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  1. Re:Don't be surprised... on The Centralization of BitTorrent Networks · · Score: 1, Funny

    Speaking of C&Ds - are there any good central repositories for legal torrents? Not just linux distributions either. But just a nice collection of legal stuff I can download and help to share.
    Just curious.

  2. Re:from the B-F-D dept on Adding Pizazz to Your RAM · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Those stickers make my car go faster, you insensitive clod!

  3. Re:WEPMYASS on Best Wireless SSIDs You Have Seen? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    totally offtopic now, but Joe Buck and Chris Collinsworth are retards.

  4. Re:from the B-F-D dept on Adding Pizazz to Your RAM · · Score: 1

    More so than the Knoppix article was. At least this actually involves hardware and doing something sort of interesting with it.

  5. Re:orbit - MSNBC appears to have misquoted on Hubble Snaps Photo of Extrasolar Planet · · Score: 0

    No, MSNBC Is NEVER wrong!

  6. Re:Sounds like on Hubble Snaps Photo of Extrasolar Planet · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Imagine a upgraded Hubble or Hubble II....

    Forgot what series it was (I think it was some six part BBC series) but the idea is to have a satellite array out in space, similar to how they have ground based arrays. They would be aligned via laser. They made it sound like this was something that was going to be done sometime around 2015, or so.

    The implications were that they would then be able to see earth sized planets directly, and possibly even be able to analyze the atmosphere of the planet.

  7. All this seems to running some form of *NIX on A Look Inside the BBC's Network · · Score: 5, Informative

    Well, according to the ever reliable Netcraft:

    Solaris 8 Apache/1.3.26 (Unix)
    SunOS 4 Apache/1.2.1
    SunOS 4 unknown
    SunOS 4 Apache/1.2.1
    SunOS 4 unknown
    SunOS 4 Apache/1.2.1
    SunOS 4 Apache/1.2.1
    SunOS 4 unknown
    SunOS 4 Apache/1.2.1
    SunOS 4 unknown

  8. Re:You are a Moron on Peercasting Ready for Primetime? · · Score: 1

    Resulting to insults during a discussion is much more a sad commentary on the insulter than the insulted.

    Did you even read my whole post? Or did you just read the last three of four words? Did you read the post I was responding to, or did you decide that it would work to just jump into the middle of the conversation?

    Because this is designed to allow you to listen to the music that someone else is broadcasting and then help them broadcast as well. The idea here is not to simply download copyrighted material. Think of it as Peer to Peer Shoutcasting, I guess. This solution seems to slightly more legal (although it is probably still illegal, at least in the US) than standard bittorrent.

    I was comparing this to use bittorrent to download copyrighted material. I never implied, nor would it be reasonable to infer, that bittorrent was an illegal tool. I was just comparing the two as methods for music distribution. The person I was replying to was asking how it was different from just downloading the song from bittorrent.

    To broadcast copyrighted material in the US you need to have been given permission to do so. If you do not you are breaking the law.

    A good chunk of the discussion was about broadcasting your own music radio station. This, again, would be illegal if you do not have permission to do so. But, it would be less illegal than using bittorrent to just download the songs.

    I think you read just a little bit too much into my post. But that's typical for these bittorrent stories.

  9. Re:Yes, but on Rational Atlantic Eclipse Based Solutions · · Score: 1

    No, I was looking for the ultimate source of FUD filled whitepapers. So, either MS or SCO.

  10. Re:How much $$$? on Breakthrough Efficient, Paintable Solar Cells · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Because that would make too much sense.

    If it was actually true that they had this paint there would be no need for power plants anymore. Just paint all the houses and buildings and you're all set.

  11. First step, stop lying on Advice for Returning to School After Long Break? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    First step, stop lying:
    A few months ago, I quit my secure, well-paying (but boring) job as a software engineer

    Second step, if that really is the truth, you're clearly not bright enough to go back to school.

  12. Re:When you see all the WTF comments on Rational Atlantic Eclipse Based Solutions · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Not all of us are developers. And plenty of those who are develoeprs work in MS shops. We don't all have time to keep track of every IDE and CVS out there. That's why a brief description should be present for posts like this.

