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  1. Re:I can just imagine it on Emmerich Plans Foundation As a 3D Epic · · Score: 1

    Didn't the robots secretly move humanity to an alternate dimension that was devoid of other sentient species to protect humanity?

    I remember reading about that also. When we find a way back to our motherhood dimension, we will kick those alien asses!

    Oh, maybe the movie will be about the war with aliens from the other dimension, that starts with Seldon's discovery of the Psycho-historical portal, hinted to him by the Evil prime-minister who wishes to use portal's power to destroy the ancient robot masters who refused to exterminate the humanity for the good of robots, and now works undercover for thousands of years trying to bring down civilization?!
    But why call this Foundation?

  2. Re:I can see it now... on Emmerich Plans Foundation As a 3D Epic · · Score: 1

    The destruction of Dahl heat sinks in 3-D will be magnificent, and imagine the endless ranks of robots in caverns under Mycogen, the chases through the tunnels, and the cute and funny native creature Seldon adopts, which later shows mysterious powers.

    Seriously: I don't think Prelude to Foundation is considered part of the trilogy, so maybe this one won't be butchered yet.

  3. Re:Getting Old on BD+ Successfully Resealed · · Score: 1

    If you had extremely good eyesight, memory and calculation power, you could read what's written on a disc you own. But you're not allowed to read it if it's not approved by the censor. That sounds like a defective disc to me.

  4. Re:Buhddist sand art on William Gibson's AGRIPPA Recovered and Revealed · · Score: 1

    (proper name escapes me)

    sand mandala

  5. Re:Algorithm on Estonian ISP Shuts Srizbi Back Down, For Now · · Score: 1

    I'd find the ISP and ask them to forward the message. Good luck with that though :)

  6. Re:Who wants to bet... on Estonian ISP Shuts Srizbi Back Down, For Now · · Score: 1

    ...to post a notice on the user's screen telling them they've been owned, ...

    In the good old days when you could embed JavaScript in an email, and outlook express would then execute it, I was so annoyed by some colleagues' mails about sick children, ms giving $ to charity etc, that I sent email to all the people in the TO: field (~100) with some js that blackened the screen, and then showed some progress bars about downloading the viral code, searching for bank data and other things I thought would make people scared. At the end I wrote that they're not really infected but that they should not send me this shit and especially not put my email in TO: field.

    Not one was amused. For atleast two of them OE crashed. One lost valuable emails. There may be others I havent heard of ...
    No more "cracking" for me (a)

  7. Re:Who wants to bet... on Estonian ISP Shuts Srizbi Back Down, For Now · · Score: 1

    the zlob and virtumonde that came with AV2008 where the toughest bastards I had to remove ... up to now :\
    but at least I now know how to modify the registry to change date and time display :)

  8. Re:The Singularity on Microsoft Researchers Study "Cyberchondria" · · Score: 1

    Doctors, in general, do not keep up with current research.

    [citation needed]

  9. Re:Pfft. I've got all the other wonders. on Japanese Begin Working On Space Elevator · · Score: 1

    Maybe the other system would be Starglider :)

  10. Re:Equal and opposite? on Japanese Begin Working On Space Elevator · · Score: 1

    what that wobble will do to the earth in 10000 years is anyone guess.

    we'll just add another leap second now and then

    anyways, we've redistributed large masses of the planet already - the space elevator is probably not a big deal.

  11. obligatory usa is crazy on Ford's 65MPG Due In November, But Not In the US · · Score: 1

    lazy American asses. cars are too good for you. can't install diesel, can't learn to shift gears? I mean, why do you even bother saying anything about how difficult it is to drive and pay for it, if you just do nothing about it later.

  12. Re:Nobody considers that import on Websites Still Failing Basic Privacy Practices · · Score: 1

    In the age of AJAX you don't have to push submit to transmit information. It is enough to fill in the form and it could be automagically submited while you're still filling it out - in case you chicken out just before the end.

  13. Re: Cambrian Explosion - but, Sweet Saudi crude... on Mimicking Photosynthesis To Split Water · · Score: 1

    Yessss, Oil is black and sweet. (Aaaahh the Sun! We hates it, my precious! We hates it!)

    Isn't it forbidden to talk about this?

  14. Re:Cambrian Explosion of alternative energy techni on Mimicking Photosynthesis To Split Water · · Score: 1

    With Real photosynthesis We will Rule the Solar system with all the (Free) air and sugar!

