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  1. Re:What about /. ? on How The Government Spies On Your Internet Use · · Score: 1
    There are a number of ways to obscure where you're coming from to make it harder to track people back. Slashdot does do proxy tests, but I doubt they catch all of the proxies out there, to say nothing of custom zombieware. (Part of the reason for this post is that I've got a program on port 3128 to see what it is that Slashot asks when it check ports 80, 3128, 8080 and 8000. :)

    Of course, governments have slightly more resources than Slashdot...

  2. Re:Is it truly frictionless? on Robotic Space Workers of the Future · · Score: 1
    No, of course it's not perfectly frictionless

    What? But all my physics tests said to assume that it was perfectly frictionless!

  3. Re:The entire DA office would be fired, or execute on Online Plagiarist Sues University · · Score: 1
    The story doesn't say when the university knew he was cheating. Odds are they finally noticed and then backtracked his other papers.

    So, it would be more like the police catching someone for #27 and then looking in the basement. The killer would be mad because he spent a lot on a party (for one) each time to celebrate that he'd gotten away with it. "No fair suddenly using DNA evidence!" Boo-hoo.

  4. Re:Not for profit stations at lower frequencies? on FCC Move Could Shut Down High School Radio Station · · Score: 1

    They were there, but were ordered up to 104 in the 90's.

  5. Re:That isn't his complaint. on Online Plagiarist Sues University · · Score: 1

    His real complaint is that he thought he'd gotten away with it for three years. This worm probably danced a little jig every time he got a paper back that didn't say "F - come see me".

  6. Re:Gah. Stupid university. on Online Plagiarist Sues University · · Score: 1

    I guess that university couldn't find anyone to fill that space and pay the same fees? If they'd known sooner, they could have kicked him out and replaced him with someone else who wasn't trying to cheat his way to a degree. The money explaination doesn't make sense.

  7. Re:This person is a complete retard on Online Plagiarist Sues University · · Score: 2, Funny

    I wonder if serial killers will try this? "Well, you should have stopped me before #27. How was I supposed to know it was wrong?"

  8. Strange use of word anchor on More Blackholes Discovered... · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Repeatedly, the story says that these blackholes anchor galaxies. I guess, if you mean anchor like the concrete blocks anchoring Vinnie the Informer to the bottom of the East River.

  9. Re:Better off on ICANN Budget Questioned · · Score: 1

    ICANN's claim to fame: "We're faster and cheaper than the United Nations!"

  10. Re:I believe Adams himself once wrote... on HHGTG Screenwriter Interviews Himself · · Score: 2, Funny

    He certainly stole Adams idea of combining humour with SciFi (or Fantasy), Well, no. As much as I've enjoyed their writings the idea that either of them invented that idea is silly. (And where did Tom Holt or Robert Aspirin get it, from P2P illegal idea sharing? The SFWIA will be busting them soon, no doubt. :)

  11. Re:Membership Has Its Benefits: on Sneak Peek of SF Museum · · Score: 1

    The worst cases will have spent their money on that special issue of Radioactive Man #42, and won't be able to afford the membership. :)

  12. Re:nicely emblematic of an era on Sneak Peek of SF Museum · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Computers aren't cool anymore.

    I can live with that. When I was soldering my first computer, they thought Dukes of Hazzard and CB radios were cool.

  13. Re:Replicant on Sneak Peek of SF Museum · · Score: 3, Funny

    Does the 5th replicant get any special deals?

  14. Re:Membership Has Its Benefits: on Sneak Peek of SF Museum · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Don't laugh. The Royal Ontario Museum was promoting their singles night activities. That could work well for the SF museum too. You get to meet singles in non-pressure group activities. The people will tend to be smart, off-beat, and can afford the membership.

  15. Re:More membership levels on Sneak Peek of SF Museum · · Score: 2, Informative
    How about "Operating Thetan"?

    You don't have go there for that. It will soon come to you! :)

  16. Re:Membership Has Its Benefits: on Sneak Peek of SF Museum · · Score: 3, Funny

    If it's anything like the Royal Ontario Museum, you also get perpetual calls and letters to renew your membership after it expires.

  17. Re:Dino-burgers (nice going) on Dinosaurs Died Within Hours of Asteroid Impact, says New Study · · Score: 1
    The Greys had a huge Chicxulub-Combo take-out order. And then they super-sized it, bastards!

    "Thank you for your order, please pull up to the next planet."

  18. Re:Dino-burgers (nice going) on Dinosaurs Died Within Hours of Asteroid Impact, says New Study · · Score: 2, Funny

    The Greys had a big Chicxulub-Combo take-out order. And then they super-sized it, bastards!

  19. Re:Great news, but is there a typo? on Gartner: Linux Servers Booming · · Score: 1

    I looked at the Gartner site, but the main page and a search didn't turn up this report. Is it available to the public yet, and does anyone have a link? It's usually best to go to the source to check the numbers to see what they really mean.

  20. Re:Carmen Sandiego? on Teaching History In Schools With Video Games · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Good thing I didn't use mod then eh?

  21. Re:Carmen Sandiego? on Teaching History In Schools With Video Games · · Score: 1

    It came out as a module for Doom.

  22. Re:More about design problems than system ones on Review of the Roku HD1000 Media Player · · Score: 1

    Ahh. I was figuring that the only way he could have found Linux to be awkward was if the Roku dropped him to a command prompt.

  23. Re:Not quite. on 'Pirate Act' Would Shift Copyright Civil Suits To DoJ · · Score: 1

    It surely must. They've got more tentacles than Taco's manga collection, and use Tekeli-E-meters!

  24. Re:Not quite. on 'Pirate Act' Would Shift Copyright Civil Suits To DoJ · · Score: 1

    Not just the RIAA. While the Cthurch of Scientology is willing to spend millions to crush a single critic for a copyright violation, they'd much rather spend the government's millions (or the taxpayers' millions depending of your viewpoint).

  25. Re:Induction Charging on Battery Development Off The Beaten Path · · Score: 1

    I'm not entirely joking. (Remember that power transmission from Solar Power Satellites would have been by microwaves.) It would be easy for a device to collect a charge in a microwave oven, and it's not hard to find one at home or work. Protecting the device from becoming electronic flambé, I leave as an exercise for the chef, er, student...