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  1. Shoes? on Lotus Nanotech · · Score: 1

    Forgett about self-cleaning shoes. I think the major application will be self-cleaning cars and buildings. Imagine how much water will be saved by this!

  2. Typical manager behaviour these days on Helping Your Ex-Employer? · · Score: 1
    I would swallow it and ask for payment. Don't be cheap, but say it is a special cheap price because you know her. So I would ask for $150 per hour at least and some extra for traveling. Tell her this is cheaper then usual, because you knew her and the system she has.

    She defintely will value you higher in the future if you ask for money. Perhaps it's also your start for a new career as freelancer.

    If she complains about the price, argue that she could have asked somebody else, but this other person would have taken much more time (doesn't know the system) and would be more expensive per hour.

  3. Re:There is no limit to what we should do! on Buggy Bugging Backfires On German Police · · Score: 1

    Let me see, ~80 million people, that's 80 000 000 / 20 000 = 4000 observers per criminal.

  4. Re:The news here is on Buggy Bugging Backfires On German Police · · Score: 1

    A german private mobile phone company made the misstake (it's called O2). I guess somebody has big trouble now. One might think tapping phone lines is bad, but given the fact what criminals can do using mobiles I think it is ok.

  5. Re:Killing people on Homing In On Laser Weapons · · Score: 1

    Your argumentation is ok in theory, but in practice there was a balance between east and west. Now Bush argues for a "preemptive strike", which in my opinion is just a result of not having to consider the back-strike. So if laser weapons make it impossible to attack the US with missiles, will the US then throw away all it's own missiles? No it won't, it just will feel more comfortable in the next war.

  6. Re:Mantis on Submitting Bug Reports To Open Source Projects? · · Score: 1
    I submit bug reports and bug fixes to bugzilla occationally. Bugs reported often do not get fixed within month. It happend, that certain programs I found very useful (e.g. safedelete) got REMOVED from the distribution after I've sent bug reports (the bug startet with version 6.1 and was never fixed in later versions). When I sent a patch, it usually was applied quickly and the bug closed. When submitting bug reports to the actual authors of the software, my experience is completeley different: bugs are often fixed within hours or at least days. Authors are happy about my clear bug reports and tests. They also love my patches and feature wishes/extensions.

    My conclusion is, what is bad is the middle-man approach.

  7. Killing people on Homing In On Laser Weapons · · Score: 1

    What is great about to have yet another way to kill people? It's not about killing people who deserve it but all about money and imperialism. Killing people with lasers is not better then by bullets.

  8. What URLS did they use? on Reuters Accused Of Hacking For Typing In URL · · Score: 3, Insightful
    if they named urls like:

    www.my.com/report2000.pdf
    www.my.com/report2001.pdf

    and the world is waiting for 2002 report, would it really be a surprise when millions try to download www.my.com/report2002.pdf one day before the actual release? Come on, _everybody_ would do that. Perhaps one should sue Intentia for violating some stock exchange rules by not protecting the data.

  9. This is common practice on Reuters Accused Of Hacking For Typing In URL · · Score: 1

    I think it is common practice to type in urls by hand. I do this quite often. It's just completely nonsense to sue somebody for information obtained from a public web server without any password cracking.

  10. No taxes, sure. on The Free State Project · · Score: 3, Insightful


    "We will repeal state taxes ..."

    Wow, but wait...

    "Make a donation"

    I see....

  11. What about the others? on The Free State Project · · Score: 1


    Will they force other people to move out?
    Any sort of radicalism leads to some sort of unfree
    society in my opinion.

  12. So why is slashdot linking to this story? on News.com Links to DeCSS Program · · Score: 1

    Can you get sued by linking to something linking to something illegal? Isn't the whole web linked to everything in some way? Who is suing Microsoft to link to thinks which are linked to deCSS in some way? What exactly is a link? Isn't saying deCSS already a link? Can you get sued for saying things you happen to know or have heard of? Lot's of questions to keep lawyers busy for another 2000 years. I hate lawyers. Last week a student of law killed a child of rich parents in Germany. So much about lawyers...

  13. Re:The halting problem... on Toilet Paper Algorithms · · Score: 1

    I think this solution is genius. I will
    suggest you to the Nobel Prize committee!
    In the meantime, please publish your results in
    the Journal of Engineered Toilette Science (J.E.T.S.).

  14. They just reinvent CONDOR! on Microsoft's Vision For Future Operating Systems · · Score: 1

    It already exists and is free:

    http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/

    Ok, it's designed for computations, not for
    word processing. For interactive distributed
    apps you need a web interface of course.

  15. Re:Nuclear is good -- but it still produces waste on Global Warming Worse Than Thought · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it's kind of true. And the cost of taking care of the waste in the future will certainly marginalize any profit they may make today. But, who will pay for the waste, the energy company or the stock owner? Nope, the tax payer will pay it. The ONLY way out of this dilema may be nuclear fission (if feasible) and more likely solar technology (already works). Hyrdogen cars with Ballard's fuel cell and hydrogen produced with solar power IS definetely a good alternative. This will also not produce any net heat emission. I've studied physics, I know what I'm saying here.

  16. Re:Why not make the storage physically separate? on Hitachi Digital Camcorder Records To 8cm DVD-RAM · · Score: 1

    What about having two devices:
    (i) camera with memory stick (ii) storage with USB & plug for memory stick
    That way, device (ii) would be a neat storage extension for your laptop as well and you wouldn't have to carry around your laptop for this. Device (ii) could also be just some sort of jazz drive.

  17. Nonsense on Microsoft, Starbucks To Offer Wireless Service · · Score: 1

    Do you really go into a coffee shop to use your laptop? I understand it on an airport, but hey when I go into a coffee shop I want to talk to real people.

  18. reinventing the wheel on Instant Messaging On Linux · · Score: 1

    I used 'talk' since I first used a Unix Computer and I also used 'phone' on an even older VMS computer. So what's so great about this IM that even Nasdaq is affected by it?

  19. Re:Robot on Honda Creates Walking Robot · · Score: 1

    It's not an american robot. It probably can lower his eyes, through.

  20. Random Number on Pi: It Just Keeps On Going · · Score: 1

    This is probably the most computationally expensive random single digit number generated ever.

  21. Works also with Staroffice in Linux on Microsoft Word Documents That "Phone Home" · · Score: 1

    Yes! It also works with Staroffice 5.2/Linux. Don't know if it also reads cookies.

  22. Re:What do we really know about the parts? on Does Transmeta Live Up To The Hype? · · Score: 1

    It's very simple: it depends on what you do with it. If you run something which takes 100% CPU all time then the transmeta chip will heat up and use lots of battery. If you do what most people do: reading something on the screen or decide which key to press next while the CPU is idle 99.9%, then the CPU will use basically no battery. However, you still need power for the display. In other words: it's great for web pads or word processing. It's bad for number crunshing and maybe some types of games.

  23. Yes I want to on Linux Announcement from Sony, Toshiba, NEC, Fujitsu · · Score: 1

    I could run cron jobs to warm up the car in the morning. Or to flash secret messages at certain times.

  24. Re:Backdoors in "secure software" on Backdoor In Microsoft Web Software? · · Score: 1

    Oh yes, if you can delete such a file you can also create a new one. Once there is a hook you can install a new backdoor anytime.