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  1. Re:Famous last words: on Company Files Motion to Stop IE Distribution · · Score: 1
    Have to agree here. As much as I hate Microsofts practices, this is the one lawsuit I wanted Microsoft to win.

    It can only be bad that they lost, given the way legal systems and precedences of previous cases seem to work... (Not knowing much about law, myself)

  2. Re:YES! on Magnets To Replace Bluetooth? · · Score: 1
    Short pulse every 5 seconds or so?

    My experience is more TVs, I suppose... (Which typically auto-degauss when they're cold and you switch on - the time they degauss depends on a temperature dependant resistor that gets heated up by the current used to run the degauss circuitry...)

  3. What about compilers? on Analysis Of Symantec's Stance On Censorship · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Compilers are tools available on line that can be used for malicious purposes by hackers and virus writers.

    Anyway, why should paid for tools be any different?

  4. Hang on... on Windows ATMs by 2005 · · Score: 1
    "What Microsoft actually sells to the banks for ATM use is a cut-down version of Windows that doesn't contain things like Web servers,"

    Since when did MS provide a web server with their OSs? Or is that what they call the security holes...?

  5. Yep, a lot of British banks use Windows... on Windows ATMs by 2005 · · Score: 1

    ...and I've seen a few blue screens and NT error messages at a few different cinema chains... (Alright, 2. UGC and Ster-century to be exact)

  6. None of the GTA games are exclusively Sony only... on Take-Two Interactive and Sony Sued Over GTA · · Score: 1

    ...All of them have also appeared on the PC. The first 2 or three appeared on the PC first and GTA: Vice City is also supposed to be appearing on the X-Box. Or so I've read.

  7. Re:Theres also VIAEXP... on Reverse Engineering an MPEG Driver · · Score: 1

    Thats not so good. Why don't they just release the full specs...

  8. Theres also VIAEXP... on Reverse Engineering an MPEG Driver · · Score: 2, Informative
    The VIA enhanced Xine Player now which does have the details of the MPEG2 stuff for the CLE266... (...and it is connected with VIA, which is where I found the link...)

    Although it did only start about a fortnight ago.

  9. Re:Stock Prices? on MandrakeSoft's Status Update · · Score: 1
    Personally, I prefer room-temperature tapwater, preferably with some iron in it, but maybe I'm just odd.

    You obviously haven't tried the Glaswegian water supply. Occasionally poisonous, usually suspect.

  10. Re:Audio quality? on Build a Multi-Output MP3 Server? · · Score: 1
    Does it matter hugely if its mainly MP3s being played?

    I suppose the bigger bit rates do matter a bit more but...

  11. Re:Simple solution. on When Copy Protection Fails · · Score: 2
    The irony of one copy protected disc is that it plays happily in my portable CD player, it plays happily in my PS2, it almost plays happily in one of my PCs, (It reads audio but screws up the index positions of the last 5 tracks - combining them into one) it doesn't on my other PC, it doesn't play in my brothers car CD changer and it freaks out his DVD player to such an extent it refuses to read other discs for a while...

    So thats 2 non-PCs can play it, 2 non-PCs can't play it, 1 PC can play it, 1 PC can't play it. 50/50 both sides!

  12. Re:Its not the first... on Linux Powers First Handheld Software Radio · · Score: 1
    Is a GSM mobile phone not a handheld radio? :-)

    Alright, fair enough, I know ya mean FM style thang...

  13. Re:One of the concerns on Linux Powers First Handheld Software Radio · · Score: 1

    a la' here (GSM soft radio...)

  14. Re:One of the concerns on Linux Powers First Handheld Software Radio · · Score: 1

    Does it matter? A standard radio could easily be modified to tromp all over the bands and while the software one can crash, the hardware one could have its joints dry out changing the frequency... GSM phones typically use a software radio, anyway...

  15. Its not the first... on Linux Powers First Handheld Software Radio · · Score: 3, Informative
    It is not the first software radio

    Besides which, GSM mobile phones typically use they're processing power to allow them to do fast frequency hopping, etc.

  16. Re:Graphic Adventures on Top Ten Dying Game Genres · · Score: 1
    I like the bit in Curse of Monkey Island:

    "It reads: Tex Adventure: Rest in peace"

    Or something.

    Besides, the article says none of the consoles have an official light gun. What about the PS2 NAMCO gun? Its an official one. True, Sony don't make it but its still official.

  17. Re:Never Fails on Junkyard Wars Wants You! · · Score: 1

    Hey, the Scrapyard challenge (The UK program that Junkyard challenge is based on) pilot episode/program was a two day thing where they had to build a hovercraft and get it around a course. They've now effectively halved the time...

  18. Re:Jihad on NES PC · · Score: 1

    ...and to think they were supposed to have green stripes in the first place...

  19. Re:In other news! on META Predicts Linux Software From Microsoft in 2004 · · Score: 1

    They might not ask it. Remember Microsoft have been writing stuff for Macs for a long time, too. (Not that I think Macs are inferior - they just run a non Microsoft operating system...)