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  1. Re:woohoo! on Free Speech Movement Digital Archive · · Score: 1

    this is true. :)

  2. herm on Internet Speed Applied to Careers · · Score: 3

    This would look pretty interesting on this guy's next job application. When this guy writes about his previous job experience...and includes the dates of employment....

  3. iridium on Iridium Returns From The Dead. Again. · · Score: 2

    Iridium, like cheese, fine wine and MIR only gets better with age.

  4. Re:erm on Descrambling CSS w/ 7 Lines Of Perl A DMCA Violation? · · Score: 2

    I have both the "Got Decss" and the "Open DVDCCA" shirt from copyleft I also have a pic of me wearing the open dvd shirt at my website Just thought that would add a little reality to the above post. :)

  5. erm on Descrambling CSS w/ 7 Lines Of Perl A DMCA Violation? · · Score: 5

    if it was a violation, I am sure posting the script on /. is as well. :) This will make for a much better "Got DeCSS" shirt, because it will actually all fit on the shirt.

  6. Re:wow! on Slashback: Beetle, Reading, Streams · · Score: 2

    just the shell of the car would still be better than what I have now....(hint...no car)

  7. forwarding on More Australian Insanity: Forwarding Mail Illegal (updated) · · Score: 2

    I was just curious...why did they outlaw email forwarding but not gossip and rumors? Isn't someone going around telling other people a joke i told them just as bad as forwarding it on email?

    I know what I will do, I won't tell anyone any more jokes so they can't possibly tell them to anyone else! Or worse yet, so they can't forward them to anyone else.

  8. interesting on Online Journals · · Score: 2

    I would like to have an online journal or a rants page, but I end up wasting too much time editing my webpage and reuploading it and stuff that I tend to ignore it and only update it every now and then. Is there and easy, updateable through browser cgi script or something that I could use? I need something that is fairly simple to setup and use (slashcode is out. :) Just a little CGI script or something that would allow me to update my page through IE or netscape without any real hassle. Any ideas?

  9. blue LED on Replacing The LED In An Optical Mouse? · · Score: 2

    I saw on Flipse.com a nice mouse hack with a blue LED. It is really impressive and worth a click...it has pictures and steps along the way. Super neat. The URL is flipse.com/sam/mouse.html Have fun.

  10. weighted averages and stuff on Cal Schools May Nix SAT In Admissions Process · · Score: 2

    I think that the SATs are a fairly decent concept of what a person knows. Unfortunately, the SATs don't have anything to do with drive or laziness or logic and such...a person with a lot of book knowledge can score well on the SATs and not be able to do much of anything in real life.

    I personally like standardized tests, I generally do fairly well on them (above 1340 on PSATs and SATs, haven't taken SAT II yet) and i wish that school put more of an emphesis on them, simply because it would help me.

    I also have a problem with averages and weighted averages. I am in all honors classes at WAHS and i recieve pretty decent grades (A's and B's) but there are people in the "regular" classes that recieve higher grades than i do. However, my grades might not look as good to colleges as someone from those other classes. Our school does not use weighted averages, and I don't compare favorably to other people that have taken easier classes that I do. I don't know whether weighted averages would solve this or not, and as far as i am concerned..the only thing the honors classes really do for me is push up my class rank.

  11. what in the world? on Innovations in Space Launch Systems · · Score: 1

    I thought this was a joke at first with the "unobtainium" and all, but I have to admit, even though newscience has some very strange articles sometime, it looks as if an air breathing launch vehicle would be pretty neat. The ideas are somewhat sketchy, but it looks pretty interesting, I hope that NASA pursues this.

  12. herumph on Napster Users Being Arrested In Belgium · · Score: 1

    I only hope that these people that were arrested for using napster weren't also users of or addicts to PHP....that could be a deadly combination. (or is that pcp? doesn't matter, they would arrest you for it anyways)

  13. easy question on Ask the Man Behind the Legend - Cowboy Neal · · Score: 2

    Why did you choose "CowboyNeal" as your handle? I know everyone hates these questions and all...but really...why cowboyneal? whats up with that?

  14. Re:herm. on Privacy Invasion By Any Other Name · · Score: 1

    this is a bad day! geez! I just suck today. Prolly because i am currently on nyquil and quite sick. this one gets blamed on nyquil. I am not myself. Geez..

