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  1. Re:Old News. (OT) on U.S. Works Up Plans for Using Nuclear Arms · · Score: 1

    $karma + $points = $karma;
    if $karma > 50 ($karma=50);

    50 + 1 = 51 -> 50 (can't be bigger)
    50 - 1 = 49

    if you'd posted your -1 comment before the other you'd still have had 50.

  2. dangerous? on The Incredible Shrinking Antenna · · Score: 2

    This assumes that cellphones can give you braincancer (they certainly can give you headaches;)

    This makes the antenna bigger. That means that the phone will send the braincancer waves to a bigger part of your brain, don't it? And it will be more difficult to shield the antenna because the outside of the phone will be a complete antenna. Also a larger antenna doesn't neccesarely mean that it's better, I believe that for every wavelength there's an optimal size (if I remember correctly).

  3. Re:Full disclosure = annoying. on OpenSSH Local Root Hole · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nah they don't.;) But I'm working on exploit code as we speak.

  4. Re:Ummm.. yeah... on ElcomSoft Lawyer Says Internet Outside U.S. Law · · Score: 2

    How about other the countries that the data is being routed thru in the process of being led to the usa?
    Would they be able to prosecute you?

  5. Not really new. on iWarez · · Score: 2

    When I was a kid, a friend and I used to go to a computerstore, he'd keep the shopkeeper busy while I was making copies of the games that ran on the demo-machines on disks.

    Taking with you a empty cd to a shop can do the same, with the cdwriters getting faster and faster,you dont have to wait for a long time, isn't there somesort of cd-writing app standardly installed on XP or MacOS?

    Even if they catch you, I don't think they're allowed to see the contents of your iPod, cdrom or other data-bearer, at least not in my country.

  6. Download your Spacewars on 40th Anniversary of Video Games · · Score: 2, Informative

    How to celebrate it more than to actually mass-play Spacewars?

    "A DEC PDP1 emulator running the original version of Spacewar! is online Here"

  7. Re:Lycoris? on Lycoris Linux at ExtremeTech · · Score: 2

    The Lycoris is a flower species.
    I don't know why they took this name, probably nothing software-ish that had this name.

    Here you can see some pictures of the Lycoris flower

  8. Earth 1.0 on Most Detailed Image Of Earth Yet · · Score: 2

    Would be cool if someone would use these images to generate Earth 1.0 a la Snowcrash, for those who haven't read Snowcrash, Earth 1.0 was a utility that gave live feeds from satellites, you could see the clowds all over earth but also you could zoom in very deep and see people move around.

    The last part is not feasable ofcourse because the static earth-images would be sitting on your drive, eating up a lot of space. But lower detail satellite images from the internet could be used to dynamically generate the cloud surface on top of the high detail images so zooming would be possible and it would almost be like Earth 1.0

    I once saw a simular app in java but the graphics were quite bad.

  9. Hold your horses. on Business Software Alliance Writes European Regulations? · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's just a proposal, which may not pass at all if the politicians have any braincells left from their champagne brunches etc. well who am I kidding here..

    Just sign the petition if you haven't done this :
    petition agains European software patents

  10. Re:Shout out for SpamAssassin on Are SPAM Blacklists Unreasonable? · · Score: 2

    the tests read the description of test, they are very funny.

  11. This "ask-slashdot" looks familiar on Are SPAM Blacklists Unreasonable? · · Score: 2

    I think I've seen this message on more sites that use the slash engine, today ;)

  12. some screenshots and some games. on Game Park Handheld Encourages Open Development · · Score: 2, Informative

    You can see some screenshots of the games and you can even download some games and an emulator Here

  13. one spamsolution - your thoughts please. on TrustE Launches Trusted Spammer Program · · Score: 1

    say you would have many domains, you can make as many email adresses as you want ofcourse.
    Then you make, say 2000 email adresses and make sure they get on most spamlists using them in public on usenet and on webpages on the internet, the spambots will visit (aka you're spamming for the spambots, making them a nice bait). You could refine the process ofcourse but you get the idea.

    Now all mail you will receive on these email accounts can be described as spam and you'll get a lot of it. All you have to do now is place all of the spam in a big database and all of the spam email adresses ofcourse. Then you'll get the biggest collection of spam on the internet.

    You can have mail-servers contact to your database in order to verify their incoming mail and have them filter out the spam. The mail-servers don't have to send the mail itself, but you could have them send somesort of fingerprint crc check or something. I would gladly pay to subscribe to such a service if it worked and if it wasn't too expensive.

  14. What will this meat taste like? on Scientists Claim Organs Grown From Stem Cells · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'm wondering if such a technique could also be used in meat-production?
    If it becomes cheaper, perhaps this could be used to grow the ultimate steak in some sort of meat factory without the need of suffering of real animals. Imagine: even some vegetarians would have an excuse to eat meat again (some really like to eat some meat sometimes).

