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  1. Re:Nit-pickers... on Linux Users Try FreeBSD 5, Windows · · Score: 1

    Media Player Classic lets you play any video file in Windows. This appears to be the site, but it's under construction, so here is an alternate source. The interface seeks to emulate MS Media Player version 6.4, before it went crazy. When encountering a codec it doesn't know, it queries a site to install it.

  2. Re:Darl here... on Red Hat Cornering SCO in Delaware · · Score: 1

    Jon Johansen would be surprised to hear that.

  3. Re:Safari on Microsoft Wins Browser War, Abandons 'Innovation' · · Score: 1

    my god, there's enough new stuff every week to make you do a sex wee

    Do I even want to know what that means?

  4. Mmm, supercollider on Virtual Grid Supercomputer Goes (Partly) Online · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm getting a hadron just thinking about it.

  5. Spelling Correct In Article! on Measure The Speed Of Light With Your Microwave · · Score: 1

    No, you are mistaken. The chemical being used in the experiment is 2,4-biphenyl-cho-cholate, a highly dangerous (yet tasty) organic compound known to cause sickness in household pets.

    But I can understand why you might have thought they were talking about chocolate.

  6. Re:I don't understand - on Ukrainian Computer Destruction Championship · · Score: 1

    spending too much time in front of the PC will make you FLIP OUT and kill your PC?

    Only if you are a ninja.

  7. Re:They may have to now on IBM Adds SCO Counterclaim Charging Copyright Infringement · · Score: 1

    The shareholder will lose all his money when the stock drops to $0, but he will never have any additional liability. That's really why corporations exist. Now the board and the executives, they are another story.

  8. Re:YOUR_MOM? (free reg) on Parking Garage Of The Future · · Score: 1

    Hehehe. I was waiting for someone to notice my ... modified link. Well done :)

    I also considered using I_DONT_HAVE_A_PARTNER_YOU_INSENSITIVE_CLOD.

  9. Re:Wonder if they used this? on SCO's Plan Examined · · Score: 1

    Impressive. Is the original creator of the chart aware that they are misrepresenting his work this way?

  10. Re:Wave Principle - Traffic Jams on Socionomics: the Science of History and Social Prediction · · Score: 1

    We might if they were set reasonably. Are UK speed limits more realistic?

  11. Re:Where? on RIAA Sues the Wrong Person · · Score: 1, Funny

    The greatest trick Kazaa ever pulled is convincing the world he doesn't exist.

  12. Re:I'm not impressed. on Smart Sofa Recognizes Occupants by Weight · · Score: 1

    Freshman year in the dorm, the phone company just left a huge stack of phonebooks for the students to pick them up. Few do, so there is quite a surplus. The guy across the hall from me made a chair out of them very similar to that mouse pad chair. It was more comfortable than you'd think :)

  13. Re:The folly of law on UK Makes Spamming a Fineable Offense · · Score: 1

    I seem to recall the Mass laws being voted down before then, regardless.

  14. Not quite on Ward Hunt Ice Shelf Breaks In Two · · Score: 2, Informative

    A freshwater lake drained into the sea, the researchers reported. I think CNN is misinterpreting the following comment, also from the article: all of the fresh water poured out of the 20 mile (30 km) long Disraeli Fjord.

    Disraeli Fjord is (was) freshwater on top and saltwater on bottom. The freshwater was due to the ice shelf, with the boundary at the bottom of the shelf. It would make sense that only the fresh part was drained. It's sad that this unique body of water is no longer that way.

  15. Re:http://www.spamarchive.org/ on Where Is Spam When You Want It? · · Score: 1

    I have the same problem. I trained Mozilla on it and now it messes up quite often.

  16. If ISO starts to charge for country codes on W3C Objects To Royalties On ISO Country Codes · · Score: 1

    ...people will stop using them, and they will become neither International, Standard, nor Organized.

  17. Re:Plasma Aliens on Plasma Comes Alive · · Score: 1

    Also, Robert Forward's Dragon's Egg and Starquake.

  18. Re:The folly of law on UK Makes Spamming a Fineable Offense · · Score: 1

    if you're in Mass. and happen to be in a non-missionary position

    You know that's no longer the case, right? The Supreme Court recently overturned all sodomy laws.

  19. Re:For Gentoo on New ssh Exploit in the Wild · · Score: 1

    That's very interesting, thank you.

    Sadly, I failed at the compile stage. (I've been having various problems)

  20. Re:For Gentoo on New ssh Exploit in the Wild · · Score: 1

    Doesn't that just use 3.6.1_p2 and pretend it's 3.7_p1? That wouldn't solve the security problem.

    I'm new to Gentoo, so I could be missing something.

  21. Parent is not a troll on On the Record: Scott McNealy · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Seriously, this is a horrible trainwreck of a "story".

  22. Re:It seems like a lot of what he is talking about on Cubism For CG And Movies · · Score: 1

    I had the same thought. The technique is called rotoscoping, and if you look in the DVD Special Features you can see how it's done. All of Waking Life is done using this technique. I wasn't aware while I was watching, but I had a suspicion as certain things felt just too realistic to be normal animation.

  23. Re:OT: Chinese and Korean on Users feel Password Rage · · Score: 1

    Interesting, thanks!

  24. OT: Chinese and Korean on Users feel Password Rage · · Score: 1

    From the article: ...written in Chinese digits in Korean script

    I am having trouble making sense of this. Don't the Chinese use ideograms* for their numbers as well as their words? Ok, then how can these be rewritten in Korean? Those would simply be Korean digits. What am I missing here?

    * I think this is the right word to describe the word-characters.

  25. Re:Petition on Star Wars Kid & Episode III? · · Score: 1

    Makes me wonder about the validity of those porn sites whose angle is "we fooled these girls to have sex then put the pics on the Internet against their wishes."

    Come on now, it wasn't blatantly obvious to you that they were faking?