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  1. Re:Concerns about Best Buy on Feds Thwart Extortion Plot Against Best Buy · · Score: 1

    umm yeah, so does Lowes (Hardware store), and several other stores. Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital uses them for Patient data collection too... Scary even with WEP.

  2. Re:I think... on Feds Thwart Extortion Plot Against Best Buy · · Score: 1

    your boss spams himself...

  3. Only a few issues on 101 Ways To Save The Internet · · Score: 1

    22 Take back UHF We're tired of running our wireless network on the same frequency as the microwave, the cell phone, and the neighbor's baby monitor. Channel 83 is just sitting there.

    420MHZ to 806MHZ... yeah cause nobody uses anything in there. Police, EMS, Fire ... a lot are in the UHF band. So are Radio Telescopes (right in the middle. Channel 83... closer to the 800 Mhz range... in line with older 8-900 Mhz cordless phones.

    45 VeriSign must die

    No issues...

  4. Re:wormies worry me on Stop Christmas-Gift PCs From Feeding Worms · · Score: 3, Funny

    If your 'Joy' stick fits in a USB port, you have bigger problems then the blaster worm.

  5. Re:PayCheck bonus. on Cube House · · Score: 1

    getting paid 8 hours a day to surfing slashdot.org

    It takes you 8 hours to read slashdot?? Did you take a short bus to school?

    JK...

    Merry Christmas to all...

  6. DMCA Offense! on MySQL & Open Source Code Quality · · Score: 3, Funny

    By including the use of 'stdio.h' to which we (SCO) own the rights to, you have violated the DMCA.

    MrHanky, you now must either pay us for the use of said file ($699) or ceist and decist.

    We hold rights to your future earnings from your use of our file, and we option the rights to your childrens earnings.

    Thank you
    Daryl

    soo so sorry... It just popped into my head...

  7. Think I'd get the job if on EA Uses ASCII Billboard To Woo Rivals · · Score: 1

    I sent them my resume entirely in ASCII

  8. Nelson said it best on SCO Not Lying About DoS Attack · · Score: 1

    HA HA

  9. offtopic on Voting Machines Vs. Slot Machines · · Score: 2, Funny

    C:\>tracert life.liberty.pursuit-of-happiness

    Unable to resolve life.liberty.pursuit-of-happiness

    No wonder with Larry, Moe, and Currly running for office next year...

  10. Betamaxed on What's Wrong with the Open Source Community? · · Score: 1

    I can see both sides of the argument. I read both articles and the entire time I heard myself mumbling "Yeah, thats true".

    I've noticed that 99% of open source programmers are rational, inteligent humans, but put them in a group and create a riotous frenzy.

    Our mantra should be something like:
    DON'T BETAMAX LINUX!

    *Note: For those too young to know or remember. Betamax was a better implimentation of a home video recorder, but dealt with bad marketing, and other issues. Better technology vs better marketing (Overly Simplified)

  11. PC carcases everywhere on How Do You Organize Your Gear? · · Score: 2, Funny

    I write this, as my wife throws another PC carcase I left out at my head.

  12. Thats one hell of a P0rn server on The Amazing Shrinking Supercomputer · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's one hell of a p0rn server. Now compile apache, and connect to a pair of DS-3s...

    hmm... how many Counterstrike servers will it run at the same time...

    (Note: The above is meant to be foolish and meaningless. Any other interpritation is pure coincidence. The names have been changes to protect the inocent)

  13. Re:I'm happy with ATI & Linux on Video Card History · · Score: 1

    Very happy that ATI included TV Out support for the ATI AIW 9800 Pro series...

    Woo Hoo!

  14. Re: 12mg on Video Card History · · Score: 1

    You had a 12 milligram graphics card?

    What...you haven't heard of the new light weight graphics cards?

    Second thought...that could be tyhe amount of crack he smokes every hour...

  15. Re:On contacts? on Better Displays With New Nanowire Film · · Score: 1


    How long until the millitary gets a hold of this for contacts... Night vision contacts... zoom contacts....

    Will they be able to create images like a HUD? Process info from a recon bird, and display enemy locations on your contact lens, with distance, and position...

    Will the be hijackable?

    Ok strange trip down a detour

  16. Re:How about overpopulation? on The Problem With Abundance · · Score: 1

    Ok a little side trip of the beaten path (aka...offtopic)

    Forests have been around for quite some time without us meddling with their natural processes. We step in, start fighting the small fires which thinned the forests out- and boom, all of the sudden, nobody can figure out why we've MASSIVE fires.

    My brother is a smoke jumper. Unless there is a large fire to fight...(like in CA) they spend their time creating controlled burns and fire lines.... Forest fires are good for nature... It's people who aren't... big daddy builds a multi million dollar house on the edge of a burn area, and wonders why it burns down every few years....dumb asses people...

    People suck...
    ok sorry... having a bad luser day...

  17. No scarcity there on The Problem With Abundance · · Score: 1

    By the look of Peter... Food isn't scarce at all in his house.

  18. Umm Officer on Terahertz Scanners See Inside Sealed Packages · · Score: 1

    "Honestly Officer, It's for my glaucoma... No sir, I don't know a Mr Big in Miami... A lawyer sir? No sir... I have the right to remain silent?..."

