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  1. Codecs on British TV Station Offers Downloads · · Score: 5, Informative
    Maybe your mplayer plays them fine. My 64-bit mplayer's offerings are a bit more basic.

    Let's get some open codecs!

  2. Re:Oh wow! on OpenBSD Clashes with Adaptec In Quest for Docs · · Score: 1
    Hey, did the OpenBSD guys ever think it was a temporary thing, or did they fly off the handle about it? I'll tell you, it was the latter.

    All I said, if you look at the original post above, was that they got one 500 error and freaked. It was Saturday night for crying out loud, and they didn't wait even a few hours to see if the problem would go away (which it did).

  3. Re:Yes, he is wrong. on OpenBSD Clashes with Adaptec In Quest for Docs · · Score: 1
    Um, I think you'll find that the 500 error is so "new" that it's not even there at all!
    bash-2.05b$ telnet list-mail.adaptec.com smtp
    Trying 216.52.22.11...
    Connected to list-mail.adaptec.com.
    Escape character is '^]'.
    220 ***2******2********20 ****200*******2***0*00
    mail from: <>
    250 2.1.0 <>... Sender ok
    rcpt to: <doug_richardson@adaptec.com>
    250 2.1.5 <doug_richardson@adaptec.com>... Recipient ok
    quit
    221 2.0.0 list.adaptec.com closing connection
    Connection closed by foreign host.

    Note: some asterisks truncated for lameness.

  4. Tried e-mailing the guy.... on OpenBSD Clashes with Adaptec In Quest for Docs · · Score: 1

    I connected to adaptec's mail server, and it told me it would accept mail for the account in question. I guess they had a config problem, and these guys got snippy when they got a 500 error...

  5. Re:Why, oh why, did they have to repeat the tag na on Tim Bray On The Origin Of XML · · Score: 1
    Overlapping is illegal anyway.

    It's not ambiguous for nesting; it would just close the closest opening tag.

    The only reason I can think of is readability. When I have a long "if" statement in C or Perl, for example, I'll comment the closing curly brace with the statement's conditional.

  6. Finally! on Opera Signs Nokia Phone Deal · · Score: 0, Redundant

    We'll get some return on that government spending. Did you realize that in 1970, the UK was allocating £348,000,000 per year for Silly Walk research?

  7. Re:Assholes on 13 Things That Do Not Make Sense · · Score: 1

    You don't happen to live in Austin, do you? ;-)

  8. Re:Assholes on 13 Things That Do Not Make Sense · · Score: 5, Funny

    So... You're an even bigger asshole than you were pretending to be. Is there a bell curve here? Is there an optimum level of asshole-ness?

  9. Validator on Opera Lays Down Acid2 Challenge · · Score: 2, Informative
  10. Please Note on Chess Master Kasparov To Retire · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "Liberal" here refers to the classical liberals opposing monarchies and arbitrary power. Not the socialist version of the word "liberal" we have in the US.

  11. Re:dns? links? on Phishers Build Deceptive Links with DNS Wildcards · · Score: 1

    Worked for me in FF.

  12. Re:The only question I have is on OpenOffice.org 2.0 Preview · · Score: 1

    You're talking about forwards compatibility, if you're talking about v1.x opening 2.x files. I've no doubt that backwards compatibility, 2.x opening 1.x files, will be 100%.

  13. IMichael? on FCC Member Copps In Favor of Municipal WiFi · · Score: 5, Funny
    Is he an Apple product, or does he just chat online a lot?

    Either way, hardcore!

  14. Unitary government on Free Wi-Fi Threatened? · · Score: 2, Informative
    All government entities within a state exist at the pleasure of that state government. If the state decides that some of its people need protection against tyranny of the majority in a city, it's perfectly okay for it to step in and say no.

    If your town wants to install WiFi, have the people interested form a co-op, and do it! No need to force other people to pay.

  15. Pay Twice on Free Wi-Fi Threatened? · · Score: 1
    This is the problem with public education: the marginal cost of something better is HUGE, because you have to pay TWICE.

    If I want to get a 20% better education (or 20% better Internet service), I have to pay 220% the cost of it.

  16. The O.C. - Crap! on Star Wars Sith Trailer and the O.C. · · Score: 5, Funny
    The O.C. is a ridiculous waste of time. It's an overblown soap opera. It has no redeeming qualities.

    ...And yet I can't look away!

  17. Finance Reform on Virginia Court Overturns Spammer Convictions · · Score: 1

    Of course, since McCain-Feingold, political speech isn't all that free anymore either...

  18. Mozilla Translations on New Web Application Attack - Insecure Indexing · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You're looking for the translation for jackasses, Mozilla Fire-Fucking-Fox.

  19. Re:Pressure on Experts Suggest Replacing Definition of Kilogram · · Score: 1
    I stand corrected! You don't need to know anything about pressure to measure volume at the triple point.

    It's still not a good way to go about it, as you say in your other post, but not for the reason I was stating.

  20. Re:How is the US pound measured? on Experts Suggest Replacing Definition of Kilogram · · Score: 1
    From Wikipedia:

    The pound (avoirdupois) or international pound, abbreviation "lb" or sometimes # in the United States, is the mass unit defined as exactly 0.45359237 kilograms

    When a pound is called a "unit of weight", it is often the unit of mass.

    But pounds are also used for the force definitions of weight, in which the pound force is a unit of force equal to 4.448 newtons. That is the force due to gravity of a pound (avoirdupois) where the acceleration of gravity is 32.17405 ft/s2

  21. Re:Pressure on Experts Suggest Replacing Definition of Kilogram · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You could do that, but then you've got pressure as one of the fundamental units, and kilograms defined in terms of that. (Quite disruptive.) And then you would have the same trouble defining pressure that we're having defining mass.

  22. Force on Experts Suggest Replacing Definition of Kilogram · · Score: 2, Informative

    Force is nothing but mass * distance / time^2. 1 Newton = 1 kg*m/s^2

  23. Re:Pressure on Experts Suggest Replacing Definition of Kilogram · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Unfortunately, pressure has a mass component, so your definition is circular.

    Could you please explain why that matters?
    Recursive (adj): See recursive
  24. Re:That'll really help... on Experts Suggest Replacing Definition of Kilogram · · Score: 2, Insightful
    The "standard" in the US really is the metric system. All the units that people actually used are defined in terms of their metric counterparts.

    So a change in the kilogram automatically affects the pound.

    However, when they do make this change, it will not be a "modded" kilogram. It will be the same mass as before; it's just that it will be possible (ultimately) to measure it much more precisly and time-invariantly (as the standard is losing mass over time).

  25. Re:How is the US pound measured? on Experts Suggest Replacing Definition of Kilogram · · Score: 1

    The pound (mass) is defined as a certain number of kilograms. Just like the inch is defined as a certain number of centimeters.