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  1. Re:fascistic? on Windows XP Has Arrived · · Score: 1

    well he's a troll, and trolls will be trolls.

    it would have went really well to the tune for particle man tho.

  2. In other news today, on RIAA to DoS Pirates? · · Score: 1

    CD prices skyrocket to $24.99 and album as RIAA dues increase to allow the organization to buy equipment and hire help to attack pirate systems.

    as much money as they spend on these (fun but) ridiculous adventures and their lawyers and court cases, this money has to be coming from somewhere right?

  3. Re:Field day on Wanted - 45 Mile Wireless Broadband? · · Score: 1

    a mile a day with a rental trencher? Muhahahaa we did about 800ft in 3 hours, it was unpleasant, you really need a commercial grade machine to dig that far, if you're gonna run fiber train tracks are the best enviroment, fairly straight, and you'd actually have a (albeit small) chance of them letting you do it, how about a 'real' sattelite solution it's gonna have ongoing expenses, but much better in the long run.

  4. Re:The big question... on Body Powered Batteries -- Thermoelectrics · · Score: 1

    no no no, that's why the company will sell you a low grade bed side heater box than you put all your goodies in.

    think ways to get you to spend $$ if you don;t have to feed it batteries.

  5. I wonder on Philip Zimmermann and 'Guilt' Over PGP · · Score: 1

    god i hate to even consider a conspiracy theory (i prefer to spend my time laughing at paranoid people deluding themselves with their own conspiracy theories) but how much of a chance is there that someone political stepped in and rewrote the article to help sway congressional and peoples opinions about encryption back doors? I know that is's a long shot, but i though it might be worth some thought.

  6. Re:king of poop on Michael Jackson Releases Uncopyable CD · · Score: 1

    i have enough equipment to go digital from the cd deck all the way back to the digital in on the sound card, hmmmmmmmmmm.

  7. Re:Don't be a part of the problem on Fight Virus With Virus? · · Score: 1

    How about making a cmd script for nt/2000

    net send %computeranme% Someone infected your computer with a ______ virus, please go here to get instructions for removing it, www.cert.org/_______

    I don't think it would be so bad. I'd appreciate that info if i were infeted, a large part of the ppl infected don't even know it, ppl that just installed IIS caus they thought the might want it later, ppl that don't use the website for anything on a regular basis and such.

  8. Re:Cool... and disturbing. on Text to Speech Software Copies Any Human Voice · · Score: 1

    I seem to remember when working on post the army prefered the good ol' bank vault guarded by guys with big guns scenario. They leave little to chance on technology. They also wiped hard drives in an incenerator.

  9. Re:A fungus that eats aluminum? on CD-Eating Fungus Among Us · · Score: 1

    >I'd be wary of this; commercial aircraft are built using large amounts of aluminium. If this new & improved recycling fungus ever got out..

    now there's a topic for the class of horror movie we haven;t seen since the BLOB

  10. Re:Then how could it be bad? on Review: Tomb Raider · · Score: 1

    it Could have been much better, almost tolerable, just remake it as an R. :) I'll go and see it

  11. Re:Its a Good Thing Most /.'ers Dont Have Kids on Ethically Monitoring Your Kid's Net Access · · Score: 2

    >Way back a while ago (...), ancient prosperous
    >cultures' peoples got married at age 13 and had
    >babies.

    and they lived all the way into their 30's too!

  12. PShaw the govt's been doing this for years! on The Pentagon Discovers dd · · Score: 1

    The Army has been using Norton Diskwipe for a long time because it meets "military" standards, If i remember there was a g3 option that made it run itself three times.

    there's a document here on using Norton to kill a hard disk section 5.2.3.4

    http://www.ct.ngb.army.mil/Security/ctsecpol.htm

  13. Re:Read the patent on Worlds.com Patents Quake-like Games? Kinda. · · Score: 2

    "This explaines why their stock is currently trading at 9 cents."

    awwww come on they're at 9.5 cents!

  14. Re:in a box.. on Fission in a Box · · Score: 1

    you mean it's not already?

  15. TOSHIBA s402 on Full Powered, Compact, Gaming Rigs? · · Score: 2

    PIII 800MHZ, Geforce 2 go card 128MB ram , subwoofer (i'll believe it when i hear it) DVD/CDR firewire port, 2 usb

    2799

  16. Re:Sad. on AOL Blocking Open Source IM Clones ... Again · · Score: 1

    ahhh to be 12 again and in charge of the world.

  17. Re:Piercing the corporate veil... on Why Offshore Napster Won't Work · · Score: 1

    OMG, this is infact the first justification I have ever heard in the defense of Delaware.

    take that Wayne and Garth!

