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  1. Re:Question ... on Babylon 5 Movie Starts Filming in April · · Score: 1

    Yup, that's the one. He did show up in the B5 series, only briefly though.

  2. Re:Nice... on Jon Bringing WMV9 to Linux · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    That or Microsoft has already taken their revenge, DMCA'd them, had the FBI take down the servers, and are now combing the logs to find out who to go after next!

  3. Re:Naked Nmap Chick... on Nmap Author Receives FBI Subpoenas · · Score: 2, Funny
    I'm the one who wrote the script and shot the video

    Shame, shame! Aside from the bad outfit, and the bad acting, in the movie you scan first localhost (usually behind the firewall, so not to useful) then localhost/24 ... so good, you scanned 127.0.0.*, meaning you hit your own box 255-ish times! Again behind the firewall!

    That said, I do have a copy of that movie on the usb stick in my pocket.
  4. Re:Commodity software on WinAmp's Death Greatly Exaggerated · · Score: 1

    Just to be pendantic, as was said (somewhere) by Nullsoft, it is Winamp, not WinAMP, because Winamp is not the front-end to AMP that WinAMP was. Whatever AMP was. I guess it was the backend for the early versions of WinAMP that later became Winamp.

  5. Re:They tried that over here on California Considers Tracking Your Car · · Score: 1

    Dupe Post!

    It's a joke.

  6. Re:The real reason it's not a threat on Microsoft Says Firefox Not a Threat to IE · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I actually did this to my parent-in-laws machine. However they noticed that it was a different browser (Firefox needs an IE look-alike skin as well). And then they figured out that the Windows Update link (which had to be left as IE) was "the old browser" and if they hit stop, they had their old browser.

    At this point I decided to refuse any future requests for tech support.

  7. Re:Next thing we read is on U.S. Goverment Responds to EFF's Indymedia Motion · · Score: 1

    Especially since those pesky terrorist hackers can insert back-door's and time-bombs and such wonderful things like they have in the movies into it!

    Look, a linux machine!
    Username: root
    Password: Allah

    Maybe there needs to be a Terrorist Distro (comes complete with the Terrorists Handbook). Make it easy for the FBI et al to crack down on.

  8. My company's method on Employee Stock Options? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I like how we do it here. When income goes up, so do the wages. Could make it interesting if/when profit goes down again though.

  9. Re:Well, Skype just works. on Asterisk and Linux to Build Secure VoIP Connection · · Score: 1

    Sharman Networks did not create the FastTrack protocol/network. They made Kazaa Media Desktop, which used it, and loaded it with Spyware.

    The people who made Skype made FastTrack. Sharman Networks purchased the rights to it.

    Disclaimer: All facts stated here may merely be beliefs.

  10. Re:Impressed on Standards-Based CSS/XHTML Slide Show · · Score: 1

    Ah, crud. Try this instead. Or straight to a demo here.

    Is this what they call Karma Whoring?

  11. Impressed on Standards-Based CSS/XHTML Slide Show · · Score: 1

    I had thought something like this would be possible (I was thinking more a replacement for flash though), so I'm glad to see it done.

    Incidently: Coral links

  12. Re:Oh, the irony - slashdot talking about standard on Standards-Based CSS/XHTML Slide Show · · Score: 2, Informative

    I beleive Slashdot is standards compliant. HTML 3.2, according to its !DOCTYPE.
    Now if only some-one could come up with a HTML 3.2 standards compliant browser.
    More standards support, I say! (Yes, I use FireFox)

  13. Re:us secret service on Massive Online ID Fraud Ring Busted · · Score: 1

    Do they have an Australian branch? Or do I have to contact ASIO, on their behalf?

