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  1. Re:Slashdot Subscriptions on Build Your Own Roller Coaster · · Score: 1

    I wake up every morning and am able to NOT have my brain fried by Katz's unintended flamebaits thanks to My Preferences Page.

  2. Re:Not a solution on Document Retention And E-mail · · Score: 1

    ...to the legal automatic deletion of emails... after a set time period.

  3. Not a solution on Document Retention And E-mail · · Score: 1

    Aha. So if your client is being investigated and they tell you not to allow the "transaction" [transfer] to continue, you won't. In which case they'll face criminal charges for willful obstruction. Not much help to them and not really a valid option to the legal automatic deletion of emails.

  4. Re:Hmmm... in a communist country on Hong Kong Gets Smart ID Cards · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Communist countries have had identity cards in the form of booklets for an extremely long time. You can bet that the citizens of China all have identity cards (apart from farmers who are a sub-class without any right of movement). Post-communist countries continue to have identity cards. The roots of identity cards/booklets go back to Czarist or even previous times, authoritarian regimes have almost always required subjects to carry internal passports.

    An identity card is basically an internal passport, proves who you are and gives you access to certain areas/services or prevents police harrassment.

    And from living in a post-communist country I can tell you how much of a bother they are. You can't get anything 'official' (tax, etc.) or 'semi-official' (bank) done without one even though fraud is just as easy to commit.

  5. Clue on SSSCA Editorials · · Score: 1

    Hmm. I'm clueless about what you're trying to express.

  6. Impossible on Sloan Digital Sky Survey · · Score: 3, Interesting
    A true map (100% correct - however see my comment below) cannot be currently made, the science behind the calculations needed to make such a map is uncertain (dark matter, universal expansion speeds, unpredictable effects effects of undiscovered objects - black holes, etc, astrophysics is evolving all the time) and you'd a Beowulf cluster of processors the size of a galaxy to do the math.

    In fact, even if we had all the science needed to make the calculations and the equipment to do so, a true map is theoretically impossible, based on the Uncertainty Principle it is impossible to determine with 100% accuracy the state of even an atom, let alone a universe.

  7. 99% is not 100% on Mono's MCS Compiles Itself On Linux · · Score: 1

    The better analogy would be "The Wright Brother's airplane almost took off!" or "Armstrong nearly stepped on the Moon!". Its not a milestone before its passed, only even if an inch is lacking.

  8. The Stormtrooper graphic is slightly cool... on Star Wars Collector.....Guitars? · · Score: 1

    Then again, the disgusting Star Wars fretboard is totally tasteless. Anyway, I'd think a line of Skywalker Studios & original orchestra signature instruments would be a far more appropriate musical franchise.

  9. Re:Lots of people beat Columbus on Chinese Explorers 'Discovered America'? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Alex Chiu used his time-machine, discovered America 13,000 years ago and was living forever until the magnetic poles flipped and his head exploded.

  10. True, true on To The Pain · · Score: 1

    Self-taught as well (writing basic games on my MSX) - I've been using a keyboard for 16 years. About half my time at work I type and click, and its only my eyes that hurt on Friday afternoon. On the other, Sony should sue: the Playstation is in fact the Painstation (analog controllers biting into thumbs...), especially after 7 hours of GTA3.

  11. Diodes give a modulated signal on LED Lights: Friend or Foe? · · Score: 1
    My first reaction was b******t. I thought an indicator of data being sent or not can't be used to record the data stream but then I read the paper.

    Basically the diodes interact with serial data transmissions because the same high speed gates used to run the logic circuits power the diodes. This allows "an eavesdropper to recover a noisy analog waveform closely approximating the original data stream" which can then be filtered and converted back into the original.

    However not all devices are subsceptible. Anyway, take a look yourself at the paper.

  12. Re:spam on China Wants Out of Spam Blocks · · Score: 1

    Yeah, *VERY* funny. Racist slurs and a slight problem with demographics (5 bln is the world populiation). Moderators on crack?