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This has been a problem for school districts in my area. The local newspaper ran a piece on it, and the superintendent basically asked kids to go to bed on time. I'm suspecting it wasn't a problem for elementary schools tho.

Motorola isn't the only one using Bluetooth in phones - Nokia also has a model. Unless it's just a Mototola phone with a Nokia sticker on it.

Yes, an article can be found right here. I'd like to say I'm shocked, but with all the other news going on "shocked" hardly seems appropriate.

For some reason this guy posts almost every 60 Minutes show for the past 3 years in AVI format.

Here is the show that corresponds to the article. Not too much new information, but it's nice for those of us too lazy to read.

Good question. Go to your favorie seach engine, type in "CRUSOE IBM LINUX HEAD TO HEAD REVIEW" and you will find this very article, which is, amazingly, a head-to-head review of the IBM Linux laptop vs this crappy Crusoe laptop.

Good question. Go to your favorie seach engine, type in "CRUSOE IBOOK HEAD TO HEAD REVIEW" and you will find this article right here, which is, amazingly, a head-to-head review of the i-book vs this crappy Crusoe laptop.

These guys have a nice long review, inlcuding Linux benchmarks. Good pictures too, both external and internal.

A study amongst psychologists has determined that any given task is far easier and more productive when done with a GUI vs it's command line counterpart. The gravitation towards the contemporary GUI isn't an accident. Anyone who tells you otherwise is just an elitist.

There is a web page set up so that you can conviently write a letter to your congressman / woman and have it emailed directly to them. Don't know who represents you? Just put in where you live and it figures it out. You can type your own letter or send a pre-fabb'ed one to them. Use your voice in this democracy! Citizens for Resonable Consumer Protection page is here, with loads of other information besides the petitioning.

Strangely enoguh, this is true. I've never participated, but I know a few people who have. All I could find was an article to the 2000 event, but with a little searching I'm sure you could find one for this year. It's sort of a fun community event.

Even I'm a bit amazed at how quickly someone got around this. Protocol-ased security is just weak. Here's a description on how to get past NASA's method. Gratned, it's just a model but it shouldn't be too hard to modify it to the real thing.

Hell, this is inconvient, but getting around it is very easy. You just need to install a NNTP proxy and you can get all the alt.bin groups you want. I use it to get a bunch of bin groups @home doesn't carry.

If you missed the Nightline report, here are some AVIs of the rockets in action. Very, very cool indeed.

These guys wrote a neat little script in Shakespeare that tells your your domain name, IP, and routes three IGMP packets to your machine - one direct, one using only RIP, and the other using only OSPF. Of course, RIP fails but it would work on a local network. It also lists running tasks if you're using W2k. Check out the soruce or d/l the program here. Cool stuff.

Hell, there's so many novels in the public domain that you can transfer to MS Reader, why bother with the pay ones? Grab a slew of them here. The Bible, Moby Dick, even a dictionary ... I have quite an impressive library, all electronic.

Hell, it's VERY easy to add dual-dish capacity to an existing Tivo. Here's one guy that did it for about $50. Now that I know what it takes I wonder why it took Tivo so long to do it.

Cripes, I feel for these sites that are unknowingly featured on /. Here is a mirror.

I would have thought the military would been more insterested in K12's peer to peer client. 3DES encryption combined with IPSec with bit-to-bit verification. Hell, I thought the Marines were already using it.

This is one of the coolest LEGO projects I have ever seen. Neat integration between a PC and, basically, a toy. Lego should market this sort of thing - not to children but adults. They should run this in an ad.

The best. Here is the most interesting cubicle I've seen for the slashdot guy, complete with a mountain dew dispenser!

I've been using the CVS tree of Koffice, and I absolutely adore the software, however, I was under the impression that the name was being changed, as stated here. Perhaps we should start using the new name, yes?

I've been using the CVS tree of Koffice, and I absolutely love it. But I was under the impression, as stated here, that KOffice was actually changing their name, for a reason similar to the Killustrator name change. Perhaps we should start using the real name.

What the hell is the big deal about hearing the original HHGTTG radio scripts? They've been available for free for quite some time down. They're in WMA (sorry) and only 64k, but I've uncompressed them and burned them to CD and they sound great. And they're commercial free, probably unlike the BBC re-broadcast.

Here's an excellent article on how to get a new IP address if you ever need one.

I read here that Novell was buying Corel's Linux dist. I thought it was a done deal in fact.

I read here that Novell was buying Corel's Linux dist. I thought it was a done deal in fact.

I thought it said ... Nixon Faces Resignation

Actually, it says "Borders Nixes Face Recognition." You should probably learn how to read a little better, or get a differnt browser.

Some little bitch in my managment class interviewed the GM at the Borders here next to James Madison U. She actually thought to ask the GM about the English Borders and the camera policy. You can read it on our class BB; the GM didn't really say much, except drone on about how she supports the company and how the have access to numbers that GMs and the public don't blah blah blah. The really have those managers numbed whenever it comes to anything stamped "corporate policy."

Well, it's a step in the right direction. But if only Borders would extend the same courtesy to it's employees as it does it customers. Paranoia from within.

We tried it, but we found that was far too unreliable for something as sensitive as patients medical records. We've since switched back to a BSD/110 solution.

He fucking rocks, it's like a three hour prank phone call. Sometimes I think he's getting too outrageous and no one will believe him, but damnit if people don't keep calling in anyway.

