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  1. Original American Terrorists... on Leaked Modern Warfare 2 Footage Causes Outrage · · Score: 0

    Adams, Jefferson, Washington, etc.

    Back in the day when gentlemen met on a battle field while generals sipped Tea, Americans were hiding in the bushes with long rifles.

    Now, 200 years later and a half a world away much of the same thing is going on.

    The same imperialism that we fought against, we more or less have (How many countries have US Army bases?)

  2. Re:hey, it beats on Film Studios May Block DVD Rentals For One Month · · Score: 1

    Where I download stuff it has around a 365 day retention. People are constantly uploading older movies. I was able to get every single Hitchcock movie ever made. It'll max out my cable connection without having to seed either.

    It's called Us****NO CARRIER***

    Nothing to see, move along.

  3. I'm in ur torrents downloading ur movies on Film Studios May Block DVD Rentals For One Month · · Score: 1

    They show up on Torrents or Us(*&$(* weeks before you can buy it.

    You're just going to push more people towards that. People are going to see that the movie is actually released to Walmart but they can't rent it like they used to, so they're going to start searching for it elsewhere.

    There are already a half dozen or so sites that have absolutely shitty Cams uploaded to flash format that I know some people watch. These are people that don't know anything about computers, but they know there's a "Youtube like site where you can watch the latest movies".

  4. Re:How it works on Google Voice Now Works WIth Existing Mobile Numbers · · Score: 1

    This message as translated by Google Voice:

    I shot a gay that oogled Morice. Is may better than iTone visual female? Bear real lee different tings. Google transcribes you're choice tail and sms or ails him to shoe (a mung lo savanna swings). Usual gmail trusts ows ewe who call dew without having to smile him.

    Yeah, but after a while you can decipher it.

  5. Re:What do you want home automation for? on What is the Current State of Home Automation? · · Score: 1

    What if you're running late? What if you're going to return from vacation a day later than you thought, how about a day earlier?

    Yes, there is no 'point' to it other than I like it. Then again anything that can be 'automated' you can easily do by hand.

  6. Re:What do you want home automation for? on What is the Current State of Home Automation? · · Score: 1

    Being "Green". I keep my house at very nominal temperature. If I want to

    If I had full control (via servos) over which vents or portions of the house were heated, I could say: 7 am, warm up bedroom and bathroom
    8 am, go back to nominal
    6 pm, warm up kitchen and living room
    10 pm, warm up bedroom and let living room cool.
    12 pm, let bedroom go to cooler state (I own blankets).

    Now Imagine being able to text that to your phone. Going to run a bit late from work? Tell it not to warm up the living room. We've all heard the 'energy saving tips' of setting the house 1C cooler. What about not keeping your entire house at the same temp all day and night when you're there or not.

  7. Re:Too expensive on What is the Current State of Home Automation? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If you can solder: http://www.maxim-ic.com/products/1-wire/

    Or if you can't: http://www.hobby-boards.com/catalog/index.php?cPath=24

    Or if you sign up on Maxim's website they'll send you 1-2 samples of some of their products. Very awesome indeed.

  8. Re:Good luck on What is the Current State of Home Automation? · · Score: 3, Informative

    1-Wire is awesome. I'm currently using it in my house. While it doesn't do everything, there are quite a few modules for different things.

    Those are just the pre-built options. Maxim has quite a few chips that do different things. People have also used things in very creative ways. The wind direction gauge is just a position feedback sensor on a mechanical device to point towards the wind.

    And no 1-wire home setup would be complete without OWFS (One Wire File System). Works quite a bit like /proc. You can query your temp sensors with 'cat' and turn on relays with 'echo'. Also has libs for php, perl and other languages so you can use scripts. Caching so you don't hammer the bus.

    Since I installed my HVAC controller before the temp sensors (Open Loop!) I went with a super4 relay board. They have linux code, but uses the proprietary FTDI drivers, I used libftdi and write my own. I wired it up in parallel to my thermostat, which I set to 50F. When I was driving home I'd kick it on and when I got home I'd kick it off. If I was hot, I turned it off. Etc. Also kicked on (via cron) at 7 am. (I grew up in an old farm house, so 60F ambient is fine for my single life).

    I also have it on the 'web' checking an e-mail address that I can text from my phone. "heat" kicks things on "off" kicks things off. Nothing fancy yet.

  9. Re:Got me one of these on Low-Power Home Linux Server? · · Score: 1

    It should have a universal power supply in it (like almost all AC/DC adapters now days).

  10. Re:Sheeva Plug on Low-Power Home Linux Server? · · Score: 2, Informative

    I got the joke, but what he means is that in addition to the USB A plug (to which you can plug in hard drives and the such), it has a USB->Serial->JTAG adapter on it. Meaning no matter how hard you try to screw up the OS, you should still be able to recover it.

    To address the comments below about the Pogo and Tonido plug, the Sheeva plug is infinitely better in my book (especially for the slashdot crowd.) It includes the JTAG plug in addition to the SD card. Those projects are great for the clueless home owner who just wants X done. But you're going to run into limitations.

    Ordered mine a while ago, should be here this Saturday. (Party, play with plug, party, play with plug....) They seem to get them in batches from Sheeva so that's what took a little while.

