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  1. Re:Some movies are doomed on Star Wars Producer Says Box Office is Doomed · · Score: 1

    Are you saying Titanic was a good movie?!

  2. Re:Event Horizon on There's a Hole in the Middle of It All · · Score: 1

    The black hole is not actually radiating any energy. What you're talking about is X-Rays that APPEAR to be coming from the black hole. The theory on these X-Rays is that quantum particles regularly separate from other quantum particles they're paired with and come back together without anyone noticing. Near an event horizon, however, one of the particles may be sucked into the black hole, and the other one goes off into nowhere, forming the X-Rays we see from Earth.

  3. Smart Insane People on Geoprofiling Moves Into The Limelight · · Score: 1

    I read about that a long time ago. I always figured that I'd drive an hour or more in some direction, then go off in some direction from there for some random amount of time to throw off geoprofilers.

    Of course, I don't ever expect to start killing anyone. And hopefully people who would are missing a few books from the library, if you know what I mean.

  4. Re:TiVo has name recognition on Slate Predicts The End Of TiVo · · Score: 1

    http://replaytv.com/

  5. Poor DeepFritz... on First Kramnik vs DeepFritz, In Progress · · Score: 1

    He can only manage a draw in the first game, then we steal all his CPU time by Slashdotting him!

  6. Re:I might try it on Review: Lindows 2.0 Dissected · · Score: 1

    You mean REDHAT 8.0? Normal people confuse proper terminology enough without us making it more confusing for them.

  7. Re:Is it a good idea? on Mozilla Rising ... As A Platform · · Score: 1

    It's not that people are going to build applications inside the Mozilla web browser... they're going to build them inside the Gecko rendering engine, which is what Mozilla is built on. So your application doesn't HAVE to look like a web browser if you don't want it to.

  8. Re:Speed of light? on Plastic Optical Fibre: Cheap and Bendy · · Score: 1

    People also forget that light travelling through glass is much slower than light travelling through a vacuum... I believe it's about 33% slower.

    Not that it makes that big a deal.

  9. Re:My favorite browser "feature" on Pet Bugs? · · Score: 1

    Man, you should upgrade to Mozilla!

    Er, wait. We're talking about bugs, not spewing Mozilla propaganda.

  10. Re:What is ChallengeResponseAuthentication? on OpenSSH Vulnerability Disclosed, Version 3.4 Released · · Score: 1

    Ahh, thanks. (I looked through the man pages quickly, but couldn't find a description like you gave.) I just wanted to make sure it was something I didn't need before I went disabling it on all my servers. Thanks!

  11. What is ChallengeResponseAuthentication? on OpenSSH Vulnerability Disclosed, Version 3.4 Released · · Score: 5, Interesting

    How does this authentication method work? I just disabled it, and I was still able to log in using my RSA keys and password authentication (which are the only methods I use). The documentation says it's for s/key authentication, but what is that? How common is this authentication method, and who would use it?

  12. Re:"Successful"? on MAME Ported to (Chipped) Xbox · · Score: 1

    Well, that's what I wanted to hear, then. :) I hadn't heard of it, so I just wanted some supporting evidence. I still wouldn't say that it's in the same league as the projects I mentioned, but I'll buy that it's very successful.

  13. "Successful"? on MAME Ported to (Chipped) Xbox · · Score: 1

    One of the more open source projects? You're putting it in the league of Apache, Mozilla, Samba, and Squid? Come on.

  14. Re:Us techies know how to deal with it ... on Version Fatigue · · Score: 1

    There are some linux systems that have been running continuously for around a decade now, without any upgrades at all ...

    Ahh, so THAT's where all that spam is coming from.

  15. Modern Braveheart on Cops Have Got Your Number · · Score: 1

    They make take our numbers, but they will never take OUR FREEDOM! ALBA GU BRA!

    Er, wait.

  16. Re:Only room for one on Satellite Radio - XM vs. Sirius? · · Score: 1

    Why do you think there's only room for one satellite radio provider? That's like saying there's only room for one cable or local phone provider in an area, and that's because the government basically allowed local monopolies - something they're reconsidering by trying to re-introduce competition.

  17. Re:The most value has got to be in passwords... on Information Valuation - The Most Buck for the Bits? · · Score: 1

    Of course, that's like saying that the key to Bill Gate's $250 million home is worth a lot of money per ounce.

    Or even, say, the four-digit security code to his house.

  18. Re:You don't say... on Using Your Privacy Against You · · Score: 0
    You know, 1984 was a book of fiction. The planes colliding with the World Trade Center and Pentagon really happened.


    Perhaps your use of marijuana has skewed your view of what to fear. "Hey, man, there's a giant spider and it's coming to get me! Ahhhhh!"

  19. Re:PuTTY on SSH, The Secure Shell · · Score: 3, Informative

    It looks like MindTerm is no longer free - try the Java Telnet/SSH applet/application.

  20. Missing Mozilla Hacker on CNN? on Slashback: Film, Solaris, Contention · · Score: 1
    So what sort of medical advice did Mozilla need from CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta?

    I KNEW I recognized that name.

  21. Re:Why not windows??? on Red Hat Takes Aim at SuSE, Mandrake · · Score: 1

    Would YOU want to let some Windows user pay $10 less when they're more likely to call and annoy technical support with stupid newbie problems that are clearly described in the documentation?

  22. Re:Think geek has this stuff... on Provigil Extends Your Day? · · Score: 1
    You mean this is another example of Slashdot having article advertisements?! And for a sister company, no less! I feel violated.

    Not that it'll stop me from getting some, though... heh

  23. Nowadays . . . on Rare Earth · · Score: 1, Funny

    . . . Fermi would be fined for littering. Yet another example of the government oppressing innovation! :)

  24. Re:Illegal Viruses on Should Virus Distribution be Illegal? · · Score: 1

    No, no, that's why I said "sell." :) (And besides, what percentage of web server probes are looking for IIS bugs? Just about all of them, on my machines.)

  25. Illegal Viruses on Should Virus Distribution be Illegal? · · Score: -1, Troll

    . . . how about they make it illegal sell infestable code? Then we could sue Microsoft and IIS would disappear!