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  1. What if these microjob firms just capped hours? on Does Amazon's Clickworker Platform Exploit Its Workers? (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 1

    What if Turk just capped hours at 8 per week or something like that? Avoid any supposition that it could be used for anything more than killing time and feeding curiosity.

  2. Universal Basic Celibacy on Elon Musk Predicts Automation Will Lead To A Universal Basic Income (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    Good luck boys!

  3. ADS-B has zero security on Boeing 787 "Blacklisted" From Some Air Traffic Control Services (flightglobal.com) · · Score: 1

    ADS-B has zero security controls. Someone with a simple transmitter could draw a murder of giant dicks swarming in three dimensional space using A-380s as pixels. It's hilariously bad.

  4. Re:QuBits on SETI Fails To Detect Signals Coming From KIC 8462852 (examiner.com) · · Score: 1

    I think it does. It's how we solve the black hole information paradox. Hawking radiation tunnels the information back out into meatspace by entangled virtual particles. The anti particle half collides with a real particle inside the event horizon, causing the real half to transform into the portion of the real particle that merged with the antiparticle.

  5. Jack Hanna on The Technology Behind the Magic Yellow Line · · Score: 1

    This guy reminds me of Jack Hanna for some reason.

  6. Gizmodo Drive Death Dance Track Competition on The Sounds of Failing Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    Gizmodo had a competition a few years ago:

    http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/announcements/hard-drive-dying-dance-track-winner-151666.php

    The winner was incredible, entirely synthesized from drive failure sounds:

    http://media.odeo.com/9/4/2/Hitachi_Hard-Drive_Project_-_Noriko_Version.mp3

    or

    http://beemp3.com/download.php?file=1512610&song=

  7. Re:He's a Democrat, so who he is doesn't matter no on Barack Obama Wins Democratic Nomination · · Score: 1

    The Republicans will only vote for an R, unless their own candidate is so bad that they have to stay home. McCain may or may not be be that bad, but it remains to be seen. Fortunately your opinion is based on a stereotype and not reality. I'm a lifelong R, voting in November, and it won't be for McCain. Whether it's for Obama or not remains to be seen, but i'm certainly not staying home.

    http://republicansforobama.org/?q=homepage

  8. Dell ships a billion gigabytes now. on A Yottabyte of Storage Per Year by 2013 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Wankah

  9. Re:in other news on US Claims Satellite Shoot-Down Success · · Score: 1

    anti-missile missile anti-missile missle missle missle anti-missle missle

  10. Re:Wireshark... on RIP Ethereal, Long Live Wireshark · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, just ask the folks over at Joomla how to come up with a clever new name...

  11. What about RAID on Samsung Announces Solid State Laptop · · Score: 1

    What if you just mirror two standard 32GB parts? Isn't that what RAID is for? So what if the MTBF is 10% of a regular drive...keep a fresh one in your laptop bag and you're good to go.

  12. m0n0 baby!!! on VPN Solutions for Distributed Installations? · · Score: 1

    We use m0n0wall (http://www.m0n0.ch/wall) for this exact thing...it supports a number of different hardware platforms, including PC, but my favorite is the pcengines WRAP boards (pictured in silver with antennas here)

    http://img.m0n0.ch/gallery/brandon_kahler/01_19_06 _WRAP_Wireless_DSL_Large_Text.jpg

    They run off of compact flash and the WRAP boards + case are ~$200. They will act as your NAT firewall behind the commodity broadband interface (dsl/cable) and have a great number of features, including a captive portal if you want to allow customers to use the wireless network.

    pfsense is based on m0n0, but not meant for the embedded platforms

  13. Re:Fear not, Napster on Napster Blames Microsoft for Lack of Sales · · Score: 1

    You forgot the punchline at the bottom!

    Note: Administrator privileges required for installation on PCs running Windows 2000 Professional, Windows XP Professional or Windows XP Home Edition.

