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  1. Re:Imbiciles on Grokster Launches Fear Campaign · · Score: 1

    Obviously I qualify as an imbecile too as I can't spell imbecile. :-/

  2. Imbiciles on Grokster Launches Fear Campaign · · Score: 5, Funny
    YOUR IP ADDRESS IS 62.254.0.48 AND HAS BEEN LOGGED.
    Don't think you can't get caught. You are not anonymous.


    Hmmmm. I hope that they try to 'catch' me from this IP address. Especially as it is one of the transparent proxies of my ISP which is located in a seperate city to the one I reside in. To give them a fighting chance of 'catching' me, my name is David Smith, I was born in Lancashire in the 1970's, I'm 6'0" tall, I have long dark brown hair and a beard, I'm slightly overweigh because of Christmas (yeah right) but most importantly I'm not scared of rudimentary, ill-thought-out script gimmicks from another continent.

    I'll expect the black helicopters to descend on me later today then...
  3. Re:Oh nooooes. on Patient Outcomes Linked To Biomarker Levels · · Score: 1

    I hope you enjoy your new job.
    Not wishing to bring your analysis into question but how does five years of (broadly) increasing share price have any relation to "sometimes when one uses high concentrations of the antibody, low HER2 marker levels were associated with decreased survival but if one uses lower concentrations of the antibody then high HER2 levels were associated with decreased survival . If you look for a completely different marker, increased ER levels were associated with increased survival regardless of antibody concentration.

  4. Re:Nice work of fiction on Google's Secret Plans For All That Dark Fiber? · · Score: 1

    Well I'd just gaffer a load of FedEx boxes together and give the courier a shock when they turned up to collect it.
    Just like if I wanted to send a desk or other items of furniture, I'd have FedEx at the top of my list too. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/08/11/17 15204 (sadly fedexfurniture.com is down now)

  5. Re:Nice work of fiction on Google's Secret Plans For All That Dark Fiber? · · Score: 1

    There is nothing to say that if they have a few dozen of these things that they would only keep them in North America. You could ship them to a different continent and further a United State of Google that way.

  6. Dear Santa, on DVD Jon's Code In Sony Rootkit? · · Score: 4, Funny

    I have been good for most of this year and I am willing to give up any claim I might have on a scalextric or video game if you could only make this /. story be true.
    Yours,
    Dave Smith
    (Aged 34)

    Right you lot. I've done my part now it is down to you to ask for enough money to prosecute this imbeciles so that they don't do anything quite so stupid again.

  7. Re:ugh on Atari 800 XE Laptop · · Score: 1

    I'll chalk it up to a stray electron or something. The OP can just select everything and it'll appear in inverse anyway so I (and hopefully everyone else) won't be fretting over this too much.

  8. Re:ugh on Atari 800 XE Laptop · · Score: 1

    Appalled though I am to say this, but it renders fine in IE. It renders fine in Opera too. Same goes for Mozilla. It seems to be bust in Firefox. Why this might be, I'll leave as an exercise for the reader...

  9. Re:CPU, GPU on Xbox 360 Hardware Disassembled and Analyzed · · Score: 1

    some special dial core

    Dial core? Does it go to 11?

    To be honest I am more concerned that they reckon that having two cores each on a separate die makes them two dice instead of two dies.
    When they said
    Once both X plates have been removed, you can turn the motherboard over and simply pull the heatsinks off to reveal the GPUs (two dice on the chip) and CPUs (single die, 3 cores on the chip).
    I looked at the damn photo to see if there was a picture of a pair of d6 dice. It honestly took over a minute to figure out what the heck they meant.

    I was prepared later for this quote:
    The 332 million transistor GPU is split into two separate dice, the larger of which looks like a conventional GPU, and then a smaller die
    I did not look for a d20 and a d6. I might send them a link to http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/ in the hope that if they must use jargon they might at least use sensible jargon.

  10. Re:Nethack on Loyalists Preserve Past Through Text-Only Games · · Score: 1

    Well, I was torn between modding this up and posting (as commented on somewhere else in this thread) and I gave in to posting.
    I spent two years playing Moria on a VAX at University, two years playing Angband 2.4.frog_knows on a SGI Indigo (which nearly resulted ion my expulsion from University), *seven years pass*, six months playing about with the APWBorg for Angband 2.9.2 to see if I could get a win on my computer even if it was not down to me (never did because I was too eager to play it myself), two years playing T.o.M.E.
    In fact I had just stopped my T.o.M.E Level 34 Thunderlord Geomancer (Imm Acid & Fire & Cold which is nice) after just coming back from 1850' Moria with two Artifacts, one RandArt (restore stats and life levels /200 turns) and a load of other ego armour because I need to see some daylight in the winter months, and I see this thread. Marvellous fun. I even spent ten minutes getting my Angband Code http://angband.oook.cz/code/ up to date:
    To(2.3.2) CWS "Eowardodus" Th(Cl) Ge L:34 DL:2250' A+ R+ Sp+ w:"a Mage Staff of Mana (1d4) (+6,+6) (60%)" W H- !D c-- f- PV+ s d++ P++ M+ C+ S I+ !So !B ac? !GHB SQ? RQ++ V+

  11. Re:64-bit? on Comparing Tiger and Vista Beta 1 · · Score: 1

    Probably not but on past performance, it will be purely bits of 64 O/Ss

  12. Re:Wow on Maturing Net Grows More Slowly · · Score: 1

    You forgot to post the torrent you are using to download teh pr0n. I'll join you in wasting some bandwidth provided it isn't that midget vs. donkey stuff again. I felt ill for weeks.

