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  1. Re:But the license does NOT ban profit on Ebay Shop Scrapes Thingiverse, Sells Designs In Violation of Creative Commons (all3dp.com) · · Score: 1

    It wouldn't be very hard for them to run the same business in a compliant manner. They could charge just for the printing service and require the consumer to download the files directly from thingaverse them upload them to the seller.

  2. Have the actually verified the Volunteers... on Over 1000 Volunteers For 'Suicide' Mission To Mars · · Score: 5, Funny

    I wouldn't be surprised if lots of guys didn't just volunteer their ex-wives.

  3. Re:Just buy new hardware! (NOT) on OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) Won't Support Some 64-bit Macs With Older GPUs · · Score: 2

    You really should get something more modern, may I suggest an MGB?

  4. Re:two suggestions on Ask Slashdot: Mirrorless, Interchangeable Lens Camera Advice? · · Score: 1

    The mirror less Sony Olympus have the same size sensors as the consumer SLR's they make take. In addition they can more or less take the same glass with an adapter. It is a massive benefit being so much smaller, my Olympus Pen EPL2 fits in a pocket, especially with the 21mm pancake lens.. The end result is a camera that leaves the house more often. As for paying a little more for an SLR, well they cost about the same because they only give up the mirror, ie doesn't cost less to manufacture.

  5. Re:two suggestions on Ask Slashdot: Mirrorless, Interchangeable Lens Camera Advice? · · Score: 1

    I have the Olympus, very nice Camera and takes wonderful pictures. However I would buy the Sony if I was buying a camera today. Better in low light, and much cheaper lenses due to compatibility with legacy Minolta stuff. Avoid the Nikon, it has awful reviews....

  6. Re:Sickening on Griefers Assault Epileptics Via Message Board · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately I don't have mod points to repair the wrong. But whomeever modded your post "flamebait" should have their account deleted.

  7. Re:Virgin UK using it for years on Virgin America Uses Linux to Entertain Inflight · · Score: 1

    I disagree. Remember that there are file servers and seat back computers, they could be running different distros. They could have slightly different setups in different planes. Second of all, Fedora and RHEL/RHED are quite different. Fedora is more bleeding edge, RH is more carefully tested and is fully supported. Your analogy of a parent brand vs its product is a little off. Fedora is its own brand even if it is developed by and sharing tech with Redhat, think a mix of "Ford and Mercury". Even if VA was only using one or the other, he found a nice way to credit both parent company and project in the press.

    Could Jesus microwave a burrito so hot that he himself could not eat it?

  8. hmmm.... on What Would You Do As President? · · Score: 1

    I think I would sleep with two woman.... If I were president I think i could make that happen....

  9. Re:restricted extras on Dell Linux Details · · Score: 1

    Everyone makes a huge deal about DVD Playback, but the truth is I have probably only watched one or two dvd movies on a computer in the last ten years. Most users probably don't even know they can watch a dvd on a computer. Lack of MP3 and windows media codecs is probably more of a problem for most users.

  10. Re:Good for them! on US University Dumps Windows to go All Mac · · Score: 1

    I think they should have gone with Amiga or Acorn... LOL

  11. Re:Global warming beat us there on Enormous Amount of Frozen Water Found on Mars · · Score: 1

    People people, no need to argue.... We can send all the politicians. And maybe the lawyers too. And the Televangelists. And the RIAA. and Dane Cook...

  12. Re:Cool project on ReactOS 0.3.1 Released · · Score: 1

    Actually Compaq did not reverse engineer the hardware of the IBM PC. IBM used fairly common standard components in order to speed development. They were already x86 computers using similar parts to the IBM. However they were not compatible. Compaq reversed engineered the bios which allowed for full software compatibility. Compaq was also extraordinarily careful to cover their legal asses. They used two teams of engineers who had never laid eyes on a PC. One team measured BIOS outputs to different inputs, the other team took those measurements and designed another bios that produced the same results. IBM would have like to sue, but Compaq carefully documented the entire process.

  13. Re:Nice to see them plugging ahead on ReactOS 0.3.1 Released · · Score: 1

    It is unlikely that you will find an application that will work on ReactOS that dos not work on wine or vice versa. Both projects share API code and research. Compiling ReactOS for other architectures other than 64bit x86 extensions would be doable but fairly useless as windows application binaries wouldn't work on it. For example, Linux runs happily on powerpc, macromedia has a flash plug in for Linux, but it will not run on my Linux ppc box, because it is compiled for Linux x86.

