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  1. Re:The Air Force did this. Once. on Social Engineering Still Best Way to Crack Security · · Score: 1

    We get network breakin attempts (and I mean this literally) constantly.

    Really? I thought the "street knowledge" among "blackhats" was "Don't fuck with the government, they have limitless resources to track you down and make your life hell".

    I guess with the advent of the script kiddie, all bets are off.

  2. Re:florida startup on No ID Cards in the Future · · Score: 1

    I've heard this before. People seem to generally talk about it in anonymous postings, and then don't get into much detail.

    It's either a very big deal, or an urban legend.

  3. Irony on Validity of Web-Forms-Based Advocacy Questioned · · Score: 5, Interesting

    That the forestry service, who's mission is conservation, advocates wasting tons of paper each year mailing letters that could have been sent electronically.

  4. Re:Yeah... on Patent Office Shows Record Backlog · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Well, you could always do the first step of the patent process on the cheap, filing the papers yourself. Then slap "patent pending" on the device. It's more likely you screw up without a patent lawyer to help you, but the goal isn't to get a defensible patent, it's to scare imitators long enough to get your business rolling and invent patentable enhancements or other products that you might get defensible patents on.

    Don't let patents bog you down if you think you have a really good invention. It's really not a big deal. Suppose patents were cheaper or free. So you have a patent, big deal. If someone infringes on it, you still have to get together money to sue them. If you can't get together 5-8K to file a proper patent, what makes you think you can get enough money to sue someone with the resources to redesign and market your invention before you have a chance to make money on it?

  5. Re:Dinosaur on Firebird Name Debate Enters a New Stage · · Score: 1

    I know you were probably kidding, but Mozilla and other zilla people have already gotten threats from the owners of the Godzilla trandemarks.

    http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/02/08/13/1748247.sht ml ?tid=154

  6. Re:Suggestive naming... on Firebird Name Debate Enters a New Stage · · Score: 1

    Opera is "the fastest browser on earth", so it is dangerously close to that. :)

  7. Re:Totally superfluous! Sheesh! on Real-time PC access on your PDA · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I think citrix also works on a lower level than bitmaps, I know it's very fast even on a slowish link.

  8. Re:OK... So Now What! on Princeton CS Prof Edward W. Felten (Almost) Live · · Score: 1

    What's the next step???

    Just elect Felten. The only people legislators are required to listen to is the other legislators. Get him in there, and you are set.

  9. Re:Understandable.... on Pew Internet Project Study on Internet Non-Users · · Score: 1

    http://www.pixyland.org/peterpan/

    That guy? :)

  10. Re:Alarmist prediction are the enemy of progress on Will Genetic Engineering Kill Us? · · Score: 1

    Also, exaclty what is supidity?

    Too easy. I'll let you off this time. :)

  11. Re:RTFA on Former DoubleClick Exec Named Privacy Czar · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That's only because DoubleClicks market collapsed out from under them.

  12. Re:China's Great Firewall on U.S. Tries To Open Up Web Access To China · · Score: 1

    You could have used an ssh tunnel to a web proxy running on the unrestricted computer.

  13. Re:why cubes at all on Building a Cube Farm that Sucks Less? · · Score: 1

    That's so 70s. Keep up with the fads man!

  14. Re:Already done.. on Developing Online Games · · Score: 1

    And besides, GTA3's engine was pitifully underpowered and slow.

    You turn around for a second, and that car you just jacked dissapears. Apparently they couldn't even keep track of more than the tiny bit of the world you were currently in without making it even more slow.

  15. Re:Don't forget, in Canada... on Cheap New 1 Inch HDD Holds 1.5GB · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    IN SOVIET CANADA....

  16. Re:Probabilities and reality on Parallel Universes Are Real · · Score: 1

    I don't understand. It doesn't matter if f1 halts or not, assuming halt() runs the function it is given, then it's just infinite regression.

    It's the same as:

    void f1() {f1()};

  17. Re:Scientific Omnirican on Parallel Universes Are Real · · Score: 1

    Just wait until this electronic paper thing really takes off, then you can have Flash ads bouncing around your magazine. :)

  18. Re:Solid conductors on Tiny Bubbles Key to Cooling Crazy Hot CPUs · · Score: 1

    Or, why not just start putting the processor on the bottom of the motherboard and use whole case as a heat sink.

  19. Re:Clarification on Tiny Bubbles Key to Cooling Crazy Hot CPUs · · Score: 1

    No, they mean existing pumpless phase-change systems with stuff like fluorinert. It's not the type of thing you would get from a shop that sells biohazard case badges and windows for your case.

  20. Re:What about the sound? on 606 Takes To film Rube Goldberg-like car ad · · Score: 1

    The article says the tires were weighted on the topsides and balanced. It says the cheat is the exhaust thing.

  21. Re:Great advert on 606 Takes To film Rube Goldberg-like car ad · · Score: 1

    Looked to me that the metal thing made an electrical contact on the thing it was sitting on. I don't think that was one of the car's features.

  22. Re:Flash video format on 606 Takes To film Rube Goldberg-like car ad · · Score: 1

    Flash is more cross platform than any other movie format.

    Given a choice between:
    Flash
    Windows Media
    Sorensen Quicktime

    I'd take flash any day.

  23. Re:Well, it's a stupid answer on 606 Takes To film Rube Goldberg-like car ad · · Score: 1

    caching their page without permission

    So I guess you must hate Google then.

    I say, if they don't have robots.txt, or no-cache, it's fair game.

  24. Re:Now We Can Test Serial ATA on Intel's P4 3GHz w/ 800MHz Bus & Canterwood Chips · · Score: 1

    An integrated SATA controller likely still uses the PCI bus. Sorry.

    Try a 64 bit PCI 3ware SATA controller. You can get them with up to 12 ports.

  25. Re:Consider the following on Lycoris Build 71 Beckons For Your Desktop · · Score: 1

    Linux that does something folks can't do easily or cheaply in Windows, and then promote the heck out of that.

    Completely native network-transparent X sessions integrated with ssh isn't enough?

    Once you get used to just sshing to any computer and running any app, X or console, it really becomes an insanely useful feature.

    Re: Testing all those distros, don't bother with non-free distros like Lindows. It's not worth the effort. If your programmers can't figure out a slightly different UI, then they aren't very good programmers.