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  1. Sources? on Constructing A Geek House · · Score: 1

    Stroke victims usually loose almost all of their ability in the stroke affected area of the brain. The only way to do anything about it is to act early and administer drugs. Usually you can be permanently paralyzed after a stroke. Also since neurons are usually not all that resiliant it isn't really too terribly likely that they can be fixed properly. My mother had surgery on her neck for a cist and the surgeon had to cut a nerve and it still hasn't grown back yey.

    On the other hand if you have good information that is substantiated about neuron regeneration then I am all ears.

  2. And then they cannot contact anyone on On Handling Web Site Legalities? · · Score: 1

    I mean come on who is their right mind is going to release their *real* contact info to the net?

  3. My personal contigency plan on On Handling Web Site Legalities? · · Score: 1

    Really easy. I don't provide any real contact info. In fact in you do manage to get any I am a female who is currently living in rural Russia or Pakistan.

  4. Just program it to not send all the data on 3dfx Voodoo 5 Review · · Score: 1

    That should at least be possible say limit the ammount of data via assembler I know I have seen this done with hard disks before. Someone took a program that could read that data slower and cuase the platters to spin slower to allow for a more minimal interface.

  5. Method of creating a proxy or bridge? on 3dfx Voodoo 5 Review · · Score: 1

    Is there a method of using some but not all of the bandwidth of a video card without using it all so that it can be adapted to a smaller or older motherboard without the AGP interface?

  6. But there are a finite number of them on Constructing A Geek House · · Score: 1

    And they don't grow back. Not a pleaseant thing to deal with.

  7. Re:More patent problems.... on Cisco Patents NAT RFC? · · Score: 1

    Good God! You may have hit on the solution, Watson! Trained enginers working at the patent office??????? At the moment, it's staffed by semi-domesticated parrots, with arts degrees. But your idea might work better
    .... I'll pass it on to the relevant authorities right away!!!!


    No it's staffed by people with law degrees and experience in patent law not parrots. And I don't think that law counts as a strict art degree.

  8. Then it should be easy as hell to challenge on Cisco Patents NAT RFC? · · Score: 1

    With prior art as easy as that and seen by millions this should be a snap.

  9. You do know that liquor kills brain cells right? on Constructing A Geek House · · Score: 1

    Or that transplant livers are hard to find right? Just checking.

  10. Feasibility of a self contained environment-bunker on Constructing A Geek House · · Score: 1

    That would be the best possible take the concept of the 1950's atom bomb shelter to the extreme with modern technology kind of like the one those guys built in the middle of the californian desert in an abandoned mine in Parasite eve 2. That would kick ass.

  11. But eterm is "pretty" on Other Uses For The Linux RAM Disk? · · Score: 1

    That's why people always use it. Supposedly you can use it to make the window transparent. I wish the tend would go away from massive programs that are memory hogs into creating smaller programs that have optional smaller components that can be tacked on at will.

  12. But it's harder than hell on Other Uses For The Linux RAM Disk? · · Score: 1

    Speaking as a person who does program the kernel looks like ancient Greek written by a dieing man. Also isn't creating more and more programs in dedicated kernel mode a really, really bad idea? Isn't this what causes NT to die hideously because of it's integrated kernel graphics mechanism?

  13. Ram is usually needed elsewhere and is expensive on Other Uses For The Linux RAM Disk? · · Score: 1

    If I have ram it's going to make more executables fit in memory at one time. Persoanlly why don't you just get a faster drive?

  14. No this is a baseball bat on A Letter from 2020 · · Score: 1

    Things are that bad my sig is just meant as a reminder there are some bullies and then there is the antichrist.

  15. History proves this type of thing wrong on A Letter from 2020 · · Score: 1

    Even in the heyday or government/business buddy, buddying in the 1880-1900 you really didn't see that much coorporation. People always have critism and you couldn't execute anyone or send them to internment camps. It just dosn't work that way. There is due process and the force of law, etc.

  16. This guy is a freaking loon on A Letter from 2020 · · Score: 1

    Hard drive technology is always present and therefore you can store things. Microsoft has already been bitchslapped by the government and will eventually be totally broken up. Also you can't redefine the US consitution without a great deal of effort and that would be almost impossible to allow. Programmers and Historians are not subversives and never will be. Microsoft is not big brother and dosn't have the clout, etc. In other words not in 100,000,000 years.

