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  1. Umm... on Detecting Video & Audio Tampering · · Score: 3, Funny

    How about just doing md5sum ?

  2. P2P on YouTube Growing ... Like Cancer? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Someone needs to take the YouTube, et. al. concept and convert it into a P2P system that is easy to use. The p2p client could have a web interface to make it feel like current services and even use flash to show the videos downloaded locally.

  3. Eek! on Microsoft's High School Opens in PA · · Score: 1

    "...a learning process modeled on Microsoft's management techniques."

    If Microsoft's management techniques is good enough for Vista, it's good enough for our children.

  4. Ahh on CSS: The Missing Manual · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now I know why IE has such bad CSS support. The IE team lost their copy of the CSS manual!

    Now that is has been found, they can get back to work.

  5. Why do people use steam? on Assassins, Bullies, and Messiahs · · Score: 1

    What you are essentially doing is renting the game at retail price. You can't even resell the game without paying a $10 transfer fee. Culture is going out the window if we buy into this junk. Imagine having kids 15 to 20 years down the road and waiting to show them the games, music, videos you used to enjoy. You won't be able to because the content is locked.

    Copyright is limited, but DRM is forever.

  6. These are the steps I follow on Making Website Mock-Ups in Linux? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    1. Rough sketch on paper
    2. Draw the complete layout in Inkscape
    3. Export elements into the Gimp for final touch up and optimization
    4. Link to images in stylesheet

    Inkscape is an excellent tool becuase you can scale you're elements as much as you like without losing quality.

  7. My Story on Novell Story Site Launched · · Score: 1

    I help Linux by purchasing and promoting Microsoft products.[/sarcasm]

  8. MOSFET Application on Super-fast Transistors On the Way · · Score: 4, Informative

    I believe this technique would speed up MOSFETs as well because they are saying that the added fluorine doesn't allow the boron to diffuse into the silcon as much. This means you'll have a cleaner line between the p-type and n-type dopped regions. In terms of MOSFETs you could inject the flourine under the gate so when you dope the silicon to create the source and drain you won't have overlap you normaly get under the gate. This means you could reduce the gate to drain and gate to source capacitances which kills the high frequencies.

  9. Long Lines on Is Your Laptop At Risk While Traveling? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    People should be more concerned about the long lines being created by all the security. There is nothing stopping terrorists from taking out all the people standing around waiting to get through security. High concentration of people in one area == prime oportunity.

  10. It goes to show you.... on GUIs From 1984 to the Present · · Score: 1

    If you stick a monochrome screen on a modern computer you'll basically have an 80's desktop.

    Question: Why does it feel like everything "new" in software is a rewrite of stuff that has already been done in UNIX?

  11. Worldwide DEVELOPER Conference on What Happened to Media PCs? · · Score: 4, Informative

    It wasn't shown for the same reason new ipods weren't shown: they are consumer products. Wait for Macworld.

  12. Login Required? on County-Wide Wireless To Be Deployed in Michigan · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Are these networks going to require some type of login for the basic speed or will it be completely open for anyone to use?

  13. Long Range Acoustic Device on Combating Harassing Use of Mosquito Noise Device? · · Score: 1

    All you need to do is point this system at his home: LRAD. This is the same technology they use to diperse rioters.

  14. Dell 1710n on Affordable Laser Printers? · · Score: 2, Informative

    How about theDell 1710n? It is $299, networked and does 27 pages per minute.

  15. Slashdot's New Response on More Massive Layoffs at AOL · · Score: 4, Funny

    Pftt, only 5000? You can do better AOL.

  16. Re:Email/Reset Password on How are 'Secret Questions' Secure? · · Score: 1

    If you forget your email password then that's your fault. For me, my email too important to forget the password.

  17. Re:Email/Reset Password on How are 'Secret Questions' Secure? · · Score: 1

    I don't think you fully understand how this system works:

    1) When you sign up with the website for an account you are forced to give them your email
    2) You don't visit the site for a long time and forget your password.
    3) You go to the website and click on the "forgot my password" link
    4) You fill in the form with the email account you used to sign up
    5) The system checks to see if the email is associated with an account
    6) If there is an account that matches the email it sends a reset link to that email address. Otherwise the site tells you the email address is invalid
    7) You login into your email account and follow the link in the email that was just sent to you
    8) The site resets your password and asks you for a new password

  18. Email/Reset Password on How are 'Secret Questions' Secure? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I prefer to give sites my email and if I forget my password it should email me with a link to reset my password. That is the simplest solution.

  19. Does Anyone Know... on Output Mouse · · Score: 1

    Does anyone know who makes the case in the final picture of the article: Desktop

  20. Your Getting A Dell on Microsoft Softens Up On Competition · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now with 50% more junk preinstalled with every PC.

  21. What Happens... on Surgical Tools to Include RFID · · Score: 5, Funny

    What happens if they forget the reciever inside the person?

    Doctor: Nurse, hand me the wand.
    Nurse: Don't know where it is.
    Doctor: Oh well, I'm sure I didn't leave anything inside.

  22. Overlooked: Printing on Browser Comparison - Firefox 2 b1, IE7 b3, Opera 9 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I think one major feature that is lacking in Firefox is good printing support.

  23. Re:Meta discussion on The Future of Apple's Pro Desktop Line · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yeah, this is BS. It is slowing down my browser when I scroll up and down because it needs to reposition itself at the top of the screen. The solution is to adblock "socialcomputingsearch.net"

  24. libpam-cracklib on Debian Locks Out Developers · · Score: 4, Funny

    Time to enforce a 200 character minimum for passwords.

  25. Soo... on UK Music Fans Can Copy Own Tracks · · Score: 3, Funny

    What if I made a bunch of copies for myself and carelessly put them where they could easily be taken by stangers?