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  1. Re:Conspiracy math on Hidden Codes in Printers Cracked · · Score: 1

    You can tell if two documents came from the same printer. Then all you need is one identifiable document in order to tie all others from the same printer to the same identification. No master database required.

  2. First we know about on Britain's MI6 Opens Its First Website · · Score: 5, Funny

    Their first web site that we know about.

  3. Automobile registration on Tracking Cell Phones for Real-Time Traffic Data · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The next invasion of privacy will be requiring every automobile to be registered with the government. Armed law enforcement agents will compel any vehicle not displaying its government id to stop.

    Oh, wait a minute...

  4. Buggy Pentiums on AMD Tops Intel in U.S. Retail Sales · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm pretty sure these statistics were prepared on a PC with one of those faulty Pentiums.

  5. Wizard's trick on More Evidence For Hobbit Sized Species · · Score: 2, Funny

    Everyone knows there's no such thing as hobbits. This jaw bone must be some wizard's trick.

  6. Library card on 20 Lawmakers Want to Kill Your Television · · Score: 5, Funny

    If you'll excuse me, I have to go renew my library card...

  7. How do they find time to read Slashdot? on CEOs Who Invite Email From All Employees · · Score: 1

    Wow, with all those employee messages flooding in, when do they find time to read Slashdot?!

  8. Cause and effect on The Science Of Happiness · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Serious question: how do they sort out cause and effect? They observed a correlation between happiness and social interaction; but which is which?

  9. Re:That's Simple on Implementing the Bureaucratic Black Arts? · · Score: 1

    Done, and donConnection closed by remote host.

  10. Firefox/View/Page Style/No Style on Slashdot HTML 4.01 and CSS · · Score: 1

    Then, in Firefox, pick "No Style" from the "View" menu's "Page Style" submenu. The result is a super-clean, fast-loading site.

    Amazing to remember the entire web was like this, circa 1995.

  11. Back to lynx on Korean Mozilla Binaries Infected · · Score: 0

    Easy come, easy go. It's back to lynx(1) for me!

  12. Developers into designers on Microsoft Unveils New Design Studio · · Score: 1

    Nooooooo...!

  13. Solomon's judgement on One Find, Two Astronomers · · Score: 4, Funny

    Obviously, threaten to divide the object in half to give each team one piece. Whichever team prefers to give up their claim and keep the object intact, is the true discoverer.

  14. Too late on Video Game Industry to Sue Michigan's Governor · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Who cares, this all comes way too late to save the Lemmings.

    &sniff;

  15. Thanks, blogger who works at the competition! on Google's Blog Search · · Score: 1

    Google Blog Search already found blog posts from a person who applied for, accepted, and started a job at the competition. Complete with starting salary and a description of their duties.

    Now to subscribe to the Google Blog Search results RSS feed for my search term, and wait for the inevitable, "I got fired!" post. Google Blog Search truly is informative and entertaining.

  16. Windows 95 versus OS/2 on Novell Expects Vista to Spur Linux Adoption · · Score: 2

    I'll bet they said the same thing about OS/2 when Windows 95 came out.

  17. Re:Vendors on Infrastructure for One Million Email Accounts? · · Score: 1
    Just do one thing, please: make sure that the client is honest-to-goodness serious about this. I absolutely hate getting pie-in-the-sky RFPs from people who are just kicking the tires. It's a good way to burn bridges by not looking professional.

    I've been on the other side of this, cluelessly wasting the time of potential vendors discussing plans that worked from an engineering standpoint, but not a business one.

    I didn't just look unprofessional, I was unprofessional. An awful experience.

  18. Business opportunity on The Greying of the Mainframe Elite · · Score: 2, Informative

    If it's a solid market, then there's a business opportunity to hire mainframe gurus out of retirement to provide commercial training for organizations that need it.

  19. Price of oceanfront real estate on Climatologists Wager on Global Warming · · Score: 1

    I'd like to know if the threat of climate change has affected real estate markets in coastal areas. At some point rising sea levels will start imposing costs on homeowners in those areas, which will hurt the property values. Is that part of anybody's thinking today?

    Arctic Melting Fast; May Swamp U.S. Coasts by 2099

  20. Updates in WML via WAP on Weather Service Becoming More Tech Friendly · · Score: 1

    Current conditions and forecasts are also available via WAP in WML format. This is the killer app IMHO: complete weather information on your phone.

    (Requires browser that can handle WML.)

    http://www.srh.noaa.gov/wml/wap_zc.php?zc=ann%20ar bor%2C%20mi

  21. This outbreak hit media outlets on ZOTOB Not Quite as Bad as Expected? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This malware outbreak received disproportionate media coverage, because it hit media outlets first and hardest.

  22. This is why I prefer sundials on Extra Daylight Savings May Confuse the Gadgets · · Score: 1

    This is why I prefer sundials: no battery to run down, no time zone to adjust, no firmware to upgrade, perfectly accurate.

    Doesn't work at night, but that's only a couple of hours. (With apologies to /Seinfeld/.)

  23. Re:It's just normal griping on UK Companies Love IT Workers, Love Not Returned · · Score: 1

    I second this: a pat on the back would go a long way. It's human nature to focus on problems and neglect things that are going well. I know I feel insecure all year long only to get a positive review when my anniversary arrives.

    Quarterly mini-reviews might be nice. Nothing involving a salary adjustment, just a systematic plan for having a private chat with your boss.

  24. Code explains comments on Successful Strategies for Commenting Your Code · · Score: 1

    I had a coworker whose comments were so obscure, you had to read the code to understand what he meant.

  25. Unicode, please on Choice of Language for Large-Scale Web Apps? · · Score: 1
    PHP is hugely popular, but it's one of the few modern software systems lacking native support for Unicode. Unicode is important because of the first W in WWW: even if i18n is not part of the initial ploject, I would be wary of architecting a big new system in 2005 using a language whose string support is based on 1-byte characters:
    In PHP, a character is the same as a byte, that is, there are exactly 256 different characters possible. This also implies that PHP has no native support of Unicode.