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  1. Pudge is a slashdot employee on Pope Cancels Speech After Scientists Protest · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I think Pudge personally modded this, and other pro-religion, comments up. Down-modded the other side. Oh, and Pudge, I'm a subscriber. K, thx, bye.

  2. How? on Is Open Source Recession Proof? · · Score: 1

    Check out Slashdot userid: homelessinlajolla. This is one geek who can't do this. So how can you afford a place and internet access (and electricity to power it). Not to mention some food to power you.

  3. Modafinil on Drug Shows Early Promise Against Alzheimer's · · Score: 1

    Modafinil and a successor give a caffeine-like boost without the crash. In all, it can reduce your need to sleep.

  4. Copyright infringement on 12 Companies Caught Stealing Software in 2007 · · Score: 1

    I work in the packaged-software business, and I'd still rather it be called copyright infringement. Words mean things.

  5. Think Joe user on Schneier Says 'Steal this Wi-Fi' · · Score: 1

    A different password works fine for Joe User and his gadgets, but he won't care about logging into the access point anyway. It could be to default to physical only for admin access, but that would be a problem for admins who don't have cables handy.

  6. What about the dumb admin/admin defaults? on Schneier Says 'Steal this Wi-Fi' · · Score: 1

    Would it kill them to generate a random password and put it on the router? I love how you can muck with their settings remotely. Lock them out so you have more bandwidth!

  7. Bandwidth throttling on Schneier Says 'Steal this Wi-Fi' · · Score: 1

    If someone connects from far away or with a DS, won't it lower the bandwidth for everyone? I think the .n spec has a way around it. Some routers can operate at multiple speeds, or at least switch off the lower ones (just don't use your DS).

  8. Technical skills as important as people skills on What Skills Should Undergrads Have? · · Score: 1

    You'll mostly get advice to improve people skills--the technical stuff is just as important.

  9. Validation on USB 3.0's New Jacks and Sockets · · Score: 1

    Tolerances will be an issue. I vaguely remember hearing about some problems using an older cable. I could even imagine the factories binning out to USB 1 cables that didn't pan out.

  10. With you on the break-from-the-past on USB 3.0's New Jacks and Sockets · · Score: 1

    Ethernet has a much different usage scenario, though. USB could break from the past to all-optical, or even multi-lane. Too many kludges around, but I don't see ethernet and USB coming from the same port.

  11. Drug legalization. on McCain, Clinton Win New Hampshire · · Score: 1

    At digg, it's even a running joke how nerds like atheism and marijuana.

  12. Those are excesses on McCain, Clinton Win New Hampshire · · Score: 1

    We'd vote Republican if it weren't for the whole religion thing (which ultimately leads to the drug thing). Simple as that.

  13. Nerds lean libertarian atheist on McCain, Clinton Win New Hampshire · · Score: 1

    If Ron Paul had been an atheist, we would be all over him even more.

  14. Information wants to be anonymous on Creative Commons License Flaws Claimed · · Score: 1

    It has to be said. Bits don't care. They are laughing at all our legal wrangling.

  15. Needs head tracking. on Linux-Based PMP Features Head-Up Display · · Score: 1

    Moving your head and having the picture stay still will probably be quite nauseating. They need head tracking built in, which means it can't be automatically integrated into games. Same for 3d movies--this is the main distraction when I watch them. Maybe a head brace will solve all this?

  16. Bravo! on Online Cartoonist Finds Financial Success Offline · · Score: 1

    Tag. I thought that kosher stuff wasn't explicitly removed in the fairy tale, but just isn't followed anymore by custom.

  17. Native 24Hz on Dell Launches New UltraSharp 3008WFP 30-Inch LCD · · Score: 1

    Native 24Hz on both the player and TV are out now. Sony advertises this feature.

  18. OK, now 120Hz? on Dell Launches New UltraSharp 3008WFP 30-Inch LCD · · Score: 1

    Displayport can't handle the bandwidth at this resolution, but it would be nice. Some LCD TVs do 120Hz, but only through internal interpolation.

  19. Why did they skip 64-bits? on Four Root DNS Servers Go IPv6 On February 4th · · Score: 1

    I'm just curious. I know that the 128-bits are not meant to be densely filled, but surely somewhat thought of 64 bits before 128 was settled on. Given the same principle of sparse assignment, will 256 be far off?

  20. Maybe karma loss, but... on Four Root DNS Servers Go IPv6 On February 4th · · Score: 1

    I'm a subscriber, so maybe I'll get a break here. I've been seeing this link around slashdot for awhile. I'm curious if it is a robot that can manage to do somewhat relevant garbage around the link. Of course, could be some drone who doesn't even know English very well.

  21. Doesn't mean it's all IPv6. on Four Root DNS Servers Go IPv6 On February 4th · · Score: 1

    It could just reverse lookup google's IPv6, and then go through IPv4.

  22. Pave way for 128-bit registers? on Four Root DNS Servers Go IPv6 On February 4th · · Score: 2, Insightful

    First of all--this is great news. We need breaks from the past like this. Maybe we'll see computers natively handle 128-bit words. UUIDs are already there. I'm sure the custom networking hardware already has it down, but this could be something that drives it. 128-bits seems like overkill for addressing, but it could be put to use as well.

  23. "Charity" on Silicon Valley Startup Prints $1/watt Solar Panels · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    So what charity gets the money? Is it the usual suspects--sick kids and Africa? Why not the EFF, or FSF? Why not Wikipedia? It seems that often a charity needs to be identified in order to get rid of money. ThinkOfTheChildren usually results.

  24. Alternate universes on Where Do the Laws of Nature Come From? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    An interesting and related question is how the laws can be tweaked, yet still conform to the anthropic principle. One could imagine a smaller universe, where the sentients would not be so spread out. Play with the equations, and run simulations. The neuroscientists will have to get involved once we understand sentience more.

  25. Esperanto on The Future of Google Search and Natural Language Queries · · Score: 1

    Esperanto, for one, makes a perfect study for researchers. Your brush is too broad. Your cynicism and jadedness are disappointing.