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  1. a Mac version on TrueCrypt 5.0 Released, Now Encrypts Entire Drive · · Score: 1

    That's already built in to the Mac OS, as it should be. Just use FileVault.

  2. Hey! Where's the on Femtosecond Lasers Used To Color Metals · · Score: 4, Funny

    "whatcouldpossiblygowrong" tag! Come on! They're giving lasers to butterflies!

  3. Is it just me on China Vows to Stop the Rain · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Or did the /. UI just go to "Big, ugly, and lots of wasted space"? Huge green box at the top with (for some reason) links to random pictures and videos.

    Using FF3B2, BTW.

  4. a small 5A fuse to a 10A fuse on A Mythbuster's Biggest Tech Headaches (and Solutions) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I hope you upgraded the wiring. I have scars (well, one) from a wire that was undersized for the load. It started to melt. Across the fuel line...

  5. Or you could just search for on Artificial Bases Added to DNA · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Stories sectioned Science.

  6. Slashdot, You have offended all Engineers! on Engineers Have a Terrorist Mindset? · · Score: 1

    I come to Michigan and blow up the /. World HQ! All your mod-bombs are belong to us!

  7. like we used to? on U2's Manager Calls For Mandatory Disconnects For Music Downloaders · · Score: 2, Informative

    When was that? It used to be life of the author, plus 20 years. So U2's stuff would still be theirs.

  8. Damn. That was beautiful. on HD DVD Player Sales Grind To a Halt · · Score: 1

    Sheer fricken poetry.

  9. Good Samaritan laws on Training From America's Army Game Saved a Life · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's usually pretty tough to sue someone for trying to help out.

  10. Re:Information Wants To Be Free! on Is Copy Protection Needed or Futile? · · Score: 1
    But those financial concerns want to make a profit as well. Lacking that, they don't pay, and the case of movie makers collapses into the same one as the other entertainers.

    People will create if they aren't paid, at least some will. But they won't create as much, or as well.

  11. Information Wants To Be Free! on Is Copy Protection Needed or Futile? · · Score: 1

    But entertainment wants to be paid. If people only shared (without purchasing) the low quality stuff then it wouldn't be an issue. But the high quality stuff gets shared (freely) too. Thus depriving the entertainer (U2, Corman McCarthy, the BattleStar Galactica producers) of some income. If they can't make a living selling their singing, writing, or movie making to the listeners/readers/viewers, they will find some other way. Lots of product placement, perhaps. Tracking who listens/watches/views and selling that data. Or just getting sponsors, as was done in the Renaissance, before copyright. Each album from U2 having a paean to whoever paid them, each McCarthy book having a prologue extolling the virtues of Lord Rupert Murdoch. Probably no BSG, or similar, because who (other than advertisers) would pay for it?

  12. But not a plausible reason on US Courts Consider Legality of Laptop Inspection · · Score: 1

    for Keanu.

  13. Re:Good God, you're me! on Is Apple Killing Linux on the Desktop? · · Score: 1
    One day last spring I came home and my Linux box was dead, with smoke pouring out the back. The box was old enough that everything needed to be replaced, including keyboard and monitor. I'd been planning on replacing it, just not quite yet. ;) I also wanted it to be quiet. Pricing out the components I wanted: Large LCD monitor, quiet case, core duo processor, etc. I discovered that an iMac would do what I wanted, at the same cost, and far less hassle. No need to install Debian and then tweak it properly.

    And under the hood MacOS is Unix. So mounting the old ext2fs drives (installed in USB drive cases) was a matter of getting the MacOS ext2fs driver and using some command line tools to mount them and copy the data off of them. Having used Linux for 12 years I had no fear of the command line.

    I wonder how many MacOS developers sold their Immortal Souls to make a user friendly unix?

  14. Good God, you're me! on Is Apple Killing Linux on the Desktop? · · Score: 1
    Do you live off of Magarity too? Or are you on the other side of Tyson's?

    My Apple buying story.
       

  15. Warning! Infinite Recursion Alert! on Scientist Suggests We Explore 'Universe is a VR Simulation' Theory · · Score: 1

    Danger Wil Wheaton! etc etc etc

  16. a method of enabling/disabling reading. on US Government To Release Electronic Passport · · Score: 1

    A small metal box. The sort you put gift cards in at Christmas.

  17. Re:Great if you can get the braodcasts. on Official DTV Converter Box Coupons for Americans · · Score: 1

    Yep. Rural Utah, and any place that gets its TV over translators, is screwed.

  18. Re:Gotta get one for Dad on Official DTV Converter Box Coupons for Americans · · Score: 1
    And I got rated "3, insightful"...

    Someday I'll get a troll rated "+5, flamebait"...

  19. Gotta get one for Dad on Official DTV Converter Box Coupons for Americans · · Score: 2, Interesting
    He's 79, and doesn't watch much TV. Reads quite a bit, is into model railroading (HO Gauge, Western US, late steam era), does quite a bit on the PC (his first program was written in Fortran, on punch cards, in the 50's),hikes all over Utah, and takes lots of pictures with his digital camera.

    He doesn't have time to watch TV, except at meals, when he watches the news.

  20. But think of the overtime pay. on Solar System Date of Birth Determined · · Score: 1

    Cat got your tongue? (something important seems to be missing from your comment ... like the body or the subject!)

  21. If you get a subpoena on Judge Rules TorrentSpy Destroyed Evidence · · Score: 1

    Then destroying the data is illegal. Obstruction of justice. Contempt of Court. Various other charges.

  22. Channeling Jeb Magruder, are they? on Perl 5.10, 20 Year Anniversary · · Score: 1
    "The new version on the anniversary, thus, was immediate and automatic," Wall wrote later. "No one ever considered that there would not be a new version on the anniversary."

    Original source.

  23. Not WalMart on HP & Staples Collude On $8,000/Gallon Ink? · · Score: 1

    Use a local lab. One that you trust to do good work. Sure, it costs 0.30/print, but it's much higher quality.

  24. It's not bricked! on EVE-Online Patch Makes XP Unbootable · · Score: 5, Informative

    Dammit! When did "bricking" expand it's meaning from "unbootable under any conditions due to firmware (such as the BIOS) being improperly overwritten" to "Oops, have to pull out the rescue CD"?

  25. "Bat ouf of Hell," ... has all solid songs on Media Research Exec Says Music Industry Is On Its Last Legs · · Score: 1

    You did lots of drugs in the 70's, didn't you?