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  1. Made by humans on If Programming Languages Could Speak · · Score: 2

    There's nothing special about the well designed languages (or the poorly designed ones). They were all designed by people who had reasons for doing what they did. Why not just ask those people for their insights?

  2. Hello on Exchange Email Addresses With A Handshake · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Hello, Identity Theft. This takes IP spoofing to a whole new level.

  3. My strategy on When to Buy Technology Goods? · · Score: 4, Informative

    I buy right after something big hits the market. I'd get a 2 GHz processor right after the 2.2s come out. A GeForce 3 right after the GF4 comes out. This gives you a good balance of near-cutting edge for a fair price. Your hardware stays up to date longer, and doesn't cost as much as the top of the line.

  4. I want one on Beware of Fake Monkey Automatons · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I bet the antique market hikes up the prices of these wonders. I'd like a hookah smoking monkey automaton, but dont want to have to pay through the nose for an "antique". Anyone know where I could buy a mokey smoking hookah?

  5. Use the new, everybody wins on Sites Rejecting Apache 2? · · Score: 2

    Make what is new become what is used and the software makers will have no choice but to support it. Simple.

  6. Tell me something... on MS Exec: 'Our products just aren't engineered for security' · · Score: 2

    Tell me something that I don't already know. This is like running a story telling the world that the sky is blue, that Linux is good for business, or that linking from slashdot can kill a weak server. File this one under News For Idiots. Stuff Everyone Already Knows.

  7. Re:3-D? on Polarized Screens to Hide Sensitive Data · · Score: 2

    Hmmm, could that be done by doubling the resolution of the screen and polarizing every other pixel in sync?

  8. 3-D? on Polarized Screens to Hide Sensitive Data · · Score: 2

    If the screen could alternate between two different polarizations, which the glasses have lenses for (one on each eye), then this could be used for 3-D imaging. All we have to do is call the glasses "goggles" and we might as well be in Snow Crash.

  9. Simple... on HOWTO Go About Marketing to Developers? · · Score: 2

    As always, the product should sell itself. If you build it, they will come.

  10. Re:The Antiportable language on Crush/BRiX: An Experimental Language/OS Pair · · Score: 2

    I thought it'd get a +1, Funny if anything at all. I think the moderator who gave it a -1, Troll didn't know enough about OSes and Languages to get my joke. Oh well. And I appologize if the language offended you or anyone else. I hoped my choice words [sic] would be a dead givaway that i meant it jovially.

  11. The Antiportable language on Crush/BRiX: An Experimental Language/OS Pair · · Score: 3, Troll

    Because what kind of loser would want to write software that can run on any operating system? And what idiot end user would want an OS that could run software written in any language?

    Platform independence is overrated anyway. Proprietary is the way to go!!!

  12. Overnight to England takes Three Days on Intel, OEMs Face Lawsuit For Megahertz Marketing · · Score: 2

    A brit friend of mine was sending a package back home (from the southeast US to New Castle, England) and I overheard the teller at the USPS state that overnight service would take three days. What is that if not false advertising?

  13. Re:ISP's Already Blocking the Site? on RIAA Sues Backbone ISPs to Censor Website · · Score: 2

    I believe that the site has been removed from the web server that was hosting it. Try using a *real* web browser instead of Microshit Internet Exploder. You'll see the server's error page instead of the dumbed down one that IE shows you no matter what the actual error is. IE would show you the same error page if *your* internet connection was down.

  14. Re:Free Software is Free on Is Today's IT an Undervalued Asset? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hahaha. Look at your webserver. 500 Server Busy. Hahahahahahaha. But seriously, I think this whole Ask Slashdot article is a piece of Microsoft FUD. I wouldn't be surprised if you are too.

  15. Free Software is Free on Is Today's IT an Undervalued Asset? · · Score: 2

    Maybe these companies have realized the power of Open Source. The disproportionate amounts spent on hardware and software are a telltale sign of Free Software infiltrating the IT industry. This is a Good Thing for Free Software. If this is not a sign of increased use of Free Software, it will definately be incentive for IT workers to use Linux and other Free Software instead of commercially licensed software.

  16. Laptop + Batteries on Wireless Internet In An Off-Grid House · · Score: 4, Funny

    Get a laptop and several batteries. plug the laptop in to power anywhere you can... hotels, friends houses, offices, wherever! charge up all your batteries and you're good to go. two batteries could be easily charged up throughout a day's use at the office and friend's houses. and one lasts for at least 3 hours. Weekends would be difficult, as would long programming runs.

  17. Re:Tried VShell? on SSH Secure Services on Windows 2K/XP? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Indeed, VShell is an awesome SSH server for windows. I've been using it in a production environment for a few months now and am very pleased with its performance and ability. It hasn't been a particularly smooth ride, but VanDyke tech support is excellent (you send them a logfile, they'll tell you how to fix the problem). They even supported me before I bought the product. That was impressive. I highly recommend VanDyke SSH products for windows.

  18. Re:Random Walkers on "Random Walkers" may speed P2P networks · · Score: 2

    There will be biased random number generators in the peer nodes. This is unavoidable unless you equip each node with a geiger counter (HotBits). However, since there will be true randomness in the overall structure of the network (i.e. various types of systems will be randomly distributed across the net). This random network structure will compensate for the peudorandom number generators running in the peer nodes.

  19. Re:I know, it's a feature. on Pet Bugs? · · Score: 2

    Bash in Mandrake 8.1 and 8.2 protects the prompt. It took me hours to figure it out. I stumbled across the cause by piping to more.

  20. I know how much you have! on Greenbacks No More · · Score: 2

    Now whenever you open your wallet a single glance will be all that is required to count your cash. That goes for you and me both. So I'll know how much you have. Yet another privacy denied.

  21. Re:NNTP on AudioGalaxy Reaches Settlement With the RIAA · · Score: 2

    Fortunately the DMCA protects Usenet servers. If the messages are not routed to your server specifically, and are not necessarily intended to be downloaded specifically by users, then the data can not be considered infringing. Basically you're a repeater, or a cache server. Like a web cache server running squid. The content is merely there because it is in transit to someone.

  22. Re:Isn't this rather standard? on Feasibility of Linux for Public-Access Labs? · · Score: 2

    So the computers have it down pat, but how bout the 30k people who are gonna use them? How do you secure your boxes? These are workstations, not dumb terminals. You need workstation security, not just account security. You need a friendly interface that people will not be afraid of. You dont want to scare people off by giving them a complicated, unfamiliar user interface such as anything other than windows or macos.

  23. Alta Vista's been there, done that on Kartoo Search Engine Presents Results as a Map · · Score: 2

    Back in the day, the pre-Compaq day -- when men were men and AltaVista was a project at DEC -- they offered a java applet which rendered your search as a network of related topics. You could interactively refine your search by adjusting the fittness of the various topics in the map. Ahh, the good old days.

  24. To Open Source a Patent? on Red Hat Files for Software Patents · · Score: 2

    What would the ramafications be of requiring the use of technology described by a patent to be open source? Microsoft would have no way to incorporate a kernel-based web server into their IIS product without opening significant amounts of source code to the public.

  25. Sustainable Reliable Computing Consrtm. Initiative on Government Funds Secret Sustainable Computing · · Score: 2

    We aim to maintain a level of continuity in the quality of reliable computing consortiums in existance today. Gone are the days of having uninformed, outdated consortiums changing their names to reappear in the spotlight. The Sustainable Reliable Computing Consortium Initiative will serve as a watchdog group for reliable computing consortiums of various types.