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  1. Re:IN INDIA on Reading Slashdot From Strange Locations · · Score: 1

    It's not really recorded because he posted as an AC.

  2. Re:strange but I'm sure very common... on Reading Slashdot From Strange Locations · · Score: 1

    And how long does it take before you realize your legs are asleep? Don't drop that PowerBook walking back to your cubicle!

  3. Internet Kiosk on Reading Slashdot From Strange Locations · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Christmas day. A dollar for five minutes. Only used three minutes. Was in Chicago visiting my brother for the "Adopt-a-Sailor" program. He was in basic training at the time.

  4. Re:Ah hah on Latest MyDoom Variant Gives Google Problems · · Score: 1

    What was that search engine featured here a while back that would show a graphical relationship between different websites? For example, querying Slashdot would pop up SourceForge, OSDN and Freshmeat, among other sites, in a large image.

    It was really neat, but I can't remember the URL.

  5. Re:Russia? on U.S. Nuclear Cleanup Carries Major Risks · · Score: 1

    For security reasons, I wouldn't ship the stuff there. Even assuming terrorists can't get to the material, there's still the risk that Russia would become hostile.

  6. Re:LSB on Wrap-up On The Ottawa Linux Symposium · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Just because your distribution organized your /dev directory one way doesn't mean you have to keep it like that. Use udev to organize it however you want.

    The reason some sistems will have both /dev/hda and /dev/ide/disk0 is because not all tools recognize anything other than the original naming scheme. And not all users, either.

  7. Re:So, who are the bigger morons? on BayStar Sets Lawyers on SCO · · Score: 1

    How about the fool that backs the fool, then sues him for good measure?

  8. Re:Google to buy SCO after IPO? on BayStar Sets Lawyers on SCO · · Score: 2, Informative

    ...and release all UNIX IP to the public!

    I think it's been said before, but I'll say it again. No one company has complete control over all of the UNIX source code. Each vendor's version drowns in code it licensed from other vendors, making the whole thing a legal quagmire to even look at.

    I can't find my source...it was a Linux Journal interview with the former CEO of either SCO or Caldera.

  9. Re:GOOG as stock ticker on Google Sets IPO Pricing · · Score: 1

    I was thinking GGLE

  10. Re:Always thinking of controlling the masses on Vaccinated Against Vices? · · Score: 1

    Childhood immunisation would provide adults with protection from the euphoria that is experienced by users.

    So the drug pushers will tell people that to counter the vaccine, you have to take more of their drug. So a guy takes three times his normal dose, and ends up with an overdose, having never noticed any effects.

    And what about people who already have a biochemical dependence on a drug?

  11. Re:v6 could help solve some net problems on IPv6 is Here · · Score: 1

    How much more? Additional curvature of the surface (like mountain ranges) increases the total surface area beyond what you'd get if you treated Earth as a sphere.

    Just a little spontaneous food for thought.

  12. Re:I'm impressed on X43-A on to Mach 10 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Sure, but at what point does "interaction between molecules" cease being considered continuous and start being considered as discrete events?

  13. Re:I'm impressed on X43-A on to Mach 10 · · Score: 1

    What effect does pressure have on sound? If you reduce the amount of air in a given volume far enough, won't wave features like diffraction be affected?

  14. Re:Front leading edge.... on X43-A on to Mach 10 · · Score: 1

    Well, the front of your tail fins might count as rear leading edges.

  15. Re:4,800 degrees farenheit.. on X43-A on to Mach 10 · · Score: 1

    Notice that they're referring to the heat load. I would think that your temperature relative to the ambient temperature is more important in some respects than your temperature relative to absolute zero...

  16. Re:Playboy Research Labs. on Sculpting Interface Prototype · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You know, it sounds like they're going to make a fortune selling the clay. Heck...they could probably give the gloves and software away for free.

    After all, once their preformulated clay gets impurities from use, it's characteristics are going to be less and less like those of the clay the software is simulating.

    Over time, your model on screen is going to appear less and less like the stuff you've been working on with your hands.

  17. Re:Underground lava seems more likely. on Ammonia Could Indicate Life On Mars · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So, if you consider the apparent age of the rest of the planet (no magnetic field, little atmosphere, etc.), why is it likely these deposits haven't been depleted?

  18. Re:Pffft... New York Times? on Searching for The New York Times · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'd rather read subtle propoganda than flagrant propoganda. (Though I refuse to apply either label while on Slashdot.) Flagrant propoganda just rubs me the wrong way. I was a writer and editor for my high school paper, and I tend to have trouble respecting news outlets that don't even bother to attempt to appear balanced.

    My uncle, on the other hand, takes a different view. In his view, if he can't see pro-conservative remarks in an article, it's liberal trash.

  19. Re:Sad but (maybe) true on Ballmer - Xbox 'Can Take Sony' In Next Generation · · Score: 1

    I think he meant, "They'll be showing off a working model at E3, the launch isn't expected until 2006."

    Or get more useful info from Ars Technica.

  20. Re:Work on the hardware first. on Dan Bricklin on Software That Lasts 200 Years · · Score: 1

    I would be multibillionaire if I knew the answer.

    You put your finger on the answer. Very few vendors are perceived as having a good enough product to provide what companies think they need. Those few venders' marketing teams sure work hard on pressing that perception.

    Then there's other things that go with being a successful business like market penetration, brand recognition, and company age.

    Also, if you look, most of today's computing technology businesses started playing the game before anyone had much experience, and there wasn't a whole lot of demand. They were "successful" before it even became possible to be "successful" by today's standards. (Thus the brand recognition, etc.)

    For a new company to try to get in on mature markets, they need lots of capital, lots of hype, and enough razzle-dazzle to keep their prospective client from remembering they were incorporated the previous year. Like Transmeta.

    Or, they need lots of capital and lots of prior recognition in multiple fields so people think they can handle it. Like IBM.

  21. Re:AV software particularly effective? on 'Stealth' Worm Hinders Sandbox Analysis · · Score: 1

    Uhm, I thought the article made a clear distinction between a "sandboxed environment" and a debugging environment.

    But I guess a public discussion forum isn't a good place to discuss how AV software works.

  22. Re:Mailers? on 'Stealth' Worm Hinders Sandbox Analysis · · Score: 1

    That's why they generally have activation dates. They don't deliver their payload until a certain date.

  23. Re:Hex it? on 'Stealth' Worm Hinders Sandbox Analysis · · Score: 2

    Sure, but they can't step through it. The virus detects the debugging environment and exits.

  24. AV software particularly effective? on 'Stealth' Worm Hinders Sandbox Analysis · · Score: 1, Troll

    I'm not familiar with how AV software innards work, but if the virus exit()s if it detects itself running in a debugging environment, wouldn't AV software make the virus moot?

    I mean, it still resides on your machine, but it refuses to run.

  25. Re:Crash on Mark Pesce: Open Source Television · · Score: 1

    Open Source works better for some things than others. Generally speaking, it works well if the project is popular enough to elicit community support.