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  1. its $100 more than a computer on Apple TV Already Being Hacked · · Score: 1

    cpl.net.au

    A basic 2.6ghz box with HD everything, $369, appletv $480+ here.

    SUre its a lot damn bigger, but can do a hell lot more.

  2. Apple should port Itunes to xbox 360 on Apple TV Already Being Hacked · · Score: 1

    Now imagine apple porting itunes using XNA to the xbox 360.

    Very possible, easily done.

    MS would cry foul, but if that fails, apple could just make an xbox 360 game (cheap basic one, any crap) and include
    itunes360 on the disc for free.

    As a 3rd party developer they could do this, im not sure what MS can do, or if EU can tell MS, to allow it or die.

    Failing that, port itunes/appletv app to Ps3 linux, theres your free appletv box.

  3. Why not use a JPEG proxy? on White House Specifies And Mandates Secure Windows · · Score: 1

    Why not just have all machines have zero access to the internet except via
    a special proxy that converts every single website externally accessed that is
    NOT part of a whitelist, to be converted at the server side into a big JPEG so that its still readable
    and clickable using image maps, but there is zero html rendering/js/java. If its not part of
    the good white list , its jpeged. Otherwise, its ok to pass through.

  4. No itunes on AppleTV = 100% LAME on AppleTV Hits the Streets · · Score: 1

    I cannot believe they didnt make a low end itunes , remote controled version for appletv

  5. Re:Good for not including HD-DVD... on New Version of Xbox 360 Looking More Likely · · Score: 1

    Aslong as each of the 6 DVDs can be bootable, and it takes weeks to progress far enough to go to
    the next dvd, its a non issue. And as long as you dont need to go backwards either.

    I also suggest a bit more aggressive modern compression in all data types and design.

    Bluray can lead to sloppy design that duplicates 1 300meg video scene 7 times for each language.

  6. Some one leak their repair kits on New Version of Xbox 360 Looking More Likely · · Score: 1

    With sooo many repairs happening, there must be 1000s of people doing them.

    Where are the leaked documents/cds/roms from the repair center.

    If you work there, please copy it all before leaving, screw the NDA.

  7. GM makes all money through finance on The Air Car Nears Completion · · Score: 1

    Look at their reports.

    GM makes zero money on cars.

    It makes all profits through finance lending.

    What dealers make is what dealers can make selling any brand of car, besides a GM.

    If the dealer makes 1% on the finance, while GM makes the 5% then its GMs bread n butter.

    GM could sell an EV1 at 5% profit, direct to door delivery if it wanted to without dealers, if people just
    paid via a loan financer. If there is zero maintenance then GM wouldnt care if every dealer went broke or sold toyota, if they can
    sell 5-10% profit financed EV1s direct to door delivery.

  8. still has more than earth? on Enormous Amount of Frozen Water Found on Mars · · Score: 1

    Mars' atmosphere is 95% CO2 and 3% N2 and 2% Ar.

    Air Pressure on Mars, is less than 1/100 of the air pressure on earth.

    So its still 0.95% if it was on earth. Earths c02 is 365ppm which is 0.0365% of earths air.

    So mars has more c02 than earth, and it still isnt getting hotter.

    What creates heat , is keeping thermal radiation inside the planet, for that you need clouds, which
    are made of water, and to make that you need a good dose of cosmic rays to help.

  9. If its free, why not reinstall in 12months on Vista Can Run Without Activation for a Year · · Score: 1

    Seriously, is it that much of an effort, to perhaps.... re install after 12 months, or at least
    whipe all info related to time stamps if possible?

    Its just as likely your HD will die, or you need to reinstall any way because of a new MB or CPU
    regardless, so just keep the OS and applications seperate, ie roaming profile.

    If people start writing better apps that dont depend on storing info in windows dirs or registry then its easier
    to reinstall and run again.

  10. Go to panama on No Passport For Britons Refusing Mass Surveillance · · Score: 1

    http://www.escapeartist.com/Altos_Del_Maria/Mounta in_Garden.html

    Cheap luxury houses for $40000, live tax free. Do what you like.

