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  1. Re:I work for a manufacturer on EFF Requests Help to Identify "Evil" Printers · · Score: 1

    So that's why the new US $20 dollar bills have all those weird flying "20"'s on the back.

    Take a look for yourself! (I know it exists on the new, colored US $20 bill.)

  2. Re:Oxygen tanks on Breathe Under Water Without Oxygen Tanks · · Score: 1

    Not necessarilly. There are several procedures that when out of air, one can use to reach the top safely.

    Of the five (?) or so, my personal favorite is the CESA (pronounced like "see-saw"): the Controlled Emergency Swimming Ascent. Basically, you take one last deep breath, hold your mask and regulator on your face, say "Ahh...", and swim directly up. Because the air in your lungs decompreses as you rise, you are essentially able to breathe out (without feeling woozy) for about 1+ minute(s).

  3. Re:What happened - health food at McD's? on McDonald's and Sony Offer Music Downloads · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Except that they call their pedometer a 'stepometer'.

    God I hate it how they dumb things down for Americans.

  4. Re:What a waste of time and energy on Banryu, Robot Or Dragon? · · Score: 1

    Oh...!

    So that's where the borg came from!

  5. Re:Heh on Google's Bigger Index · · Score: 4, Funny

    The pigeons that the use in the Pigeon Ranking are preparing to attack

  6. Re:Security by Obscurity? on FBI Agent Talks Crime, Macs · · Score: 1

    Except that lindows is the black-sheep of linux:
    Its baaaaad

  7. Re:Spamkiller doesn't care on Filter-foiling Gibberish Becoming A Spam Staple · · Score: 1

    Damn! I could use some "v pipe agar at" right now, couldn't you?

  8. How Reliable is it though? on Latest Maps of the Internet · · Score: 1

    This seems like a very cool\interesting\geeky project. Yet I am cautious as to it's reliability.

    Take a note at the 'Percentage Completed' section. Opte Project Status Page

  9. Re:Hey I've got news for ya on DMCA Doesn't Protect Garage Door Remotes · · Score: 1

    Actually, there is some registry key that when you set it to 1, you get free dvd playback.

    The entire, pay $20 to play dvd's on XP, thing is complete bullshit!

  10. Re:I don;t know about 9 on The Ten Most Overpaid Jobs In The U.S. · · Score: 1

    Neither; its dead-under-my-tires elk!

  11. Re:Their own dumbass fault on Recall of Segway Announced by CPSC · · Score: 1

    Please see the definition of friggin' (frigging).

    I truly hope that it wasnt a downright battle of friggin' wits.

  12. Re:Prior art? on WebSense Patents Censorware System · · Score: 1

    They were probably using packeteer. For fun\profit port scan your res-halls network; you can usually find it pretty easily.

  13. Re:No time now for detailed analysis... on DeCSS Loses Free Speech Shield · · Score: 1

    or just modify /etc/hosts .

    127.0.0.1 slashdot.org

  14. Re:Highly doubtful. on The RIAA's Hit List Named · · Score: 1

    If you mean proxy as in, sharer A connects to proxy and downloader B gets file C by connecting to the proxy, then the amount of bandwidth required for said venture would be astronomical.

  15. Re:If you really want to annoy them -- on How to Legally Infuriate the RIAA? · · Score: 1

    The issue is that even though geeks may follow through with the boycott, the general public are sheep. As much as I would like to think otherwise, the userbase of /. is not large enough to make a differnece in the coffers of the MAFIAA

  16. Re:Oi, get a clue on Fast User Switching on Windows XP with VNC? · · Score: 1

    I personally start VNC as a service, and it unfortuantly doesnt wortk (with fast user switching.)

  17. Re:Pssst. on Sen Hatch Would Like To Destroy Filetraders' PCs · · Score: 1

    !dnert a tes dah I taht wonk ton did I, woW

  18. Re:Pssst. on Sen Hatch Would Like To Destroy Filetraders' PCs · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sure,

    Just send them to President@whitehouse.gov

  19. Re:stupid americans on Beyond Pringles: 802.11 Antenna From A Floppy Disk · · Score: 1

    The creators of slashdot live in Ann Arbor, MI (about 45 minutes from where I am)

    The slashdot servers are run by the OSDN, an company based in the United States.

    Just because a server is in the US does not mean it has to have a .us TLD.

  20. Re:Warcraft II on What Games Have Actually Affected You? · · Score: 1

    A dupe methinks?

    Nope, the guy was playing for 86 hours, you could have easily played for maybe 16 or 15 hours more!

  21. Intersting.... on RoboCup 2003 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This seems like it would be a pretty fun event to watch. I have had some experience with robotics helping out with high-school students. In my area there is what we call *CCRA.

    * County Compettive Robbotics Association; The students (as teams) got kits of motors, electronics, pnuematics (etc.) to mess around with, and in the end create a working bot to use in a competition!

  22. Re:Wrong? on Intel Patents Anti-Overclocking Technology · · Score: 1

    Do you have a link, or instructions on how to?

    --X

  23. Re:OT What kind of tech news site is this? on IBM To Repair Smoking Monitors · · Score: 1

    Slashdot

  24. Re:What ??? Impopular, me ???? No way.... linux ro on Why Nerds Are Unpopular · · Score: 1

    I defanitly agree with your last line.

    On the other hand, being bigger then the bullies, and being able to knock them down (Yes, I can!) helps even more.

    The Solution? Just Grow Taller!

  25. Re:well on Crack Windows XP With... Windows 2000 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You might have a little trouble doing that, because XP prefers (and usually forces you,) to use the NT file system.

    I have seen NTFS read support in linux, but I have yet to see reliable NTFS write support. --Xtraneous