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  1. Re:And so it begins on Making the Case For Microscopic Life In Meteorites · · Score: 1

    Here's some fair and balanced coverage for you.

    I bet Maurice LaMarche, who does Welles' voice better than anyone, would love to narrate a feature about our coming bacteriological apocalypse.

  2. Re:/. News Network on One Man's Quest To Build True Artificial Life · · Score: 1

    Be nice to Unknown Lamer. He's new here.

  3. Re:Military surplus... on UK MOD To Spend 20 Million On Toy Size Spy Drones · · Score: 4, Informative

    Well, they can't very well let Ogden, Utah and Miami, Florida get too far ahead of them, can they?

  4. Re:Did they invite on Xerox Opens Virtual Research Lab · · Score: 1

    Would Bernstein let Jobs in the PARC facilities today? That view that Xerox/PARC didn't capitalize enough on its breakthroughs is common. For instance, Jason Perlow said I should ask whether PARC would let Steve Jobs in the building since a lot of those PARC ideas built Apple. "It would be great to have Steve come over," quipped Bernstein. "I'd just have to be careful about what I showed him."

    Larry Dignan interviewing then Xerox/PARC chief Mark Bernstein last November.

  5. Re:Which is ridiculous..... on Study Calls Craigslist 'a Cesspool of Crime' · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Forget public places. Before the web, we had newspapers. Thieves would scan the classifieds looking for things to steal and the obituaries for the best time to burgle the homes of mourners Con men read the personals looking for the gullible and the lonely. And the ads in the sports section of most big city papers included some really dubious looking massage parlors and escort services. If it weren't for that pesky 1st Amendment, you can bet that every charge that's been laid against Craigslist would have been made against the newspapers.

  6. Re:"Fixed shit yo"? on Comment Profanity by Language · · Score: 1

    I think it's pretty cool that somebody gave Snoop Dogg commit access.

  7. Re:SOP For Governments. on Libya Blocks Internet Access As Citizens Protest · · Score: 1

    Do you think that if such a bill were to pass, Obama would veto it?

  8. Re:I would have thought this closer to 100% on 80% of Browsers Found To Be At Risk of Attack · · Score: 2

    Is your version susceptible to this?

  9. Re:What if my "PC" is an old VAX on Microsoft's New Plan For Keeping the Internet Safe · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I think that's the point. Unless you're running a "supported" OS that will cheerfully phone home with its patch/AV status, (like, oh I don't know, Windows), you're not to be trusted.

  10. Re:whatwhatwhat on Are Flickr Images Abused By Foreign Businesses? · · Score: 1

    I most certainly can sell images of you without your permission if you are doing something newsworthy.

  11. Re:sounds sweet on DreamPlug ARM Box Brings Power To Plug Computing · · Score: 1

    Have you looked at the ALIX line? Under $150 w/ case. I use them as firewalls (OpenBSD/pf), among other things. A pair of 2D13s would make a pretty nifty pf/carp load balancer/failover system, too, if you don't need gigabit ethernet.

  12. Re:Wish my dentist had this... on SnowWorld VR Game Reduces Pain For Burn Patients · · Score: 2

    One German dentist has built her practice around this.

  13. Re:Getting this Right Away(tm) on Volume 4A of Knuth's TAOCP Finally In Print · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm preordaining this

    Cool! Now we can call it the Reverend Volume 4A.

  14. Re:Tin foil hats on The Strange Disappearance of Dancho Danchev · · Score: 1

    So you know exactly what (and who) I'm talking about! Will try to re-establish communications when it's over. Godspeed.

  15. Re:Tin foil hats on The Strange Disappearance of Dancho Danchev · · Score: 1

    I'm right there with ya, buddy. You know, I live just an ICBM's throw away from the Everglades, with all its secret government "training" camps, and ever since Fox News told me (on 1/1/11, no less!) that my astrological sign was changing, I've been afraid to leave the bunker.

  16. Re:Tin foil hats on The Strange Disappearance of Dancho Danchev · · Score: 2, Funny

    Speaking of tin foil hats, let me point out that his last post was on the 9th anniversary of 9/11. Coincidence, gentlemen? I think not. For me personally, the scariest thing is seeing my /. nick subtly hidden in my very own post.

  17. Re:Lame on How To Use a Real Guitar With Rock Band 3 · · Score: 1

    Real guitars require hand-eye-knee-foot coordination. Plus, every chord we play is a barre chord :)

  18. Re:And now for the nerdery. on Reverse Engineering Doctor Who Into Color · · Score: 5, Informative

    Complementing TFA is the restoration team's FAQ, which covers some of the non-technical details involved.

  19. Re:Alternative ways to develop? on Kodachrome Takes Its Final Bow Today · · Score: 2
    The 1960s? From the Kodak 1997 Professional Photographic Catalog (publication L-9):

    KODACHROME Film was the first Kodak color film ever made and continues to be the most archival of all color films

    But you're right about the E-6 films being easier to live with. I used to do sink-line E-6 sheet film processing, and for an extra fee we could even adjust the first developer time by inspection!

  20. Re:Alternative ways to develop? on Kodachrome Takes Its Final Bow Today · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Every time I consider the maniacal steps involved in process K-14 (small .PDF), I'm amazed that anything shows up at all.

  21. Re:Alternative ways to develop? on Kodachrome Takes Its Final Bow Today · · Score: 5, Informative

    Kodachrome is a transparency ("slide") film, not a negative one like Kodacolor. Also, unlike conventional transparency films like Ektachrome and Fujichrome, the color dyes are not present in the emulsion when you shoot the film but are introduced during processing, which makes developing the stuff a bitch. One effect of this is that the dyes in Kodachrome are much longer lasting than those in other transparency films (the ones developed using the E-6 process).

  22. Does this mean we'll get new IP protocols? on Chinese Written Language To Dominate Internet · · Score: 1

    Will there be variants of say, SIP or HTTP where actual method names, like GET or INVITE, or header-field names like Contact: will be in Chinese? That would make parsing interesting.

  23. Re:see what happens when point out holes in the TS on Auditors Question TSA's Tech Spending, Security Solutions · · Score: 2

    The TSA has pulling this shit since at least 2008. Remember the CNN reporter who wound up on the no-fly list?

  24. As if a DDoS wasn't enough... on Spamhaus Under DDoS Over Wikileaks.info · · Score: 5, Funny

    now they're slashdotted, too.

  25. Re:Bruce Schneier on SHA-3 Finalist Candidates Known · · Score: 1

    I see that his own entry, CubeHash, made it into Round Two, but not the finals.