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  1. Re:Dealing with Roland the Plogger on Saving Energy in Small Office Buildings · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Look at the source. They put a nofollow tag on the submitter's website link. There was a discussion about this a few weeks ago.

  2. Uh, last generation iPod? on Full Featured Pocket Hard Drives? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If you can drop the 7200 RPM requirement just get an older iPod that supports firewire + usb.

  3. Re:Smart Robots? on South Korea To Develop Army and Police Robots · · Score: 1

    Ah, but we can always build more killbots. :D

  4. Re:Other issues on First Draft of GPL Version 3 Released · · Score: 2, Insightful
    "Please note that since source code will be available for any GPL "technological protection measure", it will be very much ineffective."


    Not necessarily.

    GNU Privacy Guard source is available but you'd have a hell of a time decrypting a message without the private key and passphrase. Truly usable DRM (i.e, the best of the evilest) would be perfectly save if the source is public. The keys would be the important thing. Then all you need is hardware that is Trusted(TM).
  5. Re:Mix It Up!!! on On the Matter of Slashdot Story Selection · · Score: 1

    One danger to not using nofollow tags on the submitters' link is that it may cause Google to manually discount slashdot.org as a pagerank source. In fact, if I were Google, I'd have already modified the spider that crawls slashdot to ignore the submitter's self-ref link.

  6. Re:This puppy is slow on New Aircraft is Part Blimp and Part Airplane · · Score: 1

    Demonstrated maximum crosswind component on a 747 is only 31 knots. With a crosswind that high you will use another runway.

  7. Re:Hard Drive Voodoo? on Seagate buys Maxtor for $1.9B · · Score: 1

    We've put a stop-ship on Maxtor drives after high field failures and learning that the DiamondMAX drives can be different sizes even with the same model number. Western Digital and Hitachi are our current favorites, but we may re-evaluate Seagate soon; two years ago there SATA drives did not do soft-sector remapping.

  8. Re:Carpal Tunnel Syndrome is sooo last week... on Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Unrelated to Typing? · · Score: 0, Offtopic
  9. Re:Those poor security people ... on Richard Stallman Accosted For Tinfoil Hat · · Score: 1

    Snakes on a Plane will kick its ass.

  10. Re:I applaud on Mega Bloks Wins Supreme Court Battle Against Lego · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Lego is actually not produced in the US anymore. Current production of bricks is in Denmark and Switzerland, with packaging occurring in Denmark, Switzerland, U.S., South Korea and the Czech Republic.

    The moulding machines are very expensive, and they mould their bricks to tolerances so high that you can use them in scientific optical experiments to hold lenses. This results in a high manufacturing cost; even with the high current cost of Lego, they're having a hard time turning a profit. In 2005, the LEGO Group reported a 2004 net loss of DKK 1.9 billion on a total turnover, including LEGO's amusement parks, of DKK 7,934 billion.

  11. Re:Should all government software be open source? on Florida DUI Law and Open Source · · Score: 1

    Couldn't they just make it so that the ticket you sign is also an NDA allowing you to examine the source if you so wish?

  12. We pay, no matter who pays on Schneier: Make Banks Responsible for Phishers · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I sent a nice email to Bruce, but I didn't keep a copy (sent through Wired).

    Basically, we already have this with CC numbers, it's almost no hassle at all to get unauthorized charges removed. Yet CC fraud still happens, if anything, even more widespread than before. The little 3 digit number on the back was nice, but does it really slow anything down? After all, that number is now part of the databases, just like the expiration date.

    So who pays for CC fraud? The CC company? No, they backcharge the merchant. Does the merchant pay? No, he raises costs for all his customers, either in hassle proving identity, or by raising costs.

    In the end the customer always pays, so we might as well make it easy for him to solve problems.

  13. San Diego Trolley kicks the Monorail's ass on Seattle Axes Monorail Project · · Score: 1

    The San Diego Trolley rocks and people actually ride it.

  14. Easy - second option; grandfather clause on How Would You Define a Planet? · · Score: 1

    Simply say that a planet is something big, etc, but Pluto gets to be a planet by a grandfather clause.

    Everyone's happy.

  15. Yes on Will You Stick with Apple, After the Switch? · · Score: 1

    And I will probably buy a Rev B Powerbook, too.

  16. Re:Someone say breakeven? on More Evidence for Tabletop Fusion · · Score: 1

    Uh, the largest nuclear device was 50 megatons. Google says: 50 * 4.2 * ((10^22) ergs) = 5.83333333 × 10^10 kilowatt hours, which is alot of energy: 58,333,333,300 kw/hrs is one quarter of the world's yearly electrical demand.

  17. Re:Dead tree on How Would You Archive Mounds of Genealogy Data? · · Score: 1

    Believe me, 20 year tapes are easy, if you used the QIC format. Just give Tandberg Data a call.

  18. Re:Recent visitor... on Roller Coaster Data Center · · Score: 1

    http://www.sixflags.com/parks/magicmountain/Rides/ DejaVu.html is designed for that - half the ride goes backward. It's mean.

  19. Re:Hardly X-Rated. Maybe R-Rated... on Airport Screeners could see X-rated X-rays · · Score: 1

    If this plane could fly I don't think a few windows missing is going to hurt.

  20. Re:Go ahead, block 25 on FTC Recommends ISPs Disconnect Spam Zombies · · Score: 4, Funny

    You'll then see trojans that say, "Call your ISP and ask them to unblock port 25 to see hot naked networks!"

    Bet your last dollar on it.

  21. Firefox extensions broke on my Powerbook on Firefox Growth Slowing? · · Score: 1

    For some reason, extensions refuse to load on my powerbook, giving me an error about mozilla/chrome permissions or some crap. I've deleted everything in sight, still does it.

    Safari is my browser now, for everything.

  22. Re:Oh, you mean, another problem? on File Sharing Difficulties Frustrate Tiger Admins · · Score: 1

    See if you have hide dot files enabled on the Samba server, as that may make the Finder confused, as it stores resource forks and whatnot it dot files.

    cp doesn't move the resource forks, in 10.3 at least. (I think).

  23. Re:Sounds like a great idea on The Unemployed Working on OSS Projects · · Score: 1

    You live in a strange little world, where months have much more than 4 weeks.

    40*4=160, not 1000.

  24. Re:Based on Monotone it seems on Torvalds Unveils New Linux Control System · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Heh. A quote:


    And rsync takes care of the network replication.


    So git, which had to be written because of something Tridge did, uses one of Tridge's programs. Whee!
  25. Re:Google did this a year ago on Google Search By Number · · Score: 1

    Of course not. A football field is an area, not a distance.