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  1. Re:Woah! on Winamp Down for the Count · · Score: 1

    Oh yeah. Your reply will be the one above mine... Posted 2 hours before...
    Still, it's not the /. way to read a thread through, is it?

    /Finds hole; /Crawls back in.

  2. Re:Woah! on Winamp Down for the Count · · Score: 1

    Parent poster - (Score: -1 Troll)

    Sorry, you're just plain wrong :-) WA 3 was an absolute dog, it was fucking horrendous. WA 5 OTOH is awesome ;-) Very nice media library and when using the old skins is very resource friendly. I'll accept that it uses about 20% CPU with the modern skins, but if you don't want that, use an old skin.

    For plain and simply greatness Winamp 5 is the best program I've ever used. It does what it's supposed to, it's quick and easy and doesn't use too many resources (with the old skins).

    I'll asume you got the 3 and the 5 the wrong way round ;-)

  3. Re:Perpetual backups on Bit Rot Stalks Your Digital Keepsakes · · Score: 1

    Don't forget PDF. I think that's a reasonable achive format. (Looks nicier than ascii and rtf as well).

  4. Internet connection on BT to Offer Free Internet Calls · · Score: 1

    So... can I connect a modem over this to use a dial-up internet connection? oh wait...

  5. CO2 emissions on U.S. Continues Opposition to Kyoto Environmental Treaty · · Score: 1

    We basically have to accept that most of the fossil fuels reserves that exist are going to be burnt before a major shift in energy production happens.

    Whether or not we try and be more efficient about it is a bit irrelevant because at the end of the day (or rather, at the end of the century) most of the fossil fuels will have been burnt, and the CO2 released. Only when fossil fuel supply becomes limited and the cost is pushed up will any major shift in eneryg production occur. All we can do is hope that the planet isn't permanently fubar'd by then...

  6. Re:The problem with biometrics on Hardware That Recognizes You · · Score: 1

    Guns don't kill people...
    Rappers do!
    I saw it on a documentary on BBC 2...
    etc etc

    Maybe it's just a UK thing :-)

    (-1, Offtopic)

  7. Re:Why, Ballmer, Why? on Novell Swings Back at Ballmer · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You can be arrogant and right. Being arrogant and right is a pretty quick way of making everyone hate you.

  8. Re:Before it gets /.ed on Novell Swings Back at Ballmer · · Score: 2, Funny

    Noooooooo! You're supposed to strap the toast to the back of a cat = instant hover machine!

  9. Re:Let's not forget on China's Superior Technologies · · Score: 0

    In some US regions the piped water is undrinkable.

  10. Re:Come on, superior technology? on China's Superior Technologies · · Score: 0

    Even when starting a warm engine?

  11. Re:What goes around comes around on China's Superior Technologies · · Score: 1, Informative

    The poster you replied to made some pretty reasonably points though that you didn't address. The US did make Usama Bin Laden who he is now. The US have supplied Saddam when it suited them. The US supported the government hit squads that murdered civilians in El Salvador. I'm not saying that other Western countries that haven't persued similarly evil foriegn policies, but you can't be blind to your own country's wrong-doing whilst trying to 'correct' the wrong-doings of other countries.

  12. Re:twin primes. on Twin Prime Proof Proffered · · Score: 0

    Somehow I don't think there are any directly sequential primes pairs above 2 and 3, so it seems a bit pointless naming them...

  13. Re:They do? on Blackboxvoting.org Raises Vote-Audit FOIA Request · · Score: 0

    I don't think the networks can be forced not to release the figures though. Freedom of speech running rampant I think.

    On the same line, you'd have thought it'd be better that the eastern states shouldn't declare before the voting has closed in the western states but apparantly that'd be against your freedom of speech constitution stuff.

  14. Re:Now, let's all have a big Slashdot group hug on Kerry Concedes Election To Bush · · Score: 0

    The states with larger populations have a greater number of electoral college votes, but is it actually proportionately more?

    It seems to me that it must be less than proportionately more, otherwise it would be effectively be a popular vote and thus candidates would only bother visiting the densely populated states (which, as I understand, is what the electoral college system is supposed to avoid).

    I'm not from the US.

  15. Re:num1 on A Genome Mark-up Language · · Score: 1

    that is pathetic

  16. Re:Maybe I missed it... on First Sequencing Of Plant Genome · · Score: 1

    Cos there isn't a species that _isn't_ being sequenced at the moment!

  17. Re:Interesting... but not so on First Sequencing Of Plant Genome · · Score: 1

    hahaha, you are sooooo wrong. read up on it. This genome sh1t is cool. Already researchers are talking about the 'post-genomic era' and the differnce it'll have on research. Comparing the human genome to a computer program is just plain dumb. OK so they may have analogies, but it is veerrryyy different

  18. Re:Okay, that's it! on Squatting On Life · · Score: 1
  19. Re:Grrr. on Squatting On Life · · Score: 1

    It is open source :) thats the point of the Human Genome Project. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov www.ebi.ac.uk

  20. Re:mmmm....Scanning Tunnelling Microscope on Individual Chemical Bond Formed With STM · · Score: 1

    you can borrow mine for a while if you want.

  21. Re:Exposure? Moving mirrors? on Dirt Cheap Telescopes With Liquid Mercury · · Score: 1
    Note to self

    learn some html.....

  22. Re:Exposure? Moving mirrors? on Dirt Cheap Telescopes With Liquid Mercury · · Score: 1

    a long exposure might be posbible with a static telescope if you tracked the target with a computer thingy, which was able to artifically adjust for the movement of the object through the viewing angle of the telescope. OK, so the exposure would be limited - 4 minutes per degree of viewing angle. do I make sense?

  23. How about some worthwhile articles on /. ? on Massively Multiplayer Games On Consoles · · Score: 1

    not intended as flamebait....

  24. dos attacks on Solution To DoS Attacks · · Score: 1

    How frequently do these attacks occur? Apart from a few high profile ones a few months ago, I haven't heard anything about them....