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  1. Fuel Cells Hazard on Hitachi Readies Fuel Cell for PDAs · · Score: 2, Funny

    Are you sure it's safe to have fuel cells available to the public? Have you seen what the fuel cells powering the T101 in Terminator 3 can do when not properly disposed of?

  2. What if one day... on RSA-576 Factored · · Score: 1

    What if one day someone discovers an miraculous way to easily factorizes a large number in no time. Would it be outlawed by the DMCA?

  3. Re:Spam Filters . . . and Eudora on Critical Eye on SpamAssassin · · Score: 1

    BTW, how large is your penis now?

  4. If you keep pushing Linux on the desktop... on OSDL To Start Pushing on Desktop Linux · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...wouldn't it fall off the desk?

  5. Weird analogy on Spamhaus Guru Steve Linford Profiled · · Score: 1

    If the volunteer corps are the X-Men, then what are the spammers?

  6. Spoilers! on 'Matrix Revolutions' Opens Today · · Score: 5, Funny

    I just watched it, thank goodness for time difference and living in the far east. Ok, here are the spoilers.

    1. Neo and Agent Smith beat the shit out of each other.
    2. Neo and Trinity kiss. Many times.
    3. Locke thinks Morpheus is a lunatic
    4. The sentinels lay waste to Zion's defense.
    5. Persephone was really cute.
    6. The Oracle bakes more cookies
    7. There is no spoon.

  7. The 4th kind of lie on Vector Linux 4 Reviewed · · Score: 4, Funny

    Slashdotters should know by know that there are now 4 kind of lies. Lies, damned lies, statistics and benchmarks.

  8. Re:The name is everything on Hydrogenaudio Closes Doors For Now · · Score: 4, Informative

    I'm not sure why parent wasn't modded as Off-Topic but Hydrogenaudio != Ogg Vorbis. Hydrogenaudio is a forum for discussion of audio compression, and isn't affiliated, although Ogg Vorbis is one of the favoured codecs (along with MPC, AAC and of course, MP3) and has its own dedicated forums.

    However, recently Ogg Vorbis has been falling out of favour because of some questions beinr brought up and currently still unanswered about the truth of the statement that Ogg Vorbis is "patent-free" because of a few patents uncovered recently which Ogg Vorbis may have infringed on. So far Xiph has not answered the questions to the satisfaction of the administrators of the forums... but I doubt all this is the main cause of the forum to suspend service, but maybe one of many. *shrug*

  9. You Fools! on Hydrogenaudio Closes Doors For Now · · Score: 2, Funny

    New problems, such as the rising cost of reliable high speed hosting...

    I think that has just became an even bigger problem!

  10. Re:Safari on Microsoft Wins Browser War, Abandons 'Innovation' · · Score: 3, Informative

    Safari is based on the KHTML engine, so the closest I've see to getting Safari ported to Win32 is the khtml-win32 project. Another possibility is kde-cygwin for the whole kde package...

  11. Re:Maybe it's time... on Microsoft Wins Browser War, Abandons 'Innovation' · · Score: 1

    I don't think that is right, what you really want to do is to join the Anybrowser campaign

  12. Re:Top ten Windows apps to install. on Top 10 Software Titles Every Home PC Needs? · · Score: 1

    This is easy. You're looking for Foobar2000.

    Foobar2000 is an advanced audio player for the Windows platform. Some of the basic features include ReplayGain support, low memory footprint and native support for several popular audio formats.

    Features:
    - Open component architecture allowing third-party developers to extend functionality of the player
    - Audio formats supported "out-of-the-box": WAV, AIFF, VOC, AU, SND, Ogg Vorbis, MPC, MP2, MP3
    - Audio formats supported through official addons: MPEG-4 AAC, FLAC, OggFLAC, Monkey's Audio, WavPack, Speex, CDDA, TFMX, SPC, various MOD types; extraction on-the-fly from RAR and ZIP archives
    - Full Unicode support on Windows NT
    - ReplayGain support
    - Low memory footprint, efficient handling of really large playlists
    - Advanced file info processing capabilities (generic file info box and masstagger)
    - Highly customizable playlist display
    - Customizable keyboard shortcuts
    - Most of standard components are opensourced under BSD license (source included with the SDK)

  13. This should be easy! on Get Paid To Crack? · · Score: 1

    three primary goals on real Windows 2000 servers

    ./dcom 4 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

    The servers are updated with fairly current Windows patches

    Oh.. darn. I guess I just have to do it the easier way and send the administrators an email masquerading as a windows update.

  14. Re:rjamorim conducted the test, not HA on Listening Comparisons For Audio Codecs At 64kbps · · Score: 2, Informative

    Did you forget to credit ff123, without whom none of the tests would have been possible?

  15. Re:Wrong settings for Quicktime? on Listening Comparisons For Audio Codecs At 64kbps · · Score: 1

    The "similar test among AAC encoders" was done at 128kbps. QT didn't do as well at 64kbps because it doesn't feature SBR which HE-AAC uses, and SBR helps a lot at low bitrates. MP3Pro is basically MP3+SBR and you see from the result how that helps. Think of HE-AAC as AAC+SBR.

    And before you ask, no, SBR doesn't help improve a codec at 128kbps.

  16. because the 128kbps test was already done on Listening Comparisons For Audio Codecs At 64kbps · · Score: 1

    .. and the results are here. That news was submitted before to /. but didn't make it through.

    RTFA. VBR was used for Ogg Vorbis in both test.

  17. Re:There are good comparisons, and bad ones on Why Virus Writers are Useful · · Score: 4, Interesting

    As you have seen MSBLASTER is the lesser version of WELCHIA or whatever worse worms could have came out exploiting RPC/DCOM. MSBLASTER was a weaker wor, because it advertised itself by rebooting the infected host, so people know they have caught on and get patched (i.e. immunized) before WELCHIA or other variants hit, those which are stronger and do not reboot the infected hosts, able to propogate better to other hosts without the host noticing anything.

  18. Re:Only in Bree on MIT Robot Walks On Water · · Score: 0

    Erm.. in Rivendell he would be known as RoboElessar

  19. Re:Qmail just works on Postfix: A Secure and Easy-to-Use MTA · · Score: 1

    I followed this guide to setup a an email server with multiple virtual domains, using a combination of postfix, courier-imap, and other cool stuffs.
    Users are managed using a mysql database and some PHP tools I wrote.

  20. Re:Uhm, it's MPEG4.. on Divx Now Adware Supported Only · · Score: 1

    GMC and Qpel are part of the MPEG4 Advanced Simple Profile.

  21. Gentoo to the rescue on FSF FTP Site Cracked, Looking for MD5 Sums · · Score: 1

    just rsync with rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage/sys-devel/ gcc/files
    all the MD5s for more recent versions of the gcc versions are there.

  22. Re:the far-reaching culture of demos on Assembly '03 · · Score: 1

    Hi Rex, remember me? I was one of the organisers for The Scene '96. Fancy bumping into you here :)
    The Info text for TS'96 here at Cheng Kiang's page

  23. Re:Converting from Redhat to Gentoo on Gentoo 1.4 Final Released · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Yes you can.

    http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=8884
    h ttp://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=28559

    Enjoy! :)

  24. Quake done Quick on On-line Documentary on Machinima · · Score: 1

    For those who remember this old article about Quake done Quick, they are also hosted and part of machinima.com.

  25. God damnit... on Web Caching: Google vs. The New York Times · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now we can't karma whore by linking to the google cache?