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  1. Re:FLAC on Format of Choice for a Legal, Free, Audio-eBook? · · Score: 1

    >I can't think of anything that plays Ogg and not mp3. Any piece of software that wants to be 100% open source?

  2. Unix variants on OpenSolaris-based OSes a Threat to Linux? · · Score: 1

    I think it could well become not jsut Linux and linux distros, but Unix variants and the distros of the variants.

  3. Re:Nice on FCC Demands Universities Comply With Wiretap Law · · Score: 1

    Well, I think CCTV's fine as long as it does not take footage of you in places where usually you would have privacy. In the open is in full view of the public and doesn't count.

  4. Re:Nice on FCC Demands Universities Comply With Wiretap Law · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I think you'll find handgun bans actually reduce crime, as do CCTV - if you think CCTV invades your privacy then you should probably go around in some sort of sheild to avoid you being seen.

  5. Re:Have to say it .. on Geeky Gadgets for Halloween Parties? · · Score: 1

    Seriously, though, there is a registry setting where you can alter the colour to anything.

  6. Nice on FCC Demands Universities Comply With Wiretap Law · · Score: 3, Interesting

    So they have to pay lots of money and reduce their civil rights completly (I don't think any privacy laws are legally binding anymore...) It's got to stop. Unless the court order remains and is completly open, which isn't going to happen, this is just not acceptable. At least I live in Britain, which hasn't got all these civil rights reducing measures...quite yet.

  7. No it isn't on Bill Gates Speaks Out Against Next-Gen DVDs · · Score: -1

    Hard drive are going to be out within 5 years, it's going to be Flash or NRAM. But having those instead of DVDs is a good idea.

  8. Re:Good on him-Single source. on UK's Chief Scientist Backs Nuclear Power Revival · · Score: 1

    What I meant was that we need nuclear as a 'fill-in,' untill we get better forms of power generation.

  9. You know what this means... on Who's Afraid of Shinra Tower? · · Score: 1

    Well, a good movie can do this, a game should do it as well. However I'd imagine all the sockermums (yes, I'm a stubbborn Brit) will be up in arms.

  10. Good on him on UK's Chief Scientist Backs Nuclear Power Revival · · Score: 2, Insightful

    As nice as wind turbines are, you're never gonna get enough to gnerate enough power, nor are you getting enough people agreeing to have them built. Nuclear's our only option. At least, if you're that worried, build them to go on until we have enough other means of power generation. Unless, of course, Fusion becomes viable, which (I hope, at least) will probably happen in the next 25 years. Ah well. C'est la vie.

  11. DISCLAIMER on Ballmer - Trusting Vista and Battling Google · · Score: 1

    The claim does not refer to the chair in question, nor throwing it.

  12. Re:Fear Steve! on Ballmer - Trusting Vista and Battling Google · · Score: 1

    Don't worry. Remember, there are always 3 things in his line of sight he wants to Fucking Kill(TM). http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Steve_Ballmer

  13. Microsoft as IBM... on Ballmer - Trusting Vista and Battling Google · · Score: 1

    Hey, Balmer, remember IBM? And remember how they never really got into this 'PC' thing, and you took over their role as 'very big computer company?' If I were you, I'd start doing more Internet stuff rather than trying to convince yourselves other people 'MSN' each other. Of course, MSN may be some sort of offensive slang, I dunno.

  14. We're fine now on UK ATM System Could Have Ruined Economy · · Score: 1

    As long as the situation remains that no one person can take any my money without my money, any number of people in fact, I'm happy.

  15. Re:This is where OSS comes in... on Insecure Code - Vendors or Developers To Blame? · · Score: 1

    Cars and pharmacuticals are different - the knowledge is much more easier and cheaper to aquire. If you are going to use software for anything that would warrant litigation if it failed then it should be your resposibility to check the code, hire programmers to fdo it, whatever - if you want to get propriatory software you can pay for the assurance they've checked it over. If you're going to use it for everyday stuff the current situation is fine, so there should be little need for change. Also, buggy code can be pinpointed quickly and easily by third parties, and thus repaired.

  16. This is where OSS comes in... on Insecure Code - Vendors or Developers To Blame? · · Score: 1

    Vendors should love open source in this case, nice and cheap (usually) well developed. There's a case for making propriatory software developers liable - we trust they have checked the code - but you can check the code of OSS so if you want to sue the developer you should have checked the code. How can you be sure a product's ok if you can only see the results it produces.

  17. What do you expect? on 419 Emails From A Cultural Perspective · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Kovacsics said victims can't believe that a scammer would spend months of internet chat just to net $700 or $1,000, not realizing that is big money in Nigeria and fraudsters will have many scams running at the same time. If you take that attitude, not realising money is actually worth something, I think it'd be pretty inevitable people thinking you are "greedy."

  18. No longer the underdog? on Blu-Ray The Flavour of The Moment · · Score: 1

    What happened to everyone saying Microsoft made the right choice and that Blu-Ray would fail because they hadn't got the same technology ready to release?