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  1. Re:get ready to tear your eyeballs out on What's Your Favorite Underappreciated Movie? · · Score: 1
    Yaaaargghhh!!!!!

    Well I suppose in this case, Will Smith would definitely be a very indirect relative.

  2. Re:The Man in the White Suit = Ealing Comedy on What's Your Favorite Underappreciated Movie? · · Score: 1
    Are any of them being released in the UK on DVD?

    I know they get shown from time to time on TV, but I don't live in the UK and they are very difficult to find on P2P.

    Another one I loved was "The Smallest Show on Earth". I recently saw a dubbed version but it wasn't the same.

  3. The Man in the White Suit = Ealing Comedy on What's Your Favorite Underappreciated Movie? · · Score: 1
    ...and then can't understand why he is so unpopular with all the textile workers.

    Actually, I would mention a lot of the Ealing Film Comodies. For Guiness, there was also Kind Hearts and Coronets where he plays an entire family. A great movie but not well known outside the UK. Others in a similar vein include Passport to Pimlico about a district of London, discovering that actually it wasn't part of England, Genevieve a comedy about the London to Brighton vintage car ralley, The Mouse that Roared (mentioned already about a small and broke country deciding to attack the US, lose and then benefit from the aid) and many more.

  4. Re:Cinema Paradiso... on What's Your Favorite Underappreciated Movie? · · Score: 1

    The things is that it is a film for those who love cinema. This is one reason that although many critics said it was uncommercial, they loved it.

  5. Yes, but Hoffman's character exists... on What's Your Favorite Underappreciated Movie? · · Score: 1
    It is a non-secret in hollywood that the producer played by Hoffman was based on a real producer. I don't know which one though.

    Excellent movie about wars, media and a president who wants to distract attention.

  6. Re:Dark Star on What's Your Favorite Underappreciated Movie? · · Score: 1

    Yes, I liked Dark Star as well. The acting was great and exactly what you would expect of a team left in space for a few years.

  7. Re:cryptome also not responding on 4l-j4z333ra 0wn3d · · Score: 1

    Cryptome is responding at the time of this post although Al-Jazeera is well and truely down (I'm not even getting the DNS lookup). Cryptome has pictures and links to the video here and the the video is up on various P2P networks.

  8. Re:A reason on What if Microsoft went Open Source? · · Score: 1
    The issue comes down to the tax status of the Scientology Cult^h^h^h^h movement. The Germans considers them a business which means they are taxed like a business and can't gather their subscriptions automatically via the state as established religions do. If I say I'm Catholic in Germany, the govt will take a percent or two off my income and give it to the Catholic church.

    The whole thing has been acromonious, to put it mildly with the Scientologists pressing the US State Dept to make representations on their behalf as they compare their persucution to that of the Jews.

    Actually, Jews, Eveangelists and even more recent religions like the Mormons have no problems to qualify as officially recognised religions. I beleive the same for B'hais and Hindus too.

    The problem is that a disk defragger is a critical piece of software. Would you really want to trust something like that produced my a company with whom you have a major dispute?

  9. Re:Scapers Commercial on Farscape Finale Tonight · · Score: 1

    According to the Save Farscape Website, the commercial was aired on a city by city basis depending upon the cost and the availability of funding. It wasn't universal.

  10. Re:Makes sense on LCD Overtaking CRT · · Score: 1

    Interesting my old Dell Laptop (3yrs old) has one of these 1400x1080 SXGA screens. Someone is definitely making the screens but they are not ending up in freestanding units.

  11. Re:U.N. on Strike on Iraq · · Score: 1
    One of the reasons behind the international aid agencies is enlighteneed self-interest. If my neighbour is desperate and sick, then I can suffer because not only will he not buy anything from me, he may rob me. If my neighbour is sick, I can be infected too.

    The other thing is fairnesss. We have it built in. We are more likely to act in a way that is better for the sake of the community if we see others who get out of line being disadvantaged. This is something that is built into the way we behave in society. In short, it goes for countries too. The rule of law is of paramount importance and is a vital difference between the US and Iraq.

  12. Re:U.N. on Strike on Iraq · · Score: 1
    You probably don't understand how the World Bank works. What happens is that WB contracts must be placed with donor countries. Perhaps with the headquarters in Washington, US firms get more than their fair share of the contracts.

    As for the WTO, it helps put into place multlateral trade agreements. This means instead of individually negotiating trade treaties with every country, one agreement gives you access to all the other members markets. If youy feel that the WTO has been making judgements against the US, yes that is correct, but at the same time, it has made judgements against other countries (the EU bananas)

    There are many other organisations coming under the UN as well, for example the ITU. Again it sets a framework for the clearing of international call costs as well as setting standards and regulating communications.

    Yes, the UN has its problems (like any large organisation) but it is better than the alternative.

  13. Re:Xenix on Microsoft Bug May Attract Big Worm · · Score: 4, Funny
    Xenix was Microsoft's attemp at making Unix bug compatible with WIndows.

    I remember it, it really was bad.

  14. Re:U.N. on Strike on Iraq · · Score: 1

    Organisations like the World Bank and the WTO are part of the UN. US businessed benefit from WB financed projects and definitely from their access to international markets facilitated by the WTO.

