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  1. Re:Obscure? on Public Transit Reality Game · · Score: 1

    But with Queensway AND Terminal 4 closed, the only legal move is a Shaftsbury Loop via Gants Hill.

  2. Re:More Questions then Answers on Harry Potter's 'Half Blood Prince' Leaked · · Score: 1

    I before E except after C and when it has the A sound, as in neighbor and weigh.

    Either you used your height and seized the moment sufficiently, which would be weird, or your foreign conscience allowed you to forfeit sufficient leisure time to counterfeit species science.

  3. Re:Perfect on Got Spyware? Throw out the Computer! · · Score: 1

    Lazy/stupid people driving the IT economy ...

    But it's not is it. It's Lazy/stupid people buying cheap PC's that are manufactuered and even assembled in the far east and shipped over. The only people in $WESTERN_COUNTRY that benefit are PC World or whatever that make a small margin on the sales. The economy doesn't benefit as it involves money being shipped out of the country for no reason.

    To use an analogy (this is slashdot after all), you're saying that people buying a new car every year instead of taking it to be serviced is good for mechanics.

  4. Re:MP2's on 'MP3' Celebrates its Tenth Anniversary · · Score: 2, Interesting

    So do I, but that's because we still use them all the time in a broadcast medium

  5. Decent temperatures on How to Keep Your Computer Cool · · Score: 2, Interesting

    How hot is too hot? I've built a new P4-2.4GHz box arround a Shuttle Zen (quieter than a laptop), the processor runs arorund 65 degrees C, the case arround 50. How hot is dangerous?

  6. Re:Spoilers! on Harry Potter's 'Half Blood Prince' Leaked · · Score: 1

    These agreements aren't oppressive schemes by the publishers, they actually benefit everyone.

    You make a good argument, however

    Raincoast Books managed to get an injunction prohibiting the people who recieved the books from talking about them and demanding that they return the books to Raincoast until Friday

    Yep, grandma buys little Timmy a copy of that new "Harry Potty thing" that she knows he likes, he reads about it and talks about it at school. Suddenly armed feds bust into the playground and take him out.

  7. Re:Somebody at GameFAQs claims to have it. on Harry Potter's 'Half Blood Prince' Leaked · · Score: 1

    For the record, you're all liars.

    I'm lying right now

  8. Re:Profit range? on Body Scanners for the London Underground · · Score: 1

    Or just that some stations like Kings Cross (80 million passangers a year) need more scanners than Chigwell (100,000 pasasgners a year)

  9. Won't work on Body Scanners for the London Underground · · Score: 1

    Some stations (Olympia for example) don't even have barriers, let alone staff - especially late at night. Others have barrierless interchanges to rail (Ealing Broadway, Greenford etc). How many people will you need to man Dagenham East on a Friday night? Are you really going to stop a gang of youths tha already ignore the need for a ticket?

    More people have died in the UK from road accidents or MRSA this month than from being blown up. The biggest issue on Thursday was the shutdown of the tube, but now it's pretty much back to normal, especially for the weekend. If they had a reversign siding at Finsbury Park for the Piccadilly hardly anyone would notice. Had they bombed Oxford Circus it would have been a major inconvienience (no Bakerloo or Victoria line), had they bombed both ends of a deep tube carriage it would be a major loss of life (1000 people, no way out, oxygen starvation by the fire and smoke inhalation), but they didn't.

  10. Re:He didn't get fired for sharing files... on How P2P Can Taint a Career · · Score: 1

    He got fired for going into dupe slashdot comments [slashdot.org] and stealing the +5 moderations. :)

  11. Re:the wonderful thing with this... on Britain to Pilot GPS Speed Governors · · Score: 1

    They've recently gone down. They've also recently painted speed cameras yellow so they are easily seen. After all how can a hidden speed trap slow you down.

    I'll believe cameras are there to slow us down when they are put outside schools.

  12. Re:DIY vs. Buy on O'Reilly Builds a MythTV Box · · Score: 1

    This is a good point. But I think the bottom-line is that features may become illegal

    In your country may be, but the day it becomes illegal to have software that allows you to fast forward your own movie stream in every country arround the world?

