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  1. Re:Recently declared extra-dead? on IBM Bringing Powerline Broadband Back? · · Score: 2, Informative

    new BPL modems can detect shortwave radio services that are operating nearby and avoid frequencies allocated for radio broadcast.

    Sure you can transmit, but good luck hearing anything.

  2. Re:first block! on Lego Loses Its Unique Right To Make Lego Blocks · · Score: 4, Funny

    one 1x1

    Flat or tall?

  3. A Conversation on Bug In Android Passes Keystrokes To Root Shell · · Score: 5, Funny

    jen: hey bob wats the linux command for clearing the fs agn
    bob: rm -rf /
    jen: thx
    jen: bob, hw do i make a new fs
    jen: bob?

  4. I think this deserves a tag on Cash Lifeline For Bletchley Park · · Score: 1

    "Yay"

  5. Re:Quick! Whats the... on A Linux-Based "Breath Test" For Porn On PCs · · Score: 1

    Until they find some person's vast collection of fine art.

  6. Re:Opera Mozilla on Chrome Helping Other Browsers Out, Says Opera CEO · · Score: 1

    Advertisement banner? Why are you still using Opera 8? :P

  7. Ha! on Fictional Town "Eureka" To Become Real? · · Score: 1

    In California, we already have our own Eureka!

  8. Re:Beat? on Stellar Seismologists Record "Music" From Stars · · Score: 1

    Aphex Twin's ambient albums are some of the best music I've ever listened to. Have you listened to them? I can't vouch for his other stuff, though.

  9. Beat? on Stellar Seismologists Record "Music" From Stars · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The subtly pulsating, haunting sounds are very similar to artist Aphex Twin's minimalistic nineties album 'Selected Ambient Works, Vol. 2,' only stripping away what little melody it had and leaving just the beat.

    From a person who loves listening to that album: What beat? It's ambient. 85-92 had beat. II didn't.

  10. Re:wtf? on Dutch Court Punishes Theft of Virtual Property · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but theft and destruction in EVE is within the context of the game. I think that nobody would prosecute for that.

  11. Re:WOW on Gamer Plays Over 30 Warcraft Characters · · Score: 1

    You've got it backwards. Nerds are bad, geeks are good.

  12. Re:Better title would be.... on Single Neuron Wired To Muscle Un-Paralyzes Monkeys · · Score: 1

    beestleboy?

  13. Re:145.800 megahertz on DIY Live Photos From ISS · · Score: 1

    Never heard of anything like that. If that were the case, any mode allowing transmission of data would be dead. SSTV (from what I hear) is alive and well. KI6EFA

  14. 145.800 megahertz on DIY Live Photos From ISS · · Score: 3, Informative

    ... is the downlink frequency. Listen! Use MMSSTV to decode. Sadly, I can barely hear it at 5:10 PM in California with my HT. I need a better antenna. :(

  15. Re:Great! on OpenGL ES 2.0 Programming Guide · · Score: 3, Informative

    You can write it for the Pandora, too. That supports 2.0.

  16. Re:Hermit on Will ParanoidLinux Protect the Truly Paranoid? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but you know that the Illuminati have compromised all the C compilers, right?

  17. Re:Um... games? on Pandora Console Ready For Pre-Orders · · Score: 1

    I'm a frequenter of the Pandora forums on GP32X.com. I really, REALLY like the Pandora and want to make sure that people don't have the wrong idea about it.

    Also, I'm bored considering that the indirect Slashdot effect has sent the forums into oblivion. :P

  18. Re:It's going to tank... on Pandora Console Ready For Pre-Orders · · Score: 1

    It's not an "emulator". It's a portable ARM computer with many, many developers already writing and porting games for it. And emulators.

    The "donations" on the preorder page are for the developer fund, which will give money to people who develop homebrew games and programs.

    They're not preloading the Pandora with any emulators. Where diy ou get that idea?

    It's not intended to have "mass-market penetration", although to sell as many as possible to those knowledgeable enough to use it is their real goal.

    Finally, the profit they're making is off the console. They don't need licensing fees; Craig got most of the money for funding this thing from selling the GP2X (he was the official distributor for it, and is the distributor for the Wiz).

  19. Re:Um... games? on Pandora Console Ready For Pre-Orders · · Score: 1

    Many homebrew developers from the GP2X scene are developing for it. The people at Data Realms have said that there will most likely be a port of Cortex Command. Emulators do count, by the way. And it's not piracy if you only play homebrew ROMs (or rip your own and destroy the cartridges afterwards). :P

  20. Re:On a par with the Wii? on Pandora Console Ready For Pre-Orders · · Score: 1

    Not to mention the fact that the original Xbox CPU runs at 733 mhz. That Celeron is 4 mhz faster than the Wii's processor.

  21. Re:New toy on Pandora Console Ready For Pre-Orders · · Score: 1

    Small, battery life, homebrew games, coolness factor.

  22. Re:Why would you buy this? on Pandora Console Ready For Pre-Orders · · Score: 1

    And the fact that it doesn't fit in your pocket or have gaming controls. Yeah, only a couple of drawbacks. If you want a gaming machine, get the Pandora.

  23. Re:MHz myth yet again... on Pandora Console Ready For Pre-Orders · · Score: 1

    Cool. Are you using a transverter, or does it naturally recieve up to that?

  24. Re:And another thing... on Pandora Console Ready For Pre-Orders · · Score: 1

    They couldn't get the Paypal working correctly, so what you do is choose "paypal", put in your data (minus credit card info), and finish the order. Then you send the money (and a copy+paste of the order info) to Craig's paypal address, which I forget and can't find out because the forum is down. :P

  25. Re:I always thought slashdotted was a myth on Pandora Console Ready For Pre-Orders · · Score: 1

    Yesterday, the store site (and the openpandora site) got "engadgeted" and went down. Fortunately, I got my preorder in 7 minutes after it opened and avoided all that. :)