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  1. Re:At last! A story *made* for slashdot! on Are Keyboards Dishwasher Safe? · · Score: 1

    Exactly, disassemble and wash the washable parts, not the electronics. Otherwise, I use a little Goo Gone on a rag to clean keys without taking anything apart and flip and pound on the keyboard to shake out the crap in it.

  2. Re:If it's round on Mass of Dwarf Planet Eris 27% Greater than Pluto · · Score: 1

    Though that wasn't the OP's definition anyway, he was saying that anything orbiting the sun should be a planet. Not that I think there's a problem with that


    Halley's Comet orbits the sun in a highly elliptical orbit.
    Asteroids orbit the sun.
    Round man-made satellites could orbit the sun.

    Slight stretch - If a moon breaks out of planetary orbit or the planet is destroyed, does the moon become a planet since it orbits the sun?
  3. Who cares about facts? on EU Considering Regulating Sale of Violent Games · · Score: 1

    http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0777958.html
    First, the Johann Gutenberg High School shooting was 5 years ago.
    Second, nothing I've read on this particular shooting ever linked it to video games. He was expelled from school.

  4. Re:rewriting of history on Star Wars Takes Over Harvard Commencement · · Score: 1

    Now there's an interesting question - if greed is done for philanthropic purposes, is it still greed? (probably should have used a different word than greed)

    Maybe Bill Gates thought he could help the world by accumulating money from many different people and using it for one philanthropic purpose. Of course, this is a very slippery slope.

  5. Re:If you don't get on Time Warner Cable Implements Packet Shaping · · Score: 1

    "Up to" should mean that it's at least possible to get that speed. If they're doing some kind of rate-limiting to make sure you never get up to the "up to" advertised, I'd say that's pretty well false advertising.


    Yes, it is possible to get "up to" the advertised speed with certain protocols. They're not lying just because they didn't tell you the whole truth.
  6. Re:It's relaxing when others channel surf for you. on Watching My Neighbors Watch On-Demand TV · · Score: 1

    Watching what other people watch can be fun.


    No. This is the same thing as giving someone else the remote. Unless you have the same interests, that person is just going to watch crap that you don't care about. You might as well set the remote to randomly change channels. You'd probably end up watching more shows that actually interest you.
  7. Silly Rabbit on Encrypt and Sign Gmail messages with FireGPG · · Score: 2, Insightful

    They use programs to determine who is using high level encryption. Afterwards, they plant a keylogger with burst transmitter in your keyboard. By doing it that way, they don't have to spend anytime decrypting. You can any program or level of encryption you want and it won't do any good since you are compromised at a lower level.

  8. Re:Jericho *was* Nuts on "Jericho" Fans Send Over Nine Tons of Nuts to CBS · · Score: 1

    Actually, that doesn't sound too bad, but the "Blown-the-hell-up-90210" part sounds painful.


    I thought Jericho was similar to the tv show, Jeremiah (with Luke Perry) in a lot of ways. They had betrayals, love stories, growing friendships, several enemies, apocalypse survival and a growing friendship with a black man who wasn't quite honest at first.
  9. Re:More details on Optimus Keyboard Pre-Orders In Mere Hours · · Score: 2, Insightful

    $1500 Hmmmmm, two 24" LCD monitors or the pre-order of a keyboard that changes icons that I won't look at and if I did, would be covered up by my hands. Well, at least I've got a couple of hours to think about this.

  10. Re:How many slashdotters on Click Here To Infect Your PC! · · Score: 1

    Reminds me of the only spam I've clicked on - Chop Down Trees sent me an email with the subject with your huge cock.

    I just had to click on it.

  11. Re:wow on Canadian Coins Not Nano-Tech Espionage Devices · · Score: 1

    It was a Remembrance Day (ww2) coin.. why would this strike anyone as suspicious?

    FTA

    One contractor believed someone had placed two of the quarters in an outer coat pocket after the contractor had emptied the pocket hours earlier. "Coat pockets were empty that morning and I was keeping all of my coins in a plastic bag in my inner coat pocket," the contractor wrote.


