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  1. Re:Newbie question hour? on Ask Slashdot: What's a Good Tool To Detect Corrupted Files? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    mplayer can detect corrupted movie and audio files find . -name '*.mov' -exec mplayer -msglevel all=6 -speed 100.0 -framedrop -nogui -nolirc -cache 8192 -tskeepbroken -ao null -vo null {} \; | grep Warning! > $1.txt Change the *.mov as appropriate.

  2. It has nothing to do with "head start" time on Apache OpenOffice Lagging Behind LibreOffice In Features · · Score: 2, Interesting

    LibreOffice incorporated the Go-OO patchset on creation, OpenOffice still hasn't and likely won't. The Go-OO patches were all of the features (with a few exceptions) that are listed. If AOO adopted the patches, they would be nearly on parity.

  3. It'd sell on MacBook Pro Fragrance Created · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Well, people buy "new car" smell fragrances so I can see people buying this.

  4. Another Homeland Security monitoring site! on Iraq Emerges From Isolation As Telecommunications Hub · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Since Iraq is US controlled, that means that Homeland Security is likely to put a communications monitor system on the hub site. So, so much for routing around US observation...

  5. How do they know? on Emperor Penguins Counted From Space · · Score: 5, Funny

    An international team of scientists used satellite technology to conduct a census of emperor penguin populations from outer space

    How do you tell which ones are from outer space?

  6. Re:Wait - isn't this time/place shifting? on Major Networks Suing To Stop Free Streaming · · Score: 1

    The sell commercials to based on certain people in certain places watching at certain times. This breaks that model completely and makes prime time (the most expensive) available to people who don't fit who the ads were targeted to. That "Wastes" the ad buyers money.

  7. Re:Good in theory on New Group Paves Way For 2012 Online Primary · · Score: 1

    And if they don't, the established parties will to avoid vote splitting.

  8. Re:Yeah, yeah...everything enjoyable is bad for yo on Does 'Supersizing' Supershrink Your Brain? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Good thinking! If we all just eat junk food and do whatever we want, there can't be any negative consequences! I'm glad there are people like you to show the way.

  9. It's completely true! on Kim Jong-Il Was an "Internet Expert" · · Score: 1

    When I was redesigning the Amazon front-end in HTML5, Dear Leader sent me a note about using CSS3 descritors that saved me over 50000 hours of work! I'm sure that others have the same story!

    Dear Leader knew everything about Internets!

  10. I agree! on Nokia Exec: Young People Fed Up With iPhone and Android · · Score: 5, Funny

    I showed my Android phone to my 2 year old and within minutes she was fed up. To her, all those icons and such were baffling. But then I showed her a windows 7 phone and she ate it up! It spent far more time in her mouth than any other phone in the house!

  11. Re:His projects have disappeared on Twitter Buys Moxie Marlinspike's Crypto Startup · · Score: 4, Interesting

    From their updates page:

    "The Transition:

    The Whisper Systems software as our users know it will live on (and we have some surprises in store that we're excited about), but there is unfortunately a transition period where we will have to temporarily take our products and services offline. RedPhone service will be interrupted immediately, but FlashBack users have a month to pull off any backup data they would like before that service also goes offline. "

  12. Re:You can opt out on EU Targets Facebook's Ad System · · Score: 1

    But you have to opt-out for each ad as it appears on your page. That's the problem!

  13. Re:sunlight how? on Earthscraper Takes Sustainable Design Underground · · Score: 2

    Ummm "through clear or translucent core walls". Read it again.

  14. I'll start now! on IT's Next Hot Job: Hadoop Guru · · Score: 3, Insightful

    After all, every other framework of the month has lasted for 30 years, Hadoop will have at least as much staying power as Ruby on Rails!

  15. Trinity 3.5 on KDE 3.5 Fork Trinity Releases First Major Update · · Score: -1

    Because some people have trouble letting go...

