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  1. Reminds me of That Mitchell and Webb Look sketch on The Story Behind National Reconnaissance Office's Octopus Logo (muckrock.com) · · Score: 1
    • Second Nazi: Have you noticed that our caps actually have little pictures of skulls on them?
    • Hans: I don't... er-
    • Second Nazi: Hans... are we the baddies?

    http://thatmitchellandwebb.wik...

  2. Re: I'll bite on Microsoft Releases PowerShell DSC For Linux · · Score: 2

    find . -type f -user root -ctime +7 -print0 | xargs -r -0 grep -l "blah" | xargs -r tar cvzf blah.tar.gz

  3. Re:Start your own on Ask Slashdot: Getting Hired As a Self-Taught Old Guy? · · Score: 1
  4. Re:Easy Solution on Fingerprint Scanners Still Easy to Fool · · Score: 1

    However, I hate to think that people other than the tinfoil hat crowd would be so concerned about fingerprints that they would wear gloves all the time.

    Yeah, it gets way too hot wearing gloves all the time. That's why I cut the skin of my fingertips off with a scapel once a month (Se7en was such an educating movie).
  5. More info on the BBC project website on More On The BBC's Codec 'Dirac' · · Score: 1

    There is more info available (including some documentation of the algorithm) on the BBC's Dirac page

  6. Doesn't PG allow this though? on Project Gutenberg 2 Raises Some Hackles · · Score: 3, Interesting
    From a PG Etext
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    You may distribute copies of this etext electronically, or by disk, book or any other medium if you either delete this "Small Print!" and all other references to Project Gutenberg,

    or:

    [1] Only give exact copies of it. Among other things, this requires that you do not remove, alter or modify the etext or this "small print!" statement. You may however, if you wish, distribute this etext in machine readable binary, compressed, mark-up, or proprietary form, including any form resulting from conversion by word processing or hypertext software, but only so long as *EITHER*:

    [*] The etext, when displayed, is clearly readable, and does *not* contain characters other than those intended by the author of the work, although tilde (~), asterisk (*) and underline (_) characters may be used to convey punctuation intended by the author, and additional characters may be used to indicate hypertext links; OR

    [*] The etext may be readily converted by the reader at no expense into plain ASCII, EBCDIC or equivalent form by the program that displays the etext (as is the case, for instance, with most word processors);

    OR

    [*] You provide, or agree to also provide on request at no additional cost, fee or expense, a copy of the etext in its original plain ASCII form (or in EBCDIC or other equivalent proprietary form).

    [2] Honor the etext refund and replacement provisions of this "Small Print!" statement.

    [3] Pay a trademark license fee to the Project of 20% of the net profits you derive calculated using the method you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. If you don't derive profits, no royalty is due. Royalties are payable to "Project Gutenberg Association/Carnegie-Mellon University" within the 60 days following each date you prepare (or were legally required to prepare) your annual (or equivalent periodic) tax return.
    IANAL, but doesn't this allow them to use the name provided they pay the original Project Gutenberg 20% of their profits? Or am I missing something...
  7. pearljambootlegs.com on Instant Concert CDs? · · Score: 1

    Pearl Jam are offering a similar service for their next tour via their website pearljambootlegs.com where you purchase the album online and then can download the MP3s of the concert the next day and they'll send you the CD shortly after. A bit better in my opinion as it gives them time to properly master the CD version but still lets you hear it virtually straight away via the MP3s.

  8. Re:The Mouse gestures are great on Opera 6.0 for Linux Released · · Score: 1

    There used to be a shareware program called Sensiva that added gesture support to all windows programs, even allowing you to customize your own gestures. However, new Sensiva products seem to have become more and more bloated with all sorts of irrelevant features and are a lot more restrictive than the older versions :(