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  1. Re:The two rubs on Space Elevators Could Be Lethal · · Score: 1

    It depends on the kind of radiation too. For example some forms are not deep penetrating and 50,000 mrem/yr is the DOE rad-worker limit for skin. But yes 5,000 mrem/yr is the body dose limit.

  2. Re:Legit? on Help Black Box Voting Examine ES&S Software · · Score: 1

    It is hard to tell for sure since blackbox1 and bbvforums are both using Domains by Proxy. It is possible that someone else registered blackbox1 using DomainsByProxy for the whois info. There are links from blackboxvoting to bbvforums, but o links to blackbox1.

  3. to naturalize... on If Not America, Then Where? · · Score: 1

    it is required to be able to speak English unless certain conditions are met. For example there is a form N-469 (I believe that number is correct) required to be filled-out by a licensed medical practitioner to the effect that due to disability (such as mental disorder) you are unable to learn English.

  4. Re:Possible remote exploit vector on Root Exploit For NVIDIA Closed-Source Linux Driver · · Score: 1

    It is also trivial to exploit this vulnerability as a DoS by causing
    an existing X client program (such as Firefox) to render a long text
    string.

    location is the url, got it yet?

  5. You have to make this decision on your own on Microsoft or Google? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    But be very careful figuring how much it will cost you to live in the Redmond vs. Bay areas. Also consider how soon you could get married and have kids. It gets WAY more expensive to house a family in the Bay area.

  6. OLPC = One Laptop Per Child on Proprietary Parts in OLPC Project Draw Criticism · · Score: 2, Informative

    In case you were wondering, I was.

  7. it is good enough on Sam And Max May Be Wiibound · · Score: 1

    I may finally get a new S&M (zing!) game on a system I might have.

  8. Re:get out of the way! on Slashdot Discussion2 In Beta · · Score: 1

    I set the two options to give me something akin to what Light mode used to be. It covers useful text for me unfortunately. I tried it a while back in Safari and Firefox, both under the most recent versions at the time.

  9. being live blogged at kotaku on Wii to Launch Nov. 19th for $250 · · Score: 1
  10. 9 AM Eastern on Wii to Launch Nov. 19th for $250 · · Score: 1

    Does anyone have a link to a live update web site? Does anyone know where I can pre-order one of these!

  11. quality on Original Star Wars on DVD... Sorta · · Score: 3, Interesting

    My wife just bought these yesterday. She put in the original version of Jedi for my daughter. A bit later my daughter came to my wife saying that something did not look right. Then my wife put in the new version, no complaints. I am hoping that it was something simple like the aspect ratio was not right on the TV, but if not it does not bode well if a 4 year old complains about the picture.

    When I came home from work, I noticed that the new version was very dark. I turned-up the brightness for the kids. I wish I knew why that was.

    How is the quality of the bootleg DVD rips of the original trilogy from LD? How does it compare to these? Wouldn't it be a shame if the bootlegs looked better. Anyway for me quality better than my old VHS versions will be acceptable, but why could it not have been at least an anamorphic rip of the original trilogy on these new discs?

  12. Re:This is what I've been waiting for! on FreeDOS 1.0 Released · · Score: 1

    And I can run edlin. Heck I like typing more than just ed.

  13. Re:Everything is a trade off. on SanDisk MP3 Players Seized in MP3 Licence Dispute · · Score: 1

    Sure it is fixed point, but the memory and stack requirements of decoding typical OGG is higher than what is needed for MP3. (Also the MIPS are higher) Plus there are so many variations to how vorbis can be encoded that you need a lot of leeway in terms of memory and MIPS to handle the cases you are most likely to encounter. Worse still there are no reference ogg vorbis files that everybody can se to see if they are compliant.

  14. Re:Off the cuff thought on Bittorrent Implements Cache Discovery Protocol · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And who doles-out the multicast group addresses? I think the problem is harder than you think at first glance.

  15. or ditto, or cpio, or tar, or zip, or... on Leopard Fake Screenshot Contest Winners Announced · · Score: 1

    You (and I) get the idea.

