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  1. Obligatory on Minor Leak Being Investigated Aboard the ISS · · Score: 1

    So in other words, in space nobody can hear the hiss?

  2. Re:death of the industry or of the album? on Media Research Exec Says Music Industry Is On Its Last Legs · · Score: 1

    Dude, I can't believe that you just put that song in my head.

  3. Re:Yoohoo!!! on NZ Teen Arrested as 'Spybot Mastermind' · · Score: 1

    We finally won't have to deal with malware anymore! The guy has been arrested! What?? They arrested Bill Gates?? Do you have a link to that??
  4. I got an idea on PlayStation 2 Game ICO Violates the GPL · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sony could end up having to release the source code for the entire game!" Rather than go to the all the hassle with lawyers and all, why don't we mail a CD with a Sony rootkit to the Sony CEO and get the source code that way?
  5. Re:Black Friday? on Web Traffic Snarls Sites on Black Friday · · Score: 1

    and Victoria's Secret especially hard hit.....Look! A beowulf cluster! You are mistaken. It's a boob cluster.
  6. Simple on Microsoft Claims Patent On Elements of Embedded Linux? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Agree to the deal or get a chair in your face.

  7. Re:Similar to neural net entropic topography. on Adult Brains More Flexible Than Previously Thought · · Score: 2, Funny

    Some advances from the study of Lei topographies have also lead to breakthroughs recently, where some of the more complex, yet deterministic, algorithms have had entropic terms introduced in order to bring in an element of randomness. I take it that you slept at a Holiday Inn last night?
  8. I don't get it on NIST Opens Competition for a New Hash Algorithm · · Score: 1

    Once I develope the winning uber hash function, what do I get? I can't find in the timeline where it mentions a large cash prize with strippers jumping out of cake. Some balloons too.

    Where is the link in the story to this part? Anyone?

  9. Re:Ink Jet Cartridges on Consumers Starting To Realize Gadgets Can Be Fixed · · Score: 1

    Not good enough for you, but many people don't mind crappy quality if it's their kid having fun with the computer.

  10. Re:Never got the hang of patching it on What's New in OpenBSD 4.2? · · Score: 0

    Am I wrong about what would be involved? You just don't get it, do you? BSD is *all* about security. Sure Theo could personally post a binary for download on the website. But the problem is you don't really know if Theo is the one who made the binary. It might be a site hacker for all you know.

    What it boils down to is that you can't trust anyone to compile patches for you. Not Theo, your brother, or even your mom. You can not trust *anyone*.

    Downloading a binary is like giving Bill G. the keys to your computer.
  11. Re:Neh on Call For Halt To Wikipedia Webcomic Deletions · · Score: 2

    No, this is not the same wikipedia story. Deletionism is rampant on Wikipedia and I'm glad this story showed up to shed some light on it. It's YRO, because what deletionism is in reality censorship, and that effects all of us.

    This has been discussed on Wikipedia, with people either been shouted down or banned. It's time to move it to other venues so people know that Wikipedia is no longer a cause to give money to or support, or even use for that matter.

  12. Re:My photos were all blurred on Last Chance to Enter For Slashdot Anniversary Party Grand Prize · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the fish story. Where I got off the train was the shower with the cute brunette. Something else and you would have had me.

  13. Re:$1k on Last Chance to Enter For Slashdot Anniversary Party Grand Prize · · Score: 1

    Is that US, Canadian or Zimbabwean? it's in Quatloos. Please turn in your nerd card at the door.
  14. Re:But... on Wolfram's 2,3 Turing Machine Is Universal! · · Score: 1

    It runs everything. The real problem is not compatibility. The problem is that when the machine goes to 65536+1 position on the tape, one of the colors turns to blue and the machine halts.
  15. In communist China on China Launches First Moon Orbiter · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    They launch chunks of lead to the moon.

  16. Re:Competition is Great on Verizon Offers 20/20 Symmetrical FiOS Service · · Score: 1

    I don't know if it was a coincidence or if Optimum had somehow found out that I tried to switch Maybe they listen to your phone conversations?
  17. Re:If this is indeed true... on Verizon Offers 20/20 Symmetrical FiOS Service · · Score: 1

    It's like having your bots all co-located at an ISP on a DS3 or bonded T1's ready to do your bidding... And how would you know that???
  18. Re:The limit has been exceeded.... on Aussie Claims Copper Broadband now 200x Faster · · Score: 1

    And we learned, in Electrical Engineering, that the theoretical maximum bandwidth for a phone line was 2400 bps.

    And you graduated from EE? DSL as we know it today is not the same as olde tyme modems that used audio modultion to transmit data. Rather, DSL uses low band RF signals to transmit data up tp 24Mbit/s. If his improvements do pan out to 200Mbit/s that would be a 10x improvemnt, not a 200x.

    The big factor on transmission is line capacitance, and why you have to be close to the telephone switch to get service. His patent application has not been published yet, but I would really like to see what Mr. Nyquist has to say about it. It would seem to mee that any algorithm to wring the last drop out of network would have been invented already before software patents came into being, so I really do question it. But maybe the algorithhms are very complex and take advantage of highpower CPUs that did not exist twenty years ago.

    But I do seriously wonder on this one, if not prior art, but practical application, as the real world is quite different from the lab.

  19. Re:Permanently genetically modified organisms on GMOs Perfected Down to the Chromosome Level · · Score: 1

    By their nature, I think it could be argued that hybrids *are not* permanent, as many times the hybrid traits are not passed through seed to successive generations.

  20. Re:Let me be the first to say on Cellphone Use On Planes Coming Soon? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Let me guess, you think cell phones inside movie theatres is a neat idea too?

  21. Re:But Does the Punishment Fit the Crime? on Porn Spammers Get Five Years Each · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Since they grossed USD$2 million from their porn spam, I would say that the fine is fair. Also, maybe if spammers knew that jailtime was involved with sending spam, there would be less of it. Lemme guess, you are related to the spammers?

  22. Re:Don't Date Robots! on Human-Robot Love and Marriage · · Score: 1

    They also have the Cherry 2000. Which was not so bad imho. This is a relative common meme.

  23. Re:And this is good...why? on The Russian Mafia Doesn't Like Spam Either · · Score: 1

    I know that nobody likes spammers, but why does that make this murder justified? Because it happenned in Russia, and not the US, that makes it ok??
  24. Since they don't exist on Dragonfly-Sized Insect Spies Spotted, Denied · · Score: 1

    Nobody will mind if we swing one of these around

  25. Look the data is already in on Researchers Aim To "Read Minds" of PC Users · · Score: 1, Funny

    This is what the different PC users are really thinking;

    Microsoft PC user: I've been pwned.

    Macintosh PC user: Steve Jobs glow is supernatural.

    Linux PC user: Microsoft die! die! die!

    BSD PC user: Not dead yet.

    Call me Kreskin.