20kHz just fine.

  20. Re:Conceptually wrong. on A Wi-Fi Wardriving Motorbike — With Plans Available · · Score: 1

    That's not much good for wardriving. you want something that can quite reasonably drive up and down the streets, covering every single one, really slowly.

  21. Conceptually wrong. on A Wi-Fi Wardriving Motorbike — With Plans Available · · Score: 1

    Motorbikes are quick and agile, and just the thing for nipping through town with your messenger bag and Motorola GP300. If you're wardriving, that's going to suck, because you're going to go out of range of a lot of APs before you even scan round for them.

    What you want to fit as a covert wardriving rig is a mini road sweeper.

  22. Re:How broadly useful? on Water Bottle Fills Itself From the Air · · Score: 1

    Wait, you're saying that 40% of the world's population lives in wet coastal areas that don't get rain?

    Can you point to them on a map?

  23. Re:Ruddy Americans...! on This Is What Happens When You Deep Fry a Frozen Turkey · · Score: 1

    Nobody in Scotland eats chicken tikka masala. Well, maybe as a mild non-spicy thing to cleanse your palate between different kinds of curry, but probably not even then.

  24. Re:Ruddy Americans...! on This Is What Happens When You Deep Fry a Frozen Turkey · · Score: 2

    In all seriousness, you can spot a shift in a country's cuisine through history when they begin trading with Scotland. Tempura? Pakora? They happened because some trader said "right, let me show you a thing, first you make some batter from flour and water, okay now dip in in and fry it - yeah, good, isn't it?"

  25. Re:It Believes on UK To Use "Risk-Profiling Software" To Screen All Airline Passengers and Cargo · · Score: 2

    Oh yeah, absolutely, and they'd need to be fitted with NACA-approved screws following a twelve-page document that details the precise make and model of screwdriver to use.

    You could probably get around this issue by somehow registering your fleet in the UK as leisure aircraft and operating them on a Permit to Fly instead of a Certificate of Airworthiness, and let the passengers fly for free when they pay £200 for a coffee ;-)