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  1. Re:amd quad-cores will save them on AMD Reports $611 Million Loss · · Score: 1

    I was so ready to buy one of those... I had to settle for the 5500 instead.
    This was back when the Vortex 2 chip came out from Aureal, which dominated Creative Labs with respect to positional audio. Once again the superior technology lost to the better marketed technology.

  2. Re:Losing Money != A Bad Thing on Next Gen Console Commentary · · Score: 1, Funny

    Microsoft

    core competencies
    ...never mind
  3. Re:Not exactly news on Russia's Floating Nuclear Plants Under Fire From Greens · · Score: 1

    They probably spend at least an order of magnitude more per megawatt. But then again the cost of downtime is drastically higher for a submarine...

  4. SSH attack on Typing Patterns for Authentication · · Score: 1

    Wasn't there an attack for SSH challenge-response authentication that used the timing of packets to make it easier to brute-force your password?

  5. Re:More than 20. . . on Many Dead In Virginia Tech Shooting · · Score: 1

    Half of the population are dumber than the average.
    Amazing! Maybe the next thing you'll tell us is that a line is the shortest distance between two points, or maybe that a prime number only has two factors!
  6. Re:My vision on things on You Played Violent Games - Why Can't Your Kids? · · Score: 1

    Given the freakish religious state of the nation right now, I can just see massive protests about Skeletor's staff with the Ram's Head on it and all the "evil magic."

    In my family we weren't allowed to watch that show for the very reason you mentioned. Seriously.
  7. oops on How To Speed Up Linux Booting · · Score: 1

    That actually should be:

    RC_NEED="foo bar"

    or RC_USE

  8. Link? on Voters Vote Yes, County Says No · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I think they forgot something...

  9. Re:Correction on Some Dinosaurs Made Underground Dens · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    man, the repetativeness of religion bashing and jokes about chairs and a certain microsoft executive make beavis and butthead look like a thinking mans comedy around here.

    You're right. No joke I could make would be as funny as what those people say all by themselves.
  10. Correction on Some Dinosaurs Made Underground Dens · · Score: 5, Funny

    The fake dinosaur bones that god put in the ground to test our faith were positioned in a what was made to appear as an underground burrow.

    This all happened sometime last week.

  11. Re:Fixed in Gentoo on How To Speed Up Linux Booting · · Score: 1

    Sometimes you need to manually fix the dependencies.

  12. Re:Customize the Bootscript, Trim the Fat on How To Speed Up Linux Booting · · Score: 4, Informative

    You can fix those yourself. For any service in /etc/init.d you can put a file of the same name in /etc/conf.d. Among other things, that file can list dependencies.

    DEPEND="foo bar"

  13. Fixed in Gentoo on How To Speed Up Linux Booting · · Score: 5, Informative

    in /etc/conf.d/rc:

    rc_parallel_startup="yes"

    (actually that should be in caps, but the lameness filter doesn't like it)

  14. Re:Oh give me a break on Dungeons & Dragons and IT · · Score: 2, Funny

    Attention to all Slashdot authorities who think they are better than the rest of us:

    You're not. Raving on Slashdot is *stupid*. It's the world's most useless activity. Get a job. Get married. Get a hobby that doesn't involve trying to save VIRTUAL communities. You're an adult for Spaghetti's sake.

  15. I'm actually going to build this... eventually on What Would Be Your Dream Machine? · · Score: 1
  16. Good idea on Source Control For Bills In Congress? · · Score: 1

    Except: should they use bk or git?

  17. Re:I've been wondering... on When a CGI Script is the Most Elegant Solution · · Score: 1

    Daikatana

    It's funny, laugh

  18. Re:ya but.. on Sun May Be Warming Both Earth and Mars · · Score: 1
    Regardless of the cause of global warming, which is easier:
    1. Remove trillions of tons of greenhouse gasses from the atmosphere and somehow put all that carbon back into the ground
    2. Put a structure at the earth-sun L1 point to block a small fraction of sunlight from reaching the earth.

    My guess is that 2 is both easier and faster, in addition it would correct for either cause of global warming (human induced or solar induced).
  19. Re:Linux Kernel keyring; openCryptoki on Secure Private Key Storage for UNIX? · · Score: 1

    Any idea if that mechanism addresses the DRAM "memory" effect described in this paper: http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/secure_ del.html?

  20. Re:Cool on Chinese Develop Remote Controlled Pigeons · · Score: 1

    More like the "zone implants" in the Gap Cycle

  21. Re:Well, not just that. on Tor Open To Attack · · Score: 1

    It's more than just anecdotes, if you bother to look.

    I honestly didn't think it was that controversial, more along the lines of common knowledge. Everyone knows the US government has gone insane, don't they?

  22. Re:Well, not just that. on Tor Open To Attack · · Score: 1

    I would trust DailyKos about as much as I would trust Fox for any reliable, real news. Not saying the story isn't important, but consider the source/election fodder.

    That's true, but there are enough of these stories floating around from different sources that it's safe to just pick some random examples.

    I actually think the OP's reasoning is flawed in that he assumed that the government behaves in a rational manner. Just because it doesn't make any sense to a sane person for the NSA to worry about the TOR project doesn't automatically mean the government won't throw millions of dollars at the project.
  23. Re:Well, not just that. on Tor Open To Attack · · Score: 4, Informative

    The military and secretive NSA operations do not care about you or your open source proxy software. Stop trying to make yourself feel special by writing convoluted conspiracy theories.

    If only that was true...
  24. Re:WTFITOREH? on Tor Open To Attack · · Score: 1

    There are possibly more productive solutions to your problem than anonymous ranting on slashdot.

  25. Re:What do they think? on Merck To Halt Lobbying For Vaccine · · Score: 1

    I just have to say, you undoubtedly have one of the best usernames I've ever seen on Slashdot. Brilliant.

    Back when I set up this account (8 years ago???) I was a Douglas Adams fan.