  14. Re:No need for Windows on Australian Government Agency Moves Towards Linux · · Score: 2, Informative

    All they do is server based, but it's not all web-based. When they have that web-browser up (yup, IE) to fill in details (which is only for some type of claims) you have to notice that they have another window open behind it, that is more traditional ANSI console.
    If you watch real close (or know some-one who works in Centerlink), you'll see that the information they are entering on the nice pretty web form is being re-entered in that screen when they hit Next. So even their web-based front end is nothing more then a GUI for the console-style app's they use for everything else!
    Which makes me wonder, could they port the desktop's to Linux, because does this system lock them in to IE/ActiveX? They are almost undoubtedly talking pure server-side, in which case they could well use the rebuild, they have more down-time then the MSN Messenger servers! (Usually around 4:30PM when every-one is trying to finish the paper-work and claims entries for the day.)

  15. Re:Try: irrlicht on Making a GUI for OpenGL Games? · · Score: 1

    Sorry, I don't think this should get modded up. Irrlicht is a "game engine" (Well, mostly a graphics engine). Its not the answer to the question. He would have to redo all his code to fit in the Irrlicht framework.

    I was going to say, use CEGUI but it isn't pure C. It is a very actively developed GUI system, with renderers for DirectX, OpenGL, Ogre3D and Irrlicht.

  16. Re:Coming of age on Hannu H. Kari Gives The Internet 2 More Years · · Score: 1

    So finally the Internet really will be able to serve me coffee! And it will be bitter and rich.

  17. Re:A better writeup on Distress Signal Emitted By Flat-Screen TV · · Score: 1
    The interesting point made in this article was:
    Unfortunately, the warranty on the TV had run out 16 days before it started freaking out.
    How do the manufacturers manage to time the equipment decay so well? Makes me think of those TV shows where the equipment can report to the second how long it has until it will break.
  18. Seeing the moon on Telescope Will Have Images 10X Sharper Than Hubble · · Score: 1

    I had a person the other day tell me the moon landing was a hoax because they wont use Hubble to photograph the site and prove it. So now he will add this one to his collection, I imagine. Once he hears about it anyway.

    Supposedly there is too much radiation to send a manned mission to the moon.. yet he beleives in a satelite which I think is above the radiation belt anyway.

  19. Re:Uhhhh... on IE Holes Not Microsoft's Fault, Says Bill · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I was just about to say this.

    And you don't even have to view a webpage. How many Win32 worms* are there now?

    * I mean real worms, not "the media calls it a worm for some unknown reason" when its really a virus.

  20. Re:Team America II: Grammar Patrol! on Review of Team America World Police · · Score: 3, Funny
    Shouldn't that be
    bash~: make helpful critique
  21. What about the GUI? on 100 GB Email Account · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Sure, every-one signed up with GMail for the 1GB of Mail. But every-one I know who's used it, sticks with it for the GUI. It's so fast and easy to use. Thats the real power of GMail.

  22. Re:bans on Cellphones Usable on Airplanes in 2006? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, mobile phones (cell phones to Americans) don't cause interference. Now I've got to finish typing this, because my pc speakers are making that "I'm about to get a call" noise... neat feature that! How did they manage to get all speaker makers to add it, so it works with all mobile phones! Who need's Bluetooth, lets just use whatever protocol these phones use to communicate to speakers!

    (Yes, this is sarcasm.)

  23. Re:"Results may vary outside the United States" on Microsoft Found Guilty of Misleading Advertising · · Score: 1

    Reults may vary because MS varies their licencing costs in different countries, not just based on exchange rate. Every time there is a currency conversion, some marketer thinks its a good idea to round up a few digits.

    "Oh, it converts to $741 Australian? Lets make it a nice round $800."

  24. Re:Put the US behind the world? So what? on The Next Social Revolution? · · Score: 1

    Hear, hear!

    I'm Australian, and from my perspective the US is not the center of the world. As much as it seem's that way to most Americans. Personally I don't think I'd mind seeing US lack behind. It was when they were only just past a backwoods little colony that they made some of their greatest advances.

  25. Re:Incorrect quote on Ballmer - Xbox 'Can Take Sony' In Next Generation · · Score: 1

    I am betting we can take Sony in the next generation... In Japan!

    Oh wait. As discussed, they probably wont.

    I am betting we will take it in the ass from Sony in the next generation In Japan!

    Much better.