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  1. Re:I like the idea on NYTimes Visits Menlo Park's TechShop · · Score: 1

    Dunno where you are in the UK., but the London hack space is activly seeking members so they can get more subscription fees, so they can buy a laser cutter and lathes etc. Also in london is the metropolitan works, http://www.metropolitanworks.org/ , expensive, but London hack space is a member, and the blueprint model shop which has a laser cutter.

  2. respin of china's red flag distro? on North Korea's Own OS, Red Star · · Score: 1

    It's probably just a respin of China's Red Flag linux distro (Which i think is derived from redhat).

  3. Re:really neat on Portal Update Hints At New Game · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure the 'androids' are really androids, i think they might be vortiguants: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vortigaunt The leg structure looks similar.

  4. Re:So when... on China Slams Clinton's Call For Internet Freedom · · Score: 1

    When you make claim like this (google hacking into server etc.), it would be REALLY helpful if you would include links to back them up.

  5. There still out there on The Long Shadow of Y2K · · Score: 1

    This site (full of spam comments) has a y2k bug: http://www.amtor.com/cgi-bin/links/cougalinks.cgi?action=view-links note that the dates are "19109" (or 19110 now), this is beacause perl stores the year as the number of years after 1900, so 1999 is 99, and 2000 is 100, you were supposed to print years by adding the perl year to 1900 and then converting the result to a string and printing that, but many people didn't bother and instead printed "19" and then the perl year, which is why that site is showing "19109" as the year...

  6. Re:I use them on Are You Using SPF Records? · · Score: 1

    It may be making a difference for *other people* who can now discard spams that use your domain name.

  7. next version? on iPhone 3.1 Spotted In Field Testing · · Score: 4, Funny

    So when do we see an iPhone 3.11 for workgroups?

  8. Re:Reminds me of the old "Pad Rat" posts on Usenet on STS-129 Ascent Video Highlights · · Score: 1

    It's worth seeing the Spacestation 3d IMAX film - it has a IMAX sequence of a Soyuz taking off with the camera at ground level very close to the launch pad, it practically takes your head off :)

  9. Re:I've used one on One Telescope Per Child · · Score: 1
  10. Re:Shadowrun on Which Game Series Would You Reboot? · · Score: 1

    There's an mmo called neocron which is very cyberpunk (cyberspace hacking, remote control drones, nasty toxic dark future):

    http://www.neocron.com/

    It's getting a bit long in the tooth tho.

    There's also the dystopia mod for hl2.

  11. Re:Don't be so Glib on Debian Switching From Glibc To Eglibc · · Score: 1

    What happens if/when there is an x86 -> arm jit runtime compiler?

    Remember apple has a nice ppc -> x86 jit for when it switched to intel cpu's, so it's not impossible.

    and don't forget than dotnet is cpu independent!

  12. Re:I'm ready... on Ray Kurzweil's Vision of the Singularity, In Movie Form · · Score: 1

    How do you prevent the people doing the transfer rootkiting you as they do it?

  13. Re:Data - metadata ordering: softupdates on Kernel Hackers On Ext3/4 After 2.6.29 Release · · Score: 1

    Same here, i've been using softdep on netbsd for as long as it's existed and i've had one filesystem corruption problem (which i'm not sure is softdep related).

    There are people on the NetBSD lists who are keen to get rid of it tho, and WAPBL (the new logging stuff) is pretty good.

  14. Re:Best of intentions on BitTorrent Calls UDP Report "Utter Nonsense" · · Score: 2, Informative

    There's an extention to TCP called ECN (explicit congestion notification) that marks packets as experiencing congestion rather than dropping them, you can see before and after graphs here:

    http://people.freebsd.org/~rpaulo/throughput-withecn.png

    http://people.freebsd.org/~rpaulo/throughput-withoutecn.png

  15. Re:Fractal Generation on The Importance of Procedural Content Generation In Games · · Score: 1

    See text elite:

    http://www.iancgbell.clara.net/elite/text/index.htm

    which abstracts the generation part of elite to a sort of text adventure, comes with source code!

  16. Re:Exactly right. Look where the money is in PCs on Vital Parts of Games As DLC? · · Score: 1

    > Either we can be WoW and monetize through recurring billing, which we get 96 cents out of every dollar

    Is that actually true? and if so where did you find that number?

  17. Re:Domain Keys doesn't have the same issue on Gmail, SPF, and Broken Email Forwarding? · · Score: 1

    Domain keys breaks mail sent through a mailinglist where the mailing list software dosn't strip the domain keys header.

    All the vairous sender authentication stuff have two problems, they either break mailing lists, or forwarding, or both. Both problems are solvable but involve changing how you do mailing lists or forwarding.

  18. Re:He ignores DISTANCE. on Why Life On Mars May Foretell Our Doom · · Score: 1

    yes, the question isn't "Where are they?", it's "Why are we still here?".

  19. Re:ASCII graphics FT...W? on Tetris Creator Claims FOSS Destroys the Market · · Score: 1

    I demands T-shirts.

  20. Re:It's a great idea on A New Type Of Realtime Blocklist: The SURBL · · Score: 1

    That happened to my site yesterday, and it got reported to spamcop, so now i have to persuade them i've not a spammer.

    Sigh.

  21. Re:How does this reduce spam in any shape or form? on SPF Design Frozen · · Score: 1

    SPF makes the From: address mean something. No! it dosn't! SPF makes the SMTP Envelope MAIL FROM: mean something. If it checked the From: it would break every mailing list on the planet.

  22. Re:First Criminals on UK Parliament to ban DoS Attacks · · Score: 1

    I second this.

    Slashdot editors: You are armed with a loaded weapon, and you show no inclination to use it safely, or to have any respect for your 'victims'.

    Perhaps you could mirror sites at slashdot as/when you link to them?

  23. I was there too on Festival of Inappropriate Technology · · Score: 2, Informative

    Showing off the soekris Net4521's which consume.net may be adopting as there weapon of choice.

    The french guy with the singing birds and the cybernetic parrot sausage is Paul Granjon from zlabs.

  24. Internet Exchange point in Kenya on African ISPs Being Fleeced by the West · · Score: 1

    Some ISP's in kenya tried to set up an internet exchange point so that traffic local to kenya could stay local, rather than going to the US and back.

    Their goverment prevented them.

    Luckily it looks like commen sense is breaking through.

    But with this kind of policy being laid down by african goverments it's no wonder the continent is in trouble.

  25. Re:Bridging the Wireless gap on Wireless Mania · · Score: 1

    The current consume website is broken cos the guys admining the box don't want to upgrade the software on it.

    The beta version of the new one is here.