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  1. Re:I have no respect for Jackson on New Line And Jackson - Irreconcilable Differences · · Score: 1

    What movies have you made besides a 3min porno with your hand?

    The 250m is not all for himself dude, he does have staff.

    So who deserves the 'profits' more.... New line or Wing Nut?

    Just like with music, does Sony deserve 50 years of obscene profits, or the artists?

    Distributors are a dime a dozen, artists are rare.

  2. Why not clean up their plant, duh!!!! on Gates Foundation Revokes Pledge to Review Portfolio · · Score: 1

    Would it not be cheaper by not needing more medical expenses, by paying the $1 to $5m needed to clean up the said toxic plant.
    Pay for filter, pay for better storage tanks and trucks and pipes etc....

    Or does this fund also have investments in the medical companies providing the support as well?

    Kind of like owning the toxic power plant, the hospital and the medical/drug companies at once.

  3. You are not 100% right. on Pirate Bay to Purchase Sealand? · · Score: 1

    If I borrow a dvd from my friend, say seasons 1 to 3 of some tv show, or all 3 terminators, and keep them for 3 weeks, and watch em all.

    I didnt pay for it, but they also dont legally deserve any money for it either.

    Just like Ford doesnt get any money if my cousin borrows my car for two weeks.

  4. Is a debug relay that hard to do? on Expensive U.S. Spy Satellite Not Working · · Score: 1

    Seriously, is it that hard to make an independanly powered/comms mini computer on a sat that has access to the main sattelite for status reports?
    ie. someone small and light 3-5kg like a laptop but sealed. Battery lasting a few weeks. Maybe a small camera for visuals, use slow bps comms thats not
    ultra directional. Say something like 300bps HAM setup, if the sat fails you at least can download telemtry debug status data to find out whats wrong.

    IS IT THAT HARD?????

    All it needs to do is transmit in ascii every status it can and repeat, 5000 bytes at 300bps is trivial with low power over 500km.
    Drop down to 30bps as a backup cycle every 1hr if you need to. Even deep space missions have this.

  5. What was the reason for vietname? on Expensive U.S. Spy Satellite Not Working · · Score: 1

    Was it to stop the communists?

    Remind me of who Walmart and most of america do trade with, and what their government is......

    Right....

    China is buying out as many important resource companies and partners it can find around the world, even in bad countries.
    China wont care about any human rights, a deal is a deal, for any resource.
    China buys a lot of US debts/T-Bills, they still consider that an investment, (or a massive IOU claim for US resources if it tanks)
    so they wont sell it down and cause the US$ to fail. Its more of a, "We can sell it and cause your dollar to fall so dont fuck with us", and if it does
    fail then they can buy $900billion of US stocks + US land/companies or patents.

    Global Elite have sold out, its not the country that has importance and power, its who controls OIL + BANKING and FOOD/WATER rights.
    Id place banking as the final top elite who control all.

  6. Maybe they are pretending it doesnt work.... on Expensive U.S. Spy Satellite Not Working · · Score: 1

    by really hiding the true frequencies and mechanism of comms and protocols, which probably got changed by a firmware update at the last moment before launch, or the firmware maybe
    had two protocols and switched to the new one once it knew it was in orbit. So now you have the real NRO secret boys using it, going woooohoooo. While the official
    NRO department goes, "wtf it doesnt work" and get some money back or more from the govt for some more secret black ops.

    Maybe its using UV lasers as comms or even xray comms, not normal RF.

  7. We need an open PC-AT phone spec. on No Third-party Apps on iPhone Says Jobs · · Score: 1

    Just like the first ibm pc (or pet c=)

    Some one make an open ended platform.

    Two parts, with screen/Kb seperated by an open protocol/cable. Fixed set of dimmensions, common ports like usb/sd slots.

  8. Would $100billion help? on Blue Origin Building DC-X Lookalike · · Score: 1

    Look if these guys can do this under say $1billion, then why is nasa wasting 10s of billions or why is the navy/govt wasting 100s of billions in iraq!!!

