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  1. Thats no worm on New IM Worm On The Loose · · Score: 0, Troll

    This is offtopic, but that icon is not a worm, its a caterpilar, duh.

  2. Mono instead of Microsoft runtime on Microsoft Issues Ominous ASP.Net Security Warning · · Score: 1

    Does this affect people who use Mono instead of microsoft as the back end?

    It seems that making the backend run mono instead of microsoft is a viable solution for small scale ASP users.

  3. Re:Wait for the investigation... on A Car With A Mind Of Its Own · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The whole point of this excersize in not giving the engine fuel is to keep it from letting the car go faster than 105mph. That doesn't mean the engine stops spinning. Only when the engine stops spinning do you loose power brakes and steering. This smells of BS. Going down a hill at 105 in gear (auto or manual) means you have full power to all these functions unless something is incredibly wrong or the guy shifted to neutral. I would also doubt that saturn designed the engine control systems to stall if you put it in neutral at 105mph.

  4. Re:System is using Linux on Movie Distribution Via Satellite · · Score: 1

    I can: Qualcomms Digital Cinema Division has developed proprietary high bandwidth compression algorithms (based on DCT) coupled with proprietary encryption that is decrypted on the projector. They have two modes of transport, the satellite system, and multiple DVDs (per film). They want to be the complete transport system of the industry. They are quite set up for this, but there's a business model problem.

    Movie theaters rarely pay for movie distribution. They pay for large projectors, but not the ~$4000 a pop for the film reel distribution. The new digital system large projectors cost an order of magnitude more than the analog style, and the distribution no longer costs the film studios any money. Since the theaters themselves run on pretty low margin, they're quite unhappy about this, which causes this long delay in getting this technology to proliferate.

    This is how i understand it. Quite interesting, really.

  5. It seems down... on Bikes Against Bush Creator Busted · · Score: 4, Informative

    Here's that coral cache thing

    Interesting that he's being charged with defacement of public property. We'll see how long it takes to release him. His goal of printing messages during the republican convention may not happen. Was that intentional on the superiors part?

    Cool idea, but if it was widespread, i think i would agree that its defacement. If there were messages everywhere on the ground, would you still consider it benign? As it is though, one person on one bike, i don't think it's defacement.

    What to me is really insulting is that companies can get away with printing their messages in the sky via those cloud making airplanes. When superbowl was here in san diego, they wrote heineken in the atmosphere to be read at least 20 square miles away from the stadium. I would rather not see my beautiful southern californian sky poluted by such nonsense that nobody can erase. At least this fellow uses chalk that can be removed pretty easily.

  6. Re:Windows Media Center Edition? on Linux PVRs Highlighted · · Score: 2, Informative

    Just wanted to plug my software:

    6) There are not only hooks to windows, but WinMyth exists. That is, there is a windows myth front end written nativly for windows.

    you can also compile mythtv via cygwin in windows, but in my opinion that's not quite as clean.

  7. Re:Nobody cares which browser is better... on Browser Wars Mark II · · Score: 1

    If your favorite is IE except for tabbed browsing, try Crazy Browser. It blocks popups and uses the IE HTML engine. All IE only pages i've viewed with it work (including windows update) I personally think firefox is faster, but to each their own.

  8. Store your stuff in a nondescript backpack on The Urban Geek As A Mugger Magnet? · · Score: 1

    I use a standard backpack (you know, the type college students wear :P) with one of these to protect my laptop. It looks like im a student carying around books or a binder. Nothing suspicious. I've never had a problem.

  9. Re:This bug is not restricted to fedora 2 on Fedora Core 2 Dud or Dodo? · · Score: 1

    This bug (under fc2 and others) does not affect every system. Most systems don't have a problem, only ones where the drive geometry is mis-detected are affected. You probably wouldnt have a problem with FC2 either.

  10. This bug is not restricted to fedora 2 on Fedora Core 2 Dud or Dodo? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Why people like to rag on fedora 2 for this bug, i have no clue. This bug exists in Mandrake 10, Suse 9.1, and i'm sure any other 2.6 / grub distribution. See this story.

  11. Re:Kinkos? on Large-Scale Paper-To-Digital Conversion? · · Score: 1

    I agree, it will be cheaper for kinkos to do it with their machine than you to do it and waste a couple days figuring it out.