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  1. Re:Why not use tides ? on Group of Microbes Change Dissolved Gold to Solid · · Score: 1

    Perhaps they were considering pumping the water up from the hydrothermal vents where the concentration is higher? Or perhaps they just forgot about tides...

  2. A million microbes? on Group of Microbes Change Dissolved Gold to Solid · · Score: 2, Insightful

    A million microbes is nothing!
    Just let them breed for a few hours and you'll have billions

  3. Re:Are we now what Russia was 20 years ago? on Sklyarov, Elcomsoft Plead Not Guilty · · Score: 1

    Okay, so which is worse?
    Unjust actions in a democratic society?
    Or unjust actions in communist dictatorship?

  4. Prizes on Get Your New Handheld...in Butter. · · Score: 1

    It looks like it didn't win any prizes in the dairy products or sculpture categories. Shame, it looks good.

  5. Re:Desk Rover + X10 Camera = Fun? on Slashback: Sale, Secrecy, Lasers · · Score: 2, Informative

    Don't need an X10. Plantraco sell a wireless camera which slots right into the rover.

  6. Re:Obligatory Blue Screen Post on Windows Reaches 64-Bits, For OEMs · · Score: 1

    BSOD is text, so they could switch from 80x25 mode to 80x50 mode.

    But they haven't, not in the last BSOD on itanium I saw anyway.

  7. Re:Brazil & Licensing on Requiring Software Freedom · · Score: 1

    oneword

  8. Re:Secsi? on The Book of SCSI, 2nd Edition · · Score: 1

    scoozy

  9. Re:Jet Fighter Shockwave??? on Exhibition of High Speed Photography · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Here's an index of sonic boom photos

  10. Re:Who did that... on Exhibition of High Speed Photography · · Score: 2, Interesting

    this balloon + bullet?
    http://world.std.com/~dpbsmith/bullets/bullets.h tm l

  11. Re:Waves on a rubber band on Exhibition of High Speed Photography · · Score: 1

    Bullet and more at http://www.rit.edu/~andpph/exhibit-3.html

  12. Re:18 books already...and counting on The Ultimate Cubicle · · Score: 1

    Scott Adams. 117 matches for your reading pleasure ...

    (PS. How much more text do I need to enter to avoid the compression filter? This much?)

  13. Cables? on The Ultimate Cubicle · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I want a cube which makes it easy to route and hide cables, not one which makes it easy to hang my shirt (cos I always carry a spare shirt with me, naturally)

  14. Same thing at non-slashdotted (yet) site on R/C Vehicle For The Desktop · · Score: 5, Informative
  15. Re:i think they need more research... on Wireless Freenets As The Parasitic Grid · · Score: 1

    What with doubleclick and all the spyware apps, there are already plenty of additional parasitic users of the bandwidth you have paid for.

  16. Re:Popularity != Virus Written on Viruses, Trojans And Worms -- Unplugged? · · Score: 1

    It's easier to figure out how Apache, say, works. But it's harder to code an exploit because of compiler & OS differences.
    If there is a buffer overflow in IIS (for which every binary is identical) running on NT (every install of which is v.similar) then it is easy to predict where the IP will end up, where system DLLs etc. are.
    With open-source operating systems and application, there may be a significant number of installations that are different enough from the majority that it is either not worth writing a worm, or an in-the-wild worm won't spread easily because of scarcity of suitable hosts. Apache isn't rare, but it is probably less uniform than IIS.
    Just my guess.

  17. Re:Sarnoff on Slashback: Memory, Constancy, Triumph · · Score: 1
  18. Re:Thanks, MSNBC on Slashback: Memory, Constancy, Triumph · · Score: 2, Informative

    Patent 6,274,978 patent looks likely. They seem to be saying they pass the electrons along a fiber.
    Image 7b is the most useful; which isn't saying much.

  19. Re:1 out of 2? Who the fuck did they survey? on RIAA To Target CD-R · · Score: 1

    They asked me and my brother.
    My brother doesn't download music, and I nearly do - my modem is broken.

    Hence, nearly 1 out of 2 consumers download music.

  20. Re:A new P2P idea? on Shirky On P2P · · Score: 1

    There's Pandango
    And an article about them in zdnet from earlier this year

  21. Re:Compiler Optimisation on Slashback: Letters, Time, Revision · · Score: 1

    When you're in compile-debug-tweak mode then you're compiling with optimisations turned off, right? Otherwise the 'debug' part of the cycle is a PITA.

  22. Compiler Optimisation on Slashback: Letters, Time, Revision · · Score: 1

    They're optimising the speed of the compiler at the expense of the speed of the compiled code?

    That seems like a very odd decision ... the compilation is a one-off event while the end result is potentially going to be run all over the world millions of times per day.

    The default should be to favour the end-user at the expense of the developer. Nb. I am a developer!

  23. Re:This is fucking sad on HP Introduces DVD Recorder · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    There have always been articles which never make the front page. See the "sections" section to the left of the main page??

  24. Re:Media cost on HP Introduces DVD Recorder · · Score: 1

    DVD+RW (the format HP say they're using) looks like a good one though. It's compatible with PC DVD drives and DVD movie players.
    So I expect we can look forward to some sort of protection or crippling of the format so we can't make backups of movies

  25. Re:Media cost on HP Introduces DVD Recorder · · Score: 1

    The article says $15.99 per disk.
    The cheapest I can see on pricewatch is $19.
    So not at all cost effective with only about 7 times the capacity if you're just using it for backup purposes.