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  1. Why not use the serial number? on Sprint DSL's Security Hole Easy As 1,2,3,4 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Just set the password to the last 4 digits of the serial number of the modem. No need to remember, easy to find for the users, not so easy for the hackers.

  2. Re:Gains on XBox Chip With Legal BIOS · · Score: 1

    Me too. I could always use more sweat and money.

  3. What I wonder... on Hilary Rosen Will Step Down As RIAA Head · · Score: 2, Funny

    Will we have a Thorne after Rosen?

  4. easy there on the nuclear payload on NASA Wants Astronauts on Mars by 2010 · · Score: 1

    I recently saw a documentary on the Science Channel (?) about how a small amount of radioactive material had evaporated over the Earth from a failed satellite. Because of that every person alive at the time had a little radioactive "souvenir." Is there any chance something like that at a much larger scale could happen?

  5. TCPA license issue avoided on AMI Guy Talks About TCPA, Palladium, and Other BIOS Issues · · Score: 1
    The TCPA spec is currently set up as a "just-publish" IP model.
    That doesn't mean much. Is it copyrighted? Are there patents realted to it? Could it change later on and become an issue like GIFs, JPEGs, MP3s, etc?

    Who controls its future? We (consumers) are not in it just for a couple of months.
  6. Re:Here is your chance! on MandrakeSoft Files for Bankruptcy Protection · · Score: 2

    Mandrake makes a really nice desktop ditro. I wish RedHat would buy it for chump change and sell it that way (get rid of the name Mandrake) or incorporate it into its own distro. That way all the newbies would go/get pointed to that distro. Never going to happen, but it would be nice.

  7. Re:well... on Adult Content Revenue To Pay For UK 3G Licenses · · Score: 2

    The biggest draw is actually hunting for good pr0n. Delivery methods just don't do it for me...(I know there is a ton of pun opportunities everywhere in this post and this discussion, please just say no)

  8. Re:We all need to thank Mandrake on Mandrake Releases 9.1b1, New Packaging Model · · Score: 2

    I'd venture that the millions claim is also a tad too high

  9. Re:In other news, Speed of /. Effect defined. on Interview with EFF's Fred Von Lohmann · · Score: 2

    It's actually at Ludicrous Speed (tm). Offtopic, but I can afford it. What's up with first putting a link to the site and then to the article on the site??? I think we can figure out how to get to the main site on our own. Not to mention that in this case they point to the same address.

  10. One of the best sites on Collecting Classic Computers · · Score: 5, Informative

    Check out the Obsolete Computer Museum. It has tons of info and pictures of older machines.

  11. Not good on Redesigning The "Back" Button · · Score: 3, Insightful
    On average, the two systems worked about equally well.
    Then what's the point of changing it. It seems to me it would just add more confusion and frustration.
  12. Re:Physc on What's Your Earliest Memory? · · Score: 2

    Are you sure they're real memories though? I seem to remember stuff like that from when I was young (say less than 4), but then I become unsure. Could it be that I just heard someone mention the incidents and then I imagined (subconsciously) what it would have been like, and now I think that I am remembering? You can't really tell unless you are recalling something that no one ever spoke to you about, but that another person can confirm. Another thing is how do you tell which memories are the earliest? I can't distinguish memories from when I was 4 or 5 in chronological order (unless I can associate them with separate events that I can date indepedently). Maybe it's just my messed up mind.

  13. Re:Why would anyone want to do this? on XPde: Cloning the XP Interface · · Score: 2

    Have a look at that puke after you're done. You'll see where the inspiration came from. The first thing I do after an XP install is disable all the themes and revert back to Classic, which they thankfully left available.

  14. Those are some big balls, here's the theme on PC in a.... Sphere? · · Score: 2

    I'm ever upper class high society
    God's gift to ballroom notoriety
    I always fill my ballroom
    The event is never small
    The social pages say I've got
    The biggest balls of all

    CHORUS:
    I've got big balls
    I've got big balls
    And they're such big balls
    Dirty big balls

    And he's got big balls And she's got big balls
    But we've got the biggest balls of them all

    And my balls are always bouncing
    My ballroom always full
    And everybody cums and cums again
    If your name is on the guest list
    No one can take you higher
    Everybody says I've got
    Great balls of fire

    CHORUS

    Some balls are held for charity
    And some for fancy dress
    But when they're held for pleasure
    They're the balls that I like best
    My balls are always bouncing
    To the left and to the right
    It's my belief that my big balls
    Should be held every night

    CHORUS
    And I'm just itching to tell you about them
    Oh we had such wonderful fun
    Seafood cocktail, crabs, crayfish...

    Ball sucker

  15. something inherently wrong on New Jersey Enacts 'Smart Gun' Law · · Score: 2

    I have never owned a real gun, but I have always been fascinated by them. I know that their primary purpose is to kill (for whatever reason), but I just see them as pieces of machinery. I love the way they work, and how reliable they can be. They have been perfected over hundreds of years, and in my opinion they have gone as far as it is possible. You can't say this about too many machines people have created. It seems to me that tacking on a chip on a gun would desecrate it. It would ruin the fundamental design. I am sure it is being done for good and that it could help people, but it just feels wrong.

  16. whatever on Mandrake Appealing to Community, Again · · Score: 2

    I'd much rather give to beggars in the street...if you can't stay in business then get out

  17. OK I give up on U.S. Proposes Centralized Internet Surveillance · · Score: 2

    Can't they do it like in the old USSR (I'm not going there) and keep it secret? I don't want to know about this stuff, especially when I can't do anything about it (and yes I voted and wrote my "representatives"). Sheesh they can't even get spying on their own people right.

  18. Re:Will We Need A SmartCard to Watch Digital TV? on Will We Need A SmartCard to Watch Digital TV? · · Score: 2

    You are overestimating your value to them. You probably think about the purchases you make too. They are going after the sheep, and they will follow their shepperd. We're all screwed.

  19. Re:my honest opinion on CDRW Drives Hit 52X Speeds · · Score: 1

    On the other end of the spectrum, I would much rather have gotten a CD-R drive, instead of CD-RW. I've never had to use my drive for anything more than burning. I don't have a use for rewritable drives, but you can't find CD-R drives anymore. I'm guessing they would be cheaper and more stable.

  20. Re:Doesn't look good for anyone on DIRECTV Broadband Shuts Down · · Score: 2

    What is the deal with you libertarians? I don't like Republicans or Democrats that much, but if the federal government couldn't be distinguished from a hole in the ground, what would happen to consumers? I'm not saying that the government is exactly going all out against corporation, but at least something gets done. You want to see a police state, go with no state.

  21. As everyone here knows on First-Person Account Of Video Game Addiction · · Score: 2

    I chose not to choose life, I chose something else... (reading Slashdot :)

  22. Re:But ... but ... on No Need to Upgrade that PC? · · Score: 1

    Turn on HSN sometimes (I do, it's quite amusing)...they'll tell you their laptops make Google searches take only 0.03 s!!! Man that's a fast laptop.

  23. Re:A bit deeper on Transmeta Astro Processor · · Score: 1

    Some like it cold, some like it hot

  24. Re:Good! on Microsoft vs. Modded Xboxes · · Score: 1

    Either that or people who most likely will not have a first-born to give ;)

  25. Future roles on Ask William Shatner · · Score: 2

    Do you have any immediate plans for any serious role in a movie not involving science fiction?