Comment Re:Incoming message (Score 1) 138
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6ljFaKRTrI - This is what they received
(Mental note - remember to preview before posting!
Comment Incoming message (Score 1) 138
Thisiswhattheyreceived is what they heard...
Earth May Once Have Had Two Moons 139
AaronW writes "According to a story at space.com, Earth may once have had two moons. The smaller moon, estimated to be 750 miles (1200km) wide and only 4% of the mass of the larger moon, crashed into the far side of the larger moon which caused the features we see today on the moon. The surface of the far side of the moon is quite different than the side facing the earth, having a different composition and a much rougher terrain."
Comment Re:It's not just Bitcoin. (Score 1) 535
I'm all for looking at decriminalizing drug use, but wikipedia seems to disagree with you. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_policy_of_Portugal#Results
Comment Re:"Advantages over JPEG" (Score 1) 262
But is'nt that just a matter of time? Network throughput will most like increase much faster than size of jpegs(due to higher resolution displays), so give it 10 years and it doesn't really matter much whether you use jpeg or png speedwise.
Comment Re:Anonymous Coward (Score 1) 356
Yes, they were using actual WoW data files, including player and enemy models, sound effects and all that. That is clearly infringing on copyrighted material.
If the server host had bought a copy of the game for each server, where is the copyright infringement? I know that there might be some EULA problems, if you live a place where those won't be laughed out of court, but I have a hard time seeing what is so bad here if the copy of the data files on the server is not pirated.
Comment How to handle telemarketers (Score 0, Offtopic) 224
I just answer the phone, asks them to hang on for a second, and then just deposit the phone somewhere silent, like my bedroom, and wait for them to hang up. My current record is 7 minutes and 49 seconds.
This makes it as expensive for them to call me as possible with me just spending 5 seconds of my time.
Comment Re:That's awesome. (Score 4, Insightful) 271
Unfortunately, as Iran, Afghanistan and North Korea have demonstrated, they ARE stupid enough, and really don't care if they die for Allah or Kim or whoever.
Clearly I missed the news report of Iran, Afghanistan or Democratic People's Republic of Korea launching nukes at anyone?
Comment Re:Uneven laws (Score 1) 304
Well - if c gets speeds up instead of slowing down, that would put a stop to that idea.
Comment Re:Some people are idiots (Score 1) 794
Yes, lets have a law that bans banning!
Comment Re:GUI applications (Score 1) 304
Only vaginae support inheritance?
Submission + - Danish government choose odf (version2.dk)
oljensen writes: The government and opposition have Friday morning negotiated a settlement on the ODF open document standard in place.
Submission + - Denmark chooses ODF (google.com)
Seahawk writes: "Friday morning Denmark decided to choose odf over ooxml from Microsoft. For now the decision is only effective for govermental institutions but regions and municipalities will most likely follow some time in the future. The decision have taken four years to come to and many open source advocates have feared the worst, but it looks like the minister finally caved in and listened to what alot of people were saying."
Scambaiting Gets Comical; Internet Scammers All Dressed Up 178
Nurse Nasty writes "Scambaiting is a fun and relaxing full-contact email sport. It's all about baiting Internet and email scammers into exposing themselves and sharing that humiliation with the entire world. Recently I baited four different groups of Internet scammers into being comic book action super-heroes, and then giving them their own 10-page graphic novel. It's a bit of fun and eduction through entertainment." (Warning: The comic contains a bit of naughty language.)
Comment Re:So only XP is out of luck? (Score 1) 442
Even popular games that are shipping now do not run under it: that tells me it's obsolete.
I would guess that is only because DirectX 10 is not supported on XP - and the reason, I believe, is because MS wanted to force gamers to Vista(It was kind of problematic that people that were first movers did not really move to Vista)
