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  1. Re:Better than mplayer? on VLC 0.9.9, The Best Media Player Just Got Better · · Score: 1

    If you add a shortcut to VLC to the 'Send to' folder in your Windows profile, you can use Explorer as the GUI for VLC.

    I suppose this isn't a particularly user friendly method, and at least one person pulled out some hair upon reading a suggesting to use Explorer more, but unless you are doing something pretty arcane, it works just fine.

  2. Re:1 G isn't magic on Quantum Setback For Warp Drives · · Score: 1

    Yeah, resources that don't actually exist, and are thus comparable to magic.

    I mean, containing a few tons of antimatter is 'just' an engineering challenge, but until someone manages to contain a few micrograms, it is also 'just' an idea.

  3. Re:Causality on Quantum Setback For Warp Drives · · Score: 1

    Are you discounting relativity entirely? Einstein developed relativity using a thought experiment. To date, experiments have only served to verify that he got it right.

    I promise to give you my life savings when you make your first FTL trip.

  4. Re:Mod parent up on Quantum Setback For Warp Drives · · Score: 1

    What about the big experiment to find out what happens when the little experiments interact?

  5. Re:time to buy stock?? on IBM About To Buy Sun For $7 Billion · · Score: 1

    If you don't already know what deal arbitrage is (without thinking about it), then no, it is not the time to buy stock.

    The first half of March was the time to buy stock:

    http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=JAVA&t=3m&l=on&z=m&q=l&c=

  6. Re:Quantum mechancs+General relativity incompatibl on Quantum Setback For Warp Drives · · Score: 1

    There isn't any way to prove that the same rules apply at all scales. We sort of assume they do, but they might not.

  7. Re:Causality on Quantum Setback For Warp Drives · · Score: 1

    It's a thought experiment. The ansible is the thing that is violating relativity (because it is instantaneous); unless you have a real thing that violates relativity, you have to make something up for the thought experiment.

  8. Re:Mod parent up on Quantum Setback For Warp Drives · · Score: 5, Funny

    With magic, you can ride a unicorn.

  9. Re:Hiesenberg says.... on Quantum Setback For Warp Drives · · Score: 1

    Are you BLIND?

  10. Re:Google Maps on Angry Villagers Run Google Out of Town · · Score: 1

    Yeah, either I'm a tiresome bore or I am egging on your (internet) rage problem.

    The (internet) is because you might just be bored right now, and not really an overreacting frothy yeller.

  11. Re:Google Maps on Angry Villagers Run Google Out of Town · · Score: 1

    Doesn't seem to happen.

  12. Re:Google Maps on Angry Villagers Run Google Out of Town · · Score: 1

    Who doesn't want to talk to me?

  13. Re:Google Maps on Angry Villagers Run Google Out of Town · · Score: 1

    There isn't any failure, I was teasing the structure of your comment, instead of stating that you were talking about legal actions, you wrote it into your supposed rejoinder, which leaves room for you to be doing something illegal in public and simply asserting that it is legal...

  14. Re:Google Maps on Angry Villagers Run Google Out of Town · · Score: 1

    What if you liked taking a dump in public? I suppose you are just assuming that you wouldn't be breaking the law, but you don't quite write like it.

  15. Re:I missed it? on Wolverine Film Leaked a Month Before Release · · Score: 1

    Or he considers greed and selfishness to be moral and ethical.

  16. Re:I missed it? on Wolverine Film Leaked a Month Before Release · · Score: 1

    Are you sure about the matinees? The two theaters that I have recently been to have been the most geographically convenient to where I was at the time and offered weekday afternoon matinees (two of them, one at ~1:30 and one at ~4:30).

  17. Re:Torrentfreak or slashdot? on Wolverine Film Leaked a Month Before Release · · Score: 2, Insightful

    By posting, did you make yourself part of the solely pro Pirate Bay viewpoint that you posted about?

    +4 Oops.

  18. Re:Cat & Mouse. on Hulu Munging HTML With JS To Protect Content · · Score: 1

    If some guy with a hard drive ends up with the last copy of the content on Hulu, he is going to have bigger problems than finding something to watch on his TV.

  19. Re:Content Providers' Demands? on Hulu Munging HTML With JS To Protect Content · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Hulu is a joint venture of NBC Universal and Fox Entertainment Group. The Hulu management might not precisely be content providers, but the folks holding the purse are.

  20. Re:Cat & Mouse. on Hulu Munging HTML With JS To Protect Content · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Isn't it nice knowing that we evolved from rats?

    Do you really believe that all of this content is going to get less available over time? Note that this would essentially contradict all of history.

  21. Re:wait a minute here... on Microsoft Asks Fed For Bailout · · Score: 2, Informative

    GM's single biggest problem is that they have huge health care and pension obligations to fund (lots of jackasses on TV 'simplify' this down to an hourly labor cost of ~$70, which is pretty disingenuous). Their vehicles are generally of market equivalent quality (they do make too many different vehicles), they just can't sell anywhere near the number of cars required to meet their obligations.

    25 years ago, the union would have done well to demand that GM pay them enough so that they could meet their desired future compensation goals, rather than agreeing that GM was likely to keep growing forever and accepting promises to fund pensions and healthcare.

  22. Re:Nacho Libre on CloudLeft Public License Closes User Data Loophole · · Score: 1

    Whoop-whoop-whoop-whoop!

  23. Re:Cool on Irish Domain Registry Banning Adult Domains · · Score: 1

    Nicely done.

  24. Re:I think its infected my car. on Conficker Worm Strike Reports Start Rolling In · · Score: 1

    O'Rly claimed that he was a journalist last night on Letterman, and that he was thus different than Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh. He admitted that what he does now is commentary, but he was being pretty ridiculous.

  25. Re:Unexplained Achievement "The Maker"? on Slashdot Launches User Achievements · · Score: 1

    Have you submitted a poll?