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  1. Does little my butt. by DemonWeeping · · Score: 3, Informative · on It Does Little and Not Very Well
    Same as previous N770 posts... I've been blogging howto's like mad. Firmware/Software Hacks Connectivity Ideas and Ruminations: Other fun:
  2. Does little my butt. by DemonWeeping · · Score: 3, Informative · on It Does Little and Not Very Well
    Same as previous N770 posts... I've been blogging howto's like mad. Firmware/Software Hacks Connectivity Ideas and Ruminations: Other fun:
  3. Does little my butt. by DemonWeeping · · Score: 3, Informative · on It Does Little and Not Very Well
    Same as previous N770 posts... I've been blogging howto's like mad. Firmware/Software Hacks Connectivity Ideas and Ruminations: Other fun:
  4. Does little my butt. by DemonWeeping · · Score: 3, Informative · on It Does Little and Not Very Well
    Same as previous N770 posts... I've been blogging howto's like mad. Firmware/Software Hacks Connectivity Ideas and Ruminations: Other fun:
  5. Does little my butt. by DemonWeeping · · Score: 3, Informative · on It Does Little and Not Very Well
    Same as previous N770 posts... I've been blogging howto's like mad. Firmware/Software Hacks Connectivity Ideas and Ruminations: Other fun:
  6. Does little my butt. by DemonWeeping · · Score: 3, Informative · on It Does Little and Not Very Well
    Same as previous N770 posts... I've been blogging howto's like mad. Firmware/Software Hacks Connectivity Ideas and Ruminations: Other fun:
  7. Does little my butt. by DemonWeeping · · Score: 3, Informative · on It Does Little and Not Very Well
    Same as previous N770 posts... I've been blogging howto's like mad. Firmware/Software Hacks Connectivity Ideas and Ruminations: Other fun:
  8. Does little my butt. by DemonWeeping · · Score: 3, Informative · on It Does Little and Not Very Well
    Same as previous N770 posts... I've been blogging howto's like mad. Firmware/Software Hacks Connectivity Ideas and Ruminations: Other fun:
  9. Does little my butt. by DemonWeeping · · Score: 3, Informative · on It Does Little and Not Very Well
    Same as previous N770 posts... I've been blogging howto's like mad. Firmware/Software Hacks Connectivity Ideas and Ruminations: Other fun:
  10. Does little my butt. by DemonWeeping · · Score: 3, Informative · on It Does Little and Not Very Well
    Same as previous N770 posts... I've been blogging howto's like mad. Firmware/Software Hacks Connectivity Ideas and Ruminations: Other fun:
  11. Re:The Input/Output Hurdle by johnfink · · Score: 1 · on It Does Little and Not Very Well
    Why don't more companies utilise this technology?
    Probably the $179.99 price tag, which would surely be increased by reducing the size to small enough to fit in a modern phone.
  12. Re:Censored or edited? by tidokoro · · Score: 1 · on Censored Wikipedia Articles Appear On Protest Site

    My run-in with the Wikipedia Gestapo:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Votes_for_d eletion/Totally_Obvious

    which lead to:

    http://totallyobviousmartyrsoff.blogspot.com/

    All together, time well spent. :}

  13. First cannibal post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Cops Walking the MySpace Beat
    Weblog of confessed murderer Kevin Underwood. The internet made him do it:
    Underwood wrote that he rarely left his apartment for long stretches, except to go to work and to buy food. "I just sit here at the computer every minute of the day, when I'm not at work. A week or so ago, I spent my day off sitting here at the computer, barely moving from the chair, for 14 hours."

    He said one of his main interests was the online role-playing game "Kingdom of Loathing," in which stick figures battle one another.
    LOL
  14. Re:... the money by bunratty · · Score: 1 · on Lessons from the Browser Wars

    They actually have the goal of being the second most used browser, but are probably still happy being used less than IE, Firefox, and Safari if they're still turning a nice profit.

