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  1. TCP/IP on The Interplanetary Internet · · Score: 1

    TCP is a "best effort" delivery protocol, and that's all you could hope for when latency could span minutes at a time.

  2. Re:Andy Rooney sez... on Suing Telemarketers Made Simple · · Score: 5, Informative
    If you want to remain anonymous, just make sure your name isn't on anything you send them.

    I don't know how the system works where you live, but here a lot of "Reply Paid" stuff is barcoded and they could (theoretically) find out who you are by scanning that barcode.

  3. Australia on Suing Telemarketers Made Simple · · Score: 1

    Every time one of these telemarketer articles comes up, I wonder "what are they talking about?". Here in Australia there is VERY little telemarketer calls. Anyone know why this is? Is it just me, or do other Australians receive a lot of telemarketer calls? I don't think my phone home has received one in a few years. What's Australia doing right, or telemarketer companies doing wrong? Is our population too small?

  4. SARS on SARS and the Internet · · Score: 5, Funny

    Speaking of SARS, check this out.

  5. another libra? on Libranet 2.8 Released · · Score: -1, Troll

    If you're looking for other versions of Libra, they can be found here.

  6. Re:0 posts and already slashdotted... on Model Train Control Using Your PDA · · Score: 1

    But at least when you click on the image it loads instantaneously ;)

  7. Re:oh my on HTML: Is it Art? · · Score: 0

    Whichever mod just did that, thank you!

  8. Re:oh my on HTML: Is it Art? · · Score: 1, Funny

    FP AND +5! I really need to start drinking more often! Come on people, mod me down. It wasn't that funny, and it was really obvious. Let something interesting take the spot on the "Highest Scores First" sort order! Something like this.

  9. oh my on HTML: Is it Art? · · Score: 3, Funny

    What did ZOMBO do to annoy CowbowNeal THAT much?

  10. Re:PC 104 in a nutshell on PC/104 Embedded Consortium Design Winners · · Score: 1
  11. Re:Zone what? on Starting a Home-Based Software Company? · · Score: 2

    Haven't you ever played SimCity?!

  12. tax claims on Starting a Home-Based Software Company? · · Score: 1

    IANA tax expert, but since your home is now your office, wouldn't it be a great opportunity to get some tax back on your "office-related expenses" such as furniture?

  13. copyright, etc on Bitstream/Gnome Release Vera Font Family · · Score: 5, Interesting

    To me, a lot of fonts are pretty similar to each other (in the various "genres" of fonts, anyway).. Does anyone know HOW much they have to differ to avoid copyright issues, etc? It would appear to be a very fine line.

  14. Re:Quick summary of the exploit on Phreaking Not Dead Yet · · Score: 1
    A few years ago I picked up a file from my local BBS that explained about how a phone company here in Australia had voicemail box phone numbers with the password exactly the same as the phone number. All you had to do was find an unused phone number and you had free voicemail. That only lasted a few months or so until the phone company caught on, though. I just, uh.. heard about this, I never compromised those voicemail boxes, no sir!

    To sum up, default passwords are a plague to security in many arenas, whether its an admins/end users fault or not.

  15. Re:Quick! Post another story! on Real-time PC access on your PDA · · Score: 1

    Yeah, and "quick" for slashdot editors is 49 minutes later, right? :P

  16. thin client? on Real-time PC access on your PDA · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So basically, a PDA that functions as a wireless thin client?

  17. Re:Bogus Unsubscribe addresses... on FTC vs Spammers · · Score: 1, Redundant
    Better legislation would simply require that all penis enlargment messages be flagged as such in the headers so users could filter it, with stiff penalties for violators.

    Hmm.. indeed.

  18. heh on The 69/8 Networking Problem · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wine me, dine me, 69/8 me!

  19. Re:It's not too bad... on Anything Box Releases An Album To Share · · Score: 1
    The first track is probably the best of the lot.

    Isn't it always?

  20. Re:Five Seconds? on 8.6 GB Internet? · · Score: 1

    Do you get the hard drive that comes along with this bandwidth to save the full-length DVD movie to hdd in 5 seconds? Or maybe they expect you to store it to a multigigabyte ramdisk? ;)

  21. Battery Life on Sony Ericsson P800 Reviewed (Again) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Any idea whether all these extra features have any impact on the battery life? If they do, then where's the perfect balance between battery life efficiency, features, battery weight, etc?

  22. hmm on Tcl Core Team Interview · · Score: 1

    I was thinking about TCL the other day, and why I never bothered to learn it. The main reason is that unless you write eggdrop scripts/etc, is it really worth your time? Especially when there's already the three P's to learn (Perl/PHP/Python).

  23. Re:Bored? on Inside the Tuna Can · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Yeah, but according to the article it's a $30k grant from Microsoft Research/MIT iCampus. I wonder how much the MIT contribution is? The article also says that they're trying to get the displays (~$16k worth, according to them) donated, which does seems feasible, so it's chicken feed really.

  24. nice on Inside the Tuna Can · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Sensors on the corridor's ceiling and walls will pick up pedestrians' movements, and the fish will respond by either approaching the "glass" of the tank or darting away.

    How cool is that?!

  25. Re:slashdot effect on The US DoD and the GSA Join the Liberty Project · · Score: 3, Funny
    Hah, something else you might find interesting from their privacy policy (emphasis mine):

    How you can decide what communications you will receive: You may click here {add opt-out link} if you do not wish to receive further communications from the Liberty Alliance. We will use reasonable efforts to process any change you make as promptly as possible.

    Sorta like a TODO in code that was never finished, right? I'm glad the Liberty Alliance are on the ball here! Especially since security and privacy big concerns for them.