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  1. Milking videos are WMV. on Tux Can Even Milk Cows! · · Score: 1

    So this milking machine runs linux but you can't view the videos if your a linux user???
    Someone needs to contact these butt munchers and ask them to have a chat with there webmaster.
    If the vids were mpg, everyone could view without issues.

  2. Re:How about gaseous molecules in neutral form on Company Claims Patent Over XML · · Score: 3, Funny


    >>> Methane - .0002%

    I'll patent air with Methane > 5%
    Anyone who produces this will owe me an ass-load of money.

  3. Re:I doubt it. on TiVo Buries the VCR · · Score: 1

    Everyone "I" know has both.
    A DVD player for rentals and VCR for recording "Lost".
    I think someone is intentionally underestimating the number of VCRs.

  4. Re:Trillian on It's Time To Take Back Instant Messaging · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yep, and the same thing happened with documents, hence OpenDocument format might save the day. Unfortunatly, Microsoft is doing the same shit with the WMV format. It is closed and encrypted and only works on proprietary systems. This was sole purpose for this was to swqeeze FOSS out. Folk are making home video with webcams and don't realise that they are making "closed" movies. It's very sad that the monopolistic behavior is not being stopped.

  5. Re:Key word is Consignment on States Planning to Require License to Sell on EBay · · Score: 1

    > I think this is a good idea.

      I think It's a GREAT idea for the actioneers to be bonded and certified and stuff. Seeing how Ebay is the actioneer and I'm just letting Ebay auction the item for me these greedy bastards looking for a quick $35 + $5000 (times the number of ebay'ers) for nothing will only get one payment from Ebay which covers the only actioneer involved in the transactions.
    (holy run-on sentence!)
      This idea obviously came from one of the backwards redneck states.

  6. The SCO Group website... on Nitpicking Wikipedia's Vulnerabilities · · Score: 1

    is not a wiki. Does that make the information you find there credible at all?

    Although it is amature, It's better than many google results where all you get are people trying to sell you the things you want to learn about.

    for example:
      GOOGLE "light"
    result (right hand column)
      www.ebay.com, Great deals on light!
    Seems ebay now sells light. Do they sell it by the particle and charge more for fashonable wavelengths? Perhaps I'll buy gallon drum of light.

    You can always count on the sponsored ad from ebay to sound amusing.

  7. Re:How do tech-savvy people view Wikipedia?" on Nitpicking Wikipedia's Vulnerabilities · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Ok, what cockbag didn't mark that funny?

  8. Re:If there's one thing worse on DARPA Grand Challenge 2005 · · Score: 1

    Actually, we shouldn't get lured into helping the federation with the war machines until they loosen up on the "FBI over VoIP" and bit-torrent crap. Give Americans thier freedom back and Americans will help built the killing machines of tommorow. Don't get me wrong, I like killing just as much as the next guy but remember, we are trying to preserve our way of life which includes freedom and privacy. Get your priorities right.
    PS- I'm drunk.

  9. Re:They could name it.. on Revolution GunCon Concepts · · Score: 1

    >Screw the Ducks, Shoot the Dog.

    Looks like multiple PeTA violations here. oh, and the FBI is cracking down on deviant porn so don't take pictures of the duck activity.

  10. a day late... on A Boxless Industry - Digital Downloads · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Sure, act like we haven't been downloading games since the 80's. Sharing games via Pirate BBS pre-dates music sharing on the internet by a long shot.

  11. Re:Competition driving innovation on Under the Hood of Office 12 · · Score: 1

    My workplace, a 16B per year food and candy manufacturer (think 4th rock from sun) thinks Office 97 on W2K is just peachy. Fine with me, I go home to a pair of boxen.

  12. Re:decoy lenses on New System to Counter Photo and Video Devices · · Score: 1

    Large pieces of retroreflective tape on all your friends cloths?

  13. Re:What About Shielding? on New System to Counter Photo and Video Devices · · Score: 1

    >You mean like with a lens cap?

