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  1. Obvious Signage on Public Warnings For Public Video Surveillance · · Score: 1
    We use the Eye in the Pyramid or maybe a swastika

    Both are fairly creepy.

  2. Hmm, useful on Regulate Your Kids' Gaming With Time Scout · · Score: 1, Troll

    We could put them on Linux boxen. Yeah Linux can handle unanticipated shutdowns. Better still put one before a UPS in the chain.

  3. Watch for these in Insureance offices first on Handheld Scanner to Detect Cancer · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Sorry Mr Morton, we can't issues you that 4 million dollar policy, you have cancer. It's a pre-existing condition so you assed out.

  4. So Who is the dork with the glasses? on Knife-Licensing Sensation Sweeps Counter-Strike · · Score: 1
    I mean the guy on the cover of the game and in the PDF. I see this guy all the time. Is he the Mascot or one of the coders? Those glasses fail to make me scared of him.

    Or maybe I am just not hip enough

  5. Done in under 5 minutes. on Four-Dimensional Rubik's Cube Craziness · · Score: 0

    I read the book on doing it last year. Slashdot is sooo behind the times on this one.

  6. Still Waiting for the port to the Sinclair ZX80 on Buffy - Chaos Bleeds Gets Staked Out · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Z80A-3.25 MHz CPU is the best ever made.

  7. DEATHMATCH Shawn vs Lars, this time it's personal! on Metallica Videogame Planned · · Score: 2, Insightful
    I've seen arcade video games based on bands, they pretty much sucked.

    Add to it lack of interest. Metallica, is way over the hill now. This will end badly as Lars starts mouthing off to the programmers and saying they are ripping off Metallica's image in a game they are sponsoring.

    No good programmer will work for them.

  8. Grounds = Yet Another Phoney Terrorism Alert on Geocaching Crackdown? · · Score: 3, Insightful
    One of the favorite old tricks of the Soviet spy networks was to do a variation of GeoCaching called a Dead Drop.

    People would go to secret locations and leave messages and spy related items, never to return. Their contacts would then come at a totally different time and pick up said items.

    Geo Caching would provide far to many 'False Positives' to the Keystone Kops chasing terror suspects.

  9. More room for more News on FCC Approves Media Consolidation · · Score: 1
    I would expect FOX NEWS to be buying up lots of media outlets. To paraphrase The Underpants Gnomes;

    Step One: Build a Media Empire.

    Step Two: Buy out the US Government

    Step Three: ????

  10. Voice work by Matthew Lillard ?? on New Wing Commander - For Gameboy Advance? · · Score: 0, Troll

    I didn't know the GBA had a speaker. I hear they couldn't afford Freddie Prinze, Jr

  11. Here is the full source on Nullsoft's Waste: Encrypted, Distributed, Mesh Net · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Here is the source for those who are wondering what it's all about.

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    WE AWAIT SILENT TRISTERO'S EMPIRE.

  12. Ouch, now I have to remember IP addresses too on Sprint Moves Phone Network to IP · · Score: 4, Funny
    I am so gonna miss the (555) 123 4567 type numbers. Will you have to use the * key to make the dots in the quads?

    Reminds me of that old Dogbert Joke about having a Tilde in the phone number. I wonder how long it will be till them move to IPv6, won't that be a joy to dial.

  13. Is that Something like MIPS on Buying Computing by the Computon · · Score: 1

    Meaning Indicatators of Processor Speed? Sounds like a Marketspeak. Must we take serious everything that comes out in a press release?

  14. So if this sorts sperm on Sperm Sorting Chip · · Score: 3, Funny

    Would it not be better to use a maze that they would have to traverse. Might be able to breed a better human if the sperm had to find it's way to the egg. Maybe with little ghosts that flash colors when you find a powerup.

  15. Do puns count? on Sperm Sorting Chip · · Score: 1
    If there is a joke article posted on today's slashdot, then this is it.

    If not puns do Sperm count?

  16. Re:bad news for the greatest spammer of them all.. on California Could Get $500/Offense Spam Law · · Score: 1

    See here

  17. Re:bad news for the greatest spammer of them all.. on California Could Get $500/Offense Spam Law · · Score: 1

    Don't you mean http://www.gwbush.com/home.shtml?

