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Slashback: Games, Goats, Galileo
Make sure you slip this into the fine print of your consulting contracts. Adn writes "Newsbytes is reporting in a story that David McOwen, who was facing some pretty serious charges will be let go with a fine as against a much harsher fate. If utilizing so called "unused cycles" for the greater good is a crime (I know he was not charged for that per se... but bear with me here) then makes you consider uninstalling all those SETI@Home Screensavers doesnt it? Also a larger question...If the law (in these kinds of cases) operates on the 'intent' of the accused, what is the justification for even considering it a crime?"
Playing games builds your mind and your hand-eye coordination. Bill Kendrick writes: "The results are in for the SDL Game Contest held by No Starch Press, Linux Journal and Loki Games.
First place was awarded to LBreakout by Michael Speck. Second place went to Tower Toppler by Andreas Roever. My own game, Vectoroids just barely made third place over another asteroids-style game, Rock Dodgers by Paul Holt.
Congratulations! The full list of games is listed on No Starch's results page."
Guaranteed not to be your average Slashdot book review! Alex Chiu writes "Hello. This is alex chiu. I have written an online book at http://superiching.com Teaching people how to communicate with God using I-Ching. This online book is free for everyone to read. It's at least 5 times bigger than alexchiu.com. If interested, please release this news."
You may remember Alex from the interview we did with him a little while ago -- truly a unique individual.
Flying blind and a long way from home. Vertigo01 writes: "According to this article on CNN.com, galileo has encountered some technical problems on its flyby of Io and "for unknown reasons, went into safe mode" ... (sounds like my last Win98 install) ... flight engineers hope to restore normal operation for the duration of Galileo's life, but it looks like we won't get any more pictures of Io out of her."
Victoria's Secret probably won't put this on the box. FortKnox writes "Spider Silk is long known to be one of the strongest biological structure made (5 times stronger than steel by weight). Biologists have already genetically engineered goats to produce spider silk in their milk. Now, they have successfully extracted the protein and "spun" the silk. The next, and final step, is to mass produce the silk to be available commercially. Move over kevlar, here comes something better! I want to have the first biologically built house! I wonder how insulated spider silk is...."
now all i need to do is get bitten by a radioactive spider, and then i can get the webbing from those dudes.... I will be Spider-Gavitron_ZERO
Just ask Peter Parker.
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By the way, if this can't get discussed in slashback where can it be?
In case anyone missed this story, there is a global unique identifier for every user of Windows Media Player (just about everyone who uses Windows). This can be used to track you with a simple javascript... not a good thing for privacy. In response, I made a little utility to modify that identifier. It changes it to a nice, little message for the guys in Redmond. If a lot of people use it, then it's not exactly unique any more. Cheers!
Because XP is a distributed client itself. Microsoft does not have the server resources to handle serving their .NET architecture. So, XP uses raw sockets to implement a clandestine P2P network. MSN is not serving XP clients, other XP clients are. In the mean time, MS surfs our personal info like google surfs usenet while utilizing what will become the most powerfull supercomputer possible: Everyone's computers.
If voting were effective, it would be illegal by now.