User: MonkeyOnATypewriter

Re:Right

On: DARPA To Sponsor R&D For Interstellar Travel

and appearing on the other side of the wormhole, in the Pegasus galaxy

Re:A programming language inside documents?

On: Office 15 Development To Go JavaScript, HTML5 For Extensibility

Please try someday Matlab or its open source clone Octave.

Re:Relevant XKCD

On: Wolfram Launches Computational Document Format

Something like a canvas inside a html document? Or like this http://code.google.com/apis/chart/interactive/docs/gallery.html ? Madness !

Re:What's DARPA about it ?

On: DARPA Network Challenge Lasts All of 9 Hours

It required communication between different members of a group, to cover a bigger area.

Re:for those that didn't rtmfa

On: 11.6" Netbooks Face Off

Offtopic:

You know you can buy USB 9-pin serial adapters that work fine, right ?

Another cable to haul around, but keeps the laptop simpler.
(And BTW, the 9-pin serial is becoming obsolete... kids speak about some new "Universal Serial Bus" interface)

Happy sysadmin day !

On: Adobe Security Updates For Flash and Shockwave

I know that it's offtopic but:

Hey, people, it's sysadmin day...
http://www.sysadminday.com/

Re:BSD no where to be found?

On: Highlights From the 2009 Google Summer of Code

404 Not Found

So yes, the *BSD are nowhere to be found...

Re:So...

On: Organized Online, Students Storm Gov't. Buildings In Moldova

Just take a look http://unimedia.info/ ! These guys are serious...

Re:Shell bank

On: Virtual World, Real Banking

Ahem... World != USA . So you keep your laws while we, the rest of the world, keep our laws.

(At least until you start an "War on Primitivism" against EU because of our lack of "Patriot Act")

Another link

On: Hacking With Synthetic Biology

Also, here is a recording from a Computer Chaos Club Congress about messing with DNA. You can get a fairly good grip on this subject if you watch it ;)

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6950604815683841321&hl=en

Re:Fine, I'll think of the children

On: Hacking With Synthetic Biology

Oblig. XKCD reference

http://xkcd.com/531/

Re:China and South Korea already did this, no?

On: Handset Vendors Plug Micro-USB Charge Ports

And we discussed yesterday that EU wants some common standard for charging mobile phones.

http://mobile.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/16/206213

BTW: dupe ?

Re:Power Source?

On: NASA Fashions Mountain-Climbing Robot

Arghhh... ninja-ed by one minute...

Re:Power Source?

On: NASA Fashions Mountain-Climbing Robot

IANANE (I Am Not A NASA Engineer) but, IMHO, it will be powered by using the tether as a power cord, using stationary rover's solar cells, who stays on the edge of the crater (not sure about mountains...), as in the image:
http://www-robotics.jpl.nasa.gov/systems/systemImage.cfm?System=16&Image=414

Or maybe rechargeable batteries and periodical recharging from the main rover ?

Re:Markup language != programming language

On: FBML Essentials

The ML are just responsible for the View part in the MVC architecture.
To make a complete application, you need also the Model and the Controller.

Re:I don't get it...

On: The 10 Coolest Open Source Products of 2008

I think that says that 200 - 0 = 200 (so the OO.org costs less than Microsoft Office... with about $200)

Re:its only the CA's that use MD5 so the question

On: CCC Create a Rogue CA Certificate

From TFA, the CAs that use MD5 are these:

        * RapidSSL
            C=US, O=Equifax Secure Inc., CN=Equifax Secure Global eBusiness CA-1
        * FreeSSL (free trial certificates offered by RapidSSL)
            C=US, ST=UT, L=Salt Lake City, O=The USERTRUST Network, OU=http://www.usertrust.com, CN=UTN-USERFirst-Network Applications
        * TC TrustCenter AG
            C=DE, ST=Hamburg, L=Hamburg, O=TC TrustCenter for Security in Data Networks GmbH, OU=TC TrustCenter Class 3 CA/emailAddress=certificate@trustcenter.de
        * RSA Data Security
            C=US, O=RSA Data Security, Inc., OU=Secure Server Certification Authority
        * Thawte
            C=ZA, ST=Western Cape, L=Cape Town, O=Thawte Consulting cc, OU=Certification Services Division, CN=Thawte Premium Server CA/emailAddress=premium-server@thawte.com
        * verisign.co.jp
            O=VeriSign Trust Network, OU=VeriSign, Inc., OU=VeriSign International Server CA - Class 3, OU=www.verisign.com/CPS Incorp.by Ref. LIABILITY LTD.(c)97 VeriSign

Re:Link to the 2008 challenge

On: FBI Issues Code Cracking Challenge

Direct link:

http://www.fbi.gov/headlines/code.swf

This should work ;)

Re:Race up

On: Earliest LHC Restart Slated For Late Summer 2009

GNU Hurd FTW !

Re:I prefer the old definitions:

On: Has Google Redefined Beta?

Actually it's :

SP3: Finally works. But became obsolete.
Update to the next major version !

Think outside the box (look outside the window)

On: Russian Town Puts Giant Smiley On Google Maps

That screenshot from "blogger" contains, in the bottom-right corner a small "P", that comes from an online game called "PMOG" ( http://pmog.com/ ).

I don't know exactly the rules of this game, but I remember that about an year ago I played it.

To get/steal points in this game, you have to trick users (who are also players of PMOG) to enter on a web-page where you left "mines".

So my theory is that he got the news, photoshopped the current screenshot (to get e-press* attention) and released it on the internet, and waited to propagate around, so he will get an advantage in the game.

So the article is half true (the concert and the people), and half false (they don't have the photo this way).

Epic hoax ! Great played !

* - update your buzzwords list

Re:Still need cheaper Wi-fi chipsets for this to w

On: Cisco Launches Alliance For the 'Internet of Things'

You must be new here ! People already have web servers running on their toasters since years ! http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/08/11/1754253