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  1. is it just me on Sony Rumored To Be Debuting Wiimote-Like Controller At E3 · · Score: 4, Funny

    or is even the camera in the diagram staring at the ladies tits

  2. Re:I always thought the difference on Should We Just Call Dog Breeds a Different Species? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    thats generally a good definition of species, however it can break down.
    consider: 'species' A can breed with 'species' B, so are the same species, B can breed with C, so are the same species, so A and C are the same species via B, although A and C may not actually be able to breed. im fairly sure examples exist, but i cant cite any off the top of my head

  3. Re:Combined with Phyto-Estrogens from Soy Formula on BPA Leaches From Polycarbonate Bottles Into Humans · · Score: 4, Funny

    excelent, ill start feeding my girlfriend soymilk from a polycarbonate bottle

  4. Re:Huh? on Microsoft Gaming Patents — Where They're Going · · Score: 1

    well i guess it's slightly better than add a clock

  5. Re:quick slashdot reader test: on Calculating Password Policy Strength Vs. Cracking · · Score: 4, Funny

    damn it, i thought being on slashdot was enough to count as a geek, now we have to actually be able to understand encryption?

  6. Re:Yeah right on Calculating Password Policy Strength Vs. Cracking · · Score: 2, Informative

    on average, you would find the answer in half the time. also that is just a brute force attack, you have to consider dictionary attacks and other sneaky tricks

  7. Re:Is this a problem? on Calculating Password Policy Strength Vs. Cracking · · Score: 2, Insightful

    unless you have a botnet so as each infected computer is blocked, others in the net take their turn. To get 65 guesses per minuite at 3 guesses per 5 minuites i think would only take about 100 computers

  8. Re:Don't let users mod the UI! on UI Customization and Capital Ships In Jumpgate Evolution · · Score: 1

    the article doesnt make it particularly clear what UI means, it could just mean the HUD and menu design (which is what i first thought) rather than the ability to modify skins an models

  9. Re:Ellison is vidicated 20 years later on Mr. Bezos Goes To Washington · · Score: 1

    with google docs and onlive, its starting to get quite viable to move everything into the cloud and just use thin clients. I can even imageing being happy with it aslong as thin clients dont become all that's available with fees for every cloud service. However the one area i dont like is storage. Yes it would be good to back stuff up in the cloud, but for sensitive documents and stuff with sentimental value, i think local storage will remain incase of loss or compromising of data on the server, or just incase the server is down when you want it. Bring on the cloud, but let me keep my harddrive

  10. if youve got to go through a bunch of hacks on MS Suggests Using Shims For XP-To-Win7 Transition · · Score: 4, Funny

    just to get the software to work properly, you may as well just move to linux

  11. FTA on Amazon & TuneCore To Cut Out the RIAA Middleman · · Score: 0, Redundant

    "Tunecore will charge just $31 a year in upfront fees to handle a 10-track CD from pressing to delivery...If one of Amazonâ(TM)s 80 million customers buys your 10-song CD on Amazon for $8.98, youâ(TM)ll receive $3.59. After selling just nine discs, youâ(TM)re in the black."

  12. you're not laughing now on Investigators Replicate Nokia 1100 Banking Hack · · Score: 1

    ha! now i feel better for having an ancient phone, and i thought the only good bit was being able to freely toss the phone on the floor without breaking it

  13. i doubt it on Investigators Replicate Nokia 1100 Banking Hack · · Score: 2, Interesting

    they are actually very widespread, i see that model all over the place. Not everyone wants a top of the range phone, some just want to make calls and use texts. This is one of the few dirt cheap phones available.

  14. well it should just be legalised anyway on Craigslist Fights Back, Sues SC Atty General · · Score: 0, Redundant

    nuff said

  15. Re:why specify Mac OSX on Mac OS X Users Vulnerable To Major Java Flaw · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    woopsy, i managed to completely overlook that little scentance. Well dont i feel a knob...

  16. why specify Mac OSX on Mac OS X Users Vulnerable To Major Java Flaw · · Score: 0, Redundant

    the summary seems to imply that this exploit is viable on "all the platforms, all the architectures and all the browsers" so why specify Mac OSX? It's not special and if an exploit is universal, it seems the title and summary should make this clear, rather than Focussing on OSX. Even a quick look through the linked articles fails to find much about OSX, is the OP just a mac user who finds it astonishing that his perfect OS could be vulnerable?

  17. Re:What, wheels? on Google Tricycles To Map Footpaths For Street View · · Score: 1

    you mean like google maps aerial photos? or the birdseye view on live maps?

  18. Re:That will never be as aggravating as memory vs. on The Hard Drive Is Inside the Computer · · Score: 1

    and the printer is like.... oh

  19. a browser is not an operating system on Mozilla Preparing To Scrap Tabbed Browsing? · · Score: 1

    it was never designed to be so, and probably should never be. If there are elements of the web that you are using as if they were part of your operating system, e.g webstorage, google docs... then those services should develop applications to integrate themselves into your OS (c.f web/netowrk disks).

  20. Re:a small collection of tools on DIY Google Street View Project? · · Score: 3, Informative

    oh and regarding using a HD camera, for the sort of resolution you normally get (e.g c.f streetview) it is perfectly feesible to extract frames from a video, and stitch those together, i have experimented with it a little but its not something i use. It would be a good alternative to using a fisheye lens if you dont have patience to replace it with. Finally, you will probably want to look up about the no paralax point (NPP)

  21. a small collection of tools on DIY Google Street View Project? · · Score: 4, Informative

    A fisheye lens. if not you can get by with a little patience.

    stitching software
    virtual tour software
    i dont use fisheye, opting for more images for higher resolution pictures. But for the later two, i use and highly recomend autopano pro (http://www.autopano.net/en/) and its virtual tour software that is integrated with the giga version. The stitch imports images and combines them together into one image. The tour provides a simple way to combine the images into a set of 360x180 views, with hot-points between them to navigate, all automaitcally put together into a swf for easy embedding. if you dont mind a few watermarks, you can use the trial version with very few restrictions.

    for an example of a high reosution virtual tour created by the stitching software, tyhough without the tour software, i have created a tour of cambridge at http://cambridge.lifeinmegapixels.com/ . for other examples and examples of the touring software, check the gallery subforum in the autopano pro forums.

  22. Re:Will stores be allowed to sell it? on Danger Mouse Releases Blank CD-R To Spite EMI · · Score: 1

    expensive artwork and a CDR

  23. what a suprise on Ocean Circulation Doesn't Work As Expected · · Score: 4, Insightful

    who would have ever guessed that we would have trouble forming an accurate model of a vast, complex, chaotic system

  24. Re:1 TF/s is so 1996 on AMD Breaks 1GHz GPU Barrier With Radeon HD 4890 · · Score: 2, Informative

    if you're imagining insane numbers of cards for silly TFlops, the 4TFlop nvidea Tesla has a 1U rack form, so you can shove as many of them as you like in a rack

  25. Re:Power consumption? on AMD Breaks 1GHz GPU Barrier With Radeon HD 4890 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_ATI_graphics_processing_units#Radeon_R700_.28HD_4xxx.29_series) suggests the 4890 comes in at 190w, go to s little under double that if they make an x2 version. entry level 4000 series comes in at 25W.

    if you want TFlops, try the 4870x2 at 2.4TFlops, or NVideas tesla (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NVIDIA_Tesla) series, made just for GPGPU which reach over 4TFlops