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  1. Re:sure on Altering Text In eBooks To Track Pirates · · Score: 1

    Suppose you have several pirates in different markets with different accounts that all buy the ebook and diff those. If done once, it's really hard to narrow it down to any one of them. If they keep using different accounts for future purchases and add their own alterations to the pirated copy (to confuse the detector), it makes them practically impossible to trace.

  2. Re:So the drives will get louder and hotter? on Ultrasound Waves Used To Increase Data Storage Capacity of Magnetic Media · · Score: 1

    My comment was meant as a joke, I guess that didn't go through :)
    I think it's a pretty cool technology, too

  3. So the drives will get louder and hotter? on Ultrasound Waves Used To Increase Data Storage Capacity of Magnetic Media · · Score: 2

    Great, thanks. It's not as if we didn't have to deal with that already.

  4. New Asteroid Mining COmpany on New Asteroid Mining Company Emerges · · Score: 1

    NAMCO? :)

  5. Didn't they support Heartland Institute? on Microsoft Makes Ambitious Carbon Neutral Pledge · · Score: 1

    https://pinterest.com/climatebrad/heartland-institute-sponsors/
    Looks like almost $60k and they haven't withdrawn their support (yet?)

  6. Expect surge in banana photo popularity on JAXA Creates Camera That Can See Radiation · · Score: 1

    If this becomes commercially available... and if Cavendish survives that long

  7. Some men on Solving Climate Change By Bioengineering Humans? · · Score: 1

    Some men just want to watch the world burn

  8. Re:Might make a good movie on Former Senator Wants to Mine The Moon · · Score: 1

    Sam, get some sleep. You're very tired.

  9. Flashy but not secure on Erasing CDs By Using 150,000 Volts of Electricity · · Score: 2

    The metallic reflective layer is NOT where the information is stored, it just aids in the information retrieval. In other words, this method might not destroy the data at all. It's true that it's pretty hard to get the data back, but depending on various conditions it may not be impossible.

  10. Re:N900 / Asterisk / Vitelity on Ask Slashdot: Data-Only Phone, Voice Over WiFi? · · Score: 1

    Most likely T-mobile, since pretty much nothing else lets you use 3G on N900
    But I'd like to know for sure, too

  11. Re:Don't buy anything from Sony for some time. on Sony Wins Restraining Order Against Geohot · · Score: 1

    Easy for you to say if you don't want to play a game that's only available for PS3, for instance MGS4.

  12. Re:Bad Article or Worst System Ever? on French Use Space Tech To Find Parking Spots · · Score: 2

    If I understand TFA correctly, these sensors act as a radar, except they analyze EM fields (which are distorted by metal cars) within the working radius

  13. Re:"The Firefox 4 beta seems to work fine." on Browsing the Body · · Score: 1

    Fedora 14 here with OSS ATI drivers
    Chromium works fine; Firefox 4b7 works (slow~ish, after updating extensions), Firefox 4b8 (JS preview build) doesn't work

  14. Re:"Too fast to be true" on SHA-3 Finalist Candidates Known · · Score: 2

    FTFA: "Cryptologist Ron 'The R in RSA' Rivest withdrew his MD6 process - it was highly-rated but conspicuously sluggish"

    Someone simply misread or misunderstood "sluggish" for "too fast"

  15. Re:The Browser Wars on Google Quietly Posts Big JavaScript Engine Update · · Score: 2

    Or... "The browsers warses continueses"

    Fix'd

  16. Re:Next up on DOJ Ramping Up Crackdown On Copyright-Infringing Sites · · Score: 1

    Yeah, vote for Mickey Mouse - he doesn't have an agenda!

  17. In theory, theory and practice are the same on The DIY Car Computer vs. the iPad · · Score: 1

    2 major problems with using iPad as a car pc (off the top of my head, mind you)

    * glare -- HUGE problem when you're in daylight and you've got light coming in from every window. And if the sun hits the screen directly... have fun!
    * no extensibility -- no CD/tape/radio. Forget sat radio. No higher quality GPS or any other upgrades. True, you don't get extreme flexibility with pre-built car pcs, but they're still upgradeable to an extent..

  18. Well no wonder on US Monitoring Database Reaches Limit, Quits Tracking Felons and Parolees · · Score: 5, Funny

    MS Access can't possibly handle 2 billion records, no matter how much hardware you throw at it.

  19. Re:the most uberest slashdotting evar on 1K JavaScript Madness · · Score: 1

    ...and if they used Nginx they could easily withstand both slashing and dotting
    Too bad they've only got Apache with PHP

  20. Re:Faraday Cage, anyone? on Preventing Networked Gizmo Use During Exams? · · Score: 1

    Constructing one isn't very hard, just line the walls/windows/doors with metal screen door mesh, then ground it.

    But that doesn't solve the problem of students networking between each other. If that's a necessity, a wifi jammer can be placed inside the faraday cage - this both prevents illegal jamming (nobody outisde is affected), and internally nobody can use wireless either.

    Might cost a bundle, though :P

  21. There's no cure for stupidity on Australia To Fight iPod Use By Pedestrians · · Score: 3, Informative

    [This Darwin award candidate] was struck and killed by a southbound Caltrain while crossing the tracks [...] Witnesses said at the time [he] rode his skateboard around a lowered crossing arm and was listening to headphones when he was hit.

  22. Psh, only 29sec here on Intel's Superchilled Test Rig · · Score: 2, Interesting

    on a 2x6core server at work ;)

    [xxxx@xxxx smallpt]$ time ./smallpt 100
    Rendering (100 spp) 100.00%
    real 0m29.127s
    user 5m41.044s
    sys 0m0.093s

    P.S. and compiling didn't take me hours, either, since I'm on Linux

  23. Forget price fixing, what about resolution fixing? on Samsung, Toshiba, Others Accused of LCD Price-Fixing · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Whose ass do you have to sue to get some highres monitors around here?

  24. Re:GNU Shred? on Low-Level Format For a USB Flash Drive? · · Score: 0

    Shred simply writes random/patterned data on OS level into the file. Which means if you have a journaling/snapshotting filesystem, shred won't even kill all copies of the data you wanted to remove.

  25. But does it tell you how to do animation? on Hacking Vim 7.2 · · Score: 1

    I remember seeing a vim hack once, a few years back, where someone used the stdin/paste to make vim animate a picture of ASCII art.
    Can't find the link, though :(