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  1. Re:A prime example of spin-off technology on Hibernating to Mars · · Score: 1
    Diagnostic Instrument

    Now there's a nice specific accomplishment.

  2. Re:Changing astronaut requirements on Hibernating to Mars · · Score: 1

    The nice thing is you wouldn't have to wait 20 seconds to post - the lag would be inherent in the system.

  3. Re:Does hibernation slow or stop aging? on Hibernating to Mars · · Score: 1

    Unpleasant, but already solved. How do you think they support people in comas?

  4. Re:Short coding project? on Short Coding Projects? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Some NP problems are solvable in polynomial time. NP-complete problems, which the parent was probably referring to, are currently not.

  5. Re:Goatse... on New URL Spoofing Bug in Pre-SP2 IE · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    There was a big fuss some time ago when some bitch complained to the .cx registrar and had it taken down. The story was on /. and a lot of other sites.

    goat.cx still works, though.

  6. Re:Linux on Google to Launch Mac Version of Google Desktop UPDATED · · Score: 1

    In-house server-side linux is quite different from publicly distributing a desktop Linux app.

  7. Re:Freenet on P2P Not Dead, Just Hiding · · Score: 1

    Possession is an offense; you don't have to originate it. The question is whether a bunch of random bytes you don't know how to decrypt counts as possession.

  8. Re:Can Snoop Doggy DooDoo even vote? on Snoop Dogg Gets Out the Vote · · Score: 2, Informative

    Snoop didn't make this video. This is just a few morans using a 3D model of him and some clips from his songs.

  9. Re:Freenet on P2P Not Dead, Just Hiding · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Freenet is not designed for pirating large media files, although it could be used that way. There are very few movies/albums on Freenet at the moment, because there are much easier and faster forms of distribution.

    Freenet is still fairly slow, but that doesn't really matter. The goal of Freenet is that you can post and download stuff, completely anonymously. No one really cares if you download the latest movies from BT, but you'd get tracked down and in major trouble if you posted classified documents or other such material. On Freenet, you can do whatever you want, and no one can find you or stop you. That's the purpose of the network, not petty copyright infringement.

  10. Re:Can someone repost? on Nintendo Apologizes to SuicideGirls · · Score: 1

    That's a valid assumption if their machine has no CD burner, floppy, Zip, USB or Firewire ports, and they have no access on the internal network to a machine that does. Otherwise, there are much easier ways to covertly transfer information than over an ssh proxy.

  11. Re:Can someone repost? on Nintendo Apologizes to SuicideGirls · · Score: 1

    If they're blocking porn, they're probably also blocking well-known anonymous proxies, including anonymizer.com.

  12. Re:Gmail has a HUGE usability error... on Google-branded Firefox? · · Score: 1

    That "some reason" is because they don't want to load a whole new page for each link. It's part of what makes gmail so fast.

  13. Re:I'll try it... on Beware 'Fedora-Redhat' Fake Security Alert · · Score: 5, Informative

    Make sure you use a chroot jail; Knoppix can still write to your hard drive.

  14. Re:bloat is a non problem on Firefox - The Platform · · Score: 2, Insightful
    there is a small problem: ff does not work as well as IE ... All it takes is ONE failed bank transaction

    Firefox works far better than IE in most cases. If banks want to ignore standards and test only under IE, that's not Firefox's problem.

  15. Re:Worries me.. on Firefox - The Platform · · Score: 5, Informative
    FireFox is already extremely bloated (on Windows) compared to other Windows applications

    Firefox is a 4.5MB download. That may be bloated compared to sol.exe, but it's tiny compared to IE, and not much bigger than Opera (3.5MB).

  16. Re:Missed a format on iRiver Ships Linux Media Players · · Score: 1

    That list is for the H120, not the PMP.

  17. Re:Audio quality on iRiver Ships Linux Media Players · · Score: 1

    IIRC, A4 is 440Hz, not 441. I don't believe it's related to 44.1kHz sampling

  18. Re:Insurance that pays for adoption? on Medical Care Gets Outsourced Too · · Score: 1
    Your genes, on the other hand, will die with you should you fail to reproduce.

    Not really. There are about 6.5 billion backup copies.

  19. Re:Who cares? So few vote... on Electoral College Abolition Amendment and IRV Bill · · Score: 1
    You're looking in the wrong place. The federal government has little to do with voting; it's run by the states. Quote from the Tennessee constitution (my home state, I assume others are similar):

    Every person, being eighteen years of age, being a citizen of the United States, being a resident of the state for a period of time as prescribed by the General Assembly, and being duly registered in the county of residence for a period of time prior to the day of any election as prescribed by the General Assembly, shall be entitled to vote in all federal, state, and local elections held in the county or district in which such person resides. All such requirements shall be equal and uniform across the state, and there shall be no other qualification attached to the right of suffrage.

    That looks a whole lot like a right to vote to me.

  20. Re:$345! on Transistor Radio Turns 50 · · Score: 1

    Umm.. the radios were only $50 in 1954 dollars. The $345 was already compensated for inflation, you don't have to to do it agian.

  21. Re:In English please on Game Tunnel Client Links Xbox, PS2, and GC Games · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think you overestimate /. readers. I've been reading Slashdot regularly for years and I don't know either of those terms. Yes, I could go look them up, but a brief definition in the summary would be much easier.

  22. Re:iPod Killer? on Holiday Competition For iPod Dollars · · Score: 1

    iPod Linux will run Tremor, as I mentioned in my original post, but it's not real-time yet and probably won't be any time soon. The iPod Linux guys are more concerened with perfecting basic audio output and MP3 playback before moving on to Vorbis.

  23. Re:iPod Killer? on Holiday Competition For iPod Dollars · · Score: 1

    Yes, but Tremor, the decoder, runs at up to about 80% realtime on the iPod in its current form. It would take a good deal of optimization to get it to dependably work in realtime.

  24. Re:iPod Killer? on Holiday Competition For iPod Dollars · · Score: 1
    The iPod processor can handle Ogg, but it'd take quite a bit of decoder optimization, and it'd still eat battery life faster than MP3. Apparently Apple doesn't think the benefits of supporting Ogg outweigh the costs of developing it. It'd be nice if they'd open-source the firmware though, so that the community could add Ogg support (yes, I know about iPod Linux, but it's not quite there yet).

    Also, Apple did add a new codec to the iPod just a few months ago - Apple Lossless.

  25. Re:Election 2004 on Linus Interviewed · · Score: 1

    Technically, you don't have to be a natural-born citizen to run, just to serve, IIRC. Róger Calero, the presidential candidate from the US Socialist Worker's Party, was born in Nicaragua. He expects that, if he wins, the Constitution will be changed to allow him to serve.