  13. Re:Just "Being Google" not enough. on Google Instant Messenger Coming Really (or Not?) · · Score: 1

    Well I was merely commenting that there are companies which have a commercial product out there and people actually pay to use it. But as reported elsewhere, they have gone for a Jabber client so GAIM / Trillian / iChat etc. can communicate with it but without the voice calls (which need Google's own client.) I'm not sure they have got all the functions that I use covered, but then again it is only a BETA and who knows what they might roll out...

  14. Re:Just "Being Google" not enough. on Google Instant Messenger Coming Really (or Not?) · · Score: 1
    Well Trillian http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/ does well enough with a windows client for AIM / ICQ / IRC / MSN / YIM / 'whatever Rendezvous is called now' even though they don't have a native transport of their own. They even have a paid for version which I have actually spent money on.

    So, it is not inconceivable that they will attempt to become a universal IM client aggregator and replace the competitors clients if not their networks...

  15. Re:Australian Broadband... on DSL-Extender Brings Broadband 20km · · Score: 1
    Broadband is a technology not a speed: http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=broadband . If you get a transmission of 1 bit per second and if it over 'wide band of electromagnetic frequencies' it will be broadband. Correspondingly my network card is not baseband even though it can transmit at up to 10 million bits per second http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=baseband

    /rant off

  16. Re:Help me out here on Reintroduce Megafauna to North America? · · Score: 0, Troll

    They'd have to introduce civilisation to North America first...

  17. Wired vs. Slashdot on FedEx Cracks Down on Box Furniture, Citing DMCA · · Score: 2, Funny

    It just goes to show the level of interest / level of readership both sites have. I saw this on Wired earlier, clicked the link and had a butchers, saw lots of nice photos of furniture made from cardboard and then got back to doing some proper work. Then this appears in my RSS reader and I go back to have another chortle and the damn thing is unreachable. Slashdot and aa419.org should team up and become the worlds largest manual instigated DDOS system

  18. Re:Think of the children! on RFID Tags To Track Foreigners, Identify Dead · · Score: 1

    It has been proposed before...
    But then again Captain Cyborg has nothing but high hopes for himself
    'Warwick is the man who has declared: "I want to do something with my life; I want to be a cyborg."'

  19. Re:Next in line... on Australian Man Found Guilty for Hyperlinking · · Score: 1

    So, creating a web page that links to the results from of the following google link and hosting it in Australia could be a problem then?

    www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=-inurl:htm+-inurl :html+intitle:"index+of"+illegal+mp3

    I thought they were all decended from Criminals anyway...

  20. Re:Count has to be higher on Six Bomb Blasts Around Central London · · Score: 1

    O negative is the most useful in cases like this. You can just pump it in and be reasonably sure there will be no reaction. If you had time, then cross typing helps to give the correct blood including the lesser known factors.

  21. Re:Count has to be higher on Six Bomb Blasts Around Central London · · Score: 4, Informative

    From http://www.blood.co.uk/press_releases/London%20bom b%20blasts%2007.07.05.doc : -
    news release
    National Blood Service
    Date: Thursday 7th July 2005

    Re: Bomb blasts in London

    In light of events in London today, the National Blood Service would like to reassure the public that blood stocks are currently healthy and it will meet the demand for blood from hospitals if requested.

    All blood donors who are due to give blood today should keep their appointments. Anyone wishing to give blood or who would like to know where their nearest blood collection session is should call 0845 7 711 711 or log on to www.blood.co.uk.

  22. Re:The BBC has to save money on BBC to Cull the Cult TV Repository · · Score: 2, Interesting

    A friend used to work in the BBC IT / Network / Web department. He once had to run statistics to show where most of the web impressions were going to. When quizzed about this he said that if most of the people browsing were from outside of the UK, there was a case for closing it down as it isn't being fair to the licence fee payers. So, having people say: "I can't get the BBC here, you are my only link to good TV!" probably isn't helping. If it was a load of people saying "I remember this from when I was a kid. This is what I pay my licence fee for!! Yours, Disgusted of Shepton Mallet" then it might have more weight. The only comment I have about Bimbo Dude's suggestion is that I dunno how the BBC charter would work for charging for international users. But just removing it for everyone isn't the most desirable solution.

  23. Re:What to do with them? on Microsoft In Talks To Buy Claria · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I did think that $500 million was a little steep to buy the company, then shut it down, then distribute some Marketing PR to say that Microsoft had just made progress towards making you Windows PC safer. Why fix privacy loopholes if you can just buy the people who exploit / use them.