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  1. Misread the title on Standard For Electric Car Charging Announced · · Score: 1

    Weird, I read the title as 'Standard For Electric Chair Announced'. I was actually surprised that they didn't already have one......

  2. Check the list on Ask Slashdot: DD-WRT Upgrade To 802.11n? · · Score: 1

    Could you not just check the list here:

    http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Supported_Devices

    and go with your favourite supplier of quality hardware? Also, bear in mind that some of your connected equipment isn't and can't be N-enabled (PS3 it think from memory). Therefore, you'll want something that can gracefully handle both G and N at the same time (ideally as separately configured wireless networks).

  3. Re:In the UK? on HP TouchPad To Be Liquidated At Fire Sale Prices · · Score: 1

    Nah, still full price over here, plus the HP Sales line is now closed. Was going to call and ask for the same pricing as the US. Maybe we'll see some movement on Monday when everyone gets back to work.

  4. Re:Rumor? on HP TouchPad To Be Liquidated At Fire Sale Prices · · Score: 1

    And, bang, HP's shopping cart goes down.

    'Out of memory'

    haha :)

  5. Re:Reminds me of Hillis on Scaling To a Million Cores and Beyond · · Score: 1

    Even more so when you implement the message passing with a non-blocking IO paradigm. Something like http://www.jboss.org/netty

  6. iPhone available non-contract in the UK? on Apple Cracks Down On iPhone Unlockers · · Score: 2, Informative

    It appears that O2 (in the UK) is going to offer the iPhone on a Pay-As-You-Go (PAYG) deal. This is a non-contract way of running a phone over here. You buy top-up cards with airtime (say £10 or £20) when you run out.

    If the premium on the phone isn't huge (you usually pay more for PAYG as it's not a guaranteed income to the operator), it could be a good way of getting a non-contract iPhone to jail-break. If it can be jail broken (I give it 10 hours, any advances).

    More info : http://www.o2.co.uk/iphone/paygo

  7. Re:Worst. Article. Ever. on ChatterBlocker — Block Distracting Speech at Work · · Score: 1

    Actually it's a bunch of ogg files ;) Check c:\program files\ChatterBlocker\ChatterBlocker_Content Ho Ho Ho...

  8. Re:Web 2.0 ... on YouTube Won't Sell For Less Than $1.5 Billion · · Score: 1

    Damn right. We'll start buying all the stuff when the real market value hits $0 ;)

  9. Re:Web 2.0 ... on YouTube Won't Sell For Less Than $1.5 Billion · · Score: 2, Interesting

    So it turns in the insurance business equivalent of:

    Broker: Sure we'll insure your car.
    Client: Great, how much?
    Broker: $100,000 for this year.

    In other words, we don't want your business, but we don't want to tell you to your face. We'll just make our offer so astronomically high, you'll go quietly away.

    Saying that, shouldn't they have made their figure $3 billion or something. £1.5B seems like they might get a bite.

  10. Re:Realistic? on YouTube Won't Sell For Less Than $1.5 Billion · · Score: 3, Interesting

    True, but isn't the price difference Content vs Distribution?

    I'd assume that content would always surpass the value of distribution, but maybe that's what's changing.

  11. Web 2.0 ... on YouTube Won't Sell For Less Than $1.5 Billion · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ... so now we've got

    1. Create service
    2. Get other people to violate copyright with your service
    3. Avoid Lawsuits
    4. ???
    5. Profit (or at least $1.5B)

    I'd really love to have seen their pitch to any VC firms ;)

  12. Boo Hoo on Yahoo Warns of Slowing Internet Advertising Sales · · Score: 2, Interesting
    So everyone sells Yahoo! stock, because the growth is slowing, not because sales are decreasing. So this implies that the growth calculations were agressive, not that there's anything directly wrong with ad sales.
    Advertising sales from both sectors have slowed down during the past three to four weeks, although both remain on a growth track. "They're growing, but they're not growing as quickly as we would have hoped at this moment in time," said Semel.
    Quicker damn you, grow quicker...
  13. Re:One way... on Dunc-Tank To Help Meet Debian Etch Deadline · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Brilliant, thanks for the tip!

  14. One way... on Dunc-Tank To Help Meet Debian Etch Deadline · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ... to do it. Can't get on the site at the mo'. Seems to have died for some reason ;) Anyone got a mirror of it?

    Couldn't they ask for donations as well? I remember on of the other distro's doing this (was it Mandrake?).

  15. Avoid databases... on PostgreSQL Slammed by PHP Creator · · Score: 5, Funny

    Honestly, just avoid this discussion by using flat files.

  16. Re:Working Software... on Another Apple Special Event Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    ;) True, it does work better on my MacBook... ;).

    Must remember my tags in future ...

  17. Working Software... on Another Apple Special Event Coming Soon · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    .. yeah, it's working great. Like the pile of trash that is iTunes 7. Corrupted cover art, CoverFlow may/may not run on your PC, audio glitches, SoundBridges broken cause they changed the DAAP protocols....

    Really glad they polished that of, before letting it out the door.

  18. Chirst, I hope he's not in charge... on Short Film About CERN's Large Hadron Collider · · Score: 3, Funny

    At timecode 1:39 he claims that the protons are travelling around the 27km at 50,000 times/second. This gives them a speed of 1.3m km/sec, over 4 times the speed of light ;). Impressive!

    Apparently they travel 11,000 times a second around the 27km, reaching 0.999997828 the speed of light.

    LHC Facts

  19. Mirrors, Mirrors on the wall on Andy Tanenbaum Releases Minix 3 · · Score: 1

    OK, any mirrors to the VM image here pretty please?

  20. Re:Ehh... on MyDoom Seeks to Destroy Antivirus Firms · · Score: 1

    Unlike those who know who to write "Anonymous Coward"?

  21. Ehh... on MyDoom Seeks to Destroy Antivirus Firms · · Score: 5, Funny

    Isn't this like the virus companies threating to shoot themselves....? Oh, hang on, they don't really write all the virii... :)

  22. Re:Another server to slashdot on RTCW: Enemy Territory Full Version Released · · Score: 1

    Holy Cow! 400KB/sec! Right, everyone sod off until i've got it! Give me 10 minutes :)

  23. Re:In other news... on SBC Getting Aggressive With Frames Patent · · Score: 1

    OMG, when did they patent "Unbelievable"? SBC have been really busy...........

    Wonder what the fee's for "Unbelievable" things will be?

  24. Next story... on Should you Fear Google? · · Score: 1, Funny

    I get the strangest feeling that the next story posted is going to be about processors or something, maybe from Toms Hardware......

    Wierd...

  25. Similar Programme... on Go Stand By the Stairs, So I Can Protect You · · Score: 5, Informative

    ...Pontifex. You try and build bridges which stay up when you run trains over them. Really cool.

    Go Here -> http://www.chroniclogic.com/