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  1. So you can tell your boss... on Animated Encryption · · Score: 1

    it's not Hentai Anime, it is actually important encrypted company secrets

  2. In other news... on Around the World In 14 Days · · Score: 1

    Jackie Chan will star in a remake of the classic around the world in 80 days

  3. not quite on Printing Chips · · Score: 1
    "It gives an unsurpassed combination of speed and resolution and isn't limited by physical laws."

    While it isn't limited by the width of a photon, it is still limited by things like the width of an atom.

  4. Re:Hmmm on Greenbacks No More · · Score: 1
    I was told that Nova Scotia was a *Canadian province* and not a US state. It was a friggin canadian quarter. What, I'm supposed to have a perfect knowledge of geography to pay now?

    The fact that it also said Canada and had a picture of Queen Elizabeth II on it could have also tipped you off.

    Canada, while always having varying colours of money also recently introduced brightly coloured 10 and 5 dollar bills. When I first saw them, it thought they where from some tropical country or something.

  5. does anyone know on Scientists Grow Human Thymus From Stem Cells · · Score: 1

    if they were using adult or embryonic stem cells? I would assume that they used embryonic as adult stem cells might just bond with the cells but it doesn't say anyting in the article. This is great news though, hopefully it will get objecters to see the huge benifits to stem cell research.

  6. Note that it can't generate antigravity fields on Can Superconductors Block Gravitational Fields? · · Score: 2

    If this works you won't be able to create antigravity fields. Antigravity would require canceling out the very powerful static gravitoelctric field and superconductors have no effect on these fields.

  7. Picture this: on DRM Helmet · · Score: 1

    Driving along the freeway and you drive by someone lissening to that new eminem cd. Suddenly all senses are blocked off, and the next think you know there is a 17 car pile up.

  8. Raytheon Canada on FAA Pushes Air Traffic Control Systems Into Service · · Score: 4, Informative

    Raytheon Canada has developed Canadian Automated Air Traffic System (CAATS) and Military Automated Air Traffic System (MAATS) for a Nav canada contract and are currently selling it to other countries as well. The software works really well (I have seen it firsthand). It was developed in Richmond, BC.

  9. homeworld cataclysm on Games in High School? · · Score: 1

    homeworld cataclysm would be a perfect game for a highschool lan party.

  10. PuTTY on SSH, The Secure Shell · · Score: 5, Informative

    PuTTY is a great free product. I have to use it for school as telnet access is blocked. It is probably for the best though.

  11. The only problem on Taiwan Joining Chinese Royalty-free Video Disk Effort · · Score: 1

    is it won't play in all the current DVD players and will take a while before DVD players will be able to play them. How useful will this be if almost no DVD players can play them? Microsoft will have the same problem as they are trying to get DVD players to use windows media video format.

  12. from article: on Fun with Fingerprint Readers · · Score: 5, Funny
    Matsumoto's paper is not on the Web. You can get a copy by asking: Tsutomu Matsumoto
    tsutomu@mlab.jks.ynu.ac.jp

    someone is going to find a whole shitload of emails tomorrow morning

  13. Acid on Mashed-Up Music · · Score: 1

    It is funny that software used to do this (Acid) can also be downloaded from Kazaa/Grokster.

  14. Re:bugs on Many Eyes, Shallow Bugs, and Spider-Man · · Score: 1
    most aren't actually bugs. if you read them a lot are just people commenting on interestings 'easter eggs' they found in the film. Also some are just stupid like the following bug submission:

    As a person who once lived in New York City, I know for a fact that the Board of Education in NYC does not provide for school buses for its high school students. Instead,high school students are given train/bus passes to go to school for free.

  15. not to be critical on SETI@Home Close to Half-Billionth Result · · Score: 1
    but my computer needs its time off when it isn't converting
    video files so I can burn them as VCDs.

    Also I think that I read in scientific american that the odds of
    them actually finding anything are VERY VERY small.

  16. Re:Is it actually SPYware? on Kazaa Lite: spyware-free version · · Score: 1

    The only problem is, kazaa/Grokster users with broadband don't have any space left on their harddrives. Usually within 24 hours of burning a CD I have downloaded another 600-700 Megs.

  17. this sucks on Time Warner to Charge Extra for Over-Quota Bandwidth · · Score: 1
    as this is late, probably nobody will read it but whatever.

    I live in Canada but this could migrate across the border. It is funny that this article was posted as I talked to a friend today about his cable provider calling him as he was using too much bandwidth. 26 GB downloaded and 17 GB uploaded in 1 month. I know someone else who managed to download 81 GB in one month and got a call from shaw cable. I am not that bad but use at least 10 GB every month. What is a reasonable cap? DSL in my area is capped at 5GB/month. Hopefully Shaw cable can keep it up. Limiting it at less than 10 GB/month would be too restrictive i think.

  18. dell & compaq on PC Prices to Rise? · · Score: 1
    if you want to buy a computer from a major brand better go for one soon while you can still get all the perks

    But who would want a mini tower with onboard video and sound and almost no room to upgrade?

  19. what you really need on Beer Stein Goes Hi Tech · · Score: 2, Funny

    what you really need is a device that will tell you how many drinks all the ladies in the bar have ordered.

  20. Re:0.1% of the gaming population? Gimme a break on Intel's 2.4GHz Pentium 4 Unleashed · · Score: 1
    WHAT? Are you claiming that the Nintendo GameCube, Game Boy Advance, and PlayStation 2 platforms have less than 0.1% combined market share?

    He/She is talking about computers. You can't test a pentium IV cpu in gaming consoles.

  21. quit whinning RIAA/MPAA on When Elephants Dance · · Score: 1
    I like this quote from the article:

    Sales of recorded music are down 10% in the United States over the last year. The recording industry blames this downturn not on the economic recession, not on the crappy music that they've released in the past few years, but on Internet piracy.

  22. In other news... on Thumbs Are the New Fingers for GameBoy Youth · · Score: 1

    1. The more you play a sport the better you become.
    2. The more you type, the faster you can type
    3. The more you study, the more you know(not always).

  23. Re:um on Using Images as Passwords · · Score: 4, Informative
    did they not run this same story a couple weeks ago?

    yeah, here is the link http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/12/28/134821 7

  24. who still uses mice with track balls? on Trackball 50 Years Old · · Score: 1

    It is much easier to play fps games with an optical mouse.

  25. Re:thin and flexible is great but... on New, Flexible CDs Arrive · · Score: 1

    AOL CDs also smell really bad after 30 seconds in the microwave