  18. Re:It's not about diskspace on Why is Hosted Disk Space So Expensive? · · Score: 1

    Your seeing this from the retail costs, in order to make money they need to charge something. If they don't make money they don't stay in business. Where do you think the got that $300K? I don't use hosting companies, I got my own and I know how to manage it. All in all it's a mindless arguement. If you need to grouse about the rental costs of a few hundred megs of disk space online, maybe you should get your own box in it's own rack.

  19. Re:Recall Gray Davis on California Senate Approves Net Tax Bill · · Score: 1

    Thanks to your buddies at Enron, what choice did he have?

  20. It's not about diskspace on Why is Hosted Disk Space So Expensive? · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's about things like backups, raid, and power. I host my own box on the net, I got 100 gigs, but I pay all the bills and do the backups myself. There are few things that a hosting company can charge for, bandwidth is uniform and like water. CPU speed is a nebuous factor (not the net nobody cares how fast it sceams). On the other hand Disk space is measurable and has some overhead. A gig in a home system is cheap, A gig in a NetApp with daily backups isn't.

  21. Re:A burglar alarm is not a wiretap on Use a Honeypot, Go to Prison? · · Score: 1

    Sure, why not? Why would where you live matter. The case is the sexy thing not your little burg.

  22. A burglar alarm is not a wiretap on Use a Honeypot, Go to Prison? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    While I do have a bare shred of faith that a Judge will understand the intent here is not to defraud. The intent is to Defend/Detect an attack. It's a defense system that does not cause harm. What you are in fact creating is a Electronic Burglar Alarm. Has I understand tracing the offender is ok, attacking his system isn't. Informing the Domain's Admin/Owner/Upstream Provider is ok. Wasting a Hacker's time in a honey pot isn't illegal, frying their brain like in a William Gibson novel (attractive thought it may be) would be.

    On the Honey Pot issue, what differentiates it from a Online game? You put it there, people come and there are rules to get in. It would seem that the argument that putting up a Honeypot is an invitation to enter (the Honeypot only). While a SysAdmin could learn valuable lessons from observation, the defense of the Alleged hacker could be that they 'KNEW' it was a Honeypot and that the price of entry was cleverness not cash. Therefore they are playing a game, one in nature much like Ultima online or Neverwinter Nights.

    Don't worry about this, it's for the most part a groundless fear. If you did actually come under attack by some foolish District Attorney, likely You would be getting calls from the likes of Johnny Cochran and Alan Dershowitz offering free legal.

    This article is fearmongering a distant cousin of trolling.

  23. Big Contract with Estes Rocket Corp? on NASA Redesigning The Space Shuttle · · Score: 1

    Looks like Estes has all their ducks in a row in regards to Homeland Security take a look at their website This may work to our advantage with regards to meeting the little green men, Estes Rockets are kinda small so we need really small pilots. Maybe Mars has an ATF of their own....

  24. Worry Not on TN DMCA: Calling All Nerds · · Score: 1
    While I do have a bare shred of faith that a Judge will understand the intent here is not to defraud. The intent is to defend against attack. It's a defense system that does not cause harm. What you are in fact creating is a Electronic Burglar Alarm. Has I understand tracing the offender is ok, attacking his system isn't. Informing the Domain's Admin/Owner/Upstream Provider is ok. Wasting a Hacker's time in a honey pot isn't illegal, frying their brain like in a William Gibson novel (attractive thought it may be) would be.

    On the Honey Pot issue, what differentiates it from a Online game? You put it there, people come and there are rules to get in. It would seem that the argument that putting up a Honeypot is an invitation to enter (the Honeypot only). While a SysAdmin could learn valuable lessons from observation, the defense of the Alleged hacker could be that they 'KNEW' it was a Honeypot and that the price of entry was cleverness not cash. Therefore they are playing a game, one in nature much like Ultima online or Neverwinter Nights.

    Don't worry about this, it's for the most part a groundless fear. If you did actually come under attack by some foolish District Attorney, likely You would be getting calls from the likes of Johnny Cochran and Alan Dershowitz offering free legal.

  25. With Gas prices like these it won't be long on Creating Car Free Cities · · Score: 1
    Not to mention the coming border checks at state lines and Mandatory GPS tracking of all non-government passenger vehicles.

    Paranoid Fantasy or Snide Remark, you decide.