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  1. Re:Installing stuff, handling network settings on How Linux and Windows Stack Up in 2006 · · Score: 1

    download this give it exec permissions and put in in /usr/bin/ then call it from the command line thus
    youtube-dl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whateveritis
    The youtube video is saved to the current working directory that you invoked youtube-dl from (so make sure its ~ unless you want to spend ages searching for what you downloaded) in .flv format.

  2. Re:Indeed, Sun's list prices are way too high on Sun Unveils Thumper Data Storage · · Score: 1

    oops that should be $1.73/gig ex vat and $2.03 inc vat. Mix up between DNUK, XE, Slashdot tabs and a calculator window, also that config is for 18TB not 12TB

  3. Re:Indeed, Sun's list prices are way too high on Sun Unveils Thumper Data Storage · · Score: 1

    this configuration==$0.94cents per GB or $1.10 inc vat

  4. Re:I know what I'd buy on Giant Paramount Auction of Star Trek Items · · Score: 1
    a transporter. These things are in working condition right?
    yes but they only transport matter
  5. Re:Expanding on this a bit... on Wisdom From The Last Ninja · · Score: 1

    However.... Remember why the .45 was developed

    "The .45 was developed to replace the .380" not the "9mm" which was being developed a continent away

  6. Re:I want reliabity on Seven Mobile ATA Hard Drives Compared · · Score: 1

    I want a raid in a harddrive form factor. So I can just plug it in like a new hardrive but if one disk fails it can still live.

    How would this work? two drive motors? A better option would be removable stepper motors, If one of your motors went(platter or heads) it could be swapped out without compromising the protective atmosphere in the casing. this would drasticly reduce your spenditure on harddrives
    ..I wonder why the manafacturers don't do this...

  7. Re:Discount on UK Schools Told to Dump Microsoft · · Score: 1
  8. Re:Don't demonise them on Australian ISPs Required To Report Child Porn · · Score: 1

    Heres your evidence, SAM,16,QUITS A-LEVELS FOR OOH-LEVELS!"
    scroll down to subject 21

  9. Re:Roland Piquepaille and Slashdot: Bed buddies?? on Engineered Enhancers Closer Than You Think · · Score: 1

    according to the hall of fame, he's the second most active submitter
    (makes you wonder what #1's racket is)

  10. Re:Online seismometers on Mushroom Cloud Reported Over North Korea · · Score: 1

    Spy satallites operate in what is known as a circumpolar orbit, that is they orbit from pole to pole, north to south to north while the earth spins below it so if a spy sat has a orbital period of two hours it will complete a global scan in 24 hours. (as evidenced in Full Metal Panic Episode 6)Any light in the sky going north to south or vice versa is a sat in cicumpolar orbit
    Of much more use is radio waves in determining if it was nuclear or not, broad spectrum EM disruption caused by a nuclear fission bomb (think inverse square falloff of an EMP blast).
    Damn there go my mod points for this article

  11. something similiar in the uk on Korean Bipedal Robot Kit · · Score: 2, Interesting

    How is this different to Robosapien?

  12. Re:Don't buy diamonds now on Diamond Age Approaching? · · Score: 1
    Wouldn't that be at the molecular level? Isn't that the level where the crystal becomes apparent?
    Yeah, your right, any test to discover its chemical compostion would'nt go further than the molecular level.
    This is why I hate slashdot... unlike reallife, people are smarter than me
  13. Re:Don't buy diamonds now on Diamond Age Approaching? · · Score: 1
    it worked on the sub-atomic level,
    I'm pretty sure the atomic nuclei and electrons of synthetic and real diamonds are the same...
    I'm sorry I cant find a link for you, but I'm pretty sure it worked on the subatomic level by analysing the lattice with photons or electrons (subatomic particles) using their only-one-of-its-kind apparatus
    here's a link to something similar but its not the right year
    Already De Beers spends a fortune trying to detect synthetic gems, and teach wholesalers and graders what the molecular differences are
    molecules are analysed with subatomic particles arent they?
  14. Re:Don't buy diamonds now on Diamond Age Approaching? · · Score: 1
    A tad OT, but I'll respond anyway...
    yeah I must admit not only did i not RTFA i didnt even read the headline, I was modding down the FPs, saw that and the diamond age link in the headline and posted offhand
  15. Re:Don't buy diamonds now on Diamond Age Approaching? · · Score: 1

    there was a program in the uk about this, DeBeers had a method for finding manafactured diamonds... it worked on the sub-atomic level, at that scale its indistingushable from a natrually formed on to the naked eye

