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  1. Shouldn't That Be... on Quebec Cracks Down On Translated Videogames · · Score: 1

    Quebec Cracks Down On Non-translated Video Games

  2. Imagine the Daymare... on Japanese Airline Sells Flight Sim On-Board · · Score: 2, Funny

    You bank right in the flight sim, the aeroplane you're in banks right. You bank left in the flight sim, the aeroplane you're in banks left. Oh my god, you're controlling the friggin' 'plane! You wake up with a startle.

  3. Re:In other words, yet another OSS bug? on Apache 2.0.48 Released · · Score: 1

    You don't pay for the oxygen you're breathing, do you?

  4. Re:Open source ideas website on Ideas Unlimited: 11 Suggestions for New Inventions · · Score: 1
    whynot.net

    "How to Use Everyday Ingenuity to Solve Problems Big and Small"

    All those great ideas to solve problems and they haven't solved the bgcolor problem yet...

  5. Re:Windows doesn't like it that much better on Germany Publishes Windows to Linux Migration Guide · · Score: 1

    They should just have a desktop or taskbar icon that does a clean shutdown. I remember doing this by calling some .exe with a load of parameters. Alternatively, they could use APM (I think) so that when they hard press the power button on the front of the computer, MSWin does a clean shutdown instead of a forced hardware stop.

  6. Re:Baloney on Windows Developers Agree: Linux More Secure · · Score: 5, Funny

    Give us the URL of your Microsoft box. You don't need to give us special permissions. We'll make our own.

  7. It's not SPEED on Internet Speed Record Broken (Again) · · Score: 1

    It's THROUGHPUT. It might be 5.44 Gbps but it might have a terrible ping time, and therefore very SLOW.

  8. No, the question is... on Maxtor's 300 GB Monster Reviewed · · Score: 1

    What is it's lifetime?

  9. "Steve Jobs who comes out on top of Bill Gates" on Torvalds the "5th Most-Powerful Man in Tech" · · Score: 1

    An image I could have done without :-(

  10. Re:Problem on Slackware 9.1 Released · · Score: 1

    Well there is now Swaret to upgrade to the latest versions :-)

  11. The Cyberdemon on Gaming Soundbites You Can't Forget · · Score: 1

    'A friend' was playing Doom in a dark room with the sound turned up. He almost shit himself when he heard the Cyberdemon and refused to play further.

  12. Re:Gattaca on RFID Hell · · Score: 1

    Not sure if you're trolling or didn't know that IIRC means 'if I remember correctly'. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and explain a bit more to help you out. If I remember correctly, didn't they use the DNA technology to capture the bad guy in the end? That is a good use, is it not?

  13. Re:Gattaca on RFID Hell · · Score: 1

    It was good use; the political reasons behind it might not have been.

  14. Re:No on RFID Hell · · Score: 1

    Please see my reply above regarding the two separate uses.

  15. Re:Gattaca on RFID Hell · · Score: 1

    There were two uses in Gattaca. One was determining exactly who someone is from a piece of DNA, and the other was, as you say, detemining career and social status from a newborn. We're not talking about the latter here.

  16. Gattaca on RFID Hell · · Score: 2, Troll

    IIRC the technology in Gattaca presented a good use. Perhaps not the best example movie?

  17. Re:Get It Right! on Justice Department Proud of Patriot Act Slippery Slope · · Score: 1

    My point is that it's working - people are falling for it.

  18. Heh, That's Great on New VOIP App. Profiled · · Score: 2, Funny
    is addressing all the problems of legacy VoIP solutions: bad sound quality, difficult to set up and configure, and the need for expensive, centralized infrastructure.'...

    Windows only beta client available."

  19. Get It Right! on Justice Department Proud of Patriot Act Slippery Slope · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The more you keep calling it the 'Patriot Act', the more people who don't know better, and yourselves subconsciously to a point, will think this thing has some relation to patriotism. Stop being two-faced. Practise what you're preaching and call it what it is - the P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act.

  20. Re:What about the interactivity patches? on Kernel 2.6 Real-Time Benchmarks · · Score: 1

    Doh, didn't think of that. I shall try it next time I try 2.6, thanks. Need lm_sensors and the spca webcam module to compile with it first :-)

  21. Re:What about the interactivity patches? on Kernel 2.6 Real-Time Benchmarks · · Score: 1

    Oh. My 2.6 xmms would skip under no load every so often :-/

  22. Re:What about the interactivity patches? on Kernel 2.6 Real-Time Benchmarks · · Score: 1

    2.4 never skips for me. How can skipping in the first thirty seconds be better than never skipping?

  23. Go Back To School on The Quest For Frames Per Second In Games · · Score: 1

    Not one instance of "their" or "you're" in the whole article.

  24. Re:heh on Power Grid Insecurities Examined · · Score: 1
    Implementing the deal means interacting with control systems. I will admit to ignorance of how this happens exactly; but I suspect that the traders aren't driving to the power plant or transmission control centers and doing it themselves.

    Just make a telephone call. No internet needed.

  25. Re:what % of Windows is patches? on Microsoft Issues Five New Security Warnings · · Score: 1

    Why do you bring up Linux?