  11. I thought the UK let it happen.... on No Passport For Britons Refusing Mass Surveillance · · Score: 1

    I thought that the british helped the ira, and even heard stories that they forced some irish
    to bomb their own or be shot.

    http://observer.guardian.co.uk/politics/story/0,,1 869019,00.html

  12. Hitler would be proud on No Passport For Britons Refusing Mass Surveillance · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why did they bother with WW2, they should have just said to Hitler, we like what you do. Lets unite, no bloodshed, let the industrial complex grow.

    j/k

  13. I still think sales taxes are MORE EVIL THAN MAFIA on An Evening With Sony Computer Entertainment · · Score: 1

    Governments make money from payroll taxes, land taxes, landlords profits of rents through income taxes, taxes on shops sales profits.

    Yet they still are GREEDY to take a cut of the final sale price, often MORE than the manufacturer's profit.

    Most taxes are used to pay back govt debt, that NO ONE ASKED for. If they were not so irresponsible, then we wouldnt need
    all these taxes. Why cannot governments make laws that require banks to lend to governments at 1% max rates.

    Anyway, most smart people know 12-15% of all economic yearly activity is created through credit, if it were not for that we'de see
    a massive depression. As long as rates are less than credit pumping, and people can pay rates, the casino sham keeps on rolling.

    It only takes one wheel to fall of a high speed train to derail.

  14. Justify a 40% price increase outside japan! on An Evening With Sony Computer Entertainment · · Score: 1

    1. no 20gig option (idiots)
    2. 40% price difference outside japan to EU/AU/UK
    3. Now with cost reductions, their profit margins are way higher.
    4. I say it again 40%!!!!, shipping costs are TINY, $1200 for large containers. Its the same price to ship 10000 ps3s from X to USA, and X to AU
          local taxes are nearly identical, USA 8-9% sales taxes, close to AU's 10% GST.
    5. I had to buy something for $1300 (3 games inc) then i have a LONGER list of goodies to buy first before buying a ps3.
    6. if it was $650, or $700 I might be tempted earlier for sure. Sony Australia doesnt need a larger profit margin because it cant sell TVs/AMPS/Phones.

  15. No jpeg 32bit? lazy mofos on Microsoft Move to be the End of JPEG? · · Score: 1

    Is it so hard for some one to do a 'retrofitted' custom jpeg mod to do a 16bit/channel JPEG ?

    Sure it would be non-standard, but if its 100% based on the old jpeg source, but only difference is its 16bpc then it might take off.

    While we are at it, add support for multiple compression DCT tables for 8pixel row, so those blue skys can use lower comp levels.

    Quick, someone hack jpeg official source to support 16/32bits and re-release it as jpeg16/jpeg32

    Surely the DCT code can handle 16bit.

    What is the jpeg consortium doing with the last 20years of patent profits?

    Though I did find a 12bit extension at http://www.dclunie.com/16bit.html

  16. Re:I made billions- but you'll be replaced on Bill Gates Speaks Out Against Immigration Policies · · Score: 1

    It would be funny if that russian takes all your source codes/config files/ business plans and network design and duplicates in back in russia and charges 1/5th the clustering service price that you do.

    I bet then you would cry foul!!

    Back to immigrants, every year a lot of cash $50b+ gets sent back to mexico from the mexicans.

    eventually all this combined leakage is going to hurt.

  17. and build it inside a monitor LCD.... like..imacs on The CPU Redefined: AMD Torrenze and Intel CSI · · Score: 1

    Yeah, clone the imacs, real cheap, or maybe at min a small slot for the cpu/miniboard computer inside the monitor like the high
    end display panasonics for sales displays.

  18. Stop BEEF and CATTLE on Sun May Be Warming Both Earth and Mars · · Score: 1

    id rather reduce the population of beef/cattle by 99%

    We dont need them, they waste tonnes of water and pollute like hell.

    There are other meat alternatives that grow faster and damage land a lot lot less.

    No, its not whales ;)

    But it couldnt hurt to eat less beef.

