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  1. Re:Slashdot is a small portion of the public on Electronic Voting: Your Worst Nightmares are True · · Score: 1


    ummm. here: Seattle Times Article

  2. One of my all time favorite AIR articles: on Proof Is In: Kansas Is Flatter Than A Pancake · · Score: 0, Offtopic


    Testing the limits of the U.S. Postal Service:
    http://www.improb.com/airchives/paperair/volume6/v 6i4/postal-6-4.html

    Worth the read.

  3. alternate site for info on Hardware-Based Commute-Map Gadget · · Score: 5, Informative


    Since the product site is hosed check out this article from KOMO News in Seattle. Article even has a video of the story they did on the device.

    Not quite a mirror, but better than nothing.

  4. Re:"Perhaps" IPV6 will solve the problem? on Asia Running Out Of IP Addresses · · Score: 5, Insightful


    IPv6 will not run out of addresses - it will use 128-bit address space. This is 4 Billion times 4 Billion times 4 Billion times the size of the IPv4 address space. This works out to approximately 665,570,793,348,866,943,898,599 IP addresses per square meter of the surface of the planet Earth. Plenty of addresses for both your toaster and your waffle iron.

    More here: http://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng/html/INET-IPng- Paper.html

  5. One good implementation on Searching Sound · · Score: 2, Informative

    A company called Fast-Talk Communications has a set of tools that they resell for 3rd-party apps for things like searching interviews for specific words that were said. I have actually seen this feature in used some newsroom software made by Dalet Digital Media and it was amazing to see in action. Very fast and accurate

    The research for the fast-talk technology was done at Georgia Tech's Interactive Media Technology Center (IMTC). They've got a page about the corporate spin-off of the technology.

  6. google cache of Acidus' yanked pages on Blackboard Campus IDs: Security Thru Cease & Desist · · Score: 2, Informative


    The main page:
    http://216.239.37.100/search?q=cache:aCrSrlgFxsYC: www.yak.net/acidus/campuswide/&hl=en&ie=UT F-8

    Text document covering network infrastructure, database, servers, etc. for blackboard system:
    http://216.239.39.100/search?q=cache:fM1kWpR_dbQC: www.yak.net/acidus/campuswide/campuswide.txt&hl=en &ie=UTF-8

    These are the old cached ATT webpages, full of Technical details Blackboard wished weren't floating around:
    http://216.239.37.100/search?q=cache:www.yak.net/a cidus/campuswide/oldatt/index.html

    Acidus' card system FAQ:
    http://216.239.37.100/search?q=cache:www.yak.net/a cidus/campuswide/faq-campuswide.txt

    Creative use of cut and paste within the google cache should let you hit any of the other links within those pages that you may be interested in.

  7. Re:Sounds fair to me on Users Conned by Cable Con · · Score: 1


    A Cable Con would con as much cable as he could con if a Cable Con could con cable

    :-)

  8. Anyone... on Roogle: RSS Search Engine · · Score: 1

    Know the google mirror for this? :-)

    I quit.

  9. Re:rootkit redundant. on Windows Rootkits · · Score: 1

    On my XP box I log in as a limited user so as not to expose all administrative capability when it's not needed. It is very simple to execute a process as admin when needed: WinXP incorporates a "Run as" command (simply right-click the app) where you simply supply the admin password and *only* that program is granted admin capability, leaving the rest of the system still under the limited user restrictions.

  10. Not to beat a dead horse... on Microsoft: Because Bugs are Cool · · Score: 1

    but this cannot be real. As much as many on /. hate Bill Gates he did not become a billionaire by being a PR moron. This is not something he would have ever said -- nor would his publicists have let him.

    Do you really believe that something this inflammatory could have remained unacknowledged for eight years?

    People never forget the "640K ought to be enough for anybody" line, do you really think they would have let this stuff slip.

    I respect /. for it's eclectic culture, but this is fairly pathetic and it's disappointing to see on the main page (much less any other). Being funny is one thing, but passing off drivel such as this as being real makes this site look like something put together by ten-year-olds.

    If this is somehow true then I'll eat my hat.

  11. Great timesaver technology! on Beauty In The Eye Of The Android · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now slashdotters can immediately determine that the woman they are drooling over will shoot them down!

    Think of the time that can be saved to put back into computers and doritos!

  12. Re:CompUSA anti-consumer return policy - WRONG on California EULA Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    I worked at CompUSA for a couple months and know this inside and out. The restocking fee is 14 percent (no idea how they picked that number) but is does not apply to broken or deffective merchandise.

    The restocking fee applies only to those who come in and say "I don't want it." I'm not saying it's fair, but if there's something wrong with your purchase they will replace it.

    Also, for people who have some pipe-dream of a 30 day return policy on software: it will never happen. The warez kiddies would put a store out of business in months if they could buy boxed software and return it for a full refund.

  13. Share an archive of Cryptome.org on Quickly Filling Up 150GB of Legal Media Files? · · Score: 1

    Share an archive of cryptome.org because one of these days John is going to get thrown into a deep, dark hole.

  14. Where's it say they get rights to the papers? on Turnitin.com - Placebo for Plagiarism or Worse? · · Score: 1, Informative

    Where, exactly, in the User Agreement does it say that the company gets the papers? - Emcron