    BRAVO!

  18. Re:Units on Clockless Computing? · · Score: 1

    yeah Micro$oft is gonna rate the new chips, it's based on how long it takes to get into their os, we'll have the octium 1:50, the octium 1:25 for those with a little spare capital and the celium 2:30 for those who still just wanna surf da net.

    somebody's gotta be capable of coming up with a non biased benchmark to give theoretical average operations / sec. it dosen;t even matter if it's accurate as long as it's the same all across the board.

  19. Re:Short range on Go Fast With Wireless 1394 · · Score: 1

    Size will gauge how versitle it is but think about it, wireless 400MB,

    Put up a few repeaters in an office and a nice encryption protocol. I'd kill for my laptop to finish syncing by the time i got to my desk.

    If they were small and power cheap enough, digital cameras, video senders, surviellance systems. anything that has an IR port would rock if they could fit this in it.

    I just wanna admin from a bench overlooking the harbor across the street is that too much to ask?

  20. Re:But... on DataPlay - Flash Killer or Copy-Control Nightmare? · · Score: 1

    Ya know, remember those things called tapes, you could put records on to em, you could put CD's on to em, they didn't last very long (the cheap ones at least) and everybody was happy, then we have cd's->mp3's and again everybody was happy, there will always be an easy simple acceptable way to get the data out, someone buys a copy and produces one to be passed around in another format, it dosen't matter what the technology is. cracking the code is great james bond and all, but i doubt in the long run you'll have to. Look at circuit city DIVX-DVD, no not the mpeg 4 stuff, that old pay as you watch stuff, ppl just tossed it aside. I'd be very suprised to see CD's stop shipping, of course i said that about tapes some time ago, but we went digital. the only way to stop the copying? pu a jack in the back of everyones head, no audio, otherwise I'm gonna re-record it.

  21. Please someone buy it and keep it up! on Ricochet Dead By June? · · Score: 1

    I love my Riccochet!!!!!!!!!!
    I've had mine for 2 months now in Baltimore, coverage is a little sketchy, but it works everywhere i've tried to use it so far. I even did a little webcast back to work of the super bowl parade.

    It's gonna be years before anything else works as well as this does.

  22. Re:ahh damn on Interesting Commercials · · Score: 1

    I seemed that any of the play shots were getting some type of touchup, i'd bet the cameras don't move and they just clip a certain field of view out of them.(that'd explain the small view angle) you'll notice all of the shots used for the play field (at least for the first half) didn't get prepared until after return from commercial break, at the half time show they did the trick(with good quality) on Tyler, but he was dead center in the field. if they try this again they really need to speed up and improve the processing technique (photovista did a better job 3 years ago). In my opinion they should just slow time with the shots, right now it's like 5 snapshots, if they let 50ms or so lapse between frames I think I might be more usefull.

  23. Re:Do YOU remeber where you was when you heard ... on The Challenger · · Score: 1

    it was like 7th grade, they pulled us all out of class to assemble in the library to watch the footage on the news. I was shocked, it was the only thing talked about in any class for the rest of the day and most of the next. Then the jokes started the teachers didn't appreciate that too much, but you know, it is a school full of kids. We were just talking about this last week, one of the other techs said he just saw a TLC documentary on the whole situation, appearantly quite a few ppl at NASA knew about the seals, and they blindly ignored them and sent it up anyway.(we're never had a problem yet right?) it's probably good they stopped NASA for a while, you can only gamble soo much with that much government money (much less human lives) and that bad of odds.

  24. I hope they continue devolopment on DivX Going Open Source - Updated · · Score: 2

    I've been using the codec for some time now for 'backing up' DVD's. But recently I have found it it's great compression for lots of stuff. I've compressed a few internal presentations at work with it, my hauppage TV/vid capture can compress into DivX in real time, which leaves me with a 30 minute 100MB file with great quality. Nothing I've ever done in DivX has EVER really compared to a low compression MPEG 2 but the size is incredible and the audio is awsome.

    hmmm 6GB -> 1.2GB still watchable? Bring it on!

  25. Now I've been out and about in the DVD/DivX world on "D-VHS": Will it replace DVD? · · Score: 1

    and darned if i've seen anyone trading 4-7Gigs worth of VOB's to watch one stinking movie, even on broadband no one wants to wait that long. Given, the quality of the VOB(MPEG-2) outputfar surpasses the compressed AVI(MPEG-4) but it's just not worth it.
    If you can see it and you can hear it, with the right equipment you can rerecord it and get a good quality movie.