  19. Re:ya but.. on Sun May Be Warming Both Earth and Mars · · Score: 1

    Yeha, but those experiments are exagerated, ie massive amounts of CO2, rather than just a 10% increase from 350 to 390 ppm

  20. CIA and Friends have 404'ed it. on Sun May Be Warming Both Earth and Mars · · Score: 0

    Page missing.
    To those that think the sun has no inffluence, wakeup turds, its the ONLY INFLUENCE, bar massive volcanoes emitting 1000s times more stuff than any LA day.

    Simultaneous warming on Earth and Mars suggests that our planet's recent climate changes have a natural--and not a human- induced--cause, according to one scientist's controversial theory.

    Earth is currently experiencing rapid warming, which the vast majority of climate scientists says is due to humans pumping huge amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. (Get an overview: "Global Warming Fast Facts".)

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    Mars, too, appears to be enjoying more mild and balmy temperatures.

    In 2005 data from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor and Odyssey missions revealed that the carbon dioxide "ice caps" near Mars's south pole had been diminishing for three summers in a row.

    Habibullo Abdussamatov, head of the St. Petersburg's Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory in Russia, says the Mars data is evidence that the current global warming on Earth is being caused by changes in the sun.

    "The long-term increase in solar irradiance is heating both Earth and Mars," he said.

    Solar Cycles

    Abdussamatov believes that changes in the sun's heat output can account for almost all the climate changes we see on both planets.

    Mars and Earth, for instance, have experienced periodic ice ages throughout their histories.

    "Man-made greenhouse warming has made a small contribution to the warming seen on Earth in recent years, but it cannot compete with the increase in solar irradiance," Abdussamatov said.

    By studying fluctuations in the warmth of the sun, Abdussamatov believes he can see a pattern that fits with the ups and downs in climate we see on Earth and Mars.

    Abdussamatov's work, however, has not been well received by other climate scientists.

  21. Re:Neat idea - then spray on rigid cladding? on NASA's Future Inflatable Lunar Base · · Score: 1

    I prefer domes for houses.

    Sure the insurance rates would drop and construction rebuilding would plummet.

    But lives are saved, if people would just get off their stupid 19century style homes and start building
    24th century style houses, all domed. They would all survive F5s , earthquakes and storms. And be more
    environmentally friendly.

    Oh well, stuck here with stupid ass humans that wont change for the better....

    What we dont want efficient anything? Time for a massive ecnomic collapse to realign EVERYTHING. Get the oldies to
    change or disapear.

  22. TV isnt mandatory, its optional on Award-Winning Ad Taken Off Air In Australia · · Score: 1

    unplug the tuner, use only dvds/certified content, just like soviet russia did, it really worked well for them.

  23. Vista-Transformation-Pack, make XP look like vista on Windows Vista - Still Fresh After 19 Months? · · Score: 1

    http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/OS-Enhancement s/Vista-Transformation-Pack.shtml

    Vista Transformation Pack will give to your Windows XP system the new and cool look of Microsoft's future operating system: Windows Vista. The pack changes most of the system icons, skins and toolbars and also adds new enhancements to your desktop such as a dock bar or a different system tray clock

    If you just like the look, then get this... it has some vista features too.

  24. Re:More than Australia on Australia Outlaws Incandescent Light Bulb · · Score: 1

    You know there are halogen lights as an option, or other lights that cars use. No one is going to stop selling small form factor incandescents because there are
    too many legacy devices that need them, and its cheap.

    Or, if your're that desperate, spend $8 and buy a 12 pack of incandescent bulbs that should last you your life times needs.

  25. What about electric fusion!?! Proton 21 on Cold Fusion Scientist Exonerated · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://www.proton21.com.ua/index_en.html

    The first successful experiment was performed on February 24, 2000 in a specially created and proprietary set up. In fact, the 5,000+ successful experiments in controlled nuclei-synthesis performed since 1999, using various targets made of light, medium, or heavy elements; have allowed the research team at EDL to comprehend and evaluate this unique scientific breakthrough.
    The discovered process has been noted for its practical, environmentally friendly and extraordinary energy efficient attributes.

    Two major outcomes have emerged from this process:

            * First, the creation of an energy output far exceeding the initial impact.
            * Second, the creation of an array of unique nuclei-synthesis elements. These new elements were tested by leading scientific laboratories in Ukraine, Russia, USA, etc, and their artificial origin was confirmed.