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  1. Re:Can't wait for this to be demilitarized. on Nanotech Paints For Military · · Score: 2

    To save everyone the trouble of correcting me, I of course meant speedometer. Odometer could be fun too. I've got to get a new car, mine just turned brown last week.

  2. Re:Can't wait for this to be demilitarized. on Nanotech Paints For Military · · Score: 2

    Or how about the Tach? "I clocked you going Red in a Blue zone."

  3. Simple on Software to Buffer and Delay Audio Playback? · · Score: 1

    Tape both and synch them up later for viewing/listening. Oh, sorry you didn't specify that you had to be able to start watching the game before it has ended.

  4. Point of clarification? on Which Artists Support Music Swapping? · · Score: 2

    I assume the question is what artists support Napster scale digital swapping. Heck, even Lars "Napster Bad!" Ulrich has supported analog tape swapping amongst friends. It's the lossless generational copy, free for all with the entire universe he doesn't support.

  5. Again depends on your situation on Taking a Year Off Before College? · · Score: 2

    As others have said it depends on your situation and without knowing why you are asking it's hard to answer. But one thing I would recommend is that if you do take the year off you don't just blow it using it as a year long vacation. Find a minimum wage job working in some sh*thole and try to be self sufficient for a year. Once you see what it's like trying to be self sufficient without a degree then go on to College.

    Disclaimer: Yes I know a degree doesn't guarantee you a good job. And in fact I don't have one. But it took me several years to get to the point of proving to employers I had the skill to be an effective IT Professional without a degree, and I'm probably $10k/year behind someone in the exact same position with a degree.

  6. Not theft on Nokia calls Wireless Warchalkers 'Thieves' · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Obvisouly you can't go prosecuting theft when you can't casually determine the difference between a network that is non-deliberately insecure and one that is deliberately open. It's like me putting my telephone outside my house with not restrictions on it and complianing someone used it to make a phone call.

  7. Photoshop Actions on Scanning Large Amounts of Pictures? · · Score: 2

    Why not just set up a Photoshop action to make 6 copies of the current image and set the action to crop each to an individual image. I don't know if you can script the name to save under automatically, but even if you can't you can just set up the actions to work on 10 or so original images and say to specific filenames and then just batch rename between scanning batches.

  8. A complimentary question on Where to Ask if not Ask Slashdot? · · Score: 2

    Another for everyone b*tching that ask /. for the recent questions. What questions are suitable for ask /. then, if not the ones that are answered ask google?

  9. Husqvarna Solar Mower on Toro iMow - A Robotic Mower that Works? · · Score: 2

    I don't know where you can buy one but this looks promising. Solar powered, zero emissions, nearly silent, fully automatic. You just buy it, bury the wire and let it go. No mention of price and how much of a slope it can handle. Max lawn size is 1200 m2. Definitely puts the Toro to shame on the enivornmentally friendly aspect.

  10. Not touched in a while? on New Small Form Factor PC Reviewed · · Score: 1

    Yeah it's been what? All of 4 days since the latest article on the Cappuccino?

    and 42 days since the Shuttle SS51 XPC

    Is it time for /. to come up with a perpetually recurring topic category for small form factor cases and the other topics that seem to come up an average of once every two weeks?

  11. Re:Safety? on Rear View LCD? · · Score: 2
    If you replace the mirror, how will you handle a malfunction on the interstate, in rush-hour traffic???
    Simple, they install a redundant system that includes a cranial rotation device. You may have heard of it, it's called a neck, turn it and look out the window.
  12. I'm sorry Mr Smith... on Polarized Screens to Hide Sensitive Data · · Score: 2

    You have to get contact lenses so you can wear our polarized sunglasses to see your monitor. Glasses of your own just wont due. And no you can't have polarized glasses of you own, then we couldn't restrict you from seeing screens by taking your glasses away.

