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  1. Re:Trying this again... on MIT Professor Fired over Fabricated Data · · Score: 1

    heh, cool :)

  2. Re:I need a picture of Van Parijs. on MIT Professor Fired over Fabricated Data · · Score: 1
  3. Re:If he's so rich .... on Sex.com Hijacker Captured in Mexico · · Score: 1

    yeah, those nuclear warheads and tanks seem to stopping that illegal crossborder trade in drugs *real* well.

  4. Re:Other interesting comments on Video iPod Screen Test · · Score: 1

    they've changed that - the source code points to a 200 odd byte .mov file, which contains the correct address. you can also packetsniff and find the GET (well, until they encrypt that, anyways). the annoying thing is that there's an option to cache files on the hd, but they save in an opaque format (.qtch) which no one has managed to reverse engineer yet.

  5. Re:Other interesting comments on Video iPod Screen Test · · Score: 1

    I just want to save .mov files from the internet/apple's movie trailer page. I can't do that without paying $30? I don't want to encode, or change image size .. i just want to save and watch. Not something that I think I should have to pay for.

  6. Re:Kzin invade at last ! on Mystery Australian Big Cat Shot · · Score: 1

    if it was a kzinti recon, it'd be the hunter strung up, not the other way around.

  7. Re:Download the video here: on Automated Pool System Saves Swimmer · · Score: 1

    ahhh, cool

  8. Re:Download the video here: on Automated Pool System Saves Swimmer · · Score: 1

    how did you manage to capture that? wmp 9 here won't even play the video

  9. Re:You know Slashdots going downhill when... on Google Talk Claims Openness, Lacks S2S Support · · Score: 1

    people should make up their minds based on the information presented - and by communicating together on the strengths and weaknesses of said information.

    say, if, i dunno, there was a way to 'reply' to a post - i know, it'd be like an online journal, with the ability to "respond" - you could even have metablogsites, where people post links to things they find interesting, and then people could hit "reply to this" to voice their own opinion.

    y'know, just voicing my thoughts out loud. never happen tho.

  10. Re:I know... on The End of the Bar Code · · Score: 1

    the problem with such scenarios is that if the majority of people are poor, then noone will be able to buy anything, and the economy will collapse. it's very hard to be some really rich person owning all these robotic factories, when noone will buy anything coming out of said factories.

  11. Re:Guise? on Lockheed Martin Hardware to Protect NYC Transit · · Score: 1

    said body (and clothes, and etc) now spread over a large section of track, intermingled with the remnants of everyone else's body and clothes and the carriage they were travelling in. Sure, you'll eventually be able to get a description (male. had two arms and legs. and a head. and was white), but it's much easier when you can start your investigation with "this is what they looked like, this is where they got on".

  12. Re:Nice to be right once in a while on HP and Apple Separate; Apple gets Custody · · Score: 1

    Difference being that Coca-Cola has a product that people want (and in most cases are somewhat addicted to), with only two main competitors (pepsi and generic), and a huge installed userbase.

  13. Re:Money saved, but only to be wasted elsewhere on How Schools Can Get Free Software · · Score: 1

    saving money in one budget means !!extra jobs!!, which is very political.

  14. Re:No not really on Second Indymedia Server Seized in UK Within a Year · · Score: 1

    it's an old anti aircraft platform. 10 minutes (including time for a smoko) and a bunch of territorials would be able to take it.

  15. Re:Issac Azimov story on The End of Mathematical Proofs by Humans? · · Score: 1

    I don't think so - even in socially deprived areas where the majority of school-leavers don't go to college, and the black market is the only form of trade, people still instinctively know a good deal from a bad deal

    i understand what you are trying to say, but don't agree - if all people can "know" a good deal from a bad deal, there would be no bad deals.

  16. Re:Speed issues on Cell Architecture Explained · · Score: 1

    I have no faith in the article at all. It smells like fanboi. I think the cell is going to do well, but nowhere near as good as this guy thinks so.

  17. Simple on Cell Architecture Explained · · Score: 1

    Magic. IBM (with the selloff of their harddrive division) now has no need to grind up pixies for the magic "pixie" dust they use to make harddrives. So they have all these pixies and nothing to use them in - so they'll be used to cool the chips :)

  18. Re:Speed issues on Cell Architecture Explained · · Score: 1

    sure.
    http://www.blachford.info/computer/Cells/Cell1.htm l

    has "something like a G5"in the image.

    Beneath that, it has specs, including the line "4.6 GHz"

    Next time RTFA might be a good idea, huh?

  19. Speed issues on Cell Architecture Explained · · Score: 1

    I'm trying to work out how he's getting a 4.6 GHZ G5 on a chip along with all the processing units while apple currently can't make their (singular) chips go above 3 GHZ.

  20. Re:How useful! on House Paint Foils Wardrivers · · Score: 1

    So all you need to do is carry around an ethernet cable while outside.

  21. join said army as a recruit on Iran Cracks Down on Internet Sites · · Score: 1

    stage a revolution. it wouldn't be the first time.

  22. Re:We don't need them, until we need them. on Budget Issues Force Spy Satellites Into The Open · · Score: 1

    along with all the various embassy and military bombings directed against american personnel, the fact that the fbi did not search one of the terrorist's laptops when they had him under surveillance because they kept lying to judges when getting secret search warrants.

    there was also the matter of all these middle eastern men going to flight schools but not bothering to learn how to learn to land.

  23. Re:Merry Christmas? on Russian Supply Ship Docks At ISS · · Score: 1

    so you're going to rely on a pair of human eyes that may or may not be asleep at the time to view an object hundreds of kilometres away in space in an unknown direction at an unknown time to launch a counterstrike in a nuclear war?

    i *like* your style. say, you wouldn't be in charge of running the iraq theatre of operations for the united states army, would you?

  24. Re:Merry Christmas? on Russian Supply Ship Docks At ISS · · Score: 2, Funny

    what are they going to do if the missiles are launched - "hey houston, you're fucked. over"

  25. Re:Massive losses? on Interceptor Missile Fails Test Launch · · Score: 1

    well, granted, the us army isn't experiencing "massive losses" in iraq compared to world war 2. I'm sure the fact that there is no end in sight to the current war in iraq, nor the devastation that is occuring to the cities and public infrastructure of iraq, the failure for the iraqi police/army and the american army to keep the oil pipelines actually pumping oil rather than spewing crude into the desert, nor the continual attacks on iraqi police and military has nothing to do with the original AC's comments.