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  1. Optimized for DX8 on Zooming in on the GeForce 3 · · Score: 1

    Should hardware manufacturers really "optimize" around proprietary (e.g. win only platforms?) APIS/languages?

    I think this is a big mistake in the creation of the GeF3.

  2. Ok, maybe I'm an idiot... on Free Wireless For Fun And / Or No Profit · · Score: 1

    But assuming people list their access points, how do you get an IP ? DHCP ? Are you supposed to sniff the traffic and grab a static? Is there something in the protocol that allows this?

  3. Watch out slashdot! on Enforcing Non-Competes That You Didn't Sign? · · Score: 4

    I hope none of you are thinking about going over to Kuro5hin ;)

  4. Passports? on Customs Forms for Moon Rocks · · Score: 5

    Are they required to show passports that they are American citizens? If they lost them/can't prove it, are they sent back to the moon ? :)

  5. My idea ;) on Where Can Geeks Meet Mates? · · Score: 1

    My personal idea to find geek chiq's is to wear my "geek shirts" in non-formal places. Any chick who understands "got root?" on a shirt might be the one for me ;)

  6. Taxation = Merchants will lower product prices... on Congress Reconsiders Internet Sales Tax · · Score: 1

    What keeps Merchants who are taxed from lowering prices (this is already done some on pricwatch.com) and hiking shipping rates? Don't most companies NOT pay taxes on the shipping? It's not part of the price of the item, but a price on the service provided afterwards.

    Can you imagine $1 sticks of ram with a $120 shipping fee ?

  7. Re:Blame Kaplan on Descrambling CSS w/ 7 Lines Of Perl A DMCA Violation? · · Score: 1

    Oops, that should have beeN "from saying you can't run windows software on emulators?"...d0h

  8. Re:Blame Kaplan on Descrambling CSS w/ 7 Lines Of Perl A DMCA Violation? · · Score: 1

    In that same vein, what keeps M$ or someone else from saying you can't run windows on emulators?
    "Buy buying this software, you have the right to run this on real physical computer with a licensed copy of windows, ONLY"

    Goodbye VMWare
    Goodbye Wine
    Goodbye (etc...)

  9. Argh, stop thinking about yourselves for a second! on Canada Considers Cellphone Jammers · · Score: 1

    I recently bought a cellphone because I have slowly degenerative hearing. This is a genetic defect. 90% of publicly available phones I _cannot_ hear adequately on due to my hearing loss. They simply aren't loud or clear enough. If it has any fuzz/distortion on it, I can't distiguish what the other person says to me. I wear two hearing aides, but they cannot correct my condition.

    I CHOSE my cellphone because I _can_ hear on it as opposed to the publicly unreliable, soft, or non-working phones. All I want is the same basic life as someone who can hear properly. Why deny me, an innocent person (who _ALWAYS_ puts his cellphone on vibrate when in "quiet" places -- hopsitals, libraries, movie theatres, etc) because the rest of the cellphone users are idiots?

    If it really bothers you all that much, SIMPLY ASK the person to shutup, leave, or wait. Is that so hard? If they refuse to do anything, talk to the management of whatever place you are in. I'm sure they'll support you. I know I would.

    Just don't make life difficult for those of us who have a legitimate need for one.

    There is no reason for Jammers. There is a reason to have both parties show respect to each other.

  10. Re:OpenNap on Courts Gives Napster 72-Hour Deadline · · Score: 1

    Not only rot13 it, but install in the clients a LICENSE under UCITA or DMCA or whatever applies that makes it illegal to UN-rot13 the filenames if you are looking for copyrighted songs for prosecution purposes or something similar.

    Anyone know if this would hold up under UCITA or DMCA ?

  11. Why not terminate the contract with the nc clause? on Fair Compensation For Non-Compete Clauses? · · Score: 2

    Why not specify in the contract that if you are ever fired or quit, the contract is void? The contract contains the non-compete clause would then make the non-compete clause invalid, wouldn't it ?

  12. Re:Not on Sun's Website? on Want a Sparc Workstation for $995? · · Score: 1

    Alpha 20164 ? 21264 ? or what ?

    Also, there is no such thing as an 800mhz pentium. Your comparisons fall apart if you aren't accurate.

  13. Re:University of Illinois on Ask Carl Kadie About Censorship and Privacy at Colleges · · Score: 1

    How do you download Linux (or other unix) iso images ?

  14. Re:The natural evolution of this... on License to Sit · · Score: 2

    This already exists both in paris, and certain parts of Mexico City.

    You basically pay a person in order to use the washroom. When I was in Mexico City, you could use the "public" bathroom (gag) or pay 2 pesos to use the one that had toilet paper and a place to wash your hands. This was in one of the bus stops, can't remember which one.

  15. Re:Exercise your brain :) on Are Computers Stealing Your Memory? · · Score: 1

    But what about websites that rely on host-headers ? :))

  16. Make it Double Opt-in on Counting The Cost Of Spam · · Score: 2

    Opt-in really is no better than opt-out -- any idiot who has a grudge against you can submit your name to 1000 sites for registration and all of a sudden your mailbox is unusable. Not only that, then your address gets sold and you get spammed to death.

    I tried to convince my last job that people on our mailing list had to "double-opt-in" to be on our mailing list, but the boss said it was "too complicated for users". I have since left that job, bleh.

  17. Packemakers.. on EMP Artillery Shells · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't this kill people with pacemakers, or people in hospital who in some way used "computers" for life support ?

    I don't think it would "not kill anyone"....

  18. Mexican April Fools... on E-Bay Patents Thumbnail Galleries · · Score: 1

    Was Dec. 28th. Perhaps the patent was filed by a Mexican Employee ? Details of the holiday are here

  19. Any bet that... on Cool Wireless Video Camera For $75 · · Score: 5

    The number of "hidden" porn cams increase on the 'net once the general slashdot readership gets ahold of this ? :)

  20. Dont get too excited... on More Silliness Over Patents: NetZero Sues Juno · · Score: 4

    "to NetZero's zCast technology that allows an ISP to display an advertising pop-up window"

    Note, it ONLY says the patent is for ISP's. That leaves all your non-isps on the web to pop up any banners they want.

  21. This is unnatural.. on 3DFX Motion Blur In Action · · Score: 5

    I prefer the NATURAL motion blur induced by a few good beers. :-)

  22. Re:Missing the point on floppy-based routers? on Theo de Raadt Responds · · Score: 2

    The problem is he's concentrated on the floppy, which (AFAIK) is not the point of making a floppy distribution.

    In my eyes a floppy distribution includes features such as
    * Write protection
    * VERY VERY MINIMAL install (smaller than openbsd's 60-70 MB minimal install)

    NOT that it sits on a floppy. I usually make a good LRP disk and make a bootable cd. Reburn every month with updated nat forwardings and a new password.

    If someone DID hack into that box, there is no ftp/ssh/telnet on there for them to connect out! There is no way to write to a CD-R in a regular CD-ROM drive.

  23. Re:New Ports! Yay! on OpenBSD 2.8 Released · · Score: 1

    Oh really ? I don't think they look at ports all that closely. LOOK at the 2.6 errata. Look at RZSZ snooping. I can't believe they actually looked at the source for this and let it get by!

  24. Re:I got mine on OpenBSD 2.8 Released · · Score: 1

    That is, if you receive them at all. If I were you, I wouldn't count on it.

  25. Re:Although his body died on The Author of Ping is Reported Dead · · Score: 1

    But sadly, ping (ipv4) will die soon too. Did he write ping for ipv6 also ?