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  1. Re:Blood heats in partial pressure? on More on High-Altitude Balloonists · · Score: 4, Interesting

    nasa say that this would not happen and that you can survive for upto a half a minute without ill effects. "You do not explode and your blood does not boil because of the containing effect of your skin and circulatory system. You do not instantly freeze because, although the space environment is typically very cold, heat does not transfer away from a body quickly."

  2. Re:Visible on More on High-Altitude Balloonists · · Score: 4, Informative

    saw a program on this on the TV the other night
    The flight is going to take 9 hours and they are going to launch in the morning to be home in time for tea

  3. but ... on Beta Ogg Vorbis Firmware For The Neuros [updated] · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Does it play oggs?
    Ill only buy it if it plays oggs
    oh wait damit need another reasons umm... its too exspensive yeah thats it

  4. Re:Slashdot away!!! on Getting Law Enforcement Action for a Large-Scale Hack? · · Score: 1

    hmm they are all links to lop.com This is a known spyware intrusion program that alters DNS settings to its own. see this for more details try adaware to remove it

  5. Re:What about the trails? on Geocaching Crackdown? · · Score: 1

    I have done orienteering for that you are given a specialist map of the area not a general map. The cost of doing this for geocaching would be prohibative to most people and you would need a lot of maps to cover the vast distances between caches. Having done both I think the caching is very different to orienteering although the skills transfer. When caching oyou can be standing on top of the cache and not notice. Some take over an hour to find despite knowing that you are less than 1 meter away from the cache its self this is not the same as orienteering. Some caches require excellent compass work as well as a GPS (or some trig) others require problem solving similar to a treasure hunt.

  6. Re:What about the trails? on Geocaching Crackdown? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    A map would not help locate a cache altough it does help in getting to the rough location ( unless the maps you have in the us are much better than our 1:25000 that the land registry use for showing who owns what land). The GPS as acurate down to ~3m giving you a small circle to locate the cache in. Given this it is still hard to find them. A map can get you down to ~ 100m which is far to much info to find a cache in. Belive me I have tried. This is why the sport could only start when the selective availability was switched off.

  7. Re:What about the trails? on Geocaching Crackdown? · · Score: 1

    Thats why there is an Archive this cache option. Click it when you visit a cache and the owner is requested to remoce the cache. This can be done for a number of reasons such as the site becoming obvious. ie a trail

  8. Re:2.5 more reliable than 2.4 for me! on Operational Testing of Linux Kernel 2.5.x · · Score: 1

    hmm i had similar probs but found the answer ..... set plug and play os support to false in bios
    thats it
    also with that board make sure you cool the northbridge as this make a big difference

  9. Re:keyword on Debunking Linux-Windows Market Share Myths · · Score: 1

    actaully emacs can do intellisense see semantic bovinator which makes using emacs even more of a joy and faster still

  10. Re:Newton? on Andy Grove Says End Of Moore's Law At Hand · · Score: 3, Informative

    actually newtons laws were proven wrong a long time ago. they fail to correctly estimate the orbit of mercury correctly as when you close to a body of large mass the inverse square approximation down not work so well. Einstienien mechanics that model as a deflected curve predict the orbit of mercury bang on.
    so sorry newtons laws are already old

  11. Re:FreeVo on Build Your Own Linux PVR · · Score: 3, Informative
    I use mythtv (when my processors havent died :()
    It has a good TV schedule live tv pause ff rewind
    very good recording and episode guid using xml tv
    works well especially with btaudio to grab sound from tv tuner card also does music pictures etc.
    Hightly recommended

    http://www.mythtv.org

  12. Re:T68i - Dont believe the hype! on New Nokia Phones With Full Color And MMS · · Score: 1

    anybody who makes 400+ minutes of calls per miniute
    I think the problem is the flux capacitor maybe they shouldnt have used the electolytic version from Taiwan

  13. Re:Why figure out the password? on Distributed TiVo Code Cracking · · Score: 2

    actually mythtv is a lot better than freevo for most jobs
    it has recording channel listing live tv pausing mp3 player games box and gallery veiwer
    they are allready working on heuristics which sort of works and re encoding down to normal divx
    its quite hackable and is developing very well i use it at the moment for my tv watching needs
    www.mythtv.org
    But i do agree that it would be better for all if people devoted there time to projects like these

  14. This is shared on 19 megabits on 3G · · Score: 5, Informative

    Acording to the lecture i attended last year by a very sensior vodaphone engineer this bandwidth is the maximum available. It isnt all used for data in fact they reserve a few channels for voice and a few for data (depending on the area past usage etc) also if you are the only user then things get faster still. However it wtill wont be that fast most 3g implementations relie on doing TCP/IP on top of TCP/IP on top of another protocol or 5 yes there are 2 tcp/ip stacks. This is so the phone network can keep you inside there network

  15. why start another project? on Mac OS X to Get Journaling FS · · Score: 1

    With the availiability of fast open source journeling file systems like jfs xfs reiserfs ext3 etc. Why go to the bother of developing a new one?
    what extra benifits does it have apart from being slower?
    Meta data is suported in xfs (and reiserfs4 i think)
    The translation from hfs+ to xfs could done as a mach service(this being the entire point of microkernels you can add support for things like new disk types without touching the kernel space). or is this why its slow? The system has to do yet another context switch to run the translation service?

    So why are apple just reinventing the wheel given all the existing oss projects?

  16. applications on Ask Eric Blossom about Software-Defined Radio · · Score: 2, Interesting

    In the future will this project let me do the folloing.

