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  1. Re:Freaking *Y&(*& GREAT !@ on Sony PSP 1.50 Swap Trick · · Score: 1

    I cant even find a Pinout for the Sharp Part number.....

    In cool land I dont care if I can even carry it, if I could come up with an adapter and use like a 7 inch screen I would be in Heaven.

  2. Freaking *Y&(*& GREAT !@ on Sony PSP 1.50 Swap Trick · · Score: 2, Funny

    I bought a PSP, the DAY they hit the store, for no other reason than to hack into a websurfer for the couch, and for Pseudo PDA type handheld web based dev.
    I have waited PATIENTLY for an exploit and began to loose interest, other than using the Wipeout Pure trick to surf the web.
    I got so discouraged I let my kids play with it, 8 and 13 and it promptly got knocked off a table by my wife screen breaking,

    Last night, (YUP Last Night) I took it apart to try and figure out an alternative screen interface for it, and TODAY This exploit is announced, while mine is in about 10k pieces.....GREAT .......day late and a dollar short...

  3. And someone DIDNT Know this was coming ? on Apple to Lock OSXi to Apple Hardware · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Apple, might be changing their system design , but they are CERTAINLY not changing their business model.

    Were there any people out there with a clue who DIDNT think this would happen ?

    Expect software workarounds (Darwin is OS afterall) or "Mod Chips" about 1 week after release.

  4. BS and all on Advocating Dvorak · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I am a firm believer that other indemic flaws in a persons physical makeup are the causes of "CPS" and other WRIST Ailments.
    Myself I have been behind a keyboard for nearly 25 years, my Mother 45 years, and my Father some 40 years.
    NONE Have any wrist issues, I have even broken mine in both motorcycle and surfing accidents (no no at the same time) so one would THINK that would make me more suceptible ?
    I have spoken with 3 doctors about just this issue aws my one son has a genetic and severe bone disease, he is at age 13 suffering osteopenia and rickets and his wrists suffer the worst.

    The answer in people who DO NOT have defects like my son ? Its how your wrists are slept on, do you curl your wrists up under your head when you sleep (a question to rep motion sufferers) If you do I would seriously consider not, a coworker compalined about these issues and I told them what doctors had told me , guess what 3 weeks later he thanked me and said his wrists never felt better

    Its not from typing its from SLEEPING

  5. Re:Steam Engine - Diesel on SW Weenies: Ready for CMT? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "You can only make a Steam engine so big but you cannot connect them together to get more power"

    That has to be bar none one of the DUMBEST things I have ever heard on slashdot.

    Mind you I understand it was not you that said it, no problem there, but whoever said that originally had best stay away from ANYTHING mechanical.

  6. And it will default to.... on 'Lower Rights' IE 7.0 Coming · · Score: 1

    MSN , of course as in the ,
    "and seamless search that will include choices of search providers"
    And while 80 % of internet users have NO idea whatsoever how to change their settings, so it will stay as such forever.

  7. August 29th..... on CA Warns Of Massive Botnet Attack · · Score: 1

    It just sucks my birthday is Augus 29th and all..

    As you all know thats the date Syknet becomes self aware and ...welll we all know the end..

    Terminators everywhere , cats and dogs living together in harmony, armageddon

    But seriously when is this supposed to happen EXACTLY ?

  8. ECELLENT Work on Plugging Internet Explorer's Leaks · · Score: 1

    I am working on a farly large asynchronous web app and , well memory leaks are the norm, I am by session end , usaually an hour, consuming some 125 meg for the IE instance.

    I will be using this on a regular basis. COOL Stuff at first glance, very cool....

  9. Re:So Why .NET? on Nothing of .Net in Longhorn? · · Score: 1

    "Then if Microsoft abandons .NET then you are kind of screwed, aren't you?".....

    Uhhhh like Mono, DotGNU and all the work by others....like Mainsoft....Uh yeah screwed, I already write .Net so its about 90% out of the box compatible with Mono. (Easy if you stay away from certain "traps" as I will call them)

    .Net is STANDARD , Submitted , Ratified and buildable from anyone....

    Noone can be so stupid can they? ....it appears that was in fact the correct statement.

  10. Re:So Why .NET? on Nothing of .Net in Longhorn? · · Score: 1

    You were joking right ?
    Noone can be so stupid can they
    "Is .NET another Microsoft vaporware?" I sure as hell hope not , as I currently have well over 5 million lines of .Net code deployed and in production on applications everywhere.

  11. Farscape...come ON ! on Wormholes Unstable (BBC) · · Score: 1

    One season of Farscape could have told them this.

    Not to mention pale skinned chicks are hot and there are creepy dudes in leather trying to get wormholes for themselves......