  19. Can't be taken seriously on Attempting To Create A Gaming Canon · · Score: 1

    Ok.. I'm the first to admit. I don't usually play games to the finish, unless the story line is great.

    I have a beef with the list. Yeah there are a lot of "systems" listed, but what about the first widely known... Pong Ok so if you got tired of playing Pong, you could flip a switch and play new version of pong...

    What about the Atari 2600... Who didn't love Adventure... and Yars Revenge?

    What about the first (That I can remember) kill everyone and escape game... Castle Wolfenstein... It was a big game... 2 5 1/4" disks worth of fun...

    I must have played hours of "Silent Service" on my Tandy 1000 sx

    Ok at least the childhood memories of the arcade are there... Asteroids, Space invaders, etc...

    But what happened to other "classics"... Like the greatest text adventure Zork or pixels shooting each other in Scoorched Earth. What about games like Space Ace and Dragon's Lair?

    Hell Duke Nukem isn't even on the list...

    This has been a public service announcement. We now return to your regularly scheduled mundane exsistance...

  20. Re:hmm. on The World's Fastest Electric Car · · Score: 1

    I commute 64 miles each way per day. I'd love to have an electric car, my gas bills suck! As for speed, anyone who has been on the Garden State Parkway during rushhour knows that 0-60 in 4.1 is useless, much less anything with a top speed of more then 15 MPH!

    Give me an electric car that can go 540 miles on an 8 hour charge, 0-60 in 4.1 secs, top speed of 140 mph, and a price tag around $30k and I'll buy 2!

  21. Re:Why bother on Is That Cell Phone Tower Watching Me? · · Score: 1

    Umm I believe Ford Motor Company did this (On a sign up basis) with it's vehicles. To track the way people truly use their cars/trucks. It was a cool report to read. They used GPS, and I beleive a cell modem to transmit multiple parameters.

    They were puzzled, when they kept receiving reports from one vehicle that only drove about 7 miles a week, but at 125 MPH at short bursts. They actually contacted the owner, who was a mechanic, and raced the the local drag strip.

    One owner would turn the car on and let it run for 10 minutes every half hour, 24 hours a day, but only drove 35 miles in a month. This turned out to be an automatic car starter, which was set to start and run to keep the interior warm for it's elderly owner.

    Silly people...

  22. And Slashdot's score... on Designing With Web Standards · · Score: 2, Redundant

    Check out how slashdot made out...

    URI:
    Encoding: iso-8859-1
    Doctype: HTML
    Errors: 407
    Revalidate With Options
    :
    Show Source Outline
    Parse Tree ...no attributes
    Validate error pages Verbose Output

    * Note: The URI you gave me, , returned a redirect to .
    * Line 71, column 115: cannot generate system identifier for general entity "alloc_id"
    * Line 71, column 129: cannot generate system identifier for general entity "site_id"
    * Line 71, column 139: cannot generate system identifier for general entity "request_id"
    * Line 161, column 62: cannot generate system identifier for general entity "group_id"
    * Line 161, column 76: cannot generate system identifier for general entity "atid"
    * Line 241, column 74: cannot generate system identifier for general entity "tid"
    * Line 241, column 156: cannot generate system identifier for general entity "mode"
    * Line 241, column 184: cannot generate system identifier for general entity "threshold"

    This page is not Valid HTML!

    Line by line of errors

    ---
    Nice!
    407 lines of errors...

  23. Re:Any ideas on Use Multiple Channels for Faster Wireless Networking · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If you have a big fat wallet. Looking either Breezenet gear ($1000 US per radio) which freq hops for security but at 3MB transfer.

    For only around $10K, you can get Tsunami gear 100Mb PTP. It runs 5.4Ghz, just don't stand infront of it.

    Wirless side note. I work with last mile wireless gear. It's cool, but also on our tower is XMRadio. These fookers run at 2.478 (Yeah they don't bother to tune their antenas much). Do the math here... 200Watt radio, 12-14DB gain antenea. Licensed at 200Watts at the antenea. Our spectrum analyzer pulled them in as the stongest signal WITHOUT and antenea. Our RF tech figured out they were running at about 1800Watts at the antenea.

    The good news is there are no birds nests on the tower at all.

    So come on down and have a cookout.

  24. hmm... on Microsoft Works on Search Capabilities · · Score: 1

    MSN Search: -> Goat or man

    Where would this groups favorite picture show up on the list, and how would it be catigorized?

  25. Re:Sue the auto manufacturers as well? on Computer Makers Sued Over Hard Drive Size · · Score: 1

    This has been a practice of many industries for many many years.

    2x4 = 1-3/4 x 3-3/4 (approx)
    50mg pills contains 50mg of said drug
    1100cc displaces 1085cc at time of manufacture.

    It's all a marketing ploy / dealing with the public. Who in the last 8 years has bought a HD and expected to get exactly 10Gb of usable space from a 10Gb HD? Yeah a part of me is alway pissed that Windblows always leaves 8Mb of space while partitioning a drive...

    I know when I buy a 200Gb HD, even in linux, I only get 196015808 1K blocks to use.

    "But it's got an eleven..." - Spinal Tap