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  1. Unless of course... on New Model Solves Grandfather Paradox · · Score: 1

    Unless of course you sleep with your mother.

  2. Table read without script? on Simpsons Film in Preproduction · · Score: 2, Funny

    Are you familiar with the old robot saying "DOES NOT COMPUTE"?

    Oops, wrong show...

  3. Doors open outwards in Sweden on If Bad Software Developers Built Houses... · · Score: 1

    I fail to see the error of having doors open outwards. They do around here.
    Let me explain:
    Doors are meant to keep people out, yes? Now, what would be safest against someone busting the door in - one that opens in or out?

    Of course you could could turn it around and say that doors are not made to keep people out, but rather keep them in until the cops arrive..

  4. Re:fscked on Are Video Game Patents Next? · · Score: 1

    Everything under USPTO's apparatus for large scale sub-ferrum elemental fusion.

  5. Re:What the future holds on Judge Denies TigerDirect's Request for Injunction · · Score: 1

    Reminds me of Futurama:

    "The only names not yet trademarked are 'Popplers' and 'Tastesicles'"

  6. Re:1984 here we come on UK to lnstall Wireless Mics on London Streets · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well, sound is just sound levels sampled at a higher rate.
    So after a while they could just go rate = 44.1kHz...

  7. Re:Just becase they can on Secure Video Conferencing via Quantum Cryptography · · Score: 1

    AFAIK quantum channels are too slow to stream video at the moment(other than crap quality I guess).
    "100 keys per second" seems to imply that they use a standard symmetric crypto(AES) and just send the much smaller 128-256b keys over the quantum channel(via afforementioned one-time pad).

  8. Re:Get new fans! on Hard Drive Cooling for 10 Cents · · Score: 1

    Especially when they can cost as little as $3 brand new(silent too, only 13dBa)!

  9. Re:defragging in the background??? on Microsoft's New Mantra - It Just Works · · Score: 1

    How about writing software that allocates space on the drive before using it, since you know it'll become fragmented otherwise. Like a new-operator, only it's for storage - not RAM.
    Could be done via overloading new in some basic class in C++.

    But of course, solving the problem at its root would be the best choice.

  10. Re:At what price though? on Flying Cars Ready To Take Off · · Score: 1

    Don't know about helicopters, but I did see ~$10-20k gyrocopter kits.
    And if you're a skilled mechanic(on slashdot?) there's also blueprints around.

  11. I have some super-bright ones.. on LED Evolution Could Spell The End For Bulbs · · Score: 1

    Like this one.
    The three watt variant. Runs on two AA batteries.
    It lights up the entire room with a somewhat cold white light. Can be fixed by adding some red and yellow I recon.

    Also, looking directly into it is very nasty, but a clear bulb probably does that aswell.

  12. Re:So what is the best temp for the room on Cooler Servers or Cooler Rooms? · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Would that be kelvin, Celsius or Fahrenheit?

  13. Re:What's a good HARDWARE diagnostic for PCs? on BBC Writer Tries PC Repair, Finds Poor Software · · Score: 1

    This sounds a lot like my old Athlon machine:

    memory would occacionally fail
    HDDs would bog down the system
    spontaneous reboots
    gfx failure
    didn't like non-integer clock multipliers
    sometimes the FSB would set to 100 instead of 133
    two PSUs exploded

    I believe I've replaced every part(or tested in other machines) except the motherboard. Which I guess is my/your machine's problem.

  14. Re:It's not just P2P that's hurting the RIAA on Indie Artists Support Peer To Peer · · Score: 1

    The latest South Park episode seems relevant;

    "We have to make Token believe he needs us, when actually he doesn't need us at all..."

  15. Re:perspectives on First Swede Prosecuted For File Sharing · · Score: 1

    What I find interesting is that Direct Connect is fairly popular in Sweden, and it's not very hard to get into hubs(fakeshare or whatnot) and people share close to 1TB of stuff. Yet they catch these guys who only share one or two movies/albums.
    I have friend who have had letters sent from their ISPs asking them to up-/download less because they've recieved complaints or noticed a lot of traffic.. Yet nothing happens.

  16. Re:Not again on The Great Library of Amazonia · · Score: 0

    "Really its worded horribly This patent."

    You make it sound like some sort of exception...

  17. Black hole memory? on Microwires Can Replace The DVD-ROM · · Score: 1

    "Researchers say that the greatest difficulty will be with the reading of information."

    How about just sending light into a black hole? You can cram a lot of data into those things!
    Fairly secure aswell - I'd like to see someone get close enough to read it.

  18. Re:Wearable data on Microwires Can Replace The DVD-ROM · · Score: 1

    .. or you could go medieval with your core memory mail!

  19. Re:I doubt they mean truly lossless on UK to Build Network of 150 Digital Cinemas · · Score: 1

    At 2048x1080, the inter-pixel correlation is very high. So 10:1 compression is very much possible by fairly simple means..

    For instance, I just(losslessly) compressed a 2048x1536 24bpp image from 9.00MiB to 1.96MiB using a laplachian pyramid and a simple mean value predictor piped through bzip2. I imagine with a somewhat better designed predictor, aswell as taking advantage of temporal redundancy, you could go as high as 20:1.

    Also, the Discrete Cosine Transform(which is what M/JPEG uses) is lossless. The quantization step is what constitutes the "lossy" part.

  20. Re:Benjamins on FCC to Fine Curses More Than Nuke Violations · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, a wardrobe malfunction won't cause the death of a few thousand souls for starters..

    "Oh no, a naked breast! Run for your lives!"

  21. Re:Useful Terms on FCC to Fine Curses More Than Nuke Violations · · Score: 4, Funny

    You left out Barbara Streisand

  22. I beg to differ! on Is the iPod Shuffle Playing Favorites? · · Score: 1

    The easiest wait is just to generate a 32- or 64-bit PR number instead of the 15-bit ones rand() returns. That should reduce the number of "favourings" on the lower ID songs.

    As an added bonues, it wouldn't take a couple of seconds to change song in your 100,000 song playlist because it has to sort it every time...

  23. Re:150K per file? on New Round of Lawsuits in Preparation for Oscars · · Score: 1

    Unless of course their property contains a forest, meadow or similar in which case they are allowed to set up a tent and camp for three days before continuing..

  24. Re:I wonder... on New Round of Lawsuits in Preparation for Oscars · · Score: 1

    You would get away easier with murder/manslaughter. At least in Sweden. $5,000 and mental care for instance.

    Maybe the filesharers should plead insanity?
    "Voices in my head told me if I didn't download all the latest movies I would die!"

  25. Re:dupes are good for us all... on Broadcast Flag in Trouble · · Score: 1

    Without dupes people would resort to actually figuring out good profit schemes. Or heaven forbid, new jokes!