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  1. You missed SD. on Which Solid State Medium Is More Portable? · · Score: 2
    I just got a color Casio EM-500. It has an MMC slot, and there are reports that it can also use SD memory. Apparently SD memory is similar but has two more pins, yet Casio can use it without some sort of "protection" feature. [Gee, you missed SD in your potluck] Unfortunately I haven't found any non-memory MMC devices.

    Well, first I have to load Linux on it so I can make use of it...

  2. Re:best evidence is rising sea level on Firm Evidence for Greenhouse Effect · · Score: 1
    It's interesting then that there's so much difficulty measuring sea level change on the ground.

    Incidentally, TOPEX cycle 1 was in 1992. And as it can only measure with a precision of 3-5 cm, those must have been interesting calculations to derive a change in millimeters. Do you have a link?

  3. Re:Ice age looming on Firm Evidence for Greenhouse Effect · · Score: 2
    we can make educated guesses that are reliable enough to base policy on. Those guesses/predictions include rises in sea level and the disruption of long-established weather patterns

    We won't know if they are reliable until time passes. Those predictions don't include the recent discoveries of the power of soot and heat-caused cirrus depletion cooling, much less other unknown factors.

    There is no global sea level change -- that's only another prediction. Read about the problems with sea-level predictions and see how confident you then are about them. For that matter, the recent IPCC sea level prediction includes mention that southern oceans will rise somewhat less than elsewhere -- the IPCC doesn't explain how water rises differently there. For that matter, El Nino was discovered by climatologists only a few decades ago...it's amazing how the same science which is still discovering smaller oscillations can be used to make longer-term predictions.

  4. Post-Editing on DirecPC USB Satellite Modems Available for Linux · · Score: 5
    • s/there website/their website/
    • s/available on there/available on their/
    • s/comes with;/comes with:/
    • s/400kbps uplink/400kbps downlink/
    • s/its worth/it's worth/
  5. FillIn: Network Upgrader on Transmeta Releases Midori Linux · · Score: 1

    I like "FillIn" as the name of the Midori network upgrade system.

  6. Re:bandwidth on Low-Bandwidth X · · Score: 1
    4Kbits/sec is certainly minor now. 1200 bps is 1.2Kbps. People consider a 14.4Kbps connection to be slow, and 4Kbps is much less.

    I've used normal X through a 1200 bps modem. Text windows work just fine, it's graphic windows which gets slow.

  7. Re:"Old as the Hills" on Security Hole In TCP · · Score: 5

    I've discovered that when a backhoe cuts the wire connecting me to my ISP, the network suddenly fails. Nothing I do to the network interface seems to fix the problem. I've found documentation that this problem is as old as the hills, yet nothing has been done about it. I thought I'd better announce this in case another backhoe is built.

  8. Parliament Takes Action on CurlyCart: How To Hack Your Power Wheels · · Score: 1

    The British Government is studying using GPS-equipped Barbie cars to restrict the maximum speed at which children can drive in various parts of their yard. Speeds near hazards would be automatically reduced. Parental codes would be needed to travel outside one's own yard. Sidewalk toll accounts would have to be current in order to use sidewalks.

  9. Re:These may be helpful... on LCD & CPU Modules For Game Cockpit Panels? · · Score: 1

    The LCDproc page has references to several of those serial/parallel characters LCD displays. LCDproc, which shows Linux system status on an LCD, also is an example of code to talk to them.

  10. Origami on Iridium Returns From The Dead. Again. · · Score: 3

    This isn't Origami in my hand, it's my paper Iridium phone. See, the antenna folds out when I do this, then this, then this, with this, and that...

  11. Re:Explain slowly... on Scientology vs. Panoussis Ruling · · Score: 2

    Interesting idea. Perhaps when one clicks on the "topic icon" for a story, rather than merely bringing up a list of recent stories...above that list could be a summary of the topic, with links to related info (whether they're Slashdot backgrounder info or other sites). Look at the Slashcode and see if is already implemented...

