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  1. Re:Go fish! on Linux Duracell CPU Load Monitor · · Score: 1
    A fish tank might make a good place to dump some of the heat if the computer runs 24/7.

    Some mods add neon. This one could add neon tetras.

  2. Go fish! on Linux Duracell CPU Load Monitor · · Score: 1
    They used to make strips for pet fish tanks that would show the temperature of the water. (Put it on the inside of the tank. As it heated up, the highest number showing was the temp.)

    They probably still make them since they're fool-proof, but the question is do they have them in the right range? (Most CPUs run a bit hot for live fish.) Try your local fish-hobby place.

  3. Re:No kidding on TVI to Sue Over MS Autoplay Feature · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure that there a line from standard floppy drives to signal a media change. (I'd say definitely sure, but I'm not going to haul out the box with the data sheet.) What the floppy controller and OS do with that signal is another story.

  4. Re:Comcast and Disney on Comcast Wants To Buy Disney For $66 Billion · · Score: 1

    Yes, I would have just said Worldcom, but they morphed their name to MCI to try and shed that skin. (Not that MCI didn't make a dog's dinner of UUnet before Worldcom happened to them.)

  5. Re:Comcast and Disney on Comcast Wants To Buy Disney For $66 Billion · · Score: 1
    What, you mean that Weird Al didn't write it? Damn! ;)

    I want my, I want my Disneeey...

  6. Re:Not a mickey-mouse bid either! on Comcast Wants To Buy Disney For $66 Billion · · Score: 1

    I'm getting spam from comcast home users who are running (probably trojaned) proxies. I guess comcast doesn't care so long as they don't spam other comcast users. Do you normally blame the victim?

  7. Re:Comcast and Disney on Comcast Wants To Buy Disney For $66 Billion · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Does Comcast really have that kind of cash?

    Only wimps worry about cash! Just look at the mighty Worldcom/MCI and how they built their empire without cash or income. Buy up competitors, strip their support staff to nothing, and use them as collateral for the next aquistion, that's the way you do it!

  8. Re:Not a mickey-mouse bid either! on Comcast Wants To Buy Disney For $66 Billion · · Score: 1
    Missing information. Was the job with Disney?

    From the amount of spam coming at me from comcast space recently, they're certainly up for doing a mickey-mouse job. If it goes through, it will probably be as long lasting as the AOL/Time-Warner merger.

  9. Re:Remember on Bush's Space Panel Seeks Public Input · · Score: 3, Insightful
    We don't have a major competitor anymore

    Without the shuttle or a badly needed replacement system to orbit, is the US even in the manned-space game?

  10. Re:What's in a name? on Enderle's Ferrari Laptop · · Score: 2, Funny
    A Ferris Bueller moment

    "The 2004 Ferrari 250GT California.
    Less than a hundred were made.
    My father spent 3 years restoring this laptop.
    It is his love,
    It is his passion..."
    "It is his fault that he didn't lock the docking station..."

    Nope, I can't see it. Although, after the nth vroom-vroom, I'd be willing to try kicking it a few times and dropping it into a ravine.

  11. Re:Dayton Ohio, party town? on The Maverick and His Machine · · Score: 1

    Don't forget the Dayton Hamfest!

  12. Re:What would life have been like on The Maverick and His Machine · · Score: 1

    With the name Watson, he could have gone for "PERCEIVE!"

  13. Re:Is it that much better outside of Dayton? on The Maverick and His Machine · · Score: 1
    so the escape velocity to overcome the sucking power of Dayton

    I was wondering. The two times I flew down there, the Scare Ontario return flight broke down and I had to escape back to Toronto via Pittsburgh.

  14. Dayton Ohio, party town? on The Maverick and His Machine · · Score: 1
    'Thomas John Watson began his life at age 40, after Dayton, Ohio, nearly ruined him.'

    I know the article didn't want to give away any spoilers, but I'm curious how Dayton nearly ruined him. I've been there a couple times. Seems like a nice place, probably a few wretched hives of scum and villany around but I didn't have time to find them, darn it.

