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  1. Re:Lack of good info on The Air Car Nears Completion · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Its exhausted is simply the compressed air, but expanded. It produces no engine pollution. I suppose it might produce some amount of "pollution" from wear on the tire and various mechanical components, but that's generally not considered when discussing automotive pollution in the first place. No. The use of this vehicle DOES produce pollution. In the energy consumed to fill the compressed air tank. Which will probably be from electricity, and probably that electricity will be created from coal.
  2. Re:They may, but they won't have to... on Billion Dollar Handout To Upgrade TVs · · Score: 5, Informative

    DVB Tuner Boxes in the Australian Market are now available in the sub AU$50 price point. Theres little reason why they couldnt be at a similar price in the US. (Except the US standards are slightly more complex - but larger volumes should help this.)

  3. Re:And we are supposed to be...Surprised? on Microsoft Wanted To Drop Mac Office To Hurt Apple · · Score: 1

    # Cancel Office for the Mac and cease support and updates for exisiting versions

    Its much easier than this. They can use their normal tactics, embrace and extend. Simple make sure that office for mac doesnt correctly read and write the office for windows file formats. Little formatting bugs, problems including pictures, Office for the Mac quickly becomes known as being ineffective, and Macs gain a reputation for being incompatible with windows PC's.

  4. Re:Mostly pointless... on Sweden to Make Denial of Service Attacks Illegal · · Score: 5, Informative

    In fact, this is also why thePiratebay.org exists and is so successful - since file sharing carries a sentence which is usually much less than 2 years, the police are not allowed to raid or subpoena the ISPs for the identity of the person that is using a specific IP address. (The Swedish MPAA aka APB have treid hard to get a criminal conviction for file sharing for this reason.)

    No. The pirate bay exists because its not illegal to link to illegal copyrighted material in Sweeden. The pirate bay doesnt share illegal material, just torrent files, which are essentially a link to where the material actually is.

  5. Re:Dotcom boom on 'Dumb Terminals' Can Be a Smart Move for Companies · · Score: 1

    Call for you on line 2.. Something about the 70's wanting their joke back.

  6. Re:"Ach! Capt'n!!!" (better solution) on Home Theater Transformed Into Star Trek Bridge · · Score: 1

    Why? Hes a member here as well, he just hasnt posted for a while. http://slashdot.org/~CleverNickName/

  7. Re:Ask Slashdot... on Java SE 6 Released · · Score: 1

    Its worse than that, Its actually J2SE 5.0. (Ie Java 2 Standard Edition Version 5.0)

    At least 1.6 is simple JSE (Java Standard Edition) 6.0

    This is not without precedent for Sun, As solaris followed this convention. 2.8 was Solaris 8, etc etc.

  8. Re:Ask Slashdot... on Java SE 6 Released · · Score: 1

    Thanks to the wonder of Sun's version numbers, Java 5.0 IS Java 1.5. Isnt this exciting?

  9. Re:no surprise here on U.S. Refuses to Hand Over Fighter Source Code to UK · · Score: 1

    Almost, but not quite...

    Australia is facing exactly the same issue. Currently we are flying FA-18's and F-111's with our own upgrades. Australia has a very large development industry based around these aircraft which we wish to continue and I would assume that the UK is the same.

    So the actual issue is Vendor Lock-In. If we dont have the software, we must arm it with US weapons. We would rather use our own developed weapons, at obviously much lower costs.

  10. Re:dumb on Defeating Virtual Keyboards and Phishing Banks · · Score: 1

    But they wont protect against 'Man in the middle' attacks such as most typical phishing attacks. The bad guys simply ask for the SecurID code as well as the login details, and simply drain the account immediately, before the SecurID code expires.

  11. Re:More precise? on Chinese GPS System To Be Offered Free · · Score: 1

    It can and does get much more precise. GPS Surveying equipment can get much more accurate results by measuring and recording the error that it gets in measurement in specific locations. By using this error, and accounting for it, it routinely gets more accurate results. Its too difficult and expensive to incorporate into standard gps modules though.

