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  1. Re:NORAD tracks santa too.. on Use Google Earth To Track Santa · · Score: 1

    NO they aren't :( Or not at the moment anyway.

    I have norad as my homepage at the moment (yes I know...), and when I looked he was travelling around India, whereas when I went to google earth, he was around Indonesia.

    I've heard of lag before, but thats not good.

    On a side note (and perhaps more importantly) if we slashdot santa, will the children get their presents?

  2. Re:How does it work? on Santa IM Worm Hits AOL, MSN and Yahoo · · Score: 1

    lol, it's not a virus...

  3. Re:Space Key on New Keyboard Has Just 53 Keys · · Score: 1

    My old Spectrum rubber keyed thing never had one, and I had no problems typing on that.

    http://www.spectaculator.com/docs/spectaculator/ke yboard/

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    Beeeeeep bleeeudeeeeeeeeeeerbeeeeeeeut

  4. Missing log day on Google Zeitgeist '05 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    All (ok, 99% of) the displayed charts have a 0 dip around April time (just around the time of the popes death)

    Did anyone else notice this and wonder just what happened at the data centre that day?

  5. Re:Help ZNet - register on ZNet interviews Richard Stallman · · Score: 2, Informative

    My apologies,
    The link supplied by the parent poster is infact linked within the original ZNet website.

    In the top 3 lines of description, the bottom one is:

    ZNet is exploring the possibility of using free software. To help, visit New ZNet and introduce yourself.

    With the link specified.
    (Very difficult to spot on first glance though)

  6. Re:Help ZNet - register on ZNet interviews Richard Stallman · · Score: 2, Informative

    That BBS doesn't appear to be linked to znet apart from in content.
    Could you please supply or create a direct link from the http://www.zmag.org/weluser.htm website for everyones convenience.

    Privacy aware folks should tread carefully before registering information to an unknown source.
    (But you all knew that of course...)

  7. Re:What does he do for a living? on ZNet interviews Richard Stallman · · Score: 2, Informative

    From the wiki article (I know its not gospel, but its reasonable..):

    Since the mid-1990s, Stallman has spent most of his time as a political campaigner, advocating free software and campaigning against software idea patents and expansions of copyright law. The time that he still devotes to programming is spent on GNU Emacs. He supports himself by being paid for around half of the speeches he gives.

  8. Re:How will they be programmed? on Innovative Ion Trap on a Semiconductor · · Score: 1

    If its doom we are talking about, you can't observe it, because everyone knows you don't have duct tape in a quantum environment.

  9. Re:Bittorrent for the win... kinda on P2P Population Growing Again · · Score: 1

    Is the packet sniffing done at the boundary?
    if so would anyone know of a protocol tweak that would make bittorrent prefer localish connections over remote?

  10. Re:It's all well and good one way on Disabled Fans Shut Out of Galaxies · · Score: 1

    You can program with a single finger because you can use your arm to move it around.
    Not everyone has that luxury.

  11. Re:Ice Age on Polar Bears Drowning As Globe Warms · · Score: 0

    No its not our fault, the same as it wasn't our fault when continental drift occured.

    Evolution in action, the strongest will survive (and as another poster said they will start finding weak humans to eat)

  12. Ice Age on Polar Bears Drowning As Globe Warms · · Score: 1

    The same thing has been happening for ever.
    Its how bio diversity starts.

    Its just that we are seeing it first hand now that its an issue.

  13. Re:"intellectual" property on Microsoft Sued Over Patent Infringements · · Score: 4, Funny

    I expected it to say,

    Microsoft stands behind its products and lobs chairs over the barracades.'

  14. Re:redshift on Hubble finds Mass of White Dwarf · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I would recommend seeking medical attention if you have redshit, wikipedia is not qualified to give diagnosis.

  15. Re:Correction to this slashvertisement on Seagate Pushes Hard Drive Platters to 160GB · · Score: 1

    Why does that make the probability lower?
    In all multi platter drives I have seen the heads are connected to each other, so if its going to touch one surface, its going to touch them all, ergo no matter how many surfaces you have they are all fucked.
    GP is correct in my book, but please feel free to show me the light.

  16. Re:Rub my penis and cause a rupture on ActiveState Discontinues VisualPerl/Python · · Score: 1

    The worst part was mine was ontopic.
    I EXPECTED someone to post perl code in this discussion.
    Frankly I feel let down.

  17. Re:Rub my penis and cause a rupture on ActiveState Discontinues VisualPerl/Python · · Score: 2, Funny

    For a minute there I thought this was just another example of perl code.
    My bet is its still compilable.

  18. Re:Accuracy on Wikipedia's Accuracy Compared to Britannica · · Score: 5, Funny

    Don't you mean 'Britannica'?

    Sincerely,
    A Wiki editor.

    ps, we don't hold grudges and most of us will gladly help clean up your mistakes :)

  19. Re:Downsite? on Steam Hybrid Car from BMW · · Score: 2, Funny

    They just need to worry about getting pressurised steam at 450degrees blown in their faces, but of course, nothing to worry about.

  20. Re:How do you collect this information? on It's "1984" in Europe, What About Your Country? · · Score: 1

    Connections using WHICH protocols though?

    If they are monitoring port 110 for pop3, isn't it reasonable to assume people may start using an alternative unmonitored port?

    The GP is right, they can't monitor everything, so the fun begins...

  21. Re:Why they can get away with it on A Closer Look at Google Adwords · · Score: 1

    I'm seeing more and more sites taken over by adwords.
    Light content with at least2 or 3 blocks of adwords around (the usually single link)
    Its no wonder they have a higher click through.

    I only notice they are adverts because the text hits the frame border (I use larger fonts so see clipping)

    I won't say they are annoying because its better than flashing popups and the like, but its certainly feeling likee better of 2 evils.

  22. Re:Pentium 3 on No More Internet Anonymity · · Score: 1

    Mine works ok, it still reports its ID as 634315

  23. Re:Ho, Ho! Good luck, China! on Cyber Attacks on US Linked to Chinese Military? · · Score: 1

    As a European I can gleefully inform you that we will be keeping logs for a lot longer than that :S

  24. Re:Filesharing and this law on EU Approves Data Retention · · Score: 1

    You send out an email with a subject 'listen to this new song' of 4.8mb to 5 friends.
    3 of those friends forward the email onto their freinds, whilst another one connects on port 6881 and transmits 4.8mb of data to 400 people connected.

    Whilst doing all this you were talking on your cellphone to a friend who is connected to a terrorist cell who after hanging up on you contacted his cell and proceeded to load slashdot.org and made a secret code comment which indirectly triggered an attack on the penguins of syberia.

    Next thing you know, your bent over in jail reaching for the soap and being somebodies bitch.

    I don't like the sounds of this law at all.

  25. Re:Time to get encrypted on EU Approves Data Retention · · Score: 1

    Once you encrypt your data you are indistinguishable from the terrorists.
    You are right, encrypted data is private and can be used to transmit anything.
    IF they don't know what your sending they could start to make assumptions and that would be bad.

    Get off the net or bend over and accept the assfucking our governments are giving us.