No shit he puts slashdot trolls to shame. He's the goddamned master. I'm pretty sure Mike Tyson could whip my ass too. So shut the fuck up.

But I've found that I like Rite Aid much better.

It's mostly a matter of security and/or health reasons. My father moved to the Sahara 7 years ago to help with his black lung. I still like to keep in touch with him.

My company switched from cellular to satellite phones for certain departments, based mostly on a study find that they are much more secure. It basically comes down to a broadcast technology vs an encrypted one.

Developed external to Microsoft (of course), so use at your own risk. Purchase it here. I've been using it on my servers at work (Eckard's) and we've fended off many DOS attacks with it.

Kiss myass. I can't post because I'm getting my cock sucked by Nastard. His name means Nads + Turds.

MIT has put out a press release about the alliance. Nothing that isn't in the CNN article, but there are some photos of the people involed.

Imagine downloading a 4 hour DIVX using 20 bytes. 4b sequence ID, 8b offset, 8b length. That is the same length as an IP header...

But it isn't ... your math is off.

The 8b offset is where you're mistaken. You're forgetting about the 1-bit checksum that gets inserted in there, that makes the header have odd parity so error checking can be done faster - the initial calculation can be done with a simple even/odd query.

Still, interesting point you raise. The potential for this is almost endless.

HP has done something like this before, developing a super-cooled RISC processor with a group of reasearchers and students at the University of Virginia. They weren't successful, but that isn't the point of these sort of things - they are more an academic exercise and HP relalizes that these Engineers are the future innovators.

HP has done something like this before, developing a super-cooled RISC processor with a group of reasearchers and students at the University of Virginia. They weren't successful, but that isn't the point of these sort of things - they are more an academic exercise and HP relalizes that these Engineers are the future innovators.

I find it interesting that this makes /. news yet James Madsion University and Red Hat announced somthing very similar last year. Personally I find this more interesting because it is a smaller university and Red Hat, not some lumbering corporate giant.

I find it interesting that this makes /. news yet James Madsion University and Red Hat announced somthing very similar last year. Personally I find this more interesting because it is a smaller university and Red Hat, not some lumbering corporate giant.

I have a master's degree in human evolutionary science. I am currently working on my PHD. Despite the popular media's unwillingness to admit it, and the unpopular politically correctness of it, there are fundamental evolutionary differences between the different humand "races" other than skin tone. It only makes sense - why is skin tone and external appearances the only evolved differences between us. One of these differences is in the structure of the frontal lobe. Without going into too much detail, the structure of human lobe in those of oriental descent is markedly unique from those of other races. This report is of little value outside of Japan. Interesting, but hardly world news.

I have a master's degree in human evolutionary science. I am currently working on my PHD. Despite the popular media's unwillingness to admit it, and the unpopular politically correctness of it, there are fundamental evolutionary differences between the different humand "races" other than skin tone. It only makes sense - why is skin tone and external appearances the only evolved differences between us. One of these differences is in the structure of the frontal lobe. Without going into too much detail, the structure of human lobe in those of oriental descent is markedly unique from those of other races. This report is of little value outside of Japan. Interesting, but hardly world news.

The problem with this study is that it isnt' relvent over here in the good ole USofA. There have been several good studies documenting the games Japanese youth play and the game US kids play. The Japanese games are much more violent, sexual, and "socially deviant" (article's words, not mine) than the US ones. What we see are a few select imports that are comparatively mild. Really, a good but unethical study would be some American chilren playing Japanese games in translation.

It's all water over the dam. All violent games released after Jan 1, 2002, will require a purchased parental code to unlock the violence. That's right - you pay for a game, go home, install it, and PAY AGAIN to get the complete game. What bullshit. The cost is only like $2, and I guess the theory is that only adults will have credit cards, but this has just gotten out of hand.

Senator Leiberman has already dismissed this report as unscientifically sound. If he can't use it for his rhetoric, you know it's crap.

This is nothing more than a harmless thought crime. The feds have already investigated this loser. I appreciate your concern, but this guy has been causing a stir with this crap in other forums long before he came to slashdot.

Subaru does it through the efficient design of their AWD (all wheel drive) system. They have a front-to-rear limited slip differential, which is basically 4 disc that sit in a sealed pool of liquid that becomes less vicious when the discs stop to spin. For example, if the rear left real starts to slip, it's corresponding disc stops spinning and the liquid around it basically gels. The friction causes the other discs to encounter resistance, which the onboard computer picks up on and trasfers the power to the other wheels. The exhaust comes into play because the force from the exhause gets pushed back into the differential, causing the liuid to gel across all the discs. The computer picks up on this and uses the excess power (from the exhaust) to be transfered to all the wheels. A very cool system. Audi uses a very similar system.

Subaru does it through the efficient design of their AWD (all wheel drive) system. They have a front-to-rear limited slip differential, which is basically 4 disc that sit in a sealed pool of liquid that becomes less vicious when the discs stop to spin. For example, if the rear left real starts to slip, it's corresponding disc stops spinning and the liquid around it basically gels. The friction causes the other discs to encounter resistance, which the onboard computer picks up on and trasfers the power to the other wheels. The exhaust comes into play because the force from the exhause gets pushed back into the differential, causing the liuid to gel across all the discs. The computer picks up on this and uses the excess power (from the exhaust) to be transfered to all the wheels. A very cool system. Audi uses a very similar system.