    Seams like even 5% of the military spending could yield close to star trek technology, ie. 100 space ships with crews of 1000s, and 5 space stations.

  9. Thats because WIKI uses slashdot as a news source on NASA Will Go Metric On the Moon · · Score: 1

    "NASA is reporting that they've found the likely cause for last week's loss of the Mars Climate Orbiter. It seems one of the engineering teams was using English units of measurement while another team was using Metric units. Getting this straight is rather important when designing navigation sytems for interplanetary spacecraft, one would think."

    http://slashdot.org/science/99/09/30/1437217.shtml

    Btw, I tried using slashdot search, but its utterly useless and crap and doesnt go back past 12months, google does a fine job though.

  10. Metric makes gas cheaper on NASA Will Go Metric On the Moon · · Score: 1

    When common folk start seeing gas sold for 58cents, they will GO WOW!!!

    Even though its per liter and not per gallon.

    It will still FEEL cheaper.

    On a slightly related note, it will make calculating drinks fun, hmm is 98cents/1.5lt cheaper than 1.20 for 2ltr ?

    I really find it funny to see supermarket specials which sell 2ltr coke for $1.78 and 1.5ltr for $2.20

    Is that a big brother "dumbass test?"

  11. Gold from human shit. on Open Project to Develop Renewable Energy System · · Score: 2, Interesting

    http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=34076 62

    Sewage sludges from German municipal wastewater treatment plants possess high gold concentrations (280 to 56,000 g/kg in dry matter) similar to some ore deposits which are being mined for gold. In addition, the sludges exhibit elevated platinum (10 to 1,070 g/kg) and palladium values (38 to 4,700 g/kg), and low osmium (3 to 51 g/kg), iridium (0.6 to 26.5 g/kg), ruthenium (2 to 390 g/kg), and rhodium contents (2 to 352 g/kg Major amounts of these metals are already present within the wastewater solids before the raw sewage reaches the treatment works. Sludges from industrial areas tend to possess higher precious metal values than those from rural regions. Thus industrial discharges contribute significant quantities of precious metals to municipal wastewaters and sewage sludges. However, elevated precious metal contents in sludges from rural areas show that additional sources are present which remain to be determined by future studies

  12. .m_canceled = true; on Just Cancel the @#%$* Account! · · Score: 1

    Learn to program, then come back in 2008.

    Add that to your general IsAccountValid() function.

    Surely there is a sanity check of the records before proceeding anything.

  13. Please MS product managers, Fix it! on New Version of Xbox 360 Rumoured · · Score: 1

    I cannot imagine any legal or technical reason they cannot let people put downloaded demos
    and videos to an external HD. Its all DRMed, and if its a demo, who cares. Please MS. Why have these
    stupid restrictions, note to you the gaming managers/engineers, you're too quiet, make some noise
    or else you're just a typical monkey at MS. No balls at all. Be more vocal, get a clue from Steve Jobs.
    As in the arstechnica article, stop giving excuses that 20gig is enough, tell the business analysts to F-OFF.

  14. Cell is good, 6 * PenPros on Installing Yellow Dog Linux on the PS3 · · Score: 1

    Each cell is quite powerfull, its not a dumb DSP. Its actually as good as a Pent Pro.

    With heaps of movs/adds/mults and 30+ branch types, the assembly is quite powerfull enough that even the most demanding C++ wouldnt use 10% of it.

    Any way, download the specs and cpu docs

    http://cell.scei.co.jp/e_download.html

  15. 360 running linux ? news at 11 on Installing Yellow Dog Linux on the PS3 · · Score: 1

    http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showtopic=5 75582&st=0

    Oh is it possible.

    Why is slash not covering the 23C3

  16. Re:How do they know? on Brightest Supernova Discovered · · Score: 1

    Until they decide to have two good space based telescopes at opposite sides of their orbits, say 300million km wide. Or better yet. Earth orbit, and Jupiter orbit scope.

