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  1. Re:When? What time??? on IRC Forum w/ CmdrTaco & Hemos Tonight at 8pm Eastern · · Score: 1

    "at times #gentoo can be really helpfull, at times"

    I ain't look for help. Just conversion.

    "i prefer a couple local watering stations myself." Any in Austin? Still, I still have to dressed and I can't blast "How the West Was Won" on my headphones. Maybe I need to play King Moderator and start my own damn channel.

  2. Re:Don't get into a "beer-pissing" contest with me on PeltierBeer · · Score: 1

    Sorry - we are in complete agreement then. Have one on me.

  3. When? What time??? on IRC Forum w/ CmdrTaco & Hemos Tonight at 8pm Eastern · · Score: 1

    I recently reinstalled mIRC after a couple of years of not accessing IRC. I am about ready to uninstall as it is full of the terminately brain dead and so few people who actually type an English sentence of five words or more. Sooo, I am looking for this - it may elevate the norm.

    So again, what time?????

  4. Re:We need something else on Ogg Theora Alpha 2 Released · · Score: 1

    We need compression. Try this. Convert about 60 seconds of your favorite 720x480 24/fps MPEG-2 stream into an uncompressed AVI. Then try to watch it. On my modest, yet normally quite capable 1.1 Athlon machine with a 7200 rpm 60 gig HD, it WILL NOT KEEP UP! Not with the overhead of Windows 2000, not using PowerDVD.
    We need compression and not just for saved space, but to space bandwidth on the older IDE pipes!

  5. Re:Limited use, really on Force Field. No, Really · · Score: 1

    "A cat would be just as likely as a dog to run through the plasma field in pursuit of prey."

    Oh, well, in pursuit of prey, yes! But then when the prey vaporizes, would not the cat stop? Unless you waxed the floor!

    I have seen way to much Chuck Jones cartoons.

  6. Hell, yes! on Inappropriate Spam Reaching Children? · · Score: 1

    "Should spammers be held responsible for the spams they send out?" Who else COULD be responible? The fact you ASK this question shows incredible stupidity. Unfortunately, it is all too common.

  7. Total security on Java/Script Alert: Cross-Platform Browser Vulnerability · · Score: 1

    "if you turn off JavaScript, you turn off the vulnerability."

    Hell, I guarantte 100% security if you unplug all cables from the computer, including the power after wiping the HD's clean, seven times in a room with overlapping patterns.

    There is a slight useability use with this method.

  8. Re:Limited use, really on Force Field. No, Really · · Score: 1

    >but your dog would fry through it as well

    Mmm, and what is the downside of this?

    A cat would smart enough to smell the ozone and stay away.

  9. Re:DLP projectors? on A Night in the Hotel of the Future · · Score: 1

    Oh, great. You mess up some links because you don't understand how Slashdot works and you blame Slashdot! That's pathetic. Take responsibility for your own screw-ups.

  10. Re:DLP projectors? on A Night in the Hotel of the Future · · Score: 1

    Man, neither one of those links work!

    Test your links, mon!

  11. DLP projectors? on A Night in the Hotel of the Future · · Score: 1

    Are there any that do 780p justice? They have to have, what 1280x780 rez...

  12. Sen. Sam Brownback... on Senator Pushes Bill To Limit Anti-Copying Schemes · · Score: 1

    ...is now hereby nominated for that rareist of the elite, that hardest to find....

    A Republican with a BRAIN!

  13. Plasma TV SUCK! on A Night in the Hotel of the Future · · Score: 1

    I have seen this expensive beasties and the picture SUCKS! Sure, a big flat HDTV screen looks cool but the truth is the picture on a good flat direct view tube looks a lot better.

    And you buy three or four for the same price!

  14. wrong! on Public Domain Enhancement Act petition · · Score: 1

    This proposal sucks. This is no teeth. We want the restoration of the Constitution! Let all copyrights expire after 30 years or the death of the author! Restore the public domain!

  15. Re:Save yourself the time and effort... on PeltierBeer · · Score: 1

    "The body is a golden temple. Do want you like"
    - Ray Manzarek

    in other words, screw the rules.

  16. Re:Save yourself the time and effort... on PeltierBeer · · Score: 1

    Oh, contre, mon friar! Good beer is indeed meant to be sipped! Like Hienlein Ole Braun or Guiness Extra Stout! Now that damn mountain water you call Coors is certain chug-a-lug juice. Gimme beer with BAWLS! Liquid steak!

