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  1. May I suggest... on MacScan Detects Spyware · · Score: 5, Funny

    I found a keystroke recorder on my Macintosh I installed a year ago and forgot to remove; hah, I have a year's worth of logs!

    They may not actually be as interesting / immersive as the year of typing itself.

  2. Highlights on World's First Tree-sitting Weblog · · Score: 2

    Day six: Frank asked if I was a vegetarian today. He already knows this. What does he mean?

    Day twelve: Will no one let it rest that I dreamed I heard chainsaws?

    Day twenty-nine: Another fricken squirrel!

    Day sixty: I'm just going outside, and I may be some time.

  3. you got it all wrong, mac on MacAddict Tracks Down eBay Scam Artist · · Score: 4, Funny

    I was not going to give up. That night I dreamed of Mr. Christmas and a baseball bat, some duct tape, and roofing nails.

    Look, if you're going to have him retar up there, at least give him a hammer instead of the bat. He'll be up there all week! Jiminy!

  4. Thought this had been done already? on Searching for Lethal Influenza Strains · · Score: 3, Informative

    This states that there's already a sample out there that is currently being sequenced... Though the evidence off the page above is 404...

    This is the fearful graph you're looking for.

  5. Dear Slashdot: on Making Browsers Honor the DNS SearchDomain? · · Score: 2

    How can I stop having these horrible, incapacitating flashbacks?!

  6. were it running on 50 Year Old Computer Still Going · · Score: 2

    I'm sure it would power up in the morning and clear its throat for about five hours, then go in the bathroom for two, then have salt on its oatmeal.

    And all the while, there's a Sun machine thinking "Why can't you just short?! Short and be done with it!"

    I'm having an episode!

  7. In case this is all you care about... on Sea Creature Provides Inspiration for Better Lenses · · Score: 2

    I kept wondering what the "sea creature" was - it's a brittlestar, which is like a big tangly starfish. I thought it'd be something cool and rare like a lazer octopussy.

  8. f/ the article on Has the Quality of Consumer Electronics Declined? · · Score: 2

    "Interestingly enough, consumer interest has risen dramatically in doorstops and metal litterboxes" States marketing VP Sloane, "and we intend to deliver!"

  9. Finally! on Honduras Bans All Violent Games & Toys · · Score: 2

    Power pills and gigantic turkey legs on platters will be able to safely walk the streets at night. Thank you, Honduras, for teaching us what it is to love again.

  10. Da Vinci was paranoid on Da Vinci's Purposeful Mistakes · · Score: 4, Interesting

    IIRC, he also wrote in boustrophedon, and in italian, which is just crazy paranoid.

    It'd be like double encrypting your entire HDD because you're the world's finest pornographer.

    I should know, I'm a medical doctor.

  11. Re:Question: on Using regexp's To Search IDS Data -- Patented · · Score: 2

    It's a pretty important duck. Or at least, that is what he'd have be believe.

    But nonetheless, as soon as this is resolved, he gets the pot.

  12. damn romantics... on Freelancing with Companies in Other Countries? · · Score: 2

    Basically, I'm looking to minimize the risk of me being ripped off, and second, eliminate problems caused by miscommunication due to the lack of a written agreement.

    Where's your sense of adventure?

  13. A good RPG.... on RPG Codex - Articles On Video Game Design · · Score: 5, Funny

    Needs to be shoulder mountable and (ideally) under 10lbs.

  14. Finally a better treatment for walleye-vision on User-Adjustable Glasses · · Score: 2

    Previously, it was a delicate corneal inversion procedure... a multi-opti-pupil-optomy.

    Ain't no man going to take that route with me!

  15. Propaganda? on Getting Started In Linux · · Score: 2

    When I got started, it was (chagrin) through Stephenson's ITBWTCL, which piqued my interest along with ESR's work.

    Beginner courses should probably focus on what Linux does really well conceptually. Like how it's a hot-rodder's dream - that you can really trick out the system the way you like it. Or appeal to the political side and talk about the freedoms you get with the switch.

    Geeks need to appeal to things other than reason and logic. Right?

  16. Question: on Using regexp's To Search IDS Data -- Patented · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Do they have a patent on ^s.*ing$ my ^[dc].*k$ ?

  17. Just like to add... on Genetic Algorithm Improves Shellsort · · Score: 2

    From a GA fan, and seeing all the articles on distributed computing...

    You may also be interested in Tierra. Open-ended networked evolution - it's pretty nifty.

    Got to love watching the computer solve problems for you. Ahh...

  18. ISP lockin on Thoughts on the MSN Web TV Device? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    (Before we start, let me mention I used to work for them, so this isn't just mad bashing, this was the policy I observed)

    These will only get support using M$ as the ISP, if you try to go with another, you're going to have an uphill battle.

    We were directly told to keep tech information about the web tv from the customer, like how to get it to work with other password formats than MSN's, and how to reset the firmware (even their embedded systems needed reboots?!).

    Again, this was back when WebTv was another corp that had been recently been eaten by M$, I don't know if the design changed to be friendlier to other ISPs, but (ahem) I don't imagine that they went out of their way to have some competition.

  19. save some time on You Gonna Eat That? It Could Become Plastic · · Score: 4, Funny

    In the case of Moon Pies, you can begin milling / molding operations immediately.

  20. Let the good times roll... on Archaeologists Clean Dirty Monuments With Face Packs · · Score: 2, Funny

    The archaeologists found that Multani mitti, drew black and yellow impurities from the Taj's marble and left its surface gleaming white for the first time in decades.

    I can go back on the coffee and cigarette diet!

  21. Be very afraid on A Twisty Maze Of Sewerbot Links, All Different · · Score: 2, Funny

    Human decisions were removed from strategic defence. Sewernet began to learn at a geometric rate...

  22. if you count it... on Creating Music Using Your PC? · · Score: 1

    There's Stanton Final Scratch, which is a pretty tight looking dj kit for linux boxes.

    Spinning Mp3s - doing some actual cutting and scratching... Cool stuff.

  23. Rule out the invariant on Studying Avalanches A Little Too Closely · · Score: 4, Funny

    As a serious scientist, I'm worried that having the same person buried again and again will skew the results of this study.

    I have a short list here that will help fix this otherwise wonderful experiment.

  24. Other vadding sites on Ghost Stations of the London Underground · · Score: 1

    Disinformation has a decent article, but it's the links at the bottom that rock.

    Infiltration has some good 'case studies' -- with pictures. Nice.

    Also, jinx isn't as cool. :P

  25. Links? Here's more. on IEEE Spectrum Surveys Current Games' AI Technology · · Score: 1

    This is a good overview, but Gamasutra tends to have the meaty tech.

    Who knew pathfinding was such a drag?