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  1. No need for tinfoil on MasterCard To Distribute RFID Credit Cards · · Score: 3, Informative


    try this

    or make your own

    When I was a shoplifter I used one of these works a treat for rf frequency shifting security tags.

  2. Re:Bart PE works great on Windows XP In Your Pocket · · Score: 1

    Flash memory has limited writes. These will get used up pretty quickly if you have much logging a la syslog going on.

  3. Re:Scanner... on Searching for a Decent Scanner? · · Score: 1

    You might be interested to know that scanning images *is* frequency scanning. :P

  4. 42% of USians surveyed don't believe in evolution on Researchers Say Human Brain is Still Evolving · · Score: 2

    Life on Earth has :

    Existed in its present form since the dawn of time : 42%
    Evolved over time : 48%
            Guided by a supremem being : 18%
            Guided by natural selection : 26%
            Don't know : 4%
    Don't know : 10%

    http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?Repor tID=254

    Results for this survey are based on telephone interviews conducted under the direction of Princeton Survey Research Associates International among a nationwide sample of 2,000 adults, 18 years of age or older, from July 7-17, 2005. For results based on the total sample, one can say with 95% confidence that the error attributable to sampling is plus or minus 2.5 percentage points. For results based on Form 1 (N=1,000) or Form 2 (N=1,000) only, the error attributable to sampling is plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.

  5. I have a Nokia 6600 & putty on Smartphone Suggestions for Text SSH Use? · · Score: 1

    ... and the moment I got home from my last holiday I bought a datacard for my laptop.

    Typing into a terminal on a 12 key keypad for extended periods makes one's fingers & wrists ache.

    I did try a bluetooth keyboard but found it unreliable : annoying when you still look at the kb to type and find nothing came out.

    35 quid for the datacard, 20 quid for an inverter for the car and 100 quid for a p3 500 laptop works out cheaper than a new phone. I already have a contract SIM so no extra expense there.

  6. Re:DTrace kicks ass on Solaris DTrace To Be Ported to FreeBSD · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You seem to have a poor grasp of what jargon is.

    thanks for trying

  7. morally responsible user? on What is Responsible Disclosure for Security Flaws? · · Score: 1

    Tao says : Morality is the penury of faith and trust and the beginning of confusion.

  8. Re:Solution, or a card? on S3 Graphics Comes out of Hiding with Chrome20 · · Score: 1

    I saw "meal solutions" on sale at my local Tesco's supermarket today.

    It's getting just too much.

  9. Re:How does it come out? on Hydrogen Stored in Safe High Density Pellets · · Score: 1

    I was under the impression that was due more to frost than precipitation.

  10. Re:Australia Still Has Some Pride on SALT Telescope First Light · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    There's a whole bunch of big things in AU

    The Big Pineapple was my favourite but it looks like it has been eaten!

  11. Re:Depending on how we define what? on SALT Telescope First Light · · Score: 1

    If this is the case, then how could there be any doubt as to which has the largest diameter ?

  12. Re:I Don't Get It on Open Source Alternative for Skype · · Score: 1

    sounds like you bought a cheap PC

    buy decent kit and your PC will be rock solid all day long, just like *all* of mine be they WinXP, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, plan9 whatever

  13. Re:Fantastic ... on OpenOffice Goes LGPL · · Score: 1

    s/mute/moot/

  14. Re:Why not just machine gun the refugees? on Sonic 'Lasers' to be Deployed in Hurricane Region · · Score: 2, Informative

    In 2001, FEMA warned that a hurricane striking New Orleans was one of the three most likely disasters in the U.S.

    That's roughly 35040 hours.

  15. Because People Don't Matter on Sonic 'Lasers' to be Deployed in Hurricane Region · · Score: 3, Interesting

    "In 2001, FEMA warned that a hurricane striking New Orleans was one of the three most likely disasters in the U.S. But the Bush administration cut New Orleans flood control funding by 44 percent to pay for the Iraq war."

    http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,15 18,372455,00.html

  16. Re:My move is still on Blizzard/Vivendi 2, bnetd 0 · · Score: 2, Funny

    They came for the palmists,
    but I wasn't a palmist
    so I did nothing.
    They came for the bungee jumpers,
    but I wasn't a bungee jumper
    so I did nothing.
    They came for the players' agents,
    but I wasn't a players' agent
    so I did nothing.
    They came for the Charles Manson fans,
    but I wasn't a Charles Manson fan,
    so i did nothing.
    They came for the refloxoligists,
    but I wasn't a refloxoligist
    so I did nothing.
    They came for the camp TV chefs,
    but I wasn't a camp TV chef
    so I did nothing
    They came for the Romos,
    I laughed.
    They came for the martial arts enthusiasts,
    but I wasn't a martial arts enthusiast
    so I did nothing.
    They came for Eammon Holmes
    and I think I'm right in saying I applauded.
    They came for the Danni Behr
    I said she's over there
    behind the wardrobe.
    Turn a Blind Eye
    Sometimes it's best to turn a Blind Eye.
    -- Half Man Half Biscuit

  17. Re:IE-only web pages... on Plugin Lets Users Turn IE into Firefox · · Score: 1

    10-30% !!
    get real

  18. Re:Wrong Way on Plugin Lets Users Turn IE into Firefox · · Score: 2, Funny
  19. Re:Wrong Way on Plugin Lets Users Turn IE into Firefox · · Score: 1

    I think part of his point was that they didn't have a legitimate Windows disk.

    Ergo. they can say what they like in court.

    "Your honour, the plaintiff was running a pirate copy of Windows so I installed a licensed copy of KDE to get them going without breaking the law. When they asked me to install Windows I informed them that it was $120 to purchase. And here we are."

  20. Re:I can still use an old DOS program on Examples of Obsolete File Formats? · · Score: 1

    thats fuinny cos your CD's will last less time than the TI/99

  21. Re:loads of oils, creams, butter and mayo on Molecular Gastronomy, The Science of Cooking · · Score: 1

    B12 levels are fine according to my blood tests but I guess that could be from re-absorbtion.

  22. Re:loads of oils, creams, butter and mayo on Molecular Gastronomy, The Science of Cooking · · Score: 1

    vegan for 15 years

    healthy

    not difficult

  23. Re:Great News on The End of the Bar Code · · Score: 1

    The ability to know what's in storage facilitiates tighter packing.

    And you haven't considered the small business angle in my statement. Want to stock take those 500 tins of assorted pulses ?

  24. Re:Great News on The End of the Bar Code · · Score: 1

    I meant a reader with an TCP stack built in so that I don't have to use fking USB

  25. Great News on The End of the Bar Code · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I hope that means someone will release a low cost tcp/ip enabled RFID reader, suitable for home/small business use.

    Knowing what's in one's cupboards might be useful. Be great if the best before date is encoded as part of the sequence.