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  1. Re:yippeee on Google's New Calendar CL2 · · Score: 0
    I wouldn't want my company relying on a remote machine for something as important as email. Of course, there are plenty of companies that use yahoo groups, aim, etc.

    But if google sold an email appliance (like their search engine appliance) -- a rack mounted linux box running their email/calendar/chat software -- it would be a lot more appealing.

  2. yippeee on Google's New Calendar CL2 · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    It's nice that slashdot provides a mirror of digg stories, 2 days later.

    Anyhow, With google rolling out gmail for corporate users, good calendar integration could put a dent in outlook's market share.

  3. Re:Double Bag That Burger on Security Flaw Discovered in GPG · · Score: 1

    you can also bzip2 your gzip files to improve your compression.

  4. Re:Bug Intentionally Placed? on Security Flaw Discovered in GPG · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I guess we should be thanking you for finding this problem. Since you did verify the source code doesn't contain any security holes. You did find the hole, right?

  5. Re:pieces of a puzzle... on Google Enters Web-Office Market · · Score: 5, Insightful
    remember when google burst on the scene? Yahoo! was formerly the king of search engines, but they got sidetracked with other things -- message boards, chat, email, auctions, stores, credit cards, hell they even had a magazine. Google showed up, doing searches and nothing but searches.

    So now google has expanded into other territory. Half of their services are in perpetual beta. Thanks to keyword spamming and gaming the google, their search results are often useless. Click fraud is very real.

    Google is a threat, but they're a threat to themselves.

  6. Re:Who deserves a raise? Not everyone. on The Microsoft Salary and Review System · · Score: 1
    i.e. the only way one can get extra money out of a bank is because it has earned interest

    1. deposit money in bank
    2. ????
    3. Interest! (aka profit)

    Step 2 is not "bank prints more money"; step 2 is: "bank lends money at a higher interest rate".

  7. Re:Welcome to the rest of the jungle on The Microsoft Salary and Review System · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Its us that makes slashdot what it is, if everyone submits an interesting article as often as we see them, then slash won't be outdated.

    You're ignoring the "editor" that must approve the article. I submit interesting links when I find them. Most of the time, they're rejected ... and something that's not as interesting makes front page instead.

    Slashdot is a bunch of links that the editors want you to see. Slashdot is a few selected people deciding what posts are informative and what are trolls. Digg is a bunch of links that the readers want to see. The readers make digg what it is.

  8. nullo on Self Contained Power Source? · · Score: 1

    Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda is a 29-year old white male with a stocky build and a goatee. He responded to my ad to be interviewed for this article wearing only leather pants, leather boots and a leather vest. I could see that both of his nipples were pierced with large-gauge silver rings.

    Questioner: I hope you won't be offended if I ask you to prove to me that you're a nullo. Just so that my readers will know that this isn't a fake.

    CmdrTaco: Sure, no problem. (stands and unbuckles pants and drops them to his ankles, revealing a smooth, shaven crotch with only a thin scar to show where his genitals once were).

    Q: Thank you. That's a remarkable sight.

    (laughs and pulls pants back up). Most people think so.

    Q: What made you decide to become a nullo?

    (pauses). Well, it really wasn't entirely my decision.

    Q: Excuse me?

    The idea wasn't mine. It was my lover's idea.

    Q: Please explain what you mean.

    Okay, it's a long story. You have to understand my relationship with Hemos before you'll know what happened.

    Q: We have plenty of time. Please go on.

    Both of us were into the leather lifestyle when we met through a personal ad. Hemos's ad was very specific: he was looking for someone to completely dominate and modify to his pleasure. In other word, a slave.

    The ad intrigued me. I had been in a number of B&D scenes and also some S&M, but I found them unsatisfying because they were all temporary. After the fun was over, everybody went on with life as usual.

    I was looking for a complete life change. I wanted to meet someone who would be part of my life forever. Someone who would control me and change me at his whim.

    Q: In other words, you're a true masochist.

    Oh yes, no doubt about that. I've always been totally passive in my sexual relationships.

    Anyway, we met and there was instant chemistry. Hemos is about my age and is a complete loser. Our personalities meshed totally. He's very dominant.

    I went back to his place after drinks and had the best sex of my life. That's when I knew I was going to be with Hemos for a long, long time.

    Q: What sort of things did you two do?

