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  1. Re:Survival on Dinosaurs Died Within Hours of Asteroid Impact, says New Study · · Score: 1

    I'll sell ya some ELE (extinction level event) insurance for just 1000$ a year! If life gets wiped off the planet you get your money back!

  2. Re:Correct me if I'm wrong. on Dinosaurs Died Within Hours of Asteroid Impact, says New Study · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Everything in science is a theory. The "asteroid impact" idea has a lot to back it up however since there are some realy big craters on this ball of mud we call home. Check out the 170 km one at the Yucatan Peninsula.

  3. Re:I don't understand... on Cellphone as Virtual Mouse, Keyboard · · Score: 1

    I call it "Japanese Schoolgirl Technology". The US market is not the main one for this stuff.

  4. Re:Yeah but... on Sneak Preview of VIA's next-gen mini-ITX mobo · · Score: 4, Informative
  5. Re:It's not the noise made by the fans... on BYU Project to Silence Computer Fans · · Score: 1
    "If only someone could suppress the disk noise.."

    A ballpen hammer will do the trick. But I know what you mean, my systems tend to have at least a three drive RAID in em. My co worker keeps going on about how I should get a MINI-ITX based system because you can run them fanless. He just dosn't seem to get that I cant hear the fans over the hard disks.

  6. Re:Civ would've made school more interesting on Teaching History In Schools With Video Games · · Score: 4, Funny

    Then your teacher could explain how that huy with the spear took out a stealth bomber. You know, just like what heppened in history.

  7. Re:Simple on The Economics of Executing Virus Writers · · Score: 0, Troll

    Without capital punishment, we'd have no Easter.

  8. The real question is... on Napster Canada Launched · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The real question is, will they have William Shatners albums available for download?

  9. Re:why do it? on Napster Canada Launched · · Score: 1

    Why would someone pay to "rent" a movie?
    Why would someone pay to "rent" a car?
    Why would someone pay to "rent" a house?
    Why would someone pay to "rent" beer (I'm pretty sure some of the bars I've been to recollect it once I'm done)?

  10. Just freakin great. on Camera Vans To Photograph 50 Million Buildings · · Score: 4, Funny

    "When viewed from this angle, all the bare ass cheeks pressed against the windows spell out SCO SUCKS".

  11. Re:And so we move to anonymous networks... eg.Free on 'Pirate Act' Would Shift Copyright Civil Suits To DoJ · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I do not support Freenet because I don't support child pornography and software piracy (since I write software for a living it would be rather hypocritical of me to do so) and last I checked, that's what Freenet is primarily used for. People should not be free to exchange information in any manor they chose. This has been established legally and ethically for quite some time now. If you don't like paying for a product, don?t buy it. Your dislike of some things cost or its controlling party (RIAA, MPAA, Microsoft etc) does not give you the ethical right to take it without permission. If you RELALY believe in the free exchange of information, then take the moral high ground and post publicly EVERYTHING about your self. This includes bank account data, where you live, your sexual preference etc. In addition stop collecting a paycheck since you seem to think that no one else should be compensated for their time and work (after all, time isn't real so it cant be stolen. Just like that new CD you really want but won't pay for).

  12. Re:Coincidently on Japanese Digital TV Viewers Complain About DRM Restrictions · · Score: 1

    My bad, was trying to be ironic without enough caffine in my blood. I'll drink a Jolt and try again later.

  13. Re:Coincidently on Japanese Digital TV Viewers Complain About DRM Restrictions · · Score: 2, Informative

    Suprnova.org has a round robin DNS setup. So depending on when you connect you get a diferent server. Some are in other countries and are setup in a diferent language. Not 100% sure thats what you saw, but thats how its setup.

  14. Re:Its like.... magic hardware. on Open Source Hotspots · · Score: 1

    The author said you "you don't even need to spend the dough for an Access Point". This is wrong. Even if you allready have a computer you can use, it still cost "dough". Just because your running Linux does not make the rest of the computer free. If people where saying that you could run an access point off of Windows without buying any hardware, they would in fact be insane zellots.

  15. Re:Its like.... magic hardware. on Open Source Hotspots · · Score: 1

    So we're now calling two computers that can talk via WiFi a "hot spot"?

  16. Its like.... magic hardware. on Open Source Hotspots · · Score: 5, Insightful
    "Did you realize that you don't even need to spend the dough for an Access Point? - standard Linux routing is enough to create your own access point"

    Please explain how Linux software and transmit data via a wireless network without any hardware. While that sure would be a neat trick, I'm going to have to file this under the "you dont need to spend 90$ on a wireless acess point! Just spend 300$ on a computer, 50$ on a WAN card and install Linux for FREE!!!" brand of zealotry.

  17. Beware the French..... on Shrek 2 How-To · · Score: 4, Informative

    There are several CGI movies comming out of France that look to blow away anything done in the US to date.

  18. And this is new? on DVD Player Displays 2D Movies in 3D · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I worked on a system like this for broadcast TV and VHS tapes back in the mid '90s. Consumers didn't want stereoscopic 3D then and I doubt they want it now.

  19. AMD is starting to make my head hurt... on AMD Stirs Athlon Into Geode Embedded Soup · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Ok, check me on this. "The Geode NX 1500@6W processor operates at 1GHz and the Geode NX 1750@14W operates at 1.4GHz." However, 1500 x 1.4 (since the 1500 is 1Ghz and the 1750 is 1.4Ghz) = 2100. So shouldn't the 1750 be the 2100, or are they no longer trying to be even internally consistent?

  20. Re:How to keep the signs up. on First-Ever Private Spaceport Nears Final Approval · · Score: 1

    Do you realy think that if Apple posted all the iTunes content direct on the web but then ASKED people to not download it but instead go to the iTunes store and buy it, that they would?

  21. Re:What are they going to do? on First-Ever Private Spaceport Nears Final Approval · · Score: 1
    "And who says that civilians can not do science in space? There is a lot of science that has not yet been done by NASA, so you can expect many of the initial customers to be from universities and private research labs."

    Like studying the effects of too much Pop Rocks, Pepsi and burritos consumed by an overweight man in zero gravity.

  22. Re:How to keep the signs up. on First-Ever Private Spaceport Nears Final Approval · · Score: 4, Funny
    "Print notice on the back of the ones on the road that reasonably-priced souvenirs are available at the office or by mail-order at (x) for ($y)"

    What a great idea, people would never take something for free when they can just buy it someplace else!

  23. Re:People just don't care. on North American Corporate Privacy Comparison · · Score: 4, Funny

    I have two Safeway Club cards. One has the wrong user information on it, so they can't track squat. The other has my real data on it, but its only used when I buy condoms and sour cream.

  24. Re:Cool, but effective? on Snort up For Revamp, says Creator · · Score: 5, Insightful
    "If a policy says, thou shalt not run P2P - then the P2P will be reached through proxy. If you use snort regular expression detection (one of the coolest features) then new protocols will be written to look like an innocuous service (P2P though ICMP/Ping)."

    A GOOD firewall will be doing more then just blocking ports. It will analyze packets to determine the type of comunication being used. Which is not to say such things can't be circumvented, but it is much harder then just using a proxy.

    The problem, and what this article is in many ways about, is dealing with false positives when checking for spacific types of network traffic.

  25. Re:PocketPC on Mozilla's Mini-Me · · Score: 2, Informative

    You mean like Thunderhawk or Netfront? There are several browsers for PocketPC out there. You just need to look.