    While I was excited in the early days of ReactOS, actually the NT kernel is fairly advanced, I am less so now. There isn't a single windows application that hasn't been ported or I haven't found a Linux substitute for that I need. Linux, with it's source based structure and applications offers a flexibility NT can't come close too.

    I could see a fork of the project where they put CYGWIN and X on top of the React kernel and dump the whole concept of full binary compatibility with windows (a lot of the simpler things that already work should still work). Then bring over the GNU tools and you could port just about any Linux app or window manager to it. Essentially it would give you another GNU distribution with a different kernel. Should have pretty good performance too.

    simple thoughts from a simple mind...

  14. Free as In Beer on Irish Company Claims Free Energy · · Score: 1

    You have all misunderstood the word free, they don't mean energy is created from nothing, in some physics defying propietary patented method that RMS would disapprove. Instead they have created a pair of boxers that captures and harnesses the energy of beer farts, especially useful in Ireland.

  15. Re:Cheap, but not cheap enough. on The $899 Educational iMac · · Score: 1

    Your dead wrong. Has you actually listened to a dell in the last couple of years. Dell's are whisper quiet, many Macs actually have fairly loud fans.

  16. Re:I beg to differ on Real RFID Hacking Scenarios · · Score: 1

    Do it once to a girl you know, you are not predator. Starting hanging out in the shower and doing it to random girls on a regular basis than there is something wrong with you.

  17. Re:Piracy means what again? on Faking a Company · · Score: 1

    I pirated your wife last week in the motel by the airport......

  18. Re:The Art of Design is truly dying on Store Your Own Juice · · Score: 1

    The pentium-embedded is probably what they are using. The current draw is roughly 4W at full load. To put that in prospective a P4 can draw up to 120W. While the pentium embedded is not terribly frugal for its performance, other chips such as VIA's and the Geode's which a highly integrated (chipset components on the die) using smaller dies and there are very effiecent risc designs are much better per watt. The chips power comsumption is basically nil when compared to the size of the system. There is probably a 60w light bulb over your head, this system will run a whole house of them for hours so 4W is relatively insignificant. This system was probably several years in devolopment, it appears to origonally been design to control banks of solar panels so the peak off peak storage was just a bonus, the pentium may have been the best option then. Intel guarantees product and platform available for a very long time. As for running .net and windows I highly doubt it , it is much likely to run linux, pure machine code, or a RTOS.

  19. Re:Substituion Cipher? on Mafia Boss Using Crook Crypto Captured · · Score: 1

    I believe the Italian alphabet is 22 letters not 26, so you would end up with ROT-4.

  20. Re:"Ugly" can be very subjective. on The Surprising Truth About Ugly Websites · · Score: 1

    Yeah. Some of them are quite nice in real life. Lotta bad pictures though.

    I did a search for girls with 25 miles of me, pretty awful. Maybe your location is better than mine.

    Somebody needs to explain to the site owner why sending a login and password by email is clear text is a bad idea though. He doesn't get it.

    That is not so important to on site such as that. All the personal information is public anyway. However he should make it clear that the password is not secure and that users should not use the same password for this site as they do for their bank or something.

  21. Re:"Ugly" can be very subjective. on The Surprising Truth About Ugly Websites · · Score: 1

    Have you seen the members?

  22. Re:Alpha on Intel and HP Commit $10 billion to Boost Itanium · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Couldn't agree more. Alpha was a great platform leaps and bounds above any of it's contemporaries in terms of speed. They were running at 125mhz when pentium 66mhz came out and got more done per cycle. The Compaq DEC merger hurt it badly, then the HP Compaq merger killed it. Itanic has always been a ponderous mess. Had Alpha gotten one tenth the R/D budget that Itanium got it would be server king.. Itanium (please don't try to prove me wrong with benchmarks) gets wiped by Power and Sparc, will die a lame duck kicking and screaming death.

    Could Jesus microwave a burrito so hot that he himself could not eat it?

  23. Re:Carbon Fiber? on New VAIOs Made of Carbon Fiber · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm ordering mine with a wing and a Type-R sicker.

  24. Look Out!!! on Armed Dolphins Released Into Gulf of Mexico · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It's giant dolphin with Rabies!

  25. As they left... on Armed Dolphins Released Into Gulf of Mexico · · Score: 5, Funny

    Somebody heard them say

    "So long and thanks for all the fish"