    It was very heavy right away. He restrained me and whipped me for quite awhile. He put clamps on my nipples and a ball gag in my mouth. And he hung a ball bag on my sack with some very heavy weights. That bag really bounced around when Hemos fucked me from behind.

    Q: Ouch.

    (laughs) Yeah, no kidding. At first I didn't think I could take the pain, but Hemos worked me through it and after awhile I was flying. I was sorry when it was over.

    Hemos enjoyed it as much as I did. Afterwards he talked about what kind of a commitment I'd have to make if I wanted to stay with him.

    Q: What did he say exactly?

    Well, besides agreeing to be his slave in every way, I'd have to be ready to be modified. To have my body modified.

    Q: Did he explain what he meant by that?

    Not specifically, but I got the general idea. I guessed that something like castration might be part of it.

    Q: How did that make you feel?

    (laughs) I think it would make any guy a little hesitant.

    Q: But it didn't stop you from agreeing to Hemos's terms?

    No it didn't. I was totally hooked on this man. I knew that I was willing to pay any price to be with him.

    Anyway, a few days later I moved in with Hemos. He gave me the rules right away: I'd have to be naked at all times while we were indoors, except for a leather dog collar that I could never take off. I had to keep my balls shaved. And I had to wear a butt plug except when I needed to take a shit or when we were having sex.

    I had to sleep on the floor next to his bed. I ate all my food on the floor, too.

    The next day he took me to a piercing parlor where he had my nipples done, and a Prince Albert put into the head of my cock.

    Q: Heavy stuff.

    Yeah, and it got heavier. He used me as a toilet, pissing in my mouth. I had to

  9. Re:Slashdotting cliche on OSL Gets Bandwidth Donation from TDS · · Score: 1

    actually, thanks to tubgirl, lemonparty, and, of course, goatse, slashdot readers have been a lot more hesitant to click those links.

  10. Re:Now THAT'S a tax write off :) on OSL Gets Bandwidth Donation from TDS · · Score: 1

    No, it's still unreasonable. an OC-3 (155 Megabits/second) can be had for $10-20,000 a month, so it's closer to $40-80,000 a month, $1 million/year max.

  11. Re:A law isn't a law... on NJ Bill Would Prohibit Anonymous Posts on Forums · · Score: 1
    The ancient greek democracy model actually used a similar idea. If a law was challenged, it could be rescinded and the legislator that sponsored it could be fined.

  12. Re:Brrrrrrr on NJ Bill Would Prohibit Anonymous Posts on Forums · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Back in the 90s, California passed a law requiring all gun owners to register their guns. Eventually, the supreme court decided that convicted felons were not required to register since to do so would violate their 5th amendments rights (they're not legally allowed to have guns; registering one would be an admission of guilt).

  13. Re:omgwtfbbq on Is Apple Trying to Take Over iPod Accessories? · · Score: 1
    If other companies are too slow to release new ipod accessories and apple beats them to it, well thats just too freakin bad for those other companies now isnt it?

    Most (if not all) of apple's recent ipod accessories have already been done by other companies... Bose SoundDock, iHome, dozens of cases, fm transmitters, etc.

  14. Re:brand strength on Is Apple Trying to Take Over iPod Accessories? · · Score: 1

    Exactly. Plus the fact that no other player has that kind of marketshare. Plus the fact that other players often include extra functionality (radio, note taker, etc).

  15. Re:Double standard idealism on China Approves Facial Recognition for Surveillance · · Score: 1

    I went to see Boogie Nights, looking at it as a nearsighted historian, rather than as a film critic, trying to see what might be true, historically, if not histrionically. As a porn critic, I am only allowed, by my union, to review North Hollywood films. Of course, I wasn't in Chatsworth in 1978, so I don't really know what was going on there. I don't even remember those post-Nixon years. Due to a lack of drug taking in my placid youth, I have no flashbacks whatsoever of anything that's happened in America over the past 30 years. For all I know, nothing has happened in America since the fall of Nixon and Saigon, though there has been a certain amount of hair loss on my part. Perhaps there have been advances made in implant therapy.

    I do know, however, where some of the scenes in Boogie Nights were lifted from. One scene, where Kyoto sneaks up on Johnny Wadd when he's in bed, supposedly asleep, and tries to Bobbitt him, is from China Cat. There's another Johnny Wadd scene that I remember, from China Cat or Exhausted, where a woman positively identifies Johnny when she sees his penis. It was an easy penis to identify. Paula Jones probably watched that movie, as well. And then there's a borrowing from Jamie Gillis and Rene Morgan in On The Prowl, picking up men from off the streets of San Francisco and taking them for rides in their stretch limo. Mothers never warn little boys about that sort of thing, apparently. Burt Reynolds does a nice job of play by play announcing, but he's no Jamie Gillis...or even John Kennedy.