  15. Re:Earth's Orbit? on How NASA Will Bomb the Moon To Find Water · · Score: 1

    I think you're mixing up 7x10^22 and 7e22 there;

    There is no difference visible to me between those two numbers except if you mean e as in "e, the Euler's number".

  16. Re:Free Speech vs Right to Life on YouTube Refuses To Remove Terrorist Videos · · Score: 1

    They are not dying for american lives. They are dying for profits of american corporations which influenced the government. For me the reaction to 9/11 casualties is not years of global war, but then again I am not from USA.

  17. Re:Britain 1, USA 0 on UK Teen Cited For Calling Scientology a "Cult" · · Score: 1

    So if a British citizen finds a TV commercial disturbing...?

  18. Re:I can't believe this hasn't been mentioned... on Cold Reboot Attacks on Disk Encryption · · Score: 1

    The problem can still be addressed with proper programming, by overwriting key memory locations after each prolonged time key hasn't been used. But the user would have to enter keys more often. And the encrypted disks shouldn't be constantly read, as is the case with playing mp3 files from it or running badly written programs.

  19. Re:FYI on Court Says You Can Copyright a Cease-And-Desist Letter · · Score: 1

    I do not dare quote the letter, so I will point at the last bulleted example of supposed defamatory statements made. The statement below the examples claims that those four examples are false and defamatory. But how can they know that the site has not really received those ratings from a same location? They read their log files and found that the IP numbers do NOT come from the same location?

    And besides that, is it defamatory if you claim that someone might be posting good reviews of their own company?

  20. Re:His name on University of Florida Student Tasered At Political Rally · · Score: 1

    Thank you.

  21. He's right. not competitive at all on Microsoft Says PS3 Linux Not 'Competitive' To XNA · · Score: 1
    From http://msdn.microsoft.com/directx/xna/faq/
    To develop, debug and/or play games on the Xbox 360, however, you must have an XNA Creators Club subscription purchased directly from the Xbox Live Marketplace. Two subscription options are available: $99 per year or $49 per four months.
    XNA Game Studio Express is only designed and tested for Windows XP SP2. Windows Vista and Windows Server 2003 are unsupported platforms
    To share your Xbox 360 game with friends, four requirements must be met:
    • The individual you are planning to share the game with must be logged in to Xbox Live and have an active subscription to the XNA Creators Club
    • The receiving user must have downloaded the XNA Framework runtime environment for the Xbox 360
    • The receiving user must have XNA Game Studio Express installed on their own development PC
    • The game project, including all source and content assets, must be shared with the receiving user. The receiving user then compiles and deploys the game to their Xbox 360.

    Games developed using XNA Game Studio Express cannot be shared through a memory card or CD/DVD

    etc... this is definitely not competitive to linux
  22. Re:Valuable as PR move more than anything? on Should Google Go Nuclear? · · Score: 1

    A better solution would be to live a life in tune with nature

    Even though you sound like joking I'm actually thinking in these lines. But there are so many things that can be hard to duplicate using organic materials like transistors used for sound reproduction. And bee wax is very unstable to store music to.
    Someday, perhaps, if not repressed by naphta and metal processing industries, we can shape any matter into any other matter which could lead to decentralisation of population and even destruction of the economic system as we know it.

  23. Re:Nothing inconvenient about the results on An Inconvenient Truth · · Score: 1
    1. Lose election
    2. Find a topic that is widely known (like sex, enviroment)
    3. Get some authority to write the script/book
    4. Brand it as your own
    5. Profit & be recognised as if you really care
  24. Example of good procrastination: on Good and Bad Procrastination · · Score: 1

    Postponing your work to read _this_ article on /.

  25. I don't understand this hashing 100%, but... on BitComet Banned From Private Trackers · · Score: 1

    why would a pirate site want to stop people from using a client that allows people to share freely and doesn't hurt the site itself?
    If the hashes cause clients not to check the tracker, that would mean *less* bandwidth cost to the pirate site - but also less revenue from banner ads.

    For sites that require privacy, I understand Azureus is unwelcome, but for the pirates, I'd say:

    a./ they're just in it for banner profits
    b./ <conspiracy>they are the RIAA people who want to keep control of people who download illegal material through their trackers, and are now angry, as people don't have a need for their logged trackers. </conspiracy>