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  1. Re:Villages? on Toshiba Pushes Safe, Small Nuclear Reactor Design · · Score: 1

    Just put the shooting range on the side opposite the turbine building, so you won't hurt anyone. And clean up the lead regularly, that stuff is dangerous.

  2. Re:Blind Users on Baffling the Spam Bots · · Score: 1
    -Helen ... and dead, since 1968.

    Are you implying that you discriminate against the life challenged? Dead people are people too.

  3. Re:Sure... whatever... blah blah blah. on E-Voting Companies Answer Critics With ... Spin · · Score: 1
    In all fairness, there are reasons not to give people paper printouts of their vote. It makes your vote really really easy to sell, inviting a whole other kind of corruption.

    How many receipts do you want to buy, and what candidate names do you want me to put on them?

    From a purely political standpoint, I think the best way to insure these machines aren't used nefariously is to do rigorous exit polling and make sure your candidate (whoever he/she may be) suceeds by a margin that can't be fudged by a few hundred votes one way or another.

    • Asking someone who they voted for does not mean they will tell you what they actually did.
    • Does rigorous exit polling involve thumbscrews?
    • How do you intend to make sure your candidate succeeds? Oh, yeah. How many receipts did you want to buy?
  4. Re:Human Contact on Shopping Carts Go Wi-Fi · · Score: 1
    No problem.

    I'll chat with the elderly neighbors while my home robot goes shopping.

  5. Re:BS detector maxes out on ElectAura-Net, a 10-Mbit/second Body Network · · Score: 1
    So we have to step on a tile to see video...

    Channel-hopping will look like Dance Dance Revolution.

  6. Re:The Matrix is... on ElectAura-Net, a 10-Mbit/second Body Network · · Score: 1
    • So now we know the construction material of The Matrix networks?
    • Coppertop Access Point
    • I want for you to kiss me, the way you do when trading MP3s with her.
    • The Keymaker said you have to pet this cat before touching the doorknob.
    • There's something different. I can PING them.
    • Pull my finger.
    • It's a network which permeates us, BINDs us, keeps us in contact.. oh, wrong movie.
  7. Re:Privacy? on Shopping Carts Go Wi-Fi · · Score: 1
    ... we still don't have a SWAT team knocking on our door because we bought twelve cans of Sprite, and not Pepsi.

    "George, you missed one!"

  8. Re:So whatcha gonna do... on Good PDA Wi-Fi Signal Strength Locator? · · Score: 1
    I already hear the IT job market roaring back to life.

    Correlation is not causation.

    You never heard of Skynet's growth?

  9. Re:DoS Filter Circumvention on The Next Step In Spam Filtering · · Score: 1
    So why not feed the entire mail source to the filters, as well as the contents of the retrieved data? Include messages of the results of DNS lookups.

    Does it make sense to also use the contents of spam-reporting mailing lists and Usenet groups? Of course, one should first run such broadcast messages through a Bayesian filter trained on real mail, so only spam will be accepted.

  10. Re:DoS Filter Circumvention on The Next Step In Spam Filtering · · Score: 1
    In order to render the image it would have to be dowloaded.
    • Downloading the images becomes part of the invited DDoS.

    This is how spammers know that they found a working e-mail address.

    • Have your mail server accept spam to nonexistent accounts, and also run it through the appropriate parts of the spam handlers. The messages can be fed as spam to the filters. But only emulate reception on some of the spam, so the spammer can't reliably test for the filters (you could also use a Bayesian filter based on known names so the known-spam handlers can emulate a higher reception rate on Rumplestilskin names which resemble real names).
  11. Buses on Securing Files in a Hostile Workplace? · · Score: 1
    we need to be able to recover access in the event a bus hits an engineer,

    Petition to outlaw buses.

  12. Re:It works fine .. on Packet Juggling - Floating Data Storage · · Score: 1

    .. because I always mount a spare network.

  13. Re:Expression nazi - on Google Tracking Frequent Users · · Score: 1

    Just tell them to use Google to find the proper meaning of "begs the question".

  14. Re:Where does he get all those toys? on Avoiding the Bat-Belt Syndrome? · · Score: 1
    call me from the coach w/ voice dialing

    My coach doesn't need voice dialing, he just sends someone into the game with a message.

  15. Re:Something's missing here.... on Birth of a Motorized Surfboard · · Score: 1
    "Looks like a bigger creative leap than Segway..."

    Well, it was said that cities will be redesigned for the Segway.

    I think this powered surfboard and the personal mortar will redesign cities much more quickly.
    Except in some cities in Florida which already have extensive systems of canals which are suitable for commuting.

  16. Re:Where's the story. on Is Google's Future: Star Trek? · · Score: 2, Informative
    ("Computer! What's the situation down on the planet?")

    This is not an NLP problem.
    It is an AI problem.

    • Which planet? There are 87 rooms discussing planets. Bridge... has been discussing the nearby planet, fifth in this system, the homeworld of the researchers, time until refitting at Earth...
    • Which situation? Charge level of the hand phasers in the shuttle craft, percent of cargo loaded, two crew members in the woods, times until sunsets, how many agenda items have been completed, percent of village covered by lava, which course is being served in the Hall...
    • Does "down" involve the comet which will impact in 870 years?
    • Does "on the planet" include the craft which just uncloaked and will crash in 83.6 seconds?
  17. Re:Just one thing... on Is Google's Future: Star Trek? · · Score: 1
    ...does it *have* to have the voice of Majel Barrett?

    Computing... That is certainly not necessary, darling.

  18. Re:I am impressed on Free Software for Politics · · Score: 5, Funny
    Slashdot should try to line Dean up for one of their famous interviews

    Isn't it enough that we've already lined him up for a slashdotting?

  19. More Small Tech... on Weather Radar Goes Miniature · · Score: 1

    Well, now we know one more thing to be included in future "Ultimate Geek Cars".

  20. Re:Really cool!? on Weather Radar Goes Miniature · · Score: 1

    I don't use Windows.

  21. Re:Don't we already have the equivalent? on Weather Radar Goes Miniature · · Score: 1

    Also, past 25 miles or so the big Doppler beam reaches the horizon and zips higher and higher up. More stations would fill in the low-level gaps.

  22. Re:Weather Sensor Array on Weather Radar Goes Miniature · · Score: 1
    I can remember one time in Deleware, we intentionally put a forecasted high temp for the day 6 degrees too high and watched 3 of the local channels quote it.

    Now we know.
    Global warming is an artifact of weather service jokes.

  23. Re:So... on Electricity Apocalypse Soon? · · Score: 1

    Well, in Iraq looting and trade of illegal goods cause blackouts.

  24. Re:In 50 Years' Time on NASA's New Space Wheels · · Score: 1

    ...and the flying car factory will be on the counterweight, delivered via transporter along with a teardrop-shaped sports utility floater.

  25. Re:Taxes? on Massachusetts Adopts Open Standards Strategy · · Score: 1
    You'd have to check the legislative intent behind the excemption of state health agencies, but I suspect the Constitution is the reason.

    The federal government only has a few powers which it is allowed to use or take from the states. The states are in charge of their activities, which is why they all have governments and laws of their own. It is not a good idea for the federal government to give orders to a state agency.