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  1. Key combo not working? Enable it by hand on Google Earth Flight Simulator · · Score: 1

    The key combo to enable the flightsim is reported to vary, I had to press Ctrl+WinKey+A to enable it (Kubuntu).

    In case you're having difficulties, try changing the value in the file .googleearth/Registry/google/googleearthplus/User/ flightsim/isenabled manually from 0 to 1 and the flightsim should appear in the tools menu.

  2. No, it didn't. on Schluss For Germany's Oldest Online Service · · Score: 1
    Not quite. The date on the page at billiger-surfen.de is most probably a typo. The news came from a T-Online press release dated November 14 which is even available in English. Please try to get your facts straight before you start complaining. HTH.

  3. Sites NOT blocked anymore on German State Alters DNS To Censor Web Sites [updated] · · Score: 4, Informative
    As somebody else said already, the story was retracted after I submitted it. Apparently a technician changed the DNS entries without authorization from his superiors to demonstrate how easily it could be circumvented. But the state government is still trying to get the ISPs to adapt these measures. Read more about it here.

  4. *Your* Opinion? (-1, Cut-And-Paste) on Byte: FreeBSD vs Linux Revisited · · Score: 4, Informative
    Well, had this really been your opinion, you wouldn't have needed to copy it from elsewhere on the web, would you?

    Please karmawhore with your own material if you have to.

  5. Pebibytes? on Linux Breaks 100 Petabyte Ceiling · · Score: 4, Informative
    And this is even more impressive in pebibytes, too.

    Well, according to the IEC standard, one petabyte is 10^15 (or 1e+15) bytes, while one pebibyte is 2^50 (or 1.125899e+15) bytes.

    So 144 petabytes is 1.44e+17 bytes or 127.89769 pebibytes. Can't say that's more impressive tho. :P

  6. You're so full of... on Star In A Jar · · Score: 2
    some of which I have been analysing at the Neils Bohr Institute in Kaiserslautern, Germany

    Nice attempt at a troll, but you should at least try to get your stuff consistent. There is no Neils Bohr Institute in Germany. It is the Niels Bohr institute (site is here) and it is in Copenhagen, Denmark.


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  7. Get your facts right, please... on Technology And The Fast Food Nation · · Score: 2
    Mary Shelley's Frankenstein warned about the unthinking application of technology all the way back in 1803.

    Mary Shelley could not have written Frankenstein in 1803, I doubt she wrote anything back then - since she was only six years old in 1803. She was born in 1797 and wrote Frankenstein around 1816. It was published in 1818. You can read more about her life at http://www.kimwoodbridge.com/maryshel/life.shtml. The full text of the book can be found here.
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  8. Coal Plant == Radiation on Low-Level Radiation May be Mutagenic · · Score: 1
    Coal fired power plants release much more radiation

    There is more information on this aviable at http://www.ornl.gov/ORNLReview/rev26-34/text/coalm ain.html.

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  9. Background on WDM on New Fiber Optics In The Works · · Score: 2
    There is a little bit more background info on WDM (Wavelength Division Multiplexing) here. It's also from Techreview and mentioned in the article, but w/o link. And no, that's not a goatse link.


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  10. /. using doubleclick? on Banner Ads: Biggest Advertising Mistake Ever · · Score: 1
    A little OT, but have you noticed Slashdot is serving doubleclick.net ads lately? What a change after all this. Let's just hope it's not gonna be the 'Biggest Advertising Mistake Ever'...


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  11. To quote Penny Arcade: on Hacking Biology · · Score: 1
    The submitter may be overstating the bit about "open source"

    Maybe he was having some kind of /. seizure.

  12. Article at MarineTimes.com on Marine Corps Testing Maser for Anti-Personnel Use · · Score: 1
    if you have a subscription to the Marine Corps Times you can read the original story

    There is also a relatively short article about it available without subscription; its here.

  13. Re: JPEG Specs on Does Cracking Encryption Involve Some Precognition? · · Score: 2
    How does your computer know that a jpeg is a jpeg?

    A good place to start for this question would be the Usenet JPEG FAQ; the question is answered here.

  14. Re:Pop can gun? on Won't The Real Quickies Please Stand Up? · · Score: 1
    BTW, how many rounds per minute does an UZI fire? Be nice to know how long you could spray with that 5 foot tall, 300 round UZI clip.

    According to this page, the Uzi SMG fires 600 rounds per minute, so your clip would last 30 seconds. The Micro and Mini SMG models are able to fire at up to 1700 rounds/minute though. HTH...

  15. Poem In Elvish on Tolkien Reading From The Two Towers · · Score: 1
    There is also a MP3 of Tolkien reading an elvish poem on the page. It the one that starts with "Ailaurie lantar lassi surinen" from Book II, Chapter VIII.

    Enjoy...

  16. Re:MPAA Spiders on the way? on 42 ways to Distribute DeCSS · · Score: 1

    Is there a character limit for meta tags?

    Yes, I think it's at about 255 chars.

  17. Re: IRC Log on SlashNET IRC Chat Tonight w/ CmdrTaco & Hemos · · Score: 2
    If I'm not mistaken, the log will be aviable later on the SlashNet-FTP at ftp://ftp.slashnet.org/pub/slashnet/ for ums/.

  18. How the moon was REALLY discovered on Lunar Landing Historical Site? · · Score: 1
    Yeah, and only since then we really knew how the moon was discovered...

    We're whalers on the moon.
    We carry a harpoon.
    But there ain't no whales
    so we tell tall tales
    and sing our whaling tune!

  19. Just as big... on Happy Independence Day, Jose · · Score: 2
    Wow, the slashdot MOTD really fits here:

    A person is just about as big as the things that make them angry.

  20. 17" != 30 ft. on Movies Online? · · Score: 1
    I'm sort of sceptical on this. I mean, one of the top reasons why I go to movie theaters is to watch the movie on a huge ass screen. Sure, I could watch the movie on my computer or on TV, but it's just not the same to watch, say, StarWars on a computer screen and in a movie theater...

  21. Re:MTV Movie Awards on Star Wars Episode 2 Starts Shooting · · Score: 1
    Can you see Jar Jar as Jules?

    Yousa people gonna DIE?

  22. Re:isn't this... on Beware Of 2.4 GHz Interference · · Score: 1
    ... the band range the licenses for which the German government is about to auction off with an expected profit of $50,000,000,000 ?

    Close, but not it. UMTS operates between 1.885 and 2.2 GHz.

    The spectrum for UMTS has been identified as frequency bands 1885-2025 MHz for future IMT-2000 systems, and 1980-2010 MHz and 2170-2200 MHz for the satellite portion of UMTS systems. - whatis.com
  23. Re:Ummm...Katz... on Shadowrunning In The Corporate Republic · · Score: 1
    JK: It's the dystopian future of 2026.
    I thought that it was the dystopian future of 2050 or so.

    It is 2056 for 2nd edition or 2060 for 3rd edition, to exact.

    JK:Shadowrunners are the individualists who live on the margins, able to "slide like a whisper" through the databases of giant corporations, spiriting away the only thing of real value -- information.
    You describe "deckers", a subcategory of shadowrunners.

    I think that's not JK describing. IIRC, that's right of the cover of 2nd edition.

  24. shadowrun.com == Micro$soft on Shadowrunning In The Corporate Republic · · Score: 1
    Did anyone notice that the shadowrun.com domain is owned by M$?

    I guess they planned to bring it out as a computer rpg, but never got to it.

    (See it for yourself at samspade. org.)

  25. URL without Login on European ccTLDs To ICANN: "We Won't Pay!" · · Score: 5
    You can get there without logging in here .

    You may flame now.