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  1. Re:Censorship in USA? on Reporters Without Borders Fight Web Censorship · · Score: 1

    Wait slashdot mods can delete your posts? i thought you can only down mod.
    How many mod point do I need to permaban someone? :P

  2. Re:clamav on Stand-Alone Antivirus Software? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    While it won't catch everything, clamav i believe can be setup on the usb drive to be used that way.

    Nothing will catch everything, The second you write it to disk your virus definitions will be out of date.

  3. Re:Wait a sec on Best Way To Publish an "Indie" Research Paper? · · Score: 1

    The Journals I read make you disclose whether it's published else where such as conferences and other Journals, But it doesn't black ball your paper. It's pretty common for conference only papers to be accepted even.

  4. Re:Now What? on Intel Says Farewell To PCI Bus · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Now what am I supposed to do with my Voodoo II video card?

    A Better Question is how am I going to hook up my legacy scsi array?

  5. In Other news... on Home Computers Equal Lower Test Scores · · Score: 1

    TV's Rot You Children's Brains!!

    er... I mean computers

  6. "To get medical treatment, you would need money. ".

    Well that's until you replicate an android doctor.

  7. Re:Medical Radiation the New Demon on San Francisco Requires Cell Phone Radiation Warnings · · Score: 1

    Not an expert, but I do know that ultrasound is only good at solid, soft tissue. Bones and gas-filled areas cause weird echoes and distortion that lower the image's resolution.

    While I'm not a Medical Expert, I do seismic work for a living.

    Why not just filter out the Shear data, That way only the P-waves are there, This would adjust for the Gas issues. I imagine a wider receiver then could adjust for the sudden velocity variations.

    I'd prefer a weird uncomfortable contraption to being zapped with ionizing radiation.

  8. Re:For those keeping score at home... on E-Reserves Under Fire From Publishers · · Score: 1

    Universities are in the exact same business as Exxon, BP or Haliburton. Parting you from your money. This includes university libraries and publishing houses.

    They compete just as fiercely for business as any corporation. So one university press has no interest in giving a competing university unlimited access to their products for free, this is not a big surprise.

    If only there was some regulation in this multi-billion dollar a year industry.

    Please, Haliburton doesn't sell any products directly to the people, They would never survive the scrutiny. They Sell Overpriced Parts to Exxon and BP, So they can screw you harder then normal.

  9. Re:Textbook Publishers on E-Reserves Under Fire From Publishers · · Score: 1

    > Something is seriously dislocated when the book costs more than the course.

    Yes. The government is paying most of your tuition.

    No the course at the Co.Co is like $110, Pell Grants are like $250 a course.

    Going to Community College usually you get a check from the school to cover books and the such. Personally I prefer to spend my Gov cheese on hookers and blow, Just don't tell uncle sam I bought my books used.

  10. Re:Textbook Publishers on E-Reserves Under Fire From Publishers · · Score: 1

    I'm sure we could fit some blackjack in there somewhere. Maybe the cards would be made out of rhino skin parchment.

    Hell with Rhino Skin Blackjack and beautiful hookers, Who needs textbooks

  11. Re:Textbook Publishers on E-Reserves Under Fire From Publishers · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You got really lucky then. 100 dollars was on the low-end of the book spectrum when I was doing engineering and maths 6-8 years ago. Hell the book for Reals was like 100 pages long and 6 inches by 9 yet cost around 100 dollars. It wasn't uncommon to spend 500-800 a quarter if you bought stuff from the bookstore. And this was all undergrad (although good undergrad is probably the same books as a crappy masters at some schools.)

    You sir must be an idiot. Always buy used undergradute books. $215 for a new one or $50 for a used one on ebay.

    The only difference is usually the questions aren't in the right order, And if your unlucky the chapters might be too. This can be tricky when the prof says turn to page blah, because you have to look at the index, But doing this once or twice is easily worth $150!

  12. Re:They know not what they seek! on Pentagon Seeking Out Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Iceland needs money but not that bad, they are a small country that is fiercely protective of their way of life. You could invade and take over their country in an afternoon though. Iceland has no standing army, LA county has more police than them and any town in West Virginia over 100 people has more guns. I think the point is that killing someone in Iceland would have grave diplomatic and strategic consequences, we rely pretty heavily on Iceland for their position between Europe and the the US for shipping and flying.

    Well of course LA has more Police, That's why we call the us a police state.

  13. Re:We promise we won't hurt you. on Pentagon Seeking Out Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange · · Score: 1

    THat would be:
    Latitude = 38.8854, Longitude = -77.0057

    yes because surely Assanage is in arlington?

