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  1. Re:Worlds largets vs TFA on Airship Inflated To Create Monster "Stratellite" · · Score: 1

    I suspect they mean the worlds largest current airship.

  2. Waiting for this? on Nero Files Antitrust Complaint Against MPEG-LA · · Score: 1

    I wonder if Nero AG had been waiting for a ruling on software patents in their homeland before deciding to move on this.

    Anything that takes down MPEG-LA seems like a good thing IMO. Software patents must die.

  3. Re:They missed one... on The Secret of Monkey Island Shows Evolution of PC Audio · · Score: 1

    Heh just like Quake 1, and Return To Zork CD Edition

  4. Re:To be fixed in a future Firefox version on 76% of Web Users Affected By Browser History Stealing · · Score: 1

    ... or just have the browser download the image regardless and then decide whether it needs to display it.

  5. Re:Press release in english on The Pirate Bay Sinks And Swims · · Score: 1

    How much do you trust the copyright office to preserve your copyrighted work, and make archival copies as media degrades?

  6. Brute force, huh? on 76% of Web Users Affected By Browser History Stealing · · Score: 1

    This page picked up two references to youtube in my history:

    http://www.youtube.com/
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHzdsFiBbFc (it's the spider on drugs that /. drew to my attention a long time ago)

    If this is a brute-force dictionary attack, then this guy really has too much time on his hands.

  7. Re:1984 on Texas Schools Board Rewriting US History · · Score: 1

    I don't think you've really thought leftist ideas through.

    High taxation == more government power. Restricting access to information. Killing dissenters. Mandatory birth control. China. Stalin.

    THAT is the logical conclusion to a country run by a far-leftist party.

  8. Re:Aspect ratio? on Trailer For Blender Open Movie Sintel Ready · · Score: 1

    The movie will be in a 2.35:1 ratio but the picture is encoded as 16:9 (~1.78:1), hence the black bars. This is the correct size for viewing such content on a 16:9 TV or projector.

  9. Re:End of Firefox? on Firefox With H.264 HTML 5 Support = Wild Fox · · Score: 2, Insightful

    X.Org/XFree86?

  10. Re:This isn't a bad thing on Hacking Automotive Systems · · Score: 1

    No, no no!

    Unless you are a major automotive manufacturer, then it is no longer "your" car, and with these new security systems all your diagnostic equipment is useless.

  11. Re:XPSP2? on Microsoft Kills Support For XP SP2 · · Score: 1

    I do like how Windows XP, possibly the most pirated Windows of all time, has build number 2600.

    It just seems appropriate somehow.

  12. Re:So what? on Microsoft Kills Support For XP SP2 · · Score: 1

    The fact that MS never released it for x86_64

  13. Re:"interest Groups" on AU R18+ Rating Plans Put On Hold Due To "Interest Groups" · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Lazy parents huh?

    And how, exactly, is a parent supposed to know whether a given game is safe for little Jimmy to play? Play the first two levels themselves? Perhaps it's not until the fourth level that the dismemberment and graphic porn starts.

    One rather simplified example of violent BS in a kid-appealing wrapper: Happy Tree Friends.

    I fail to see how anyone could regard R18+ labels as anything other than a _good_ thing. If people want gore and smut, they can hunt those labels out. The rest of us can avoid them. Sounds like win-win.

  14. Re:Android Speech Recognition Rules on Rest In Peas — the Death of Speech Recognition · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... so its voice recognition works about as well as that of the average American then? ;)

  15. Cod am pizza ship on Rest In Peas — the Death of Speech Recognition · · Score: 2, Funny
  16. Re:Favourite? hardly, it's awful on IT Crowd (UK) Coming Back For Season 4 · · Score: 1

    I have talked to people who don't like Red Dwarf because they cannot understand what is being said, mostly because they only hired one actor, Chris Barrie, for the show.

    And of course, the Scotsman obsessed with money is an rather old joke, as well as the geek who gets bullied.

    You've never actually watched Red Dwarf, have you?

  17. Re:Well, given the tons spam from that region on Russian Company Buys ICQ · · Score: 1

    That may be so, but nearly all ICQ spam I receive contains links to websites ending with .ru

  18. If this is actually from Jobs... on Steve Jobs Hints At Theora Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    ...then any remaining arguments against Apple being pure evil (right up there with Microsoft) have just evaporated.

    This has been known for quite some time, but the reality distortion field appears to have prevented some people (not just the raving fanboys) from seeing it.

  19. Re:pirates provide better product on Avatar Blu-Ray DRM Issues · · Score: 1

    Seen on /. recently, I think this flowchart is appropriate.

    Print it out on colour A3 and put it on noriceboards around your school, university, etc.

  20. Re:No matter on Avatar Blu-Ray DRM Issues · · Score: 1

    Tron 2 and the latest Star Trek movie are, of course, "They made it on a computer." ... and shone flashlights from off-camera into the dirty lens.

  21. Re:Pretty *Bogus* Privacy on Symantec To Acquire PGP and GuardianEdge · · Score: 1

    Until you come to realise that, with all that expensive computing power and data mining algorithms, they can happily fry you, your neighbours and the big fish in the same pan.

  22. Re:pulse, flash, java on Ubuntu Linux 10.04 Review (Lucid Lynx) · · Score: 1

    Quick tip: Adobe Flash 10.1 plays Youtube video much better than the official 10.0, both on Windows and Linux. My humble Athlon CPU now sits at about 80-90% instead of a constant 100%, and playback isn't choppy.

    Sadly no AMD64 build yet, so non-i386 users are still stuck with 10.0 for now.

  23. Re:Except... on Ubuntu Linux 10.04 Review (Lucid Lynx) · · Score: 1

    Well, being able to spell "kernel" for one would be a start...

    (I kid, I kid)

  24. Re:Oh, yeah! I remember that one! on Microsoft Signs Android Patent Deal With HTC · · Score: 1

    If HTC are Lando and Microsoft are the Empire then I suggest that would make Apple the Trade Federation.

    Timeline? What timeline?

  25. Re:Airplanes on The Mystery of the Mega-Selling Floppy Disk · · Score: 1

    My experience is that although floppy disks are much less reliable than CDs, the opposite is true for the DRIVES. Dirty floppy drive heads can often be cleaned with a cleaning disk with good success. Lens cleaners *might* occasionally work on CD drives, in the rare instance the problem is actually a dirty lens. Drive motors seem to have rather tight tolerances these days, and once a laser diode has gone out of its calibration range it's bye bye drive.