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  1. Re:Fighting a losing battle on Theora I Bistream Format Frozen · · Score: 0

    Last time I checked, the Sorenson video codec was patented. Sure, the software won't evaporate overnight, but what do you do if Apple starts charging 10% royalties on everything you create?

  2. Re:What is with the compression ratio? on Theora I Bistream Format Frozen · · Score: 1

    As far as I can tell it's actually better already, especially at low bitrates.

  3. Linux support on OD2 Launches Penny-Per-Song Streaming Jukebox · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ...and will only work with users of Windows Media Player' 9.

    Any idea whether this'll work with the MPlayer Win32 codecs? :)

  4. Re:one more minor detail they failed to mention... on Invisible Cloaks, Translucent Walls · · Score: 1

    Watch the movie called "oc-okugai3" on the site. It shows a guy standing outside on a street. You can see cars and people moving behind him - the camera even moves around slightly.

  5. Re:Future of armed infantry on Invisible Cloaks, Translucent Walls · · Score: 1

    To display this imagery, the fabric is covered with hyperpixels, each consisting of a 180 x 180 LED array behind a hemispherical lens

    Wasn't this how the 3-D backgrounds on the holodeck worked?

  6. Re:A couple of worries on Advice On A New-School Old-School BBS · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Is it feasible to run a Linux box as an access point, and run Snort on it for portscan and worm alerts? I don't know about the details of promiscuous mode on wireless cards, but that seems like the most efficient solution to the first problem you mentioned.

  7. Re:Fixed quickly. on New Linux Kernel Crash-Exploit discovered · · Score: 1

    I just hope it doesn't take too long to get a 2.6 patch out.

  8. Re:UML? on New Linux Kernel Crash-Exploit discovered · · Score: 1

    Most likely the UML process would go down with a SIGFPE, but nothing more. The problem only occurs when the process is in a signal handler.

  9. Re:What this really means ... ;-) on POV-Ray 3.6 Released · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Show me a GPU that turns a 24KB input file into this and I might be inclined to believe you.

  10. No WMV support? Yeah right. on iRiver Preps Linux-based Media Player · · Score: 1
    the PMP-120 offers support for the vast majority of popular audio and video formats, except for Microsoft's Windows Media Video (WMV). This, however, will be supported in the company's Windows CE powered PMC-100, to be introduced later this year.

    Hah. It runs Linux, you say? Let's see...
    emerge win32codecs
    emerge mplayer
    Now it plays WMV. :)
  11. Re:Probably around the same time... on Broadband Usage Up 42% In The U.S. In 2003 · · Score: 2, Funny

    But who are the cable companies going to sue?

    That's easy - all those evil, pirating scumbags who share their connections over WiFi. :P "That bandwidth is copyrighted, you know!"

  12. Re:The sweetest sight. on Rovers May Survive Martian Winter · · Score: 1

    RFC 57274: IP via Tachyon Pulses.

  13. Re:grep on Microsoft Patents The Task List · · Score: 1

    Well, I wouldn't go that far. The patent does cover any implementation of the same interface, which is pretty annoying. But yeah, this whole submission is pretty FUDdy.

  14. Re:grep TODO *.c (of java, or obj-c, etc...etc...) on Microsoft Patents The Task List · · Score: 1

    Smart-aleck. So tell me, since when does grep interface directly with the compiler to include errors, automatically rank them by priority and/or filter them, use a GUI featuring multi-column lists, automatically display the section of source in question, etc etc etc. My point still stands.

  15. Re:grep on Microsoft Patents The Task List · · Score: 1

    No they didn't, and no it doesn't. See above.

  16. Re:grep TODO *.c (of java, or obj-c, etc...etc...) on Microsoft Patents The Task List · · Score: 1

    Wrong. Read the patent.

    A method, apparatus, and software are disclosed for assisting a software developer in managing tasks to be completed by providing a task list as a unified location for developers to locate errors and warnings in code, as well as specify user-defined tasks. The task list is updated in "real time" as the developer completes tasks and generates new tasks.

  17. Re:Where do they get these names? on AMD Announces New Low-End Processor Line · · Score: 5, Funny

    Maybe I should RTFA...

    NOOOO! Don't do it! Just imagine the chaos if EVERYBODY clicked that link at the same time. We might even crash the server!

    *shudders at the thought*

  18. Re:Will only get worse on Infected Windows PCs Now Source Of 80% Of Spam · · Score: 3, Insightful

    When XP Bug patch 2 comes out, this suituation will only get worse

    No, it'll just fail to get much better. There's no way a bug patch can make it worse...

    Come on MS, prove me wrong! I dare you!

  19. Re:This would be sweet if on Send A Message To An LED Sign · · Score: 1

    Doesn't sound too hard. You just code up a simple XMMS plugin that converts the volume/spectrum info to the appropriate series of characters. For the spectrum analyzer, it would have to reprogram the graphics blocks at each "frame" it gets. The only problem would be latency, so you might not be able to get a very smooth picture.

  20. Re:Sir? on 2004 Venus Transit In Pictures · · Score: 1

    That's because it hasn't started yet.

  21. Re:If it hasn't started yet... on 2004 Venus Transit In Pictures · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you look at the NASA website, it's just entered the sun's corona (from Earth's perspective). It hasn't actually gone past the disc yet, but it's still visible to the SOHO telescope.

  22. Re:Darn. on Red Hat Introduces NX Software Support For Linux · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Yes, I do. It was a JOKE. You really want me to spell it out for you? I was implying that I'd been hacking Slashdot regularly but now the new NX protection was stopping me. Happy?

  23. Re:FRIST REAGAN SUX POST on Red Hat Introduces NX Software Support For Linux · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The man just died today, can't you even show an ounce of respect? I understand you're desperate for things to troll about, but that was just sickening for you to go after Reagan like that.

    I know this is OT but I just couldn't stand to read this without saying something.

  24. Re:diff? on Red Hat Introduces NX Software Support For Linux · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Did you even look at it?
    $ wc -l nx-2.6.7-rc2-bk2-AE
    518 nx-2.6.7-rc2-bk2-AE
    It's smaller than most, but still not exactly trivial.
  25. Darn. on Red Hat Introduces NX Software Support For Linux · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I noticed Slashdot was down for a few minutes just prior to posting this. I'll assume they were upgrading their servers.

    So does this mean I'm out of luck with all those shellcodes I keep posting in my comments?