    Watch digital TV
    Listen to digital radio

    and analog of the above
    using just my PC and an inexpensive cature card eg bt848?
    what about encryped signals will systems like this be able to brute force encrypted digital TV/ cabel/satterlite chanels?

  17. hmm not great on Kartoo Search Engine Presents Results as a Map · · Score: 1

    The flash version does not work behind a firewall not sure why but it doesn :(
    The html version is tuffed full of javascript errors on geko (galeon) is does look pretty and could have uses. Tried it on my uni and it showed me who was closely linked to it oh well maybe a slashdotting and a few emails they will fix the javascript and flash version
    still not sure why the firewall would break it. I am only allowed http via a proxy so i wonder what else it needs/ wants and why ?

  18. p2p apt on Open Content Network (P2P meets Open Source) · · Score: 1

    This is similar to an idea I have had for debian, point to point apt. Clients only need to downoad the packages files from the server with md5sums then whenever i apt-get a package its in my local cache
    machines neer me can get these files faster
    A local debian mirror except its done by apt and i still get my packages list from the debian servers so i know they have the correct md5sums and stuff
    however i suspect somone is already doing this :)
    'piracy' is killed off as the only packages that are mirrored ar the ones listed at the debian servers (some on could create a pkg containing the files and host it on there own server but then they are thepoint of access) the servers still hold the originals but it meens that ordinary users can contribute to debian ( a fantastic dist :)) just by running apt-get and having a net connection

  19. Re:Then they Should Provide Faster Service on Security Focus on Cable Modem Uncapping · · Score: 1

    yes they should i am on NTL braod band 64K service (i kid you not) we switched this from the dialup (which was shitty) as it was cheeper and always on now have a server connect to the internet 24/7 and its worked constantly for almost a year the only downage ive had were to change the ip masqing server
    and whne an ehternet card got hit by lighning in my house last week apart from that the service has been great on the other hand the tv sucks
    it often shoes artifacs and stops for a couple of seconds before resuming. I would love to be able to get the raw mpeg stream off the cable but hey ill have to wait.
    I am thinking of trying this in a few weeks to see if it works however i wll only up it a little bit perhaps to 128

  20. It had to have no teeth on Wrangling Over Proposed Privacy Laws Continues · · Score: 1

    This bill has basically no powers opt out systems always have less people opting out however if it had teeth then every one would just ignore it.
    Just move payment / data store to another country even a seeland. All you do is allow somone to clooect things on your us website then when it comes to payments say payments are handled by our truested corp xyz
    xyz then collects all the infomation out of the duristiction of us and pays no us tax it can then sell the details to anyone it likes.
    Privacy bills have to allow corps enough freedom to do what the hell they like or they will just leave your country

  21. Re:imagine this on Oracle Investigation Grows · · Score: 1

    how does this get +2 informative
    +2 funny perhaps but an informative would be (for a male moderator)
    moderator detach your penis
    insert penis ino ownn arse while eating cock
    for female
    well imm sure you can work it out :)

  22. In other news on Linux Powers Digital Muppets · · Score: 1

    Redhat also announce the new network called a Ouija board net
    it allows users to talk to the dead in a similar manar to ethernet
    howver in stead of the standard tools ifconfig
    stiffconfig or ifcorpsfig must be used
    it only works if the computer really believes so /dev/belief must be full using GPrayer or the AfterLifeStep Window Manager
    It is believed the KDE team are already working on a KPrayer, but unlike GPrayer, which was built from scratch, KPrayer is really only a hack on top of WMAfterlife
    a spoksmen said "we believe that this give linux and redhat the edge it has already allowed us to sigg this deal and we are talking to the funding farthers drying to get you must use linux as part of the constitution and moses to add the as the 11th commandment"

  23. Re:Don't believe everything you hear at the BBC on African ISPs Being Fleeced by the West · · Score: 1

    actually theere is no such thing as an indepenat news paper they all have bias
    in the uk allmost apll papers are controlled by rupert murdoch who has a very fixed right wing aggenda (anti europe) remeber its the sun wot won it? after john major was elected? McCarthy was a loonie
    hence "its better to have him on the inside of the tent pissing out than the outside pissing in"
    and the wich hunts of people who had done no wrong
    also the bbc gets critisied almost equally by the right for being too left wing and the left for being too right wing. This whist not proof that they are correct does go some way to show that they are not a left wing. There are famous occasions of tory ministers being interveiwed claiming that the interveiwer was a left wing loonie only to be told that the interveiwer votoed torie at the last election not that it was any buisiness of the interveiee. (radio 4 today)

  24. Re:Influences, agendas shouldn't matter with facts on Rare Earth · · Score: 1

    Umm there are no facts with life apart from
    1) its here (on earth)
    and
    2) it keeps turning up in places and forms that we have not previusly seen
    anything else is speculation
    apart from in the US creationism is regarded as the theory that it is a big load of tripe
    it is not tought in schools
    it is not activly reasearched heck if the being called that you people believe is called god came to visit tomorrow and said that no you were wrong evolution was how it happened you would still adamantly claim that this guy was a fake and wrong
    if some one is a scientist then they should be albe to look at facts and accept them for what they are creationsim is not a valid theory evolution is
    if somone has already discreted them seles then yes this should be known.

  25. Re:Don't believe everything you hear at the BBC on African ISPs Being Fleeced by the West · · Score: 1

    What are you saying the bbc is the only idependant news source in the uk
    and is generally regard as so over the entire world
    they are not relliant on any advertising for funding they have there independance writting into law.