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  1. vger on The Scream Aliens Hear From the Earth · · Score: 1

    What about using our great friend vger (voyager) to relay back tv/radio signal to see what actually can be recieved from earth from large distances.

  2. Re:Leaves on Nokia to Acquire and Open Source Symbian · · Score: 0, Redundant

    you do know that windows is layer upon layer of cruft, with even cruft that's crufted in a crufted layer of cruft.

  3. Re:sniff sniff.. smells afoul on Hotmail Full Version Incompatible With Firefox 3 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I mean setting user agent to IE/windows helped.. However later they added some extra code, and even blocked that. The only way I could bank then, was by downloading the login page and editing it to remove the IE/Windows detection bit.. And guess what ? I could enter and use the rest of the site no problems whatsoever..

  4. sniff sniff.. smells afoul on Hotmail Full Version Incompatible With Firefox 3 · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Seen this before certain banks using microsoft's web libraries, and suddenly firefox not being able to enter your banking page. Setting the browser's id as IE and os as windows and suddenly it works flawlessly. So Id guess it smells afoul.

  5. Re:There are better ways on Ulteo Shows Linux-Windows Crossover Potential · · Score: 0

    there allready is a clone for kde for windows, and it runs native on windows.. so it is bug for bug compatible, while the linux environment being more stable will only seem to amplify the windows bugs... Because of the lack of bug for bug compatibility.

  6. cygwin on Ulteo Shows Linux-Windows Crossover Potential · · Score: 1, Insightful

    running open source apps on windows, just port and compile with cygwin or equivalent. Why all these pseudo solutions exist is a riddle to me.

  7. actual telescopy images on Phoenix Mars Lander Updates · · Score: 0

    Does anyone have actual telescope pictures of the rovers and phoenix. So at least no one can say that the phoenix actually landed in a studio in the nevada desert ? ;-)

  8. can anyone still spell sputnik on What Is the Oldest Code Written Still Running? · · Score: 0

    Does anyone know if sputnik 1 ( or any of it's sibblings ) contained any computer code ? Or maybe if they ever patched any of it? Or even more omportant is sputnik still active ?

  9. hardware keylogger on Best Way To Avoid Keyloggers On Public Terminals? · · Score: 0

    1. Get a foldable keyboard this way at least you are certain the keyboard doesn't contain a hardware logger in it.
    2 Most software keyloggers are removable with adaware/hijackthis or some other form of spyware checker (usually a free download).
    3. look up all data on all hardware keyloggers and use the key-codes/-words that disables them. I distinctly remember norton antivirus blocking all internet traffic up receiving some activation-code in any chat or text window containing the words keylogger and readout or something.
    4. Dump that bf/gf that's so paranoid that (s)he would spy on you.
    5. Use a linux-live-cd with ipsec tunnel with the keys burned onto the cd and of course the mozilla password manager to no have to type the passwords, and hope the hardwware-keyloggers' manufacturrers forgot to make it linux compatible. And if they are using hardware keyloggers at least the sofware partner of the hardware keylogger can't spy you display activity.
    6. Don't thrust public hardware use a mobile (smart)phone or laptop with ipsec tunnel (XO or EEE anyone ?) with a usb-stick containing mozilla-firefox and a password manager so you don't type any online passwords (smile you're on candid spy-cam).
    7. Whenever on vacation live life to the max and don't use the internet.

  10. Re:We have more oil? on Oil Deposit Could Increase US Reserves 10x · · Score: 0

    Am I just being paranoid, or is there anybody else finding it strange that oil specialists of this caliber post replies on slashdot.

    I smell a marketing department that's scouring the internet for blogs and other comment pages for articles about oil and posting comments.

    That said, still I would like to thank the poster for sharing his concise and insightful knowledge.

  11. Re:I'm running phpBB on Mass Website Hack Compromises 200,000 Sites · · Score: 1

    You probably never heard of botnets. Or dhcp.

  12. A true republican on Elephants Block the Vote · · Score: 0, Funny

    allways blocking the poor votes

  13. Riaa's report about upcoming on bilionth pc on 1 Billion PCs by End of 2008 · · Score: 0

    1.000.000.000 PCs each containing at least $ 10.000.000.000 in copyrighted material.

  14. YAFFWD or Yet Another Fossil Fuel Wasting Device on Backyard Chefs Fired Up Over Infrared Grills · · Score: 0

    And here I thought we where all beginning to lower our CO2 footprint.
    At least I assume this thingy will waste even more fossil fuels then most grills.
    When will these kind of companies start thinking about how to get the CO2 footprint down.

    aXi.

