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  1. Re:when do we get a SCO section on /. on SCO Attorney Declares GPL Invalid · · Score: 1

    What? No one told you about the games section?

  2. Re:Like candy from a baby on BitTorrent Community Running For Cover? · · Score: 1

    Hay, can I live with you? :coolfish:

  3. Re:Bittorrent as Legal FILE DISTRIBUTION NOT SHARI on BitTorrent Community Running For Cover? · · Score: 1

    This same whole thing goes back to when they wanted MP3 files irradicated. A MP3 is NOT a song. A MP3 is a compressed digital audio file. It's just that the majority of use for MP3 compression is for songs.

    BT is like MP3. It's not the product that's a problem, it's how it's USED!

  4. Terminator 4 is real! on Robot Balloon Escapes In Britain · · Score: 1

    Skynet is aware. Judgement Day is here.

  5. Re:Hopes it worth it.. on Review of T3: Rise of the Machines · · Score: 1, Funny

    According to that IMDB trivia page ...

    "Former WWF wrestler Chyna was originally slated to play the Terminatrix"

    Thank you cast directors! I would NOT want to see her naked rear when she first arrives in the past (the movie's present).

  6. Re:They don't make em like they used to on W32.Sobig.E@mm Worm Spreading Rapidly · · Score: 5, Funny

    "This worm appears to primarily affect Microsoft systems, has an expiration date of July 14th,"
    Yuck. The only thing worse than worms are rotten worms.


    Hey now, worms taste good for a while after they expi--. Errr, nevermind..

  7. Conversation with a friend on Remember The Wizard? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    A friend and I came up with the idea after watching Minority Report and turning the power glove into some kind of control device for a computer like Tom Cruise had. Neither of us being THAT in depth technically, we blew it off as not being possible and kept it to just being "something cool."

    For you electronics "Wizards" here just how possible is it to hook up a power glove to a computer and use it as a mouse or joystick type device for playing Quake or sol.exe .. ?

  8. Head is spinning... on UCITA Stalled At State Level · · Score: 1

    ..DMCA CSS RIAA CBDTPA EFF UCITA SKYLAROV MPAA..

    I'm spinning here... UCITA is something good.. right?

  9. Props to Andy on MTV Movie Awards - Gollum's Acceptance Clip · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm especially glad they did a short intro to the speech with Andy Serkis thanking everyone. Probably most of MTV never saw the man behind gollum and I'm glad they have now.

  10. Obligatory POV-Ray Reference! on Water Flows Uphill · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Check this animation out from an old IRTC round.

    http://www.irtc.org/ftp/pub/anims/2000-07-15/h20fa ll.mpg

    (setting up a BT would nice for this so IRTC.ORG doesn't get bandwidth destroyed. I'd do it, but I should be really studying for final exams :-) )

    Notes
    http://www.irtc.org/ftp/pub/anims/2000-07-15/h20fa ll.txt
    Comments
    http://www.irtc.org/ftp/pub/anims/2000-07-15/comme nts/h20fall.comments

    From here

    http://www.irtc.org/anims/2000-07-15.html

    All credit for the animation goes to Joe Wise.

  11. Re:Spoiler on Return Of The King Footage From E3 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    After seeing Fellowship of the Ring I decided it was time to start reading the books. I always had them, I just never read them.

    It wasn't until two months before the release of The Two Towers movie that I began with The Hobbit. By the time I saw TTT I was halfway through reading Fellowship. Around the end of March I had just finished reading Return of the King.

    I'm glad I waited until now to read them, because I definatly had a better appreciation for what he wrote. Up until then everything was a spoiler to me like Gollum biti-- oh snap.

    Well I just can't wait to see ROTK as well.

  12. Re:Couldn't resist. on HTML Rendering Crashes IE · · Score: 1

    I couldn't resist checking it either. I mean many people don't bother thinking about what they click and it could easily be disguised as something totally different.

    Oh a completely different note, check out some Free Porn you can download. Enjoy! ;-)

  13. Re:Likewise with FOTR extended DVD on The Two Towers DVD Release Dates · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I sacrificed many meals and ate leftovers from friends and neighbors to save up enough for the dvd. There was a strong sense of value for only $30. I got a movie, tons of extras, and a free pass to the theater.

    Plus the whole eating less made me kill off a couple pounds. I should try it again. the Lord of the Diet... Hmm...

  14. Likewise with FOTR extended DVD on The Two Towers DVD Release Dates · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'm hoping I get a $10 coupon to the Return of the King movie.

