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  1. Mapping Keys for M$ Users on Blank Keyboard · · Score: 1
    I recommend SharpKeys, a freeware key mapper from http://www.randyrants.com/ . I've used it to map

    Caps Lock--> Control and
    Right Alt --> Windoze

    on my IBM T42P Laptop. Much easier for Emacs keybindings like Ctrl X S.

  2. If you're using a mobile phone on Television on your Phone · · Score: 1

    How far away from an actual TV can you be?

  3. Steganography?? on 'Sith' Already Found Online · · Score: 1
    The ISO in question has a timetrack up the top. Surely the studios must be considering encoding watermarks into everything to track these leaks. So the timecode would be a giveaway.

    Easy ones here are FM variations in timecode, FM variations in black level of timecode background.

    Would the studio have a certified toolchain so that all editing, distribution channels leave a digital watermark??

  4. Re:Paper author just wants attention. on Hyper-Threading, Linus Torvalds vs. Colin Percival · · Score: 1
    1. What if your admin doesn't allow SUID GPG on that machine?
    2. What if your kernel doen't support secure memory.?? Say an earlier kernel.

    The crypto-fascists [always wanted an excuse to use that Red Dwarf phrase] would know to await an admin or kernel that did.

  5. Perhaps crypto is not your biggest problem on Hyper-Threading, Linus Torvalds vs. Colin Percival · · Score: 1

    If you've got hackers coding exploits and targetting threads on your machine... perhaps Hyperthreading isn't your biggest problem.

  6. Paper author just wants attention. on Hyper-Threading, Linus Torvalds vs. Colin Percival · · Score: 3, Informative
    "even if all the cryptographers in the world are standing against him.""

    All said cyrptographers should buy a non hyperthreaded cpu, or turn it off.

    I mean if you use GPG on most machines, it will issue you a warning about Insecure Memory. That is someone could potentially harvest data from disused pages in memory.
    These cryptographers would use a secure memory system. I'm happy hoping that MI6 isn't running a remote memory exploit on my box.

  7. Work with me here on A Step Toward the Diamond Age · · Score: 1
    I read an article in The Independent the other day. It was about the decline of a very high value item created under oppressive wage conditions. The Hat.

    The two main causes were:

    1. Teddy Kennedy not wearing one on TV
    2. The car and its low ceiling.

    So to come all the way back to Diamonds, we would need:

    1. Brittney Spears' fourth husband gives her a Modern Diamond.
    2. Semiconducting and coating technologies.

    Give it time, it will happen. As an adjunct, what will help 1. is that now humans will be in control of the fabrication process, instead of tectonic movements. So potentially we'll be able to fabricate pink, yellow, chartruse diamonds as well. If your fiancee asks for a leopard print diamond ring, run.

  8. Greasemonkey is still in its infancy on Hacking the Web with Greasemonkey · · Score: 4, Interesting
    I've been an active member of the Greasemonkey mailing list. Mark Pilgrim is a very regular contributer there.

    One very interesting thread has been misuse of Greasemonkey(GM). GM allow script authors to use an XML_HTTPrequest() type functionality. This is often to look up information services, such as google, de.li.ci.ous, weather etc.

    With a poorly coded script, there could be thousands of http connections spawned per page transition. A DDOS of sorts. This will be an interesting one to tackle.

    Any ideas out there??

  9. Smoking on The Worst Foods to Eat Over a Keyboard · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Not a food per se, but something that is orally administrered whilst typing.

    After a few months, tap out the keyboard.

    You can see you're not going to be able to validate Moore's law into the distant future.

  10. Re:Why do we need it? on Your Hard Drive Lies to You · · Score: 1
    V Interesting indeed.

    Journalled filesystems get mentioned as an answer. But these have been around for a while, since they were developed by the likes of SGI in their heyday. Any catastrophic failures caused by this would have been noticed under development.

    But the BIG two reasons why you are right are:

    1. Oracle: They would have placed warnings about drives failing. They have zero interest in having their stability undermined by other layers.
    2. Slashdot: Someone would have worked with an Oracle uber-admin and posted a story about how a crucial site was brought down.

    So yeah, seems like isn't that crucial beyond the theoretical and the super-critical.

  11. False Negative on Paul Graham: Hiring is Obsolete · · Score: 1
    from TFA:

    When you're young, you occasionally say and do stupid things even when you're smart. So if the algorithm is to filter out people who say stupid things, as many investors and employers unconsciously do, you're going to get a lot of false positives.

    I would say that rejecting someone worthy because they said something stoopid would be a false negative

  12. A Londoner here. on UK to lnstall Wireless Mics on London Streets · · Score: 1
    I would like them to put these in. Really I would. Because then there will be some discussion. We just scraped through without ID cards. Now Blair is back in.

    But anyways. Coming soon is mainstream Optical Fibre Microphone technology [example link only]. The most sensitive yet made,yada yada. It works by the expansion and contraction of fiber optics. The ones I've heard about are best looped around large objects. Around the perimeter of a large evil skyscraper would be perfect. With signal processing, you get a very detailed audio monitor which can trilocate all occuring conversations concurrently within its very large range.

    So what will stop non-governmental bodies erecting such microphones? I think the best way would be the government trying this sort of ploy, stirring up public interest, and then the government legislating that this sort of surveillance is illegal. Currently as far as I understand it, private bodies can video the public environs as much as they like. The new possibilities of these microphones need to be addressed.