    There are probably other Johnny Wadd scenes I missed (I'm only a nearsighted porn historian, and I don't get to take Bill Margold or Jim Holliday to the movies with me), and I'm sadly not in the loop for all of the great gossip that doesn't make it into Adult Video News, otherwise, I'd share it all with our readers.

    So I simply don't know about the cocaine usage in Boogie Nights...if there was that much back in the '70s...but I know, from watching Inside Edition, the profession of the man whom Shauna Grant was living with before she died, so it wasn't surprising to see the character Little Cinderella played, OD on coke in that movie. I'm sure that some husbands shoot their wives (don't they always, even in Ohio), and I remember the suicide of Cal Jammer, so I'm just glad, being unusually squeamish when it doesn't come to sex, that I didn't have to actually see Nina Hartley get shot (real life does include the tragedy of the Mitchell Brothers).

    One of the vividest scenes in Boogie Nights was the attempted robbery of the drug dealer, after trying to sell him a bag of baking soda--what with firecrackers going off, and the crack addled dealer singing along with some truly awful songs (the best music to my ears in the film was some early Chico Hamilton--great to know someone still remembers his Pacific Jazz sides) before everyone involved either gets shot at or shot.

    But this pales in comparison with John Holmes' real involvement in the murders of his friends, that Tammy Cole wrote about in BNI--a case that began with robbery and kidnapping, and probably ended with John having to watch his friends being battered to death in front of his eyes. The hero of Boogie Nights, unlike John, does not end up in jail for over a year, awaiting his trial for first degree murder.

    There were directors living in the Valley who threw parties every Saturday night that, I'm told, were probably wilder than anything shown in Boogie Nights. I almost wish I could have been there, though I never go to parties. If I were a party animal, I'd most resemble a dormouse.

    But oh, if only they had dared to shoot real sex, and show it...this would have been a great porn film, true or untrue. But Hollywood just had to substitute pistol shots for pop shots. It needs to be remade, but I fear there's no chance of that. The theater was empty enough as is, not more than 8 or 10 people... perfect seating for raincoaters, only there was no need to bring a raincoat.

    It was nice seeing Summer and Skye

  16. Re:Inevitable. on New AT&T Acquires BellSouth · · Score: 1
    Have you noticed that there are no Libertarian nations or states anywhere in the world?

    The Pre-Civil War Era US was more or less libertarian. The 16th and 17th amendments, along with FDR and his sock puppet supreme court, pretty much killed any remnants of liberty.

  17. interesting. on GtkRadiant under GPL · · Score: 1

    Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda is a 29-year old white male with a stocky build and a goatee. He responded to my ad to be interviewed for this article wearing only leather pants, leather boots and a leather vest. I could see that both of his nipples were pierced with large-gauge silver rings.

    Questioner: I hope you won't be offended if I ask you to prove to me that you're a nullo. Just so that my readers will know that this isn't a fake.

    CmdrTaco: Sure, no problem. (stands and unbuckles pants and drops them to his ankles, revealing a smooth, shaven crotch with only a thin scar to show where his genitals once were).

    Q: Thank you. That's a remarkable sight.

    (laughs and pulls pants back up). Most people think so.

    Q: What made you decide to become a nullo?

    (pauses). Well, it really wasn't entirely my decision.

    Q: Excuse me?

    The idea wasn't mine. It was my lover's idea.

    Q: Please explain what you mean.

    Okay, it's a long story. You have to understand my relationship with Hemos before you'll know what happened.

    Q: We have plenty of time. Please go on.

    Both of us were into the leather lifestyle when we met through a personal ad. Hemos's ad was very specific: he was looking for someone to completely dominate and modify to his pleasure. In other word, a slave.

    The ad intrigued me. I had been in a number of B&D scenes and also some S&M, but I found them unsatisfying because they were all temporary. After the fun was over, everybody went on with life as usual.

    I was looking for a complete life change. I wanted to meet someone who would be part of my life forever. Someone who would control me and change me at his whim.

    Q: In other words, you're a true masochist.

