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  1. Easier way on Send Emails After Your Death · · Score: 1

    Write an email. Put it someplace where it can be found, but won't be unless directed to (on a web server, in your desk, on your hard drive, etc.) Don't let anyone see it, but put it in your will. Assuming you have family members who love and care about you, there should be no problem.

  2. Re:Language or programmer fault? on Meet The New PHP5 Toolkit, Pidget · · Score: 1

    It's off by default. Turn it off and pay the consequences.

  3. Re:Why? on Maxtor's 300 GB Monster Reviewed · · Score: 1

    The point is that one 300GB drive is pretty pointless, unless it's in your 1U rackmount. Maybe if you need terabyte, it makes sense, but the average buyer probably doesn't need more than 300GB.

  4. Why? on Maxtor's 300 GB Monster Reviewed · · Score: 1

    120GB 5400RPM drives at $80 a piece x 4 = $320
    + $100 for a RAID 5 controller

    You get 360GB of space, it's faster, it's more reliable, and it costs the same price.

  5. Re:MO No Call List on Successful Do-Not-Call Complaints? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Can you do me a favor?

    Just by accident one time:
    DELETE FROM call_list

    Thank you.

  6. 2.4GHz on Parents Sue School Over Use of Wi-Fi Network · · Score: 1

    Wireless networking is fairly low power. It's not going to create near the amount of energy of a microwave, which operates just slightly higher on the spectrum. Should we illegalize microwaves in schools too?

  7. 'Tis not uncommon on Nobel Prize for Medicine For MRI · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Look at the list of previous winners. It's usually a long time before a Nobel prize is awarded.

  8. Backported patch? on Mac OS X 10.2.8 Update, Take Two · · Score: 1

    Definitely wouldn't surprise me.

  9. Not USB... on What Goofy USB Devices Have You Found? · · Score: 1

    But I've always been a fan of the CharisMac Firewire Dino.

  10. Been done on Improve Your GNU/Linux Experience With -mm Patches · · Score: 1

    It's called yum.

    I use it on all of my machines. It works very nicely.

  11. Wrong. on End Of the Line for SpeakFreely: NATed to Death · · Score: 1

    Saying "NAT as a security tool is the network equivalent of Security through Obscurity, and is just as flawed" is like saying that a key is not a security tool in a house with windows, since I can break the windows to get in.

    NAT makes an attack on the inside of the network substantial more difficult. It doesn't prevent an attack through email, but it's only one part of a proper consumer security toolkit, which should include some form of antivirus software as well. It does prevent MSBlaster, and not just through obscurity, but because it's physically impossible to attack the vulnerability.

    In addition, a system on a network with NAT can indeed act as a server. It just requires the user to be aware that he/she is setting one up.

  12. PGPfone is still available on Secure Voice Communications While Travelling? · · Score: 3, Informative

    From the PGPi website, including the source.

    Might not work on newer hardware, but it's still available.

  13. What's the point? on PGP Universal - Usable Email Security? · · Score: 1

    If you use SSL-encrypted SMTP on the server and client, and the recipient uses SSL-encrypted POP3/IMAP, you're secure anyway. This method requires just as much, if not more, setup than that method.

  14. Profiling on Memory Activity LEDs · · Score: 1

    The first thing I thought of when I saw this is that it might be useful for profiling complex algorithms. You might be able to get a general idea of how many times you were missing the cache, etc.

    Of course, a cache miss indicator would be a lot more useful, but this might do something.

  15. Re:Sounds familiar... on Virginia Tech to Build Top 5 Supercomputer? · · Score: 1

    North Korea is in the Middle East?

    I always knew the facts they were feeding us in school were bullshit!

  16. Doesn't this mean on SCO Attorney Declares GPL Invalid · · Score: 1

    That SCO will have to remove any BSD-licensed code from their Unices? (And I'm sure there is some.)

  17. Just get a subscription to Wired on The Diamond Age · · Score: 1

    Every single month, I look forward to getting my copy of Wired. I don't look forward to seeing the same stories posted on Slashdot one or two days afterward. It doesn't really excite me.

  18. Re:Works on all recent Mozilla variants on Omni Releases OmniWeb 4.5 Using Safari Engine · · Score: 1

    Does it take that much longer to do php.net/function_name ? It's only a few extra characters, and it'll work in any browser.

  19. Re:AMD Using Geode to Lower Opteron/Athlon64 Power on AMD Buys Pre-VIA Cyrix Media-GX Division · · Score: 1

    And has the same speed, so the MHz rating is irrelevant...

  20. Really? on Measuring The Benefits Of The Gentoo Approach · · Score: 1

    Even with the compiling, it takes less time to install some stuff (eg nmap) than it would take to locate the relevant .rpm.

    Not with something like Debian's apt-get (fine, it's not RPM), yum, or Red Hat's up2date.

  21. Repeat after me, "I am an individual" on Linksys and the GPL, Again · · Score: 1

    Not everyone is the same person. Perhaps he should realize this.

  22. I agree, but.. on Designing And Building A New Pragmatic Language · · Score: 1

    I agree; we need something that's designed from scratch to compile. However, we do have a few options already. Most notably, there's perlcc, which compiles Perl into C code and then compiles that into machine code.

  23. No reason to have sex on Darwinian Poetry: From Bad to Verse · · Score: 1

    From what I've read, the only evolutionary reason to have sex is protection against other organisms. Here, we don't need to do that. Of course, I could be wrong, but that's what I've read. If anyone has a better explanation for sex, please let me know.

    Either way, in this circumstance, it completely fucks up the poem, so we might want to do without it.

  24. Re:Umm on Ogg Vorbis decoder chip a reality · · Score: 1

    Well, you know, there's a picture of a device (albeit a crude one) using the chip there, so I'd say the chip is a reality.

  25. Slashdot has used 2.0 since release on Apache 2.0.47 Released · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It's just that the mod_perl code must run on 1.3, since mod_perl on 2.0 isn't there yet.

    images.slashdot.org has run 2.0 since before the original 2.0 release announcement was posted. See the Netcraft page.