  15. Linuxbeak is a deranged pedophile by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Censored Wikipedia Articles Appear On Protest Site

    He is also a defender of pedophiles' rights to express their twisted viewpoints on the Wikipedia. What a relativist schmuck. Seriously, people like Alex are the reason Wikipedia is such a watered-down crowdist institution - a collection of what's "popular" and "meets consensus" (i.e. is inoffensive, including to child molesters).

    With recent events like bloggers stooping to murder, rape, and cannibalism, it would appear that the detachment from judgment and community standards which represents the average internet addict, following in the ways of relativist scum like Linuxbeak, leads to the darkest corners of a human soul.

  16. Google Calendar vs Yahoo Calendar by labnol · · Score: 1 · on What is the Best Calendar?

    http://labnol.blogspot.com/2006/04/google-calendar -vs-yahoo-calendar.html We've seen Google Finance quickly grab marketshare from Yahoo Finance because of a more interactive interface. The same could be said about Google Calendar. Though both Yahoo and Google offer similar set of features, the interface of Google Calendar is miles ahead of Yahoo Calendar.

  17. Re:First fish out of the water didn't hunt insects by BoogedyBoo · · Score: 1 · on African Catfish Hunts On Land

    The arthropods had already evolved to survive on land well before then. more info --> http://scienceboy.blogspot.com/2006/04/when-animal s-first-conquered-land.html

  18. Re:Please. . . by sangdrax · · Score: 2, Insightful · on Wiki to Help Solve Millennium Problems?

    This parody basically sums it up. Eventually, the experts just stop bothering to check the proofs.

  19. Google does NOT store email or blogs in China by ToastyKen · · Score: 1 · on China Bans Running Your Own Email Server

    This would be precisely why, according to their testimony before Congress, they are explicitly avoiding storing email and blogs on servers in China:

    (3) Limit Services
    Google.cn today includes basic Google search services, together with a local business information and map service. Other products - such as Gmail and Blogger, our blog service - that involve personal and confidential information will be introduced only when we are comfortable that we can provide them in a way that protects the privacy and security of users' information.

  20. Re:Here's hoping... by NewmanBlur · · Score: 1 · on China Bans Running Your Own Email Server

    From this Google blog posting, date January 27, 2006:

    No, we're not going to offer some Google products, such as Gmail or Blogger, on Google.cn until we're comfortable that we can do so in a manner that respects our users' interests in the privacy of their personal communications.

    However, there is an alternative...

  21. Re:The future of "free speech" by cultrhetor · · Score: 1 · on AOL Allegedly Censors 'Email Tax' Opponents

    To paraphrase Stanley Fish, there ain't no such thing as free speech, and it's a good thing. Take a look.

  22. What JBoss Really Feels About Red Hat by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Red Hat CEO Matt Szulik Explains the JBoss Deal

    This is the text that JBoss removed from their blog about Red Hat. Interesting what they really feel, eh? Not whores at all, no?

  23. Re:Duh by Mandrel · · Score: 3, Interesting · on Most Search Engine Users Stop at Page 3

    In my experience, most results after the first 2 or 3 pages are utterly worthless, and usually contain a bunch of foreign language mailing list posts, and repeats of earlier results mirrored on different sites.

    Not always my experience. As a compulsive maximizer, I can't help looking through 10s of pages of search results, often to the very last page. I often find the best links near the end, particularly for commercial stuff where the top results are more a reflection of market presence and SEO rather than real relevance and value.

  24. Re:Why Intelligent Design Is Good: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Missing Link Found Between Human Ancestors

    "Whether these advances are truly happening at a faster pace than in the past, or said advances are merely being perceived as such due to the increased attention evolution has been getting of late, is difficult to say..."

    Actually, it isn't that difficult to say. As a researcher in the field, no, I don't think discoveries like this are occurring at a faster pace. There have always been ongoing, interesting fossil discoveries like this one or the recent Tiktaalik fish discovery, but you wouldn't usually hear about them in the popular press, because they (apparently) weren't considered as newsworthy. There are also plenty of important discoveries made that still get no press at all, because they involve fossils or other topics in evolutionary biology that are too obsure -- weird things, like transitions between various invertebrate fossil groups that are hard to explain when all the creatures involved are unfamiliar to most people. At least with fish and tetrapods or various primates, people have some ideas in mind already.

