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  1. Re:Obligatory Futurama reference ... on 3D Monitor · · Score: 4, Informative

    No its just that your vision generally has one ey the is dominant. Try putting your finger infront of you, close one eye. Your view of your finger may move significantly, or the blurry second finger may just go away. The eye that doesn't see the finger move is your dominant eye, and the other one is less dominant and is more there for depth perception.

  2. Re:Hmmph. on FTC Bars Popup Backdoor Ads · · Score: 1

    Dude, I know. I really don't think prison time would have been appropriate as it wasn't definatly illigal at the time. It was a joke, a badly crafted one but neverless supposed to be funny.

  3. Re:Best thing that could happen right now... on Roxio To Concentrate on Online Music Business · · Score: 1

    Whoa dude, slow down, your responding to a post about apple jam with toast.

  4. Re:Already disabled the firewall on Windows XP SP2 In Release · · Score: 1

    nevermind, final SP2 fixed it and didn't need to unblock any ports. Shrugs.

  5. Re:Hmmph. on FTC Bars Popup Backdoor Ads · · Score: 1

    Hmm no prison time, not even while waiting for trial or bail? Blah, slap in the wrist! :)

  6. Re:I'll Do it anyway on XP SP2 Torrent Shows Legal P2P's Promise · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Well duh, they want to make sure it works with all their software. I'm sure they are mostly talking about their close customers who rely on IBM for their business, and IBM can't be sure everythig will be smooth. But seriously this is the same as me telling all my office not to download and install it personally to wait untill I have tested it and I will deploy it for them

  7. Re:Stop playing solitaire on my dialysis machine on Fed-Up Hospitals Defy Windows Patching Rules · · Score: 5, Insightful

    But the point is still the same, you should run a machine with only enough code to do the job. Extra cruft is just risking "bugs" which could cost lives.

  8. Re:Already disabled the firewall on Windows XP SP2 In Release · · Score: 1

    problem is I can't figure out what port or service that needs unblocking. For some odd reason it not only won't let me connect for printing, it won't let me connect to the port 80 web interface for configuration. Which doesn't make any sense, but I tried adding port 80 for local subnet, and that doesn't help any. So I really don't know.

  9. Re:BitTorrent? on Windows XP SP2 In Release · · Score: 1

    Of course the problem is how can I trust all the slashdotters to tell me the MD5 if its not posted on microsofts site. Well atleast I can't find it. Anyone out there with a microsoft link to a MD5 I can verify.

  10. Re:Already disabled the firewall on Windows XP SP2 In Release · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Whats really funny, is in RC2 (don't know if its fixed yet). It bugged me about every program. Except my network print server, it just blocked access to completly, without any notification. Had to turn firewall completly off to use it couldn't find any way to unblock.
    Yes I told microsoft, if they listened is another story.
    (Incase anyone is interested it was linksys wireless print server WPS54GU2)

  11. Re:Even Sevens on Analysis of Spyware · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Your implying that spy and malware exist because people want attention. That may be true concerning many viruses, but spy ware is simply about money.

  12. Re:A Survey at DEFCON about HACKING??? on Hackers, Public Differ Greatly On E-voting · · Score: 1

    Yea, whats the deal with code red. I know some people who absolutly love it. But they can't explain it, so I'm trusting some random person on slashdot to explain it to me. Ummmmm

  13. Re:More important question: on Don't Nurse Old Hardware - Emulate It · · Score: 1

    I'm a bit obsessive compulsive, I tend to highlight things with my mouse a lot, and sometimes drag letter or whole paragraphs around accidently, without noticing. Its really annoying.

  14. Re:More important question: on Don't Nurse Old Hardware - Emulate It · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I think their big thing is supporting legacy programs. Say your company spent millions of dollars back in the late 80's for some big iron, and some awesome server database stuff for that. Lets say these programs still meet your companies needs. But the hfardware itself is ailing, but you still need the software to run. Buy new machines to emulate the old machines. The actual data transfer can be done in many ways other than 1541 drives and I'm sure you can emulate the need to input data in old ways.

  15. Re:Women on long-term space flights? on ESA To Study Human Hibernation · · Score: 1

    Do you have any links to back this up. I definatly need to send this info to my wife.

  16. Re:Alternative Idea on ESA To Study Human Hibernation · · Score: 5, Informative

    Not true. Generally in hybernation animals drop their heart rate significantly but it doesn't stop. Bears drop their heart rate from around 40-50 bpm to 8-12 bpm. Which is slighty above other animals, which often decrease to 4 bmp. But what makes bear hibernation unique is that its blood temperature only drops slightly, allowing it to wake up quickly.

    This is still hibernation.

  17. Re:Trade off on Laptops with the Longest Battery Life? · · Score: 1

    Generally most of these fuel cells actually use fuel like methanol.

  18. Re:Analog outputs on TiVo Has to Fund Your Local Stadium · · Score: 1

    So Nader said he would vote for Bush over Kerry????

  19. Re:maybe he was fired... on Alabama IT Whistleblower Fired For Spyware · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yes, but most importantly, he already informed his bosses supervisors, and was ignored. Obviously his supervisors should have told him more directly that they weren't interesting in knowing what was going on. But the fact that he then turned around with vengence and spied on his boss to "prove" his alligations, speak very negativly of him. I would fire him on the spot too.

  20. Re:Hope they've learn their lesson. on UK Scientists Recommend Caution in Nanotechnology · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Hopefully my tires won't blow on the way home smashing me into a semi. Yes, our lifes hang on hopefully all the time.

  21. Re:Normally... on System Administrator Appreciation Day · · Score: 1

    Accually a lot of offices have a bosses appreciation day too. So I guess depending upon if that is also a day that is celebrated, I wouldn't feel so insulted them.

  22. Re:Hope they've learn their lesson. on UK Scientists Recommend Caution in Nanotechnology · · Score: 1

    Just for clarification though, I think the stunt of suing companies for asbestos when nobody had an idea that they were dangerious when it was originally made is idiotic to say the least.

  23. Hope they've learn their lesson. on UK Scientists Recommend Caution in Nanotechnology · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Hopefully US companies remember asbestos and the like. And understand that they will get their asses sued into the ground if they arn't sure these product are absolutly safe.

  24. Re:Cat got your tongue Florida? on How To Lose An Election · · Score: 1

    No I think its more of an issue of it being a computer system without a paper backup. How the hell do you recount a database. Its not going to spit out different data everytime you ask it. Its going to have one count that can't be changed. Weither that count is right or not, is a whole different story.

  25. Re:Quick take on major differences on AMD Releases Sempron Earlier Than Expected · · Score: 1

    So the biggest question of course, will the SEMPRON work on all socket 754 boards, or do some of those boards expect a x86-64 processor??