    If you're going to make a spy device, you would try to make it look as normal and common as possible.
    If the US caught Canada actually spying, they would do a coverup and use the information covertly. Also a Canadian coin spying on Americans in Canada, doesn't necessarily mean it was the Canadians spying.

    Of course, maybe he forgot about the coins in his pocket.
  12. Re:exactly - straw man argument on You Can't Oppose Copyright and Support Open Source · · Score: 1

    That pretty much sums up my feelings.

    As for piracy, being cheap isn't always a political statement.

  13. Re:But what is it good for? on Mathematicians Design Invisible Tunnel · · Score: 1

    How about a recon vehicle?
    Put the tube standing on end around the vehicle. Use fiber optics, small cameras, or other sensors in a periscope so they can see outside the tube. There would also be the possibility of stacking smaller and smaller tubes to form a dome over an object.

  14. Luckily on openSUSE Survey Results Online · · Score: 4, Funny

    OpenSuse user base doesn't reflect the world. Otherwise, only 2% of the population would be female.

  15. Re:seems worse on Dell Rethinking the Direct-Sales Market · · Score: 2, Informative

    Dell does have kiosks in malls to show some of their product already.

  16. Re:How does this help the artist? on RIAA Claims Ownership of All Artist Royalties For Internet Radio · · Score: 1

    I just read a little blip in Maxim, that Young Jeezy bought a bootleg of Norbit. I think it's ok then to download his stuff. Also probably anyone who's music contains references that glorify drug dealing, pimping, killing, illegal firearms, violence and other unlawful activities. C'mon what's a little white collar crime compared to that.

  17. motto on Outcry Over Google's Purchase of Doubleclick · · Score: 4, Funny

    Same old motto, you just read it wrong before.

    Google - Don o' evil

  18. Re:Title error... on QuickTime .MOV + Toshiba + Vista = BSOD · · Score: 1

    Forgot to mention that the article even points out that the one program is even supported on Vista. In that case, I've got tons of software of unsupported software that won't work either.

  19. Re:Title error... on QuickTime .MOV + Toshiba + Vista = BSOD · · Score: 1

    Let me get this straight, one person on one pc has one program the causes a BSOD when it plays one type of format.

    Definitely sounds like Apple, Microsoft, and Toshiba should be rushing to fix this problem.

  20. Re:Can you have the locks keyed the same? on What Electronic Door Lock Would You Buy? · · Score: 1

    C - if a vendor tech needs to access at a remote location, they can give them a temporary code for access
    D - tracking who accesses a location, checks for unauthorized access by employees and use of codes by someone else

    Just a reminder
    With remote locations, good locks can only do so much since criminals have a lot more options.

  21. Re:Note to Editors on Botnet on Botnet Action · · Score: 1

    That makes no sense. A bot is just code. You can secure a computer from outside infection and still run programs on it that access the internet. You can even have secure access to it remotely.

    As for companies doing it through a botnet, why would they want a lawsuit? As for doing it through their services, several companies do offer protection tools like antivirus, firewall, etc. already.

  22. Re:Online game services on Steam Hacked, Credit Card Numbers Taken · · Score: -1, Redundant

    People complain about using credit cards online, but virtual card numbers and "gift" credit cards limit exposure even more than just the regular policies of the credit card companies.

  23. Re:Somewhat surprising on Bill Would Require Labels on Cloned Food · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Agreed.

  24. How much collateral damage? on New Laws of Robotics Proposed for US Kill-Bots · · Score: 1

    AK-47 identified....standby for nuclear-tipped cruise missile launch...target destroyed

    While that scenario may never happen, there are many scenarios such as deciding whether the people are human shields or enemy combatants surrounding the robot and what to do about it.

  25. Re:The police ought to follow the law. on Police Objecting to Tickets From Red-Light Cameras · · Score: 1
    If they followed the law, they'd still have freedom to investigate.

    Under the state transportation code, officers driving a vehicle equipped with lights and sirens can run a red light when responding to an emergency call, pursuing an actual or suspected violator of the law, responding to a fire alarm, conducting a police escort, and directing or diverting traffic for public safety purposes.