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  1. Karma catches up with Sony on Battery Recalls A Blow to Sony's Recovery · · Score: 1

    After putting a few million rootkits on their CDs, it's difficult to cry too much for Sony.

  2. Planetary System rather than Planet/Moon on Our Moon Could Become a Planet · · Score: 3, Insightful
    I'd prefer to think of the Earth and the Moon as a single planetary system, consisting of two planets (both easily satisfying the big enough/round enough definition). For simplicity and consistency, we can call the system Earth just like old times.

    Ditto for Pluto and Charon.

  3. Re:put control there instead on War Declared on Caps Lock Key · · Score: 1
    In the KDE Control Center:

    select Regional and Accessibility on the left side menu
    select Keyboard Layout on the left side menu
    select Xkb Options tab on the top
    find Ctrl key position in the list of Options
    select "Make CapsLock an Additional Ctrl" (or whatever you like)
    click Apply on the lower right

  4. Gold Rush! on AOL Digs Up Yard for Spam Gold · · Score: 1

    There's gold in them there spam!

  5. Re:Too late on Google Sends Legal Threats to Media Organizations · · Score: 1

    Too late? There is no way Google could have stopped it. You might as well try to stop the world from turning rather than prevent new words from being created and adopted.

  6. Music for Celebrating Sysadmin Day on Happy System Administrator Appreciation Day! · · Score: 1
  7. Re:The problem: our native-code languages are bad on The End of Native Code? · · Score: 1
    The problem isn't native-code vs interpretive code. It's that our native code languages are terribly flawed.

    And we are still teaching them to our students.

  8. Re:Sightly offtopic but still... on Lenovo To Shun Linux · · Score: 1
    I have T42 that is working reasonably well on Linux, especially with FC5. Getting the wireless to work with FC3 and FC4 took a little bit of effort. Sound worked with FC3 and stopped working on FC4. Neither sound nor wireless worked upgrading to FC5. I finally did a reinstall and then the sound and wireless came back nicely.

    I've found that some finangling is needed for any new machine I've gotten, desktop or laptop. And that eventually the distributions catch up to it.

  9. Keeping up with Dell on US Government Fears China Bugs Lenovo PCs · · Score: 1

    In addition to the hardware bugs, maybe they'll throw in some spyware, adware, and viruses into Windows for good measure. You have to remember that they are competing with Dell.

  10. Re:Transitions.... on Why Windows is Slow · · Score: 2, Informative

    We (our family) have moved away from Macs because every major OS release broke half of our software. You end up paying for the new OS plus buying half of your software again. And you can't stick with the old OS because of some new software you need. For all of Windows problems, it has been doing a better job with older software.

  11. Re:The Supreme Court takes a step forward. on Supreme Court Declines to Hear Obscenity Case · · Score: 1
    Obscenity is and should always be defined by the community -- preferably by the household.
    This sounds like a recipe for chaos.

    In case you haven't heard by now, everything on the internet is available everywhere else on the internet, at least by default. Exactly whose household's standards should be used to prosecute globally available info as obscenity?

  12. One-Stop Spying for the Government on Can We Trust Google? · · Score: 0, Troll

    Keeping all our data on Google will make it easier for the government to spy on all of us and save us from ourselves.

  13. From the New York Times: Google Sells Out on Are Web Firms Giving in to China? · · Score: 1
    Do no evil? Rather, Google becomes evil.

    So Long, Dalai Lama: Google Adapts to China

    ...

    Only one of the 161 images produced by searching in Chinese for the Dalai Lama on Google.cn shows the 14th Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibet since 1940. He is pictured as a young man meeting senior Chinese officials. That was before 1959, when China's People's Liberation Army invaded Tibet and the Dalai Lama fled into exile.

    ...

    But few have cooperated as openly as Google. Google's local staff works closely with Chinese officials to ensure that search results from Google.cn do not include information, images or links to Web sites that the government does not want its people to see.

    ...

    In other cases, the omissions are glaring. Searches for photos of Tiananmen Square on regular Google produce many shots of a man blocking a column of tanks outside the square, the iconic image of the 1989 democracy movement and the later crackdown.

    ...

  14. How do Janitors, Cops. etc. get in? on RFID Injection Required for Datacenter Access · · Score: 1
    Do the janitors need an implant?

    What if police, firemen, ambulance, etc. need to get in? Bash the door down with an axe?

  15. Re:Do they intend to 'keep' everything on Google Beta Testing "Gmail For Your Domain" · · Score: 1

    It will save your business the trouble of letting the government spy on you. One-stop spying will be available from Google.

  16. Garbage out is still garbage on SuitSat Not Looking Good So Far · · Score: 1

    Why go through the expense and problems of rocketing a satellite from earth when you stuff the electronics in some handy space trash? It's giving me ideas the next time my trash gets picked up.

  17. Re:Space, The Final Landfill on Old Spacesuits are Potential Satellites · · Score: 1
    Let's experiment by creating more space junk! Then we can increase the budget for figuring out how to deal with it!!

    Brought to you by the brilliant minds at NASA!!!

  18. Corporations want control. Same tech. for China. on Beijing's New Enforcer - Microsoft · · Score: 1
    Don't corporations want to/have the right to control how their computers are being used? How is this different from China (thinking of China as being one bad-spirited corporation)?

    On the same line, networking companies already offer corporations ways to control what comes in and what comes out. Exactly how are you going to prevent nations from using the same technology?

  19. Re:Enough power on Antispyware Shootout · · Score: 2, Funny

    One for your real work, one for spyware, one for anti-spyware, and the last one for DRM.

  20. Re:And Linus complains about Slashdot.... on Torvalds Gets Tough on Kernel Contributors · · Score: 1

    How dare he? It is time to unleash the CowboyNeal dogs on him.

  21. Re:Processor time? on RSA-640 Factored · · Score: 1
    O(e^(1.9229+O(1))*ln(n)^(1/3)*ln(ln(n))^(2/3))

    You are missing parenstheses. You probably meant:

    O(e^{(1.9229+O(1))*ln(n)^(1/3)*ln(ln(n))^(2/3)})

  22. Begging for a Big Class Action Lawsuit on Schneier: Make Banks Responsible for Phishers · · Score: 1

    I'm surprised that the victims of identity theft have not banded together to sue the banks and other financial institutions. I bet that a few multi-million or larger penalties would get their attention and make them actually do the job of verifying identities.

  23. Re:news? on Dell Offering "Open" PC · · Score: 1

    It's not that Windows is worthless, it's that Dell's additional malware has a negative value the exact inverse of Windows.

  24. Good Idea except that it won't work on Google & Sun Planning Web Office · · Score: 1

    The speed of OpenOffice is just adequate loading off a local disk on a GhZ machine. I can just imagine trying either downloading the bytecode or a web server running hundreds or thousands of OO processes.

  25. America's Internet, Love It or Leave It on U.S. Insists On Keeping Control Of Internet · · Score: 1

    If the US gives up control of the Internet, it will soon be filled with socialists, pornography (ok more pornography), gays, atheists, abortion providers, tax-raisers, and foreigners. Surely you can see that this scenario is so terrifying that the US must keep control.