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  1. Is ssh blocked? on Tunneling Under the Great Firewall? · · Score: 1

    if not, do

    ssh -D 9999 my.home.machine

    then use localhost port 9999 as the SOCKS proxy.

  2. Re:well first things is a trashed cornea on Artificial Cornea To Reach Patients This Year · · Score: 1

    I didn't do anything to trash my eye, but a cornea transplant is one possible fix.

    Don't forget to ask your doctor about the possibility of an Accomodating IOL. I think they are occasionally prescribed for cataracts so I don't know if they are a good option for you.

  3. Re:This story is a repeat... on Neuromancer Movie In Your Future? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Nice. Why is everybody an AC in that thread? I thought they had accounts by that point in /.'s history.

    http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=666&cid=1777841

    looks like jwzhad the second comment...

  4. Re:Keanu on Neuromancer Movie In Your Future? · · Score: 1

    Do not try and appreciate the acting in the Matrix. That's impossible. Instead... only try to realize the truth: there IS no Keanu Reeves. He's a computer generated graphic.

    but of course Johnny Mnemonic would be the Gibson film with Keanu in it.

  5. Re:Not on my dime on BP's Final "Top Kill" Procedure For Gulf Oil Spill · · Score: 1

    Maybe the government should step in and put and end to this situation themselves.

    So long as they send the bill to BP and not the taxpayers, I'm for it.

    Do you really think that government bureaucrats are going to be better at engineering a technical solution to a technical problem better than the engineers for BP who already know the details of the situation, and the engineering decisions that were already made and why those decisions were made?

  6. oblig. on Druids Hired To Cut Road Accidents · · Score: 1

    "Funny, she doesn't look Druish"

  7. so this is 10GBASE-SR on Intel Shows Off First Light Peak Laptop · · Score: 1

    It seems we already have a standard for 10 GBit/s over short lengths of fiber: 10GBASE-SR

  8. Re:Kids? on St. Louis Museum Offers Thrills, Chills, and Lawsuits · · Score: 2, Informative

    Kids? Every time I've been there there has been a significant percentage of 20-somethings in addition to the little ones.

    The museum requires that all children are accompanied by an adult, and groups of kids must have adults in at least a 1:6 adult to child ratio. Also, it sounds like it would be fun for adults as well :-D

  9. just use freenet on Anyone Can Play Big Brother With BitTorrent · · Score: 1

    It's been known for a long time that the bittorrent protocol is not anonymous. Just use freenet.

  10. funny the two stories being next to each other on Simple CMS For Mixed Mac/Windows Team? · · Score: 1
  11. sounds like adhocracy on Crowdsourcing the Department of Public Works · · Score: 1

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adhocracy. For extra kicks and grins, read Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom about a society based on this concept, plus using online reputation instead of currency.

  12. Re:Nice enough demo on 5-Axis Robot Carves Metal Like Butter · · Score: 1

    My dentist has one for carving dental crowns. He feeds it a few photos of the tooth that's being crowned, and selects the type of crown (molar, pre-molar, etc). He loads a cube of ceramic into the machine, starts it up, and 15-20 minutes later he's installing the crown.

    My dentist has one too, but I'd say it's not quite as complex as this one. My dentist's machine consists of two bits moving in tandem (apparently single curved position axis each, but perhaps two axes per bit) with the workpiece on a rotatable table. I'd guess that qualifies as a 4-axis machine, but I'm not sure. Still, it's amazing to watch.

  13. Re:Homeowner? His responsibility on Man Sues Neighbor Claiming Wi-Fi Made Him Sick · · Score: 1

    if I have a tree that you're allergic to, do you have to suck it up, or to I have to deal with it? Is it based on some under-defined notion of "reasonable" accommodation?

    My brother and his wife used to live in Colorado, where medicinal marijuana is legal. My sister-in-law actually has severe allergies to marijuana, which her doctor said could be life threatening. She asked the neighbors who smoke it to do so indoors, instead of outside on the balcony where it blew into her apartment, and they basically laughed at her and sad "it's legal for us"

  14. Re:Summary is slightly optimistic. on New Ancient Human Identified · · Score: 1

    So you're basically saying that the ancient human is ... your mom!

  15. slashdotted on Technical Objections To the Ogg Container Format · · Score: 1
  16. Re:I love the idea of WebOS, but hate Sprint on Palm Opens Dev Program, Offers $1M For Top App · · Score: 1

    AT&T will soon have "two webos devices" (Probably Pre and Pixi) and the Palm Pre is already available in unlocked GSM in Europe.

    And will it be 3G, or EDGE?

  17. Re:I love the idea of WebOS, but hate Sprint on Palm Opens Dev Program, Offers $1M For Top App · · Score: 1

    Verizon will soon have the Pre Plus.

    Choice is good, but still no GSM.

  18. I love the idea of WebOS, but hate Sprint on Palm Opens Dev Program, Offers $1M For Top App · · Score: 1

    Wake me when they make a GSM unlocked version of the Pre or other WebOS phone. I believe that they can't because of their exclusive contract to release phones with Sprint first, but that is the only reason I haven't already bought one. I wouldn't even mind an AT&T locked one, but then, I doubt AT&T will be wanting it to compete with the iPhones they sell.

  19. I didn't expect on Spain's Proposed Internet Law Sparks Protest, Change · · Score: 1

    a sort of Spanish Inquisition!

  20. Re:Yay, tight integration of browser with OS... on Microsoft Plugs "Drive-By" and 14 Other Holes · · Score: 1

    Note that Windows 7, in which most drivers are back in user space, is not vulnerable to this exploit. Killer reason to upgrade, imho. This is also the reason most video driver crashes don't crash Windows 7 -- the display is simply re-initialized.

    This seems like a no-brainer, but they must have had some reason for putting all those things in kernel space before. Perhaps performance? But isn't the Win7 performance better anyway?

  21. Re:another intersection of CS and econ on What Computer Science Can Teach Economics · · Score: 1

    I note that you over-condensed the linked article's statement to a meaning much different than your summation.

    That is true. Since what I said was basically the headline text of the article I linked to, I feel the over-condensation was justified.

  22. another intersection of CS and econ on What Computer Science Can Teach Economics · · Score: 5, Interesting
  23. Re:Isn't this a dupe? on Bug In Most Linuxes Can Give Untrusted Users Root · · Score: 1

    sysctl -n vm.mmap_min_addr to find what your setting is.

    error: "vm.mmap_min_addr" is an unknown key

  24. Re:Wish on Nanomedicine Kills Brain Cancer Cells · · Score: 1

    Just until Hiro Protagonist makes them listen to Reason.

    REASON
    Version 1.0B7
    Gatling type 3 mm hypervelocity railgun system
    Ng Security Industries, Inc.
    PRERELEASE VERSION-NOT FOR FIELD USE
    DO NOT TEST IN A POPULATED AREA
    -ULTIMA RATIO REGUM-

  25. favorite sketches on Monty Python 40 Years Old Today! · · Score: 1

    Dead Parrot
    Hungarian Phrase Book
    nudge nudge, wink wink
    lumberjack song