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  1. Re:$10 for 1280x1024 pictures on Walgreens PureDigital Camera Hacked · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Except that I have seen cameras of that quality for that price at target. No soldering required.

    They even came with some chicken shit software.

  2. Re:Such a simple fix.. on Silent Mice for Silent PCs? · · Score: 1

    HTML does not display <> :)

    try &#60 and &#62

  3. Re:One hell of a rush on Pigeons Faster than Internet · · Score: 1

    I would imagin the terminal velovity of a human pointing like a bullet is much higher then if you have your arms outstretched.

    Also. if you are horizontal you are much slower. I don't know if the arms outstreched was in that direction or not.

    Lastly. Of course a bird that is designed to dive can do so faster then a mammel designed to stand up strait.

  4. Re:Another fine example... on Japanese Analysts Not Hot On PSX · · Score: 1

    Cell is definatly not hype.

    We will be able to use the network to tap other peoples unused machines.

    We will definatly have UNLIMITED power for our games.

    How could you even think otherwise.

  5. Re:How does Warp Pipe differ from a basic VPN? on Warp Pipe On Linux, Mac Versions, Future Plans · · Score: 1

    Sounds like it should work to me.

    I did not examine anything though. I am just reposting what the people working on the project said about why a standard VPN would not work.

    I would also imagine that it is optimized for low latency more then a typical VPN though.

    If I were doing a project like this I would try to make it something like VPN over UDP as a start, but I don't really know.

  6. Re:How does Warp Pipe differ from a basic VPN? on Warp Pipe On Linux, Mac Versions, Future Plans · · Score: 2, Informative

    It searches for other cubes with a TTL of 1. So it is un-routable in the traditional sense. Something needs to take the packets and encapsolate them while ignoring the TTL.

    It is also probably hyper optomized for latency instead of reliability.

  7. Re:Could be a nice alternative.. on Australian Researchers Push Near-Broadband IP Over VHF · · Score: 1

    Offtopic, but you do realize that right after prices shoot up is usually a bad time to buy something.

    They never say buy high sell low you know.

    If you can afford the mortgage and want to own a house it's one thing. But now may not be the best time to buy for investment in your area if house prices have doubled in under a decade.

  8. Will they own your site? on Considerations When Accepting Bandwidth Donations? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    and all content ever created for it (even the content you don't own yourself).

    Linux Gazette forgot to ask those questions ansd it did not work out to well for them

  9. Re:Those that do on Outsourcing Winners and Losers · · Score: 1

    I just re-read my post and realized that the last line I wrote has some negative implications about you.

    I did not mean it that way at all.

    It was litterally wishing you luck because it is incredibly hard to be a teacher. And getting a job where you have any students that are any good is a stroke of luck (at least in my area).

    I would not wish upon anyone to get stuck ina bad teaching position, I would imagine that it is worse then garbage collection.

    Sorry if I caused any offense.

  10. Re:Those that do on Outsourcing Winners and Losers · · Score: 4, Interesting

    What you should do is learn to laugh at it.

    My favorite highschool teacher (calculus) would always reply with that when asked why he becaame a teacher.

    He was of course joking. The real reason was he did not want to fight in Vietnam and ended up likeing the job.

    If you cannot have a sense of humor about something like that I am sure the students will eat you alive.

    Also. Good luck. You'll probably need it.

  11. Re:just wondering on Cringley on E-voting · · Score: 2, Interesting

    because if it accuratly records the time of the vote you break anoniminity.

    When I heard about all the diebold stuff They said it kept everything time stamped as an audit trail. What I was listening to was talking about how it was an editable spread sheet so anybody could change it, but the first thing I though was, how is this anonymous?

    If you can pay an election official to record the time that people vots and what machine, and then use FOIA to get access to the slips when it is done. You can enforce voting the way you want it to.

    It breaks one of the most important parts of the election.

  12. Re:Grand Theft Auto on Sega Goes Crazy, Sues Fox, EA Over Taxi · · Score: 1

    To deliver the dudes you must work on shaving precious half second off your time.

    you can Crazy dash Crazy Dash hop crazy turn dash dash hop (you should be going diagonaly in a coundter clockwise direction only catching the corner of the middle) dash hop turn repeat.

    It says there is a shortcut too, but I was able to do it with half a second left with no tricks.

    Also, keep in mind that you want to be going slower into the final roof top. I would get there and run out of time before I stopped a lot.

    I forget which driver I used, but the correct driver is a big difference too.

  13. Re:my experiences on Games For Both Of Us? · · Score: 1

    This is like the third post mentioning ChuChu rocket.

    So I would like to point out the Mures is the same game for anybody with motivation to get it or mandrake (probably other distros) installed.

