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  1. Web-Basec? on Handhelds Syncing w/ Web-Based Calendars? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Is that some kind of new technology?

    Screw it, it's too early in the morning to make fun of /. editors.

  2. My advice: stop reading slashdot on Computer Studies w/o Excessive Coding? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And spend the extra time learning to code.

    If it turns out you can't learn to code, stay away.

    You are simply not a 'nerd'.

  3. Re:How about foil-lined bags? on RSA Creating RFID Blocker Tag · · Score: 1

    You would need RFID detectors every 10 feet on the shelves and racks, the tags have a very short range. If someone moved say, 20 of the same style of sweaters away from where they are supposed to be, the staff could be alerted. Then the crooks will start stealing them in smaller numbers. :(

  4. How about foil-lined bags? on RSA Creating RFID Blocker Tag · · Score: 4, Interesting

    That's what shoplifters use right now to defeat the currently used radio tags. 60 minutes did a segment on professional shoplifters last Sunday. It's a $10 billion a year industry.

    Who told the criminals about Faraday cages? Did they learn it on the Internet? We need to remove this dangerous physics information from places kids and robbers can get it!

  5. Poor design on Plain Cell Phones Fading Away? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Who decided cellphones should have tiny buttons, in staggered rows? Hint to you designers: look at a Western Electric POTS 2500 (touchtone) set.

    1 2 3
    4 5 6
    7 8 9
    * 0 #

    There! Do it like that!

  6. Re:Dubya on Whose Desktop Would You Most Like To See? · · Score: 1

    W was a constant user of email, up until he got into the whitehouse. He stopped because the federal records act would make his private mail public.

  7. Re:what's cuba like? on Cuban Government Toughens Internet Restrictions · · Score: 1

    My slaves get free everything, too, but they keep singing those sly songs about freedom while they're working in the fields. Let my people go, phht! Well, Moses ain't gonna give them the Internet, and neither am I!

    (I will now be modded down by communists - and slavery will still exist on this planet)

  8. Hey! FBI! on Arrest in Caridi FBI Investigation · · Score: 5, Funny

    Can you drop the fucking make-believe-land movie crap and go after those real-life terrorists instead?

    And see if you can get back my VCR and tape collection from the guy who burglarized my house.

  9. Re:older than 70s... on Forgotten Electronics of the 70s and 80s · · Score: 1

    I've got one. It uses a .25" x 1" vacuum tube, packed full of various *-odes.

  10. Will 2600 post the code again? on DVD CCA Drops Case; DeCSS Not a Trade Secret · · Score: 3, Interesting

    There's still a permanent injunction against them even linking to it. This should be interesting.

  11. Re:More miracle heating/cooling on The Amazing Properties of Aerogel · · Score: 1

    You can get pretty close to the full 1000W/m^2 of heating (level of Sun's radiation hitting the earth)

    Would that be 1kW/m^2 in WINTER? In Anchorage?

    Generalities, and statistics, suck, in average ways. :)

  12. This is a design fault on SPEWS Adds DSL Reports to Block List · · Score: 1

    You can expect this system to behave this way. In fact, it has in the past. So why is this news?

    Somewhere, there is an answer to the spam problem. Someone will become very rich when he finds it.

  13. Re:Thanks for the URL on 20 Year Anniversary of Home Taping Decision · · Score: 1

    Well, there it is - my first rudely sarcastic post.


    Sadly, it will not earn you karma. Well, not the /. kind. :o

  14. It's called telecommuting! on Local News Anchor Feels Pain from Afar · · Score: 1

    It saves travel time and fossil fuels. Why would anyone object?

  15. Re:I am sick of this. on A New HOPE on the Horizon · · Score: 1

    What harm could occur without a gun? Did he threaten to insert the bullets by hand?

  16. Re:Iwo Jima photo by Joe Rosenthal on NetBSD Announces Logo Design Competition · · Score: 1

    Rosenthal arrived just in time to snap the picture of the second flag raising. The first flag was from USS Missoula, and was much smaller. There is a picture of the flag-raisers posed in FRONT of the flag and a *film* of the raising, which you may see here http://www.iwojima.com/raising/raisingb.htm
    along with the posed photos. The raisers bios are here http://www.iwojima.com/raising/raisingc.htm
    and here http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq87-3l.htm a 1945 interview with a raiser.

  17. Re:Iwo Jima photo by Joe Rosenthal on NetBSD Announces Logo Design Competition · · Score: 1

    There is no controversy, there is an urban legend, which you should not spread. Rosenthal had to listen to people say he faked it his whole life. Nice reward for risking your life by pointing a camera while others are pointing guns at you.

  18. Re:Iwo Jima photo by Joe Rosenthal on NetBSD Announces Logo Design Competition · · Score: 0

    It was NOT faked.
    Why don't you apologize to Mr Rosenthal for spreading that lie?

  19. Re:The Ice Storm on Nanoparticles Enter One's Brain Via Olfactory Bulb · · Score: 1

    Hello, meta-moderators. The parent post refers to Tobey saying the EXACT SAME THING the article is about. Crikeys, if they didn't see the movie, they shouldn't mod a post about it.

  20. The Ice Storm on Nanoparticles Enter One's Brain Via Olfactory Bulb · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Remember Tobey Maguire reading the essay?

  21. Re:mass versus skip number on Stone Skipping the Scientific Way · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There is a lot of military research on skipping bombs, see PBS

  22. Re:Tivo- the new SCO on TiVo sues EchoStar for Patent Infringement · · Score: 1

    Tell me who did real-time time shifting of TV shows (including watching the beginning of a show while the end of that same show is still recording) prior to TiVo.

    Have you ever heard of Monday Night Football? They've been doing instant replays (maybe since before the tivo inventors were born).

    They used video hard disks, which seems obvious *now*.

  23. Re:Sleep through caffeine withdrawal on Best Way To Beat A Caffeine Addiction? · · Score: 1

    After pouring about 4 gallons of water through my system in 5 hours, my throat was stripped (and I was sick of running to the bathroom every 20 minutes.)

    This is a sympton of diabetes, excessive thirst and frequent urination. See a doctor NOW.

  24. 3D bees? on Australian Museum Exhibit Sports 3D Bees · · Score: 1

    I hadn't heard that.

  25. There is a BBS documentary in the works on Best BBS Memories? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Jason Scott has been working on it for quite a while, see this.