  15. Re:herm. on Privacy Invasion By Any Other Name · · Score: 1

    son of a gun! i wish i had previewed. :) /me adds a to the parent.

  16. herm. on Privacy Invasion By Any Other Name · · Score: 1

    from worries that the name Carnivore made the system sound like a predatory device made to invade people's privacy

    When I hear carnivore, I don't exactly think predatory device to invade people's privacy..I ussually think meat-eating. This is probably why the networks decided on the name "Barney" rather than T-Rex...


  17. wow on Spidergoats · · Score: 1

    first of all, I have to say that this article is very compelling and makes me really wonder what all this genetic engineering can do.

    second, when will this "goat thread" be available on the market? if ever? i would love a pair of goatthread pants or something...blocks bullets and won't wear out. :)

    thir of all, why does the date on the webpage read 02.19.01? is this even yet to happen? or is it a typo? or am i just delusional?

    last thing...i find it immensly amusing that slashdot will actually post a story that involves goats. :) I fear the trolling that will go on tonight.

  18. Re:broken link on Amicus Brief in DeCSS case · · Score: 2

    The link you are looking for would be cryptome.org

  19. the real problem is... on Amicus Brief in DeCSS case · · Score: 3

    I think the real problem is that not very many people are informed about what the MPAA is doing and what we can do about it....That is why I got the anti dvdcca shirt and the got decss shirt from copyleft. I get extremely strange looks in the halls, and when people question me about the shirt, I am able to tell them about the oppression from the MPAA and about decss and why source code is free speech and such things..I think if anything is going to be done, we need to get the word out.

    want to see the shirt in action? go here

  20. Tesla on 100 Years of Radio · · Score: 1

    I don't think that Tesla gets the credit he deserves for anything...including Alternating Current (AC), so...he should get credit for the radio to make up for the things he doesn't get credit for.....that makes sense...doesn't it? Maybe? even a smidgen? darn.

  21. cure for cancer? on Researchers Find Off Protein For Immune System · · Score: 1

    After reading the article and stuff, this looks a little more promising then the normal everyday "cure for cancer, savior for mankind" medical info. I think this is really neat...using our own immune system and proteins to potentiall ward of disease. I think this is cool...of course...because of the way our country is, there will prolly never be funding for research and development. :( It would have been nice if this had come a few years earlier...could have saved quite a few grandparents, especially mine.

  22. Re:When monopolies fight... on AOL IM Rival Pulls The Plug · · Score: 2

    or they will kill each other.....(that is what I am praying for) and a new company will rise up to take their place. Specifically iceball.net (that is my dream at least...)

  23. When monopolies fight... on AOL IM Rival Pulls The Plug · · Score: 2

    Wait...if AOL/timewarner/everything and Microsoft are feuding over this...should we be upset? THey are both huge companies!! They could destroy each other!!! /me prays!

    also...I found a typo..there-can-onlby-be-one dept.
    Hemos, how do you spell only? slow down on those keys! :)
    of course...by pointing out a spelling mistake, i have probably made several in this post....

  24. Re:The LoTR - Deviating from fantasy, becoming fac on LOTR Internet-Only Trailer · · Score: 2

    /me translates: What this person is saying, is that when we read the LOTR we each get our own personal understanding of the book in our imaginations. Everyone has their own little way of imagining hobbiton and frodo and gandalf and such. Everyone imagines them differently, and as soon as the movie comes out, each of our own perceptions of the books will be gone and we will all be forced to go with the "Group think" on the book. My father tells me that he doesn't want to go see the movie for that reason...once you see the movie, your imaginad LOTR land is partially destroyed.

    Personally, i don't care all that much...i like to see what other people imagined in the book, especially if they took 368 million dollars to find what it should look like.

  25. wow! on Slashback: Blockage, Stripes, Upswings · · Score: 2

    I am looking forward to The Matrix sequal more than ever now!! That's Two major injuries that are keeping actors from doing their job...and that is in TRAINING for the film! this is going to be one heckufan impressive film if the actors are getting injured just in training..there must be some pretty impressive stunts in this...Keanu breaking and ankle, and now Carrie Moss with a knee injury...I gotto say..I am looking forward to this movie even more now!