  14. Re:Excellent on Google Beta Testing "Gmail For Your Domain" · · Score: 1

    I've been where you are, hating horde, squirrelmail, etc (even though i shouldn't, it's an ambitious project).

    We finally bought Kerio Mailserver for ~$600. Fantastic webmail, great imap (server side sorting!), good support of outlook, very good integrated calendaring, great integrated spam and anti-virus checking. Runs on a number of OS's, integrates with Active Directory, etc...

    It does everything we ever actually tried to do with exchange for less than half the cost, and no stupid CALs to deal with.

    You can get an eval copy from them, i would highly recommend checking it out. $600 isn't anything to sneeze at, but we're 7 ppl and i'd do it again in a heartbeat. If you do decide not to check it out, try RoundCube (http://www.roundcube.net/)

  15. Check out Kerio on Searching for a Directory Service Solution? · · Score: 1

    We've been struggling with the same question for some time.

    We just started using Kerio Mailserver for mail, integrated with Active Directory for authentication, and it's been working out great!

  16. Re:Wait, what? on Carter Copter Breaks Mu-1 Barrier · · Score: 3, Interesting

    They aren't saying that the rest of the rotor is going backwards relative to the velocity of the aircraft. They are saying that the airflow over the rotor wing itself is reversed, because the forward velocity of the aircraft is greater than the retreating velocity of the blade itself.

    To illustrate it by an extreme example: If you just stopped the rotors completely at a position where they are perpindicular to the flight path, the wing on the 'retreating' side would be going forwards (of course), but the airflow over it would be reversed, or 'backwards', because the trailing edge of the airfoil would be the 'leading edge'.

    All helicopters experience some mu, the point about mu-1 is that the entire retreating blade is subject to non-positive airspeed, and thus provides non-positive lift. In this case, rather than speeding up to mu-1, what they did was attain a velocity where the 'winglets' were providing sufficient lift to keept the craft airborne, and then carefully slowed the rotors to speed required for mu-1. Agreed it's a bit of a 'cheat', but i think it's a very impressive aircraft nontheless.

    I would have to imagine that it would be possible to create a non-hybrid helicopter that could exceed mu-1 by rapidly changing the shape of the airfoil (not just the angle of attack, which is done now) as it rotates. This would require some pretty advanced materials to put up with the stress, but i don't see why it is 'impossible'.

  17. Re:He's right. on Password Security Panned · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Yeah, they talked about this a long time ago...

    Revelation 13:16-18, "And he causes all, both great and small, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark." :P

  18. slashdot making it even less popular! on Battle of the Ages; Stereotypes Collide · · Score: 1

    Odd thing was the count at google.ca for 'learn cobol' w/o the quotes was 417k, but for google.com it was 224k. Now, about five minutes later, google.ca is at 224k for the same query.

    google.az still at 417k.

    hmmph

  19. Re:I have to agree on A Review of "The Incredibles" · · Score: 1

    Great sound is one of those things that's hard to notice, because if it's great, it doesn't 'stand out'. I was going to send Pixar a note to forward to the folks responsible for the sound in this movie for that very reason...it's obvious they worked very hard on it, and i'm sure they are proud of what they've done.

    A few examples:

    - The idle in Mr Incredible's early car...kind of a cosmic turbine...loved it (this was actually what i was hearing when i had my epiphany)
    - The waterfall in the jungle
    - The pods on the rails
    - The rocket taking off out of the volcano (actually sounded like something you would hear at the Cape, vs someone blowing really hard on a microphone)

    I just thought they did a fantastic job...

  20. This! on Vehicles of Tomorrow? · · Score: 1

    http://www.r50rd.co.uk/research/internal/v2i/engin

  21. I'd file a suit... on HardOCP Sues Infinium Over Legal Threats · · Score: 1

    just so i could say these guys were representing me...

  22. Re:Wait a minute on Compulsory Licensing for Online Music? · · Score: 1

    i need my voice activated slashdot. didn't there used to be a button to post a new comment as opposed to replying to them. i feel like the guy looking for the hat on his head!!!