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  1. Who's behind the wall? on Googling Behind China's Great Firewall · · Score: 1

    Try to remember last time you saw a dead marine on TV.
    What about when you googled for something and surprinsingly there weren't any live web sites about that matter any more.

  2. Re:The hardest part on MSN's Slate Recommends Firefox over IE · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I've installed Firefox as the main browser for all my clients and I've set up a shotcut to it with the IE Logo icon and deleted the originals, I renamed iexplorer.exe so they have 2 shortcuts but wherever they click, they use Firefox. It's not that I'm not giving my client "the right to choose" but I'm tired of calls because of spyware, worms and when-I-open-the-broswer-millon-pop-ups calls.

  3. Re:Dubbing. on Spider-Man in India · · Score: 1

    They do just that in Spain, Luke Skywalker then becomes Lucas Trotacielos. It gets confusing if, for ejample, you want to google for that character or just chat about Star Wars with someone from other country. btw, do you know Chubaca? That's Han's dog-like hairy sidekick. Usa la fuerza Lucas!

  4. How will they protect the plane? on Factory Testing of Airborne Laser Cannon Completed · · Score: 1

    Hope it can defend itself with those lasers too. A 747 seems to me a very easy target...

  5. For the sake of Fedex on ICANN to Incorporate TLDs Already In-use? · · Score: 1

    DNS - (Domain Name Server) - Used to map names to IP addresses and vice versa. Domain Name Servers maintain central lists of domain name/IP addresses and map the domain names in your Internet requests to other servers on the Internet until the specified web site is found.

    Exactly what part of "central" (aka unique) does the people from new.Net and such don't understand??

    Imagine what would happen if Lombard Street was known for a bunch of people as 5th Avenue... How the hell would Fedex do their work?

  6. Battery life? on Powered Exoskeleton Legs · · Score: 1

    I would love to see what happens when battery power goes off "a la Segway"

  7. Anyway... on The Full Outsourcing Discussion · · Score: 1
    Outsourcing as pretty much everything else makes the rich richer and the middle/poor poorer.
    So OK, Coca-Cola bottles water for Indian techies. And they use Compaq computers... Everything goes to the shareholder, not to the, now unemployed, IT guy who has/had some stock options.

    The 10 percent whealthiest people have more money than the remaining 90 percent together, again.

  8. I've been doing this for a long time on Hiding Secrets With Steganography On FreeBSD · · Score: 0

    What did you think my porn was for? I have very sensitive data to protect...

  9. Re:FACT 1: Your job is not hard. on More Than 500,000 High Tech Jobs Lost in 2002 · · Score: 1
    That we don't "help" third-world countries by forcing the local populace into corporate slavery.

    I have to disagree with you in this part.
    That's like saying exporting any kind of products would not help your country. Of course it will.

    As a citizen from one 3rd-world country (Argentina) I have started developing for 1st-world countries' (USA and Spain mainly) companies and my income has increased a lot.
    I get better pay that with any local job I could take while still being the best option for my contractors so there's a win-win factor and everybody is happy.

    Your standard of living is about to change. Think of globalization as the smart move by the (K)capital to prevent having to go back to those days of full employment where, if you didn't like your boss face, you could cross the street and get hired by the competition. They don't want that no more.

    Inevitable, Smith would say.

  10. Browse news by looking at it's image on News at a Glance · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Sounds like /. and PHPNuke category icons system to me. Category icons are even better because you get used to, and remember the pictures, making your browsing even faster.

  11. Just one question on 'Matrix Revolutions' Opens Today · · Score: 1

    Why would you design the defense for THE city without a simple EMP weapon as ultimate defense? Every ship has one!

  12. For those ravers out there on Terahertz Scanners See Inside Sealed Packages · · Score: 1

    Do it knowing what you are doing.
    http://www.dancesafe.org

  13. Re:Stupidity or Insanity? on Terahertz Scanners See Inside Sealed Packages · · Score: 1
    What is the most important factor is education. Legalizing them alone won't do it either.