  17. Re:Why not BOTH? on Supercomputing: Raw Power vs. Massive Storage · · Score: 1

    YES! One benefit of supercomputer research that it can help define the kind of future chips we will have in our cheap desktops someday. I imagine the WinTelAMD machines of today own a bit to the supercomputer research of the past.

  18. Ha! Ha! Ha! In your face, AOL!!! on AOL Pulls Nullsoft's WASTE · · Score: 1

    Those krazy dudes at Nullsoft stick again! I love it! They got to be driving the tight ass suits at AOL out of their minds!

    And check out the different in the web site design, here:

    http://www.nullsoft.com
    Great design, nicely down
    http://www.winamp.com/
    Typical corparate crap, overblown and gaudy

    Keep up the great work, guy!

  19. I have a Buck Knife... on Ask Bram Cohen about BitTorrent · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ...I can cut onions with it. Or I can cut someone's throat. Maybe we should go after owners of knives - they can be used for illegal and terrible things.

    Or maybe I am an adult. Maybe you can arrest me when I commit a crime and otherwise leave me alone in the privacy of my home, my castle.

    Damn the Sonny Bono law and all others that subvert the Constitution!

  20. Re:Doesn't this seem dangerous on Investigating Artificial Black Holes · · Score: 1

    Truthfully, I can't do the math. I never had the opprotunity to learn calculus and just barely squeaked by alegbra and all I do these days is number conversions (i.e. decimal the hexadecimal, etc.) So, all of my knowledge of this matter is on faith from reading the pop books.

    But as I understand, gravity is NOT understood AT ALL at the quantuum level. Classical gravity is understood well enough to target ballistic missiles and to slingshot around the solar system but all that is known about gravity at the quantuum level is that it very, very, very weak...under normal conditions. And every since I had my cerebrum tweaked into a knob trying to swallow the Inflationary Big Bang, my faith in our knowledge of gravity has been shaken like a can of Coke in Britney Spears's cutoffs.

    Or maybe I just need a job. It increases my paranioa, like having a Republican fortunate son selected by the Supreme Court to suspend the Constitution.

    What the hell. Fire it up. Make a *BIG* whole hole and the suckage end!!!!!!!!!!

    But I doubt it will be painless. As the crust collaspes into the magma, you will experience relativity first hand as your last few seconds become an eternity of hellfire. Damn, almost sounds like Revelations!

    Damn, maybe I need just need a drink.

  21. Re:Doesn't this seem dangerous on Investigating Artificial Black Holes · · Score: 1

    Oh, so you are sooooo sure that black holes are sooo understood that you would bet the whole planet on it? Would it be better to wait and and experiment with them in an orbit far, far away and make DAMN sure that we understand them before put all of humankind at risk.

    Understand that I am mainly talking about any experiment that exceeds the energy of naturally occurring cosmic ray reaction - not necessary the ones in progress today or in the next five years. But eventually, we WILL exceed that threshold. And beside that

    I said "what of the *UNEXPECTED* happens". Science has been surprised before. And you do not need gravity to start the sucking. A black hole this small could have a charge - like a positive one. Then electrons would come flying to it. True, eventually enough elections would cancel out that charge - IF this process is truly understood. Given that a black hole has NEVER ACTUALLY BEEN OBSERVED, there is one hell of lot riding on this hypothesises. All of humankind.

  22. Re:No, stop him! on Investigating Artificial Black Holes · · Score: 1

    WHOA! I think you have SEVERELY overestimated the mass of the asteriods! The last that I hear they were not even a fraction of the mass of Mercury. But I certainly would not mine this work being done beyond the orbit of Pluto, just to be safe.

    It can wait, dammit!

  23. Personally, there are just TOO MANY! on Are Standards Groups Stifling Innovation? · · Score: 1

    What good are "standards" when everyone makes one? For the best words on the subject, check out Arthur C. Clarke's short story, "Superiority" in _The_Expedition_to_Earth_. Once it was required reading at MIT's school of engineering. If the Constition was not used as toilet paper by the Sonny Bozos of the world, it would be in the public domain today.

  24. Re:Doesn't this seem dangerous on Investigating Artificial Black Holes · · Score: 1

    Well, I don't see where you get the first misconception. It cerntainly is not one that I share.

    As for the second, true enough - IF we truly understand cosmic rays. But it is only a matter of time until we could be exploring types of collision that superpass them. Hopefully, once again, in in orbit far, far away.

  25. Re:Obligatory Event Horizon reference on Investigating Artificial Black Holes · · Score: 1

    Okay, Babelfish does not work on Latin. Can anyone translate for those of us educated by the Texas public school system, please?