    No, with a polarizing filter.
      This "invention" may just be sending out polarized light (in pulses for ambient subtraction).

    The detector would look for unpolarized pulses returning from the retroreflector (camera lense).
    Or a ratio change relative to the polarised light reaching a "calibrator" sensor VS. the unpolarized light reaching the main sensor.

    A polarizer would both block polarized light from reaching the camera lense AND polarize the light that retroreflects off the lense. As I said in a previous post, this may require a pair of polarizers crossed at just the right angle along with slower shutter speed.

  14. Re:Infrared filters! on New System to Counter Photo and Video Devices · · Score: 1

    Perhaps a flat glass polarizer over the camera lense. Light that retro-reflects off the lense will be polarized, most of which will not pass back through the polarizer.
      I'm thinkin a pair af polarizing filters crossed at a 45 degree angle should filter most light let alone any polarized light. Just jack up the exposure time to make up for the attenuation. (and stand very still).

  15. Re:LOL on Hydrogen Generating Module to Help Your Car? · · Score: 1

    The EPA has evaluated: Analube Synthetic Lubricant
    Analube? you have GOT to be kidding?! :D

  16. Re:It's the thought that counts on Statically Charged Man Ignites Office · · Score: 1

    Someone call tha fashion police. Every one knows you don't wear nylon over wool.

  17. Pay Cut? on IBM Training Employees To Leave IBM? · · Score: 1

    My girlfriend makes over $90k per year teaching public school 7th graders in a town just outside of philadelphia (and she is hot). :)
      I realize this is an enigma to the average slashdotter.

  18. Re: Yes, It runs GNU/linux on 6.8GHz 1TB RAM and 2TB HDD Laptop? · · Score: 1
    All you need to know is that 32-bit Windows XP only supports 16 gigs of RAM and this claims to have 1 terabyte of RAM.

    It runs linux too in case you don't like being limited and encumbered.

  19. Wrong problem on PayPal to Offer Micropayments · · Score: 3, Funny

    Maybe noboby wants to sell anything for a penny.

  20. Re: Sounds like slashdot, no? on Fuddruckers Called Out on Hotlinking · · Score: 1

    Clarification,
      I'm not suggesting that slashdot caused a problem.

      The event was described as "Company A linked to company B, Causing company B strife."
      This is identical (enough) to a slashdot effect, Therefore, slashdotters have no right to (hypocritically) take offense to simular actions.
    (although I'm sure someone out there will exercise thier right to argue the fine details of this.)

    I didn't mean to suggest that slashdot was directly responsible.

  21. Re: Sounds like slashdot, no? on Fuddruckers Called Out on Hotlinking · · Score: 3, Funny
    a major company such as [who ever], with countless hits per day, linking like this to a site, without even notifying the site to verify if they have the bandwidth available,

    The fuddrucker effect?

  22. Re:It's *not* rocket science, guys... on Alternative Browsers Impede Investigations · · Score: 1

    >if a suspect's computer happens to run Linux.

    Wait till they find out that we hid the C: drive from them. ...and with the fifth ammendment I don't have to tell them where I put it.
    (hint: It's in an AES512 encrypted reiserfs drive.)
    Gotta protect that resume.

  23. Re:Don't be fooled. on Unilever Ditches Global IT Linux Migration · · Score: 1

    So MS will charge Unilever 5x what their crap is worth instead of the usual 20x that all the dolts pay.

  24. Re:I wonder. on Unilever Ditches Global IT Linux Migration · · Score: 4, Funny

    > think it's a bit childish to crave other people telling you how they like something you like.

    Agreed. Let's put an end to Playboy, Rolling Stone, Getting laid, Sportscasters, Prepaired food, Money, Thongs, Name brand TV, videocards...etc.

    Anything that gets popular by word of mouth needs to go.

  25. Re:Complement not Compliment on File System Forensic Analysis · · Score: 1

    Score is zero because there is no (+5, Dick)