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  1. Does it have to strictly humanoid ? on Humanoid Robot for Spacewalks · · Score: 1

    Yes I read NASA's requirement: but wouldn't a growable extra opposable thumb be useful ... just look where we (humans) got with just one.

  2. Re:Missed the biggest hole on Internet Security Standards · · Score: 1


    It's all well and good to say that we now have a standard. The problem is that the people who are most likely to use this tool are the ones that don't need it as bad. If you are aware this tool exists then you are security minded enough to have closed all the holes yourself.


    It is good to have a standard. It raises the confidence level of the new user. If "switch"ers from other platforms to Linux consider themselves security experts or think that they have closed the holes just because they know about a standard check ... that is overconfidence (a big hole in itself). This tool would provide a reality check. And probably inspire people to be constantly vigilant.

  3. I had to say this on NCSA Releases Beta of Milky Way Galaxy · · Score: 1

    Be careful:

    * do not divide by zero
    * get the software to play dice.

    And finally we have come to realise that shrinkwrap is the force (it holds the galaxy together)

  4. Re:"Hello pot? This is kettle calling, you're blac on Dr. Richard Wallace, part 3 · · Score: 1

    >>
    Which, I'm not saying is incorrect, but we're here to talk about AI. Leave your griefs and personal problems on the mat outside the door.

    Ahhh ... if we can only get AI to discuss AI. NI brings its pitfalls right to the table :-)

  5. Re:H1B's are GOOD for America on 235,000 Software Engineers Can't Be Wrong, Right? · · Score: 1

    Because the ability to pay taxes, build software does not a citizen make. I think the argument runs along the lines of "giving time to naturalise" ... both for the host country and the potential immigrant. That way there are no nasty surprises when citizenship is granted (you discover that the guy is Dmitri Skylarov :-) And the person gets time to acclamatise with the values of the new country.

    Well if you ask me if the "yokel" appreciates the country as much as the new guy ... that is another matter for consideration

  6. No no on Spam Doesn't Work? · · Score: 1


    If Spam didn't work, why do I get a hundred pieces of it every morning? Someone is buying.


    No no. It is just that some one is trying harder.

  7. Was it just me ... on Spheral Solar Technology Approaching Reality · · Score: 1

    ... or were there others that thought there was spelling error in the title?

    I have been on /. too long :-)

  8. Re:I wonder... on Suddenly a JPEG Patent and Licensing Fee · · Score: 1

    If they had that much money ... we would not be seeing such efforts.
    If they had so little sense ... we *would* be seeing such efforts.

    Hmmm ... I wonder too.

  9. Re:"End-to-end" versus "smarts in the network" on Hollow Optical Fibres Can Now Process Signals · · Score: 1

    Not everything needs to go to service the Internet. Even if this is what this is being developed for, the physical signals to make the fluids do one thing or the other can be independent of what is going on traffic wise or can be the physical layer manifestation of whatever the upper layer decides.

    No?

  10. Deja vu on Matrix Reloaded Filming Wants to Shut Sydney Down · · Score: 1

    Towards the end of the article:

    # Part three The Matrix Revolutions is also in production and will be released in December 2000

    Is it a glitch in the Matrix?

  11. Re:Virtual machines on Kazaa Usability Study · · Score: 1

    because the only thing happening on that machine is the running of their own software.

    Except your music-playing/pr0n-viewing applications and whatever else you find to have handy in that machine ("virtual" or otherwise). As some one mentioned elsewhere, people will put with a lot of sh*t for convenience and that is what business people with a plan exploit (among other things like ignorance-of-the-novices, fear-of-the-lawyers etc)

  12. Re:OK, but not all I wanted on First Reviews of Mozilla 1.0 Roll In · · Score: 1

    Just found this from other posters ...

    http://www0.mozdev.org/optimoz/gestures/installa ti on.html#

  13. Re:excellent on New GNU Hurd Kernel Released · · Score: 1

    as well as support for files > 17MB

    You mean GB, don't you?

    The link 404'd. Hence you might want to try one of the links at:
    http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/changelogs.h tml

  14. Re:How do we know what is hospitable? on Milky Way Inhospitable? · · Score: 1

    Also organisms can adapt, and they might be able to adapt way beyond what we have witnessed thus far.

    Adaptation comes after multicellular life. And adaptation requires a sizeable number of similar organisms (to learn by trial and error). For a lot of stuff to spring up, the needs are as follows (conclusion is completely empirical):

    1) Energy: Solar or chemical (H2 + CO2 -> CH4 +H20)
    2) liquid water.
    3) oxygen
    4) carbon.

  15. Re:i dont get it on Unlimited Airwaves · · Score: 1

    How sure are you that you are receiving all the information that the bulb is transmitting?

    That is the key

  16. Re:Does anyone else distrust the basis of such cla on A Little Piece of Mercury on Earth? · · Score: 1

    Down mod this poster. It is the same post that is earning Karma in this article .

    Oh wait a minute. The stories are the same ...

    No thanks for being consistent :-)

  17. Re:Fastest Transistor on IBM Nanotechnology Transistor Faster than Silicon · · Score: 0, Troll

    Why can't you http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aslashdot.org +IBM+hard+drives&sourceid=mozilla-search&start=0&s tart=0

    :-)

  18. Re:Good Comments on What is Well-Commented Code? · · Score: 1

    Yes comments are code. How many times have you seen source that looks like this:

    {
    .
    .
    .

    // the fooPtr will be released by the caller
    delete fooPtr;

    .
    .
    .
    }

  19. Re:Login for NTY on Experian, Ford, and Identity Theft · · Score: 1

    Hey ... this does not work!! Why is this marked informative :-)

  20. Kids hotmail on Microsoft Opts-In Hotmail Users · · Score: 1

    Drat ... Following the example of the posters here ("put in fake information "), I put in unbelieveable info ... and turns out that MSN requires the parent to be present when creating/modifying the profile and the parent has to have a .NET or PAssport account. Has anybody worked with this before (either at MSN or otherwise??)

    In the mean time ... damn you /. for you have taken my hot mail away from me :)

  21. Colleges are good on System Administrators - College or Career? · · Score: 1

    Theoritically and for getting hands on experience with networks, gear and all the good stuff.

  22. Re:Got to say it on An Alligator's Sixth Sense · · Score: 2, Funny

    --
    I used to have a cool sig but people replied to it more than they did my comments.

    Tell me about it :)

  23. Re:Not Hogwash on An Alligator's Sixth Sense · · Score: 1

    Sure it is pattern matching ... but it is not sixth sense that the article seems to suggest (and what the poster was talking about)

  24. Re:Islay's Second Product? on World's First Hydrogen Fuel Cell Powered Island · · Score: 1

    Oxygen too leads to brain cell death ... no?

  25. Re:Considering "offshore" - consider Canada on Managing a Global Programming Team? · · Score: 1

    >> No time zone issues or language barriers.

    What are you talking abooooot :-)