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I, for one, am not worried about spying at this point. Am I the only one who thinks, especially with apparently no option to disable this, that it will always be working. Recording from a hardware input, processing every 5 seconds, this will be QUITE a waste of processing and accessing time on the PC. Plus, as anyone used to recording anything from the mic in can attest, if the PC is busy doing something HD intensive, like, say, defragmenting, the sound recorded will be broken up, choppy, and/or filled with silent blocks. So, it's imposing a degredation on the user's PC without their knowledge. IF Google enables a disable option for this, fine. If not, then, out it goes as far as I'm concerned. My favorite was this part: Two research scientists on Google?s Research Blog explained the benefits of the software, saying, ?The system could keep up with users while they channel surf, presenting them with a real-time forum about a live political debate one minute and an ad-hoc chat room for a sporting event in the next.? Oh, yeah, I'm quite sure they had this in mind when they designed it. Nay, this is merely the spin put on the technology afterwards as a selling point. We all know why this was initially developed.

I had to laugh at first. Not that I'm making fun here. Just that when I first read "My logical unit" I had some purient ideas there at first. Then, I remembered the logical unit in process of becoming ready dialog.

What I hate are when you apply certain size reduction techniques that are supposed to remove the LB's but don't. So, there's no way to know until you test them. Then, you have to manually edit the IFO's and take them out.

I got to thinking about something. I wish the new Who would incorporate Davros into the series. The later thinking has been Davros is a nothing character without the Daleks. Conversely, the Daleks are seen as a weaker character when they are coupled WITH Davros. However, there is an aspect of the current series in regards to the Doctor's character that I think deserves exploring in context with Davros. Both are now people who have lost their home worlds. The Doctor destroyed Skaro by tricking Davros into activating the Hand Of Omega that he had reprogrammed to turn Skaro's sun super nova. In a way, he has to bear responsibility for the destruction of Skaro. However, directly, he destroyed Gallifrey in the Time War to finally destroy the Daleks. And, he failed again. He thought he had destroyed the Daleks before by destroying the Emperor. Then, he thought if he could blow up Skaro, that would be the end of it. Finally, forced to drastic measures, he destroys his own home planet in an effort to finally end the Daleks. So, I think there's some potential for story here. Davros would naturally want to eke out some revenge for what the Doctor did to his home world. In addition to the centuries of what he'd done to him directly and indirectly. And, the Doctor would have to deal with knowing that Davros is partially right. Plus, having had to destroy his own home world, it would make an irresistable target for Davros to dig into the Doctor with.

Taken from Windows Update's own description: Security Update for Windows XP (KB919007) Typical download size: 203 KB , less than 1 minute A security issue has been identified in Reliable Multicast Program (PGM) for Microsoft Windows XP-based systems that could result in a denial of service. You can help protect your computer by installing this update from Microsoft. If it was Reliable... why does it need an update? I can help PROTECT my computer by installing an update FROM Microsoft?! You mean the same people who made RELIABLE Multicast Program?

At least you can understand what he's saying. No need to rewind the tapes like with Chris.

It's actually been the case for a long time. The slower you burn, the better. There are some cases where some speed jumps are tolerable. But, it seems that once you get beyond 4x, the next jump isn't as necessarily "stable" as the last.

I think it's because no "time" has been added to the IFO's. Believe it or not, DVD video is so tightly structured that nothing really "exists" in hours, minutes, seconds, etc. They start at frames referenced by logical block addresses. If a time isn't present, it's because the author decided not to add it in for display, for whatever reason. Probably just overlooked it. Like when a Play command is issued, the VOB isn't told to start playing at X for 30 minutes, but told to start at X LBA and stop at Y LBA. At least, that's what I GOT from the convoluted mess that is the so called DVD "standard."

Yeah, I was going to mention it over in the Beta forum in a post where it had been talked about someone else's mother or grandmother, I forget at the moment, I'm afraid, my apologies. And, I had replied about my dying Grams. Well, I just forgot to do it. Life is not, if anything, predictable, as she died on September 11th, one of two days, along with September 9th, when if something bad is going to happen to me, it will.

Wow... The Christmas Invasion only just finishes airing... and they've already announced Season 2 is coming to DVD in R1 in January.

Yet another of the myriad examples of a "standard" that no one adheres to.

After 10 minutes, I've only got 19. However... one of the answers is VERY corny... Some of these answers are NOT horror films, which makes it a bit harder... OMG! I typoed one, and it accepted it! "cream" by accident! 15 minutes, 21 so far. 22 minutes, 22 answers. 23 for 23. 24 for 24. I want to get at least HALF of them. Hurrah! 25 for 25. Oh, the "sixth" one... what a BAD pun! 26 for 26. 27 in 28. 28 in 29. Well, I'm stuck at 31. Will save and try some more later.