    Mine is going to run my HVAC via 1-wire and a relayboard, in addition to some external hard drives.

  11. Re:marketshare on Now Linux Can Get Viruses, Via Wine · · Score: 1

    That looks like Malware. Stuff that people install voluntarily because of social engineering.

    I could put:
    -
    #!/bin/bash
    sudo rm -rf /
    -
    into a file tell you that it'll give you more free hard drive space.

    I'm talking about Viruses & Trojans. The stuff that is automated and requires 0 user interaction. The stuff that infects an XP SP1 machine with in 20 minutes of being on the internet.

  12. Re:marketshare on Now Linux Can Get Viruses, Via Wine · · Score: 3, Insightful

    A link to all those hundreds of OS X viruses that are coming out?

  13. Re:Non issue on History In Video Games — a Closer Look · · Score: 2, Funny

    You mean that wasn't a factual documentation?! WTF. I've been reading those for years searching out for my own clues. I thought it was a peer reviewed book on the NYT Top 10 for a good reason.

    Farking A. There goes my senior thesis.

  14. Re:An F-15 is much bigger than a P-51. OMG BLOAT! on Engineers Tell How Feedback Shaped Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    How has Apple seemingly made OS X appear increasingly faster? Granted 10.0 had plenty to improve on, but 10.1-10.2-10.3 on my 866 mHz machine seemed to get faster.

    10.4 - 10.5 - 10.6 on my MacBook Pro seemed to fly.

    (Heck 10.6 increased HD space because it dropped all the legacy PPC code).

  15. Re:Ducted cabinets on The Risks and Rewards of Warmer Data Centers · · Score: 1

    Why even have individual cases? It seems to be rare now days that a full rack isn't just full of computers. Why not have one massive door and a bunch of naked computers on the racks. Set up the air flow in your building such that one side is high pressure the other side is low and blow air across the entire thing.

  16. Re:Feedback on Engineers Tell How Feedback Shaped Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    Please say they at least hit the Balmer Peak after the party.

    http://xkcd.com/323/

  17. Re:It will start with only 6 people... on Volunteers Wanted For Simulated 520-Day Mars Trip · · Score: 1

    It's really not that bad.
    I lived in a 'girls' dorm freshmen year. 5 floors of females. Guys on the 2nd floor. Small campus so none of the restricted floors stuff. Sure their trashcans filled up a bit faster. But there really was none of what you make it out to be.

    And for further clarification. If they're "in cycle" then they are not PMSing. Guess what the P stands for.

    (I swore I won the lottery when I got my letter).

  18. CPU on Skiing Robot May Not Be Useful, But Fun To Watch · · Score: 1

    And both make you realize how much processing power the brain actually has. There are people that do this at the Olympics that do it better and faster.

    All taken in with two little tiny organic cameras and processed in something that only weighs a few pounds.

  19. Re:The Good, the Bad, the Ugly... on 100,000 Californians To Be Gene Sequenced · · Score: 1

    "Predisposition to death." I'm really surprised that some insurance company hasn't tried this one yet.

    "So, your great grand mother, how healthy is she?"
    "Well, she died about 30 years ago"
    [checks off box]
    "And your grand mother?"
    "She died just last year."
    [checks off another box].

  20. Re:It will start with only 6 people... on Volunteers Wanted For Simulated 520-Day Mars Trip · · Score: 5, Funny

    Lesbian crews. More specifically, HOT lesbian crews.

    Video cameras everywhere, the trip would pay for itself.

  21. Re:Force Feedback? on Toyota Experimenting With Joystick Control For Cars · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Even worse is that the dynamics of a vehicle can make joystick control even worse. When you're just on a computer there is no angular acceleration of your body so its relatively simple.

    As you go into a left turn, your hand wants to keep going the direction it was going, which is actually right from your frame of reference. Meaning you have to pull left harder.

    Except that pull isn't the same for all speeds. Either they're going to have to dial down the controls for at speed or you're going to have a few people that get it up to 60 mph try to take a turn and over shoot their intended position....

  22. Re:Not Really on Windows 7 On Multicore — How Much Faster? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No, it's not surprising.

    Should have implemented Grand Central, I hear it's free and opensource. Even has the Apache license so that it allows use of the source code for the development of proprietary software.

    I mean they already borrowed the TCP IP stack.

  23. Data mine this. on CIA Invests In Firm That Datamines Social Networks · · Score: 1

    Bomb. Obama. Whitehouse. CIA. FBI. Conspiracy. Ruby ridge. Muslim. Jihad. Osama. Israel. Arlington Road. Homeland Security. 747. 777. Pilot lessons. Explode. 9/11. Pentagon.

    Think of it like Carlin's "7 words you can't say on TV".

  24. Dear Jesus. on Legal War For WA State Sunshine Law · · Score: 1

    Save us from your followers.

    Why is this even an issue?

    I don't want to see you getting it on in public, but that goes for straights too. What you do behind closed doors is none of my business just as what I do is none of yous.

    If nothing else, just be smug about it and think on the inside how there'll be more room in heaven for you and your family.

  25. I'll be bock.... on iRobot Introduces Morphing Blob Robot · · Score: 1

    Seriously. How much longer before it's driving a semi trying to kill some kid that supposedly saves man kind?