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  1. Unfortunately on The XBox as the Home Entertainment Media Hub · · Score: 4, Informative

    Easybuy2000, the exclusive distributor of the MAtrix no-solder modchip got busted a few days ago. That will be a major stumbling block for people trying to mod their Xboxen.

  2. Welfare for geologists and soil scientists. on NASA Wants Astronauts on Mars by 2010 · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Isn't knowing the soil composition of Mars worth 20 billion?

  3. Re:This should be helpful on Linux 2.4 VM Documentation · · Score: 2

    FreeBSD has had commercial success?

  4. Re:What the RIAA should do. on Judge Rules that Kazaa can be Sued · · Score: 2

    GC is the ISP bringing Kazaa into the country. Here's the traceroute.

    13 150 ms 160 ms 141 ms Netgroup.s1-2-0-0.ar2.CPH1.gblx.net [62.12.33.26]
    14 160 ms 151 ms 170 ms ge1-1.dist0.glostrup.dk.ngdc.net [217.116.226.194]
    15 140 ms 140 ms 131 ms 217.116.224.68

  5. What the RIAA should do. on Judge Rules that Kazaa can be Sued · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Is get the judge to issue an order pulling kazaa.com's domain registration as well as ordering Global Crossing to block their traffic.

  6. Big News, Canada has an Army. on For Those Long Coding Sessions: The Food Patch · · Score: 2

    Take of hoser!

    Eh?

  7. I wonder... on AMI Introduces 'Trusted Computing' BIOS · · Score: 1, Troll

    if your mother had been killed by a terrorist if you would joke about it so casually?

  8. In other news... on Xbox Private Key Distributed Computing Project · · Score: 2

    I just recieved my Matrix no-solder modchip and 120GB drive. The state of the Xbox scene is white hot. Nifty programs to manage your backups, play your media files, and even run linux are being updated daily, not to mention the activity in alt.binaries.cd.image.xbox The XBox was one hell of a gift this year.

    Woo Hoo

  9. Hack Me! on 802.11g Hardware Arrives · · Score: 2

    Sheesh. These antennae just scream it.

  10. Actually on Computers Not Working In Education · · Score: 2

    Stoll's book about computers in education is High Tech Heretic: Reflections of a Computer Contrarian

  11. Re:Just too funny on Kevin Free · · Score: 2

    It's also obvious that this means that a large number of Americans are idiots who want a spoiled rich-kid son of a mediocre former senator

    I presume you are talking about the spoiled rich kid Al Gore Junior and his father Senator Al Gore Sr.? The Senator who voted against the civil rights act of 1964, and his son for whom he engineered a path to the White House?

    Yes it is quite funny how the spoiled rich kid whose daddy wanted him to be president above all else lost to the unassuming guy who never intentended to run for prez.

  12. Re:Just too funny on Kevin Free · · Score: 2

    The parent said Bush was bombing in the name of an oil company. I just asked him which oil comapny. It's a simple question.

    If the US was interested in oil wouldn't Bush just take over Kuwait and Saudi Arabia? They've got a lot more oil and a lot smaller army?

  13. Just too funny on Kevin Free · · Score: 2

    invading countries in the name of oil companies

    Umm. When did Bush say "I hereby invade country X in the name of oil company Y"?

    Which country are you referring to?

    Which oil company?

    "bombing innocent people"

    You mean the Canadians? Sorry, accidents happen. The pilot who did it got punished.

    Or did you mean the Afghans who cheered in the streets after the US liberated them?

    Just curious.

  14. Mobility of labor. on Engineering Careers Short-Circuiting · · Score: 2

    During the last ice age Asians walked from Siberia to North America. During the late 19th and early 20th Centuries millions left Europe without much more than the shirt on their back and came to the US.

    Labor has always been mobile among the motivated.

  15. No. Fookme on Fixing Wireless Security By Pulling The Plug · · Score: 2

    Like this.

  16. Hmm OED has much earlier uses. on Engineering Careers Short-Circuiting · · Score: 2

    From the OED:

    1. One who contrives, designs, or invents; an author, designer (const. of); also absol. an inventor, a plotter, a layer of snares. Obs. In the later quots. perh. a fig. use of 2.

    _.c1420 Metr. Life St. Kath. (Halliw.) 14 In hys court was a false traytoure, That was a grete Yngynore.

    _.1592 G. Harvey Pierce's Super. 8 The dreadfull enginer of phrases insteede of thunderboltes.

  17. What makes you think you're better than an Indian? on Engineering Careers Short-Circuiting · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why do you deserve that engineering job and not him? If he's willing to do the same job for less than why shouldn't he get it? What makes you special? Oh you're an American.

  18. Why Is This Odd? on Satellite Imagery Used to Trace Lewis & Clark Route · · Score: 3, Interesting

    NASA is doing something that will actually further our knowledge about a hugely popular subject, Lewis and Clark. Witness the enourmous popularity of the Ambrose book Undaunted Courage. I think this is a much better use of its budget than sending astronauts up to that great trailer home in space just because.

  19. Team Fortress 2 on Vote for 2002's "Best" Vaporware · · Score: 2

    Oh never mind, HL Blue Shift was satisfying.

  20. Anybody using this thing was calling it quits. on The End of Solotrek · · Score: 3, Funny

    As far as being a member of the living population

  21. Talk to your carrier. on Killing Unwanted Text Messages from Yahoo! Alerts? · · Score: 2

    Get them to block the originating #, or get them to change yours.

  22. Don't be a jackass. on Sony, Matsushita Back Linux For Consumer Goods · · Score: 3, Funny

    Slashdot posts about a dozen articles a day. If you factored in 5 minutes to verify the link, skim the article, and check for dupes it would total 60 MINUTES A DAY of work!

    Given the value of their stock options, don't you think they've got better things to do?

  23. Nope. on DOD vs. 802.11b · · Score: 4, Informative

    According to this article it was a modification of existing radar.

    Some aviation experts suspect the Serbs used a crude version of passive radar -- plugging computers into their existing air defense system -- to locate an F-117A Nighthawk stealth bomber, shot down in 1999.

    Also from the article:

    John Hansman, professor of aeronautics and astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said passive radar is still in its "infancy, but is something that will lead to new stealth research."

    "This is another trick that will force stealth researchers to push forward," Hansman said.

    All in all just another iteration in spy v spy.

  24. Re:Spending != Innovation on Whither America's Technological Edge? · · Score: 2

    Oh? Do you know of any engineers or scientists who would like to join the company I'm starting?

    I'm paying 350 hugs a week.

  25. Re:Sorry. You don't deserve karma. on Whither America's Technological Edge? · · Score: 1

    You meant to say:
    A company like Ford would do anything they could to avoid having to develop a substantial innovation over GM and DB.


    No I didn't. Ford is in trouble. If they could develop an Explorer, powered by a Mr Fusion that runs on trash, they would be set. Maintaing the status quo is not an option.

    Note, I'm not saying that Big Business is exempt from the same critique that Stein has mad about the culture in general. I'm just pointing out that attacking big business is nonsense.