  15. ot: about ascii art on Physical ASCII Mosaic · · Score: 1

    I'm allways thinking about writing a really cool ascii art script that would convert a picture into ascii characters. I don't know how this is usually done, but I was thinking it would sample down an area of the picture and then find the closest match within the ascii characters. Anyone wrote such a script before, can say if I'm on the right way?

  16. Re:When I read "CS cheaters"... on Slashback: Cheaters, Spammers, Chessmen · · Score: 1

    Really ot:
    But you should try tactical ops for a while ( tacticalops.to ), a mod for unreal tournament, the cheating issue has been resolved. It's quite simular to counter strike. But I must warn you because of the addiction factor.

  17. Little bit late to arrange flight perhaps.. on Million Man LAN · · Score: 1

    Lanwar 12 is starting tomorrow (Sat-Sun)

    and you're telling me now?:)

    by the way, does anyone knows any online (European) Lanparty agenda?

  18. Who wants to watch tv anyway? on Anti-Copying TV Technology Creeps Forward · · Score: 1

    I normally only watch the reruns of the news at night. All of the other programs I do want to watch are available in the various usenet groups much earlier (1-2 years) than they will be on tv here. Most interesting things went away with the commercialization of the tv programming so channels that support the record blocking will probably suck anyway. I prefer spending my time reading books, making music and participate in various things instead of consuming McDonalds-like food for thought on television.

  19. Re:The truly sad thing is, though... on In Line for Episode II · · Score: 2, Funny

    Seriously, how can these people differentiate what they're doing from what the crack whore is doing just a few blocks away?

    Well that's easy, the crackwhore is the one that's gonna have sex.

  20. link it to gaming! on Mid-Air Messaging? · · Score: 1

    What if you linked this tech to somesort of rpg game, perhaps you could place virtual items at certain locations. And people would be slaying virtual monsters at the park. You could pickup cool items, which are comfortably located in an attraction park (of course they'd have pay a whole lot of money to the game company in order to get those items there)

  21. Very old news here. on Satellite Radio: Tune In or Turn Off? · · Score: 1

    I live in Europe and have digital satelite receiver pointed at the Astra and HotBird satellites. I receive about 700 digital radio stations here for over a couple of years now - what's the big deal? Well some stations do not have any commercials and stuff like that and they sound very clear, but most likely they're inside some subscriber program.. luckely I can upgrade my seca decoder with new codes, so there are no costs involved. Nonetheless I don't listen to the radio, I'd rather watch one of the dozen discovery or national geographic channels.

  22. PS3: Linux out of the box? on U.S. Playstation 2 Linux Hits the Streets. · · Score: 1

    These linux expansions could be really Sony's first experimental steps into a completely linux based ps3

  23. 20gb - no storage problem. on Bokks Linux Based AV Component · · Score: 1

    Since it runs linux you could allways mount a few harddrives on other systems.

    A few notes:

    It has an 266mhz x86 processor (perhaps a pII?), this doesn't really sound like a processor that's fast enough for decoding divx, does it?

    But fast enough to do some decent retro mame gaming.

    I wonder what kind of 20gb drive is in this device. They better put in a quiet one, since people will leech their stuff 24/7 with this thing. Currently my cable decoder even has a 4gb harddrive the noise makes me crazy enough to disconnect it when I don't use it.

  24. an other effective spam stopping method ? on Distributed Spam Detection · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I receive about 40 spam messages in my mail account each day and I run my own mail server (qmail). Someone told me about a very basic spam stopping method. Just remove the mail-account for a couple of weeks and then reconnect it again, you should less or no spam after that period.

    I receive too much real messages in order to try this out and I think most spammers won't bother to actuall remove an email address from their database if it doesn't exist. But has someone else tried this with any luck?

    This p2p spam sounds really nice and I'm going to give it a try asap. I already "lost" an other mail-account in the flood of spam I got on it, so now it forwards all messages to msnbill@microsoft.com (microsoft domain billing address).

  25. Re:Popular In Japan on Net Connected Dream Inducer · · Score: 1

    I have one too!

    Excellent stuff. It actually worked for me, but not with the cue light. I used another method which was much easier for me. Think about things you often dream about, make a list, perhaps you dream about your computer a lot. Now whenever you go to your computer or sit behind it, ask yourself: am I dreaming? When you dream electronics are messed up e.g. when you look at your watch look at something else and look back the time is totally different. So check out if your computer behaves normal, I know it sounds stupid but you really must check it. After a while you have made a habit of this, that's good. Next time you dream about your computer (or something else) you will ask yourself, am I dreaming and after checking you notice that you are! So that's when the fun begins. You must try to stay focussed otherwise you will lose controll again and dream on again.