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  1. Re:huh on Massachusetts Considering Desalination Plants · · Score: 1

    Those arent mutually exlusive.
    I think you misinterpret the "preference"

  2. Re:Government Copyright on NASA Prepares to Open Source Code · · Score: 1

    how do you download a physical network of listening equipment?

    If someone knows how to make a matter transporter id like plans tho

  3. Re:How can you spoil something that is already bad on Footage From Star Wars: Episode III · · Score: 1

    umm, Ive watched andromeda ascendant.

    acting, voices, effects, star wars was never THAT bad. please

  4. Re:NOISE! on The Absolute Worst Working Environment? · · Score: 1

    oh, they were balanceing them, so they started unbalanced.

  5. NOISE! on The Absolute Worst Working Environment? · · Score: 1

    they used to test 12 foot diameter industrial fans outside my office.
    the wall might as well not have been there.

    naturally this was after the supervisor left.

  6. Re:No M$ for mine... on Matrix-Style Brain Interface Closer To Reality · · Score: 1

    when crashing the system, allways ensure you have a scratch monkey plugged in

  7. Re:The GPL is NOT VALID and WILL NOT STAND on Kiss Technology Counters MPlayer GPL Arguments · · Score: 1

    I would doubt that there is not a legal definition of derived work in copyright law

    qoute from http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=92569&cid=7957 368

    "You have to be careful to interpret the law using the legal definition of derived work, not a vernacular definition.

    A derived work contains material that is covered by copyright taken from another work.

    Imagine I take some numbers from a table in your book to make a graph to put in my book. In a colloquial sense you might say my work is derived from yours, but it is not a derived work in the legal sense, because all I took was information, which is not protected under copyright law."
    -- crispy_critters

    and besides, as has been pointed out elsewhere, revocation of the GPL will invalidate the license to distribute granted by it. therefore the infringing party is distribnuting without license.

    and in anycase, the nature of the derivation in question will be a decision made by a judge, with expert advice, IF it ever comes to that point.

  8. Re:Why has this taken so long? on Microsoft Looks At Integrating Forums and E-mail · · Score: 1

    thead veiw has been in e-mail clients for years, Im certain netcape 3 had it (ahh the glory days of the 486...) Disturbed to note that firebird doesnt seem to have it, now that Im looking.

  9. Re:Best I've seen on The Best and Worst Movies of 2003? · · Score: 1

    your right - there should have been small fortresses / towers,(or indeed people! did anybidy see anybody actually light any of those wood poiles?) etc on those mountaintops.
    Besides, Whet I want to know is why saruon didnt send his fell beast / nazgul to knock a few of those signal fires off the mountain tops.
    Nobody would have noticed If they did it at night.

  10. Re:wtf on Multiplayer Linux Games · · Score: 1

    we dont need no stinking Pentium chip.
    Ive got my 486!!

  11. the USoA is remarkable at ignoring such things on U.N. Delays Debate on Cloning · · Score: 1

    the geneva convention for example napalm and certain types of bayonett are used by america, that contavene this, but america never signed, so who cares.

  12. wizards 6th rule? on U.N. Delays Debate on Cloning · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    3 guesses as to what books im reading at the moment?

  13. silly putty? on Slashback: Diebold, Cluster, Radiation · · Score: 1

    so this has something to do with the properties of silly putty, and why it can be snapped?

    I can also imagine a truss that bends under load, being capable of taking a certain load, but if that load is applied to quickly, being unable to reconfigure to take the load properly.
    If it can happen at the truss level, It should be feasable at the molecular level.
    Correct?

  14. WHAT?? on Top 10 Software Titles Every Home PC Needs? · · Score: 1

    2 things Ive found -1) in windows 95 - say you were on dialup, downloading a file overnight, the system idle process would leek memory, and the machine would crash before the download was completed. run winamp, no leak, no crash. 2)realone is a piece of obnoxious MAlware JUNK

  15. Re:Other fine suggestions. on Top 10 Software Titles Every Home PC Needs? · · Score: 1

    Open Office has export as PDF, so no need for a seperate program.
    Dev-C++ if you want to program (GPL, windows)
    for instant messenger, Miranda-IM
    (http://www.miranda-im.org/, formerlerly on sourceforge) does every messenger network Ive ever heard of.
    I too recomend the free version of AVG antivirus by Grisoft

  16. Re:Theory vs Reality on Current Thoughts in String Theory · · Score: 1

    Surely you know about the attractive properties of chelonium, Dietyum, and unobtanium.

  17. Re:Theory vs Reality on Current Thoughts in String Theory · · Score: 1

    If I remeber correctly, there is significant suspician that the length of a stadia, in modern units, was derived by historians from Eratosthenes published estimation of the earths circumference(in stadia), compared with the modern value(in modern units).

  18. Re:Opera M2 on How Do You Organize Your Data? · · Score: 1

    The only problem I have with M2,
    (and I still use opera 7.11, just not M2, I have thunderbird for that)
    is that it wont let you create a Real actual,
    completele local and seperate from the rest of this crud FOLDER.
    the access points are nice, but there are some things I want a real folder for.

  19. Re:AWESOME, yet so many questions...? on BBC to Put Entire Radio & TV Archive Online · · Score: 1

    hmmmn,
    RIAA = Recording Industry Association of AMERICA
    MPAA = Motion Picture Assosication of AMERICA

    why should britian and the colonies bow to the sillines of USAnian rubbish.
    stuff 'em.

  20. Re:Of course on RIAA Now Targets Pirates' Parents · · Score: 1

    thats not a verry good proof then is it??

  21. Re:Michael Crichton kinda predicted this on "Augmented Reality" For the Assembly Line · · Score: 1

    The version they used in the book was for use in maintanance, to make finding parts easier.
    (the electronics in a comercial airliner are a nightmare - anybody who's spen some time rewiriing a dashboard will get the general idea)

  22. Also on Niue Gets Island-Wide WiFi · · Score: 1

    from memory the highest point on the ilsand is only something like a metre above high tide (obviously not counting tree's, buildings and the like) storm surge must be a real bitch

  23. Re:Where we've /.'ed on Niue Gets Island-Wide WiFi · · Score: 1

    I think - Im not entirely sure
    I think that we Annexed them back in the days when NZ was so damn disgustingly close to being a comunist dictatorship, without actually being one.
    (read, 60's, 70's)
    Basically, It means we Have an enourmous stretch of ocean between here and there,
    as part of our exclusive economic Zone
    (read, normally 100 mile limit)
    And alost as big National waters (read, normally 20 mile limit)

  24. Re:Missed the real threat on Using Palladium to Secure P2P Networks · · Score: 1

    I think the point is if Un signed content is blanket blacklisted, b/c its "unsecure"

  25. Re:i wonder on LOTR The Musical! · · Score: 1

    When I was very young I went to a preformance of peter and the wolf, where the wolf was played by a large, bright steel wheeled robot wolf, complete with electric motors, glowing eyes, and flaming/smoking mouth. It actuall cariied quite well, (but then, as a 5 year old, I wasnt a verry descerning critic) What I want to see is how they pull off the ring/invisible/other realm effect vanishing actors, and ream shifting the entire stage, etc