  12. Re:Another check on How MythTV Detects and Flags Commercials · · Score: 1

    Maybe where you are. The ACCC (Australia Competition and Consumer Comisssion) investigated this in Australia, and found that the Ad's were NOT any louder than regular programming, just 'seemed' to be because of their heavy use of the dynamic range. Technically, here in Australia, they are not any louder, but because of the way our brain and ears process sound, to all practicality, they are.

  13. Re:Remember what failure FC5 was upon release on Fedora Core 6 Released · · Score: 1

    And you missed half the major faults: which still havent been fixed...

    Switch authentication to an LDAP source and your lovely Fedora Core 5 server will refuse to boot.

    Fantastic.

  14. Re:"Sticky Wicket" on Backyard Rocketeers Keep the Solid Fuel Burning · · Score: 1

    The great thing about Cricket is that the Piss Up occurs while the game is in progress. Theres nothing quite like sitting on the hill drinking at Adelaide Oval while a good test match or one day international game is in progress.

  15. Look at it the Other Way. on French Scientists Link Higher BMI with Lower IQ · · Score: 1

    I think they have been looking at this the wrong way, not that Fat people are likely to be less intelligent, but less intelligent people are more likely to be Fat.
    If someone is of below average intelligence, they are more likely to be fooled by fast food advertising, more likely to eat crap, and less likely to realise that eating healthy and being active is a requirement for a good lifestyle.

    Those who are intelligent, eat healthy and excercise.

  16. Re:dupe x2 on HP's Memory Spot Chip · · Score: 1

    The Dupe tag doesnt work. Its a pity, because I found it useful.

  17. Dupe Tag on The Perception of 'Random' on the iPod · · Score: 2, Interesting

    And the question remains, why doesnt the DUPE tag work anymore? I liked that tag. Seeing it meant I could avoid the 500 "OMG! Its a Dupe!11!" comments.

  18. Re:Yet nothing is changin.... on Tales From Behind Microsoft's Firewall · · Score: 1

    With NT6, you had to apply service pack 3 and then apply service pack 6a. If you simply applied service pack 6a, you didnt get all the updates to the HAL required to run multi monitor. Of course the only way I found this out was by installing service pack 6a, and then having to do a complete re-install because I couldnt install service pack 3 after installing 6a.

  19. Re:Your output is no better than the weakest link on An Affordable Pro-Quality Sound Card? · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    To answer the original question, I think the M-Audio Audiophile 24/96 is one of the best consumer audio cards on the market (so long as you're not looking for a ton of I/O).

    I must concur with this. The M-Audio card mentioned is excellent. We use it for professional recording and it performs well.

  20. Why doesnt the DUPE tag work anymore? on Intel's "Terascale" Vision · · Score: 1

    Why doesnt the dupe tag work? Someone has obviously got around it by using dup. I liked the dupe tag on an article, it meant i wouldnt have to look at 5000 comments all going "omg! its a dupe!" and "thanks to this processor we'll see this article another 78 times!"

  21. Re:I bet some hydraulic techs are happy about this on The US Navy Says Goodbye to the Tomcat · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The swing wing was based on the lessons learnt from the F-111. Which incidently is still in service (with many local upgrades) with the Royal Australian Air Force. There is still nothing as capable for our needs in a single plane as the F111.

  22. Re:Offtopic: softwood lumber on The Engine of US Jobs · · Score: 1

    And they do exactly the same to Australia, but with Beef. Free (cough cough) trade agreement and all.

  23. Re:your sig on eDonkey Pays the Recording Industry $30M · · Score: 2, Informative

    You dont really get this do you? All the factors are going to be prime.

  24. Re:NO, not our own 'meat'. on Cloned Beef Coming Soon? · · Score: 1

    Considering that the last time a company tried advertising one of those 'muscle stimulizers' in australia, they were successfully sued for false advertising, I say probably not.

  25. Re:Your keyspace wouldn't be that much bigger on Debunking a Bogus Encryption Statement? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Think of it as this: If you encrypt something as rot-13 twice, does it become any more secure?