  13. Re:Yes, but on Rational Atlantic Eclipse Based Solutions · · Score: 3, Funny

    Ughh... that makes me want to go and read some Microsoft white papers.

  14. Re:Bittorrent like? on Peercasting Ready for Primetime? · · Score: 1

    How cool would it be if every online TiVo was/had a P2P client? Forgot to tape Simpsons? Download it from the tivo-net.

    And this, of course, would be a logical thing for the media companies to support. Pay $15-$20 a month and we get to pick and choose the shows we want to download. And, since we're spreading the files using our own bandwidth, there's little cost to the media companies.

    I'd love to be legal, if the media companies would just give me what I want.

  15. Re:Hmm. on Peercasting Ready for Primetime? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Because this is designed to allow you to listen to the music that someone else is broadcasting and then help them broadcast as well. The idea here is not to simply download copyrighted material. Think of it as Peer to Peer Shoutcasting, I guess. This solution seems to slightly more legal (although it is probably still illegal, at least in the US) than standard bittorrent.

  16. Re:Not irony, but a direct connection. on Google's 20-Year Usenet Timeline · · Score: 1

    You're a nonsensical twit. If you can't even spell your content-free flames, keep them to yourself, stupidfoo.

    And your post had "content"? Give me a break. Your post was the most jumbled collection of idiotic thought that I've seen in quite some time. How the hell does a mayor of New York stop terrorists, who highjack planes out of the Boston area, from smashing planes into buildings? And, btw:

    You're a nonsensical twit. If you can't even spell correctly in your content-free flames, keep them to yourself, stupidfoo.

    You're a nonsensical twit. If you can't even correctly form sentences in your content-free flames, keep them to yourself, Doc Ruby.

  17. Re:So, on Gigabyte's 3D1 brings SLI to a single card · · Score: 2, Informative

    This card requires 16 PCI-Express lanes. So, you would first need a motherboard that gives you 32 lanes. I don't believe one currently exists. Is there a limit in the PCI-Express spec?

  18. If I read the article right on Gigabyte's 3D1 brings SLI to a single card · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It's basically the a little less than performance of the 6800 at the cost of the 6800, but with more heat than the 6800. Didn't the multiple 6600s perform better than this at a lower cost?

    Am I missing something here?

    And what's this all about? Putting a video card on the carpet? Or a towel? Static electricity kills, people!

  19. Re:Some of these predictions are -1 redundant on Bob Cringely's Predictions For 2005 · · Score: 1

    Amazing! Slashdot should regularly link to your website! You and that Roland French-sounding-last-name guy! :p

  20. Private Funding? on Saturn V Preservation Efforts · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Since i really don't feel like registering for a WashPo account, does the article mention what type of funding they've been using?

    Seems like it would be good for a company to donate money to help store these things. The Pepsi Saturn V storage facility, or something along those lines.

  21. Re:They have porn on DVDs now? on Porn Industry Mulls Next Generation-DVD · · Score: 4, Funny

    The earliest adopters of DVDs were mostly porn companies. Interactivity and the ability to wash it off if need be, how can you lose?

  22. Re:Forget the option just give us the stock on The Coming Expensing of Employee Stock Options · · Score: 1

    Nah... companies will just continue to go with hard to take advantage of stock option plans.

  23. Re:Not irony, but a direct connection. on Google's 20-Year Usenet Timeline · · Score: 1

    Yes, because we all know about the powerful NY Interlligance Agency that does covert overseas work and spies on the world at large.

    Hmmm... wait a second... I read farther.

    Yep, you're a troll. Sorry I wasted my time.

  24. Re:What about Real? on 2004 Digital Media Winners and Losers · · Score: 1

    Actually, I tried out Rhapsody and they have by far the best selection of music, in my favorite genres) of any store/online music service I've tried.

  25. Re:Here's what they're claiming on Belkin Offering Pre-802.11N Products · · Score: 2, Informative

    The firmware upgradable, so unless they made some huge changes to the standard I think Belkin is going to be fine.

    Belkin isn't exactly a huge player anyways. They have a decent market share, but one would assume that Cisco/Linksys and Netgear are much bigger players.