    Education is the only thing that will stop a youth from taking drugs, smoking and getting drunk. Eventually, he will still do it, but he would make informed decisions about their use/abuse. For example not to mix alcohol with ectasy and such. If they take ecstasy, they will eventually care not to dehidratate themselves, etc.

    You just can't make a law and expect a youth to behave. There's nothing funnyer for a youth than BRAKING THE LAW!! (c) Judas Priest

  14. For the sake of Alaska on Toshiba Pushes Safe, Small Nuclear Reactor Design · · Score: 1

    Hope their custommer support cell center is not the same one that takes calls from notebooks owners.

  15. Re:I like David Brin's response on Sci-Fi Channel Looks for LGM in NASA Files · · Score: 1

    Because US can't easily occupy their territory...yet.

  16. Re:Oh no, not yet another fear on Next Major War in Space? · · Score: 1
    Yes, a terrorist would just buy material to make biological weapons from the pentagon website.

    Link here: CBS News

    Of course maybe it's the bait part of a big plan to caught stupid terrorists such as the ones from the Carmeli Crusade (the ones from True Lies)

  17. Accidents will come on Wired: Sony Prototyping Personal Video Player · · Score: 1

    I'm 99.99% sure there'll be a lot of accidents when people hooked up to these things try to do PVP-incompatible actions like driving, crossing streets, walking, etc.

  18. So the rumor is true on Nokia Investigating Reported Cell Phone Explosions · · Score: 1

    It seems Nokia released some phones with movieOS in them.

  19. I can�t wait to see the day... on Peer To Peer Meets Manufacturing · · Score: 1

    I cant wait to see the day where I can search for the ultimate mobile phone and after hours of downloading and printing, discover that my printer made a teapot that some prank renamed as "nokia ultra-elite mobile phone".

  20. Re:My take on videogame violence. on Warriors Of Freedom Prompted Rampage Attempt? · · Score: 1

    The sicked mind finds links that improve their skills to kill just about everywhere.

    In CS, one person might learn the importance to preserve a hostage's life, while other might learn how to ambush and kill people the same way that nuclear knowledge might lead a country to generate tons of energy to power cities and improve it's people lifes while other countries might use that knowledge as a basis for construction of mass destruction weapons.

    So the link between violence and videogames that you find, others may not. I'm not saying that you have a sick mind, btw. Just that those links are very subjective, and you can't lessen its power.

  21. Re:Read the T&C's! on Design Slashdot's New T-Shirt and Win Cool Stuff! · · Score: 1

    Some people still doesn't get that the internet is way beyond countries boundaries. You should educate your lawyers. If this isn't irony I don't know what it may be. And I'll go with the "/. contests for everyone!!" t-shirt logo, in a very hippie style!

  22. Why don't they just do it? on X-Box Hackers Trying to Blackmail Microsoft? · · Score: 1

    Looks like they are bluffing. Someone (Michael Robertson?) may be getting impatient.

  23. Oh Yeah? on Working Hard? · · Score: 1

    From the article: "It kind of annoys me and makes me feel unfulfilled"

    Oh Yeah? Try working in a third world country! You have to be thankful to god if you have a job. It's true, people go to church and pray for a job to Saint Cayetano.
    I know you should have the right to more vacation time, like the rest of us. But, over here there are people searching for food in the trash, and not because they don't want to work....Just to let you know.

    The bad news is that it's going to get worse for everyone around the globe. The equation is simple. The number of Jobs out there is very tiny compared to the number of people wanting and capable-of-doing that job. Soon there will be no boundaries between countries and that will make the working man something worse than a slave.

    Have a nice day.

  24. Re:Why are we so surprized? on Incas Used Binary? · · Score: 1

    Think: how else do you code data on a string?

    What about Morse?

    And correct me if I'm wrong but I think were romans who used to cipher data wrapping a very long and thin piece of paper around a pole of certain radio (It could be read, only if you had a pole with the same radio). You could do that with a string too.

    Just thinking loud..

  25. This kind of articles just makes me think on SAPAC Unveils New Australian Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    How far third-world countries like Argentina are from the real world. Or what I want it to be the real world. Chord.wav, the sound of innevitability.