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  1. Re:U.S. Patent 7,065,520 on Singapore Firm Claims Patent Breach By Virtually All Websites · · Score: 1

    I'd imagine its like youtube thumbs at the end of every clip

  2. Contradiction. on Beetle Naturally Builds Photonic Crystals · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The summary starts out by saying the beetle has ideal crystals, only to finish by saying they can't be used because they are not ideal.

  3. The story is true, but on US Paper Money Discriminates Against the Blind · · Score: 3, Informative

    They have pocket money reading machines that speak the value, like feeding a bill into a vending machine, the little gizmo knows that it is...

    http://www.tiresias.org/equipment/eb17.htm
    at the top of this link are a couple of the devices. I like how the euro one is simply a ruler.

  4. Why, oh why... on Atom-Based Mini-ITX Motherboard Available · · Score: 1

    Why are some of these hardware or hacking (but not a combination thereof) articles getting tagged with "hardhack", when it has nothing to do with hacking, and in some cases, not even hardware?


    !hardhack

  5. Only valid on IBM Patents Putting Handprints On Laptops · · Score: 1

    ..for 5 fingered hands...

    Someone else should patent the 1,2,3,4,6 fingered versions. You know, think of the handicapped/mutants/Matt Groening characters.

  6. Bah on Life-Size Photo of a Blue Whale · · Score: 1

    It's just a painting. I thought the article said photo :(

  7. I've done something like this on Retrieving Data From Old Amstrad Floppies? · · Score: 1

    I transferred all my old apple ][ disks to my PC with all the useless crap I wrote in basic. I still have my ][c which helps. What I had to do was write a small program in apple monitor (assembly) to read the disk sectors one by one and echo the bytes in hex to the serial port. I wrote another program on my pc to listen on the serial port and read these hex codes back into bytes into a disk image file. I'd have to do a couple reads of each disk until I found an MD5 that was more prominent. It worked though!

  8. Why is this on /.? on Nevada Governor to Bill Fossett Widow For Search · · Score: 1

    I come here to see dupes of science/technology news.

  9. Snooze on NYTimes.com Hand-Codes HTML & CSS · · Score: 1

    Is NYT some godly thing I've never heard of before? Why is this news? Maybe if this was an article about the benefits of blah blah blah, maybe citing NYT as an example.

  10. Re:It makes sense ... on 80% of MS Server Protocols Are Unpatented · · Score: 1

    LOL, this is describing MPEG, and its use in something like TIVO

  11. Re:Time to Roll Out The Crypto on Laptops Can Be Searched At the Border · · Score: 1

    The next logical question is, if you password-protect and encrypt your hard drive to thwart precisely this kind of unwarranted and unjustifiable privacy invasion, can Customs force you to divulge your passwords? No. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/15/1459243
  12. Re:Where and how do they search on Laptops Can Be Searched At the Border · · Score: 1
  13. Re:Have two user accounts on Laptops Can Be Searched At the Border · · Score: 1
  14. You could probably on Laptops Can Be Searched At the Border · · Score: 1

    Just carry 2 drives - some laptops have easy-access hard drive bays, one of mine is hot-swappable out the side like a PCMCIA device. Put one old/cheapie in the computer as it goes through customs - it will speed up the scan too if it is just a bare bones Windows installation (I'm assuming they would be better/more readily equipped to handle that). Carry the other more important "stay outta my shit" one outside the machine where I doubt they will search your carry-ons for external drives. Maybe even disguise the sensitive drive in a digital photo bank: An external enclosure with its own battery, a display, and memcard readers to download data to its internal drive - meant for digital photographers.

  15. Re:Setting up for litigation against Jailbreaking? on An IM Patent for the iPhone? · · Score: 1

    Only if the date of the applet is after the patent filing date. Otherwise it's prior art.

  16. Oh, hi. on 3D Self-Replicating Printer to be Released Under GNU License · · Score: 1
  17. Re:Why not do another book in the series on New Dune Movie Confirmed · · Score: 1

    I wish I had mod points at the moment to mark this funny.

  18. Re:Downloads on Wireshark 1.0 Released · · Score: 1
  19. Re:Firewire's not obsolete on A Fond Look at Some Obsolete Ports · · Score: 1

    That's a big one they missed: the MIDI/Game port. All of my joysticks at home are for the game port, and when I built my computer a couple years ago I made sure it had one...

  20. Re:Practical Joke on FBI Posts Fake Hyperlinks To Trap Downloaders of Illegal Porn · · Score: 1

    robots.txt

  21. So what? on FBI Posts Fake Hyperlinks To Trap Downloaders of Illegal Porn · · Score: 1

    They will waste time and money on habitual spyware installers, but otherwise they have probable cause.

  22. Re:Wouldn't that pollute ozone? on Silent Microchip 'Fan' Has No Moving Parts · · Score: 1

    It doesn't; I'm retarded.

  23. Wouldn't that pollute ozone? on Silent Microchip 'Fan' Has No Moving Parts · · Score: 1

    Ooh, more O2 for your Li-Ion fires!

  24. Re:Random DF value on GCC 4.3.0 Exposes a Kernel Bug · · Score: 1

    Damn, I was doing to say POPF with unknown stack
    STD
    CLD
    POPF
    IRET/IRETD

  25. Re:GCC is wrong on GCC 4.3.0 Exposes a Kernel Bug · · Score: 1

    Not acceptable!