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  1. You will never see around the corner, 'cause: on Seeing Around Corners With Dual Photography · · Score: 3, Interesting

    1. Reverse transformation for any interesting case (note that no places are actually revealed on their example!) will always be close to singular, that means in practice that your noises (due to raster, finite precision, and just measurement error) will eat any signal in result.

    2. You should know not only amplitude, but *phase* of the source signal, that means for light that you have to use coherent light source and utilize interference on the receiver.

    1 + 2 = holography, so what is new?

    (Read the article, but still downloading the movie)

  2. Mod, oh MOD PARENT UP! on Google Accelerator: Be Careful Where You Browse · · Score: 1
    Other issues with form POSTing include the inability to use the back button after POSTing.

    Huh? Works fine here.
    Just one thing for those didn't get this one: you should always return Location: header when replying to POST.
  3. or is it? on From Carnivore to Herbivore · · Score: 1

    My job superior can sleep 20 hours per day, while I can only sleep 6.

  4. Re:MSFT will say no on Petition To Get OS/2 Open Source · · Score: 2

    Exactly, and more than that, parts added (ported from AIX to be precise) solely by IBM, like JFS or modern TCP/IP stack, were already released for Linux, so I think IBM did whatever it could.

    In fact this question is almost as old os OS/2 itself and the answer is well known, so very strange it reappeared again.

  5. Wow, this was slashdotted with zero comments on Playboy on Playstation Portable · · Score: 1

    RTFS

  6. Re:You don't need their phone number - just use an on How Motherboards Are Made · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    So my message somehow became offtopic despite both parent and reply are +5 Funny? (doesn't it mean I should have been ROFL from each joke?) I'M probably new here...

    (feel free to mod this bitching down, thank you)

  7. You don't need their phone number - just use any on How Motherboards Are Made · · Score: 1, Interesting

    If you ever been to Taiwan you'd know most girls there look absolutely great (it's not only me noticing this). I don't know how did they achieve it.

  8. Does posting the same link twice in one story on How Motherboards Are Made · · Score: 0, Troll

    mean they'd be no dupe? Or is it like modern computer architectures being multiway both via multicore and multichip at the same time? (Or is it only me loading all story links in new background tabs first?)

  9. Let me guess on World's Smallest Linux Box Fits in RJ-45 Jack · · Score: 1

    Wireless version will take no space, and will consume power directly from the air. Just put it anywhere near the microwave or keep it close to your cellphone... but how do you keep something those dimensions are zero?

  10. Nonsense on File Systems for Electronic Surveillance Devices? · · Score: 1

    It's HIM (well, her) who owns copyright on data recorded there.

  11. I never see this button on 'Online Poker' Googlebomb · · Score: 1

    Because I never see the start page - I type my query either in Mozilla urlbar or in search results form. Before Mozilla I used 'Luck of the Irish' a lot.

  12. Of course - good example doesn't hurt any argument on MS Files for Broad XML/Word-processing Patent in NZ · · Score: 1

    RTFS

  13. Did you mean? on Visual Basic Developers Revolt Against Microsoft · · Score: 2, Funny

    Slashdot readers have even less respect for whiny VB programmers than for Microsoft!

  14. I believe "programmers" should have been quoted on Visual Basic Developers Revolt Against Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Unlike most people here I have been actually writing on VB professionally (and I even admit it - +2 points in HT! :)), I can say you really don't have to put a number before each line, and variables can be longer than one character, but still it's good old basic (project had to be rewritten on Pascal after all). So I doubt there's anything useful for human kind among mentioned millions of Visual Basic 6 (VB6) applications and "strand" programmers. However I doubt anything usefil will be written on VB .Net or any other kind of VB either.

  15. Apparently MS's having problems with defect rate on Microsoft to Offer Patches to U.S. Govt. First · · Score: 1

    because patches are getting twice larger every two years, but compression technology does not keep up.

    In other news: Intel acknowledges the biggest treat to it's leading position on marked is free processors; calls everyone using them communist.

  16. Great thing if you use public transport a lot on Uses and Software for a Modern PocketPC PDA? · · Score: 2, Informative

    That's what I have on my Palm (should I say sorry for not having MS Windows?):
    1. MP3 player!
    2. Readers for various formats. I've got applications for PDF, MS Office formats, e-books. Acrobat is especially useful since you can make PDF of anything.
    3. Language dictionaries when you're abroad (I permanently am).
    4. References like periodic table and physical constants, if you're in it.