    I'm glad some things get more press, though I'm still thoroughly unimpressed with the quality of the reporting that occurs most of the time (the inevitable use of confusing terms like "missing link" are a good example). I guess it is progress, of a sort.

  25. Apparently don't understand the term "backup" by olddotter · · Score: 1 · on Boot Camp Flaw Leaves Some Users Fuming

    I would say not only did they not understand the term beta, but they may have never heard the term backup either.

    Really if you are going to mess around with your harddrive partition atleast have your important data backed up, if not the whole drive. Flash drives are cheap and easy to back up data to (if you don't have an other computer handy), as are external usb or firewire drives.

  26. Re:True Colors by Dis*abstraction · · Score: 1 · on Google Calendar
    "And just how many people in China do you think have ANY idea what 'Back Dorm Boys' is?"
    Oh, only all the officeworkers, students, and anyone else with access to a net connection in the countryside, in addition to probably every last person in burgeoning urban China. When it comes to stupid internet memes, I imagine the West retains its crown. How many Americans do you think saw Hampster Dance?
    "... Chinese society is NOT opening in any significant way, nor is the government adopting ANY liberalization policies."
    Say what?

    If this is sarcasm, I don't get it. Forgive me for being blunt, but have you been paying any attention during the past twenty years?

    If there's one thing on which everyone agrees, it's that China's ongoing economic reform, for better or for worse, is greatly opening the country to the outside world. Has been since the '80s. In Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, regular people like you and me are growing up reading Newsweek, watching bootlegs of "The Phantom Menace," and downloading mp3s of Ladytron's "Soft Power" and--oh yes!--the Backstreet Boys. It's still China, so you'll find pages ripped out of your New York Times from the corner newsstand, and CNN will cut to black for minutes at a time. But even if the censors were perfectly thorough (which they're not), you and I as Chinese citizens are nonetheless intellectually richer, and all the more cosmopolitan, for having access to these resources beyond our borders. We see how the political process works in foreign democracies. We wonder why we shouldn't enjoy the same freedoms.

    Don't you dare doubt that the foreign presence in China's economy really does encourage positive social change. Compared to even just ten, fifteen years ago, there's been an enormous shift in attitudes towards and expectations of personal freedom. Citizens and authorities alike are beginning to consider privacy a basic human right. There is more overt dissent within official media, and though China has a long ways to go before making the RSF's good-guys list, the culture is such that even the Party itself has begun experimenting with small-scale elections and greater transparency in administration. Rule of law is slowly taking over for rule of guanxi. Citizens are holding their government accountable (see, e.g., recent rural protests and government reaction thereto).

    I tire. I've been inarticulate, and for that I apologize. The question is basically this: Should Newsweek and CNN pull out of China because they are censored? Not if they want to continue encouraging Western-style freedoms. Should Google and Yahoo? No, because the "fuck you" attitude I mentioned before is only of help to those whose interests are threatened by easy access to information and freedom of thought.
  27. Re:MOD PARENT UP! by nbritton · · Score: 1 · on Cell Division Reversed for the First Time

    1. The last time I checked, slashdot was still a Linux and OSS news site.
    2. So one can assume most of the readers here run Linux or BSD.
    3. The last time I checked, Quicktime and iTunes it did not run on Linux or BSD.
    4. The question is:

    WHY WOULD YOU POST A VIDEO THAT NOBODY CAN WATCH?


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    BSD Podcasts @ http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/

  28. Re:Chemical Reaction? - yes, and a very efficient by grqb · · Score: 1 · on Fuel Cell Powered Japanese Trains on Trial in July

    I'd rather call the "pop" a combuston reaction and the "dissolve" an electrochemical reaction. There is no dissolution, hydrogen is oxidized, oxygen is reduced, the resulting potential difference causes electron and ion flow.

    There is absolutely no way a fuel cell can do anything at 95% efficiency, other than perhaps slowly charge a battery. You're right in saying that at low currents, efficiency is higher, but you can't drive a car at low currents...Electrolysis can afford to be slow though because typically the hydrogen is produced over night, and so the efficiency of an electrolyzer can reach 95%.