    I'm a poor college student and I was so happy that I could spend $30 on a 4 Disc DVD, and get a FREE (afternoon shows here are $5.50) showing of the newest LOTR movie. It was very nice walking in to the theature after classes, handing them my coupon, and sneaking a bottle over to the water fountain because I was too broke to even afford a drink.

    Well I got my fingers crossed.

  15. Re:BitTorrent Mirror on 606 Takes To film Rube Goldberg-like car ad · · Score: 2, Funny

    YIKES!

    I'm on a couple T1 lines shared by 400 people and I just that entire thing in under a minute at 400k/sec.

    I hope no one noticed... oh wait I'm the admin. ;-)

  16. Re:Celebrate by converting people on Mozilla Project Turns 5 · · Score: 1

    Please check my reply to the initial bullshit call. I must have been mistaken, but I am not lying about my father getting some virus/trojan through Outlook.

  17. Re:Celebrate by converting people on Mozilla Project Turns 5 · · Score: 1

    Oh yes, the tabs! I forgot to mention how I showed him how they work. He loves that instead of having a bunch of IE windows open. He has caught onto tabbed browsing quite well and control of opening mutliple news stories to read.

  18. Re:Celebrate by converting people on Mozilla Project Turns 5 · · Score: 1

    Thanks for calling bullshit, but I must be mistaken then. He DID in fact get a virus through email, nimda was the first thing that sounded familiar though. Whatever it was, it was one of those "popular" (read: highly infected around the world) email trojan/virus things.

    He doesn't run IIS on his machine, it's just a simple desktop he uses to surf the web, do some work on, and do email.

  19. Celebrate by converting people on Mozilla Project Turns 5 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Lets see who have I converted...

    My Dad. Hated popups. Instead of giving him a popup blocker for IE I just installed Mozilla for him and switched his Outlook to Mozilla Mail/News. It did a fine job of importing his contact list. He got nimda through an email which infected his machine when he was using Outlook, so I explained to him that with MozMail he'd be ok. After several months use he loves it. No more bad popups for him while browsing, and email has been just fine.

    That's my only personal success story, maybe if I got out more often ;-). I did turn a few people online to Phoenix and Mozilla with some luck though. I guess it's easier to convert those you personally know... so go celebrate 5 years and convert some more people over!

  20. Just like with Kevin Mitnick.. on IsoNews Ostensibly Shut Down By The DOJ · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They're going to make an example out of David Rocci.

  21. Re:Quick! on The RIAA and MPAA Target Day-Job Downloaders · · Score: 4, Funny

    Searching for it, you better read the description or else you might end up getting a guide about man-dolphin relations...

    Damn you Kazaa polluters!

  22. Re:The Miramax Money Machine on Oscar Nominations (LotR, Spirited Away, and more) · · Score: 1

    Interesting point I'd like to make. Somewhere early on in the FOTR dvd extras (4 DVD box set) they were talking about the various places they checks out to do the movie through. At first Miramax was the first choice, and they had a semi-deal going on, but they wanted to do it in 1 or 2 movies. Peter Jackson refused saying that there was too much to do in that little work frame and it was all lost. Jackson moved to New Line and it's all good.

    Poor Miramax, they lost out big not having the epic Lord of the Rings with their name on it.

  23. Future vs Past on Ask Kevin Mitnick · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'm curious to know, do you believe your whole case would have been held differently had the crimes been committed in the year 2000 under newer laws rather than the ones of your time?

  24. Re:a year ago on Review of Mozilla's 2002 · · Score: 5, Informative

    My greatest accomplishment was converting my Dad to Mozilla from Outlook and IE. To easily sum up the story here are a few key points.

    1.) He was able to import his Outlook stuff into Mozilla Mail no problem.
    2.) All he needed was a spelling checker plugin for the mail client (Got one from Mozdev) and it was 100% perfect for him.
    3.) Mozilla "Imported" his many hundreds of bookmarks which he definatly needed.
    4.) The built in popup blocker has worked wonders for him.
    5.) He has Mozilla sit in the system tray so he doesn't notice any load up delays.

    When I was converting my Dad to Mozilla I showed him how much better it is and he definatly agreed. He asked a few questions about how to make some things work and I got him up and running no sweat. Ever since he got klez because of Outlook (Partially his fault, yadda yadda yadda..) he believes that Mozilla Mail is greater since he now doesn't worry (for the most part) about mail viruses.

    So if you wanna convert someone, start with a family member.

  25. Re:Nicely Choreographed on Legodeath - Twisted Lego Constructs · · Score: 1

    Interesting...

    I've never heard of cad software for legos, but I certainly know POV-Ray :-D

    Today marks the beginning of the Winter Trimester at my University and I think you've just inspired me to concentrate my efforts on making POV-Ray rendered lego-violence ;-)