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  1. Re:Expensive! on LavaRnd: A Open Source Project for Truly Random Numbers · · Score: 1

    The "known source" could be eliminated if each antenna controller changed the frequency it listened on based on the random noise generated from the other antennas.

  2. Expensive! on LavaRnd: A Open Source Project for Truly Random Numbers · · Score: 1

    Six Lava Lamps not to mention six photo-sensors? Why not six cheep antennas to measure radio noise? Probably take up less room too.

  3. Whatever they do on Universities Mull Official Role In Music Distribution · · Score: 1, Insightful

    the students should not be forced into a subscription via tuition. I just finished my first year of college and I did not once download music from a peer to peer network. Assuming that all students do is a blunder. I would be very upset if I was locked into a plan to purchase music "legally" when I'm not breaking the law in the first place.

  4. Re:*Shakes head* on India Chooses All-Electronic Voting · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    India has some of the best medicin and education in the world. Much of the country is still remote though. It's happening, faster than it did in the US/Europe too.

  5. They can because... on India Chooses All-Electronic Voting · · Score: 1

    In a country where the people have little power or voice if someone up high wants it to be that way it is. In the US you have too many people complain. Sometimes Americans need to suck it up. (I'm an American)

  6. Re:Topic Technology/IT??? on Canadian Inventor: Pyramids Were Rocked Into Place · · Score: 1

    It's stuff like this that keeps me from subscribing.

    Why do you keep reading? It's the news and the articals that matter.

  7. Re:Choreographed releases. on Mozilla 1.5 Alpha Available · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Smooth? It's been smooth because it hasn't happened yet.

  8. Re:how do you prove you were duped? on Nationwide Class Action Filed Against DoubleClick · · Score: 0, Redundant

    The best lies have some truth to them.

  9. Re:Hold on on Nationwide Class Action Filed Against DoubleClick · · Score: 1

    No but if you sent that add to someone else Levis kept track of how many people got it and will be sending you a pile of free clothes in a month to thank you for testing their new add tracking system.

  10. Re:how do you prove you were duped? on Nationwide Class Action Filed Against DoubleClick · · Score: 1

    Internet History
    ISP Logs
    Cookies
    They look like and idiot

  11. Re:wait a sec ... on Nationwide Class Action Filed Against DoubleClick · · Score: 1

    It only seems like a big deal to admit you were tricked because you weren't. Remember, most people can just make the excuse that they are not "tech savvy" and therefore were vulnerable to false advertising. Whether or not this is valid is beside the point, in their mind it's a good excuse and they won't have any problem admitting that they are mindless idiots. Oh, and when there is money involved people will do and say anything.

  12. Let me think... on Videogames, Learning, And Literacy · · Score: 2, Insightful

    In all the years I have spent playing games I can't think of much I've learned. I'm sure I would have learned more -- a lot more -- if the games were my only source of information, but reading and REAL LIFE covered 99% of any game long before I played the game. What kids should really be doing is reading and have parents that encourage and take part in teaching/learning.

  13. Re:Small island nations shouldn't count for firsts on Niue Gets Island-Wide WiFi · · Score: 1, Interesting

    UCSD has 5,500 on campus students and we've had wireless for two years now.

  14. Free? on Niue Gets Island-Wide WiFi · · Score: -1, Insightful

    Free except for all the Tax Dollars that go to pay for it. And Korea has amazingly fast internet...for a hefty price. The actual cost is probably immeasurable because the money comes from all over but trust me, it isn't free.

  15. Re:Ummm.... on Pentagon Wants IPv6 by 2008 · · Score: 1

    10^51 happens to be about 2^170. IPv6 has 2^128 addresses. So I guess if we needed to assign every atom on earth an IP we may run into a problem. Remember "640k should be enough for everyone"? Well this time 2^128 should be enough for everyone.

  16. Re:Ummm.... on Pentagon Wants IPv6 by 2008 · · Score: 3, Informative

    The Earth has about 2^170 atoms. IPv6 only provides 2^128 addresses. Bummer.

  17. Re:free ip's on Pentagon Wants IPv6 by 2008 · · Score: 2, Informative

    It isn't a matter of one person or group moving to IPv6. The backbone support has to be there if they are going to be able to communicate with anyone else. The infastructure needs to be there and it isn't right now.

  18. That's a long time. on Pentagon Wants IPv6 by 2008 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Address space is going so fast by 2008 the question wont be "What is your ip address?" it will be "Do you have an ip address?"

  19. Intelligent? Were they running Linux? on Oldest Modern Humans Found · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    BSD might be allowed to slip by just this once. Berkeley is involved after all.

  20. Better idea... on Turning The SEGA Dreamcast Into A Linux Router · · Score: 1

    This sounds great but also a lot of work and as one reader wrote, one adapter is not the most usefull router in the world. How about go out and buy one of those Walmart Lindows OS PCs for like $199-$250, it's running Linux. Put another ethernet adapter or two in it, configure it and set it up. Now you have a firewall/router/NAT/spare computer for less that $300. Not exactly a Dreamcast but more versitile faster and more usefull.

  21. Re:What about them? on Putting the TV Broadcast Spectrum to Better Use? · · Score: 1

    How did people live before there was TV? We've got better uses for the radio spectrum now and we'd like to use it. Not end lives.

  22. Re:NTLM Again on Mozilla 1.4 RC1 · · Score: 1

    Windows 9x itself can not support NTLM. Windows 95/98/ME use the LM (Lan Manager) protocal and can not communicate with NTLM. Most windows 2000/XP machines have both NTLM and LM authentication turned on for backwards compatibility. If you turn that backwards compatibility off for security windows 9x will not be able to fully comunicate with NT/2000/XP. Mozilla will only be able to use NTLM on a machine that can support it.

  23. Re:Time on Explaining WLAN Chips' Poor Linux Support · · Score: 1

    This may be so but it still doesn't explain their 44mbps "4x" mode that you can upgrade to with a firmware upgrade. If 2x is only full duplex then my testing would not have seen an increas since I was testing maximum one-way bandwidth.

  24. Re:Time on Explaining WLAN Chips' Poor Linux Support · · Score: 2, Informative

    It is funny you mention the Dlink 650+. This is the exact card I had when I decided to go wireless. I couldn't get it to work so I sold it and bought a Lucent Orinoco. But, a few months later I see people using the DLink line (650+ and others) on Linux without a problem. Of course not with the X2 support or the X4 (44mbs) with an upgraded firmware. But then DLink claimed double speed and I did a few experiments when I was using the 650+ in windows and I could not find a speed difference running between 11 and 22. The card and the router were only about 6 feet away when I did the testing. So so much "twice as fast" like they claim. So the 650(+) is supported, just not it's "faster" 2x setting.

  25. Re:Time on Explaining WLAN Chips' Poor Linux Support · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Because the company gets respect and it's name out there amonge a group of power users and frequent buyers. Look at NVidia. They sure get a lot of coverage on Slashdot. Much of this is due to their great Linux drivers. If they made great cards that wern't supported or had poor/shotty support many fewer Slashdot readers would care one witt about what NVidia does. When Apple embraced open source all of a sudden they got a whole second army of geeks following. Why does it make sense to write drivers in support of linux? Because the 5% of the people that will use those products have a lot of influence in a much larger comunity. (IT, business settings)