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  1. Jail webcam on Vinton Cerf Says Carnivore Source Best Left Closed · · Score: 2

    developed in the late 18th century

    Prisoners could be observed at any time by a gaurd in the tower, but, because the tower had shuttered windows, they did not know when they were being watched or who may be watching.

    At least, Sheriff Joe Arpaio won't be able to claim a patent for putting his jail in a webcam.
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  2. Group filtering on Are Formats What Napster Really Needs? · · Score: 1

    Maybe MP3s need a service of collaborative filtering like Movielens and Movie Critic do for films.

    After you listen to some tune, you rate it. When the service has enough rating, it will try to match them with everybody else's and find that there is an 80% probability that you would like this other song [link to download].

    Of course, it's much harder to do this with songs that with films. There are more, and even with films, after rating more than 100, I don't get totally reliable results (why I do still rate then?)
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  3. Better link for Junkbuster on Is There An Effective Way To Kill Banner Ads? · · Score: 2

    While the link in the article to Junkbusters is good, development seems to have stopped.

    You can get a better version with updated blocklists and more Windows-looking from Stefan Waldherr.
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  4. Wolfram and tungsten on Putting the 'Tech' back in 'Low-Tech'? · · Score: 1

    "Wolfram" is an earlier name for tungsten.
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  5. Mad Max 3 on The Hugo Awards: Word From A Winner · · Score: 1

    easy implementation of effective joint entities, such as a house bound older person, and a mobile younger person, together are able to make a lot more of a career than either could separately.

    In "Mad Max 3: Beyond the Thunderdome", the Blaster was an oversized idiot carrying on his shoulders the Master, a clever midget. The Master/Blaster entity ruled the energy of Barter Town.

    We don't need another hero.
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  6. Update yourself on IOC To Olympic Athletes: Online Diaries Verboten · · Score: 1
    You know, the root of all evil.
    Go back and check that quote. It's love of money that's the root of all evil, not money itself.


    I checked in the Official Slashdot Readers' Reference and the top ten results tell that the root of all evil is:
    1. A category in The Guardian
    2. Women
    3. A Role Playing campaign
    4. Lawyers
    5. A TV series episode
    6. An anti-feminist
    7. A preacher gives the actual quote: "For the love of money is the root of all evil, which, while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows."
    8. Money
    9. ??
    10. Money

    So it's not so clear. And I guess that, in my contest, it could mean "love of money" as well.
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  7. Planned obsolescence? on Putting the 'Tech' back in 'Low-Tech'? · · Score: 2

    More recent light bulbs only have most of the air removed, allowing the fillament to oxidise, causing it to fail.

    Really? And this imperfect vacuum, is intended as a trick to make you buy more bulbs or is a problem of the manufacturing process?

    I thought that bulbs died because of random evaporation of the wolfram of the wire, independently of air.
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  8. Anti-Olympic feelings in Anglosaxon countries on IOC To Olympic Athletes: Online Diaries Verboten · · Score: 1

    I may be trolling but I feel that, in the the US and Britain, there is a tendence to point out mistakes and faults in international organizations like Unesco, the IOC, the UN. Often they are right, but they are singled out because the share of American, British or generally Western managers is lesser than other organizations.

    That's my impression.
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  9. Warranty? on DoS Vulnerability On Nokia Phones · · Score: 2

    We have come used to take software as no-warranty (EULAs,...), but we think we have some rights when we buy physical items.

    Since phones are more and more software, can we finally reclaim for faulty software?


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  10. Elitism on IOC To Olympic Athletes: Online Diaries Verboten · · Score: 1
    There was a time when Olympic athletes had to be amateurs

    But, at that time, sportsmen were aristocrats or generally very rich people.
    Remember how during Cold War, the Eastern athletes were colonels of their armies. The State payed them to compete.

