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  1. excellent on System Exploitable With USB · · Score: 1

    now i can convince my wife she can be a hacker too

    me: "yes honey....just plug this device over here.....yup..u just hacked the system...congrats"
    she: "this is l33t"

  2. RIAA on Cybernetic System to Allow Physical Interaction · · Score: 1

    "Where did you get that music from!!!"
    WHHAAAAAMMMM!!!!!

  3. Ahhmm!! on Iron Council · · Score: 3, Funny

    "been a while since I wrote any suitable for Slashdot"

    Man, any thing is suitable for /., looks like you are new here...

    You can just say "been a while since i wrote anyting"

  4. Re:Awesome on IBM to Help UAE Track Drivers on the Road · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Well after living there for over 12 years, travelled all over Europe, USA, i would rather drive there... where you can get jailed for breaking a light, highways are well equipped than any other place i have ever been to..., and ppl can try for years to earn their driver license because the tests are so tough..

    So please, lets not stereo type each other, shall we..

    P.S: i am not a citizen of UAE, not do i live there any more.

  5. why dont you look at it the other way round on Pentagon to Significantly Cut CS Research · · Score: 0

    They might be cutting budgest from CS, thats true, but they are still spending it other things, and according to him, from TA "will pay off immediately"...

    Maybe they are working on a new technology (i know, which we wont see for the next 10 years), that will be available...
    At least i hope that is the situation

  6. I think its a good effort, well placed on AutoPackaging for Linux · · Score: 1

    Been using linux for several years, on several distros, i can use rpm, apt-get, no problems, they are prety reliable if you are technical enough to know what you are doing.
    But the problem here is someone like my sis, who doesnt bother to know all the -ivh flags to install her basic moral chat needs.

  7. Ask your self instead on Alzheimer's Plaques Imaged in Living Brains · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Do you wanna know you have Aids, if you cannot be treated?

    Do you wanna know you have cancer, if you cannot be treated?

    Excuse me, but the question " Do you really want to know early that you have Alzheimer disease, as there is no effective treatment yet?"" is not a very smart one.

  8. I use on How Are You Conserving Energy? · · Score: 1

    my monitors for light, and my processors to make coffee...

  9. ohhhh on Microsoft Ponders Shared-Sourcing SQL Server · · Score: 1

    you mean the source code that originally belonged to Sybase

  10. Re:Paying on If The Problem Persists, Reboot The Car · · Score: 1

    What do you mean by "I dont care if i have to reboot my car".... i just hope you DONT have to reboot it while doing 140 Km/h.

    "Yeah honey, will you please hold the wheel while i reach for the reset button"

  11. I have been using skype on Skype For Mac OS X and Linux · · Score: 1

    for over a year now on my windows machine, and have installed it about a month ago for Linux.
    I would say, its sound quality is not that great, but its not bad, it does the job(Maybe the quality is down cause of my firewall??).
    Overall, its practical, easy to use/install, interface is neat, (a few memory leaks though, so watch out, it will eat up you resources, it did for me)
    Personally, i like it., espically that my wife got a windows machine, and i mostly run on linux, so lately i dont have to reboot into windows to talk to her.

  12. And when a server goes down on Verizon and Microsoft Partner for IPTV · · Score: 1

    I neither have the 3 standard TV signals, nor the 1 HD channel, nor my high-speed Internet connection.
    I have nothing, becuase someone installed something he shouldnt have.

  13. Good move on IBM Opens Their Patent Portfolio to Open Source · · Score: 1

    But if any body read the actual patents , you will realize that all of them are OS patents, espically when it comes to multiprocessing.
    To be honest, I think this is somehow related to that SCO case crap, they are trying somehow to piss them off, by telling them "You dont sue us, CAUSE ALL YOUR BASE IS BELONG TO US ....."

  14. If i am not mistaken on Google Exposes Web Surveillance Cams · · Score: 1

    This could be done in any other web search engine, not only google.
    Here are hotbot results. The first result is a webapge with links to most of the cams...

    Besides searching for a part of the URL is a very old trick in search engines, any search engine theortically should do the same thing.

  15. Re:We got banned! on How Company Employees Use The Web · · Score: 1

    Actually i am facing the same problem. My provider is bacnned on /. (i dont know why)... i am writing this from work

  16. When on When Do You Read the Instructions? · · Score: 1

    I read the article, i am going to read the instructions.

  17. Too bad the story on Porn Site Sues Google Over Linked Images · · Score: 1

    doesnt have pics though

  18. Re:GPL 3 Now Contains Flouride! on GPL Revision Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    precious bodily fluids

    I think you had too much to drink..

  19. I dont mean on 3D Display Hardware/Software Solution? · · Score: 1

    to troll here or anyting, but dont you think a few pics and a link with extensive description of your scenario would have made it a little bit easier for the intersted audience to give you feedback...

    just a thought you know.

  20. This book has be reviewed here on Intro to Encryption · · Score: 1



    on slashdot

    But the parent submission has the advantage of the book being free, so it is good if you are new to cryptography and want to get your feet wet.

  21. I didnt read TFA, but... on Where Is Sun Going With Linux? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    from my own experience at work:

    We have several clusters from work from different vendors, Sun for starters, IBM, SGI, Dell.
    The worst and the one with more downtime nodes and most incosistent is the Sun nodes. They were the first we bought, and their problems made us automatically switch to other vendors.

    Their first reply was :"You guys are sure you dont wanna go back to Solaris??!!"

    So personally i was not impressed, and i assume they are only going with linux because if they didnt, they are gonna miss the train.

  22. Great on Microsoft To Launch Homegrown Search Engine · · Score: 0, Troll

    Now we can have a blue screen (BSOD) on my browser, as if the OS wasnt enough.

  23. Re:Is it worth the price? on Clothing For Gadget Guys · · Score: 2, Funny

    I can buy a nice trenchcoat (personal style, they don't have it) and sew interior black pockets for almost nothing.

    Do you by any chance use Genetoo?

  24. Re:Weight on Clothing For Gadget Guys · · Score: 1

    As far as womens clothing, have you ever seen a dress with pockets? Or shirts for women with shirtpockets? Not that they'd necessarily make dresses for women, but it shows the point: you don't get a lot of pockets on dresses. And yet, somehow, womens clothing is often more expensive.

    Actually when i come to think of it, the less women clothing has of anything, the more expensive it becomes. Which is quite contradicitive to the "it has raw material which cost us..." theory.Pretty funny

  25. Re:A legit question on Open Source SpeedShop Project Opened · · Score: 1

    Actually we do have Linux/IA64 gear from SGI