    You also must realize though that this is 95% of it's theroretical maximum efficiency, which is not 100% for an electrochemical reaction, it's close to around 85% at room temperature and goes down as temperature increases.

  29. Wrinkles kill off female gamers? by JamesGecko · · Score: 1 · on An Editorial Melee About Female Gamers
    From the article:
    "In the end, arthritis will be what kills off the current crop of professional gamers. As for the female gamers, as it stands, it'll be the first sign of wrinkles."

    Man, I can't wait till Old Grandma Hardcore finds out about this one...

  30. Breakthrough of Linux? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on The End of Naked PCs in China?

    Some people with background information think that this is in fact a move AGAINST Microsoft to push Linux. Because without pirated copies the marketshare of windows in China will drop sharply. http://fakten.blogspot.com/2006/04/china-supportin g-or-destroying.html/

  31. Re:I have used a PC for 15 minutes, and it sucked by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Useful Apps for First-Time Windows Users?

    Umm, OSX uses DLLs. See this link for details http://0xfe.blogspot.com/2006/03/how-os-x-executes -applications.html
    Notice the section where they talk about dynamic libraries???

    Open Firmware and EFI both serve the same function as 'PC-BIOS'. They both provide the Basic Input/Output System to load the OS.

  32. Re:PDAs Are Terrible, Where is Apple? by Feneric · · Score: 3, Informative · on The Future of the PDA

    If Apple were to release a new Newton (or whatever they decide to call it) that was nothing more than iCal and Address Book I would be happy. VERY happy.

    With just those two features in mind one could argue that they already did, and it's called the iPod. It has both a calendar app and address book app that synchronize with iCal and Address Book on the Mac. My brother uses an iPod in exactly this fashion.

    Mind you, I'm playing devil's advocate here. I don't think the iPod interface is well-suited for PDA type functions, and I'd much prefer something that learns from the Newton.

  33. Re:The Original UMPC by Feneric · · Score: 1 · on The Future of the PDA

    I've also written an article or two over the years and agree that there's a lot to be learned from the Newton MessagePad.

    I wouldn't personally want OS X on it, though; a PDA-optimized OS like Newton makes more sense for the platform.

    Recent developments in roll-out keyboards, projection keyboards, etc. would also be most welcome.

  34. Re:Blowing Hot Air by gstoddart · · Score: 4, Interesting · on Global Warming Dissenters Suppressed?
    Consider the simple fact, drawn from the official temperature records of the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, that for the years 1998-2005 global average temperature did not increase (there was actually a slight decrease, though not at a rate that differs significantly from zero).

    Full story here There IS a problem with global warming... it stopped in 1998.

    Well, that position is not without its critics. There is evidence to suggest that the way the data was collected was not adjusted for changes in the technology they used to gather it, and when it was collected -- specifically, how the heat-shielding to rule out the effects of sunlight warming has been improved over time without that being factored into the analysis.

    This blog gives a nice summary of what happened, as well as a bunch of relevant links. (The author is an astrophysicist, so he's not without some ability to read science papers and follow the math.)

    From this article:
    Dr Sherwood argues that it is not. In particular, changes in radiosonde design intended to reduce the original problem of over-heating have not always been accommodated by reductions in the correction factors for more recently collected data. Those data have thus been over-corrected, reducing the apparent temperature below the actual temperature.

    Dr Sherwood and his colleagues hit on a ruse to test this idea. Because weather stations around the world release their balloons simultaneously, some of the measurements are taken in daylight and some in darkness. By comparing the raw data, the team was able to identify a trend: recorded night-time temperatures in the troposphere (night being the ultimate form of shade) have indeed risen. It is only daytime temperatures that seem to have dropped. Previous work, which has concentrated on average values, failed to highlight this distinction, which seems to have been caused by over-correction of the daytime figures.


    In short, since the heat shielding on the measuring devices became more effective, the daytime measurements were skewed downward, while the nighttime readings showed a warming trend.

    So if the improved technology skews the data, you need to look a little harder at the way the data was generated.

