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  1. Re:Get off my lawn! on 4D Analogue of Megaminx Puzzle · · Score: 1

    I can solve it with my feet. It's annoying, but possible. I take (much) longer than 50 seconds though. Much easier than solving it blindfolded.

  2. Re:encourage openness...by closing on China to Regulate Internet Map Publishing · · Score: 1

    I agree that communication should be encouraged, but I wouldn't self-censor. Thus, I run a freenet node. We should deal with china if we don't censor our stuff, if they want us to censor or leave we should leave.

  3. Re:Everyone knows... on Just How Effective is System Hardening? · · Score: 1

    Nobody reads it, but everybody clicks the link (or has prefetching on.)

  4. Re:Hmmm. on A Walk Through the Hard Drive Recovery Process · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Backups aren't always possible. Say, collecting data, if you back up 1/day you still lose data. That can sometimes be worth the $2k.
    Until you remember the existence of mirroring.

  5. Re:Here's your warning: on London Lawyers Demand £600 For One Game · · Score: 1

    No, buying them isn't the hard part. Using them is. Show me an online game where the CD key will still work used. Then buying the game won't be a massive risk of having an expensive coaster.

  6. Re:This always happens on Infringement 'Detrimental To the Public Health, Safety' · · Score: 3, Insightful

    We need to follow the constitution, to start. Changing it won't help when we just ignore the thing anyway.

  7. Re:Yea, and it still sucks. on After 3 Years, Freenet 0.7 Released · · Score: 1

    There's not much point in developing 0.5. 0.7 has opennet now (for a while the auto-noderef exchange wasn't finished in 0.7, so people thought only darknet was allowed.) 0.5 also has several security flaws that make the network vulnerable to attack that have been fixed in 0.7.

  8. Re:I'm officially conflicted... on After 3 Years, Freenet 0.7 Released · · Score: 1

    If you can't use it yourself run the node as a service to others who CAN. Many of the people running TOR exit nodes don't need to use it for themselves, they do it to help the other people who do need it. Set your datastore small, set your freenet process to a low priority, and let it sit, helping in a small way. (You will need to keep it updated, but there's an auto-updater.) If you do need it someday it will be there, and will be faster because people like you will be running nodes and sharing content.

  9. Re:Freedom of Speech vs. Freedom of Hosts on After 3 Years, Freenet 0.7 Released · · Score: 1

    Freenet is censorship-resistant via onion routing and mirroring. Removing either of these functions damages this method of censorship resistance. In fact, no mechanism which can avoid transmitting based on content can be censorship resistant. Thus, the type of system you are asking for is impossible in an open network.
    Freened 0.7 does allow darknets. Simply connect in darknet mode only to peers who are also in your darknet whom you trust not to host such content. You then have some censorship resistance without having to pass or store "nefarious" speech, whatever that is.
    Also, different people have different morals. I consider censorship close to murder: Murder is evil because it ends the victim's ability to think and share thoughts. While censorship does not remove the ability to think it removes the sharing, and is thus one of the worst crimes I can imagine. Thus, I run a Freenet node even though I find certain forms of speech repellent.

  10. Re:Seriously? on After 3 Years, Freenet 0.7 Released · · Score: 1

    ISPs don't have common carrier, they are Information Services, not Telecom. That said, similar provisions apply. The most common one is DMCA Safe Harbour, for when copywritten content is transferred over their lines.

  11. Re:The failure of Freenet on After 3 Years, Freenet 0.7 Released · · Score: 1

    AFAICT that's the plan. Once Freenet 1.0 is done things should be stable enough that other clients can be written and kept up to date without tons of work. As it is now every few updates breaks all the old clients. There's not much point documenting everything when it's changing every month or so. (There is, of course, documentation on what approaches tried and failed, so as to avoid repeating mistakes. That's different.)

  12. Re:Congratulations to all pedophiles. QWZX on After 3 Years, Freenet 0.7 Released · · Score: 2, Insightful

    AnotherIndex's spider occasionally picks some up, but he generally edits it out of the index rather quickly. Most of the other indexes aren't spider-based, and so choose what to put up manually. Then again, Google picks up CP all the time. Google+I2P or Tor is far, far faster than Freenet and has tons more CP.

