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  1. Personalised IP's? on Court Says Customers May Take IPs Away From ISP · · Score: 1

    Wes.tEn.d.Car.Sales

  2. Made on a Mac on Fahrenheit 9/11 Discussion · · Score: 1

    "...entirely created on a mac using Final Cut pro..."

    I wonder if a warning appeared after clicking Export that said "The President of the United States of America, and all his millions of supporters, are going to be very angry with you if you continue. Are you sure you want to continue?"

  3. Re:Cognitive Dissonance? on Beastie Boys Respond to DRM Claims · · Score: 1

    "us"

    Speak for yourself dude!

  4. Re:Speed of 3D in Java? on Java3D Source Code Released · · Score: 1

    You forgot to preface your post with You Insensitive Clod "That "horrible salsbury steak right out of a $2 TV dinner" is one of my favorite foods... more so then the other meet you listed "...never mind

  5. Re:Now He'll Need a Bandwidth Fund Too on Build Your Own KiteCam · · Score: 2, Informative

    Looks like he knows almost as much about encoding video as he does about sending a camera up on a kite without trashing it.

    In future I'd recommend downloading a little app from Microsoft called Windows Media Encoder and messing around with the settings until you get a really small file that plays back double size.

    Better still, upgrade a copy of QuickTime to the pro version and make a 160x120 12fps movie using sorensons codec with an avg bit rate of around 40k and set it to play back double size.

    A little research means you'd still have a camera and a server!!

  6. Re:Blue Peter Style ? on Build Your Own KiteCam · · Score: 2, Funny

    Actually, for projects requiring a layer of padding they always suggested using a wig to put between the stickyback plastic and the object, after asking a parent or grandparent for permission first of course.

    Oh, how we would laugh when granny would go off to the shops wearing our latest project on her head because she couldn't get the stickyback plastic off.

  7. Re:Y10k bug on Computer Pioneer Bob Bemer Dies · · Score: 1

    There won't be a Jan 1 in the year 10,000 - it'll be Jan 01.3487755132124 I bet

  8. Re:Question on SpaceShipOne Flight Completed Successfully · · Score: 2, Funny

    How about a really big trampoline - has anybody ever thought of that?

  9. Re:Drug novel... on A Scanner Darkly Film Preview · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Reeves will be perfect in this. I just hope they get the scene with the discussion about how to stop the car from fishtailing just right. Without doubt one of the funniest things I've ever read. I think the quick fix was to put a bunch of gold in the trunk and have 12 of their buddies sit in the back seat. Killer stuff.

  10. Re:It's like basic cable on AOL To Charge for AIM Videoconferences · · Score: 2, Funny

    What...you mean I can go out and buy Spongebob Squarepants stuff?

  11. Re:No they wont' charge for AIM on AOL To Charge for AIM Videoconferences · · Score: 1

    They showed that obnoxious popcorn cartoon thing when I saw all the LOTR's, Star Wars and 2001 there. It always reminds of Clippy, which makes sense seeing as Paul Allen owns the place.

  12. Re:No they wont' charge for AIM on AOL To Charge for AIM Videoconferences · · Score: 4, Funny

    My mouth is watering at the memory of the slideshow style ad that featured a local Indian restaurant near the Apollo cinema in Leeds, England.

    I remember going there for a curry after seeing the premier showing of Blade Runner with my Dad.

    Replicants, Keema Faal and eight pints of Tetley's Bitter. It doesn't get any better than that!

  13. Re:Advice on Uniquely Bright: Experiences and Tips? · · Score: 1

    Crap...a job is about working for the man. It's not a tool, it's a life sentence.

  14. Chicken and the Egg on Casio's Credit Card Watch · · Score: 4, Funny

    Who will the be the first to buy a watch with a watch I wonder?

  15. Re:PPPOP on Uniquely Bright: Experiences and Tips? · · Score: 1

    "it's very late"

    No, it's not!

  16. Re:Advice on Uniquely Bright: Experiences and Tips? · · Score: 1

    If you're a regular kid in regular school it's totally all about how to choose a career, how to get a job and how to keep that job.

    No doubt the rich kids are being taught how to hire as cheap as possible and then kill the company for the greatest net gain.

    Admitted, the teeming masses can't all start their own companies, but c'mon teachers, at least throw it out there as an option from time to time.

  17. Re:We'll meet again... on Build Your Own Model B-52 · · Score: 1

    Why the hell are they all crowded over behind the right wing?

    There's plenty of room on the other side, unless maybe it was really cold and they're standing close together to keep warm.

    Or perhaps the photographer has a nasty habit of skinning people alive unless they're in groups of two or more!

  18. Re:What about social prejudices? on Microsoft, Sony Announce iPod Competitors · · Score: 1

    "In the vein that people have jumped on iPods in a big way. Most people think iPods are cool. They have almost become a symbol of hip-ness"

    Reminds me of a nightmare I had the other night:

    Wired - MicroPod
    Tired - SonyPod
    Expired - iPod

  19. Re:Mod Parent Down on Shrek 2 How-To · · Score: 1

    Worse, this could have come from the top!

    The words "nowhere near" were also used by Steve Jobs when he was quoted as saying that he was "nowhere near as good an engineer as Woz" in this Steve Wozniak biography.

    Now, I'm not a conspiracy theorist or anything, but this is pretty damning evidence if you ask me.

  20. Re:No. on Shatner May Return to Star Trek (Briefly?) · · Score: 1

    So long as they don't find a holodeck floating around in the Nexus and bring it back I don't care who they find in there!!!!

  21. Ringtone Monopoly?? on Cell Phone Ringtones Give Music Industry Another Headache · · Score: 1

    Loudeye Technologies up in Seattle has possibly the biggest authorized digital music archive in North America, all of it sanctioned by the five major labels and countless indies (they supply audio files to Microsoft, Apple among others), yet they also recently started selling ringtones.

    Isn't there a conflict of interest right there?

  22. Re:I got news for you ... on Star Wars Episode III : Birth Of The Empire · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Basically, the hamsters in the focus rooms hit the pedal more times when "Birth of an Empire" was read."

    I wonder if "Abortion of an Empire" was ever considered as a title for Star Wars VI?

  23. Re:What a coincidence... on Star Wars Episode III : Birth Of The Empire · · Score: 1

    What better time to cancel that Rhapsody subscription then!

  24. Re:Picture this... on SCO Prides Itself on Inspiring FUD · · Score: 1

    I know one should never judge a book by its cover, and all that, but I've been choosing science fiction paperbacks for over thirty years based on the cover art and only on a couple of occasions picked up a loser. So when I see that picture I also see a thug, a full blown school bully.

    Go geeks!

  25. Paper and Condoms on The Logic Behind Metric Paper Sizes · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    When I used to live in the UK the metric paper system used to make so much sense, yet three thousand miles later, in possibly the most technologically advanced nation in the world, I'm working with Victorian era weights and measures.

    Unfortunately that's not the only Victorian era throwback that Americans are living with

    I saw some ads this morning that recently aired in the UK, ads for condoms, that are smart and funny, yet would not be aired on US television because of all the sick and twisted censorship this land of the free is having to deal with right now.

    At least God gave us the internet, and the christian right can't take away away, right!?

    Trojan Games