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  1. MPAA and Disney drowning in their own hypocrisy on More Threats From The MPAA · · Score: 2

    The GO Network is owned and operated by The Walt Disney Company, an MPAA member. Here's a whole bunch of links from the GO Network to DeCSS source.
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  2. And get TOSsed off. on More Threats From The MPAA · · Score: 2

    Store the stuff on a server you run if you actually believe in the spread of DeCSS.

    Your upstream provider can always terminate your service.


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  3. Bugs vs. features on Debian 2.2 "Has Major Security Issues"? UPDATED · · Score: 2

    Bugs arent features, see?

    Try telling that to Micros~1.

    "PROBLEM: Windows bluescreens when you do foo, bar, and baz. STATUS: This behavior is by design."


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  4. Which cert does it send out? on ARIN: No More IP's For IP-Based Virtual Hosts · · Score: 2

    At the time the server sends a certificate, it doesn't yet have any HTTP headers; all it has is the IP address. Without the Host: header, how will it know which certificate to send?
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  5. Protection from DDOS? Not likely. on ARIN: No More IP's For IP-Based Virtual Hosts · · Score: 2

    It seems like if that machine was ever subjected to a dDos or went down for some reason

    A well-designed Distributed Denial Of Service is impossible to distinguish from normal heavy site traffic <cough>Slashdot effect</cough>.


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  6. What about non-anonymous FTP? on ARIN: No More IP's For IP-Based Virtual Hosts · · Score: 2

    Users need to be able to upload to their web space, and HTTP can't upload without potentially compromising the system.
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  7. Did you say H.G. Wells? on KEO Time Capsule To Remain In Orbit 'Til 52001 AD · · Score: 2

    "Morlocks" is one of the two future races from H. G. Wells's The Time Machine (which I've mirrored). Morlocks look like orcs from Tolkien's LotR. Their main diet is people of the Eloi race, who look like those figurines your wife/sister/aunt collects.

    But all this may be OT, as the time traveller from the story went past AD 52,001 all the way to AD 802,701.


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  8. (Half OT)In 52001, what will we look like? on KEO Time Capsule To Remain In Orbit 'Til 52001 AD · · Score: 2

    Several futurists have speculated on what the human race will look like in the future, and they have come up with:

    • Larger heads to hold larger brains, with facial features moved downward.
    • Smaller bodies, as machines take over more of the work.
    • Larger eyes to see more clearly. With the way the human skull is constructed, this may result in a teardrop shape created by the eyeball and the upper eyelid.
    • Vegetarian digestive systems as the health fad gains momentum.
    • Excessive cuteness: only the cutest babies will be cared for by The Man, meaning only the cutest babies get to pass on their genes.
    In other words, we'll look like the figurines you buy at Hallmark.

    Make sure to take this into account when designing content for the space capsule's CD-ROM collection.


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  9. DMCA on KEO Time Capsule To Remain In Orbit 'Til 52001 AD · · Score: 2

    Like the Rosetta Stone, the information will be represented in such a manner so as to facilitate the task of decryption.

    YM: "Like the DVD Content Scrambling System, the information will be represented in such a manner so as to facilitate the task of decryption."

    I bet the copyright laws of AD 52001 will be so harsh that even reading something in a language other than the national language of your Master State will be considered "circumvention" and actionable under whatever hyped up version of DMCA they've passed by then.


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  10. Caffeine? on R2D2 (Kenny Baker) Replaced with CGI for Ep2 · · Score: 1

    Then cut down on the frequency and amplitude of the jitter to create realism without exaggeration.
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  11. (OT)Getting around NT cmd.exe weakness on Mac OS X Beta To Come Out Sept. 13 · · Score: 1

    Also, the "Command Shell" in NT is a little bit weak compared to bash. There's no way around that.

    Guess you've never tried Cygwin. It's essentially a GNU environment inside a Windows NT/9x system. And it includes bash and gcc.


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  12. (OT)Metroid rumors false on Salon on the XBox · · Score: 1

    Metroid was a trilogy; Super Metroid (the third game) closed out the storyline.
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  13. Easy. on R2D2 (Kenny Baker) Replaced with CGI for Ep2 · · Score: 2

    Use a low-pass pseudorandom number generator to generate jitter. Then add it in appropriate amounts to the motions of R2.
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  14. What does the Jargon File say about September? on Internet 2 Crawls Forward · · Score: 3
  15. (OT)Meaning of "prefabricated" on International Trade Patent · · Score: 1

    Well, technically all buildings are prefabricated, as one can't use what doesn't yet exist.

    "Prefabricated building" is generally taken to mean one constructed before it's sold. The new modular housing is an example, and it's anything but "trailer trash."


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  16. Three-tier architecture in popular BBS on Prior Art to Squash Database Patent? · · Score: 2
    Here we go, the three tiers of something like AOLame or Compu$erve:
    1. rxvt or other terminal through a serial line
    2. The front end BBS server
    3. The back end database

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  17. Error: << is not defined for float on 1.13GHz Pentium3 Processors Unstable? Answer:Yes · · Score: 1

    float value; ... value

    I thought C didn't allow bitshifting floating point numbers.


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  18. (OT)South Park meets Pooh? on Lord Of The Rings Being Rendered Under Linux · · Score: 1

    South Park meets Winnie The Pooh

    Have you been playing Who's Cuter again?

    Adopt a normal bird.
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  19. In a way, Linux is a hardware brand. on Lord Of The Rings Being Rendered Under Linux · · Score: 1

    A Linux processor? I was under the impression that Linux was an operating system, not a hardware brand...

    Linux may not be a brand, but VA Linux is a brand. VA Linux Systems owns OSDN owns Slashdot owns you.


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  20. Smells like Open Motif. on FreeVeracity: Network Intrusion Detection · · Score: 2

    The Open Group tried to do this with Motif. RMS hated it. Read the linked-to /. stories for more info.
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  21. Magnetic roads? on Levitating Liquids In Simulated Zero-G · · Score: 2

    Just imagine making roads out of magnetic material

    And watch my laptop's hard drive get erased on the way to school.


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  22. gcc newlines? on Coding Classes & Required Development Environments? · · Score: 2

    I use three different versions of GCC (for Linux, DOS, and even Windows, and they all accepted the DOS-style CR+LF newlines in my game's source code. Could that be because CR+LF is also the standard in many RFCs?
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  23. Re:(OT)Web-bugs on More DeCSS Time-Warner Hypocrisy · · Score: 1

    Web bugs can be bigger than 1x1. The website's logo can in theory be a web bug.

    The subject contains (OT). If you moderate me as Offtopic, I'll metamoderate you as Redundant.
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  24. Even MP3s of your _own_ work can be illegal. on Amicus Brief For Napster -- From AT&T And Friends · · Score: 2

    Even if you own the copyright, distributing MP3 files of your own work can be illegal. OGG files, on the other hand...
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  25. Why "Radio Shack" has 0 matches on Slashback: Cats, Snaps, Pixels, Diagrams · · Score: 3

    of 23:55GMT, a search for "Radio Shack CueCat" at google yields a grand total of zero (0) matches.

    Ever since the initial "You've got questions we've got answers" ad campaign, RadioShack has been all one word. And it takes Google a month to update its indexes anyway.


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