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  1. What this means on Japan Seeking to Govern Top News Web Sites · · Score: 2, Interesting

    We are allowed to make fun of other people, but not companies or government officials.

  2. Re:I must rush out on Apple, Starbucks Sued Over Music Gift Cards · · Score: 1

    And patent it with "using wireless communications" added.

    Too bad you left out "encryption" in your wireless communication patent. It would be a shame if everyone redeemed their valuable gifts without encryption at Starbucks...

  3. Re:Déjà vu? on Master Diebold Key Copied From Web Site · · Score: 4, Funny

    The real story is someone hacked a Diebold voting machine to host Slashdot. Notice how this site is running slower than usual, turning out false stories, and running dupes?

  4. TWRR in Kansas City on Time-Warner Considers Per-Gigabyte Service Fee, After iTunes · · Score: 1

    They are now playing with DNS lookups this week with their own sitefinder. I'm expecting port forwarding, blocking, proxying, and other annoying stuff soon.

  5. Re:Who writes this stuff? on Reform Could Kill EFF "Patent Busting Project" · · Score: 4, Funny

    WikiBill?

    That is our legislative branch right there. Its a wikipedia powered by the Ebay engine. Edits require paypal donations and the final version is locked and sealed with the highest bidder.

  6. Re:auto-complete is at fault? on A $1 Billion Email Gaffe · · Score: 1

    My software dims the signature after the double dash --

    I blame my software for not seeing that disclaimer. Unfortunately, I copied and pasted the important text and forwarded it as an immediate release. Please accept my apologies.

  7. Re:Why wouldn't they? on Microsoft Misleads On Canadian Copyright Reform · · Score: 1

    What do you expect from a company who's founder bragged about stealing code from a college dumpster? His guilt trip seems to fuel a perfect business model: accuse others of how you became the wealthiest person in the world.

  8. Re:In fear of getting utterly cut up... on Google And Microsoft Cross Swords Over Yahoo! · · Score: 1

    So if I understand you correctly, the way for a monopoly to be stopped is to have a competing monopoly buy its nearest competitor?

  9. Re:Cue... on Fourth Undersea Cable Taken Offline In Less Than a Week · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Well the Pentagon has recently declared the internet as an enemy weapons system.

  10. Re:America's best shot at having a secular preside on Mitt Romney Answers Tech Questions · · Score: 1

    JFK was Catholic and that was a big thing back then.

  11. Re:FUD and not so FUD on Embedded Microchips In Virtually Everything · · Score: 1

    A cheap passive tag bonded to a capacitor and an antenna could burst back a signal far away. Never underestimate cheap.

  12. Re:Public land != radio spectrum on 700 MHz Auction Begins Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    So that's my wisdom. Got any of your own? Or just sarcasm?

    Good so far. But why do we little people get such a tiny sliver for ISM to play with? Why not a bigger park to play in? Seems kind of crowded to me.

  13. Re:Public land != radio spectrum on 700 MHz Auction Begins Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    You think 802.11 can just work on any frequency, willy-nilly, any time it wants?

    Why not? Tell me, experienced Ham Operator, why can't we do it? Why can't we have a public spectrum? Are you afraid everyone is going to abuse the spectrum by turning up the power with "free" electricity or something? Share your experience, your wisdom please.

  14. Re:Public land != radio spectrum on 700 MHz Auction Begins Tomorrow · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Above all, what would you do with it and, in all fairness, how do you know your purpose is more noble or better for the common good than what the big businesses have come up with?

    Never heard of the shortwave band? DHSS? 802.11? Technology always has an answer. Government regulations always have questions.

  15. Re:Big businesses win, we lose! on 700 MHz Auction Begins Tomorrow · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This isn't the ANWR drilling we are talking about dude. What do you want, lowest bidder? Seriously, you are king of the world...how would you handle this?

    DHSS. Use the same technology in our wireless cards. Make this a truely public spectrum. There's always a technological solution to a government problem. Why sell what we can use for free?

  16. Big businesses win, we lose! on 700 MHz Auction Begins Tomorrow · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Our public land and airwaves for sale to the highest bidder.

  17. Re:Does filtering really work? on Interview with AT&T on BitTorrent Filtering · · Score: 1

    Yes, the L7 filtering of the dd-wrt does work but only for a minute. But once that is enabled, the clients quickly hop into port 443 and back to 7881. So I block 7881 and then they roll to 7880 using encryption. Blocking 443 seems to stop it also, as they have accounts they can't get into and start another transfer. I filter, because home VoIP and P2P don't play together well and I like having family over.

  18. Re:Where's TFA? on Cell Phone Sommeliers on the Way? · · Score: 5, Funny

    I thought the whole point of slashdot was to heckle the people who DID read the article!

  19. Does filtering really work? on Interview with AT&T on BitTorrent Filtering · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Many people on the dd-wrt forums would love to know how to do it. Its been tried on the L7 layer, but clients get around that in seconds.

  20. Re:It would've been funnier on RIAA Website Hacked · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, very few visit the RIAA site and would have caught it. The only way to get visitors is to let everyone know its hacked.

  21. RRoD is the new BSoD on Microsoft Insider Details Xbox 360 Red Ring Problems · · Score: 1

    Google confirms it:

    421,000 hits for RRoD
    1,670,000 hits for BSoD

    Impressive considering the Xbox to Windows ratio.

  22. Re:Steal Wi-Fi? on Schneier Says 'Steal this Wi-Fi' · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's like saying we should "steal" music files

    I thought that's how most people seal music files and do P2P: one of their neighbor's open networks.

  23. Hacking potential on Official DTV Converter Box Coupons for Americans · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Will it run Linux?

  24. That first picture... on Mars Asteroid Impact More Likely Than Before · · Score: 2, Interesting

    See that first picture where the arc of the asteroid makes a flyby right into our orbit, while just passing Mars?

  25. Speed on Panasonic To Ship Form Factor-Standard Blu-ray Drive · · Score: 1

    "The drive supports 2X writing to single-layer BD-R (write-once) and BR-RE (rewritable) discs and 1X writing to dual-layer discs."

    No.