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  1. Re:aDur on House Paint Foils Wardrivers · · Score: 1

    Then use this RF blocking paint to paint the medical equipment. They surcharge the payphones in the hospitals because people aren't allowed to use cellphones in there.

    Instead, I go outside on the sidewalk, near a treatment room window, and use my phone there. Less than 10 feet from the equipment. In the lobby, I'd be more than 30 feet from the equipment.

  2. Where's Starcade? on G4 Drops TechTV Name · · Score: 1

    It was great when G4 showed it when they were a standalone channel. Will G4 ever play it again? They can add it somewhere within the Cheat, Judgement Day, Cinematech, ad nauseum rotation.

  3. Re:Legal Tender on Where's My 10 Ghz PC? · · Score: 1

    I thought they used the Bend Over Barter System.

  4. Legal Tender on Where's My 10 Ghz PC? · · Score: 1, Funny

    we now have to come up with some concurrency, but all I have is dollars... What gives

    CONcurrency is short for Confederate Currency. Your ancestors used the old notes to light cigars after the Civil War.

    Then again, you might need to use laundered money. That's also called concurrency.

  5. Re:Umm.... on Security Issues in Mozilla · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Partially related to that concept, I was using an XP system (no SP2 installed) where I didn't have admin rights. I was looking for a file that was in another user's documents folder. The operating system prevented me from browsing the folder through Explorer.

    When I did a Search for the file, the search window gladly displayed the file in question (from their documents folder) and allowed me to copy it to my documents folder.

  6. Discrete Destruction on Intel Researchers Build Laser on Chip · · Score: 1

    Does this mean that overclocking them won't make them explode?

    Instead, a precision hole will be burned through the casing from the cranked up laser.

  7. Pick One on Intel Researchers Build Laser on Chip · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ( ) FP
    ( ) Second Post
    ( ) Third Post
    ( ) None of the above

  8. Random 4 Letter Names on Last Manufacturer of Pro Analog Audio Tape Closes · · Score: 2, Funny
    From the post: the former BASF, which used to be AGFA


    The company will just change names and start over again. The new name will actually be....


    (..pulls four scrabble tiles at random..)


    QMAZ!!!


    Holy Cow! Triple Word Score!!

  9. Re:Linux : Hoax, or Suck? on Y2K: Hoax, Or Averted Disaster? · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Congratulations, Idiot. You finally created a troll post that I'm willing to respond to.



    How to install a network card driver in Linux:

    1. Install Mandrake 10.1
    2. ??????
    3. Profit!!!!! (and enjoy out of the box wireless networking in Linux)
  10. Re:Something doesn't seem right.... on A Pizza Box for Your Laptop · · Score: 1
    Something about a link to "Fictional Products" on the top of the page doesn't exactly instill confidence in the product.

    Yes, but the links to make a PayPal transaction for one of them seems very real.

  11. Re:self-correcting problem on Welcome to the Future of DRM Media · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Close....

    Sure, people don't have to buy the movie if they don't like the DRM involved. But they had better make a lot of noise about it if that's the reason.

    The movie industry can write off a movie that fails to sell, for whatever reason. They'll just assume that people simply dislike the movie. There's always another movie to take it's place.

    You need to add the shout out (however it can get to the movie industry) that the sole reason for not buying it is the DRM.

  12. Re:Higher resolution image? on Firefox New York Times Ad Hits the Presses · · Score: 1

    I was lucky enough to have a Commodore +4 when I was about 5 or 6 so grew up with computers

    It's better that a cursed Commodore -2

    The ones where all the TED chips kept going bad....

  13. SharpDevelop on Delphi Renaissance · · Score: 1

    This is the first I've heard of SharpDevelop.

    Other than what I can find at their website, has anyone had practical experience creating and distributing an app using only SharpDevelop?

  14. Re:How to annoy phishers on Fishing for Phishers · · Score: 2, Informative

    Slashdot moderators rejected an article I sent in over a month ago about this very concept.

    A lot of times, you can send a URL encoded request (GET Request) to fill in bogus data from the address line. I've happliy sent random values to these seedy servers with a small bash script using lynx.

    I suggested that one or more popular websites add a new 'banner ad' whose image location is a properly formed URL to submit a random value to a known phishing server. As people come by the site, a new request is sent to the phishing server on their behalf and floods the phishing server with bogus data coming from many locations. Of course, you may get a red X in the banner image, but who cares. Maybe have it a user optional response. The banner ad could read "Fight Internet Scams, Click here to vote."

    Until such a time, I usually have fun overloading the form fields with typographic or unprintable characters well over the string length coded in the form. Hopefully, I cause havoc with their databases when I do that.

  15. Re:Go Kerry! on Election Day Discussion · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Are you sure you're not one of those undecided voter?

    So, what's wrong with undecided voters?

    It's so easy to make that blanket statement and fail to properly identify the classifications of undecided voters (UVs).

