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  1. Re:Watch this. on Google Mirror Beats the Great Firewall of China · · Score: 1

    Well, it doesn't work for me, but I would assume that if it *does* work then it's because cioxx changed the 32 bit IP addressed from 4 8-bit decimal numbers to 1 32-bit decimal number.

  2. Re:actually "live" for once on If You Didn't Need Money, What Would You Do? · · Score: 1

    In case you missed the title, I believe the "nothing" post to which you refer mentioned two women at once, so that was still an option :)

  3. Funny memory... on 802.11 vs. 3G For Mobile Access · · Score: 2, Funny

    In Cisco class in school, when we were learning about various topologies, my teacher was telling us about how mesh networks never work because they're too complex.

    Granted she wasn't really a fountain of networking knowledge and I proved her wrong on a daily basis, but it's nice to see how wrong she can be.

  4. Re:classic benefits/loss analysis on How Serious is Static Electricity? · · Score: 1
    If you handle extremely expensive equipment that can't be damaged, then maybe it would be wise to invest a little more into ESD protection

    If *I* was dealing with things that couldn't be damaged, I wouldn't worry at all about ESD, since it sounds like security for something that's just not gonna happen anyway.

    (note: I know what the poster meant, I'm just one of those people who likes to nitpick about the language. If you don't like people to do this, maybe Slashdot isn't the site for you)

  5. Re:With those odds on Meteorite Hits Girl · · Score: 2, Funny

    The odds *would* be astronomical, except that she already got hit by the meteorite. Now that it's been done, there is a 100% chance of it continuing to have been done, so now all that's left are the odds of her winning the lottery.

  6. Re:Doesn't seem to help on JVC Announces Technology To Prevent Software Copying · · Score: 1
    I'm not too sure there is [any copy protection] that will ever be invented that won't be defeated by the computer-savvy out there

    I've got one. I have a box hidden in my room that holds a CD. Nobody can copy it because it's in a box that I won't let them get to. Problem is that the data isn't very useful in there.

  7. Re:Um, how would anything change? on How Could TV Survive Without Commercials? · · Score: 1

    They're not advertising to "those genuinely interested in it," they're making sure that those on the edge of wanting something or those who have some spare change lying around know it exists and is ready for them to buy.

  8. Re:Cost of media vs. "cost" of piracy on CD Copy Stopper · · Score: 1

    Firstly, I don't see how even remotely sane would buy a CD for any more than the astronomically high $18 (but then I don't tend to buy them for more than $12, sometimes going up to $15 for bands I _really_ like).

    Second, as long as I can still play a CD in WinAmp I can _easily_ make an mp3 out of it, so there won't be much change here besides the further decrease in CD sales.

  9. Re:WHOA! Stop right there... on NASA Plan to Read Brainwaves at Airports · · Score: 1

    I say there definately is a way they'd have to, but there by no means should be any more than a few people willing to ride planes after that. Perhaps they'll figure out what they can and can't do.

    HTFITL?! (How The Fsck Is This Legal?!)

  10. Re:Some personal thoughts/opinions on Tips For Incoming 2002 Freshmen · · Score: 1

    Avoid opportunities to express dissenting opinions, or anything else that somebody with authority does not want to hear

    I haven't gone through college yet, but I would hope that if you debate college professors they'll tend to respect you more, so long as you do it intelligently.

  11. Re:thanks /. on X-Box Flaw: MS Won't Use DMCA · · Score: 1

    I think /. is being foul at pretty much all companies, not specifically MS this time. Hemos was saying that he thought MS was being more respectful (this time) than most other companies. Sounds like a compliment to me.

  12. Re:Imagine... on Atomic Scale Memory · · Score: 1

    If anyone cares, that means that a cubic inch of silicon atoms could hold about 7.1 zettabytes of data. Warning: if any casual computer user thinks they ever need that much, we have gone _way_ too far.

  13. Re:Not just drinks... on The Golden Age of Cup Manufacturing · · Score: 1

    Let me try to clarify it to you (and anyone else who doesn't get it). Small, medium, and large are all relative descriptions which have no meanings without something else for comparison. The smallest drink they have cannot be called medium because it is an extreme.

    Otherwise the names are just based on the perceptions of whoever names the sizes.

    "Well I usually drink 3 gallons of fluids every hour, so to me that 26 oz. drink is small"

  14. Watch out on Ringworld exists - Found by Hubble! · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Someone better watch out for the Hamburglar, this is clearly why we haven't seen him for a while.

  15. That explains that... on X Marks the Spot Where Black Holes Meet · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...but what about the y- and z- shaped galaxies?

  16. Re:earth getting fatter on Earth's Gravitational Field Is Getting Flatter · · Score: 1

    You mean this? IANA physicist but I'll bet they're entirely related

  17. Re:To the naysayers... on New IBM Plant Will Mass Produce .1 Micron Chips · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't have done it if it weren't for your .sig, but come on man, wan't? What were you thinking?

  18. Totally OT, but oh well on Western Digital Announces 200 Gig Drives · · Score: 1

    With your mention of WD 40:

    If it's supposed to move and won't, use WD 40.
    If it's not supposed to move and does, use duct tape.

  19. Re:Big boost for space tech if it is on course... on A Rock Moves In Space · · Score: 1

    Since American's declare way too many illegitimate wars these days, I proclaim that we must declare war on war.

  20. Re:Sad. on Disney Making Fake Crop Circles? · · Score: 1

    Dilbert: Have your tests every failed to debunk someone?
    Skeptic: Not once.
    Dilbert: Then maybe they don't work for what you're testing. It's like using a metal detector to find unicorns in your sock drawer.
    Skeptic: (to himself) The real skeptics check every drawer.

  21. Re:Heartbeat LED on Panicking In Morse Code · · Score: 1

    The parent was (probably) referring to an invention in The Simpsons made by Homer. It was called the "Everything's Okay Alarm" and was very loud so long as everything was okay.

  22. Re:Interesting quote on Seventeen Years of Tetris · · Score: 1

    Mario 64 (which I've been playing way too much recently) music is really catchy. You can always tell where someone is (or at least something about where they are) from the music that's playing too, which makes it easier for me to help my friends when I don't want to look at the screen. What a sad life I lead...

  23. Re:I still play it. on Seventeen Years of Tetris · · Score: 1

    If I didn't have my homemade versions of Tetris and Connect 4 to play in Cisco this past year, then that would have been a rediculously boring waste of time. Well, it was still a waste of time but this way it was a fun one :)

  24. Re:What about on Do You Have The Time? · · Score: 1

    When did they change this over

    The problem with these things is that if you don't have it working on your computer, you can never really know when it happened, since you don't know what time it really was.

  25. Re:Next Time, on Survival for Mom-and-Pop Computer Stores? · · Score: 2

    South Park:

    Step 1: Steal underpants
    Step 2: ?
    Step 3: Profit