  13. Re:Screw Halo! on Space Ring Could Combat Global Warming · · Score: 1

    I actually watched that episode last night. Wernstrum built a giant mirror in space to reflect the sun's rays. Unfortunatly a pebble hit it and it flipped round, focusing the sun's output on the earth.

  14. Re:Put Linux On It on PC Prices Reach $300 Milestone · · Score: 1

    Windows vs. Linux in usage... about the same. Maintenance... Linux wins.

    Until the user brings home Autoroute 2005 or The Sims 5 and complains that they can't install it.

  15. Re:$1... on Microsoft Sets Value Of Pirated Windows: $1 · · Score: 1

    they can and should enoforce their copyrights. If they don't then they could forfeit them.

    They could do, they could spend their money on a giant ball of twine. They don't have to do either. You're thinking of trademarks - you have to enforce them or lose them (as the work becomes Hooverised), you don't have to enforce copyright.

  16. Re:Just trading problems? on Japan Striving For Energy Efficiency · · Score: 2, Funny

    we cant just vacuum up the atmosphere

    I'm sure Mega Maid would have something to say about that!

  17. Re:Tax increases on Japan Striving For Energy Efficiency · · Score: 1

    and thus crashing the economy if you do it to quickly. Of course peak-oil will do that soon enough, and hit the US a lot quicker than europa (due to the fact double the price of petrol in europe means an increase of ~1/3 at th pump. Double in America and price at pump almost doubles.

  18. Re:bitch on Funding Promised for Trips to Moon, Mars · · Score: 1

    No need to worry about manmade climate change, we're heading for (arrived?) at peak oil production - oil will be too precious to burn

  19. Re:More polls on 60% Of U.S. Believe Life Exists On Other Planets · · Score: 2, Insightful


    Or at the very least that it should be, and will be as soon as they find oil there.


    I hope that's Funny, but I fear it's more Insightful.

  20. Re:Reverse! on Another Star Wars Prequel? · · Score: 2, Funny

    In soviet russia, this jedi works backwards!

  21. 5 years in pound-your-ass on Feds Shut Down Elite Torrents · · Score: 2, Funny

    First-time offenders convicted of criminal felony
    copyright laws will face up to five years in federal prison, restitution, forfeiture and a fine.


    5 years, isn't that a bit extreme. Still, kiddnapping gets 10 years, and that's only slightly worse than downloading copyrighted works

  22. Re:As someone blind that grew-up in mid-80's... on BBS Documentary Now Shipping · · Score: 2, Insightful

    To be fair, it's not just slashdot. I have excelent karma and have never seen this code thing before your post. You need to enter the code to create a new account too.

    I guess/hope if you email them they'll create an acocunt for you and set it so you don't have to center a code.

  23. Re:There are Consumer and Pro modes on Is All SPDIF Audio Output the Same? · · Score: 1

    You mean AES/EBU? Yes, the 2 bit copyprotect flag isn't in that spec, although as you say you can get a device to change a normal SPDIF stream.

    IIRC there are 4 settings for copy-protect: prohibit, don't prohibit, and one generation (the other setting is unused). It repeats every frame.

    However that's only a minor part of the difference. The big difference between professional and consumer kit is pro kit is ballanced, additionally AES/EBU can support 3 frquencies (44.1, 48 and 96), I believe SPDIFF is limited to 44.1. Oh, and AES/EBU kit can have an external reference.

  24. Re:I'm already doing it on Television Reloaded · · Score: 1

    I assume you mean

    The making for private and domestic use of a recording of a broadcast or cable programme solely for the purpose of enabling it to be viewed or listened to at a more convenient time does not infringe any copyright in the broadcast or cable programme or in any work included in it.

    However you are making the recording at a non-domestic place, so this clause doesnt apply to you.

  25. Re:I'm already doing it on Television Reloaded · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yes, you don't need a license for what you are doing (althoguh your work does). No, not legal - in the UK it's a breach of copyright (section 54D of the copyright designs and patent act IIRC).

    And I'm not 100% sure about the first part as there is a new act out this year that changes definitions to include PC's, I've not taken much time to look at it.

    (Disclaimer: I get paid by the license fee)