  15. Not A patch on The Story Behind a Windows Security Patch Recall · · Score: 0

    I do not understand why this guy calls the addition they added a patch, seeing as it did not actually make a change in any existing code. Or might it be so that they made a copy of the explorer executable and patched it to become the verclsid executable ?
    Well you got to hand it to the ms developers they surely know how to not fix the problem but rather work around the problem.
    This brought back memories about an article that was on slashdot comparing the complexity of a mission critical file retrieval web server linux system call to a windows system call. Where the windows system call graphic looked like a child's first scratchings, no patterns to be recognized, and the Linux equivalence looked well like a Mondrian http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Mondrian_CompRY B.jpg.

  16. battery charging on Modded Hybrid Cars Get Up to 250 MPG · · Score: 0

    They talk about charging the batteries of the regular electricity network.. I think this has mpg savings value but no environmental value. As the electricity is pulled of a network fed by coles or other enviromentally unfriendly carbon based fuel.

  17. Celular phones on House Paint Foils Wardrivers · · Score: 0

    I would think this paint also block celular phone, emergency radios. Very handy for people with allergies to radio.
    What about the reflection the layer causes ? Your home could be turned into a microwave oven with a single wifi.
    What about when lightning strike through one window ? Your whole home would be turned into a huge conductor, lightning would be flashing of the walls.
    If your washing machine overflows and while not grounded correctly, again every wall in your home would be elctrified.
    So this is an extremely stupid solution to the problem they are trying to solve.

  18. Of course not... on Will Open Source Solaris Kill Linux? · · Score: 0

    The moment Sun-OS becomes open source it will start integrating code from Linux and losing it's own code and in fact become just another Linux distribution.

  19. Re:restricted list on Restrictive Sales Practices on the Web? · · Score: 0

    I used to work at a payment provider which was oen of the first companies to work in such a way. The list is not available to outsiders, and since I do not work for them anymore I am an outsider. So I only know about the list I do not know it's contents, or where it can be found. You could try looking at payment providers.
    Another way they check payments, is looking if the card is issued by a local bank to the order adress.

  20. restricted list on Restrictive Sales Practices on the Web? · · Score: 0

    because of high hacker risk certain countries are restricted at certain secure payment providers.

  21. Hoaxed on Boeing Bird of Prey Stealth Fighter · · Score: -1, Troll

    From the very moment I read the news on slashdot I knew it was suspicious. I mean look at the web adresses, they have HOAX written al over them. But as soon as I saw the clearly manipulated pictures I knew it for sure. And furthermore since when doe cockpitted planes fly pilot-less.

  22. Hoax on Boeing Bird of Prey Stealth Fighter · · Score: 0

    The images and the whole story seems to me like a hoax. If you look carefully at picture of jet the flying, you will see that there is nobody inthe cockpit.

  23. Re:My $$'s on fuel cells. on AAAAAAAAA-size Li-Ion Cells · · Score: 0

    Most hydrogen used in fuel cells comes from propane or butane gas, and as so it does not help in the global warming problem. Because both are fossil fuels.

  24. Re:My $$'s on fuel cells. on AAAAAAAAA-size Li-Ion Cells · · Score: 0

    Have you ever made a patatoe battery ? there's no charging involved, yet it still gives you a charge..
    So not every no hydrogen fuel based battery can make electricity without being charged. O yeah do you know how much electricity is used to make hydrogen? Please do some more research before you start saying something like this.

  25. Price is not so much the issue on PCI Shortwave Receiver · · Score: 0

    If you look at what their cards cost, price is no longer the issue.
    Just look at their Winradio's pricelist, you will see that the price difference between the WR-3150i-DSP ($1995.00) and the WR-3150e ($1995.00) is nil. Yet one has a DSP the other doesn't. ( Comparison of Winradio's products )
    The reason they build such cards is that they may implement reception restriction legislation in software rather then in hardware. Another reason is they will sell several cards to people that eventually will create their own software to circumvent those restrictions.
    Quoted from two of their own product specifications : "Note: In some countries certain frequencies may be omitted due to government legislation." and " The frequency range is 150 kHz to 1.5 GHz. (The publicly available US version excludes cellular frequencies 825-849 and 869-894 MHz)." ( see: WR-3150e .