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  1. Re:Consumer offerings? on Silicon Valley Startup Prints $1/watt Solar Panels · · Score: 1

    This is valid, but it just moves the breakeven temporaly. i.e. you will still eventually save money... I just love the idea of vast slow moving rafts turning ocean water into hydrogen and then selling it where it eventually docks... or may thats just me.

  2. Re:rippage on BBC iPlayer Welcomes Linux (and Macs) · · Score: 1

    to rip you'll be wanting the old version of net transporter: http://www.oldversion.com/download.php?idlong=d70cd18f417fb7e93c0d1dbe897708bf Simply open bbc radio iplayer page in ff with firebug installed, look in net tab in firebug for the .rpm file, look at its response, in it should be the actual stream path. Downlod using net transporter, or listen and transcode into format of your choice using VLC media player... If thats legal of course. If its not, forget all that.

  3. Re:Are people still falling for this? on Google Pages to be Replaced by JotSpot · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's a valid concern (at least for it to be discussed more), but whats the solution? Apart from simply avoiding the net app model? If you want to use the benefits of SaaS, how would you/anyone suggest these concerns are reduced/nulled? Not at all suggesting more can't be done. Just asking what people think should be done to avoid SaaS continually raising the priacy argument...

  4. good on Google Pages to be Replaced by JotSpot · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Wierd (for me) that I was wondering when a Gwiki would be coming. I'm guessing this'll be free too? My question is, when do we get to host script and flash etc on Google's domain?

  5. Re:Nothing new on MD5 Proven Ineffective for App Signatures · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Bingo. While it may be of some interest to security freaks, the theoretical nature of this and so many other 'stories' means there's little news in them. Can we have fewer "if the attacker has full access to exe/db/OS/acc/.... they can do terrible things by simply [insert psuedo exploit here]"? We know.

  6. The Bad Film Society on Ask MST3k Creator Joel Hodgson · · Score: 1

    Do you know about http://www.badfilmsociety.org/

    and how do you feel about them and similar off-shoots of your idea? I hope you feel you've made a cultural impact and you're not pissed at them. re your cultural impact, I'm in the UK, my US wife started me watching your stuff (on YouTube, but that another question) and I'm hooked. I need more! Its a really nice common thready of humour between our two cultures.

  7. Re:How will the skin get harvested? on Stem-Cell-Like Cells Produced From Skin · · Score: 1
  8. Re:What happens when... on Stopping Cars With Microwave Radiation · · Score: 1

    "What's to stop it from killing the engine to the police car?"

    A Faraday cage? Like the one stopping the microwaves coming out of your, erm ... microwave.

  9. Re:What's that aphorism? on Chinese Sub Pops Up Amid US Navy Exercise · · Score: 4, Funny

    If you owe the bank a billion dollars and can't pay, you're both in trouble.

  10. Re:Simple solution: on Chinese Sub Pops Up Amid US Navy Exercise · · Score: 1

    Yep. Good post.
    "Trying to restart the Cold War is massively misguided and the US can't afford to do it anyway."

    This is my concern. US outspent Russia in the last cold war. It was a far better way to solve the idealogical distance between the two powers, than blowing the crap out of each other. But the match will be much closer, and I think your right, the US will not win the spending game this time. This is a much more dangerous situation, long term, as some crazies who 'refuse to loose' will one day realize that if the US can't out spend the Chinese, the only 'winning' play is to attack. Of course this is nonsence. The winning play is, not to sound too trite I hope, harmony.

    Europe(western) is realy quite a nice place to live, now that we've stopped fighting...

    So yes, playing silly buggers with 'excersises' in an attempt to foster a second cold war is just silly. They won't win this one. Washington are not good on loosing, which means we may all loose badly. Worrying...

  11. Re:Starfall on Open-Source Early Literacy Materials Gaining Some Attention · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Thankyou very much for pointing this resource out to me :)

    I'll be fixing my daughter's PC this morning, just to crank this site up. It seems to be excellent!

  12. Re:Hmmm.... on NASA Satellites to Predict Disease Outbreaks · · Score: 1

    A few years ago I would have said you were paranoid. Now... Yes there are good reasons for a DoD to know this kind of information. But now that the DoD is becoming a DoA (dept of Agression), we all worry about giving it yet more power... A shame realy.

  13. Re:More than likely the little ships will get pira on New Robots Hunt Pirates by Sea · · Score: 3, Funny

    Its allright. I'm sure they'll listen to Reason.

  14. Re:Oh yeah on Can Google Kill PowerPoint? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Bingo. Its collaborative, cost effective, and a back to basics. If you want to make something slick for TV/film or a crowd that appreciate unnecessary fluff, fine use PowerPuke. If you want to collaborate on, make and deliver an effective presentation to others (I'm sure 99% of presentations are not made on a plane but back at the office) then it is fast and easy and no nonsense. I love it. I hate the completely pointless features in PowerPoint and similar, enticing you to spend hours on a shaded backgrounds, faded transitions and border combinations. Like I say, unless it needs to be visually slick for a TV audience, that time is wasted time.