    So what was it? Did a woman do him wrong?

  15. Re:before shooting comments off the hip about IR on The Real Reason why Spirit Only Sees Red · · Score: 1

    Some camcorders now have filters to prevent IR exposures. Remember the fuss a few years ago when some people used the night-time settings on their camcorders to take "x-ray" shots which ignored clothing? (A few Slashdot articles about that.)

  16. Re:Cue a thousand alien-watcher website updates.. on The Real Reason why Spirit Only Sees Red · · Score: 1
    Whacked colours are the least of it. A nice article here Conspiracy theorists stake out Red Planet
    What few remember is that, in the late 1950s, Russian astronomer Iosif Shklovskii floated the idea of civilizations on Mars, but he did it based on actual scientific data.
    (Spoiler warning) Later data proved him wrong.
  17. Re:Was in New Scientist a week or so ago on The Real Reason why Spirit Only Sees Red · · Score: 2, Funny
    Was in my sig a week ago too. :^P Nasa denies 'sexing up' mars images which references the New Scientist story.

    Will Slashdot cover oxygen discovered on extra-solar planet Osiris next week? Stay tuned!

  18. Re:Is it just getting started? on MyDoom.C Making Its Way Across The Net · · Score: 1
    To add to the fun, it's always possible that the author of DoomJuice isn't the same as MyDoom.A or .B.

    From descriptions, it isn't very hard to get MyDoom.A is install anything from anyone who knocks on the port. MyDoom.B apparently tightened it up a little bit, but is still quite .. insecure .. about that.

  19. Re:Uh-huh. on Online Search Engines Lift Cover Of Privacy · · Score: 1

    And the googlebot (in this mode) doesn't check any policy files like robots.txt? I suppose that Opera doesn't indicate this setting in the browser name passed, and probably allows masquerading as IE in any case. (Otherwise redirect Opera users to a "We don't serve their kind!"/no droids allowed page.)

  20. Re:web servers for morons on Online Search Engines Lift Cover Of Privacy · · Score: 1
    Drop a tripwire in the start of robots.txt. If some bot tries to access something excluded there and never referenced elsewhere on the site, it's a pretty good indication of who to block at the firewall.

    Either that or feed it a dynamically generated page that links to an infinite series of dynamically generated pages. See how far it can crawl before it gives up.

  21. Re:Uh-huh. on Online Search Engines Lift Cover Of Privacy · · Score: 1
    And it is not linked to ever.

    If you send that URL to someone using Opera with the right settings (but you don't know that) and they read the private document, within minutes GOOGLE WILL CRAWL THAT DOCUMENT!

    Want to expand on that or are you just trolling? How did the existance of that page get from Opera to Google such that it could pin-point (not crawl) that page?
  22. Is it really gone? on Outsourced Confidential Data On Children Posted · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I wonder if they've checked the wayback machine at archive.org.

  23. Re:Inverse Tachyon Phase Inducers on What If Dark Matter Really Doesn't Exist? · · Score: 1

    Maybe it's just a typo. Maybe it's really fark matter and fark energy?

  24. Re:Actively Engaging Employers on Modifying Employment Agreements? · · Score: 3, Informative
    In small but growing companies, the NDA is an frequently an afterthought, so full of errors that you don't have to worry much. (Usually it doesn't even have the standard "joint but severable" clause to allow the rest of the contract to keep coming at you if one clause is blown away.)

    A few years down the line, it'll be thick enough to choke a spammer. When leaving, there's a exit agreement clause that you abide by the NDA. Ask for a copy of the NDA you signed (even if you made a copy at the time). This highlights to them exactly what you signed rather their current wad.

  25. Re:Kinda OT: Unemployment Benefits on Modifying Employment Agreements? · · Score: 1

    So long as you're making a real (and provable) effort to find a job while starting a company, I doubt it would matter. Of course, as soon as the company starts pulling in money, that's another story. Check the rules. Your government has a FAQ right? :^)