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  1. Depends on your email volume on Putting Emails In Folders Is a Waste of Time, Says IBM Study · · Score: 2

    If you have 100+ mails coming in on a daily basis, and have 6-7 years worth of mail to search through, folders can be useful for cutting down the search time atleast, esp. if you are able to setup rules to route the mails to folders automatically (Even with indexing, sometimes it takes a few seconds to complete the search)

  2. Rollcall on Florida School District Begins Fingerprinting Students · · Score: 2

    What happened to the good (not so old) rollcall

  3. Maybe... on Civil Suit Filed, Involving the Time Zone Database · · Score: 0

    Could it be that his email password was stolen somehow and this mail is just a hoax? Computer compromised by a keylogger,etc, so the bad guys had access to mailing list credentials,etc to shut it down as well? Just mentioning since there's no significant detail in the message

  4. Is the internet in Canada 100% satellite? on Satellite Glitch Leaves Northern Canada In the (Internet) Dark · · Score: 1

    Dont they have undersea fiber connections to the country, and DSL and stuff? Or even dialup? Why would half the country use only Satellite as thier Internet connection?

  5. Re:Hey! on HP Investigates Android TouchPads Delivered With Android · · Score: 1

    Cant a bitwise copy be made onto other touchpads?

  6. Re:Will it impact used prices? on Sony Bringing PSN Pass To All First-Party Games · · Score: 1

    This is one of those costs that probably won't be fully passed on to customers - where I live anyways...

    New Game: $60 Used Game: $50 + $10 PSN Pass.

    Why would you ever buy the used game? Gamestop has to decrease the amount they charge for the new game or they swallow the cost of the PSN Pass themselves to make it worth a customer buys the Used Game. Otherwise they lose an entire console's worth of used games.

    If I'm interested in only the single player component, then why not?

  7. Re:Thanks Sony on Sony Bringing PSN Pass To All First-Party Games · · Score: 1
  8. Re:Thanks Sony on Sony Bringing PSN Pass To All First-Party Games · · Score: 1

    Dont forget PC games cost 20-30% of Console games

  9. Infographic on Telecomix Releases 54GB of Syrian Censorship Logs · · Score: 1

    "Internauts who enjoy regexes and charts are invited to help make a pretty infographic"

    Has anyone made one yet?

  10. Play it on Ask Slashdot: What To Do In SW:TOR For Just 3 Days? · · Score: 1

    Play it
    And have Fun!!!

  11. Re:The cheek of it! on Sony Bringing PSN Pass To All First-Party Games · · Score: 1

    Books: I'm talking about the lower cost paperback editions sold in India. Cost about 1/3rd of the US copies, but have lower paper and binding quality

    DVD's: well, DVD's cost the equivalent of $15-20 for English movies
    Games start at the equivalent of $8-10 (The GTA series is the cheapest) for PC

    Maybe the Indian market pricing is a bit out of sync...

  12. Re:The cheek of it! on Sony Bringing PSN Pass To All First-Party Games · · Score: 1


    But a lot of people still play NFS 2, NFS MW,CS1.6,Mario (the 8 bit version),Dave,etc..
    books wear out after being read 2-3 times
    DVD's cost almost the same (sometimes even more) as games, but give you much less than a game, so the additional profits are already built into the price.

  13. Re:There is no such thing as "censorship proof" on Belgian ISP Ordered to Block The Pirate Bay; Telecomix and TPB Offer Workarounds · · Score: 1

    http://www.dot.gov.in/isp/guide_international_gateway.htm

    II. LEVEL OF ENCRYPTION

    Individuals/Groups/Organisations are permitted to use encryption upto 40 bit key length in the RSA algorithms or its equivalent in other algorithms without having to obtain permission. However, if encryption equipments higher than this limit are to be deployed, individuals/groups/organisations shall do so with the permission of the Telecom Authority and deposit the decryption key, split into two parts, with the Telecom Authority.

  14. Re:The cheek of it! on Sony Bringing PSN Pass To All First-Party Games · · Score: 1

    Unlike toys,etc the games dont degrade, get broken,etc..

  15. Re:There is no such thing as "censorship proof" on Belgian ISP Ordered to Block The Pirate Bay; Telecomix and TPB Offer Workarounds · · Score: 1

    In India also, any encryption with a key greater than 40 bits is illegal unless the key is deposited with the govt.

    The rule is not implemented, but it is there

  16. Simple DNS blocks dont really work on Belgian ISP Ordered to Block The Pirate Bay; Telecomix and TPB Offer Workarounds · · Score: 1

    In India, they blocked mediafire,rapidshare,etc for about a week.

    blocking was done on the IP level, even https traffic was blocked

  17. Encryption on SAIC Loses Data of 4.9 Million Patients · · Score: 1

    Now, I dont know anything about tape drives, but how can it be difficult to do the encryption?

    Simplest process would be to just zip them up with 7-zip, split into archives the size of the tape and apply a password to it.

    May not be the strongest security, but still better than nothing

  18. Re:I dont know how true that is on Can Newegg Survive the Post-PC Future? · · Score: 1

    copied from another post I had made:
    I meant, like PATA HDD's required you to be familiar with the jumper settings, ports had to be wired from the motherboard individuallt, BIOS had to manually configured, Windows install needed CLI experience,etc..

  19. Re:I dont know how true that is on Can Newegg Survive the Post-PC Future? · · Score: 1

    I meant, like PATA HDD's required you to be familiar with the jumper settings, ports had to be wired from the motherboard individuallt, BIOS had to manually configured, Windows install needed CLI experience,etc..

  20. I dont know how true that is on Can Newegg Survive the Post-PC Future? · · Score: 2

    Students in my college were given Thnikpad L420 's.

    The HDD,RAM can be upgraded w/o voiding the warranty

    I have a R61, on which I have maxed out the RAM, probably will get a SSD when they are cheaper

    At home, have a self assembled PC.
    Now, as you may see from my UID, I'm not one of the people for whom, "Upgrading your desktop PC's video card was once a rite of passage for many Slashdot readers " is valid.

    However, I have seen the older PC's insides, and can say that newer ones are MUCH easier to work with.

  21. Re:It's called "Demand Response" on Returning Power From Electric Cars To the Grid · · Score: 1

    Or, you could do what developing countries do, and reduce the quality of power in case of high demand.

    resort to blackouts in case of not being able to cope up at all

  22. Re:Range Extender and Smaller Battery Pack on Returning Power From Electric Cars To the Grid · · Score: 1

    Any "real life" cars using the principles you state available for purchase in the market?

  23. If they "just filed a patent"... on Will Google TV Owe Royalties For Universal Search? · · Score: 1

    If they "just filed a patent" , and Google has already been using it:
    i)Why would Google have to pay royalty?
    ii)Wouldnt Google's use be prior art?

  24. Re:CS is part of IT on Ask Slashdot: CS Grads Taking IT Jobs? · · Score: 1

    a job with $42000 is better than no job isnt it?

  25. hidemyass.com on HideMyAss.com Doesn't Hide Logs From the FBI · · Score: 1

    HMA is primarily used to bypass school/college firewalls