  13. Re:A comment from a Jew on this Issue on The Pseudoscience of Intelligent Design · · Score: 1
    Leave us, scientists, worry about facts;

    Wow, I'm totally convinced by your water tight argument. You sound like the intellectual giant who can sort out ALL of science. If only you didn't post as an Anonyomous Coward, I could know to look for your sage teachings in future.

  14. A comment from a Jew on this Issue on The Pseudoscience of Intelligent Design · · Score: 2, Insightful
    I've seen a lot of Christians posting comments on this subject. I am Jewish, and have a different take.
    I would say that very few Jews are literalists. Many more Christians are literalists with the Old Testament than Jews are. This is absolute and also by percentage figures.

    Most Jews have accepted some of the wisdom from the teaching of Moses Maimonides, the Baal Shem Tov, et alia. I will focus on Maimonides.
    He argues against literalism ["Finger of G-d" was a literal finger, Monty Python styley]. Most Jews are the same.

    Jews think most stories in the Bible are allegories. Jews are certain to consider the creationist literal 7 days as an allegory. Many, including myself believe that G-d guided evolution.

    Who decided that Homo-Erectus wasn't erradicated by influenza? Evolutionary theorists would say luck. I would say G-d.

    Both would have a hard time proving it.

  15. Wow, they have to consider that shit! on NASA Ponders Postponing Launch until July · · Score: 1

    Man, being a Rocket Scientist sounds harder every time I see one of these stories.

  16. If you want a good laugh on Saving Lives with Design · · Score: 1
    Check out

    Flight attendant activated warning
    Wireless remote control of systems for countering hostile activity aboard an airplane.

    For the second one especially, check out the illustrations! I've been looking into patenting something, and the amount of bogus safety patents after 11/9 is amazing.

  17. Finally it will be time on Open Source Methods Useful Way Beyond Software · · Score: 4, Funny

    To fork the government.

  18. Competition Regulations on Adobe Buys Macromedia for $3.4B · · Score: 4, Interesting
    the 1st biggest print/press media company is merging with the 2nd.

    There is no 3rd.

    Would competition regulators look to block this merger??

    If Ford wanted to merge with General Motors, there would be serious investigations. Oracle needed to show there was competition from SAP & JD Edwards before it was allowed to acquire Peoplesoft.

  19. TheRegister on Small but Mighty:The Bricolage Story · · Score: 1
    The Register was supposed to have moved to Bricolage. They promised a HOW-TO [Yesteryear's Blog] on it. This how-to never eventuated, like the Vapourware that they often rail against.

    If someone knows where this guide is, please inform me. All I can find is this

  20. They are writing this in Perl on Microsoft Collaborates On Child Porn Buster · · Score: 1
    if($pageContents =~ /neverland/ig) { denyRequest(); }
  21. Re:Begin the racist rants on Indian Call Center Employees Hack US Bank Accounts · · Score: 1
    It is borderline racist, as you mention.

    I'm also a little disgraced at slashdot, and some of the responses. Can you not see that this topic, and the way it was introduced is clearly a FUD campaign?? Instead of the pinup child of linux as the target, we have the less popular Indian employee. I have even seen comments saying I hope the CEOs and PHBs take notice. You should maybe try and motivate these people to start consuming fact and not reacting to fear, u & d.

    If anything the Russian mafia should be complaining that their lucrative internet fraud network is being outsourced.

  22. They're defending America! on Rosenzweig Now Chairman of DHS Privacy Board · · Score: 4, Funny
    They heard concerns about an Invasion of Privacy.

    They have selected these Patriots to ensure that there is no risk of Privacy invading The United States of America. Over their dead bodies, there will be none of this Privacy in America.

  23. Hmm, I use both CPAN and Java on Developer Site CodeZoo Launches · · Score: 5, Informative
    And this looks more like java-source.net. Java-source is a site I highly recommend. It helped me find JRat an excellent Java Profiler.

    Java's big attraction was that it came with 'CPAN', that is, the Java API. Java API has equivlants of Net::Socket, Net::SMTP, LWP and File::IO. These were big plusses back when it arrive circa 1995.

    What i don't see in this OReilly yet are Date::Calc, Text::Autoformat or such.

    See also: http://www.manageability.org/blog/opensource/view and
    http://www.johnmunsch.com/archives/2004_07.html#00 0975 (can't seem to get the darn '#' working in /.)

  24. So what do they call this thing? on Games That Shoot Back · · Score: 1

    The VirTra Damocles ??

  25. Delphion on Patent Databases Complicate Life For Inventors · · Score: 2, Insightful
    I've used Delpion now for a while. It replaced IBM's Patent search I believe.

    It is good.

    There is a function where you can collect lists of patents, and do Set Unions, Intersections, Subtractions and the like.
    My latest patent application is in the fields of crowd control, crowd safety. That was 3000 items that matched those terms. I could go through and sort out the misses.
    You could have a little thumbnail, as this was invaluable, as you can tell from the diagram often that it is a dissimilar device, or that the patent referrs to some way of joining/constructing such a thing.

    Web based Delphion is not perfect though. Nor any large web list checking application without powerful list management functions.

    I would dearly have liked a capability to colour the table cells that you had visited. Viewing 25 by 25 of the resultset was too confusing. But if you chose to display 500 at a time, then you tend to also loose track.

    But now salvation is at hand. Using Firefox, Greasemonkey and some hand written tailored javascript allows me to do exactly this.

    I meant to add as well, if the lifetime of a patent is 25 years tops, surely they only really have to be kept for that long? Then prior art and commercialised products could cover the basis for it having been in the Public Domain previously.