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  1. Re:Benchmark woes on AMD Duron vs. Intel Celeron · · Score: 2, Informative
    On 29.October, I ordered 256MB DDR DIMMs from Crucial for $35.09 each.

    Around Christmas they were $70-75.

    Today they are $97.19.

  2. Re:READ THE DAMN PATENT FOOLS on Online Greeting Cards Patented · · Score: 1

    Well done! Kudos to you, Waffle Iron!

  3. Re:What a teaser! on Looking At Turing · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Except most would decribe him as either a mathematician or computer scientist and the Nobel Prizes are awarded in Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Economics, Literature and Peace.

  4. Re:Yes on The LDP and Debian · · Score: 1

    Shit! I was planning on using Word macros to operate the control rods. I guess I'll have to use Excel instead.

  5. Re:Securing OpenSSH on Slashback: Highness, Hominess, Hole-ines · · Score: 1
    Mindterm is an SSH client written in Java.

    You can have a machine serve Mindterm via a Java applet and you don't have to carry an SSH client around with you to connect to that machine. Tres convienent. The source is available but the license is less than ideal -- free for non-commercial, not free otherwise.

  6. Re:I called it first! on Who Wants To Be An Oregonian? · · Score: 1

    Or maybe someone could steal Phil Knight's identity and free all the third-world Nike slaves...

  7. I called it first! on Who Wants To Be An Oregonian? · · Score: 1

    I wanna be Matt Groening!

  8. Re:Maybe a delay is a good thing? on Newest Mandrake Linux Delayed · · Score: 1

    Indeed, the kernel security issue and the devfs headaches are one and the same. http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/security/2001/MDK SA-2001-079.php3?dis=8.1

  9. Re:ncftp? on VIM 6.0 is Out · · Score: 1

    In recent versions, settting "yes-i-know-about-NcFTPd=yes" in "~/.ncftp/prefs_v3" makes the promo not appear.

  10. Re:Arbitrary Decisions on Shutting Down Worm-Infected Broadband Users · · Score: 1
    Maybe I missed the point but are you claiming running a worm-infected web server is a FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHT?

    By somehow not allowing a customer to run a worm-infected web server, the ISP is infringing on the customer's FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHTS?

  11. Re:Download their manual and read their license on GPL Violation, Microtest's DiskZerver · · Score: 1
    Sorry, I'd have cut and pasted the license in here but it was in PDF format.

    pdftotext?

  12. Re:How could modern building collapse like that? on Attacks On US Continued Reports · · Score: 1

    A minor point:

    Aviation fuel is used in piston engine planes, i.e. propeller driven. It is lighter than gasoline and thus more flammable.

    Jet fuel is kerosene. It is heavier than gasoline and thus less flammable.

  13. Albert-Laszlo Barabasi on Parasitic Computing · · Score: 1
    This Barabasi guy's an ass. All he does is sensationalist pop-physics crap. Look at his website. The organization of handclapping (featured at ABCNews and FoxNews), sandcastles, and internet topology and attack work (discussed at Slashdot here). This guy just jumps between pop-science subjects and eats up press coverage of his crap.


    Can we stop talking about him now?

  14. Re:Secure Environment on IBM Running Linux On Secure Hardware · · Score: 1
    Homer: Bart, you're coming home.

    Bart: I want to stay here with Mr. Burns.

    Burns: I suggest you leave immediately.

    Homer: Or what? You'll release the dogs, or the bees, or the dogs with bees in their mouths and when they bark they shoot bees at you? Well, go ahead -- do your worst! [Burns slams the door and locks it] [disbelieving] He locked the door! I'll show him -- [rings the doorbell and runs away]


    Episode 1F16 -- Burns' Heir

  15. Re:If you don't like it...shop there! on Borders to Use CCTV Face Recognition · · Score: 1

    Or you could try the best goddamn bookstore in the US: Powell's in Portland, OR.

  16. Re:Power draw, Materials resources, Reuse on Slashback: Memory, Constancy, Triumph · · Score: 1
    I'd also be curious about recycle potential. There is much less material in an LCD, how about polution from disposal? How much of that can be reused and recycled? How about compared to a CRT?

    Don't forget CRT's contain lead and LCD's don't.

  17. Re:Take *two* passwords into the shower? on OpenSSH Management - Understanding RSA/DSA Authent · · Score: 1

    If you really want that then you can change your passphrase to empty, i.e. just hit 'enter' when asked, with 'ssh-keygen -p -f /path/to/private_key'. You'll not be asked for a passphrase to use your private key. The downside is you've lost a layer of defense to your private key.

  18. Re:The submission left this out: on Iceman Murdered by Arrow in the Back · · Score: 1

    Was Judas Priest around then?

  19. Re:Closed source on SSH Secure Shell 3.0.0 Remote Hole · · Score: 1
    This is a bad blow for SSH the company. Didn't someone there quit a while ago since he disagreed about the decision to not provide source code to customers?

    That was Phil Zimmermann, author of PGP, who quit working for Network Associates.

  20. Re:Stop 100% of guns from being used in crimes. on 99% Blockage Isn't Good Enough, Says Napster Judge · · Score: 1
    ...you can't stop 100% of piracy without banning cree speech.

    I fail to see what piracy has to do with Cree speech.

  21. GFlops not TFlops on GRAPE6, Now With GNU/Linux Frontend, At 32 TFlops · · Score: 1

    I think there's a few corrections necessary.

  22. Broadband Providers on Telocity Wants Its Gateways Back · · Score: 1

    Step one in dealing with a former broadband provider should be reporting the credit card which they were billing as lost or closing the account all together. It makes it much more difficult for them to continue to charge monthly service, charge for return equipment and so on.

  23. UMSP on Computer Faces Human Psychological Test · · Score: 1

    If it fails will it have to undergo the University of Minnesota Spankological Protocol?

  24. Re:No Delorian??? on Roxio Countersues Gracenote · · Score: 1

    Don't forget the flux capacitor!

  25. Re:We need technical measures, not laws, for spam on Senator Says Spammers Have First-Amendment Rights · · Score: 1
    Adam Back has an interesting proposal called Hash Cash. The idea is that if you want to send me an email, you have to burn some CPU cycles to compute a partial hash collision. I choose how many bits are required. Friends and family can send me email for free. I'll charge a few bits for the store I shooped at last week, and even more for people I don't know. If you're in ORBS or MAPS, perhaps I'll charge even more.

    How about just requiring everything you receive be PGP encrypted with your public key? The key size could be increased to make the computation more costly.