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  1. Re:Sucess isn't garanteed on Can India Become A Knowledge Superpower? · · Score: 1

    What you don't realize is that all the posts come from the same guy :P

  2. zerg on How Would You Select a Textbook? · · Score: 1

    The textbook has to have lots of exercises at the end of each chapter, the professor has to know how to solve the problems, and at least a 3rd of the problems should have solutions (w/ explanations) in the back of the book.

  3. zerg on What Makes a Good UI? · · Score: 1

    Please think of the children: Your "use case" should be, there's a 22 year old college student living in the dorms. How will this software get him laid?

    Not the definitive answer to your question, but food for thought...

  4. zerg on Microsoft Warns of Impossible to Clean Spyware · · Score: 1

    Knoppix: learn it, live it, love it.

  5. zerg on Serial Burglar Caught on Webcam · · Score: 1
    I'm pretty sure slashdot did a story on this stuff before, "Using Webcams as Remote Security. My favorite is:

    jwz has a 24/7 webcam running in his nightclub that is being reconstructed. So far people have stolen:

    o The webcam
    o Two amplifiers
    o The controller for the emulator lights

    All he managed to get was a few blurry shots of the guy that stole the webcam.

  6. zerg on Richard Clarke on Microsoft security · · Score: 1

    Given that a previous story today was "Study Finds Windows More Secure Than Linux", we now have to take the word of the guy who foiled the Millennium Plot but fucked up 9/11 over a "Linux fan" & a "Microsoft enthusiast".

    Tough choice.

  7. zerg on GPS-Enabled Criminals In Massachusetts · · Score: 2, Interesting

    So when the next terrorist attack occurs and the President orders GPS disabled so that the terrorists can't use them, how will we track these guys?

  8. zerg on Open Source Software for ASPs? · · Score: 1, Informative

    Don't hate me...

    I'm a huge fan of .NET, don't get me wrong, but either write it yourself or use real open source tools...

  9. zerg on Nintendo With Possible Palm OS Capabilities · · Score: 1

    The problem w/ the N64 was that it was too difficult to program for, that's why Nintendo went all out making sure the GBA and the GameCube were easier to produce content for.

    Anyone who's written code for PalmOS can see what a terrible idea this is...

  10. zerg on Governer Dean Becomes Chair of DNC · · Score: -1, Redundant

    You know something? If you had told us one year ago that we were going to come in third in Iowa, we would have given anything for that.

    Not only are we going to New Hampshire, we're going to South Carolina and Arizona and North Dakota and New Mexico, and we're going to California and Texas and New York. And we're going to South Dakota and Oregon and Washington and Michigan. And then we're going to Washington, D.C. to take back the White House.

    YAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

    (I have the "Welcome to the Jungle" remix of this on my MP3 player...)
  11. Re:zerg on U.S. Scientists Say They Are Told to Alter Finding · · Score: 1

    This is how it starts, a little at a time.

    I wonder if the Soviet Union would still be here if the Communists kept telling their people that they lived in a "free nation".

    You saw the Slashdot post from a few days ago: most of the kids in this country have no idea what freedom means. "They" just have to bide their time until the little urchins grow up. And it'll work as long as people like you insist on ignoring it!

    Why is everyone so concerned about dictatorships abroad but so willing to ignore the insanity at home?

  12. Re:Potholes on Philadelphia Considering Municipal Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    On the internet, there won't be any potholes because we can travel to other places virtually in cyberspace.

  13. Re:Short attention span on Images of Ocean Floor Show Effects of Tsunami · · Score: 1

    The problem is that the aid money will end up going to American companies, so it doesn't go as far as it would if Bush had simply written a check to say Mercy Corp or Oxfam or Doctors w/out Borders or something.

    So compared to bombing Iraq into semi-submission, the $950 mil is pretty damn cheap.

  14. zerg on U.S. Scientists Say They Are Told to Alter Finding · · Score: 2, Interesting

    In the Soviet Union, when a biologist's findings did not match the ideals of Histoical Materialism, Lysenko would have the offending scientist sent to the gulag. Or worse...

    How much longer before we find out the "Union of Concerned Scientists" is actually an Al-Qaida front organization?

  15. zerg on Sci-Fi Channel Renews Battlestar Galactica · · Score: 1

    They didn't have a choice. When the American audience (who hasn't been keeping up w/ the British broadcasts) sees the season finale, they will fucking riot if they didn't get a 2nd season...

  16. zerg on Personal Spaceflight Leaders Form New Federation · · Score: 1

    So this is the Birth of a Federation?

  17. Re:I got your perl right here. on How Heraclitus would Design a Programming Language · · Score: 1

    Did you write that? (Just curious, so when I repost it, I can attribute properly...)

  18. zerg on Doukutsu Monogatari Translated into English · · Score: 0, Troll

    I saw a couple of friends playing this the other day, but the fuckers did shit all to explain what it was and where they got it from.

    So thanks, Slashdot.

  19. zerg on Innovation in Open Source Software? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    There used to be a site for exactly this sort of thing called sweetcode, but the wankers have stopped updating...

    Still, even if the stuff is over a year old, it's still interesting...

  20. zerg on Fallout From Japanese Patent On Help Icon · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Open Source the offending software, then let them try to take down SourceForge!

  21. zerg on Who's Really Responsible In Online Banking Fraud? · · Score: 1

    No one cares about Mr. Lopez, because as he himself said, "It's peanuts." But if a whole bunch of people get together and sue, then we're talking multiple peanuts! But don't worry, here comes the U.S. Senate to the rescue! (Bank of America's rescue, that is...)

  22. zerg on Bill Gates Interview w/ Spiegel · · Score: 1

    I'm slightly upset by the lack of good pictures... This "Spiegel" must not be a very good magazine if they can't even match the quality of Teen Beat...

  23. zerg on University Of Calgary To Offer Course On Spam · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Can you imagine going to a doctor who's never studied viruses? Knowing how easy it would be for a contagion to spread across the globe and wipe everyone out, do you think it's a good idea for money-hungry corporations to be playing around w/ virus strains in their labs? Would you support sending American troops to Iraq w/out showing them how easy it is to build an Improvised Explosive Device out of pretty much anything that needs batteries?

    Yeah, I didn't think so.

    Every single computer scientist in training should have a fundamental understanding of computer security. And if learning means doing, then computer scientists should be taught how to write viruses, send spam and remotely 0wn b0xes. And don't let them graduate if they can't.

  24. zerg on Halo Movie Script in the Works · · Score: 4, Insightful

    As long as Uwe Boll isn't involved, it's all good.

  25. zerg on FBI E-Mail Server Breached · · Score: 4, Funny

    Out of curiosity, does the FBI have any "normal" agents? Cause if they're all "special" agents, are they really that special?