System: Gigabyte GA-MA785GM | AMD Athlon 64 X2 5400+ | Corsair XMS2 4GB DDR2 800 | ATI 4850

According to wikipedia the CPU clock speed for an Athlon 64 X2 5400+ is 2800 MHz not 4GHz.

I agree with you ... right up to this part :

but it certainly should bother any halfway attractive person on this planet who plans to take a flight.

In my experience healthy attractive people aren't that worried about people looking at them. It is the rest of us, those of us who are too fat, too skinny, too short, too tall who don't want people to see us naked. All of us who wear clothes, makeup, dentures, wigs and a whole range of fashion accessories in an effort to change how we look.

A lot of money goes into making us feel uncomfortable with what we actually look like. See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hibyAJOSW8U and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei6JvK0W60I.

Deploying this type of technology removes our control over how we look and gives the state (or private security personnel) the ability to examine us
stripped naked.

There are already people suggesting we should use this technology on public transport in our cites. See BBC news and BBC news.

Based on what has happend with CCTV, once this level of technology starts to be used at selected 'high risk' locations it won't be long before it becomes common place, deployed all over our cities, in banks, train stations, hotels and department stores.

How will this affect everyone who wears some form of prosthetic to change how they look or disguise something damaged or missing.

The CEO who wears a wig to hide a bald patch will know that the lads in the security office can see it too. The woman who has had a mastectomy will have to endure the security guards at the city train station seeing her scar.

And then the bad guys will figure out a way to hide explosives inside the body .... so we move up a level to full body xray scanners. Everyone who wears dentures or wigs, everyone who uses anything to change their appearance, all will be scanned, examined and scrutinised.

Are we ready for that ?

If the "o" makes the same sound in "ouvr" as it does in "ov", then "ouvr" is next-to-impossible to pronounce (not to mention doesn't sound like it's supposed to).

If this is a phonetic system, the "o" has to always make the same sound.

So? This isn't Flash. You don't need it to visit 95% of the web. You hardly ever need it – I didn't even have it installed.

Check the add-ons; if you don't have "Shockwave for Director", it isn't even installed. "Shockwave Flash" is the flash player (not Shockwave).

It's amazing! 9 out of 10 people they stop after spotting them with the rod actually have bombs! What that says about the people that aren't being stopped is a mystery...

Hmm I wonder if this law will let me disconnect a router from the internet... or a Root name server.

• Tracking the trackers
• Why My Printer Received a DMCA Takedown Notice
• The Inexact Science Behind D.M.C.A. Takedown Notices

VLC 0.8.7 (Fedora 8) and VLC 1.0.2 (Fedora 11) both seem to be able to cope with the low bitrate Yahoo links.

I selected OpenNetworkStream from the File/Media menu and pasted the URL in the http stream box and VLC managed to decode the real stream URLs from the Yahoo links ok.
On the higher bitrate links both versions of VLC hang after a few frames.

Is anyone else having problems with these feeds on Linux with VLC ?

The 200k/s Windows Media stream seems to work ok, but the higher resolution streams just display a few frames of video and then lock up.

The Real Media stream only provides audio, but it seems to be at about 60 seconds ahead of the Windows Media streams.

Computer, show me all ship-like objects, in any profile. Ah, there it is."

We are working on it IVOA.

This is a very important feature not only for the NOs, but also for businesses who would provide these phones to their field teams.

.... just not that good for the actual users.

If i had my way, I would never see an advertisement.

How would /. raise the money to pay for their web servers ?
If it was a subscription only service would you pay to read it ?

2. We switch to different packaging. Instead of making disks larger we cram more of them into the same space similar to CPU cores - same MTBF per disk but lots of them presented out by one physical interface.

Um ... isn't that what RAID does ?
What you describe would just move the the the RAID controller inside the drive enclosure rather than on the PCI bus.

Unless you were thinking that we create a 10Tbyte disk from 10 x 1Tbyte discs, so if one fails you would only have to replicate 1Tbyte of data rather than the whole 10Tbyte.
In which case, the RAID controller would have to be able to 'see' inside the 10Tbyte virtual disc to know which of the internal discs had failed and what needed replicating.
So a 10Tbyte 'virtual' disc created by LVM gluing 10 x 1Tbyte RAID 1 arrays together to make them look like one large 10Tbyte disc ? .... all in one little box that could overheat, driven by one power supply that could fail or spike damaging the LVM or RAID controller chip corrupting the whole lot.

You need a license if you watch or record TV as it's broadcast

Also from the TV licensing site:

You do not need to be covered by a TV licence (extremely long url):

• If you are using these websites to watch television programmes that are not being shown on TV at the same time. This is often described as a "catch up" service.
• To view video clips on the internet, as long as what you are viewing is not being shown on TV at the same time as you are viewing it.

We don't own a TV. We do watch BBC programs from the iPlayer site, but only after they are broadcast (using standard Flash plugin NOT the DRM AdobeAir version). which means that technically we don't have to pay for a TV license. However we decided we would because we like what they produce and are happy to contribute something. IF the BBC start to add DRM to everything, we will probably reconsider.