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  1. Re:FP and the Sites Down! on Star Wars Episode 3 Play-By-Play In Pictures · · Score: 5, Informative

    Two full mirrors:
    http://www.tpu.fi.nyud.net:8090/~t4jlaaks/ep3/

    http://nerdfilter.com/

    The second seems to be holding up pretty well.

  2. Mirrors on Star Wars Episode 3 Play-By-Play In Pictures · · Score: 2, Informative

    Two full mirrors:
    http://www.tpu.fi.nyud.net:8090/~t4jlaak s/ep3/

    http://nerdfilter.com/

    The second seems to be holding up pretty well. Of course by the time this is posted, it'll be the opposite;p

    Addys deliberately not encoded in HTML goodness

  3. Glad I live in CANADA on BBC on Global Dimming · · Score: 1

    NT

  4. U3 USB Standard on CES Tidbits · · Score: 1

    Back to the days of the boot sector virus and infected "floppies" Yay!

  5. Two fingered typists are screwed? Hah. on Is Typing a Necessary Skill? · · Score: 1

    I use my index fingers for every letter, pinky for enter, thumb for space.

    Back in high school, grade ten, they were trying to force us to home row, but I got to the point where I was typing so fast that as they were walking beside us, nobody could tell that I was not doing home row.

    For the record, last time I tested myself, I was ~95 WPM. Two years ago or so, and I've been doing tech support since, typing up notes and stuff daily, so..

  6. Re:9 out of 10? on Open Source Part of Mainstream IT in Canada · · Score: 1

    Our igloos are better than yours, I'd teach you (but I'd have to charge) *ugh* foo.

  7. Re:Finally! on Longhorn's Flash Killer? · · Score: 1

    In respect to the article of hotmail.co.uk, maybe we should consider these spam variations.. ...

    XP -> Xtrasized Penis

    Xoo Porn
    Xoo Poo
    XMen Panties

    and of course, the brand new 'X-Pill.' Let's all start complaining that XP Professional did not improve our abilities to obtain a secretary that will service us believably, and XP Home didn't help us get a hotter wife! Come on Billy, why you gotta make these promisses? Why!?

  8. Re:If you don't know the difference... on Eddie Izzard As ... Doctor Who? · · Score: 1

    > "Drag queens dress as a women to entertain, transvestites do it for other reasons (i.e. they like the feel of ladies underwear *shivers*)"

    > So drag queens just decided to wear womens clothes purely as a career choice? Yeah right, pull the other one.

    I didn't say as a career choice smartass, I said to entertain. Some do get paid for it, and actually they get quite a bit. Drag queens don't run around everywhere they go in their drag clothing like transgendered folk do, usually they'd only either do it in a gay club or when shopping for more ladies clothing.

  9. Re:If you don't know the difference... on Eddie Izzard As ... Doctor Who? · · Score: 1

    Drag queens dress as a women to entertain, transvestites do it for other reasons (i.e. they like the feel of ladies underwear *shivers*)

    Btw, the currently accepted politically correct term is transgendered, and no I'm not either. But I do have a drag name (even if I've never done it) of "Vaceline Di Yawn."

  10. Re:Joshua... what are you doing ? on Microsoft Longhorn Delayed · · Score: 1

    XP is made as an all around OS. People that use it as an upgrade to NT, or even 2k -- without a specific reason, are just on crack.

    As linux's pretty much proved, regardless of how many fools continue to try, you can't have a great, stable all around OS. Linux will never go to the Desktop because of people like me who truly do not want it to go to the average user's desktop. Linux is good because if you know how to use it, it works. If you don't, it still doesn't. Regardless of how many programs you stick in there to help people configure samba and their printers. Linux is good for servers/power users. Windows home bases, including XP are for your parents to check their email on, and for application compatibility. NT is for servers as well, and the difference between choosing Win/linux is simply what is needed out of it.

  11. Re:Joshua... what are you doing ? on Microsoft Longhorn Delayed · · Score: 1

    Read, dumbass. The parent didn't say XP/2k were secure (of course, he also didn't say they aren't secure.) It merely said that that isn't why Win2k3 took so long to release.

    People like you deserve to be court-banned to nothing but VMS.

  12. A bit deceptive don't you think? on Microsoft Longhorn Delayed · · Score: 1

    Magrathea caused the market crash..

  13. Re:I apparently already have this function.... on Executive Secretary In Every Computer · · Score: 3, Funny

    void lameFpAttempt()
    {printf("

    Step 1. Become overlord of Soviet Russia
    Step 2. Beowulf cluster
    Step 2. ???
    Step 3. Economic improvement!\n");}

  14. Damned dyslexia.. on Inkblot Passwords · · Score: 1

    Blogs eating mother
    Dead blogs
    Mother eating dead blog
    Dead blogs
    Dead mother
    Blog...dead
    Mother killed by blog
    Dying blog eating dead blog
    Mother giving birth to dead blog
    Death

    Noo not the blogs.