    This issue is by no means settled, but what you cite is one possible interpretation which may not fully fit the inherent issues in the way the data was collected.

    Cheers.
  35. Can we get these on every GW story? by apsmith · · Score: 1 · on Global Warming Dissenters Suppressed?
    If you have ANY doubts about the science, spend some time on the following sites:



    then come back and we can talk about reality, not political hype.
  36. Re:Interface, interface, interface..... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Megapixels & Camera Phones

    What's most important is the person behind the camera.

  37. Check out Pricelessware by Jugalator · · Score: 1 · on Useful Apps for First-Time Windows Users?

    Check out the Pricelessware 2006 winners; only the "best" (according to alt.comp.freeware) freeware software to be found here, in several categories.

    http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/2006/PL2006Catego ryIndex.php

    Over there, you should find tips about the usual stuff: Firefox, Opera, OpenOffice.org, and whatever the heck you intend to use Windows for. To answer your specific questions:

    Spreadsheet: OpenOffice.org unless you want to become a bit more poor with Office 2003 (that's a really good piece of software; probably a better MS product than Windows).

    Graphics: I'm assuming graphics 2D editor here. Adobe Photoshop is really the best IMO, and also exist for Mac. If you want something cheaper, you don't say how cheap, and I'm not so sure I want to recommend The Gimp as it complies to neither the Mac nor Windows UI guidelines. But you may wish to look it up anyway, I hear it's powerful for those who have figured out the UI puzzle to 100%.

    Anti-spam: Try Thunderbird with bayesian filters enabled, or any mail client of your choice with an antispam proxy like POPFile or K9.

    FTP client: FileZilla?

    Antivirus: NOD32, AntiVir, AVG, Avast? Of those all are free besides NOD32, but it's worth your money.

    Games: You don't state your game preferences. Check the PC top charts.

    Online enhancements (toolbars etc): I don't tend to use "toolbars". Umm... The just released Google Toolbar 2 for Firefox? No idea really, but at least they're reasonably trustworthy and at least tell that they may track your browsing habits if enabling certain features. :-p

  38. Lazy game developers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Wal-Mart Controls Modern Game Design?

    But game developers could quite easily produce games for release at Wal-Mart -- and in accordance with their standards -- while releasing "director's cut" versions for other retailers. Then it's up to the consumer to decide. My bet is that consumers wouldn't actually give a shit and would by the Wal-Mart version anyway, given a choice. On the other hand, if they want to see pron, there's always the web.

  39. Re:Leave it to China by caffeination · · Score: 1 · on Chinese Telecom Company Launches 'RedBerry'
    No, they're just not ashamed in the least of this practice. More examples here, the best being Superheroic Man, Star Warrio, Best Food Burger, Polystation, and Cala Cala.

    Note that I distance myself from the overall racist theme of that blog.

  40. Re:Leave it to China by caffeination · · Score: 1 · on Chinese Telecom Company Launches 'RedBerry'
    No, they're just not ashamed in the least of this practice. More examples here, the best being Superheroic Man, Star Warrio, Best Food Burger, Polystation, and Cala Cala.

    Note that I distance myself from the overall racist theme of that blog.

  41. Re:Leave it to China by caffeination · · Score: 1 · on Chinese Telecom Company Launches 'RedBerry'
    No, they're just not ashamed in the least of this practice. More examples here, the best being Superheroic Man, Star Warrio, Best Food Burger, Polystation, and Cala Cala.

    Note that I distance myself from the overall racist theme of that blog.

  42. Re:Leave it to China by caffeination · · Score: 1 · on Chinese Telecom Company Launches 'RedBerry'
    No, they're just not ashamed in the least of this practice. More examples here, the best being Superheroic Man, Star Warrio, Best Food Burger, Polystation, and Cala Cala.

    Note that I distance myself from the overall racist theme of that blog.

  43. Re:Leave it to China by caffeination · · Score: 1 · on Chinese Telecom Company Launches 'RedBerry'
    No, they're just not ashamed in the least of this practice. More examples here, the best being Superheroic Man, Star Warrio, Best Food Burger, Polystation, and Cala Cala.

