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  1. Jamming for fun and profit on Starbucks Clashes With WiFi Hobbyists Over Airwaves · · Score: 1

    Obviously Starbucks can lose their shirts on this. Their opponents are more likely to actually know how to tweak their access points for higher output and swamp the signal. This has been discussed here before about raising the power of an Accesspoint. I would hazard to guess that boosting the signal to a coffee hack at $tarbucks means they will pour Espresso into the box. OPPS.

  2. Good, and good riddence. on MySQL A Threat To The Big Database Vendors? · · Score: 1

    Now, big DB companies are not going anywhere soon. It will be nice to see them sweat.

  3. Onboard Railguns? on John Carmack, Rocket Boy · · Score: 1

    Well I can hope can't I?

  4. Shades of "Logan's Run" on Your Skin Is Your Password · · Score: 1

    I like the idea of a non-invasive identifier. (Sandmen's weapons in 'Logan's Run' where keyed to the user alone)

  5. Lets chip in for one for Mark Pauline on Funky Robotic Hand · · Score: 1
    In case you don't know who Mark Pauline is;

    Survival Research Labs was Founded by performance artist Mark Pauline, http://www.researchpubs.com/

    This is the group without whom Robotwars etc, would not exist.

  6. MPAA is lying on More on the Effect of Digital TV · · Score: 1

    Perfect copies of movies? HA, you think I would want to keep an edited for TV, Commercial ridden, and often resized copy just because I can? it's a waste of space. DVD's six months and older are going for under $20 often under $15. Granted you can snip out the breaks and what not but they watermark anyway so it's not a serious keeper. (Except with some TV show like DUNE) This is just a wall of sound from the MPAA. Time shifting is still the only real advantage of a DVR. The tech has improved but the uses really remain the same.

  7. Re:I prefer real burgers on Ringworld exists - Found by Hubble! · · Score: 1

    On further contemplation it occurs to me that at some point the shape of the clouds will come to resemble a pair of cones (arrows seen from the side) pointing at the magnetic poles of the star. Can you say X marks the spot. I plan to wait around till that happens.

  8. I prefer real burgers on Ringworld exists - Found by Hubble! · · Score: 2, Informative

    This looks like a garden burger. But seriously, it looks like the early stages of the dust cloud being blow out by solar winds. it's just natural that it would follow the gravity/spin of the star. lucky us to be at the right angle to see it. Yay Hubble!

  9. Criminal gene is too loaded a term on Scientists Discover 'Crime Gene' · · Score: 1

    why couldn't they have found something useful like the stupidity gene, or the 'predisposition to middle management' gene. Maybe the even the dreaded 'oblivious to reality' gene. We could stamp a big L at birth on foreheads of those afflicted and save the rest of us a lot of time and pain.

  10. Hopefully they will.... on IBM Getting PwC Consulting for $3.5 Billion · · Score: 0, Troll

    take the stick out of PwC's rear. Pompous twits. I interviewed with them for a Sysadmin job, but contrary to Silicon Valley tradition they require degrees. They wonder why they are doing so badly.

  11. is that what they call a quack attack? on Demon Ducks of Doom? · · Score: 1

    Seriously, the croc referance is really obscure. how I understand birds evovled from reptiles but they should put down the crack pipe here.

  12. Sadly we can't catch a live one. on 60' Squid Washes up on Tasmanian Beach · · Score: 2, Interesting

    That's one of the holy grails of oceanography, to catch a live Architeuthis seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov

  13. It's a plot from Micro$oft on The Internet Power Grab · · Score: 1
    Since UNIX OS' rule the server world they are gonna legislate it out of existence for the sake of market share.

    When they outlaw command lines, only outlaws will have command lines.

    You can have my shell account when you pry it out of my cold sticky fingers.

  14. Re:Damn on 100-million-year-old Pterosaur Fossil Discovered · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Well, that can't be right. Trolls turn to stone in the sun, this would explain fossils. Or maybe the poster is ducking the Sun for other reasons and just pretending to be a computer geek. We need to start a hall of fame for trolls. (this one isn't even in the running)

  15. Re:I see an opportunity for Tivo Programmers on Pop-up Ads Coming to A TV Near You · · Score: 1

    Well, you might not be able to AD-equately deal with a popup but regular commercials would be a easy kill, also those lame Streamers could be fiddled with. Maybe resize the main image or replace the strip with Zippy the Pinhead quotes. Conversely you could play the Gator game and put your own ads in the strip.

  16. Re:I see an opportunity for Tivo Programmers on Pop-up Ads Coming to A TV Near You · · Score: 1
    Nope, there are obvious patterns that a program could latch onto.

    Sound volume for one

    Breaks in signal as the source changes.

    Lots of ways to solve a problem. That's what being a geek is about. Or have you not been reading this site for long?

  17. I see an opportunity for Tivo Programmers on Pop-up Ads Coming to A TV Near You · · Score: 1
    I used Popup-Killer and Ad-Muncher, to kill off these suckers on my Windozes box. Come on guys, how hard would it be to find a way to block out ADs in Tv with your Tivo?

    Make this a Challenge to the /. community.

  18. prehaps it another problem. on A Medireview Approach To Stopping E-Mail Attacks · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I find it's often a error between the keyboard and the chair. I would surmise that someone has a Spell Checker set to 'Don't ask, Don't tell' Perhaps we are attributing a program glitch in the sender's client to Evil Intentions. Gee, like that's the first time its happened here.

  19. Being for Seattle this is no shock. on Caffeine May Reduce Alzheimers · · Score: 1

    Except when I tell people about the good effects of a Mocha from my Yahoo account they wind up drinking Expresso? Of course this could be a media insert from Starbucks. I wonder if someone got Minority Report confused with an actual NEWS item. Lately that's been happening a lot, especially off FOX and NBC.

  20. Something odd was reported in Roswell NM on Russia Loses Inflatable Spacecraft · · Score: 2, Funny

    Of course details are sketchy.... Nobody is buying the Weather Ballon theory this time.

  21. So the ACLU agrees I should be able to run Servers on Cable Control of Broadband Bad for the Net · · Score: 1

    I been saying that for years. Nice to see someone else taking up the fight. However it's just a matter of time before AOL and M$N start shouldering in and this may give them some tiny bit of inscentive.

  22. Sense is not too expensive on Uptime Realities in the Internet World · · Score: 1

    or maybe they just really like using micro$oft products

  23. Pineal & adrenal gland next on the list on Scientists Grow Human Thymus From Stem Cells · · Score: 2, Funny

    Think of the commercal uses, Pineal gland extract sales to Vegas Gamblers and cheap pure adrenochrome. man, just think now we don't have to kill people just for some. ****

  24. Windows support still non-existant on Is RPM Doomed? · · Score: 1

    When are we going to get support for Microsoft OS for RPM? It's long overdue. I have been waiting for OfficeXP in RPM format for sooooo long. Of course there is the problem of having Nimda distributed in an RPM package. Can anyone say cross contamination?

  25. Ocean Cola keeps ya cool, Get it now! on Carbon Sequestration · · Score: 1

    CO2 isn't a toxin but where are you going to get it? It's Carbon MONoxide that's the problem. That and Cow farts. What next? Fizzy lifting drinks ala Willy Wonka?