  15. EU did what? on EU Rolls out Anti Spam Strategy · · Score: 1

    End users are smart enough to do what now?
    Err..
    Been taking too many case notes.

  16. Re:Transmeta, Linus and Marketing... on Linus Moves To OSDL, Will Work On Kernel Full-Time · · Score: 1

    Hey! I think he looks cute! Sooo very very cute... eep my people to stalk list is getting low. Hrm...
    http://www.unc.edu/depts/jomc/academics/dr i/images /torvalds.jpg

  17. Atari 2600 kicks ass! on Concern Over Dropping Japanese Console Sales · · Score: 1

    First, I'd like to say that the Atari 2600 is by far the best console every released.

    Other than that, I think a monopoly in the console market could be beneficial. Or at least standards on how to execute software. With this, no matter what console you buy, you'd be able to play the same games. Why? Because then you don't buy an X-Box (@@%#@#) and then find out that they're going to make loserific games for it.

    We have standards for everything else, why not this? The difference would be where the consoles excel - antialiasing, speed, depth, features, different controls, etc.

    Or on the other hand..anybody know a console company able to set up us the monopoly?

  18. Protection against Slashdotting! on Application Layer Packet Shaping on Linux · · Score: 0, Troll

    Vital services can still get in while your webserver remains overloaded.

    Why are we advertising this? We're ruining the basis of our whole community!

  19. Hydropower? on Simulation Of An Asteroid Impact In The Year 2880 · · Score: 1

    What's the chances of converting a good part of this to hydropower? We already have Hoover Dam providing a large amount of electricity..and that's from a desert!

    We could probably even use excess electricity to keep the waves in a wirl pool/funnel state to keep it from hitting the coast, or to force the waves down..

  20. Re:Actually... on Simulation Of An Asteroid Impact In The Year 2880 · · Score: 1

    intellectual workers will be connected to the internet directly, by means of biocybernetics, rather that by means of keyboards and screens. Perhaps something like implanted PDAs right in the brain.

    Ahh! So once again, "Spam" will be a deadly "material" that goes directly to infecting the brain. Fun fun fun.

  21. DDR366? on Review Mandrake Linux 9.1 Power Pack Edition · · Score: 1

    Anybody else see anything wrong with this? 183 double pumped? The only way of achieving this would be to overclock..and then you generally wouldn't call it ddr366, you'd just say that it's running at 366.

  22. Re:It serves us/US right on E.U. Agrees To Launch Galileo Satellite Location System · · Score: 2

    That said.. I'm so glad I'm European !!
    Makes us wonder why you're an AC poster.

    Of course, I'm proud not to be from the US. Sometimes I'd rather be from even Iraq.

    Anyways, the parent post should be modded up..it does have a good point. It would take a long time to build a system such as Galileo. I don't have any of the dates, but it must have been before September 11th, and the world didn't really start to go anti-Bush until more recently. This can't really be a retaliation against recent events.

    Feel free to mod me down for the comments on Iraq, and for saying that I don't think Sadam Houssin has done anything wrong, and that he may have been a revolutionary leader if the US didn't start picking pickles over there.. err I didn't say that, but I did now. But the guy up needs to be insightful.

  23. Re:It's not just about challenging the US military on E.U. Agrees To Launch Galileo Satellite Location System · · Score: 1

    Your example is stupid in the extreme. Runways are much bigger than airplanes. A difference of ten feet one way or the other isn't going to matter to anybody.

    Your honor, it was not my fault that my vehicle hit the pedestrian and continued to travel, it's either Ford's fault for making my navigation system use GPS, or the government's fault for not making ten feet ditches that are a legal no-mans-land.

  24. Re:Technical Magic on Robotic Teleconferencing · · Score: 1

    Yes. It's very hard to comprehend that putting a video camera in front of someone's head will capture their background along with their head. And since the background is what's behind the robot.

    They obviously just wanted some more marketdroid speech in the article. They just wanted you to look back at the pretty little picture and say "hey cool! I want one now! Too bad they aren't released yet and therefore shouldn't really be touched by the marketting department. :( ."

    Don't get me wrong, I think this is a VERY cool thing, and leaves us only one step closer to virtual reality goggles in our homes that immerges us in to a true virtual conference, or better yet, a MMPOG. Just make sure they REALLY feel it when I shoot at em with my Redeemer.

  25. Re:Will tomorrow... on Robotic Teleconferencing · · Score: 1

    Well, first you may have to decompile the code that's drawing her image and add in some mods=p I.E. use StretchBlt instead of BitBlt, and make an artifact cleaning algorythm (both the artifacts on her face, and to make her appear younger.)