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  1. Re:International driver's license? on Connecticut To Store Biometric Information · · Score: 1

    I don't know much about them, but maybe you can get one of those.

    you can get one. the big trick is getting cops and others to recognise what they are, let alone accept them as identification. many people have never even heard of them.

  2. Re:So whats the problem? on Connecticut To Store Biometric Information · · Score: 1

    There is still the old argument that if you didn't do anything wrong, what do you have to worry about?

    of course. that's why nobody ever complained about having to carry national ID or internal passports in the old soviet union or south africa.

  3. Re:not buying it on Simulating Societies · · Score: 1

    The models described seem far too simple to describe something as complicated as society.

    quite so. but from the article it doesn't sound like the workers are trying to describe society, but rather to show how simple, even unconscious, individual behaviours can produce society-wide effects. making people aware of this would alone be a valuable contribution. too many people look only for superficial straight-line explanations for observed social structures.

  4. Re:Introspective Models on Simulating Societies · · Score: 1

    a "human" square would base it's rules on the squares next to it, BUT also on the makup of the board as a whole

    an important point made more than once in the article is that real humans, as distinct from those in traditional economic models, don't generally know the whole board.

  5. Re:So it will become more like ZDNet? on Updated Slashdot Advertising Policy · · Score: 1

    Those who can make you believe absurdities
    can make you commit atrocities


    it looks like they did make you believe an absurdity this fine april fool's day, so tell us, what atrocities are they talking you into? this could be fun!

  6. Re:What is Katz smoking THIS time? on The Post 9/11 Tech Boom · · Score: 1

    Silicon Valley is alive and well? Then how come so many tech geeks I know are unemployed or working at Starbucks, bookstores, etc.?

    if things are so bad, who's buying at starbucks, etc.?

  7. Intellicide on Intel Puts The Squeeze On ... A Yoga Foundation? · · Score: 1

    years ago, when intel introduced their "intel inside" logo, i created a version that read "intell-icide", as in killer of intellect. it is still applicable.

  8. Re:It was nice of them... on Yahoo Knows Best, Resets Users' Marketing Prefs · · Score: 1

    I left all my choices to yes and changed the email account to abuse@yahoo.com


    but that's the account for reporting non-yahoo spam, which they might actually do something about. we don't want to flood it out.
    better to use investor_relations@yahoo-inc.com.

  9. Re:Grammar on Ebert, Gillmor on the Music Industry · · Score: 1

    "it's" means "it is"
    "its" is the possessive form of "it"


    here's an easy way to remember it:
    his hers its
    he's she's it's

  10. Re:MS is screwed on this one on 25 More States Oppose MSFT Antitrust Dismissal · · Score: 1

    i wonder if MS has found a way to make their products addictive too.
    Isn't that what the MCSE training is for?

    ah yes, no doubt. IBM pioneered that trick in the old mainframe days.

  11. Re:I am utterly amazed.... on Heat-Conducting Carbon Foam · · Score: 2, Informative

    wrapping this around your fridge (back of the fridge in particular) will give you a really _hot_ kitchen

    it might make the fridge's heat exchanger slightly more efficient, but that just means the compressor won't need to run quite so long to cool the fridge, which in turn means the kitchen will get less hot, since the heat given of by a fridge comes mostly from the motor. the heat being moved from the inside came from the outside in the first place.

  12. Re:Heat sink shim? on Heat-Conducting Carbon Foam · · Score: 1

    It does nothing for cooling.
    it's nice if the shim is at least as conductive as the heat sink. this would seem to be, and being foam it will conform to the shape of the chip and the sink.

  13. Re:Is this really a good idea? on Beating the Spam Merchants · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure I like the idea of being responsible for mail I don't read.

    but they did read the messages he held them responsible for. they didn't read the whole message, but they did respond to it. that is communication, and if it wasn't intelligent communication on their part, well that's their problem.

  14. No chemists there... on Self-Heating Can · · Score: 1

    ... or thinkers of any sort. All over their site they say the can contains "crushed limestone", aka "calcium oxide", which is found all over the Earth. Now if it were so common, it would be coming into contact with water all the time, heating up, and changing into something else. So it would all be long gone, and not common at all.

    Calcium oxide is made from limestone. Here's some info. Limestone is calcium carbonate.
    I'm also curious about their claim that the CaO is combined with water. I'll bet there is something else in the water to make for an effective reaction.

    On one page, they say that calcium oxide is an approved food supplement. Given how nasty quicklime can be, I wonder if anyone here knows how to verify this?

  15. Re:Using forwarding on Yahoo! == less spam on Yahoo To Try To Charge For POP3 Services · · Score: 1

    This tells me that Yahoo! is _explicitly_ placing spam in there
    yes. when you sign up for their POP or forwarding service, you agree to take some spam from them.
    i never figured out how to distinguish this 'legit' spam from the rest of it, and just sent it all to spamcop regardless.

  16. Re:FUD FUD FUD!!!!!!!! on No More Unrestricted Internet At Work · · Score: 1

    No real management is going to take this seriously.

    there was a time when that was said of Windoze too.

  17. Re:Laptop security on Laptop Anti-Theft Devices · · Score: 1

    any person with an interest in my $2500 machine can come along with a pair of wire cutters and hack off the wire

    those wires are usually made of aircraft cable -- multi-stranded stainless steel. even with bolt cutters it takes a while to cut through; it doesn't just slice like the solid metal that wire and bolt cutters are made for.

  18. Re:I'm afraid to Slashdot a great site, but... on Computers Summarize the News · · Score: 1

    headline haikus are clever, but for a real challenge try doing acrostic sonnet headlines!

  19. Re:MS is screwed on this one on 25 More States Oppose MSFT Antitrust Dismissal · · Score: 1

    this is the proverbial tip of the iceburg, just like it was for Big Tobacco

    unfortunately, big tobacco is still going strong, and still advertising to kids, despite that multi-giga-buck settlement.

    i wonder if MS has found a way to make their products addictive too.

  20. Re:But what if I want to censor what I see? on The Futility of Censorship · · Score: 1

    I want to have good tools for limiting access to that kind of material. Isn't that permissible, or does your picture of "free speech" include jamming whatever content you feel like generating down my throat?
    nobody is suggesting that you may not install your own filters for your own surfing. but do you really want someone else to install filters beyond your control, perhaps without telling you that they are present, or what they filter?
    personally, if i were in charge of choosing filters for others, i would prevent the dissemination of religious ideas; they are an endless source of bloody conflict.

  21. Re:Let's hope these guys have a clue! on Antimatter Atoms Captured · · Score: 1

    In 1933 they had no data on matter-antimatter collisions. Now we have vast amounts.

  22. Re:Ok... on Antimatter Atoms Captured · · Score: 1

    How, exactly, do you store a neutral molecule of antimatter?

    Here's a way from Triumph. Use light pressure from lasers tuned to the type of atom to be stored.

  23. Re:King Crab on 2.5m Water Scorpion Stalks Southern Africa · · Score: 1

    Once out of the water, an exoskeleton can support much less weight
    so? they never do leave the water.

  24. Re:Why not x86 Linux inside of MacOS X instead? on Linux on the iMac G4 · · Score: 1

    With Mac OS X you already have a UNIX system available

    unfortunatly it is a rather old and limping unix.

  25. Re:Bujold on the consequences... on Lab Develops Artificial Womb · · Score: 1

    My mother was out of town on the day I was born, so she missed it

    seems an appropriately trivial consequence. people have a distressing tendency to make virtues of necessities, and then complain when the necessity is removed.