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  1. Now you don't need a bomb to cause disruption on Aerosol Spray to Identify Bombing Suspects · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Go down to your local airport. Pick something that lots of people will handle, say the luggage trollies, or the paper towels in a bathroom, and sprinkle with urea nitrate. Leave before the avalanche of false positives at the security checks.

  2. Re:Audio formats on Slashback: Bots, Time Travel, Turing · · Score: 1

    Now if only someone would set this up as a service for those of us with poor bandwidth- they copy the RealAudio stream via a decent connection to another format, and I download it at my (slow) convenience.

    Its a potential copyright nightmare, even though it seems a fair use to me.

  3. Even your mom will need help... on Designing Linux for the Masses · · Score: 1

    ..if she needs to install a new printer, change her ISP, deal with a fault...

    Easy click and go can only work when there is a support system available, and this is true for Windows and Linux users.

    Home users, and businesses to small/disorganised to employ support staff, are left struggling when they need to do the non-routine jobs. They've been sold a package (the machine) with a vital component (the support) missing, and assumed that this was the way it was meant to be.

    They need support and they need companies ready to give it to them in ways which will really help and are cost-effective. That should include (re)configuration, installing software updates, problem solving, and use direct access to the machine.