    I'm sure it's a wonderful set (although a bit slow getting to the page) but there has been so much improvement in the toolkits. Why do we have to fight change every step of the way?

  16. Ron Paul should give away his money on Ron Paul Wants To End the Federal Student Loan Program · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Maybe if he had to actually work for a living at a minimum wage job, he'd stop asking those with little to no money to give up their chance to be raised up.

  17. Re:Why Not Android Already? on RIM Unveils New OS Based On QNX · · Score: 1

    I have a feeling that they're following Palm down the long winding road of obsolescence. A Unix OS that isn't compatible with either of the two main players.

  18. On their own, maybe on Patents Google Bought From IBM Are "Weak" · · Score: 2

    But since they've inheritied 16000 from Motorola, and another 1000 from IBM and I'm sure they're bidding on others, I'm sure the Google patent portfolio will do just fine.

    On it's own Google's word processor isn't the greatest. Add the rest of the Google Apps portfolio, and suddenly you have something interesting.

  19. Re:SHAPE the future? on Help Shape the Future of Slashdot · · Score: 2

    The front side and the back side. What were you thinking?

  20. Re:SHAPE the future? on Help Shape the Future of Slashdot · · Score: 1

    I'm a Rhombus fan myself, triangles are just too two-sided.

  21. Re:Astrolabe, Inc. v. Olson et al on Civil Suit Filed, Involving the Time Zone Database · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Looks like the Plaintiff's Lawyer don't care about a lot of things: "Sandwich Planning Board Member Julie C. Molloy Fined $3,000 for Improperly Representing Clients Before the Sandwich Zoning Board of Appeals"
    http://www.mass.gov/?pageID=ethpressrelease&L=4&L0=Home&L1=Commission+Meetings+and+Publications&L2=Commission+Press+Releases&L3=2008+Ethics+Commission+Press+Releases&sid=Ieth&b=pressrelease&f=2008_molloy_0521&csid=Ieth

  22. Favourite non-Star Trek roles? on Ask William Shatner Whatever You'd Like · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Outside of the Star Trek series, you've had a large number of regular, one-off and recurring roles. What would be your favourite role prior to the beginnings of Star Trek and after the original ST series run? If different, what was your favourite one-off?

  23. Lets see if I understand this. on Theater Professor's Firefly Poster Declared Threatening · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I read the original exchange [http://thefire.org/article/13592.html], as well as the linked article. From that I get the following:

    1. The Campus Police saw a poster on a bulletin board near and removed it due the the reference to killing.
    2. They notified Professor Miller that he or someone had posted it and they removed it due to the reference. They asked him to contact them with questions
    3. He exploded at them about first amendment rights and called them fascists.
    4. They asked to sit down with them and go over the problem and informed him of campus requirements. They also let him know that if he violated campus requirements there may be penalties.
    5. He called them "card carrying members of the NRA who are wearing side arms and truncheons" and put up a poster again calling them fascists.
    6. The CP contacted his boss who asked him to meet with him ASAP.
    7. He went crying to the media about how his rights are being trampled by fascists.

    It seems to me that if he had simply talked rationally about this from the start (after the poster was removed) this whole problem could have been avoided. While the Campus Police may have gone too far enforcing campus rules, the prof went way out in the deep end without any concern for sanity.

    Nothing the CP did was a terrible fascist crime, if Professor Miller had bothered to think before screaming, this would have been a non-issue.

  24. Not Amazon! on Amazon In Talks With HP To Buy Palm · · Score: 1

    I want Google to buy Palm's assets so that the WebOS benefits (like the card interface) can be merged into Android. They can junk the hardware and just keep the good stuff that was part of WebOS.

  25. Why is this news? on Firefox 8.0 Beta Available · · Score: 5, Insightful

    With Firefox releasing betas/alphas and new releases every few weeks, why are we covering this? Can't we just have the ever six week release story and maybe another one if they do something innovative?

    Chrome is on version 15 but I don't see a story here every number change.