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You've told us several times you live in the UK, just outside Birmingham. It says 'From: Good Ol' England' in your profile. Clearly they aren't Maybe, but it's hard to believe you'd spend "nearly a thousand" on blank-firers. They could be airsoft replicas but "nearly a thousand" sounds a bit steep Handguns are illegal, you can't get a license for them. Then you should have handed them in to be destroyed. You've said 'one' of them isn't with you any more, assuming that one is a pistol, what about the other two? If that is the case you're a moron with no respect for the law or other peoples lives. Please do. I for one would be interested to know why you think it's necessary to keep a bunch of illegal weapons in the home, assuming of course that you are.

There are (approx) 450 other sites on the same server as scienceforums.net, the first three of which are: - http://www.1275guaranteed.com http://www.12weekstillaugust.net http://www.167adayteam.com Got that from http://www.whois.sc - you can do lookups by IP address though they'll only show you the first three results with free membership.

Aren't handguns illegal in the UK?

You've managed to review the entire NT4 code?

It's not the full source, it's around 40-ish percent of it: - http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/35547.html Still a fair chunk. Buy a Mac. OSX rocks.

Buy a laptop. My iBook barely makes a whisper when it's turned on, leaving it on all night downloading isn't a problem.

I trust them more now than before this whole thing. The whole Hutton thing was a whitewash and nothing more than a distraction, the BBC should get over it and get back to asking the right questions.

Hopfully, it's a full keyboard with 'ctrl', 'alt' and 'del' keys on it somewhere

The way I look at it, putting anything on the web (whois is a little different..) is just like sticking it in a public library. People can't go whining about it if someone finds it - those who go putting things on unprotected websites that shouldn't be there need hitting with a very large cluestick. Whois information is slightly different, since you have to provide some information for it if you want a domain. The best thing to do for the moment while it isn't illegal is to give false details. If this moron gets his way though, that'll be a $150,000 offence: - http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/35376.html

So, how about making a trinary computer? http://xyzzy.freeshell.org/trinary/

Make an executable flash file instead of a .swf, then autorun that?

Nice one the BBC. Label all Linux users as frothing at the mouth zealots, that'll work.

http://blugg.com/stuff/foxs_view_of_the_bbc_player.htm Oh. My. God. What is wrong with him? Who is he?

Not one , not two , but three different inquiries in the space of three days! Why has the Janet Jackson thing "sparked feverish debate in the US"? Who seriously cares? (Apart from Concerned Women for America. What are they concerned about, anyway?) Why isn't the whole country up in arms about bombing a country for, as it turns out, no real reason? This sort of thing makes me so mad.

Chop it off with a large knife, and give it someone else to look at. Or that cannibal guy in Germany. He can tell you what it tastes like.

It's a criticism of WMP, since it makes it "vaguely nonuniversal".

I'd love nothing more than to see that smug grin wiped of Tony Blair's face.

Yes. During the trial they had some dude come in, rip every part of IE out of Windows 95 and demonstrate it runs perfectly.

WMP Codecs are Microsoft proprietory, just like Quicktime is Apple and Real is, uh, Real. WMP 9 includes DRM componants - so if you buy music from one of the new WMP online stores, or rip a CD and don't change the defaults you'll have difficulty playing it in another player, never mind another machine.

Yes, I am. http://www.apple.com/quicktime/products/qt/ http://www.real.com/player/index.html?src=downloadr (Free RealPlayer link in the top right of the page) It's more to do with the formats than the players themselves. Microsoft wants it's WMP codecs to be the defacto standard, and they're using thier monopoly on desktop systems to achive that. It's exactly the same as the IE thing. They also claimed WMP is 'integral'. They're using a monopoly to get rid of the competition.

Both Quicktime and Realplayer are free.... The problem is MS bundled WMP with windows, in an attempt to wipe out the competition. Had they not done this, and just had it as a free download there wouldn't have been a problem.

Care to elaborate?

At this point I don't think trade agreements have any weight at all with the Bush administration. If they think they can get away with attacking a country for their own gain, they'll do it. The only reason N. Korea hasn't been more of a target for military action is because of the threat of nuclear retaliation and the massive armies (Two of them, no less) protecting it.

I doubt it's "64 standard motherboards and a load of cables". It's more likely to be a 64 node cluster, and the speed at which it will do anything depends very much on what it's being used for. It'd be pants at Quake 3.

Steven?