It's circular. It carries 220/208V. It can handle 30A loads. It twists to lock into place.

Admittedly, I haven't been exposed to many industrial grade outlets, but this one is just the bee's knees.

If reverse time travel were possible it would have already happened in the future. Either we do not matter much to the inventors or they're too worried about changing their own past and vanishing, causing a global war, or preventing the invention of the sonic screwdriver.

So what I am wondering is: If you change the past, does the current time continue to happen in an alternate universe, or would it just change all of the events and update the same reality. Alternate universes would require an entire universe worth of energy to fork right? That has me leaning toward single reality updates. Unless that universe already existed and ... oh I've gone crosseyed.

Anyone read "The Dreaming Void?" Substitute universe with known-universe and you just need a gigantic simulator that eats galaxies when it needs to fork. They should've built in logrotate on that simulator BTW.

The second we started broadcasting radio signals, we started talking to aliens. When we started having geostationary satellites we started beaming signals in a beacon that made it around a shadow of a satellite sweeping the earth's rotation and orbit. Which is not perfect coverage considering other bodies and the sun, still pretty good.

We can only hope they weren't listening.

Maybe the topic of the thread is how we can develop FTL travel to jam our previous signals before they reach the destination and instead explain that most of what is broadcast from our planet represents the worst of our culture.

Assuming one of Slashdot's readers is using a satellite internet service or possibly a wireless terrestrial connection, this discussion has made it there before any light-speed communications made after discovery.

So on behalf of our planet, please don't judge us by our average citizen, also don't visit for 500 or so years because we'll probably nuke you(which will tickle your ships..possibly recharging them via energy sink shields.) Then again if any of the show you've undoubtedly watched "X-Files" is accurate, please stop abducting stupid people and keep your genetic mutation virus to yourselves. Colonize some other planet congruous to your species that is uninhabited due to recent planetary cataclysm, please.

BTW: Enjoy the LOLcats.

I mean, this didn't hit the front page at all. I just tried to submit it because I figured, damn it's 9:42 Central time...surely this would be front page material. At least to attract scorn/flamebait. Maybe the AC original poster drug it into the mud.

I'm just so let down right now.

Stick on an external drive if needed. With Handbrake you can trascode those movie backups and stream them via Coherence to a UDMA/UPnP device (XBOX 360, PS3) etc. You have to do a custom setup with Handbrake to get the AC3 audio, basically select XBox360 as the target to get the defaults, change audio to AC3 direct stream copy or whatever, use AVI container, use Xvid(or FFMPEG not tested though) and viola.

Still requires some tweaking, I still get some weird artifacts with Xvid.

Use the easy_install Coherence method because the package in Ubuntu Intrepid sucked hard.

Also need 100Mbps ethernet to your XBOX360 to get acceptable AC3 audio. Not sure why but it streams at 30Mbps, your wiFi will probably fail at this. I troubleshot codecs forever until I read a post about bandwidth, copper made it awesome. Tip: if it works ok from a USB memory stick but sucks over wifi, you need a bigger pipe.

I know what the submitter intended.

So the second service pack to a product released in Nov 2007 constitutes "out of the box" for a 1.0 standard from Feb 2007, or the 1.1 from Feb 2008...or 1.2?

"Out of the box" just seems a poor choice. 2 years later after much feet dragging, an international debacle, trying to kill or commandeer it several times...etc. This seems more like a concession/defeat admission.

Better late than never? Now make it the default save format please...though that might be like signing your own death warrant. Too much to ask I suppose.

I feel bad for the guy that cleans the people soup this makes in the crater.

Ron White might say. This will take them all the way to the crash site.

Why the hell weren't they using ext2/3 or anything else? I'm guessing compatibility for the flash card readers for music loaded up by a windows PC or something?

Long AND short file names - This is the ~1 ~2 etc crap you get for file names from the 8.3 format. Probably not the exact same thing but wouldn't Unix symbolic links count? They're old as dirt.
http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT5579517

Ditto
http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT5758352

Flash memory. Remove the word flash and it looks a lot like a textbook from the 70s on file systems 101 would work. Hell it almost looks like this could've been avoided by using a block allocation bitmap instead of storing usage flags in block headers.
http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT6256642

I almost forgot: Type o' Dong. HAHAHA.

obligitory, low brow, sorry

They are probably on their way.

If they think it is important enough, they will go to great lengths to recover things: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hughes_Glomar_Explorer

ISP is doing the same scam, they direct you to a less trustworthy site on NXDOMAIN errors. For home use I wouldn't want to use this. For a corporate environment, I'll take the devil I know (OpenDNS) over whatever subcontractor my ISP chooses.

I spent a minute troubleshooting that problem with the ISP before I figured out what they were doing. They were catching updates.microsoft.com (NXDOMAIN) vs update.microsoft.com (good). They were handing off to a crappy looking search engine and it looked like a sneaky BHO blocking windows update. Instead of the familiar "hey you fat fingered this, dummy" page.

Now I'm using OpenDNS as yet another layer to keep the users in line and out of the bad parts of the internet. ISP didn't have reporting, malicious content blocking, or personal branding options. They were just pocketing the money from ads.

This is a great alternative to lame ISPs for businesses. Paranoid and/or home users need not apply. Also one size does not fit all, etc.

It's the AVG logo rotated 90 degrees CCW with a G on it without the 3D light and shadow.

http://www.avg.com/

Still, I like the old favicon. The new one isn't that great.

I spent Christmas in a GSM dead zone which is approx 5 miles from a fairly large population and an interstate. At my parents I get 0 bars with the AT&T logo which alternates to 1 bar and no signal depending on atmospheric conditions. A cloud rolled in at about 2AM whereupon I got those "merry christmas" text messages... ah nice to wake up to.

The threshold with which they paint these signal zones on their coverage map is ridiculous. Naturally it only works outdoors or in a window sill at certain times, only on one side of the house. Some parts of the house will work. Almost anywhere else I get great coverage (aside from lakes close to the afore mentioned area where summer holidays are spent). This is repeated at aunt's and grandma's but not the roads between.

Pretty much everyone in the town has Alltel and some crappy to passable CDMA tech (just from looking at them).

On another note:
The reason Japan and Korea can roll out awesome networks are social but mostly geographic. Look at Japan for instance. Surface area is tiny compared to US. Japan: 145840 square miles. Texas: 268601 square miles. Also Texas doesn't line up neatly on either side of a mountain range. Sure you can argue user density and back-haul capacity but c'mon that's just one state.