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  1. Re:Double-edged sword -- mad cell phone disease on Spokane Gets Unwired · · Score: 2, Interesting
    the wi-fi and the cell system both collapse when power disappears for a couple of days.

    at least at&t maintained the batteries for rotary dial!

  2. I always wondered what happened when ..... on Fireball Over Wales · · Score: 2, Funny

    everyone flused the toilets in a 747 at one time ;)

  3. SUSE restricting online updates on Worst Linux Annoyances? · · Score: 1

    And furthermore posting lame and incomplete instructions about using a boot.iso image to
    do online uploads, followed by the absence of
    instructions for using their "manual configuration"
    mode for tcpip access to rpms.

  4. resisting secret courts goes back to magna carta on Former Intel Employee 'Disappeared' by U.S. · · Score: 1

    The brits wouldn't let kings have secret courts.

    The American revolution continued the tradition protecting individual rights.

    A Fascist State prefers the rights of the state, business and oligarchs, to those of the individual and protects them with secret courts.

    Resist Fascist States in the tradition of the American Revolution!

  5. great!? domain name campers generalized to lit on Forbes on Lessig and Eldred · · Score: 1

    So much for the intelligence of the net. This is on a par with saying money is speech. /br> In either case you get those with money warping literature, or politics, for their benefit, rather than the benefit of the public, as I believe was intended by the original copyright law. The exercise extending this principle to current music monopolies is left to the student...;)

  6. kleinbergs annoted course outline a good resource on Web Log 'Word Bursts' Could Identify New Crazes · · Score: 1
    the outline includes a list of -linked- references and links to other research on the topic The Structure of Information Networks.
    Information networks such as the World Wide Web are characterized by the interplay between heterogeneous content and a complex underlying link structure. This course covers recent research on algorithms for analyzing such networks, and models that capture their basic properties. Topics include methods for link analysis, centralized and decentralized search algorithms, probabilistic models for networks, and connections with work in the areas of social networks and citation analysis. The course pre-requisites include background in algorithms and graphs at the level of CS 482, as well as some familiarity with probability and linear algebra. The work for the course will consist of a mixture of reaction papers and a few problem sets, concluding with a project. The coursework is discussed in more detail here.
  7. sparse pages -- a novelette, really on Pattern Recognition · · Score: 1

    about page 96 I noticed the spacing between lines was a bit larger than normal. This effort is more like a novelette.

    I guess that's pattern recogition...

    Lots of throwaway lines. The UK as mirror world metaphor only on the surface... natch.

  8. Re:national news reporting -- misses the point on DDoS for Fun and Profit · · Score: 1

    reuters also buries the microsoft reference deep in the article. Is every report a copy of the same wire report?

  9. national news reporting -- misses the point on DDoS for Fun and Profit · · Score: 2, Informative

    ABC didn't even mention microsoft in their report.
    CBS only mentioned the specifics at the very last of their report.

  10. criticism of poetry, rather than poetry at website on The Poetry Of Programming · · Score: 1

    where's the code?

    I'd really like to see some poems, in order to bracket the criticism that I see there.

  11. empire of hippocrit_crats on Russian Snared By The FBI Sentenced To 3 Years · · Score: 1

    Live Free or Die!

  12. Re:honeypot? nah tarbaby on Advertising on a Free Wireless Network? · · Score: 1

    please don't hack my commercial mr coyotehack.

  13. Re:The European Internet, Cheerio (FIDOnet?) on A Private European Internet? · · Score: 1

    Just make local hops among IP6 subnets. Seems like it's built in.

  14. Sell Stock in it, I'd buy, if reasonable price on A Private European Internet? · · Score: 1
    Isn't this just another CLEC (local exchange)? Light up some dark fiber here! Paris in Podunk.

    Just as long as there aren't Romeing fees

  15. not available yet on Tracking Hackers · · Score: 1, Troll

    I wish slashdot would clearly mark availability of books reviewed/previewed. Given the number of times
    publication has been delayed on books reviewed here, this would be a valuable add-on category for the
    review.

  16. Re: you could get parts from jgenerator on Flash and Open Source · · Score: 1

    sorry, it's a sourceforge project.

    duh.

  17. you could get parts from jgenerator on Flash and Open Source · · Score: 1

    jgenerator is an open source project on slashdot. It provides the functionallity of (expensive) Macromedia Generator. In order to accomplish this it has to understand flash. Not a development environment, but a core code toolkit for building one?

  18. slashdot unction on Mozilla 0.9.3 Released · · Score: 1

    "too many errors when downloading browser.xpi" I should have known they were being slashdotted. At least the download lets you resume where you were.

  19. Re:Data From the Horse's Mouth (So To Speak) on Viking Soil Data Points to Life on Mars? · · Score: 1

    best comment so far... and a link to something beyond geek air.

  20. political action - local action on Wireless Freenets · · Score: 1

    I'm in Portland, Oregon and have met half a dozen nieghbors who are interested, since putting a node up a month ago. As a rule, they are completely aware of the telco/cable overcharges and extremely interested in taking action that thwarts current controlled telecommunications. These face to face meetings, combined with telecommunications tech seem to me to be the beginnings of a force for telecomm political action. I believe that many "public access" cable franchise agreements could be used to provide point to point. In Portland the franchise has provisions for growth which in the last franchise were explicitly not restricted to "TV" In Minneapolis the access center put conduit under a rare river crossing & leveraged this into data service agreements. Take a look at your local franchise.

  21. structural integrety on Sweat-Eating Bacteria to Live in Your Clothes · · Score: 1

    There goes the only thing holding my clothes together. Maybe these new bacteria are crusty too?