    Note that I distance myself from the overall racist theme of that blog.

  44. Re:Kcrappy Knaming Kscheme by nbritton · · Score: 1 · on KOffice 1.5 Released

    Um no, but you can get Kaffeine here


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  45. Re:Please make them STOP. by tidokoro · · Score: 1 · on FCC Opens Flood Gates for Junk Faxes

    Not sure how to stop them, but may have tracked one of them down: http://enemiesblog.blogspot.com/2006/04/hot-lead-o n-hot-lead-co.html

  46. Pork a child for Google! Pedophilia blog hoster! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Google's DNA

    Here. Warning: probably not safe for work!

    Do no evil, but fuck a child for Google!

    Registrant:
                    Google Inc. (DOM-345046)
                    1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View CA 94043 US

            Domain Name: blogspot.com

                    Registrar Name: Markmonitor.com
                    Registrar Whois: whois.markmonitor.com
                    Registrar Homepage: http://www.markmonitor.com/

            Administrative Contact:
                    DNS Admin (NIC-1467103) Google Inc.
                    1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View CA 94043 US
                    dns-admin@google.com +1.6502530000 Fax- +1.6506188571
            Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
                    DNS Admin (NIC-1467103) Google Inc.
                    1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View CA 94043 US
                    dns-admin@google.com +1.6502530000 Fax- +1.6506188571

  47. Not that attractive compared to alternatives by epeus · · Score: 1 · on ABC To Offer Full Shows Online

    I put a comparison table on my blog (slashcode strips table tags, or I'd copy it here, sorry.)
    Overall, the options are awkward. I can see some interesting gaps there - if I could subscribe to DVDs by mail every fortnight or month, while the series is still airing, that would be attractive (much more attractive than US networks' scheduling, which seems designed to confuse and disappoint and lose the flow of plot).
    The iTunes series subscription could be attractive, if it was closer to the quality you get from HD-ripped Bittorrent or DVD. Tom Coates was saying something similar recently.

    The other missing piece follows on from my post about net video last week- what if the cable companies had a cache of shows for a while after airing, or let you retrieve them from each others' PVRs? As the smarter ones have very high speed networks in their served neigbourhoods, this could be very responsive.

  48. can't use nukes? by nirnimesh · · Score: 0 · on NASA's $73 Million Water-Finding Trick

    The folks at NASA, obviously looking for new ways to explore the universe, are planning to crash a two-ton probe into the moon

    Crashing probes! Whatever happend to all the nuclear bombs?
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    http://nirnimesh.blogspot.com/

  49. Re:let's open some bank accounts by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Government-Aided Phishing

    You don't need to go to your bank. Just print up a "demand draft" on your printer with the holder's account information (available on any check) and home address. If you can get the account holder to answer "yes" to any question about their account (in my grandma's case, "Is your bank account held in this city?"), the banks won't even go after you for fraud. That's sufficient authorization.

    Surely, I must be exaggerating. Sadly, no. See:
    http://wamublamesgrandma.blogspot.com/2006/03/wamu s-response-to-my-letter.html

    Anyway, I've been flogging this dead horse for a while now, but the flip side of institutional laziness with sensitive information is what institutions -- in this case, Washington Mutual -- allow bad guys to do with the information.

    Full details here:
    http://wamublamesgrandma.blogspot.com/

  50. Re:let's open some bank accounts by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Government-Aided Phishing

    You don't need to go to your bank. Just print up a "demand draft" on your printer with the holder's account information (available on any check) and home address. If you can get the account holder to answer "yes" to any question about their account (in my grandma's case, "Is your bank account held in this city?"), the banks won't even go after you for fraud. That's sufficient authorization.

    Surely, I must be exaggerating. Sadly, no. See:
    http://wamublamesgrandma.blogspot.com/2006/03/wamu s-response-to-my-letter.html

    Anyway, I've been flogging this dead horse for a while now, but the flip side of institutional laziness with sensitive information is what institutions -- in this case, Washington Mutual -- allow bad guys to do with the information.

    Full details here:
    http://wamublamesgrandma.blogspot.com/