  17. As often happens, ad well matches the topic on EU Software Patent Directive Adopted · · Score: 1

    That's what I'm seeing:

    "Does Linux add up to lower TCO? Ask the experts. Although Linux is nominally free, the overall costs fat outweigh the initial savings. (Micro$oft. Get the facts.)" They only have to add "You see - we are working on it."

    Although it's strange - even large software companies in Europe are small compared to US giants, so latter will get most patents. Who might want it? American companies cannot fund EU political parties, true?

  18. Do you mean 160 megabytes or kilobytes??? on Invisible Malware Install 65MB Large · · Score: 1

    I cannot believe one have to insert more than hundred high-density floppies just to run the text-based browser. This Microsoft's super environment of the future called .Net only weights 65 Mb, so it's said in the article.

  19. Re:Tell your DSL company you want a bandwidth cap on Invisible Malware Install 65MB Large · · Score: 1

    What? You should be browsing so fast, I have to load images one by one with my 2400 modem, otherwise sites drop connections because of time-outs. And all these sites have 'text-only' link so far away from start of the file!

    Also, I've heard about some text-only browser called links (or linx?), but can someone please tell me how big it's to download before I begin a search quest for it.

  20. Re:whoever wrote this article on Invisible Malware Install 65MB Large · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I didn't write this article, however you might need to learn some things:

    1. Managed environment (like Sun JRE or MS CRT) has nothing to do with access security in your system. If you think Java programs can do you no harm you're in big trouble - standalone Java programs have as much access to your system as any other programs you may run (it's browser applets that live in sandboxes and more or less safe).

    Managed code programs written by novice programmers are presumably harder to be break themselves than say C programs written by same-level programmers. But it doesn't do anything to prevent them being malicious by design.

    2. All firewall does is it closes external network ports you might have left open, optionally it can replace part of your operating system's network functionality in a hope it's own code has less bugs than one of your OS. That's why to some point personal firewall is something shouldn't have existed should everything were done right. Firewall should not prevent you from browsing any sites, downloading and installing any programs - from your side it must be transparent.

    Resume: Nothing will stop you from shooting yourself in the foot if you really want to.

    > I'm sure I'm not the only /.'er who feels this way.
    I hope not, these were "News for nerds" some day.

  21. Re:Big Deal - Javascript!! on 42nd Mersenne Prime Confirmed · · Score: 1

    Interestingly if JavaScript features string arithmetics like REXX does, it's not a worst language to choose - after all special packages like Maple V work the same way.

    Could not find square root complexity in the net (we all know it's just 1, even not so long one these days :)), but let it be N multiplications from some hints, therefore N^3 for operation, checking N^0.5 remainders is lower order of magnitude (the algorithm is deadly inefficient, but low in memory consuming). Thus you'll have to wait 3E27 iterations, or (1 microsecond per iteration) 118272929675906 years. Just don't forget to buy UPS before starting and replace batteries on time.

  22. This is a dupe! on First Launch of new heavy-lift Ariane 5 rocket · · Score: 3, Informative

    02/12 version of this story got mysterious lost, but thanks to redundancy on slashdot it finally reached us now just two days later.

  23. Slashdot title is strongly misleading on First National Bank of Omaha throws Sun Out · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Bank throws out Sun not in favor of Linux, but in favor IBM zSeries mainframe and other IBM's big and small iron. Since words "ibm NEAR cheap" never returned many matches in search (you know the famous "IBM hardware is slow, but expensive"), it's probably an example of some special deal, not a tendency. Nothing to see here... but, probably, "bank managers know how to earn money"?

  24. Re:Stereotypes on Hondas in Space · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This is not an automotive site, but H12 have some issues against L4 or even V6 by design. And any work with H12 will cost you much more as well, even without Ferrary price tag. (I'm not talking about people buying used sport cars for a penny now.) Trying to make service more rare will once again make parts more expensive, there's no exit. So still design goals do mean something.

    To the rockets - think of mass production is always cheaper per unit, but more expensive in total. If you spend country budget it is one thing, if you sell to a market - it's another. Trick here is to create a market.

  25. In fact it sometimes works better without on Who Doesn't Use Source Control? · · Score: 0

    I worked in a company without any version control (~10 of people), with version control (the real one, but not M$ :)), and using version control for some projects and not using for other (~50 of people). I don't remember someone's update breaking other people's stuff without version control, but with one it happens almost every time :).

    Actually you can think of not using version control as of checking out and in all the files every time, while with version control you might have an illusion you can change just this one file without looking into the rest. But even without version control you should maintain complete history of course.