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  1. Wooohoooo on Public Park Designated Copyrighted Space · · Score: 1

    I'm gonna sue THEM, those greedy bastards! I have a lower uid than them!

  2. Is Linux suited for this? on Review Of Linux-based Motorola A768i · · Score: 1

    The disadvantage of being a first mover, however, is challenging, as there are not many applications written specifically on this platform for the mobile market, especially when compared to Symbian, Microsoft, or PalmOS. That will change if Linux OS devices become popular in the mobile market space, which I hope they do.

    Will it? Something that tells me just because two devices are based on Linux, the chance that an app that works on one will work on another is probably quite slim. What's on top of this Linux? A completely custom GUI? Or a type of X, do they use common toolkits?

    I see a lot more being different than the same between two Linux based PDA/phones.

  3. Re:I wonder if Steve Gibson is cackling? on Windows XP SP2 Impressions · · Score: 1

    The router behind your PC needs a bit more than IP to get the packet to your PC, it needs the hardware address which it gets with ARP. I suppose if it fails that step, it could return a destination unreachable error.

  4. Re:Mozilla, Opera and Firefox... on PC Magazine Reviews Firefox, Opera · · Score: 1

    So why isn't Firefox being built this way?

    I don't care to download the source and recompile it, I just want to use this particular project.

    With open source you can almost *always* say "if you did this and this it'd be just as good." It ain't done, so it ain't as good.

  5. Can you imagine... on Cisco Reveals Its $500 Million Router · · Score: -1

    a beauwolf cluster of these??

    No, I'm not fishing for moderator points, nosir!

  6. Re:Easy access to cash & alcohol on RFID Implants for Spanish Revelers · · Score: 1

    So which is worse:

    A) Drag body of passed out friend and wave it over the reader, hoping the bartender doesn't clue in that a corpse is being waved over the bar. Or you've social engineered him as you said. Rather than do that, why not...
    B) Grab cash out of wallet, pay for drinks!

    Ban CASH!

  7. Poor secretary on The 'Robotic Psychiatrist' Answers · · Score: 3, Funny
    For those that did, however, the burden usually fell on the secretary, who was typically female, whether she liked it or not.
    Yea, we never got to pick our gender either. Most of us are quite happy with what we are though...
  8. Re:Interesting on Is the Key to Linux a Games-Based Distro? · · Score: 1

    What if this wasn't targetted at consumers, but at the game makers? Put together a distro which a game developer can quickly customize and make bootable on its game CD. Play the game in windows if you like, but if you don't have windows, don't like windows, windows don't work, whatever, then you pop the CD in and boot to it. This boots linux and runs the linux version of the game.

    This would give game developers a stable platform to port to when porting to linux and give the added benefit that the game they sell doesn't require Windows and can be run standalone given sufficient PC hardware.

  9. Re:ludicrous. on Hack Your Car · · Score: 1

    You fucking stupid, completely brainless idiot. You really don't know what you are talking about.

    Increasing boost doesn't make a single difference except in full boost situations. Below the set boost level the wastegate is closed. It's closed if the boost is gonna go to 10psi or 20psi. All the exhaust is going through the turbo. Only once you've reached the set boost pressure does the wastegate open allowing exhaust gases around the turbo.

    Your Supra example is simply laughable, you stupid afterbirth swilling swine. And you're telling other people to get off their dyno queen masturbation HP numbers? I'm flabbergasted, I don't know how best to insult you, I just don't know how to deal with stupidity of your caliber.

    I won't post the anonymously, it's kinda fun, and I want credit. I'd offer to wipe the shit off your ass but if I were you I'd be more worried about the shit spread all over your stupid fuckin' face.

  10. What about canadians? on Jail Time for Movie Swappers · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Just curious how laws such as this one affect Canadians, if at all?

  11. Re:Jail Only If Pre-Released?!? on Jail Time for Movie Swappers · · Score: 1

    No, if you release it the same day it hits the theaters they need more evidence than the fact that you have it on a publically available share to jail you.

    This bill only means that they don't have to prove that others actually got the movie from you, only that you have the movie available publically (before it's released)

  12. Re:I don't understand... on Ritz Disposable Digital Camera Hacked · · Score: 1

    Because they simply don't care. A couple geeks using these things will hardly affect them, I'm sure the # of cameras that get lost, get stolen or get broken will far eclipse the # of cameras bought and hacked.

    And, if it does become a problem (someone selling modified cameras with connectors perhaps,) they've got lawyers.

    Encryption on this camera would simply be a waste of money and complete overkill.

  13. Dual Head on TerraSoft Releases YellowDog Linux 3.0 · · Score: 1

    Does anyone know whether YDL 3.0 supports dual head?

    I use OS X on my 400MHz G3, and while it's great it's kinda sluggish and ticks me off enough that I'd want to move to Linux again. But without dual head support I'd be losing too much.

  14. Audioscrubber... very cool on Slashback: Texasocial, Networking, Attacks · · Score: 1

    Can't wait to get home and install this.

    Finally a way to find more music I like w/o haveing to download gigs of crap. (Yes, of *course* I own all the CDs for the music I download, you ignorant clod)

  15. Just how much faster than Postgresql is it really? on MySQL 4 Declared Production-Ready · · Score: 5, Informative

    I keep hearing how postgresql has "caught up" to mySQL plus has all kinds of wonderful features, yet my own testing shows postgresql to be a fair bit slower when you have about an equal mix of selects and updates with a few inserts thrown in here and there. For example, 82 seconds for postgresql, 35 for MyISAM and 49 for InnoDB (not MySQL 4 however) Yes, the postgresql had fsync turned off and the table vacuumed (full & analyze.)

    I'd love to use Postgresql, but with mysql adding all these features plus being so much faster, it's hard to move that way, as the fancy features are things I'd use but don't really need. (Previously foreign keys were a reason for me to switch)

    Or is there a way to make postgresql keep up to mysql so I can justify using it and right away get access to those cool things like views, triggers, functions, etc ?

  16. Spammers will love this. on Do-Not-Email Registries? · · Score: 1

    Perfect, just what the spammer's want, a list of working email addresses of people who will be eager to read their spam so they can sue.

    Hope the list is just a list of checksums or the like so you can't get the email addresses out of the list yet still check it easily.

  17. Re:reminds me of the half a car joke on Real-Time Collaborative Mapmaking · · Score: 1

    Surely it would be easier to hop on the nearest sport bike and do a wheelie over the sensor?

    Of course, any dual axle truck would screw it up as well. Or a heavy unicycle.

    I may also just be over analyzing the joke in which case I apologize.

  18. How I've seen it done on Cloaking Detection? · · Score: 2, Informative

    I know of a company that used to make a living doing exactly this type of thing. The biggest thing for them was checking for requests for robots.txt. Once it detected a request for this the IP was placed in a database for future reference. They owned a large number of domains, and made up many pages containing the keywords that the client wanted their site to "show up under," with links between them all. These pages were served to any client that had previously requested the robots.txt file. But when a request for one of the pages was received from an IP that hadn't requested robots.txt, they were bounced to the clients site.

  19. More moderation of replys!!! on Assorted Slashdot Changes · · Score: 1

    Better yet. Rob should implement the system so that in nested mode, the replies show up as in threaded mode. e.g. The comment would show up, then a list of replies which I could click on.

    Just a suggestion. I guess I'll know next week whether it was a good one.. :-)