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  1. Re:Not T-Mobile on Ask Slashdot: Best Data Provider When Traveling In the US? · · Score: 1

    roammobility used to be awesome, but now they are completely useless in most big cities. These days, I just go into AT&T and buy a 45 dollar prepaid.

  2. Deleted your facebook account? Check your pics! on Facebook's New Terms of Service · · Score: 1

    I deleted my facebook account 6 months ago by emailing them. Sure enough my account was deleted. However, to this day I can still view my pictures using the direct links intended for non members to view your pics. I've emailed them a few times and have received 3 different replies. First was that it would take time and eventually my pictures would go away. Second explanation was that my pictures would never go away. Third reply refuted the second reply and basically told me to be patient as they would eventually go away. I'm still waiting and I suspect what they have told me is pure horseshit.

  3. WTF? on BitTorrent For Enterprise File Distribution? · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Is BitTorrent an appropriate protocol for file distribution in the business sector?

    WTF does the business sector have ANYTHING to do with what protocol you use?? The business wont give a crap if you used smoke signals, as long as they get their shit when they need it.

    I could imagine a homebrew tracker, with uTorrent and an RSS feed at each site, but that sounds a little too patchwork to fly by the CIO

    Go to the kitchen, get the dullest butter knife you can find, and then try your hardest to slit your left wrist. Grind as hard as you can. If you dont see bone, keep trying. Try harder. Did ya really need to submit an article to figure this out??

  4. Re:I am seeing Myth working here.... on Simple, Stand-Alone Internet Communication Devices? · · Score: 1

    mythtv for this?? LOL He wants something simple! What part of that didnt you get?? I don't need to elaborate any further.

  5. Re:Nephew? Son? on Father and Son Pro Gamer Team Wins Halo Tourney · · Score: 1

    Gah. I swear I pressed that "C" key. :(

  6. Re:Nephew? Son? on Father and Son Pro Gamer Team Wins Halo Tourney · · Score: 3, Funny

    It doesnt matter. As long as you dont see the words "catholi priest".

  7. Re:Hacking? on Google Plans to Offer Free WiFi in San Francisco · · Score: 1

    If they are smart, they will deploy AP's with layer 2 client isolation (AKA wireless client isolation) which effectively kills any client to client traffic through the access point or access gateway.

  8. WalMart of WiFi on Google Plans to Offer Free WiFi in San Francisco · · Score: 1, Insightful

    This will kill all the little mom and pops wifi offerrings. Alot of them have thrived by being creative (ie. free access for foot traffic) but this will surely change things.

  9. HMmmmm on FreeBSD Based Gaming Router · · Score: 1

    So... a person that really has a need for such a 'gaming router' is just gonna pick up bunch of parts and slap a freebsd box together.

    Yhea right! ;)

    Save themselves and their techy friends some trouble and have them go buy that router :)

  10. Close... on DS Wifi Bounty Set · · Score: 2, Informative


    This has been out for a while (last april):http://users.belgacom.net/bn967347/

    Here's another explanation: http://www.aaronrogers.com/nintendods/wifime.php

    and also of DS interest: http://ds.darkain.com/hack/

  11. Do it the old fashioned way on Online Backup Solutions? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Create backups, then take them home with you if possible. Doing online backups leaves you at the mercy of the provider.

  12. Re:Techdirt article on xMax on 'Whispering' Wireless Internet · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Best quote from that article:

    Instead, they quote the technology's inventor and the executive chairman of the company, while a man presented just as "an electrical engineering professor at Princeton University" actually sits on the company's board of advisors. None of these three, of course, have a vested interest in pumping up this new technology.

  13. Re:Great on Arizona School Won't Use Textbooks · · Score: 1

    you'll notice the inherent benefits of ebooks, such as quick searching, hyperlinks to related articles, etc.

    These will also be the greatest distractions to the kids.

  14. IMAX movies make me want to puke on Big Screen Viewing Effect For Mobile Phone Videos · · Score: 2, Insightful


    Having larger than life moving pictures in front of me makes me really motion sick.