  16. Skype for Mac with Video Preview on New Video Venture from Skype Creators · · Score: 1

    Yeah I know, not really related, but I cannot believe this has not made it to slashdot yet: Preview release 1.5.0.47

  17. Re:spaces bad, special chars bad on Linux/Mac/Windows File Name Friction · · Score: 1

    Also you probably would not like to run make -f Makefile.am either:

        Makefile.am: ASCII make commands text

    More likely that is for automake and the .am makes me think that. Both naming conventions and the magic file are useful.

  18. video of talk on NASA Finds 4-5" Crack in Shuttle Insulation · · Score: 3, Informative

    Here are the slides and video from the talk. It was one of the good ones.

  19. Re:church income tax? on Internet Deconstructing State Church in Finland · · Score: 1

    Also churches are tax-exempt. Meaning that they do not pay tax on the money that they collect from their members.

  20. Are we supposed to be idiots? on Chinese Gamers Circumvent Anti-Obsession Measures · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Look banning minors from internet cafes is not really about combating internet addiction. If it were then what will it do for those that are adults, you know the same people that do not have parents anymore to not give money and permission to go to the internet cafe. This move is about preventing impressionable idealistic youths from reading about topics that will later lead to dissent. There is a certain danger to visiting certain sites from home or school. A lax internet cafe is a simple way around that.

  21. Insightful!? on Researchers Hack Wi-Fi driver to Breach Laptop · · Score: 2, Informative

    > Just think of the many DOS 3D-graphics libraries written in Pascal.

    The Borland libraries were written in C and assembler. They had a bit of pascal glue so that you could do graphics from TP/BP.

    > Their whole firmware is written in Forth.

    Only little more than is needed to post, for example the analogue of a VGA BIOS. Later in boot drivers provided by the OS take over.

    > TV during the 80s you have probably seen 3D graphics going through a system entirely written in LISP, the LISP-machine.

    What!? Some of the Symbolics Lisp Machines were used for animation, but the vast majority (of the small number made) were used for AI research, but that is tangental.

    Further is your serial port driver going to be solving mazes or replacing mathmatica anytime soon? Also I use make for much more than compiling C programs. Funny how that that is, make has the single good idea from prolog and is useful outside toy experiments in computational logic.

    Basically the reason drivers are written in C is that it is much like using assembler but with the benefit of being massively more portable.

  22. Re:Sony, PS3, and BluRay on Sony Pushes Back Release For Blu-Ray Players · · Score: 1

    I paid around $500 for a Sanyo 1080i widescreen CRT set (800 lines vertical resolution with a test pattern) that supports HDCP over the HDMI. It has a QaM (digital cable) and ATSC tuner built-in to boot. I think it is 27 inches diagonal or so. It looks better than a neighbor's Sony HD CRT. Anyway, HD sets are dropping in price, you no longer need to pay more than a grand.

  23. 6.5 minutes... on Can You Survive Long Commutes? · · Score: 1

    on bicycle from my driveway to the door outside my office. I just moved because I got fed-up with the commute. Originally it was just 25 minutes but then sprawl happened in a big way where I used to live and the commute became 40 minutes. I am very fortunate how this worked-out.

  24. 1933 Dymaxion Car on Self-Parking Cars Coming To U.S. · · Score: 4, Informative

    I think you are thinking of Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion Car. There are some videos of it here at the American Master's site, but not of it parking. Though there is one of it pulling a tight U-turn around a police officer. I do think this is the same car I saw a video of where the car came in at an angle and then turned it's rear wheel and eased it's back in to parallel park. There is a bit more info on wikipedia too. (also here and here)

  25. technology to make you safer!? on Integrating Technology Into a Long Trip? · · Score: 2, Informative
    Ditch the tech, bring two more people. Seriously I looked at your route map, it is very wrong. You should shoot for going west through Colorado or Wyoming for the least resistance. Do you honestly plan to cross desert and two mountain ranges alone and ON YOUR FIRST trip of this sort?

    Every gram matters when hiking, you will be able to spread the load better with three hikers. Plus should anything go wrong you will not be alone, not to mention how useful the company will be. The best measure of your hiking pace is to be able to walk and hold a conversation simultaneously, you'll look schitzo talking to yourself.

    Also I hate to be blunt about it but your site is pretty poor if you plan to use it for fund raising. Look at this example for ideas (about the site and about the trip itself).