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  1. Re:ban all WiFi laptops on Bluetooth on an Airplane? · · Score: 1

    Most laptops have a hardware switch to enable or disable wifi for this very reason.

  2. Wow... on Half-Life 2 - Lost Coast Details · · Score: 0

    They can adjust the gamma.

    Seriously, I'm assuming this is going to be cooler than the description.

    What they described was just adjusting a global gamma based on some simple relation with a running average of light levels.

  3. It's time on Adobe Reader 7.0 Coming to Linux · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Thank god. I was just about to send them an e-mail, I get encrypted PDFs all the time, and I don't like having to bust out my laptop or VMWare. Glad they finally got with the pogram

  4. Good. on New Wave Of File-Sharing Embraces Secrecy · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This was only a matter of time, and really the RIAA's heavy handed tactics, and the goverenments complacency with them have forced developers to take matters into their own hands. Now they're really screwed.

    It's pretty easy to design a network that will at least frustrate attempts to recover identities of sharers. Now if only freenet would stop sucking.

  5. Further Starteling... on Why Johnny Can't Handwrite · · Score: 1

    This also impacts children's ability to inscribe clay and wax tablets, use quills and ink, make wood cuttings, a set movable type.

  6. Outlaws and Descent on What Games Have Actually Affected You? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I threw up once after playing descent, from motion sickness.

    Outlaws I got vertigo on one of the levels. It is strange that none of the newer games affect me quite like the old 2.5d games did.

  7. Thinkgeek.com on PDA/Radiation Detector · · Score: 4, Informative

    Thinkgeek.com has a watch that detects radiation. No GPS though

    Radiation Watch

  8. Re:Great on Anachronox Movie Finished · · Score: 1

    It runs just fine under Wine. I even fixed a problem with the OpenGL in wine to get it to work perfectly.

  9. RE: Digital 4 Track Recorders on Digital 4 Track Recorders? · · Score: 4, Funny

    There are 3 basic problems in using a Digital 4 Track Recorders to pull a dog sled in the Iditarod.

    1) Current regulation prohibit non-canine devices from pulling the sled. However, a more liberal tone has been taken in recent years may allow this. Cats are supposed to considered for next year's race

    2) Current power consumption is pretty high, the solar power banks required to power it would be prohibitive.

    3) It may come as a surprise to you, but Digital 4 track recorders don't provide any locomotive capabilities. However, apparently some Japanese company is preparing to release in Q4 of 2003 a dual tread model, so keep the look out for that

  10. Texas on Which US States are e-Commerce Friendly? · · Score: 2

    Check out the Backbone Map. Quite a bit of bandwidth goes through there. Three major metropolitan centers. Texas is like California, but without the insane high cost of living. Texas has no state income tax.

  11. E-mail address is not copyrighted on Fighting Spam - Using the DMCA for Good? · · Score: 1

    Your e-mail address is not copyrightable. And e-mail address is a fact. Just like you cannot copyright a telephone number.

  12. They can't do much on Is the BSA "Grace Period" a Scam? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    They can't investigate you, they have no police powers what so ever. They can only initiate an investigation if they have sufficent evidence of a crime being commited. Tell them to take there scare tactics and shove them up their ass, where they keep their wads and wads of cash warm.

    Rest assured that you aren't the only ones in this boat.

  13. Read the article on Shutting down Kazaa · · Score: 1

    It's not that the people are trying to keep Kazaa alive, Kazaa has no central point to take out, so even if the parent corp went under, Kazaa would still function. All Sharman is trying to do is to stay in business so they can make money.

  14. Re:Simple enough... on RFID: The New Big Brother ? · · Score: 5, Informative

    There's two types, the magnetic and the RF. Technically the magnetic ones don't have a fuse, but instead are disabled by magnetically saturating the metal. These are the most commonly used tags. The others are actual RF circuits. They don't transmit IDs, true, I shouldn't have given that impression, but the do respond to the broadcast in much the same way the rf tags do.

  15. Re:Simple enough... on RFID: The New Big Brother ? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yes it will work, its how half of the theft prevention devices work. Look for the square stickers with the coil wrapping around a center square. These are the earlier counterparts to what they are talking about. The gates that check for the tag listen for the response from the tag by emmiting relatively low power signals. To disable the tag, higher power is output, frying the circuitry.

    So to "clean" your, you could emit broad spectrum high power RF noise and nuke the little bastards.

  16. Mirrors on Alternative Frequency Wireless Ethernet Devices? · · Score: 4, Informative

    I don't know the exact setup you have, but IR with mirrors might work

  17. Re:Well ... what is it? on A Much Bigger Piece Of Pi · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here's the magic

    You have a 1.24 trillion digit base ten number

    10^1.24e12

    Now we find out how many digits long it'll be in base 2, x

    10^1.24e12 = 2^x
    x = ln(10^1.24e12)/ln(2)

    x = 1.24e12 * ln(10)/ln(2) = 4119190837660.6

    Now divide by 8 to get bytes, and viola!

    515e9

  18. Re:Well ... what is it? on A Much Bigger Piece Of Pi · · Score: 4, Informative

    Actually, since this is not text data, but numbers, you don't need to waste a whole byte to store a number, if my calculations are correct (probably aren't, hey its early) you only need 514 billion bytes

  19. Stifiling Creativity on More File Sharing Misadventures in Court · · Score: 2

    Actually I believe that bit, I mean

    * The ring
    * 8 Mile
    * Santa Clause 2
    * I Spy

  20. Re:Kernel? on GCC 3.2.1 Released · · Score: 2

    I'm running 2.4.19 compiled with gcc 3.1 and I haven't had a problem. What I do have is a 42 day uptime

  21. Try this on Fun With Wine · · Score: 3, Funny
  22. Re:physics on Remote Feed: 72-Mile 802.11b Link · · Score: 2

    I think signal bounce is a function of frequency. I think 802.11b is too high to bounce.

  23. Re:Are you drunk? on OpenGL 2.0: Chasing DirectX · · Score: 2

    Okay, because I can hear the moderators swarming in to Troll this one up, let me add a few things to my defense.

    A John Carmack interview here

    Excerpt:
    IGN Xbox: What do you think are the chances of Microsoft actually supporting OpenGL on the Xbox, and why?

    JC: Last I heard, Nvidia was going to be providing OpenGL for it.

    --

    Also, found this about the Gamecube, near as I can tell it supports OpenGL directly.

    http://www.elecplay.com/news.html?article=5917

  24. Are you drunk? on OpenGL 2.0: Chasing DirectX · · Score: 3, Informative
    OpenGL is by far more standard on consoles than Direct3D.

    OpenGL on playstation2

    OpenGL on the Xbox

    This is a great quote from the article, turns out OpenGL is superior than Direct3D on the XBox.

    As always, we're a bit ahead of the DX cycle. Just as NV10 was beyond DX7, NV20 was beyond DX8 (there is still stuff in NV20 that is only exposed on XBOX and OpenGL).
  25. Enh, too little too late on Secure Wireless Through Infrared Antennas · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This would have been great a while ago, but what I don't understand why its so difficult to have created truly secure wireless networks in the first place. I mean, come on guys, there's tons of public key cryptography stuff out there, I don't see why that wasn't used from zero day.

    Granted, I'm not a wireless engineer, I just play one on slashdot, so I could very well be talking out my ass.