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  1. Re:Next Story: on Dell Colludes With RIAA, Disables Stereo Mix · · Score: 1

    That was the way it used to work for regular videos even... if you turned off playback acceleration, you could take screenshots but the video was a bit choppy...

    Last time I tried that was around 2000 or so, I'm not sure how to do it with current versions of media player, but you could try looking for programs made to take directx screenshots. They're made for games but I believe they work for that overlay layer the media player uses...

  2. Re:GPL is nice LGPL is better. on Linguistic Problems of GPL Advocacy · · Score: 3, Informative

    However, small companies can take, modify and sell media players based on mplayer if they like, the only stipulation being that they have to follow the terms of the GPL when doing so...

  3. Re:Be great for parents of teenagers... on Ray Gun Puts Voices Inside Your Head · · Score: 1

    I want a Teaching Robot to teach me foreign languages while I sleep...

  4. Re:How is it blocked on Sourceforge.net Blocked In Mainland China · · Score: 1

    opendns?

  5. Re:'Merica on Openmoko's Open Source Phone Goes Mass-Market · · Score: 1

    You can download openmoko already, but the Neo Freerunner, i.e. the phone to run openmoko, has yet to arrive...

  6. Re:solar warming, that's why. on Of Late, Fewer Sunspots Than Usual · · Score: 1, Funny

    As if the whole solar system was centered around it.

  7. Re:Yes, but... on Brazil Appeals OOXML Decision · · Score: 4, Funny

    an African or European politician?

  8. Re:Nice on Use BitTorrent To Verify, Clean Up Files · · Score: 1

    Most bittorrent clients I've used also allow you to create files the full size when you start a torrent, rather than 0-byte sized ones. Helps prevent fragmenting and finding downloads stopped in the middle because the hard drive filled up...

  9. Re:Nothing To Do With HIPAA on California Court Posts SSNs, Medical Records · · Score: 1

    Never mind... court records seem to be exempted...

  10. Re:Nothing To Do With HIPAA on California Court Posts SSNs, Medical Records · · Score: 1

    Perhaps not with HIPAA, but how about The Privacy Act?

  11. Re:Live with it on Widespread Keyboard Failures on OLPC's XO-1 · · Score: 1

    I'd be interested in knowing how that dirt or those crumbs got under the rubberized keyboard...

  12. Re:Actually, much of it is accessable. on Dilbert Goes Flash, Readers Revolt · · Score: 2, Informative

    erm, web-2.0 had nothing to do with Flash...

  13. Re:Last part a Joke? on Sun May Begin Close Sourcing MySQL Features · · Score: 1

    ...but doesn't mentioning Godwin's law negate it's effect?

    I swear it's like fight club or something...

  14. Re:Last part a Joke? on Sun May Begin Close Sourcing MySQL Features · · Score: 1

    Slashdot's credibility There are precious few stronger oxymorons...
  15. Re:Thanks for furthering your agenda! on Before the Big Bang: A Twin Universe? · · Score: 1

    Apparently, god's UID is 5628...

    He also hasn't posted since 2005...

  16. Re:Thanks for furthering your agenda! on Before the Big Bang: A Twin Universe? · · Score: 1

    By swipe from the rightful owner, I meant that he got the UID someone else was "supposed" to get... not that he clonked them over the head, you don't need a time machine for that...

  17. Re:Thanks for furthering your agenda! on Before the Big Bang: A Twin Universe? · · Score: 1

    And go back in time and swipe the low UID from the person it rightfully belonged to?

    Or would it have been always his, he just didn't know the username and password until he went back in time and generated it...

  18. Re:ok... on A Screenshot Review of KDE 4 · · Score: 1

    KDE4 actually has the option to use the old style KMenu currently...

  19. Re:ok... on A Screenshot Review of KDE 4 · · Score: 1

    If it's saying that then is cups even running in the background?

  20. Re:Secure Platform without Anti-virus on Archive Formats Kill Antivirus Products · · Score: 4, Informative

    Normally, in order to keep the system functioning nicely on large systems, the users will have mailbox limits, in order to keep older mail they create personal archive files (or whatever they're actually called) These archives with the extension of PST allow them to move mail from the exchange server into them and they have room for more mail while keeping the old stuff...

  21. Re:Malbologe on What Programming Languages Should You Learn Next? · · Score: 1

    not only did it take two years to write, they had to write a program in another language to make that one...

  22. Re:PC gaming is dying on Why Aren't More Linux Users Gamers? · · Score: 1

    about say your SNES


    It's been a while since I've used an SNES for watching DVDs...
  23. unlimited? on Nanowires of Unlimited Length · · Score: 3, Funny

    How long will it take to manufacture a nanowire of infinite length?

  24. Re:Toughest device? on Is the Game Boy the Toughest Product Ever Made? · · Score: 1

    Heh... I've got a 64MB flash drive that I've had for the last 5 years or so, it's been through the wash multiple times, has had the casing fall off about a year ago, and it still works at full capacity!

  25. Re:Special Edition on When Did Star Wars Jump the Shark? · · Score: 1

    Lucky Bastard... I can only claim to have never seen the 2nd and 3rd Movie...