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  1. Re:No mirrors?! on Ray Kurzweil 2001-2003 essays Available as a PDF · · Score: 1

    heh, I suppose you're right, i'm just annoyed because I'm actually interested and can't manage to download anything >:(

  2. No mirrors?! on Ray Kurzweil 2001-2003 essays Available as a PDF · · Score: 1

    Everyone who follows the link will be trying to download a 4.4mb pdf from one single server.

    Did NOBODY think a few mirrors would be apropriate before putting it up on /.??

  3. Re:Replay attacks on Vein Patterns to Verify Identity · · Score: 1

    infrared means that it's reading the vein pattern via the heat emitted by the blood flowing through them. I've never seen a "picture" that emits heat.

  4. Re:Replay attacks on Vein Patterns to Verify Identity · · Score: 1

    just a quick question.. do you know what infrared means?

  5. Re:I wanted to post something attempting wit on 'DVD Jon' Breaks Google Video Lock · · Score: 1

    He modified, freely available, open-source code, that hadn't had any attempt at being obfuscated made upon it; whoop-dee-freaking-doo.

    I very very much doubt google gives a flying stuff about this patch, and if you actually read the code you would see it's no attempt at DRM at all.

    In fact I'm not even sure why google bothered to make it so as to only be able to view videos from their domain, hardly hurting them for people to be using a plugin they developed to view other peoples video, just gets people more used to the google brandname.

  6. Re:bool IronyFilter=True on Censored Nagasaki Bomb Story Found · · Score: 1

    wow.. completely absoloutely irrelevant to what I had to say, but other than that yeah you're right

  7. Re:MacArthur on Censored Nagasaki Bomb Story Found · · Score: 1

    christ almighty, I'm just guessing here but I get the feeling you don't really have any freakin idea what Japan was like in 1945.. They were led by an EMPEROR ffs! They didn't have much say in the matter.
    Do you blame civillian iraqi's for the gassing of the kurds? Is it the cambodians fault that pol pot slaughtered them? Hey, obviously neither stood up enough to stop it.

  8. Re:You're right! on Censored Nagasaki Bomb Story Found · · Score: 1

    jesus.. every time I read this, and it seems to be a something that doesn't want to go down, I can't help but wonder how DIFFERENTLY America must teach history compared to Australia.

    Then again history is written by the winners right?

  9. Re:Intent on PC Case Made Completely of Fans · · Score: 1

    maybe it could just suck all the fun out of life...

  10. Re:vaporware on Windows to Have Better CLI · · Score: 1

    Now come ON!

    Don't we all know the answer to this yet??
    After years of the same pattern we certainly should.

    They'll make a better one by COPYING that app that's been
    refined over 20 years and adding pretty colours!

  11. Uncle Bush Needs You! on Patriot Act to be Expanded · · Score: 2, Interesting

    http://www.mdrails.com/images/marc_marshal.jpg
    A real picture from a poster in a train station in america apparently...

    Hmmm...

  12. Re:Yeah Right on The Other Side of BitTorrent · · Score: 1

    Proven wrong with one statement; People download tv shows. TV Shows, even those that are broadcast first in the US, free-to-air, in HD, are still downloaded by people in the US! Kinda destroy's the whole "They do it because they don't have to pay for it then" argument completely doesn't it?
    As for me, I download tv shows for two reasons, because I really don't feel like waiting the 6 months for Australian tv to catch up (with longer ad-breaks than you get, and for the case of a show like "Deadwood" may not get to watch at all), and I also really enoy the convenience of having it in a simple format on my computer.

  13. Re:Noisy website on Juicebox Hacking · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ... thanks ed, sure bet my housemates appreciated the sudden and stupidly loud "JUICEBOX!" at 4.28AM

  14. Re:If a nurse and engineer marry and have a child. on Engineers Have More Sons, Nurses More Daughters · · Score: 1

    that's ok, now you can just blame all your problems on genetics ;-)

  15. Re:My next project on Liquid Metal CPU Cooling · · Score: 1
    Objects radiating heat simply create a ball of heat surrounding the radiating object. (candle flames are spherical)
    huh, well now I wanna go to space just so I can light a freakin candle and see that
  16. Re:How much is that? on iTunes Store Available in Australia Very Soon · · Score: 1

    actually it's $1.40 USD...

  17. Re:Newsflash... on Dual Cores Taken for a Spin in Multitasking · · Score: 1

    probably not subjective, being that in everyday desktop usage, you are always going to be running more than one app at once. And if they're completely different processes, they will be shared between the CPU's well, hence more responsive. the multithreaded thing comes into play when you have one app that you need to go ueber fast, you'll find on your MP system that if you run a game it will use 100% of one CPU and 0% of the other, this is what people mean by needing a multithreaded environment.

  18. Re:Sounds sensible for a change... on Microsoft to Release a Thin-Client Windows XP · · Score: 1

    completely missed the point... They're talking about a thin client OS, not a 'lite' version of windows.

  19. Re:So it's useless then? on Router Built for Gamers · · Score: 1

    wow... just.. sorry, but that was such a dumb comment.
    If your opponent has lower latency than you then they see you first, ie going round corners and stuff..

    I mean, that's pretty obvious really isn't it?

  20. Re:Nice, now when are the RIMs going? on Australia Gets 8Mbit/s Broadband now, 20Mbit Soon · · Score: 1

    interesting article on whirlpool atm about a new device that telstra are looking at that will extend adsl 1 an extra 20km, i'm sure could help you. esp since if telstra can extend it like that, then iinet and the independant isp's can extend it to 40km at adsl 2 speeds ;)

  21. Re:capped to 40GB/month on Australia Gets 8Mbit/s Broadband now, 20Mbit Soon · · Score: 1

    bloody hell, obviously it's so that when we do want the odd movie, we can get it quicker, jesus.

  22. Something actually kinda weird and off on Inspecting MSN Search · · Score: 1

    first two things i searched on the new engine, betterontoast and seriouslogic, didn't come up with their official dns registered pages. www.seriouslogic.com and www.betterontoast.com (these are real).
    I found this rather strange and brings into question the size of the msn cache.

  23. Re:I'm no scientist, but on Mysterious Force Affects Pioneer 10 & 11 Probes · · Score: 1
    the point is these gravitational forces don't all just suddenly add together and become stronger.. they were all acting on it from the start, just that as it gets further and further away, the angles at which each individual object is pulling it becomes much more similar.

    however it still becomes less by the distance squared, meaning that it should never ever have an increase in the gravitational force pulling it back into our system.

  24. Re:And as an added side bonus... on Xbox 2 Concept Designs Leaked? · · Score: 1
    because that screen either cost you much much more than a new PC, or it's a normal piece of crap TV that only goes up to 800x600.

    Not to mention everyone knows PC games are better to play :P

    Hell, consoles don't even have the Total War series :|

  25. Re:Hello NWO on Warez Suspect To Be Extradited, After All · · Score: -1, Troll

    wow.. you must feel amazing, being so much more powerful than us.. little Australia.. with ONE FIFTEENTH OF YOUR POPULATION, and has been around as a nation for what..? off the top of my head 100 years less.. note to all americans with this guys attitude... get your head out of your arse before you suffocate.