    The point is that, traning and competing give no money per se. If you want to spend all that time and get a living, you have to either:
    • be very rich yourself
    • have a rich family
    • be payed by the State
    • be payed by a commercial sponsor


    You know, the root of all evil.
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  11. CGI? Use servlets! on R2D2 (Kenny Baker) Replaced with CGI for Ep2 · · Score: 2

    Lucas would end better using better technology like servlets or at least FastCGI.
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  12. Those voices on Focusing Audio · · Score: 1

    That would explain why nobody hears those voices that order me to kill.
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  13. WAP porn on Best Uses of WAP? · · Score: 2

    Check this sotory at Barrapunto

    You will need some Spanish and Portuguese, though.
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  14. Clone the Tasmanian Human on TigerCloning · · Score: 2

    If I am not wrong, the first population of Tasmania (similar to Australian Aboriginals) was massacred / died from illness totally after the arrival of white colonists.

    It is one of the best cases of a human population totally exterminated not leaving even mixed-race descendants.

    Maybe you could clone some old Tasmanians.

    Am I wrong?
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  15. JavaScript! on Google, History, Profitability · · Score: 1

    Well, I have set my browser to ask me if I want to run any JavaScript I find.

    But Google recently has started to introduce candy JavaScript in their main page. It's not so fast for me now.
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  16. We all are invisible on The Invisible Man? Kinda. · · Score: 1

    We all are invisible in some band of the spectrum.
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  17. Cringely tells a bit of history on Computer Historian? · · Score: 2

    Incidentally, Bob Cringely's Pulpit of 2000-07-27, Everybody is Wrong recalls a bit of history of the fiascoes from the people that later became AOL.

    A historian of the computer business has to dig beyond corporate statements.
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  18. OS/2 version on Sun May GPL StarOffice · · Score: 2

    Version 5.1a (the previous one, the first after Sun bought the company) was the last one for OS/2.

    I wonder if a GPLed one could be ported again to the platform. Sun blamed IBM compilers for not being able to compile 5.2.
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  19. "Miniature" on Archimedes' Lost Words Yield To RIT Scientists · · Score: 1
    the word "miniature" used to describe these manuscripts has nothing to do with size, but indicates drawn inline images, from Latin miniatus, past participle of miniare, to color with minium, from minium red lead


    Actually, I read that "miniature" mining "small thing" is popular etimology linking the small paintings made with minium and another small ("minimum") things.
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  20. Demotek: electronic ballots on The Perils Of E-Voting · · Score: 2

    Demotek is a device to include an ultaviolet reader in the election box so that people still use paper but the calculation is electronic.
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  21. No robots.txt! on Download The Human Genome · · Score: 2

    There is no http://genome.ucsc.edu/robots.txt. And we are talking of an enormous database.

    You'd better keep your robots off the site.
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  22. A Portuguese-language Slashdot. on Poor In Latin America Embrace Net's Promise · · Score: 1

    May I redirect the Slashdot trolls to the Portuguese cousin of Slashdot and Barrapunto, Gildot.
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  23. Flamebait or chauvinistic? on Poor In Latin America Embrace Net's Promise · · Score: 1

    If people want to immigrate to a country bad enough they should care enough to speak that country's native tongue.

    Like the Pilgrim fathers did.
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  24. Amazon radio on Poor In Latin America Embrace Net's Promise · · Score: 1

    I don't think online instruction can replace the real thing

    I maybe wrong but I think that in the Amazon it's usual to recieve education via radio (two-way?). Of course, the Internet would be hard to bring there but it would be a big improvement.
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  25. But I need a spamproof address! on Who Reads Your @nospam Mail? · · Score: 1

    I have seen suggestions for inexistent addresses. (I have seen elsewhere the suggestion of hoping it will break the spammer's system (Can somebody confirm?))

    But I need a way to make my email address spamproof while being recognisable by humans. Until now, I put NOSPAM.com after the domain name. It works (also I don't publicize my address as you can see). But if somebody registers domainNOSPAM.com, they will start getting spam.

    Is there a better solution? Maybe writing .comNOSPAM or similar would make any difference?
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