    Oh yes, no doubt about that. I've always been totally passive in my sexual relationships.

    Anyway, we met and there was instant chemistry. Hemos is about my age and is a complete loser. Our personalities meshed totally. He's very dominant.

    I went back to his place after drinks and had the best sex of my life. That's when I knew I was going to be with Hemos for a long, long time.

    Q: What sort of things did you two do?

    It was very heavy right away. He restrained me and whipped me for quite awhile. He put clamps on my nipples and a ball gag in my mouth. And he hung a ball bag on my sack with some very heavy weights. That bag really bounced around when Hemos fucked me from behind.

    Q: Ouch.

    (laughs) Yeah, no kidding. At first I didn't think I could take the pain, but Hemos worked me through it and after awhile I was flying. I was sorry when it was over.

    Hemos enjoyed it as much as I did. Afterwards he talked about what kind of a commitment I'd have to make if I wanted to stay with him.

    Q: What did he say exactly?

    Well, besides agreeing to be his slave in every way, I'd have to be ready to be modified. To have my body modified.

    Q: Did he explain what he meant by that?

    Not specifically, but I got the general idea. I guessed that something like castration might be part of it.

    Q: How did that make you feel?

    (laughs) I think it would make any guy a little hesitant.

    Q: But it didn't stop you from agreeing to Hemos's terms?

    No it didn't. I was totally hooked on this man. I knew that I was willing to pay any price to be with him.

    Anyway, a few days later I moved in with Hemos. He gave me the rules right away: I'd have to be naked at all times while we were indoors, except for a leather dog collar that I could never take off. I had to keep my balls shaved. And I had to wear a butt plug except when I needed to take a shit or when we were having sex.

    I had to sleep on the floor next to his bed. I ate all my food on the floor, too.

    The next day he took me to a piercing parlor where he had my nipples done, and a Prince Albert put into the head of my cock.

    Q: Heavy stuff.

    Yeah, and it got heavier. He used me as a toilet, pissing in my mouth. I had to

  18. Re:CDs on Attorney General Investigates Music Price Fixing · · Score: 1
    Most movies pay for themselves at the box office. DVD sales are pure gravy.

  19. Re:The parable of the two farmers and the customer on Attorney General Investigates Music Price Fixing · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You're right, it is worth looking into. Unfortunately, it was the federal gov't that set up farm protection schemes far worse than you're envisioning (like paying for the destruction of crops in order to keep prices artificially high).

  20. Re:You're right! on No Backdoor in Vista · · Score: 1

    even with OSS, most people won't compile it themselves or even look at the source code, they'll download a pkg, rpm, tgz, whatever, and install the binary executable. Yes, you can veriy the source code isn't trojaned, and you can compile it yourself (assuming your compiler isn't trojaned). But you can't be sure a binary installation wasn't trojaned by red hat or the developer himself.

  21. Re:Just a thought... on Skype 5-way Calling Limit Cracked · · Score: 1

    it also checks for a dual core CPU before allowing 10 callers.

  22. Re:Don't Believe the Skype on Skype 5-way Calling Limit Cracked · · Score: 1
    A Virtualizer (VMWare does this, not sure about Xen) scan through blocks of code looking for priviledged instructions before allowing them to execute. Priviledged instructions are emulated in software, so they could emulate CPUID and return whatever you wanted. Self modifying or encrypted code aren't a problem -- if a block of code is modified, it's marked as dirty and needs to be rescanned before it can be executed natively.

    As a method of faking the CPUID, though, it's a lot easier to patch the executable.

  23. Re:Emulation would have worked too? on Skype 5-way Calling Limit Cracked · · Score: 3, Informative

    f00f bug workarounds don't scan the binary for the invalid instruction, they do tricks with the exception handler so that a page fault (or some other error) will occur, at which point you can generate the correct exception rather than locking up.

  24. Re:Emulation would have worked too? on Skype 5-way Calling Limit Cracked · · Score: 1

    if you read the article, which explains exactly what he did, you would know that's exactly what he didn't do.

  25. Re:Negative. on Skype 5-way Calling Limit Cracked · · Score: 1
    The system can't take your anonymous posts ino account because it doesn't know that they are your anonymous posts.

    Sure it can. Slashdot keeps track of the ip address and the moderation that goes along with it. Too many downmods and anonymous posting will be banned from an ip block. Even more downmods and all posting will be banned from an ip block.