  13. Re:but .. but .. why ? on Make Your Own Fonts, In a Web Browser · · Score: 1

    I like Computer Modern Roman for articles, but for literature I love Weiss. It's well balanced (different letters seem about the same size), very even in colour balance (different letters have about the same amount of black-white), easily legible, and yet the letters are stylized enough to be interesting. The italics are especially good. Linotype sells the family for $95, I've not found it cheaper.

  14. Re:Why would anyone post this on slashdot? on Make Your Own Fonts, In a Web Browser · · Score: 2, Funny

    Everyone is new here. Even CmdrTaco. The universe is about 14 billion years old, it's hard to not be new here.

  15. Forrest Mimms guides. on Books On Electronics For the Lay Programmer? · · Score: 1

    Radio shack. Forrest M. Mimms, III wrote a series of books (pamphlets really) describing lots of electronic circuits. They're very clear, and the intro book (an actual book) "Getting Started in Electronics" tells how to solder, how to use breadboards and wire-wraps, etc, and has a bunch of example circuits to build. It also describes the operation and use of most basic electronic components. Get this book and start building things. Once you have the hang of basic circuits, then get into the more advanced theory (Art of Electronics by Horowitz and Hill, mentioned above.)

  16. Re:IAAAL (I am almost a lawyer) but... on Who Owns Software? · · Score: 1

    It increases the value of the game in the eyes of other customers. With glider, I know that, if I chose to, I could get the bot and eliminate a boring grind. I don't do so, but it's much nicer to play a game where I COULD if I wanted to, even at the risk of being banned.

  17. Re:*snicker* on Satan, Britney Spears Top Paris Hilton In OSS References · · Score: 1

    Of course they were. Bumhat.

  18. Re:I love it on Do Zebra Stripes Actually Help? · · Score: 1

    This is Slashdot, you don't have to print the page to get the green.

  19. Re:Am I missing something here? on Satan, Britney Spears Top Paris Hilton In OSS References · · Score: 1

    Wheat on Dark Slate Grey or Green is much, much more readable.
    #FFE6BC = Wheat (foreground)
    #294D4A = DarkSlateGreen (BG)
    #4D4D4D = DarkSlateGrey (BG)
    Saturation = 47, Value = 30: DarkSlateX

    Green on black causes lots of eyestrain.

  20. Re:So what did he say? Dynastic Succession... on San Diego GOP Chairman Alleged To Be a Fairlight Co-Founder · · Score: 1

    It's post like these that keep spun on my friends list. He starts out trolling and ends up writing a series of reasoned, informative replies that actually advance the discussion. His posts all get modded up to +5, and his goal of burning karma utterly fails. This is clearly due to the effect of hot grits (the traditional breakfast of Tuesdays) warming the devourer and making his disposition friendlier.

  21. Re:$150?!?!?!? on Hands-On With SteelSeries Ikari Mouse and New 7G Gaming Keyboard · · Score: 1

    I have a Unicomp DSK-layout model M. It's excellent. The quality seems quite similar to that of the original model Ms I've used.

  22. Re:L shape enter/return key and small backspace ke on Hands-On With SteelSeries Ikari Mouse and New 7G Gaming Keyboard · · Score: 1

    IBM Model M, take off the keycaps (NOT the whole keys) and spraypaint them all black. Then spray them with 1 layer of Testor's glosscoat and 2 of Testor's dullcoat to seal. Thin layers. Place the keycaps back on the keys, you now have a Das Keyboard-style keyboard for a reasonable price. Whatever you do, don't spray over the date-of-manufacture/serial number sticker on the back.

  23. Re:Sure looks that way on How Water Forms in Interstellar Space at 10K · · Score: 1

    Some hydrogen escapes. Most of the hydrogen that doesn't sits in the hydrosphere.

  24. Re:Chuck's right on AT&T Denies Resetting P2P Connections · · Score: 1

    It could just be a bad quality network. And ISPs that filter content open themselves up to being sued for contributory infringement or some such, (loss of DMCA safe-harbour) and thus filtering is a massive legal liability.

  25. Re:Bias? on 500 Thousand MS Web Servers Hacked · · Score: 1

    - thus the ISS spin.
    They added artificial gravity to the International Space Station?! Cool!