Benji? Can't say I ever saw that. I did see that CBS series, though Benji, Zack, And The Alien Prince circa 1984. I did not see Star Wars until after Empire Strikes Back. And, I only saw those two because they were rereleased for Return Of The Jedi. And, to be honest, I only went to see them because everyone else was. They weren't bad, by any stretch of the imagination. But, even ever since 1983, when I first saw the movies, I was not blown away by them. Like everyone else. But, everyone else can go to Hell. When everyone else starts to acknowledge anything I like as something deserving a following, then, we can talk about those that I won't recognize. This is how the king of the world would run things. Deal with it. I do not remember my first movie experience exactly. I just know it was one of these movies, as these are my earliest movie memories from Phoenix, Arizona: Battle Beyond The Stars The Black Hole Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown Race For Your Life, Charlie Brown Now, I have to admit, I really liked The Black Hole. When I saw it in later years, I started to understand more of the symbolism involved. As a kid, I liked it for the special effects and robots. Later on, I liked the story and later after that, the subtext involved inside it. And, Battle Beyond The Stars is NOT the worst I've ever seen. Because, I somehow managed to get my ass in front of Howard The Duck, Leonard Part 6, Great White, and Metalstorm: The Destruction Of Jared Syn IN theaters! I even saw Metalstorm WITH the 3-D glasses on!

Two entertainment news items of recent note that make me doubt so much of reality and the world. Enough to make me want to hang myself. Both from IMDB. Up first... well... just, wow... Dustin Diamond Sex Tape "Former teen TV star Dustin Diamond is reportedly the star of a candid new sex tape in which he romps with two women. The 29-year-old, who played geek Screech Powers in Saved By The Bell, engages in a number of sexual acts with the women in the 40-minute tape. Agent David Hans Schmidt has acquired the rights and is currently seeking a distributor for Saved By The Smell. Schmidt tells the New York Daily News, "Just when you think you have seen everything in this business, mankind has raised the bar another notch. Or lowered it." Diamond's manager Roger Paul hopes the tape will raise his client's profile and help resurrect the acting career that collapsed when Saved By The Bell ended in 1997. He says, "I haven't seen the tape. I've heard rumors. Dustin has been trying to escape the Screech typecast. So this may help me get more bookings." Diamond will welcome any royalties he gets from the tape - in June he launched a campaign to save his home from foreclosure, by selling autographed T-shirts on the internet." What I find the saddest thing is how I didn't even know this guy was younger than I was. And, yet, despite given the above, he still... well, you can put two and two together. I should just because from this point, it ain't gonna get any easier or any better. In a world like THAT. The second: Actor Edward Albert died of lung cancer at 55. His father was Eddie Albert, who almost lived to be 100. He would have been back in April. His father's death is listed as two things: pneumonia and Alzheimer's disease. It just makes you think. A guy can live to be 99, and, then, a year later, your son dies of cancer at near half that age. Things like this really put the oddity of life into perspective. Like how I had wondered about my grandmother. How I was thinking that when she died, my "purpose" may be at an end. It was my current function in life, as I could find no other. Then, less than a day later, she died on 9-11 earlier this month. So, what is life trying to tell us here? In the words of Robert Stack about thinking 1941 would be a big hit and that he told the Zuckers he'd only take Airplane! "as long as it didn't interfere with my success on 1941!" He said: "So, what I guess I'm really trying to say here is that nothing makes any sense!"

Well, there was the one that Don Adams almost didn't appear in at all. That was wasn't that good.

Reminder to US viewers! New Doctor Who episodes start this Friday! With a mini-marathon of episodes: Dalek, The Empty Child, The Doctor Dances, Boom Town, Bad Wolf, and The Parting Of The Ways. Then, shortly thereafter, The Christmas Invasion and New Earth. The Christmas Invasion is listed as 90 minutes, so, my guess is "The Christmas Invasion" is BOTH The Christmas Invasion and Attack Of The Graske. So, US viewers pay attention to that schedule that the premiere is actually 2 and a HALF hours long, and not just 2. You'll thank me for it later.

Looks like we lost some posts. Anyway, FINALLY got to see the Cyberman action figure, no thanks to SOMEONE in particular. They were being offered in the latest Previews catalog here in the US. Even offering the Cyberman telephone alarm thingy.

Be sure to use CONTROL singing code! "Curds and whey" means KAOS agent; cigarette means imposter and "whistlestop" means get away!

Here's an interesting update on this: http://www.imdb.com/news/sb/2006-09-27/ Dogs Can Sniff Out Pirated DVDs -- But There's a Hitch "Efforts by the Motion Picture Association of America to use dogs trained to smell the chemicals used to produce DVDs to nab movie bootleggers at airports have run into a hitch, the Washington Post suggested today (Wednesday). The newspaper said that two Labradors, Lucky and Flo, who were trained in Ireland by a man who also trains dogs to sniff out bombs, made an appearance in Washington Tuesday to demonstrate their talent (after already discovering a cache of bootleg DVDs at Stansted Airport near London). One "potential embarrassment," the Post observed: pirated DVDs smell just like legal ones."

Is it possible to use an optical drive's own laser to destroy it?

We may have to add this to the FAQ.

Oh, don't worry. Maybe, someday, if I'm lucky, I'll swallow that last handful of pills as per my daily retinue and my system can't take the shock anymore. Liver failure or something like that. Some sweet day... 40 YEARS FROM NOW!

I'll give it a shot, sometime in the far distant future after we are all dust when I'll have the TIME to do it. Thanks!

Well, if you examine my post carefully, it was to determine a way to figure this out.

Well, my list of Extension is easy, because, I've tested it under the best condition. Here it is: " " None. My guess is that some remnant of something is still in there from the past. Because, my tests last month on a system with Firefox installed basic had the script problem occur far fewer times.