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  1. Re:Not needed for VoIP on IEEE Developments in Wireless Networking · · Score: 1

    Actually, you don't. Throughput on a wireless connection is never more than 50% of the total medium, and even then you'd be lucky to get 22.5Mbps...

  2. Re:Who ordered the wiretapping? on NSA Wiretapping Whistleblower · · Score: 1

    Yes, because it's Americans that are being screwed. They whine all day that it's *their* liberties being shafted, but they don't give a crap when it's other foreign nationals.

  3. Definently on High-tech Cars Replacing Driver Skill? · · Score: 1

    I've been driving under my wife's supervision for two years, have recently taken some lessons before I take my test (finally), and moving to a 'modern' car has been a nightmare. Everything is controlled, or powered, and it's taken some time to master it after driving a 'normal' car for so long.

    On the plus side, I've been told I drive better than most people who've passed their test....

  4. Re:Julius Caesar on Sensitive Data Stolen Via Digital Cameras · · Score: 1

    ROT13 is *encoding* not encryption.

  5. Re:Ask Slashdot Template on Open Source Engineering Tools? · · Score: 1

    It should be, "Dear Slashdot, I am looking for free versions of the above because I am a tightwad. I have used the phrase Open Source so that you publish my submission and geeks will flock to it"

  6. Re:Lack of info amidst marketing barrage on Australian ISP Unveils WiMax Like Card · · Score: 3, Informative

    Providing it supports the 802.16 spec as it currently stands, it will allow the integration of 802.11 networks, and the support already exists at the MAC layer...

  7. Re:Ireland has had this for a while on Australian ISP Unveils WiMax Like Card · · Score: 2, Informative

    My bad, I was looking at ripwave. Breeze seems better. There is another success story in the UK: http://skylink.telabria.com/

  8. Re:Ireland has had this for a while on Australian ISP Unveils WiMax Like Card · · Score: 1

    I can't find too much info on that site about how they're utilising the features of wimax, but since they only seem to be offering symmetrical 512k, they're missing the best bits....

  9. Re:Am I the only one... on Google Maps Graduates · · Score: 1

    And me.. :(

  10. Re:The Question is... on Another School Exposes Private Information · · Score: 1
    Yes, hire IT people to trawl through every file in a University's webspace, and check whether it should be there or not.... Do you have any idea how big the average Uni's web space is? And how little of it actually means anything to the average IT guy? Quantum physics isn't my thing....

    Bloody kneejerk slashbot morons....

  11. Re:Verisign on CentralNic Enables uk.com Wildcard DNS · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    No, because we read the article.

  12. Re:Another song on Windows 95 Turns 10 · · Score: 1

    Weezer - Buddy Holly. Is the only one i remember.

  13. This version is better on Windows 95 Turns 10 · · Score: 1

    When I bought it up brought Windows home and tried to boot it up. But when I load it up, it says my memory is not enough. I'll be runnin' out I need some extra RAM to fix it up I have to cough it up Open my wallet up - it never stops never stops ... This is Windows 95 It's sucking up my drive It makes a Pentium fly But my PC is obsolete I'll have to buy myself a brand new machine Stick me up You suck me in and then you got me hooked There is so much stuff to buy I need a new hard drive It's gonna suck me dry My 386 don't have the speed It takes an hour just to bring it up the screen Oh, no, I'm making software buys It's making B*ll G*tes come Yo, you make a rich man come...

  14. 'viral' marketing? on Firefly Movie Using Viral Marketing? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Can someone explain why this is called 'viral' marketing? Seems more like the hype machine at work more than anything else. That thing with the BBC and wikipedia made me wonder the same thing.

  15. Oh for god sake.... on IE7 Bugs and Reviews · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Does no one find bitching about a beta a little less than productive? Hasn't anyone got anything better to do?

    Also, the latest version of Yahoo's toolbar *does* work.

  16. Re:real jedis... on Star Wars Props Up For Auction · · Score: 1

    Luke used his Dad's till he dropped it off the side of Cloud City.....

  17. Re:wow, big deal... i have one of these! on Star Destroyer Built Before Your Eyes · · Score: 1

    What's a girl?

  18. wow, big deal... i have one of these! on Star Destroyer Built Before Your Eyes · · Score: 1

    It took me more than 10 hours to build, and i didn't video it, but guys, you can buy these in damn near every LEGO store in the UK.... and probably the US too..... the Death Star is out soon....

  19. 700,000 not correct, response from BBC on BBC to Cull the Cult TV Repository · · Score: 4, Informative

    Whilst we are not commenting on the proposed closure of the cult site, could we clarify a point made in a quote from one of the users of the website? The quote is question is " I mean, 700,000 hits a month, the second most popular BBC site"

    The bbc.co.uk/cult does have 700,000 unique users a month, however this does not mean it is the 2nd most popular BBC website. Indeed some bbc.co.uk sites get 700,000 hits in a few hours. The Cult site came second in the BBC's Online Audience Appreciation Survey, which was voted by users of the bbc.co.uk, which is where I believe a misunderstanding has occurred.

    We appreciate the opportunity to clear up this misunderstanding and to assure you that we are listening to the feedback given to us.

  20. Re:No... on Second Indymedia Server Seized in UK Within a Year · · Score: 1

    So your saying that it's perfectly okay to vandalise things to make yourself heard?

  21. If I could mod the article 'troll' i would on Second Indymedia Server Seized in UK Within a Year · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Nowhere in the article does it highlight the reason the server was taken, which can eventually be found buried in the links, but the response by Indy is: "As the G8 summit approaches, threats to our freedom of expression, and action, appear to be increasing rapidly." So, Indymedia contacted the Police in the firstplace, and now something is being done, they're crying about it.

  22. For God Sake on Bram Cohen's Response to Microsoft's Avalanche · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Doesn't this guy have anything better to do with his time? Tick list for the day:
    1. Bash Microsoft.
    2. Eat Breakfast
    3. Bash Microsoft
    4. Post to alt.obsessive.nerds
    etc etc

  23. Re:Data? on Retro Machines Key to Rescuing Old Data · · Score: 1

    I've noticed. I remember when I installed Windows 95 from 3 1/2" disks a couple of years ago. Those disks still worked in 1999, most floppies we buy now last a week if we're lucky.

  24. Re:Data? on Retro Machines Key to Rescuing Old Data · · Score: 1

    I've lost count of the number of 5 1/4" floppies that i've pulled data from in the last few years. I work in education, and our departments have boxes of the things, mostly outdated, but now and again someone will find something that needs to be read. The disks themselves are fine.

  25. Re:What's the use ? on Pure JavaScript Unix-Like Web Based OS · · Score: 0

    Try sudo first ;)