  13. Re:WKRP In Cincinnatti? on KPIG is Back - By Subscription Only · · Score: 2

    "As God is my witness I through turkeys could fly"

  14. Re:WKRP In Cincinnatti? on KPIG is Back - By Subscription Only · · Score: 2

    And Herb was the WKRP Carp and got into a fight with the WPIG Pig in the men's room (in full costume of course). If course the Pig really had it coming, he'd spray painted WPIG over the WKRP logo in the lobby. Nope don't remember that at all.

    But do you remember this line (different episode) "Oh, I'm a big fat muffin that has no feet, a big fat muffin that loves to eat ... and looooooovess to explode", "And you did".

    Far too much of my childhood was wasted watching sitcoms and WKRP was one of my top two favorites.

    "Hold me closer tiny dancer"

  15. Re:and it is 100% worthless.. on Crypto Leash for Laptops? · · Score: 1
    Did you actually read the article at all Ac? Obviously you didn't or you would've seen the following:
    A radio transceiver installed inside the laptop's casing is programmed to identify its owner by means of a small transmitter worn like a wristwatch. This lets the laptop know how far away its master is. Whenever separated by a set distance, automatic encryption of data is triggered.

    The term automatic encryption implies that the data is not encrypted until the transmitter is out of range.

    And not that it matters but I'm a 31 year old DBA with an above average IQ and not some snivelling anonymous troll.

    Feel free to mod this down as I just needed to vent anyway.
  16. Re:and it is 100% worthless.. on Crypto Leash for Laptops? · · Score: 2

    Hmm I guess it helps to read the *whole* article particularly when it contradicts itself and later says the data is already encrypted.

  17. Re:and it is 100% worthless.. on Crypto Leash for Laptops? · · Score: 2
    Not true. If the decryption key is stored on the device worn by the user it doesn't matter which way you wire the receiver

    Umm... lets see... yank the HD before the user is out of range, all data is now unencrypted. The only solution (worthwhile) is for all the data to already be encrypted by the HD and decryption only to take place on access.
  18. Re:Jokes coming? on Using Your Computer to Repel Pests · · Score: 2

    So would bugs in the program cause bugs in the house?

  19. No good answer on Best Computer Books For The Smart · · Score: 2

    There really is no good answer to the question. What book is good for you to learn from is not a matter of how smart you are or what websites you visit. It's how you learn. My suggestion is look at what books you already have and ifgure out which one's did the best job for you. Then look for other books on the topics you want to learn by the same publisher/line. Generally a publisher tries to keep a "feel" for a line (say the O'Reilly in a Nutshell books) even across authors and subjects.

  20. Re:Obsolete concept on Digital Photography for Standard Cameras? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Eek, not only that but it appears Silicon Film's (e) film was only rated at ISO 100 and was only suitable for 8"x10" prints or smaller. Talk about the worst of both worlds.

  21. Re:How are cookies (session data) going to be stor on New Two-Headed Hard Drive Intended To Secure Web Sites · · Score: 2

    Not if writes to the disk as physically prevented which they are in this case. The general idea is not to prevent the trashing of the web server, but rather it is to protect the data it is serving from being wiped out. Which of course as others have said is pretty pointless, people generally don't break in just to erase things.

  22. Re:Huh? on New Two-Headed Hard Drive Intended To Secure Web Sites · · Score: 2

    I had the same question but I'd assume the answer would be lower latency on your reads. But assuming you had a high bandwidth network and there was no way to write tto a drive shared as read-only then all this gives you is a proprietary piece of hardware to replace if it goes down. Also now you would have concerned of what to do if one of the paired servers went down.

  23. Re:How are cookies (session data) going to be stor on New Two-Headed Hard Drive Intended To Secure Web Sites · · Score: 2

    On a different disk, in other words yes. OS, pagefiles, and files that the web server would be writing to are still on a R/W drive. Information you only view would be on the read only drive.

  24. Preconfigured servers = standard security holes on Preconfigured Linux Servers for Sale? · · Score: 2

    Can you say Code Red"Hat"?

  25. Re:Interesting but.. on China to Develop Windows Clone · · Score: 2

    Simple, the Chinese government. They might be a bigger evil than Micorosft but at least they aren't pretending to be saints.