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  1. Honest question. on The Largest Unpiloted Legged Robot Yet · · Score: 1

    Ok, you need a 700mhz processor to control the sensors for balance and where the ground is etc etc...

    So if you wish to run, you'd need to process quicker. Would that mean that the faster you want to go the faster the chips?

    Interesting how our mind can't compute numbers so quick but we can already run :)

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  2. interesting solution on Napster to Filter by Filenames · · Score: 1

    create a napster proxy.

    it does a hash on ( gmt hour and file name ) so that when you go to the napster server, all your filenames get translated. using proxy A

    when you want to do a search, someone who uses a proxy asks for Metallica which gets translated to 0x12982. When a reply is found saying it found the file, it goes through proxy B which unscrambles the file name and bam, you can preserve file names ;)

    interesting in theory, prolly no one will actually do it :)

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  3. If the government... on Balancing Third Party "Ownership" Against The GPL? · · Score: 1
    If the government, an organization by itself, is distributing the software internally, to itself, doesn't that NOT violate the GPL when closed source?

    If it was released into the public wouldn't it THEN be required to be "open source"?

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  4. What will it mean? on What Will Human Cloning Mean For Humanity? · · Score: 1

    It will mean a growing popularity of the bad pun, "Send in the clones!" And of course, more groans :)

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  5. Re:Apt name on Bad Call For Referee Dispute · · Score: 1

    It figures that they couldn't arbitarte between themeselves :)

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  6. March? on Guess When Mir Will Splash · · Score: 1

    March? March of what year? wasn't this thing supposed to splash down last year? or was that iridium? ;>

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  7. Imagine... on DSL Woes · · Score: 1

    ... if the slashdot connection poll were live and you could change your vote. That sudden drop in dsl usage ;>

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  8. Re:Silly coders. on Vulnerability In SSH1 · · Score: 1

    Its hard to write a single much less a speciallized app to go through every input type, every branch of execution. Its possible, but its VERY hard.

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  9. Re:Stupid fix.. but none the less.... on Vulnerability In SSH1 · · Score: 1

    I know. But this is a firewall ;> Use i know.. "why ssh on the firewall!" well there is.

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  10. Stupid fix.. but none the less.... on Vulnerability In SSH1 · · Score: 2
    People are going to ignore it but simply disable SSH1 and make sure your sshd is NOT that old.

    Yeah, /usr/ports for freebsd 3 still uses openssh 2.2, but disabling protocol 1 is at least a quick fix while a more stable thing is done.

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  11. Re:patch on Symantec Patents Virus Updates · · Score: 1

    That was weird. my #5 post got in a minute before yours with the same reply :)

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  12. Someone get larry wall on the phone.. on Symantec Patents Virus Updates · · Score: 1

    I would think he might have a say in this regarding patch(), as prior art.

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  13. gone from suck to blow! on Is It OK To Sucks? · · Score: 1

    Its an alternative. ... do use blows vs sucks. Or maybe bites....

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  14. I remember watching... on NASA Controls Jet With Nerve Signals · · Score: 1

    I remember watching star trek voyager once. when they had to drop their core. (core dump, get it?). What happens when the user thinkgs in exclamation, "Oh Shit!"

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  15. Re:pika on Interesting Commercials · · Score: 1

    How about "I'm sorry". The key word to save any relationship, any friendship and to prevent the schedule of nookie :)

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  16. Just what we need... on Wireless LAN Onboard Passenger Aircraft · · Score: 2

    a 747 of geeks playing quake and unreal tournament... wirelessly =)

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  17. how about a total rewrite.. on Core Developers Discuss The Future Of GNOME · · Score: 3
    While i know that C is a wonderful language, anythign done graphically should probably be done in OOP. I'm sorry, but easy development and expandibility aren't done well in C for graphical programs.

    Last I looked and tried GTK with Drag and Drop, it was nightmare. Unless you are a gtk/gnome monger, forget it.

    And the other thing is speed. Lord good gravy gnome is slow. Its bloat with fudge added in. Waiting for hardware to get faster is not a way to make your software improve, efficiency wise.

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  18. Re:Has suing over IP become a cliche? on Nintendo Sues "Daily Radar" Owners For Pokemon Shots · · Score: 1

    To clear up a confusion, that's intellectual property. Not IP as in Internet Protocol (address) ala IP Address.

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  19. Re:Why do people do this? on Aethera Beta 1 Released · · Score: 1

    We all know that Windows sucks. So why, oh why, do countless Open Source projects spring up that try to slavishly duplicate the look and feel of yet another crap Windows product while leaving out the only good parts of the functionality? And then they call it a "Windows:foo killer". Do they really think Microsoft are the sole arbiters of what constitutes good GUI design?

    Considering they actually hire people who specialize in user interfaces and the psychologies behind them? Yeah. Just because you don't like the look and feel, doesn't mean that everyone else

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  20. Re:Hmmm on Digital Doodling · · Score: 1

    Its called writting a script to catalogue all urls posted in slashdot articles and checking to see if they've been double posted. Yes, its hard to do that with multi-homed domains, but it filter a lot of the shit we get here...

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  21. Give IT away.. on What is 'IT'? · · Score: 1
    "Give it away, give it away, give it away, give it away now.. "

    -red hot chilli peppers

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  22. Re:Not to be confused with....AtheOS on Athena: A Fast Kernel-Independent GUI OS · · Score: 1

    The link in the article shouldn't be confused with the other goat like, .cx resembling link we all know and love.

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  23. It all depends.. on CS vs CIS · · Score: 1
    It all depends on the interpretation by the school of what CiS and CS are. When I went to a liberal arts and have a degree in CiS with no management or accounting. CS you would think it would be called. Polytechnic NY, which has a CS program (or the 'escape major' since it was easy to transfer into), had a couple of management courses mixed into their 'CS' degree. I guess what you should be asking is what course background you had.

    I proudly tell them I have CS with a Psych minor =)

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  24. Re:FUD on Silverman Responds To 'End of SSL And SSH' · · Score: 1
    Point being is that there are a lot of idiots out there who think that the key is transfered securely, and full proof. But someone on a hub (no.. won't work on a switch >P ) could sniff ssh traffic and get a key.

    But you are right, how does a hacker get right in the middle? Its hard. Especially with so much traffic floating around.

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  25. Further proof.. on The Good Old Days..... · · Score: 1

    Before there was priceline, there was the commodore vic-20 http://www.sbrowning.com/vintage/index.php3?p=35

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