  16. Re:I agree, good Sir on A Look at Microsoft's Regulatory Problems · · Score: 1
    Here's to the next search engine king (whomever it turns out to be).
    nutch.org perhaps?
  17. Re:Always the same post - why? on A Look at Microsoft's Regulatory Problems · · Score: 1
    No 'content'. And stop blaspheming.
    blaspemy is a victimless crime
  18. Prime directive on Lonely Planets · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Has anyone ever thought the reason no lifeforms have made contact is some sort of Lex Galactica?
    If they did make contact they would destroy all our high-tech industries overnight (by introducing us to their higher-technologies)
    Pharmacuticals,hardware,soft ware,transportation all become obselete instantly, making millions unemployed and destroying our economies.

  19. Re:getting rid of spammers on 101 Ways To Save The Internet · · Score: 2, Insightful
    The current tactic of ignoring spam "in the hope it will go away" just helps raise the spammers' signal-to-noise ratio when they look at their replies. If they had to go through a million bogus replies to get the 10 that are stupid enough to really want their crap, they'll become unprofitable quickly.

    unsolicited commando As I understand it, it fills out the forms that are linked to in spam with credible info so that the spammer gets paid for a load of information which the marketing company can't follow up, result: company thinks spammer is forging info and no longer uses his services OR company pays spammer on results only, spammer gives company loads of info but company says info faked, spammer does not believe them, thinking instead that they made up any old excuse and took his data with out paying him
    looking at my UC interface it has sent bogus data to betterspot liensale and ecom-universe
  20. Re:What about AMD and Linux on Writing an End to the Bio of BIOS? · · Score: 1

    Since the DMCA has come about, I wouldnt be suprised if someone lobbied to make sure you couldnt return DRM items on that grounds, or to make non-DRM versions of the items illegal(kinda like REGION FREE DVD players).

    Something like this is already in the works, google for 'technological protection measures' this makes it illegal to work round them.
    Somebody broke your encryption? too bad use better encryption, somebody curcumvented your TPM? JAIL!!!!

  21. Re:Did You Read Anythig? This Isn't About BBC! on Beagle 2 Probe Lands; No Signal Received Yet · · Score: 1

    sumimasen tomodachi, I did'nt read the reuters article. I was reading offline so I read the BBC article,closed the tab, then read slashdot and in a moment of self suredness I posted my comment, but my opinion still stands that TV news should'nt carp on about others technical failures.

  22. Re:Premature Assessment, Plus Sloppy Journalism on Beagle 2 Probe Lands; No Signal Received Yet · · Score: 1

    So the BBC thinks that the loss of a signal is a major set back? well the next time I'm watching the news and they got to a correspondant at the the high court whos stupidly staring at the camera or tapping his earpiece 'cos they've lost the signal I'm gonna ask them is this a major setback for the journalism industry??
    The high court is only a few tens of miles away from the BBC news studio Mars is 250 million!!!
    Cut the guys some slack

  23. Re:Too late on 25,000-Ton Amphibious Spam Relay · · Score: 1

    Shoulda read

    #include(deserteagle.h)
    _
    int mouth (_)
    {
    cout "Brains";
    return 0;
    }

    Save as goodbyeworld.cpp

    must use preview button more often

  24. Re:Too late on 25,000-Ton Amphibious Spam Relay · · Score: 1

    No spam filtering method has met my expectations but its so obvious which ones are spam
    DAMMIT I'm gonna learn programming and write my own spam filter, and if that doesnt work.....

    #include
    _
    int mouth (_)
    {
    cout "Brains";
    return 0;
    }

    Save as goodbyeworld.cpp

  25. Check the file extension on Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 Removes Linux Support · · Score: 1

    A pro microsoft site using .png images, i've long since given up on IE, are .png's even supported?