  12. Re:Starship Troopers, here we come! on Stratospheric Skydiving · · Score: 1

    With GPS technology, everyone can try to land on the first guy's foot. The problem becomes one of keeping them from flying into each other.

  13. Half-Decayed Answer... on Single-Atom Transistor · · Score: 2

    And the half-life of Transistorium is eighteen parsecs?

  14. Hackers can Crack, but also do more. on Is Hacktivism Robin Hood Politics? · · Score: 2
    A hacker might break into a computer sometimes. When an employee loses the administrator password for a computer, you might have the choice between reinstalling everything on the computer or somehow finding/changing the lost password. The only clean and approved way is to reinstall. The quick and data friendlier hack is to try to break the security. Been there, got permission, hacked that.

    A cracker specializes in breaking in. A hacker is more generalized. A cracker without permission is a burglar.

  15. 747 bandwidth on Where Do You Get The Games? · · Score: 2
    2. The cargo capacity of a 747 is 6025 cubic feet.

    The cargo capacity of a 747-400 is 24,952 cubic feet. You were using the cargo capacity of a passenger model, not a freight model. And you were told to never underestimate.

    I also think that you miscalculated your 747 TB-m/sec. Did you forget to multiply km by 1,000 before dividing by 3,600 sec/hr to get m/sec? I got 1,622,745,002 TB-m/sec for the 747-400F. That makes the 747 equivalent to 24,965,307 T1s.

    0.0026041667 CD cu ft
    24952 747 cu ft
    9581568 CD/747
    670 MB/CD
    6419650560 MB/747
    910 km/hr
    3600 sec/hr
    252 m/sec
    1622745002 TB-m/sec
    65 T1 TB-m/sec
    24965307 T1/747
  16. Re:Beetle stunt on Slashback: Beetle, Reading, Streams · · Score: 2

    What, they didn't engineer a "PULL HERE TO DROP CAR" tab?

  17. Re:Beetle stunt on Slashback: Beetle, Reading, Streams · · Score: 1

    Just keep your shear ignorance away from our suspension cables.

  18. LodgeNet.Com on Hotels w/ High-Speed Internet Access? · · Score: 1

    LodgeNet supplies high-speed Internet service in hotels. Go to the LodgeNet Guests page and you can search for a hotel. There are three in L.A. at the moment.

  19. Re:Units on Clockless Computing? · · Score: 1

    The retail standard is not FLOPS, it is FPS (frames per second) at various screen resolutions. :-)

  20. Axis Web Cam? on Creating A Tiny, Free, Roaming Webcam? · · Score: 2
    Wrong Link. You mean Axis.Com.

    The 2120 looks like it's almost what you need. It can talk to a modem for incoming or outgoing calls, it can take a picture based on either time or alarm (push a button to take a picture).

    But its power is 12VAC, 9.6A. You'll have to tinker to give it AC.

  21. Socialism Good. Fire Bad. on VeriSign Usurps .com · · Score: 1

    Does everyone in a socialist country qualify as being a non-profit entity?

  22. Re:Video Tapes on How Do The 2View Limited Viewing VHS Tapes Work? · · Score: 1

    The videotape case will probably be glued shut, so if you're going to use a screwdriver it will have to be very sharp. It would be easier to just copy the movie onto another tape. Oh dear, does my mentioning that possibility violate the DCMA?

  23. Proof of Pain on Marine Corps Testing Maser for Anti-Personnel Use · · Score: 1

    You can tell that you've been shot by a sunburn gun because of the little welt in the shape of "Hello Kitty".

  24. Human Shields on Marine Corps Testing Maser for Anti-Personnel Use · · Score: 1

    Well, I suppose burning the human shields would make them all wriggly and hard to hold in place as shields...

  25. AOL CD on Marine Corps Testing Maser for Anti-Personnel Use · · Score: 1

    Use AOL CDs instead. It's more illuminating.