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  1. I tried to shop in real time with privacy on Shopping Online While Protecting Your Privacy? · · Score: 4

    I went into a store wearing a ski-mask (which is unusual in Rochester in August, ski-mask weather doesn't come until Ocotber, here).

    I didn't want people to see what kind of groceries I am buying, for then they could make the inference that I have a cat, a dog, a child and a wife, and try to direct mail market to me using that information, and violate my privacy.

    Wouldn't you know it, they called the cops, suspecting a robbery.

    Do any Slashdot readers know of a grocery chain where I can shop in the northeast US that will let me shop with a mask on, to protect my privacy?

    Thanks

  2. FUD, or lawsuit anticipation on Microsoft Porting Applications To Linux (Really!) · · Score: 2

    Which is it?

    FUD to slow the development of WINE, or actions anticipating a government mandated breakup of MS into an application company and an operating system company?

  3. yeah but on Party Tonight In San Jose · · Score: 1

    everyone know that Mickey Hart invented rap music, with his first renditions of Fire ( I think).

    See you on r.m.gd Neil.

  4. It comes with a dual user sniffer on Techno Jacket · · Score: 2

    To tell you if you're dropping packets,and when you need to launder them.

  5. Re:New Car on LinuxWorld · · Score: 1

    What Slashdot Cruiser?

    Links, please.

  6. Anyone who commits a crime with a cell phone on Appeals Decision in USTA vs. FCC (CALEA) · · Score: 1

    deserves to be caught.

    Think of it as a basic intelligence test for a criminal, do I want to advertise my criminal scheme over a public airwave where anyone with a good scanner can listen in, or do I want to use a payphone where the probability of tapping is slim.

    So what if you can still determine the location by triangulation, in general, that's a good thing when you use your cell phone for emergencies, because you're rarely home when you use your cell phone.

    I suppose the most secure telephone conversations would be IP-phones with encryption, any links fellow /.'ers.

  7. Attack of the latex clad BSD babes! on Loki And BSDi Team Up For BSD Games · · Score: 1

    When is Loki gonna release this one?

    And will is work on the 486 that I'm running FreeBSD on.

  8. Will this be available in the U.S.? on Sony Announces Transmeta Notebook · · Score: 2

    Or is this another cool thing that stays in Japan and eventually trickles down to the U.S.?

  9. Only because I'm using Netscape on AOL For Linux Leaks Out · · Score: 1

    and not the browser of the evil empire. I had to switch to plain old text formatting or end up with a messy post. Thankfully I'm not getting tagged with redundant, though that will happen.

  10. Can you say sealed AOL appliance? on AOL For Linux Leaks Out · · Score: 5

    Just port AOL to Linux, put it into a sealed network appliance with a few neat user apps like greeting card printing and a few games, and voila!

    Microsoft has lost a significant portion of their audience.

    AOL is planning to control the internet in the next 10 years.

  11. Are you confusing VPN's and ip masquerading? on @Home Stops Allowing VPNs · · Score: 5

    I thought a VPN was a simulated private network across the internet, which I supposed you could use to connect two of your computers, but only if they were physically far apart, using a VPN to connect two computers in the same room sounds insane.

    Perhaps you meant to mention the previous clause in the contract, where they prohibit you from being an endpoint for a lan, which is what you need to do if your sharing an internet connection with IP masquerading.

  12. I'm already in training for a Mars mission on Manned Mars Mission In 2014? · · Score: 5

    I spend over 8 hours a day in a small cubicle, getting all my social interaction fromn a computer, and eating from a vending machine.

    3 years in a telephone booth to Mars and back? No problem.

  13. Kind of creepy? on Animal-to-Human Organ Transplant Experiments Cancelled · · Score: 1

    I don't know, I find dying due to the inability to get a transplant organ a bit more creepy than living another 20 years with the heart of a pig in me. There are a long list of people waiting for organ transplants, and almost always, someone has to die for the organs to be available. I think we have three choices: 1) Develop cross species tranplants (organs from pigs and baboons). 2) Develop artificial organs ( a long way away). 3) Repeal the helmet law and subsidize motorcycle ownership. I think 1 has the most promise.

  14. How can you join the Gnome Foundation? on 'Gnome Foundation' Takes Aim at MS Office · · Score: 1

    The article doesn't say? Can anyone join, do you need to be a huge computer vendor? What is you want to add an insanely great feature,can you? Or will ordinary levle user ideas whither on the vine? Color me worried.

  15. I wonder who was trying to own the server? on BSD And Politics · · Score: 1

    Crackers, script kiddies, the Dems, the Republicans? The mind boggles, the newest political plumbers have to fix internet pipes now. It is a good sign for the BSD's, though, I myself recommended them this week as the safest internet host, a cut about MacOS because MacOS is closed.

  16. Surfwatch has trouble with &s ? on Online Rights And Real World Censorship? · · Score: 1

    Good thing they're relative uncommon in cgi scripts, huh!

  17. Use Lynx on Online Rights And Real World Censorship? · · Score: 5

    That way you won't display any dirty pictures, and you can use Linux and 486's to do it real cheap. And the ascii erotica will help the junior high kids learn how to read.

  18. We must apply this to the trolls! on Author Unknown · · Score: 4

    And Taco must use this to find the identities of all the trolls by comparing their troll posts with their regular logged in posts. Then Taco should find out the real world identity of the trolls by examing their email address and posting packets.

    Once all the trolls have been identified, a crack team of Andover sponsored Army Rangers should break down their doors, grab the trolls, flog them with wet lasagna noodles, and send them packing to Belize, preferable Temptation Island, where they will be sentenced to death by oral sex.

    Finally, Slashdot will be troll free!

  19. He's leading up to a book review on Rethinking the Virtual Community: Part Four · · Score: 1

    Howard Rhinegold's virtual community.

    It's on thinkgeek as we speak.