  17. I like ftp the best on KDE 1.94 "Kandidat" released · · Score: 1

    An ftp client like ncftp works quite well and you can interrupt the download dozens of times and then come back a week later and it still works. Theoretically http 1.1 has a keepalive facility and you can download chunks of data. However this is not always the case. In the case of slashdot's method of data transmission you usually cannot get large ammounts of comments on a slow conneciton because it dies before you finish.

  18. Make automatic nightly backups on Michigan "Anti-Hacker" Law's First Felony Charges · · Score: 1

    Or better after you do a site change make sure it's backuped by you personally then you pull out the files and just redo the directory tree couple seconds.

  19. The lack of necessity and need on Michigan "Anti-Hacker" Law's First Felony Charges · · Score: 1

    It's really interesting how people manage to compromise security on machines. It seems to be a hit and mis venture and not worth much really.

    Also it's entirely out of proportion to what is happening hardly worth a felony.

  20. My favorite way to recycle an AOL cdrom on Copying A DVD To A CD? · · Score: 1

    Basically I already thought of the coaster idea and the frisby idea and then tried something new. I wanted a good mirror one day but was out away from one so I just used the CD. It works with less actual photonic energy (I measured it) than a mirror and it's extremely portable.

  21. Uhhh aren't DVDs already compressed? on Copying A DVD To A CD? · · Score: 1

    Now I may still be a novice but I thought that DVDs were already compressed in some manner that would allow for storage. So how would this be exactly new. I can take a text file that's 2-4Gb and compress it down to maybe 50M or so depending on the algorithm and the repetiveness of the text. Aren't DVDs compressed with mpeg2/3?

  22. Maybe Walmart has better prices? on Too Much Corporate Power? · · Score: 1

    Also I havn't seen too many stores that are that good in my area. Most of them are local shops for a specific racial or ethnic type of which I am not a member.

  23. Campaign finance on Too Much Corporate Power? · · Score: 1

    On of the big problems in the US is the way campaigns are funded - the fact that large corporations fund the respective parties thereby undermining the democratic process (paying for special interests to be represented).


    The big, big problem with this is that is is unfair to the little guy. See if we eliminate the ability to raise funds for the campaign that means that you have to one of two things:

    1. Be really, really, really convincing on street corners and bars.

    2. Be incredibly rich.

    I think that there should be a big pool of funds that are avaible for equal distribution for people who wish to compaign with that are avaible to any canadate without prejudice.

  24. Re:Corporations should be beholden to society on Too Much Corporate Power? · · Score: 1

    They should be forced to pay a living way, pay for daycare and health benefits, and not pollute the environment.

    They already are forced to pay minimum wage laws and most of the really big ones do many of the things that you say you want.

    Additionally, corporations that are particularly odious in raping Mother Earth, like those companies making the big gas sucking SUV's, should pay a penalty tax for environmental reparations.

    You know as much as I like to help the environment I feel that human beings are part of that environment and in many instinces rise above it. We could theoretically waste the whole damn planet and then build artifical structures thousands of feet below the earth's surface and start again if we wanted.

    Personally I don't want my standard of living reduced even further (no I don't drive a SUV but I do live in modest means) so that I have to pay rediculous prices for "environmentally friendly" products. It's really simply not something that has to be a top priority.

    We may need to work ona unified world government to make this happen, otherwise corporations will relocate to Third World countries like Thailandm, Vietnam or India, like Nike has done, to get away from fair wage
    laws.


    Not going to happen. If anyone does create a one world government it would be the US and let me tell you a great many people would not like that. As far as third world governments are concerned I feel that people still have a choice in what they do you know I don't see anyone forcing people to work at gunpoint to make shoes or anything like that. In the abstract people can always relocate or do something else for a living. It's an opt in kind of thing.

  25. Why should it not be that supprising on What Happened To Intervideo's Linux DVD Player? · · Score: 1

    Slashdot isn't rome and isn't totally omnipresent...yet.