  17. 2.5 lines per page of spec? on Mars Rovers' Software Upgraded · · Score: 1

    Either they used really massive fonts, or they used lawyers to do their spec.

    I can imagine the over verbose spec repeating obvious laws of physics and repeating references on and on to be totally clear.

    int x = 0; // set inititial coord to zero
    x = 0; // just to make sure it worked if there is a cosmic ray

    if( x!= 0)
            x = 0; // lets make really sure

    x = x-x; // and if it did change, lets make sure via different cpu circuitry // here are four pages describing the meaning of zero and null theory.

  18. Why dont we send two more to the moon on Mars Rovers' Software Upgraded · · Score: 1

    Why dont they build say 10 of these babies, and launch them all to the moon at different locations. They would surely last as long, or does the fact
    that it gets cold/hot at the same time make it much more of a harsh environment.

  19. Re:Brings to mind... on Mars Rovers' Software Upgraded · · Score: 1

    1. I thought that the super low air density makes it really hard for dust particles to move.
    1b. hence, they cannot get off the ground very high, but the air should be more dense at the lower 1 foot.

    2. Vertical solar panels can just use a mirror to reflect the above sunlight 45deg towards the panels, also add more mirrors and enhance the power.

  20. Do they get taxed for punative? on RIAA Goes for the Max Against AllofMP3 · · Score: 1

    So this is why they award a large punative amount so the government then benefits from the 45% tax collected.

    "justice was served", but the govt financially benefited from the crime..... how ironic.

  21. backup goes with the sale.... on RIAA Goes for the Max Against AllofMP3 · · Score: 1

    Listen, if you sell your original, give the guy the backup, dont keep the backup! All solved and everyone is happy.

    In a real world where real objects can be lost or stolen or destroyed, backups are NEEDED!

    Ripping your CDs to your ipod is a backup, the original can be kept safe.

    But get over it, its just music. Not ground braking science patents.

  22. Re:Russia is still independent on RIAA Goes for the Max Against AllofMP3 · · Score: 1

    Or you can just 'capture' live radio net feeds which auto name each track to their correct names.

    iRadio does this btw.

    Not quite kosher perhaps, but 100% 'legal' as in , not detectable. Sure its like trawler fishing, but you get the genre you want and more.

    OT: do the beetles really need more money, (apart from that one legged parasite)

  23. GDP does NOT equal net PROFIT!!! geeez on RIAA Goes for the Max Against AllofMP3 · · Score: 1

    For christs sake, wont people learn and get a brain cell these days.

    If ONE drug dealer sells $10 worth of drugs to an addict, then that dealer pays two addicts $5 each to wash his car, then they later
    buy $5 each of drugs, thats equal to $30 GDP from the same $10.

    All total sales from 10000000s of companies != total dollars in circulation (go check your M1/M2 money supply)
    http://internationalecon.com/v1.0/Finance/ch40/F40 -4.html

    http://www.federalreserve.gov/Releases/h6/hist/h6h ist1.txt

    The same one dollar can go back and forth lots of times, (possibly max 10-15 times before tax eats it into zero)

    Theres the truth, TAXES are not there for the government to spend (they can borrow it), but its there to control inflation which the
    central banks create, as they make all the money and are not owned by the governments.

    Its like two mafias, one makes all the counterfeits, the other 'collects fees' for letting it happen.

    If you make too many fakes, the taxes go up.

  24. Make the question a wav file on HTML Encoded Captchas · · Score: 1

    Dont ask the question in text, use an audio file.

    Generate the audio file using a good natural text to speech maker.

    Ofcourse, use 10 variations of grammer for the questions perhaps. Easy to do in real time.

  25. still usefull, restricted work places on Geeks In Asia Use Clever Hacks To Get Slashdot · · Score: 1

    How useful for restricted corporate environments that either ban complete internet , or whitelist the net, or perhaps blacklist 90% of it.