  14. Re:Because it might not work on DoE Posts Raw Data From Oil Spill, Coast Guard Asks For Tech Help · · Score: 1

    Because it isn't going through rock, it's going through mud. If you think it's hard to stop a gusher from a 2' diameter pipe, imagine how hard it would be to stop a 40,000 BBL/dy, methane propelled ooze from a 500 foot radius area with no containment.

    You have a very valid point, But I think the idea is Why not stop on of the relief wells where they are and use a big explosive, Surely they're below the mud by now.

  15. Re:A Better Target on Publishing Company Puts Warning Label on Constitution · · Score: 1

    So which parts of the constitution do you find is "out of date"? Is it that it protects the rights of citizens and requires a warrant for you to be searched according to it? Or is it that you don't like freedom of speech? Or is it that you don't believe we should have the right to legally bear arms to defend ourselves against criminals or, should it become a form of tyranny, the government? Or is it that you don't believe in the right to a trial by jury?

    All of the things in the constitution are great guiding points, with the exception of the amendment allowing the income tax, and the (thankfully repealed) amendment allowing the prohibition of alcohol.

    I like to take this time to point out the hypocrisy of the supreme courts rulings on the constitutionality of drug prohibition.

  16. Re:If it is platform independent on Mass SQL Injection Attack Hits Sites Running IIS · · Score: 1

    why are only IIS sites affected?

    While this might not relate to the article.

    There are quite a few bugs that require case insensitivity, It wouldn't surprise me to see and bug that's 'only on IIS' actually cause problems on a server with mod_speling.

  17. Re:Wow! But can they stop an oil leak? on How To Destroy a Black Hole · · Score: 1

    I understand that this is important science, but what a weird gap in scientific knowledge when we are considering how to collapse a black hole when we can't stop the damn oil leak. Maybe we should get some of these guys involved.

    Yes, Because theoretical Astrophysicists make great subsea engineers.

    That would be like hiring a guy to build your next leer jet because he's good at building solar cars.

  18. Re:the world seen through pixels. on For Normals, Jobs' "Retina Display" Claim May Be Fair After All · · Score: 5, Funny

    You mean that real life doesn't have pixels everywhere I look?

    Have you ever seen how pixelated the beach is?

  19. Re:Unsurprisingly on Scientists Use Calvin Klein Cologne to Lure Big Cats · · Score: 3, Funny

    I can't be bothered to read the summary, This is slashdot, which means I already heard the story yesterday anyway.

  20. Re:Unsurprisingly on Scientists Use Calvin Klein Cologne to Lure Big Cats · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I hear Cougars also like Calvin Klein.

  21. Re:Awesome on Cloth Successfully Separates Oil From Gulf Water · · Score: 1

    Dropping the 'g' when speaking makes you sound stupid. Dropping the 'g' in text merely proves it.

    Right, because Slashdot is a bastion of grammatical perfection. I'll be sure to type in lolcatspeak next time ;-)

    You must be British

  22. Re:Bluff City is south of Bristol Motor Speedway on Anti-Speed Camera Activist Buys Police Department's Web Domain · · Score: 1

    fuck that. people need to slow down. I was driving the other day and had a guy tailgating me. So I was nice and moved over. The thing is I was going 75mph already, I was driving too fast, and this guy thought I was going too slow. This world is messed up is a reckless jackass like myself is driving too slow.

    Oh and where the hell are you that frontage roads are 50mph!?? They are 30mph here in Minnesota, 45 in some places.

    Well Texas is a 'safe and prudent' state which means you can go over the speed limit without breaking the law in certain instances, Passing for example. There is sufficient case law that states that the speed limit of the frontage road can't be less then 20 MPH below the speed of the freeway, Otherwise it might not be safe to enter or exit the freeway.

    I know at least one person who argued this pro se and won.

    Also FYI. the minimum speed limit is set by statue to be exactly 20 mph below the posted speed limit for speeds above 25MPH

  23. Re:Just a step... on Masten and Armadillo Perform First VTVL Restarts · · Score: 2, Interesting

    No.... If this was intended for suborbital flight, Why not just land the whole shebang with parachutes?

    This is mainly for landing in places with low to no atmosphere like the moon or mars.

  24. Re:i have two of these 26" suckers: on One Video Card, 12 Monitors · · Score: 1

    Pfft... 26"

    IMQHO Nothing Beats 2-3 30"s Sure it might take up a bit of desk space, But you get 8-12million pixels. To get the same number of pixels on your 26" you literally need twice as many Screens.

  25. Re:The Shaka Plan on Quantifying, and Dealing With, the Deepwater Spill · · Score: 1

    1) Replace all coal power plants with nuclear

    While I will not raise any ideological arguments here, the sheer cost of this would be mindblowing. As in, nobody has that kind of money, not even the government.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_scale