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  1. Re:Prepare For The Dark Ages, Part II on Is The U.S. Becoming Anti-Science? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Modded as funny? This is actually true, guys. Wikipedia

  2. Re:What was selected? on Researchers Say Human Brain is Still Evolving · · Score: 1

    Hmm, dunno, I would imagine an 'avoidance of cities' trait might not do so well, as there are probably more avalable sex partners & better chances of reproduction where more people congregate. I would imagine there's a few trade-offs either way.

  3. Re:Apple's chance to get the business market stymi on The First Killer App: VisiCalc · · Score: 1

    The Apple ][ platform had tons of clones - there were a bunch of unofficial Taiwanese Apple ][ compatibles that ran all the Apple ][ applications (mostly) without any problems. I had one myself during that time. However, all these little clone manufacturers were pretty small shops and never really got their act together as Compaq did.

  4. Re:wrong concerns on NPR Talks Skyhooks · · Score: 1

    Interesting is, what's the failure mode on these cables. Say it does break, do we have to deal with some massive super-strong whip circling the globe and smashing everything in it's path?

  5. Spyware? on Video for Skype Users · · Score: 1

    Here is a working link. This application seems pretty suspect - it wants to install ActiveX components in IE browsers, and in Firefox it's asking for permission to install something that looks very suspicious. Beware!

  6. Re:Open WIFI == Good on Government Use of WiFi Not Secure · · Score: 0

    Interesting point regarding plausible deniability - say if someone *does* grab your WEP key and downloads child porn or hacks into the pentagon from your IP, you might have a harder time denying that it was actually you that was doing this stuff than if your WLAN was wide open without any protection at all.

  7. Re:They'll get their grants revoked on A Step Toward the Diamond Age · · Score: 2, Informative

    Here is a wired article, with some comments from the owner of the tactics of the diamond cartel: Wired Link

  8. Re:how to get rid of ads? on Google Upgrades AdSense · · Score: 1

    Adblock for Firefox/Mozilla?

    http://adblock.mozdev.org/

    Similar to what you've got, but with regular expressions, controllable nicely from the browser. You could also use Squid as a proxy, and block things there.

  9. Re:What about I/O? on A 2nd Core to Keep Windows Chugging Along? · · Score: 1

    That's why I guess the article mentions that the system is RAIDed, (sounds like RAID 0), to help a little bit with these kind of I/O issues.

  10. Re:Encrypted PIN on credit cards? on Magnetic Stripe Snooping at Home · · Score: 1

    I heard this was relatively simple, since the standards for this kind of stuff are generally pretty old. Had a boss once who in his spare time figured out the encryption key for the 'Interac'-based PINs in the 1970s-ish around when Interac was becoming widespread, he said it was no big deal & could be done pretty simply with pen and paper & free time.

  11. base64? on W3C launches Binary XML Packaging · · Score: 1

    Why not just base64 encode what you need to? Jeez, talk about a solution looking for a problem. Who in the world is encoding huge binary stuff in their XML anyway?

  12. Re:SP2 is risky on The Verdict on WinXP SP2? · · Score: 1

    SP2 doesn't react well if there is spyware installed (sounds like it might have been the cause of your friend's IE problems)- I have heard that spybot search & destroy and ad-aware should be run before you start the installation process.

  13. Re:correction on Greatest Equations Ever · · Score: 1

    Also great is the derivation of this equation - one on the classic 'pulling a rabbit out of the hat' lecturer performances back in Uni.

  14. Time pressure on High Tech Baby Monitoring? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Hey, most likely if you're a 'hands-on' type of daddy, you'll want to spend the miniscule amounts of spare time that you'll have on your digital baby videos, rather than worrying about baby monitoring. After a couple of months, it's a full time job.

    Have fun!

  15. Re:How much more energy do we need? on U.S. Cancels Fusion Program · · Score: 1

    The earth is not a 'closed system'. The sun provides us with energy from outside. However, in the context of industrial waste, makes more sense, but still is not a closed system in the scientific sense.

  16. Re:Not that fast on Sharp Debuts New Transmeta-based Laptop · · Score: 1

    Maybe the poster didn't realize that the phrase used in the article 'panned for its performance' means that in the article writer's opinion, performance was bad.

    Or else, maybe they live in some kind of Bizarro world.

  17. Re:Really, now. on Beyond Software Architecture · · Score: 1

    What about 'Architecting' in the title line - that's not even a word! The virus must be spreading.

  18. Re:No you were running spyware! on Getting Law Enforcement Action for a Large-Scale Hack? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sssh! No good advice here!

  19. Re:Workplace democracy on Improving Company Morale? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It's pretty well known that if you make decisions as a manager, being (or appearing) to be fair, employee motivation improves. There was an article about this in Harvard Business Review (dead tree version), 2 months ago or so, very interesting. Sorry don't have a link.

  20. Re:depends on what you call perfect on Awari Solved · · Score: 1

    It's spelled the same, but pronounced differently -
    kicking the nuts version - ROH-SHAM-BUH
    rock-paper-scissors - ROH-SHAM-BO

    Be very careful, but at the same time, be prepared to exploit to your advantage, if necessary :)

  21. Slashdot topic filter for dentistry topics, please on Lasers for Pain-free Dentistry · · Score: 1

    Just reading the subject made my teeth hurt.

  22. Why bother? on Windows XP Has Arrived · · Score: 1
    From the top of the CNN article:
    The system promises fewer computer crashes and will allow users to delete data from their hard drive.
    Hard disks are getting bigger all the time, why bother letting users delete data? Talk about misreading the market.
  23. The Perfect Office on What Kind of Office Space Do You Want to Work In? · · Score: 1

    Being in the same room with your project team is a must for us. And everyone not in the project team should be in a different room. This works not too bad with a project team size of up to seven people or so.

    I always like some not too loud noise in the background, usually some dumb pop-music station that has some news.

    Not allowing music (even without headphones) in the office is really weird for me - one of our employees brought a soundcard along with him to install in secret at the office just in case we didn't allow them.

    Strong coffee is a must - also, we work over a supermarket so there's always time to run down for Cokes and whatever.

    Working with a view to the outside world is nice as well, I always try to arrange myself so I have something to look at outside if I look away from my monitor. Natural light, especially non-direct lighting is great.

  24. Re:Using C++, but open to (constructive) suggestio on Which CGI Language For Which Purpose? · · Score: 1

    Perl works ok with Visibroker using COPE, but you've got the downside of pushing the envelope. Documentation is pretty sketchy, and took a while of trial and error to get everything set up.

    It's good enough for what I use it for (Perl triggering off Java processes using CORBA with Visibroker for Java as the ORB) but wouldn't want to use it for anything much more advanced or critical than that.

  25. Netomat Browser on Cross-Platform Development Tools? · · Score: 1

    The netomat browser does this - packages the JRE 1.2.1 with it, I think. You can see how it works at http://www.netomat.net. Course, if everyone starts doing it like this there'll be a million different JVMs running all over the place on your PC. Brave new world, huh?