  12. Re:Oh...now I get it. on Cuban Says RIAA Damages Should be $5 Per Month · · Score: 1

    AK-74 was correct and intended, FIRST line soviet troops have used it and its variants Nice 1974, its a 5.45 instead of a 7.62 slug, akin to our .223 and introduced specifically to bring into parity a percieved need in Soviet small arms.
    The AK-47 was used mostly after 74 by third world counterparts that were supplied by the Soviets.
    For gods sake man learn your small arms.

  13. Re:Oh...now I get it. on Cuban Says RIAA Damages Should be $5 Per Month · · Score: 2, Funny

    Youre not the only one.
    Moreover my first thought in a slysdexic sort of way was that the RIAA was going after Cubans, I thought, Oooohhh that'll be fun , let the REAL copyright wars begin, a subpeona is no match for a well oiled AK-74

  14. Re:Excellent on A Step Toward the Diamond Age · · Score: 1

    like the word ass dont ya ?

  15. I for one on Could Microsoft Buy Red Hat? · · Score: 0

    Welcome our new blue screen over

    FATAL EXECUTION IN PAGE X003FFFX3333333....

    IF THIS ERROR OCCURS AGAIN PLEASE CONTACT YOUR VENDOR.......

  16. Is that ironic on Winelib Hobbled by Exception-Handling Patent · · Score: 4, Informative

    Since Borland USED Winelib in Kylix.....

    Amazing how thing like this rear their head AFTER a company that holds the Patent actually used the app in their OWN product, can you say STINGY

  17. For a broken firmware that is on Gameboy Emulator Released for PSP · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The japaneese 1.0 firmware isnt available to the masses, and really wont be, expect Sony to make SURE this wont happen on later revs.

    I bought a PSP SPECIFICALLY to run "HomeBrew" apps , but the truth is for the Current version its pretty far off, there was a hack for the 1.0 that let you boot off memory , this IS NOT the case for later versions.

  18. Bitkeeper was a great descision on Torvalds Unveils New Linux Control System · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If it allowed him to work efficently (and it did) for quite some time

    Very simply that time has passed, and NO-ONE other than Linus himself knows what works best for HIM and his direct team

    The flaming is useless hes "The Man" and what he wants for us in Linux land is pretty much Law, besides, how many of YOU psting all these nasty comments about his original BitKeeper descision actually were granted access to it directly, NONE.

    Linus is a pragmatist not a rabid OS advocate but willing to use closed source tools if its a winning situation for him.

  19. Re:A windows version on Bastille Adds Reporting, Grabs Fed Attention · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It MAY be possible later as LongHorn / WinFS is supposed to use *nix stlye perms.

  20. Nobody ever got fired on Linux Can't Kill Windows · · Score: 1

    For buying IBM the saying used to go.

    The same can now be said of Microsoft

    People who BUY windows 9 times out of 10 arent buyign an operating system as they see it they are buying comfort and peace of mind, they are (or would like to belive) they are familiar with it and hey everybody is using it it cant be too bad
    Now to us *nix type that may be crap, and it is, but people are funny animals they do what makes them feel good and as bad as it is with spyware and broken API's it does make them feel good, just as a Mac does an Apple fan
    When theyve had too much and boil over we pick them up as a Rabid Linux convert, but Hey

    I can honestly see the Author has some good points, sure leaves room for thought and discussion.

  21. Re:Law Enforcement Ahoy.... on Best Buy Has Man Arrested for Using $2 Bills · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    You must be daft, or your country is practicing revisionist history.

    My family, the Snowballs, is here because my Great Great Gandfater when he was 12 was caught hunting on a neighboring nobles land, they gave then 2 options, hang the boy, or the whole family leaves England.

    12 members in all made the trip, all the Snowballs from that reigon, many were none too happy, and a few returned, but better than see a 12 yyear old boy hanged .

    That was 1874

  22. Re:Bloggers as Journalists on U.S. Blogger Breaches Canadian Publication Ban · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Like, Geraldo, or maybe Dan Rather ?

    Most REAL Journalists are the slimyiest bunch of pond scum out there.

  23. Re:Faster? on Ruby On Rails Showdown with Java Spring/Hibernate · · Score: 1

    Yeah like AOL Optimized 9.Slooooooooowwwwww

    Not neccesarily, Optimized could actually mean smaller bytecode (which usually does not equal Faster)

    Theres fast and theres small which one are you optimizing , they can be mutually exclusive.

  24. Personally I buy this better than a black hole on Black Holes 'Do Not Exist,' Contends Physicist · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I mean , I have never felt "confortable" with the theory of black holes, it seems somewhat anthemic to true science, kind of like phlogiston

  25. Re:Screw em shut it down. on UN Wants To Regulate Internet · · Score: 1

    SO the UN can take control of US interests for the good of the world ?
    Or the MASSIVE US Govt funding that went on to make the Internet a reality.
    So whats next UN control of our Oil Reverves in Alaska ?