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  1. Sorry, but why? on Indian Military Hopes to Weaponize the Searing "Ghost Pepper" · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I must be missing something here:

    1) I'm pretty sure it's a banned weapon militarily speaking.

    2)Who cares which pepper the capsaicin came from!? How would this be any different than any of the current commercial pepper sprays/balls/bombs?

  2. Re:BS Article on Carbon-14 Dating Reveals 5% of Vintage Wines May Be Frauds · · Score: 1

    Read that again mister coward...

  3. Re:BS Article on Carbon-14 Dating Reveals 5% of Vintage Wines May Be Frauds · · Score: 1

    Yeah buddy, actually that's what the article is all about, that they can narrow it down to a single vintage with C-14... Doesn't actually say they found 5% of the wine was fake. Shocking that the title would be inaccurate and a poster wouldn't have RTFA on Slashdot, huh? ;)

  4. Re:Do yourself a HUGE favor on Fingerprint Requirement For a Work-Study Job? · · Score: 1
  5. Do yourself a HUGE favor on Fingerprint Requirement For a Work-Study Job? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    " I am in the process of contacting the local newspaper, getting the word out to students everywhere"

    Do yourself a favor and hold off on that. All I can think of while reading your submission is one of those tea baggers holding up a sign that reads "MORAN."

  6. Re:at the very least on PA School Spied On Students Via School-Issued Laptop Webcams · · Score: 1

    Haha, you don't remember being a teenager do you!

  7. Re:We did this on Yale Switching To Gmail, Not Without Opposition · · Score: 1

    still use 'elm' (or maybe 'pine')

    Pine is not elm....

  8. Re:this was a fun game in junior high on What Are the Best Valentine's Day Stunts? · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think you'll find this works better if step 2 is "add 3 months"...

  9. Crock on Google's Nexus One, a Steal At $49 Unlocked? · · Score: 5, Informative

    $49 as in "$529 + $1680 is only $2160 +$49."

    That's not quite $49, and not even getting into the issue of NPV (net present value).

  10. Re:TERRIBLE ADVICE on Woz Cites "Scary" Prius Acceleration Software Problem · · Score: 1

    Mod parent up and GP DOWN!

    NEUTRAL people, not key off...

  11. Re:Do no evil, my ass. on Google Proposes DNS Extension · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Oh because they're not going to get all four octets a fraction of a second later when you CONNECT TO THEIR SERVER?

    Critical thinking people... This would actually let people not use their ISP provided LDNS' without getting asstastic performance from every big site out there!

  12. Re:Telemarketer solution on The DIY $10 Prepaid Cellphone Remote Car Starter · · Score: 1

    Remote starters are generally limited to automatic style transmissions...

  13. Data jumps? on Crazy Firewall Log Activity — What Does It Mean? · · Score: 1

    Maybe the fact that you put random chunks of data from days apart next to each other has something to do with it?

  14. Was the air really thin there or something? on Sandy, Utah Tops US Cities For Broadband Speed · · Score: 1

    So according to Xmissions website you can get up to a 7mbit DSL line in Sandy from them. In other cities (not Sandy) you can get up to a 50mb connection (for between $80 and $105/mo, so I doubt most people would opt for that).

    So all in all Akamai seems to be a little off...

  15. Re:Technical details please! on AT&T Glitch Connects Users To Wrong Accounts · · Score: 1

    Very likely could affect other sites, but one would hope they don't man-in-the-middle https.

  16. Re:But... what? on AT&T Glitch Connects Users To Wrong Accounts · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What is almost certainly happening is that AT&T is using a proxy which implements HTTP Pipelining, but is screwing up and not correctly pairing the requests/responses from different sessions. It's probably just more likely to happen on a site like Facebook where many many users on the same proxy are going to the same non HTTPS site...

  17. Re:Velocity on A Space Cannon That Might Actually Work · · Score: 1

    So yeah if you shoot this gun from 12000km up, the projectile will be in a stable orbit...

  18. Re:Velocity on A Space Cannon That Might Actually Work · · Score: 1

    And what, yank itself out of orbit? Colide with it and d

  19. Re:Krave on The Worst Products of CES 2010 · · Score: 3, Informative

    I know a number of long time smokers that have switched to the e-cigs. Hopefully nothing but nicotine (hey the juice comes from China- so who knows), no second hand issues, doesn't smell, can smoke in restaurants, on long flights, in the car, etc. The biggest problem is that people might not die as quickly AND stop paying the exorbitant sin taxes on tobacco.

    I really don't understand what the 'Krave' was doing on that list...

  20. Re:DX or SX? on Happy Birthday, Linus · · Score: 1

    That's what I thought too, but we're just confusing it with the 486DX/SX... The 386SX had a 16bit external bus.

  21. Re:Oh, look! on TSA Wants You To Keep Your Seat, and Your Hands In Sight · · Score: 1

    Everybody dies, I guess we're really talking about how unexpected the death is factored by how violent it is.

  22. Re:Oh, look! on TSA Wants You To Keep Your Seat, and Your Hands In Sight · · Score: 1

    Well, for one thing, it's their job to kill you if you don't kill them. Not exactly equivalence there.

    Perhaps you want to talk about the morality of conscription instead?

  23. Re:Oh, look! on TSA Wants You To Keep Your Seat, and Your Hands In Sight · · Score: 3, Informative

    Except general aviation is extremely dangerous, statistically speaking- something like 1%* of GA planes crash per year.

    That's a huge trade off of convenience for safety.

    *(2k crashes out of 186k planes in 1996 from http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/155/5/398)

  24. Re:Oh, look! on TSA Wants You To Keep Your Seat, and Your Hands In Sight · · Score: 1

    I don't know, maybe because they're actually combatants? Is this some foreign concept to you?

  25. Re:Acoustic coupler era and POTS! on A Brief History of Modems · · Score: 3, Informative

    Again, you're confusing things. Actually confusing a couple things:

    First:

    T1 != ISDN. The only time you got 56kbps on a B channel was when you were calling out of your exchange in an environment that still used RBS.

    Second, in the US:
    A PRI is 23B (64kbps) + 1 D (64kbps) and all the signaling happened on the D channel or 24B (2nd-nth PRI)

    A BRI is 2B (64kbps) + 1 D (16kbps) and all the signaling happened on the D channel.

    Thirdly, in Europe:
    A PRI is 30B (64kbps) + 1 D (64kbps)

    Fourthly:
    There is not a D channel per 'B pair' there is just a D channel.

    If Wikipedia says something different it's, uhh, wrong. (But I think you're just misinterpreting it)