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  1. Re:Issues of Weaponizing this System on Simcity Microwave Power by 2050? · · Score: 1

    What qualifies as a modern fission plant? I live near Indian Point in Westchester, NY. This article from 2001 seems to indicate that it's not all that safe to live near this plant. Just curious... and probably paranoid too. :p

  2. Fault Tolerance? on Better Displays With New Nanowire Film · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Anyone notice what appears to be a broken nanowire towards the bottom left of the picture? I wonder what kind of fault-tolerance these sturctures have for that sort of thing.

  3. Yum on Red Hat Linux Support To End · · Score: 1

    I think Yum may be the future for up2date-style functionality for free.

  4. Class Action on SCO Now Willfully Violating the GPL · · Score: 1

    If they do end up filing a class action, everyone on /. deserves a piece simply for all the hours of our lives we've lost reading about SCO's stupidity.

  5. Attractive Nuisance on Using Honeypots to Fight Worms · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The Internet in general is an attractive nuisance to script kiddies.

  6. You Can patent One Line of Code? on X10 Pays $4.3 million In Damages For Pop-Unders · · Score: 2, Interesting
    window.opener.focus()

    Holy #$%! Let's get to it!

  7. Good Review? on Advanced .NET Remoting · · Score: 1
    I dunno. On the surface this looks like a good review, but enough factors are there to suggest that this is, indeed, a somewhat underhanded advertising tactic. I used to work at an online shopping site that did this sort of guerilla marketing all the time.

    The guy is a bit obvious in the way he consistently uses the term ".NET remoting" everywhere. I also suspect he deliberately didn't tell us what remoting is so we'd go find out.

    FWIW, now I know, so I guess he succeeded in his efforts. That bastard!

  8. How about Counter-Strike? on Fitness Racer: PC Control of an RC Car · · Score: 1

    I would kill for something like this with Counter-Strike. Finally all those hours I spend could be put to exercise AND fragging. The ideal rig would make it possible to do all the basic movements- run, walk, strafe, crouch, jump, etc.

  9. Eye Problems on Multiple Monitors Increase Productivity · · Score: 1

    Has anyone else ever felt that the multiple monitor thing had detrimental effectes to his vision? I was using 2 monitors on my Mac back in 1996 and swore by it. After about a year or two though, I got "lazy eye," where one eye stares off in one direction while the other stays focused in front of you. I wonder if my eyes were trying to watch both monitors simultaneously.

  10. Another free Antivirus option on Top 10 Software Titles Every Home PC Needs? · · Score: 1
    House Call - www.antivirus.com

    I use this whenever I'm on someone else's machine and they don't have an AV program installed.

  11. Even worse... on Is the Internet Your Source of Knowledge? · · Score: 1

    ...I find that, usually, my only source of news is just what I read on slashdot- Eeeek! I know that's bad, but I usually have my laptop open to it and just hit refresh throughout the day. I come home and my wife tells me about stuff she read in the paper. I reply with gripes about the latest SCO story. Sad but true.

  12. Not Earth-Shattering on Gates Embraces Web Service Interoperability · · Score: 1

    This doesn't seem like earth-shattering news. It's kind of like saying, "Hey! Microsoft is willing to embrace HTML." Am I missing something?

  13. Re:Media Nonsense on RIAA Sues 12-Year Old Girl · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If they're suing the person responsible for the internet connection, how did they come up with the girl's name?

  14. Re:Moderation... on Hall Of Technical Documentation Weirdness · · Score: 1

    "Nuns- no sense of humor." -Clancy Brown in Highlander

  15. Re:Meh. on Hall Of Technical Documentation Weirdness · · Score: 1

    Good recommendation. So good I bookmarked it.

  16. Re:If you need a commercial product... on Three Snort Books Reviewed · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Wha? That sounded kind of interesting until I searched Google for "symantec manhunt pricing" and came back with $15,000! I think I'll go with a copy of Snort and one of those books.

  17. BrightStor... not on Affordable and Safe Data Protection Practices? · · Score: 1

    I thought about using BrightStor- but then I realized I could save $500,000 by using rsync to my parents' basement.