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  1. Re:its fake? on Go Go Gadget Minisaw · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm sure he carries a list.

  2. Re:Didn't I read this a month ago? on Have Fujitsu Harddrives Been Failing in Record Numbers? · · Score: 1
    • I've been wondering if the recently revealed electrolytic (ha, spelt it right that time) capacitor problem (bad taiwanese electrolytics) was related.

    No, it's not. Try reading the article.
  3. Re:Whatever, I have a cell phone on Telcos Play Both Sides of Telemarketing War · · Score: 2

    Actually you just take them to small claims court for $500 - $1500, since telemarketing to cell phone numbers is against the TCPA.

  4. Another Slashdot repeat? on Water Computing · · Score: 4, Funny

    Didn't we just have a different "font" article?

  5. Re:The FAA will make it very difficult... on When Alcohol And Airplanes Make A Good Mix · · Score: 2

    Exactly. The Experimental classification is designed for new ideas (like these engines) in order to ensure that innovation continues in the aircraft industry. As the alcohol engines prove themselves the FAA will assuredly approve them for other uses.

  6. Leidenfrost effect on Alton Brown Answers, At Last · · Score: 2

    I think you're exactly right. Alton needs to look up what the "Leidenfrost effect" is.

  7. Re:Sorta OT question... on MySQL A Threat To The Big Database Vendors? · · Score: 3, Insightful
    • If there is a bug in package A, the corp would have monetary incentive + engineers to fix it. (This is hypothetical, so spare me real world scenarios...) If there's a bug in package B, what exactly is the incentive to get it fixed in a timely manner?

    For package A, it's not really clear that there is a monetary incentive to fix it. Is the bug likely to generate fewer sales or not? The company is motivated by profit only and has to consider the opportunity cost of fixing the bug -- not the needs of the consumer. Package B (almost) always has motiviated engineers and an incentive (whatever that incentive might be) to maximize the package's utility. Package B exists because this is true.
  8. Re:What's the market for these things? on PDA Killer or Thickening Vapor? · · Score: 2
    Am I missing something?

    Some imagination?

  9. Re:Is this a good thing? on Perl for Web Site Management · · Score: 2

    Would you really rather have them writing Java servlets?

  10. Ask for a raise first on Is it Wrong to Accept an Employment Counter-Offer? · · Score: 2

    Ask for a raise first, and explain that you believe you are worth more than they are paying you. If you want to stay, explain that as well. Don't let on that you've had another offer; just tell them that you're certain you could earn better pay elsewhere, and that you'd be wrong not to accept the increase.

  11. Re:Mozilla: useless for the intranet on First Reviews of Mozilla 1.0 Roll In · · Score: 1

    That's because you're using basic authentication, which simply encodes the username/password with Mime/Base64. It's very insecure, from a sniffing point of view (your username/password goes across the wire in, essentially, plain text). NTLM is a bit harder to crack.

  12. Re:Somewhere in America... on Bioware Release Neverwinter Nights Beta Toolset · · Score: 2

    By the looks of their apostrophe, so is the Latin-1 charset.

  13. Re:Privacy on Slashback: Agenda, Reproduction, Aesthetics · · Score: 1

    Mind you, all three of the examples you list don't require a "customer card". Simply examining single total purchases seperately would provide that information.

  14. Re:A picture of the machine: on 1770 Mechanical Chess Player Inspired Babbage · · Score: 1

    Actually, that would be for those of you too lazy to cut and paste the link. And if you are such a person, you can't fault me for being too lazy to write it as a link in the original comment, can you?

    Slashdot logic at its finest :)

  15. A picture of the machine: on 1770 Mechanical Chess Player Inspired Babbage · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://web.media.mit.edu/~wsack/CAA/chess-machine. html

  16. The colo that survived? on Byte Wars · · Score: 2
    • One company I knew with offices on the 81st floor of the World Trade Center used a co-lo facility that survived.
    And what if the jet had crashed into that co-lo facility?
  17. Re:What a waste of questions. on Interview With id Software's Robert A. Duffy · · Score: 2
    You can find the truth about the case here.

    She was ultimately only awarded $160,000 in compensatory damages, and $480,000 in punitive damages. Also, she initially offered to settle with McDonalds for $20,000, but McDonalds refused (this was presumably to pay for her medical bills).

    I think the real sin here is how the media managed to put the wrong answer in everyone's mind, as demonstrated by the general lack of knowledge about the true outcome of this particular case.

  18. Re:he suggests formmail, another spam tool on Stopping Spambots: A Spambot Trap · · Score: 2

    Yes! It's becoming a popular target for spammers. If you have formmail in a common location (like mysite.com/cgi-bin/formmail.pl) it will be eventually scanned for and picked up.

    I've seen it happen to sites I administer a number of times in the past, where individuals apparently using some sort of AOL name harvesting tool were using the formmail.pl scripts to send mass messages. Looking at the User-Agent headers, it looks like there's a VB script out there designed specifically to automate this exploit.

  19. Re:Ti Wedding Ring? on The Sexiest Metal · · Score: 2, Funny

    when people gain weight, the rings start to become, uh, constrictive.

    Cool. An insurance policy I can take out on my wife!

  20. Re:My big problem with Jabber... on Programming Jabber · · Score: 1

    Just don't think that this will stop me from beating his ass.

  21. Re:Interesting, how? on James Gosling On .NET And The Anti-Trust Trial · · Score: 2
    Or how about this?
    • They might have done something creative around ... integrating business logic into the language ...
    This is precisely the reason why C/C++ are so poor for programs used by businesses.
  22. Whoops look what else MoFo are doing... on Class Action Lawsuit Against Spammer · · Score: 2
    They're currently defending John Walker Lindh

    (If the name doesn't ring a bell, that's the crazy US national that was captured fighting alongside the Taliban in Afghanistan.)

  23. Re:Regarding the images on their site on The Incredible Shrinking Motherboard · · Score: 2, Informative

    In this case there was only one .jpg inside the .zip file.

  24. Re:SmartBoard on "Smart Board" To Replace White Boards? · · Score: 2

    It has to click because that's how the technology works. The two sonar-ish microphones on the Mimio bar work by determining the time difference in receiving sound from the pen.

  25. Re:Treble damages... on Sun Files Suit Against Microsoft for Anti-Trust Violations · · Score: 2

    That's like asking why it would be wrong for Microsoft to stop distributing Internet Explorer. They give it away for free, so how would they suffer any economic damage?