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  1. Re:Summary is overrated on Bacterial Computer Solves Hamiltonian Path Problem · · Score: 1

    WTF - traveling salesman with three points, one of which is the start and one of which is the end - what paths are there to choose from?

  2. what if keyphrase itself incriminates? on UK Court Rejects Encryption Key Disclosure Defense · · Score: 1

    my encryption keyphrase is, of course, "i kill3d k3nny [...]" so i can't divulge it without incriminating myself.

    should give the unsavvy judge a migraine...

    but to that idiot, there may be no difference between my "confession"-keyphrase and the encrypted "suspected evidence", anyway...

  3. Re:As much as I hate lawuits... on How To Turn a Mini Maglite Into a Laser · · Score: 1

    and, after all, the darwin awards are there for a purpose...

  4. Re:Changes over time? on MacGyver Physics · · Score: 1

    bad typo. the original article reads:
    to confirm that interactions involving the weak force do not show perfect mirror symmetry, or parity,
    are there ways to copy&paste that i don't know of?

  5. Re:Schneier's Comments on Bush Causes Cell Phone Ban · · Score: 1

    and don't forget that trigger-happy bush crowd will order the local officially armed guys around, making them equally hysterical.
    i wonder if wearing a beard or tits would make a difference, though...

  6. Re:Schneier's Comments on Bush Causes Cell Phone Ban · · Score: 1

    grab a cop and be shot on the spot, no questions asked.

  7. atlas url http://atlas.ch/ on World's Largest Supercooled Magnet Activated · · Score: 1

    atlas url http://atlas.ch/

  8. charset on ICANN Under Pressure Over Non-Latin Characters · · Score: 1

    man! could we, as a single species, possibly agree on a single charset?
    redundancy is such a drag when paired with über-specificity (talk about two bazillion words for snow, or sand, or pr0n).

  9. Re:What in a modern computer actually uses 12V? on Google Calls For Power Supply Design Changes · · Score: 1

    mod parent up, please! though "anyway" appears too frequently.

  10. Re:The Japanese have done this. on How Can I Build a Portable "Dead-Man's" Switch? · · Score: 1

    that, as many other of the suggested "solutions", is merely a post-mortem way of debugging things. submitter would want everyone involved to have maximum chance of survival (which is ante-mortem, or a.m. as the yanks say).

  11. Re:The Japanese have done this. on How Can I Build a Portable "Dead-Man's" Switch? · · Score: 1

    there are old nerds too, you insensitive clod!

  12. Re:Bad Do-It-Yourself Idea on How Can I Build a Portable "Dead-Man's" Switch? · · Score: 1
    single-parent caregiver scenario is either going to end in one of two ways: the inadvertent death of the child at worst or the burnout and breakdown of submitter, at best.

    think again: i believe it'll be hard to avoid that number "one" of your ways follows "two" or vice-versa. they mutually imply each other, if no dead man's switch solution is found or sheer luck cuts in.
  13. Re:Alive Heart Monitor on How Can I Build a Portable "Dead-Man's" Switch? · · Score: 1

    it appears not to be about his well-being but the child's, which is at jeopardy within t=3600s after t0=his going offline. (i wonder how he sleeps).

  14. zonk misquotes the article on Hypoallergenic Cats · · Score: 1

    irritating that zonk quotes the article as reading "Allerca first started taking orders for genetically engineered hypoallergenic cats back in 2004." when the article says instead "Allerca first started taking orders for hypoallergenic cats back in 2004."
    Breeding and genetically engineering are totally different approaches to "improving" life forms, which the article doesn't fail to point out.

  15. KATRIN experiment homepage URL on Dark Matter — "Alternative Gravity" Team Responds · · Score: 2, Informative

    KATRIN experiment homepage URL
    http://www-ik.fzk.de/~katrin/

  16. Re:In other news... on US Intelligence Chiefs Urge Easing Of Spy Rules · · Score: 1

    replace "thieves" with "pickpockets and robbers", please. then parent matches just about any gov't, nowadays.

  17. Re:Ugh. This is so not true. on Millions of Pages Google Hijacked using ODP Feed · · Score: 1

    mod parent (placeholder troll) up! funniest thing ever read on /.

  18. mod parent up on Color Laser Printers Tracking Everything You Print · · Score: 1

    it's all too true: how much worse could it get if osama was president of the us of a?

  19. Re:VLC all the way on Simplest Ogg Streaming Clients for non-Unix Users? · · Score: 1

    i strongly agree with the parent post!
    i am a mac user who has tried the aforementioned Whamb, JOrbis and Quicktime plugin without much satisfaction.
    i have been using VLC client for .avi movies for quite some time, but it never crossed my mind to use it as a streaming client...
    thanks j0kkk3l for the eye-opener.

  20. beastie boys website bbs thread on Beastie Boys' New Album Silently Installs DRM Code · · Score: 4, Informative

    here is a link to the forum thread explaining that the copy protection is on all emi cds, except us and uk versions, and that the beastie boys would have liked it not to be protected but couldn't help.

  21. terrorists who created the climate on Galileo System To Include Jamming Capability · · Score: 1

    wait a minute - who created the climate of "we rule. we do and take whatever we want. we owe justification to no one. we judge without being judged ourselves." ?
    isn't that just exactly why so many are upset/furious with us westerners?

  22. the best flashlight: a headlamp on Which LED Flashlight Do You Use? · · Score: 1

    this is simply the best! leaves both hands free, always shines where you're looking. can be worn above a baseball-cap to reduce glare.
    i use a BLACK DIAMOND headlamp. it is light, nicely balanced (batteries in back) and works for a long time (about 70h with 3 aaa cells)!

  23. Some facts for a change... on "Decasia": The Beauty of Film Decay · · Score: 3, Informative
    I happen to have worked for "Decasia" as one of three projectionists at the event here in Basel, Switzerland.
    • It's a piece of Art, folks! Painstakingly selected sequences pitting decay and the fight against each other.
    • As best I know, the film was made exclusively with rights-free material.
    • The three identical films we simultaneously projected were of course all brand-new 16-mm copies of the old decaying material. No celluloid, no nitrate, no fire - although we did have one projector lock up at the end and melt exactly one frame out...
  24. Re:yeah right on Microsoft Tries a "Switch" Campaign · · Score: 3, Funny
    written by professional marketers
    I wouldn't neither call that professional writing nor marketing.

    the last few paragraphs
    ... sound like "MSIE/Outlook for Super-Dummies and wizard-wussies".

    Four more interesting little bits from the "Article":
    • A .jpg of the beautiful Apple(TM)-Command(TM)-Key(TM) symbol(TM) is used, no credits given. Sue' em, Apple!
    • Fictional "writer-"person offers Girl Scout's honor, then starts whoring cheaply and shamelessly. Would you want someone like that helping you cross the street? Stop poisoning cultural values, M$oft!
    • Fictional "writer-"person admits having to uninstall and reinstall Outlook on her PC without explaining why. What do we make of that in this advertising context? Is it a "feature" that you have to uninstall/reinstall ever so often?
    • The "Editor's Note" at the end sould read:
      Now that we've successfully converted our reader to a Windows PC
      instead of writer. HARHAR!

    Why am I helping these idiots improve? I must be hoping they don't read this...