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  1. Huh?? What violation?? on PlayStation 2 Game ICO Violates the GPL · · Score: 1, Informative

    The libarc project page says that the library is licensed under the BSD license.
    What "GPL" violation are these guys talking about?
    http://sourceforge.net/projects/libarc/

  2. Re:why the discrep between you and parent on First Image Taken With an Ultra Low Field MRI · · Score: 1

    The person referring to $50 cost in India was referring to CT scans, not MRI.
    MRI scans in India costs about Rs.7000 or ~175 USD on a 1.5 to 2.0 Tesla machine.

  3. Re:Speed? on Japanese Probe Returns First HD Video of the Moon · · Score: 1

    8 minutes of video compressed to run at 1 min - according to the text on the screen. So 8X-speed video.

  4. Oblig bash quote on Eleven Finalists in Pentagon's Robotic Rally · · Score: 1


    My robot does this too....it collects data about the surrounding environment, then discards it and drives into walls.

    Just like woman drivers, I guess.

  5. Re:We already have cellphone use on aeroplanes on Cellphone Use On Planes Coming Soon? · · Score: 1

    Most of those calls were made from Air-phones in the plane, NOT cellphones. The ones that were made from cellphones were dropped pretty quickly according to the people who were called.

  6. Re:Gore: "Climate change requires YOU to adapt" on Al Gore Shares Nobel Peace Prize with UN Panel · · Score: 1

    Man-made CO2 accounts for about 0.11% of all greenhouse gases(natural and anthropogenic)
    http://mysite.verizon.net/mhieb/WVFossils/greenhouse_data.html

  7. Re:Take up lockpicking .. on Australia Cracked US Combat Aircraft Codes · · Score: 2, Informative

    The total number of combinations is 11110 because you don't need to use all the available positions. For example you could just use one position to enter a number between 0-9 instead to 0009. So the actual number of combinations is 10+100+1000+10000=11110.

  8. Re:I guess they were scared of copyright issues... on Ubuntu Hardy Heron Announced · · Score: 1

    Yea, they wouldn't want to name it Xenophobic Xtian.

  9. Re:Two options on Scanner Spots Open Source Installations · · Score: 1

    Maybe we should write an open-source version of this software.
    That will teach them bastards!!

    But wait..... should our app detect itself??

  10. Re:Demonstration on Firefox Quickies · · Score: 1


    It works for me. (FF 2.0.0.4, IE 6, XP SP2)

    Close all FF windows
    Open IE.
    Go here http://www.xs-sniper.com/sniperscope/IE-Pwns-Firef ox.html/
    Click on the first link (the one which says opens cmd.exe)

    It immediately opened a cmd.exe window for me.

  11. Re:Curious on Quantum Computer Demoed, Plays Sudoku · · Score: 1

    Many people think this demo does not have anything to do with quantum computing.

    Scientists dubious of quantum computer claims -
    http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/ptech/02/15/quantum.c omputer.ap/index.html?eref=rss_latest/

    Even the chief executive of the company says "all the evidence the company has indicates that the device is performing quantum computations, but he acknowledged there is some uncertainty."
    He also said the company could encounter problems in maintaining quantum functions as the machine is made more powerful.

  12. Re:How do they do the connector graphics? on Yahoo Pipes · · Score: 2, Informative
  13. Re:Definitive Proof-of-Concept on The First HD DVD Movie Hits BitTorrent · · Score: 1

    Not just 3 movies. Several volume keys have been posted on Doom9 forums - last I counted there were about 30 keys posted on the Doom9 forum itself. Even better several people have figured out the way to extract the keys by themselves. The "pwn3d" software player is actually WinDVD and not PowerDVD as previously thought. Even dedicated sites for the volume keys have sprung up.
    http://www.hdkeys.com/ - This site currently has 51 keys posted - including Batman Begins, V for Vendetta etc. Tools to extract the volume keys automatically from the sites are in the pipeline... Exciting times..

  14. What I dont understand is.... on ISPs Offer Faster Speeds, Why Don't We Get Them? · · Score: 1

    why does grandma need a 3Mbit DSL???

  15. Re:Not 2pm ET, but 2pm PT on Microsoft to Patch WMF Exploit Early · · Score: 1

    It has been already released. Get it here(if you run Windows, that is) http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin /ms06-001.mspx

  16. Re:Zero-day? No. on Zero-Day IE Exploit Takes Control of PCs · · Score: 1

    Actually it is a 0day exploit. Though it uses the "javascript window()" vulnerability release months back, at the time it was thought to be a DoS exploit. The information released today shows that it is remotely expoitable. The PoC is here. http://www.computerterrorism.com/research/ie/poc.h tm