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  1. fast but boring: on What Can You Do With $100? · · Score: 1

    try World Wind. much more flexible with sat images...

  2. Re:Let me get this straight... on FCC Rules Telcos Need Not Provide Naked DSL · · Score: 1
    Why is this bad? We have the same thing in australia too...

    I guess you have cancer, AIDS and so on over there, too. They are still bad things ;-)

    If you need a new car and your dealer will only sell it if you buy an additional bicycle, will you accept that?

    My own DSL line is disproportionally expensive, because I live in Germany where you cannot get DSL without a phone line. I pay about 16 Euro for a phone line I do not use. Broadband acceptance would boost enormously without such obstacles - obviously not only in Germany... . Still, politicians say that we need more broadband for the people... . I guess they just don't see the connection.

  3. Re:Why not rescue HST then? on NASA Schedules Robotic Spacecraft Launch · · Score: 5, Funny
    I wonder how many infrared telescopes build for the secret service are already monitoring us...

    You'd be surprised. Oh and please stop picking your nose and sit up straight. Sincerely, Department of Homeland Surveillance.

  4. Re:Just make sure... on The Next Net · · Score: 1
    I thought they were the borg collective.

    you are a(nother) victim of subliminal manipulation through /. section icons. I wonder what that hideously green worm will turn us into...

  5. Re:Dosen't the internet scale? on The Next Net · · Score: 2, Funny
    If you know the IP of the web sites you want to visit, you can still access them.

    now I finally have a use for the mountains of dns cache printouts that I keep in the basement! lucky me...so please everyone go DoS DNS. I don't care, because I have a workaround!

  6. Re:That's no planet... it's a space station. on Spitzer Telescope Discovers Planets Via Infrared · · Score: 1
    So where do I download the planetary popup-blocker?

    *g* it's called planet buster, download here.

  7. Re:Crazy, no? on Microsoft to Offer Patches to U.S. Govt. First · · Score: 1

    I agree, and I also wonder if such a practice would be legal.
    Aren't they deliberately discriminating against everyone who's not a government agency for mere marketing reasons?
    Is my license worth less even if it was more expensive than a (single) gov licence?

  8. sounds like... on Microsoft to Offer Patches to U.S. Govt. First · · Score: 1
    ...they just need more beta testers. flawed patches are more likely to be reworked before joe average can download them :)

    seriously though, this is further dividing the windows world into 1st and 2nd class users...

  9. Re:Extra Credit on Linux Server Break-in Challenge · · Score: 1
    4) Install and register Win XP on it, which would really confuse the next hacker.

    *lol*

    but they said "no honeypots"..?!?!

  10. Re:Nonsense on NZ Business Fined For Out-of-Date Website · · Score: 5, Funny
    False advertising on the Internet is still false advertising

    you mean things like "news for nerds, stuff that matters", right?

  11. Re:artifact on Experts Suggest Replacing Definition of Kilogram · · Score: 1

    no I'm not, I'm thinking of the standard meter which was the original "master" for all measuring back then. just click the link, I know you can do it.

  12. artifact on Experts Suggest Replacing Definition of Kilogram · · Score: 0
    is the only one of the seven basic units of the international measurement system defined by a physical artifact

    hm, don't think so:
    what about the meter?

  13. Re:Lossless compression does exist. on Build High-End Audio System w/ Hard Drive Storage? · · Score: 1
    actually - why? storage got that cheap that it isnt worth it to compress it any more.

    right, and at a 1000 cds, compresseion time certainly is a factor. even with lossless.

    I wouldn't worry too much about sound output though, but more about read speeds and read errors / ticks when ripping older or scratched CDs... . the ripping alone should take a while, and if you rip too fast, you might end up with junk...

  14. Re:Awesome on Man Finds $1,000 Prize in EULA · · Score: 1
    Maybe if they made them like 2 paragraphs and included a summary above them, more people would read them.

    for that to work it would have to have a "reply to this" button.
    even then, you'd get lots of "I didn't RTF EULA, _but_..." replies.

  15. Re:Hahaha.... on Stereoscopic images of Titan's surface constructed · · Score: 1
    --
    Make something idiot proof and someone will make a better idiot.

    Make something idiot proof and only idiots will want to use it.

    SCNR.

  16. "probably the dumbest mirror ever, but"... on Beware The Rotundus Rover · · Score: 1
    at least you took the time - thanks!

    Slashdot - where news are taken down immediately by linking to them. Stuff that you'd like to read but can't, because some clever guy posted a link on /.

  17. Re:What does the ad say? on Enterprise Fans Buy Full-Page Ad In LA Times · · Score: 1

    Help save Star Trek.
    Eat a Trekkie a day.

  18. Re:The point of the hack on DIY Mac mini Overclocking · · Score: 1
    People complaining that the hack is really not worth voiding the warranty are missing the whole point. It is just the coolness factor out here.

    mod parent up, please.
    you could have had my last mod point, but it has to be said (again?): those "jumpers" are actually resistors (note their numbering - its not J351 but R351 etc). They're so small because they are SMD components.

    I wonder how someone who mistakes resistors for jumpers can come up with such a cool hack, though.

  19. funding Bush's party? rather... on Big Money Comes Out for the Inauguration · · Score: 2, Funny
    funding a lunatic.


    "We have a calling from beyond the stars to stand for freedom, and America will always be faithful to that cause."


    I once worked at a mental home; there, you could pick up sentences like that all the time. You know, people hearing voices, callings from the Great Beyond and stuff. Scary.

  20. Re:Interesting Spyware detected... on Sneak Peek At Microsoft Anti-Spyware · · Score: 1
    from the screenshot:
    "in either case this software is not to be trusted"

    now I'm confused: which software? windows? the AS beta? MS Messenger? all of the above?

  21. Re:Jesusonic Looks Interesting on Justin Frankel Reveals Life After Winamp · · Score: 1
    check out Guitar Rig:
    http://mixonline.com/mag/audio_native_instruments_ guitar/

    "realtime" if your soundcard is fast enough; I get 2ms latency on a creative audigy2, and it's just plain amazing.

  22. so you haven't understood failure classes... on Samsung Announces Zero Dead Pixel Policy · · Score: 1
    Failure Class Type 1 Type 2 Type 3
    Class I 0 0 0
    Class II 2 2 5
    Class III 5 15 50
    Class IV 50 150 500

    Failure Type 1 Fully luminous (color white)
    Failure Type 2 Not fully luminous (color black)
    Failure Type 3 e.g. defective sub-pixel ( color red, green, blue )

    you couldn't return an LCD (or laptop) with a dead pixel

    ...unless it was a class I device (no pixel errors). consumer panels are usually class 2 or 3 so there's no way you can successfully complain about pixel errors unless they exceed the above specs for your device/class.

  23. Re:The SID (audio) emulation is apparently bad on Commodore 64 DTV Hacked · · Score: 2, Informative
    emulating the sucker is quite difficult

    if soft emu is enough, you might want to give quadrasid a try

  24. Re:CGI is improving, but not there yet on Animated Short - This Wonderful Life · · Score: 1
  25. useless on Caller ID Falsification Service · · Score: 1

    this is not really about security: if you use a service to cover up your tracks, your tracks are only as safe as that company is (think logs, billing, police browsing their logs/customer db...). users of legitimate services can always be traced back, so whats that security debate? it's a toy...