  15. Oentagon calss it Decapitation on Strike on Iraq · · Score: 1

    other important historical 'decapitations' included the French revolution.

  16. Buy Bush at War on Strike on Iraq · · Score: 1
    and save over 40%

    Reads the ad banner on this one. Someone really has got a weird sense of humour. Anyway, kast I heard, Bush was already bought!!!

  17. TTL Viewfinders? on Wavy Lenses Extend Depth of Field in Digital Imaging · · Score: 1
    This would certainly nix the semi SLR style digital cameras. You wouldn't see anything. Is the decode algorithm fast enough for an electronic viewfinder?

    Otherwise we are left with an optical viewfinder along side the real lens, and that has disadvantages.

  18. Re:Unlike other people, I tried this.... on Freenet 0.5.1 Released, P2P Network Stabilizing · · Score: 1
    The problem is like the ISP, once you know wht is on your system, you arer responsible for it. Otherwise you probably do not even have all the info as files are squirrelled away all over the place.

    You can point to your quite innocent GWB fan boy site whilst hiding away the details of his failings that the Secret Service are trying to prise out of you. Once you load the information, it could sit anywhere. You or anyone else can't know what is yours and what isn't.

    Freenet is far from perfect but it is an important start.

  19. Unlike other people, I tried this.... on Freenet 0.5.1 Released, P2P Network Stabilizing · · Score: 5, Informative
    In a most unslashdot way, I actually d/led and tried it out before the article was posted here. Freenet is not the same as the other P2P programs, Freenet is about distributed anonymous storage with the ability to store different kinds of data with encrypted and anonymous access.

    What it is about is the ability to store anything, particularly items that may give the holder problems, like the film of a cop selling drugs to kids.

    It isn't eDonkey, it isnt Kazzaa. With both of these systems you know what you are sharing, with Freenet you don't. With traditional P2P, MPAA can go round logging who is sharing LOTR and send them DMCA cease and desist notices. If you are living in Farkistan, you can publish your videos of police executions without fear that the police can track you down. Once you have loaded a file on the net with freenet, you don't know where it is, and neither does anyone else until they are given a hash key.

    You just have some file storage assigned to the network which is browsable by a hash key through your local web browser. Freenet appears as localhost:8888 to your browser so you can access with a locked-down Mozilla or even IE (less wise because of the holes). People can know that you are running Freenet, but that is all (assuming you clear browser caches and so on).

    The downside is because you can share anything anonymously, people do. However, unless someone is prepared to publish a reference to young Britney and her dog, nobody is going to find it.

    The curious thing is that if you have a fairly static IP and are contributing space to the net, you have no idea what is stored on your machine. It could be human rights info, it could be copyright material, it could be very illegal pornography. You just don't know.

    Also it seems to take a long time to get into the network. It is painfully slow to start and until it starts caching information locally, a letter may be faster.

  20. Re:Case against war on The Era Of Satellite News Gathering · · Score: 1
    To be fair on the other side, Jack Straw has been making some good speeches too. Independent of where your sympathies lie, some of the best speeches out of the whole thing have come from Brit Parliamentarians. Note that apparently it is a Brit thing to consult notes but not to read verbatim from prepared texts.

    Is it three counts and you're out? If another minister goes does Blair go?

  21. Re:CAPITALISM IS A SICK SYSTEM! on The Era Of Satellite News Gathering · · Score: 1
    Once people know, or think they know, what is going to happen, they will know where to invest their money Buy derivatives on uncertainty, trade the uncertainty and then when you know what will happen, convert those derivatives to cash investments. This is normal.
  22. Re:Apache security alerts? on WebDAV Buffer Overflow Attack Compromises IIS 5.0 · · Score: 1

    It would appear that these vulnerabilities are for the pure Win32 version of Apache and do not apply to the Cygwin version which has the '/' as the directory separator.

  23. *ix by stealth on WebDAV Buffer Overflow Attack Compromises IIS 5.0 · · Score: 1
    You can run Apache quite nicely on Win 2K especially under CYGWIN. You can also run a lot of other things under cygwin that you might want on your web server too.

    The advantage is that most managers don't like radical changes. Once you have everything you need running under CYGWIN and the next MS OS bug appears, you can very easily drop Win2K and move to Linux because your apps are already Linux compatible.

  24. Re:Eps cost $1.5m on Farscape Fans Reinventing Television · · Score: 1

    I think Sci-Fi is sort of broke. I think they are part of Vivendi, the French media group that has major problems at the moment. Advertising in general is down in this kind of market and this group definitely wqas not in the best of health.

  25. Re:Open Source Speech Synthesis on Phoneme Approach For Text-to-Speech in SCIAM · · Score: 1
    Thats the problem with BSD style licenses (under which Festival was released). You may extend and restrictively licence the result. I'm still a little suprised that the OGI stuff is for non-commercial use only although it was at least partly government funded.

    Unfortunately free-TTS (i.e, playing any, not just replaying canned speech) is a growing area and there will definitely be a large commercial potential and everyone seems to know this.