  15. Re:Also expert driver on Geek Stars From Atkinson to Zappa · · Score: 1
  16. Re:Shouldn't be a surprise on The Death of the Greenphone · · Score: 1

    Only if they are samuri Pizza delivery Robots for Costa Nostra Pizza, who also bring terra bytes of code fresh from the hive mind, and... *explodes in a shower of geekstacy*

  17. Re:Not quite ... on Smarter-than-Human Intelligence & The Singularity Summit · · Score: 1

    And the brain didn't gain its insight through brute force?

  18. Re:How is this news? on Couple Bonding Through PC Building · · Score: 1

    Its news that Slashdot are in the pockets of Intel!

  19. Or on Astronomer Offers Theory Into 400-Year-Old Lunar Mystery · · Score: 1

    Its landing craft. Is an obvious second conclusion.

  20. Re:Mod Parent Down! on Google Protects Healthcare From Michael Moore · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Thread 19704559 - critisisms: "It seems that Moore plays loose with the facts by omitting known relevant information" It is impossible to include "all known information" in a film or viable length. The "staging scenes" critisism could be seen as ill founded as he admits to such scenes being his contrivance to the most part, and could then be assumed by most thinking viewers to be a common device of his film direction. " He does this in all of his films." - Needs sitation or evidence. For example, for the film in question.

  21. Re:wtf on BitTorrent Pirate Loses His Last Appeal · · Score: 1

    Open source entertainment.

    Not that long ago in human terms (or far away, in geographical), we, humans, made/make entertainment for entertainment's sake.

    Movies today are made to sell toys. Actually, more precisely, to make money. More specific still, to make ritch people more money.

    Faulty Towers is not selling anything, it has no major agendum deyond making paople laugh. While it specifically might not be your cup of tea, there's probably something similar that is. So I'm not suggesting we sit round a campfire with a lute and some pig skin drums. Far from it. There's a great deal of amazing animation, live action, humorous, documentary, etc... content on the web. And more being created all the time. With free/low cost software, and a love for the medium in question.

    e.g. I know a number of band memebers. They're all better than virtually everything in the charts. I go on YouTube and find stuff far better than anything on TV.

    The big film makers have been useing us and abusing our trust for ages, with their hour and a half long adverts. Now the general public have the ability to screw them back, and they want to make them criminals. Idealy we'd muster a class action against those who tout a film but offer and advert, under the trades discription act and similar... But in reality, we'll have a messy slow disintegration of the media indistry, and a steady rise of good old entertainment for entertainment's sake.

  22. Re:As the sunken vessel lies in international wate on Sunken Treasure Worth $500 Million Found Off England · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Exactly. What has a 'federal judge' got to do with something off the coast of England?

  23. Re:"New Directions" on Is Speech Recognition Finally 'Good Enough'? · · Score: 2, Funny

    People want machines to be better than people. They still have this 'infalibility' hang-up. That a machine is more determanistic, and thereby, is either right or wrong. I'm not stupid, but for a bit, when people said "/. was worth looking at" in blogsor whereever, I actually wondered how I'd find it. Then when I finally heard someone say "slash dot" I kept trying URLs with hyphens. Not for long, and clearly I've found it. But for weeks I was intregued by /. but couldn't figure out where to look (you can't google "/.").

    So the question should be, are humans ready?

  24. Re:Explains a lot on A Side Effect of Testosterone Poisoning · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yep. Try MOT mechanics. I took my car in yesterday. They broke my wipers (deliberately), then failed me on them! Just as I was starting to feel like I was going to loose it, I noticed a grim on the guy's face.

    I just walked out. But clearly thats what he wanted. It was a franchise, so he'd barely make any cash on selling me new wipers, he just want to wind up another customer.

    If its such an antisocial substance, they should control it. In his case, a couple of hammers would do the trick. And there were some hand in the garage.

  25. Re:Under the PATRIOT Act... on Teachers Fake Gunman Attack · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Guns are baaaaaad.

    Believeing that gun ownership is a 'right' leads to this culture of fear of fellow citizens. While the constitution may have been well intentioned, you now stand little to no chance of over throwing an opressive US regime if/when/now that it has come to power, with fire arms. However, you are terrified of each other! That is shit.

    My wife is from the US. She had a guy pull a gun on her for a minor road rage insident (her car hadn't got out of his way fast enough). I've been to the US once. I had a gun pulled on me by the Police because I 'looked like someone they were looking for'.

    It really isn't that tricky to figure it out. GET RID OF THE GUNS! You'll all feel a lot more relaxed. Then you only have to figure out how to over throw your Government if/when/now that is has become opressive. :)

    Good luck with that. (thats a joke BTW, before the I get extraordinarily rendered, just not a very funny one, due to it closeness to reality)