    You were probably referring to the Apathetic UV who couldn't care less about anything but simply fufilling their civic duty and pulling some levers. Some wouldn't even care if they decided their vote based on a coin toss, only to have discovered later that someone slipped them a double headed coin.

    Then there's the UVs which listen to all the rhetoric coming from the candidates, looking for consistencies in their campaign speeches, in order to make the the most informed decision as they can under the circumstances. "The lesser of two evils" is their motto. Most of these UVs reject candidate statements more often than a Slashdot moderator does with submitted stories. The remaining statements are mulled over day and night until they arrive at the voting booth on election day between 7PM and 8PM.

    The thing with UVs is that they aren't really counted on pre election polls. This makes party hardliners, or "decided" voters, a little wary of the outcome.

  16. Re:correction on Greatest Equations Ever · · Score: 1

    And the word problems that created them.

    For example (participants modernized from early '70s version)

    142 Iraqis and 154 Saudis were fighting over 69 oil wells for 5 years. Who got the oil?

    Calculation:

    Key in 142 154 69 and multiply by 5

    Hit Equals and turn upside-down

  17. Re:At least it is a step up on Spitzer Takes On Record Industry Payola · · Score: 1

    The real problem is, if you don't feel like interacting with a particular staff member (paid or not) at a business, you can ask someone else, or wait till they go on a bathroom break.

    It doesn't work in this case, does it?

    I generally tip the attendant if I notice they are keeping up on cleanliness. If they are sitting there saying hi/bye, and there's water and soap scum all over the countertop, they don't get a tip. Not to be picky, but you can usually notice if a public restroom is being kept up on.

  18. Re:At least it is a step up on Spitzer Takes On Record Industry Payola · · Score: 1

    The DJ got money because most dancers don't care to make up their own music mix. therefore, services rendered.

    The house got 10% to KEEP QUIET to the IRS about the income she was making.

    Was a 1099 even filled out? Meanwhile, Uncle SAM still pests independent workers for the extra self-employment tax when we make money and are not official employees of the company we do work for.

  19. Re:Live Update on MyDoom Seeks to Destroy Antivirus Firms · · Score: 1

    Tell me about it....

    Ever since I installed NAV on an XP system I'm using, the boot time went from 30 seconds to well over three minutes. I swear it must scan EVERY file that gets opened, including the registry (which gets accessed a lot during a programming session).

    I can't remove NAV because it's not my PC and the owner doesn't want me to replace NAV with something else, like AVG or something.

  20. Re:Must have been quite powerful on Distress Signal Emitted By Flat-Screen TV · · Score: 1

    Yes, but if Geordi finds the transmitter and modifies the neutrino pulse, they'll be able to detect it through the interference and know that it is authentic.

  21. Re:You know... sometimes a pocket sized pad of pap on Sharp Plans To Pull Zaurus From U.S. Market · · Score: 1

    ....and the only games available for it are Tic-Tac-Toe and Hangman.

    You can play football if you fold up a page, but you permanently destroy some of it's available storage doing so.

  22. Re:Seems an easy tradeoff to me... on FCC Approves BPL Despite Interference Concerns · · Score: 1

    There's a cetian irony here - most bpl systems start at 30 MHz - so in effect citizens band will be destroyed too.

    As will be the 10 meter HAM band, a very popular band for HAMs who wish to use HF radios in their vehicles instead of the more popular 2 meter band.

  23. Re:Seems an easy tradeoff to me... on FCC Approves BPL Despite Interference Concerns · · Score: 4, Informative

    So, screw HAM radio, right?

    <echo mike>
    I guess CB Ray-dee-yo is all the communikashuns you ever needed there, good buddy!!
    </echo mike>

    NEVER underestimate the needs of Amateur Radio in catastrophic situations. BPL interference can propagate great distances. If there is a state of emergency in an area, even if there is no power for many miles, BPL can still affect the reception of signals coming FROM the emergency area. The receiving area, with power, would have trouble picking up the shortwave frequencies due to the BPL that will most likely be present. A lot of the popular VHF/UHF emergency frequencies, apparently not affected as much as shortwave frequencies, are difficult to use in hilly or mountainous regions.

  24. Re:My eyes are filling with tears for the labels.. on Wal-Mart Squeezing Record Labels to Cut CD Prices · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Don't get me started. For a few years, I lived near a major metropolitan area. I had moved from a rural (suburban) area. The first sign of lack of courtesy at stores was everybody too lazy or in a hurry to return the carts to the provided stalls. they just leave them right beside the car, or most likely right behind the next car, and drive off on their merry way. I remember when stores didn't even provide the courtesy cart returns. Morally sound people would do the right thing and roll their carts all the way to the store front (uphill, both ways, in the snow).

    When I catch someone doing that, I usually let them know about it. I "scold" them in front of the other people and tell them how uncourteous thay are. Usually, they put the cart back.

  25. The only way to stay protected... on Corporate Identity Theft on the Rise · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...appears to be by trashing your own credit. This way your credentials will be rejected for new applications.