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  1. Re:Doubts on Avi Rubin and More on Electronic Voting · · Score: 5, Interesting
    "Unfortunately, it seems highly unlikely that anyone who dares cast doubt on this election will be regarded as objective."

    Time to put the tinfoil hat back on, you paranoid pinko!

    Seriously, someone has cast doubt. Blackboxvoting.org blanket the country with freedom of information requests on election night. They currently need $50,000 to complete the audit. I gave $100. Let's see what we can do together as slashdot.

  2. Re:They Got 'Political Capital' with Us on Open Source Advocate VP Chris Stone Leaves Novell · · Score: 5, Funny
    Dude, the word 'political' has no 'u's in it.

    Oh, wait, I read "They got 'Political' with Capital U's." n/m.

  3. Re:The problem with biometrics on Hardware That Recognizes You · · Score: 1

    What about biometric id + password (smartcard, password, one-time pad)? That way, you are sure that the person using the password is authorized, and the password can always be disabled. For instance, if a soldier goes missing, you can remotely disable the password, and if he is forcibly made to authenticate biometrically, his password should be disabled by that point.

  4. Re:buggy? on Thunderbird 0.9 Released · · Score: 1

    I've been using .6 since its release with no issues whatsoever. I even upgrading from .5 without uninstalling, which was not recommended in the documentation!

  5. Delete Duplicates? on Thunderbird 0.9 Released · · Score: 1

    Anyone who's messed around with multiple email clients, backups, and archives knows that you'll likely make a mess of your folder structure. Does Thunder have or plan to have a feature to delete duplicate emails?

  6. Re:Do you call yourself a Geek!? on Blackboxvoting.org Raises Vote-Audit FOIA Request · · Score: 1

    I've alwasy said I'm my own best critic. Now I'm tolling myself. Whatever doesn't kill me makes me stronger ;)

  7. Do you call yourself a Geek!? on Blackboxvoting.org Raises Vote-Audit FOIA Request · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I just sent in my $100 donation. Put your money with your mouth is.

  8. This is it, folks. Donate! on Blackboxvoting.org Raises Vote-Audit FOIA Request · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Blackboxvoting.org is a non-profit supported by donations. Screw the FSF and the EFF. Give your money now to these guys and shine the light on the roaches.

  9. Re:No way-A piece of the PI. on Latest SCSI Drive Reviewed · · Score: 3, Informative

    In fact, it's the only computer that's calculated Pi to any decimal place. It offloaded the dirty work to a mechanical devices that it designed and built.

  10. Re:Why NOT? on OpenBSD Activism Shows Drivers Can Be Freed · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Also:
    • They are using unlicensed code, i.e. code that they shouldn't.
  11. Re:The Real Question on How Infants Crack the Speech Code · · Score: 1
    Do you mean that you have a problem with human language or dealing with human beings ;) ? It's probably the latter. Unless you have a speech impediment, you are probably fluent in English by any linguists definition, and just generally a geek.

    You have probably mastered grammatical rules that you are not aware of (ones that they don't teach in English class) Here's a good one: What's wrong with this sentence? The baby seems sleeping.I'll bet you can tell it's wrong, but can't say why.

  12. Re:Don't believe it... on How Infants Crack the Speech Code · · Score: 1

    I disagree with the ~2 years -- I think you're basing that number on a young child, who is also growing developmentally. I've met a couple people who moved to foreign countries (America -> Brazil, Hungary ->Finland) when they were in their late childhood (8-12) and they both said they picked up the language in a matter of 3-6 months. Of course, there was still a lot of vocabulary they didn't know (there are always more words to learn), but they had no problem expressing themselves, understanding people, etc. and no accent.

  13. Re:Analyse ambient sounds? on How Infants Crack the Speech Code · · Score: 1

    'Copy what they hear the most of' doesn't explain how they parse sound into phonemes. Besides, are we sure that human speech is what they hear the most of?

  14. Re:No, it won't on The Eye: Evolution versus Creationism · · Score: 1

    This is what gets me. The Jewish calendar is currently around 5950 something. I think it starts with Moses. Yet, all the creationists' date of creation flies in the face of one of the main facts which it should comply with. If you're going to say the Hebrew bible is accurate, your timeline should match up with the calendar.

  15. Re:Darwin got it right... on The Eye: Evolution versus Creationism · · Score: 1

    One exmaple of better design is the octopus eye -- they have no blind spot in their eye. We do, where our optic nerve hooks up in the back.

  16. Re:Short answer on Does Redskins Loss Presage A Kerry Win? · · Score: 1

    Nice try, Harvey, but to believe anything is metaphysics -- i.e. you are subscribing to some sort of metaphysics when you believe something.

  17. Re:Paper! on Physicists Finally Solve the Falling-Paper Problem · · Score: 4, Funny

    It lands on the outside.

  18. Re:stick with hardware on Experiences w/ Software RAID 5 Under Linux? · · Score: 1

    n/m. My mistake.

  19. Re:stick with hardware on Experiences w/ Software RAID 5 Under Linux? · · Score: 1

    5 * $120 = $960?

  20. RAID 5 and Redhat on Experiences w/ Software RAID 5 Under Linux? · · Score: 1
    I setup a raid 5 on redhat about a year ago, and I was very concerned. After trying and failing to get it running with debian, I switched to redhat, which has the raid setup on it's graphical installer.

    Then the nightmare happened. The computer (an old 400 MHZ celeron) stopped accepting keyboard input. No way to get past the boot error. I moved the raid array to another machine, keeping the drives in the same order ( drive 0 on the master on IDE 2, drive 1 and 2 on their own IDE channels on an IDE card). A an install of redhat saw the raid right away and set up the disk accordingly.

    Apparently redhat marks each disk with a volume label, so it knew they were part of a raid. I don't know what would have happened if I got them out of order (who knows? Maybe I did), but I certainly feel a lot better about software raid under linux.

  21. source for BC mics on Waterproof MP3 Player Uses Bone Conduction · · Score: 1

    Does anyone know a source for bone conduction microphones? I'd like to play around with them with some electronic projects. So far the only ones I've found are already attatched to really expensive devices.

  22. Re:evolutionary pressure on New Hominid Species Unearthed in Indonesia · · Score: 4, Funny

    Rabbit sized.

  23. Re:Jump to lightspeed? on Star Wars Galaxies: Jump to Lightspeed Launches · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yes, the first one. And also sound carries in space in the Star Wars universe.

  24. Re:Also good for... on Hypo-Allergenic Cats Now Available for Pre-Order · · Score: 1

    Yes, but you might have some severe reactions to the things hookers might be carrying...

  25. Re:hrm on Virginia Tech Supercomputer Up To 12.25 Teraflops · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Of course you can't do it consciously, but that's about what you do when you catch a ball or walk down the sidewalk.