  14. Re:Definitely on Real Security? · · Score: 1

    well, I am faily happy with a dictionary times 6 (six agacent keys) with a few shifting patterns (at least another 4 times) plus a two digit number another 100 times (I actually use at least three since l0pht crack defaulted to 2 digits in the mutating crack).

    so it os 2400 times more secure then a dictionary word. that is assuming the offset is only one key. It may not be as bullet proof as random letter/number/symbol keys, but it is not too weak.

    "monkey" would actually be "K)Jo47"with something like !@# appended to it.

    (granted that the something stays fairly static weith different passwords, so if someone knew it, it would severly weaken my other passwords).

    I have nothing too particularly vital protected either. Hell, even my identity (SSN/Bank account info) is not worth all that much.

  15. Re:Definitely on Real Security? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I do something simalar.

    I take something easy, like a dictionary word.

    and offset all my letters.

    so "monkey"
    becomes "k0jo47"

    Also I shift the first 3 letters/numbers

    it becomes very reflexive bu is also easy to remember as a dicionary word.

  16. Re:Now what is that? on Breaking the Gigapixel Barrier · · Score: 1

    I'm guessing that web browsers probably have some limits on the size of images that they're capable of showing. I'd guess that it's probably easier to program an image viewer including hard limits on the size of the images. After all, how many people are going to try viewing images bigger than a few thousand pixels wide in their web browsers?

    With that kind of attitude nobody will be viewing pictures that size in their web browsers.

  17. Re:Me too, I'm sick of this on On Nintendo And Marketing Myopia · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I thought the same thing as you.

    I went to buy a game boy advanced, but for just a little bit more (99) I could buy a pportable system that was also and MP3 player, a cell phone, had network games, had blue tooth, could save games to a flash card. It was awsome.

    wait, no. The nGage sucks ass. I have a diskman, I have a good cell phone. And I don't want to play lan games on the bus, dealing with assholes at work is bad enough.

    I would also imagine that the saturation of DVD players is high enough that it is not a selling point. And I am skeptical that any console will have a PVR as good as Tivo's (unless they liscense from Tivo, that would be an add on I would want).

    Today at Walmart (I lie it was Friday) they had cheapo DVD players for 30 dollors. The last DVD player I bought was good, and it still broke quickly, so cheapo is good enough now. I would also doubt that this all in one machine has anything it is good at (I no the multi function faxes suck) 80 dollors is a large premium on a 30 dollor device. the thought that the built in DVD meant anything past the first season is rediculous.

  18. Re:Lower prices on Game Piracy Results in Lower Prices? · · Score: 1

    or maybe they have already proffited. so they can produce them and make money as easily as the pirates at this point.

  19. Re:Interesting... on WarCraft Board Game Compared, Rated · · Score: 1

    hmmm.

    It was moderated +2

    and now you may get yet anopther post modded up.

    You pulled it off perfectly.

  20. Re:VR FPS & invisibility on Human Pac Man · · Score: 1

    I agree.

    If there were no lawyers except for corporate to corporate litigation things would probably be much more fair.

    like a giant small claims court.

  21. Re:Battle of resources, not facts on Microsoft Drags Feet with Settlement Claims · · Score: 1

    Judging by the size of the original controller..

    really really big adults.

  22. Re:VR FPS & invisibility on Human Pac Man · · Score: 1

    In America it is a right to sue. A right that cannot be thrown away by any contract.

    Sueing does not mean winning though. SCO is sueing IBM for example.

    We can sue people because it is generaly understood that not every grievance is criminal.

    If a waiver is bulletproof you will not win the case. It will be a matter of a paper that ypou signed saying you took responsibility for any harm coming to you and therefore the company owes you nothing.

  23. Re:Not just a game on Doom 3 - Definitely Worth The Wait? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Do you realize what completly free means on /.?

    I would definatly call it cost free.
    because there is much more completeness to freedom then cost.

  24. Re:Double standard? on Man Arrested for 'Spam Rage' · · Score: 1

    Guess you need a better ISP then.

    I get spamassassin applied server side with flex.com and dca.net

    one is at work and the other personal.

    I find it hard to believe if both these fairly obscure ISPs filter for free it is that rare of a thing.

    I didn't go looking for them, this is totally random picking (well one is local, and the other is cheap).

    I like the spamassassin so much that I pay 10 dollors a month for essentially a POP account with flex, I only dial in a a few months out of the year (business).

  25. Re:Nothing better to do on RIAA Threatens 15-Year-Old · · Score: 1

    I would probably mispell twat.

    In my defense on the nick I was real real yung when I made it. And the fact that it was mispelled is probably why it was available.

    I am about 75% sure that the word shitty I would spell with an ey at the end too.