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  1. Thought Crime on Chicago Links School Cameras To Police · · Score: 1

    If they put us all in prison now, there would be no crime! No expensive cameras to install, lucritive contracts to the prison industry. I don't see a downside!

  2. Not as big a deal as you think on Hushmail Passing PGP Keys to the US Government · · Score: 5, Informative

    Hushmail has 2 options, client side encryption which is done via a java plug in, and server side encryption.

    They only had the keys to give away for those people who chose server side encryptions. They don't have the private keys for those who cleint side.

    Also, when you choose you method, Hushmail tells you that server side is much less secure. They and anybody else operating in the US would have to turn over the private keys they heald with a court order.

    Whats the leason? Key your private keys private. Duh.

  3. Haha on Standard Web Fonts 'Updated' In Vista · · Score: 1, Troll

    Thats right, I'm not seeing the web as Vista users are seeing it, because I'm seeing the web!

    MS should go back and make sure Vista can copy files before it starts trying to "upgrade" every one elses' web experience.

  4. Much money to Radiohead on Name-Your-Cost Radiohead Album Pirated More Than Purchased · · Score: 2, Informative

    On NPR last Friday I heard the album was downloaded over a million times with an average price of $8.00

    Thats $8,000,000 for Radiohead, their producer, and the web hoster. I don't know what record contracts are like these days, but they probably made more in the first week then the they would in a year under contract.

  5. Then What? on New Plastic to Cut CO2 Emissions and Purify Water · · Score: 4, Interesting

    What happens to the plastic membrane after it absorbs the CO2? Does it get recycled? thrown out? Burned?

  6. BFD on Hitachi Promises 4-TB Hard Drives By 2011 · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Its 2007 and we have 1TB drives now... If you apply Moore's law to storage, size should be doubling every 18 months.. that puts 4TB some where around 2.5 years out.

    I think 2011 is a pretty conservative estimate.

  7. Good! on Copy Protection Backfires on Blu-ray · · Score: 1

    well the Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer was the worst movie ever, so they are doing some people a favor.

  8. RT 66 Into/Out of DC on D.C. Commuters to be Scanned With Infrared Cameras · · Score: 1

    66 is HOV durring rush hour. The thing is, if you are going to or from the IAD via Dulles Toll Rd its not HOV. So, how would the IR scanner know where you are going/comming from?

    BTW, if you ever get busted on 66 between DC and the Toll rd, just tell em you are going to the airport/just dropped some one off.

  9. Terrible Write Up on Adding Capsaicin Improves Anesthetic Treatment · · Score: 5, Informative

    Well the Write Up didn't make any sense so I read the link. Here is the deal.
    1. QX-314 block pain neurons. It doesnt block other neurons for heat, pressure, ect.
    2. QX-314 only works if you can get it inside the neuron cell itself.
    3. Capsaicin opens a channel on only pain neurons that will let QX-314 through.

    So, using Capsaicin and QX-314 together, you can block pain but no other senses.

  10. Re:Does one of the entries... on MATLAB Programming Contest Winner Announced · · Score: 3, Informative

    um.. i=0:1:10.
    Or do you mean address the first element with 0? Who cares if you start with zero, get used to it and move on.

    If you use Matlab in a Unix enviornment ^c works.

  11. spreadsheet vs database on $10B Annual Tab for Spreadsheet Errors? · · Score: 1

    I can't believe how many times I've seen data that should be in a database instead of a spreadsheet. At my old company they would do monthly reports, and every month was a new spreadsheet. Because of this performace from month to month could not easily be tracked. If it were in a database, they could have looked at the performace over any time period.

  12. Slashdot Rants on Time Warner, Comcast in Deal to Buy Adelphia · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'm always amazed at people declaring "Comcast sucks" or "Time Warner sucks" or "Adelphia Sucks"

    What people don't realize that these are very very large decentralized companies. The HQ of these companies have financial and technical expectations for small systems (usually a franchise in a city or county) The way these franchises operate vary greatly from one to another.

    The degree of variance is great. Speaking about Comcast, its Arlington/Alexandria system is managed superbly and provides very good service, while its DC system can't find its ass with both hands.

    Comcast generally will give a new acquired system 6 months to square itself away, and if it can't it will replace the management. This can lead to about a year until the subscribers see a change.

    I think if you look at markets like LA, Dallas, SF, and Denver the take over by Comcast are largely positive things.

  13. Thats OK on Harvard Pres Says Females Naturally Bad at Math · · Score: -1, Troll

    Women make up for being bad at math with Boobies. I would take nice boobies over math skills any day.

  14. Re:Dear Comcast, on Comcast Raises Bandwidth in Shot at DSL · · Score: 1

    extract all you want. thats it has fire wire. the FCC mandated this.

  15. Re:Wait Time on Comcast Raises Bandwidth in Shot at DSL · · Score: 1

    Quite the opposite. There are 2 factors, plant condition and DSl compition.

  16. Re:Yes, too bad it broke 60% of users.... on Comcast Raises Bandwidth in Shot at DSL · · Score: 1

    As an ex-comcast engineer, you have no idea what the fuck you are talking about.

  17. Haha on Adieu to Ken Jennings · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Fed-Ex?
    What a fucking retard.

  18. Re:Sounds great, but on Cable Companies Reject Tiered Pricing Model · · Score: 1

    A little insider information, Comcast increasing the connections to the POPs.

  19. Re:up and running on linux on Nullsoft's Waste: Encrypted, Distributed, Mesh Net · · Score: 1

    I get 3 lines in my debug, the last one say the temp data base refference has been removed.. then it just sits there..
    nothing will connect to it.

  20. Re:OS X on Nullsoft's Waste: Encrypted, Distributed, Mesh Net · · Score: 1

    dl the windows client to a windows machine, make the keys and move the defaul.pr3 and default.pr4 files. put all your public keys in the .pr3

    thats all i have sofar and it doent work.
    Tom

  21. Pluging FS on A Quick Peek at Longhorn · · Score: 3, Informative

    95 included a plugin fs, but no one did anyting with it...

  22. Privace and Security on A New Kind of War · · Score: 1

    "If encryption is outlawed only outlaws will use encryption"

    Seems to me there has been a lot of talk about the government forcing backdoors on encryption and such. There is already encryption out there. I think it would be a hard sell to convince future terrorists to use encryption with back doors. The only people these laws would affect are people who are not committing crimes, or people who are stupid and committing crimes. I don't know about you but I'm not concerned about stupid criminals, the typically they don't build nuclear weapons.

    National ID cards with some kind of chip I'm not to worry about. The government can track where I go, I really don't care. If they started tracking every one, they would have way too much data to care about people who were not committing crimes. I find it had to believe some GS-11 would really care that I went to 7 11 last night and bought a Slurpee. As long as they don't sell this info to the evil credit card companies, and significant others, I really couldn't care.

  23. Irony on LonelyNet (Part Two) · · Score: 1

    Oh yea, reading a newspaper is a real social activity.