    I'm guessing that these things will have similar effects.

  15. Reinstall? on EA's Advice is to Uninstall Battlefield 2 · · Score: 1
    Even though its just a reinstall and it wont wipe out your data its still a pain the ass.

    It takes forever to reinstall all 3 discs of this game.

  16. C++0x? on Stroustrup on the Future of C++ · · Score: 2, Funny


    Perfect opportunity to come up with a decent name but nope, geekiness prevails and the best he can do is: C++0x

  17. AMD on Speculation on Real Reasons Behind Apple Switch · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "Intel CPUs, and that by doing so, they will gain the same kinds of discounts that Dell get. If price of cpu's were really such a big factor, AMD might have been alot more willing to offer discounts than Intel.

  18. NASA TV on T-43 Hours and Counting · · Score: 2, Informative

    NASA TV certainly has come a long way since the days of CUSeeMe rooms. Anyone remember those?

  19. Many of your answers on Back and Forth Between Qwerty and Dvorak? · · Score: 4, Informative
    Many of your answers can be found in a previous discussion:

    http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/ 14/126222&tid=227

  20. THIS IS THE SAME JBOSS on JBoss Founder Hard-Nosed About Open Source · · Score: 3, Informative
    This is the same jboss that had its core set of developer walk out on Fleury a couple years ago:

    http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/04/22 12228&tid=108

    And yhea its the Inquirer but still worth a read:

    http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9504

    JAVA DEVELOPER'S JOURNAL Editor-in-chief Alan Williamson has recently awarded Marc Fleury with the title "JBoss's own worst enemy" in his blog (http://alan.blog-city.com/readblog.cfm?BID=77874) . It appears that there were some polling inconsistencies with the JDJ awards and that the JBoss Group's CEO gave Williamson quite the verbal lashing in a letter earlier this week. Williamson reacted by publishing Fleury's email in his blog.

  21. Its true what he says on JBoss Founder Hard-Nosed About Open Source · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There really is no such thing as a free lunch and where the rubber meets the road, it comes down to the bucks. However, it certainly makes him look like a knob to piss on very things that have helped him get to where he is now. Dude needs to chillax and smoke a bowl I say.

  22. How much?? on Self-Heating Coffee Hacking · · Score: 2

    Anyone know how much one of these things cost? Do is it even taste good? I cant imagine it would be any better than any other instant coffee.

  23. Old news but... on Nintendo Gives No Ground In Handheld Wars · · Score: 1, Informative

    The DS has already been somewhat hacked: http://users.belgacom.net/bn967347/

  24. Linksys WET11 on Shacktopus: Behemoth in a Pack · · Score: 1

    He's using a hacked version 1 WET 11 for the Access point.

    Basically its a replacement of the stock radio with a 200mW Senao card. You can see here: http://shacktopus.com/hacks/senao-wet11.html

    The one thing I see odd is that he is using both of the antenna jacks on the Senao card which were meant to be used in diversity mode with matched antennas. He is using a rubber duck on one and a directonal on the other.

    I know that there are numerous different diversity modes but my experience with this particular Senao card (prism 2.5 chipset) is that you are better off using a single antenna on the main connector (left connector when viewd with sockets facing down)

  25. FCV's on Fuel-cell Vehicles for Americans · · Score: 3, Informative

    Good explanation of alternative fuel vehicles here: http://www.midamericanenergy.com/eew/more/alt.html

    Here's a good snippet regarding Fuel Cells:

    FCVs are twice as efficient as gasoline or diesel engines, and they produce no pollutants or carbon dioxide. The only tailpipe emission is water vapor. The biggest challenge now facing the developers of FCVs is where to get the hydrogen.

    Hydrogen is plentiful in fossil fuels such as methane and natural gas. At the present time, fossil fuels are the most convenient source of hydrogen. But using fossil fuels to produce hydrogen creates pollution and adds to the consumption of nonrenewable resources