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  1. Re:Who cares about Mitnick? on Kevin Mitnick Free Today · · Score: 1

    He was guilty, so you can't argue that there was an innocent man sitting in jail before his trial.

    Hello? Unless you don't live in America, you don't have an excuse to know that YOU ARE INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY. That means that, yes, Kevin was innocent these past five years until such time that he was PROVEN to be guilty.


    You should never, never doubt what nobody is sure about.

  2. Re:Rob, Get Kevin for a Slashdot interview! on Kevin Mitnick Free Today · · Score: 1

    You know, he probably hasn't even heard of Slashdot, or know the implications of the Slashdot effect. :)

    Keep in mind, he's been in prison for five years, 8 months of solitary confinement, and hasn't touched a computer in all that time either. Man, that would suck (especially since it wasn't a very timely trial).


    You should never, never doubt what nobody is sure about.

  3. Re:Just hilarous. on U.K. Pirate Broadcasters Steal Car Radio Listeners · · Score: 1

    Because the pirate continually transmits the phoney flag, the radio stays tuned in until the car goes out of range or the driver switches off the RDS feature.

    Read the article again.

  4. Re:Conspiracy theorists want no need to believe. on Apocalypse Not · · Score: 1

    Each century has a february of 28 days (is not a leap year), EXCEPT every fourth century. So, most people's VCRs will show that there is no february 29th for this year, as they didn't take into account that this is a fourth century.
    Of course, some systems may be working perfectly fine without having the y2k fix ... but they will miss the 29th of February because it didn't exist in 1900. Not everything has to be y2k compliant, but the missing day may cause a few issues.

  5. Re:THANK YOU! on Xdaliclock Fails Y2k (But Everything Else Seems Fine) · · Score: 1

    I don't know, but I do know that when LA did it's last Y2K test, it accidentially dumped several hundred thousand TONS of raw sewage into a park pond. Why the heck the system did that (I'm sure no one coded it to do that on y2k:) I don't know, but like someone said... it's all embeded systems.

  6. Re:For Those of Us that Had to Work Dec 31... on Xdaliclock Fails Y2k (But Everything Else Seems Fine) · · Score: 1

    Wow, I just finished watching that. What an odd synchronicity.

  7. Found a picture of it. on New Body Scanners Installed In Airports · · Score: 4

    Did some digging around, and found this (rather small) image: http://216.149.33.140/products/lg_bod y02.html. Pretty danged detailed, even at this size. Imagine some security guard staring at a full screen image of yourself. Whee.

    I remember reading about something similar, I believe it was gigahertz imaging, four years ago in Science News.

  8. Re:On a serious note... on The Geek Compound Prepares for Y2k · · Score: 1

    No, no, no. The brains are not hosted in their corpses (or is that corpsi...). They are maintained in something similar to a hydroponics laboratory, interfacing directly with a computer.

  9. Re:Is your tap still running? on The Geek Compound Prepares for Y2k · · Score: 1

    Yes, but I didn't have any bottles.
    That, and I don't really care for the tap water here. Too many additives. :-)

  10. On a serious note... on The Geek Compound Prepares for Y2k · · Score: 5

    I've got a family of five to take care of, so I'm not taking chances. The store was out of water last night (one full isle was empty!), but this morning I snagged 50 gallons (red cross says 1-3 gallons/day/person, so that should last 10-20 days)

    If nothing happens, consider donating your stockpile to your local charity. There are plenty of people that need the food, and that's what I'll be doing after a few days.



  11. Re:This issue has nothing to do with piracy on DVD CCA Applies for Restraining Order · · Score: 1

    Interesting. So they are simply trying to prevent people from figuring out how to encrypt their own DVDs that can be played on consumer DVD Players?
    In this fashion, the holder of the "security" is the corporation that decides what DVDs are published, and by whom.

    Scary.



  12. Re:Yippee! Whoopie! Oh, joy, I'm so happeeee...! on Life on the Moons of Jupiter? · · Score: 1

    Hmm, how does your lensing effect apply to the fact that Voyager took a decade to get to pluto?