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  1. Re:Great! on US Patent Office To Hire 500 New Examiners · · Score: 1

    You are quite correct, I think you misplaced the what the adjectives refer in his description: a solar-powered perpetual motion machine in an open entropic system In his patent its the machine that is perpetual, not the motion. So all he needs to do is build it out of something very durable and its perfectly patentable.

  2. Re:new feature request on MSN Blocks Mozilla, Other Browsers [updated] · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure about Mozilla, but if you are running a squid proxy you can fake the user agent of everyone locally who is browsing the web through. For example add the following line to squid.conf:

    fake_user_agent Uber-Browser 5.6 (Cray/XMP)

    Then all hits made via that proxy will appear to be made with the above imaginary browser.

  3. Re:No no no! on MSN Blocks Mozilla, Other Browsers [updated] · · Score: 1

    Even more fun is to put a little html code in it:

    "Linux Browsers Own You"

    Or the like. It looks interesting the in web based log analysis programs when webmaster check out the user agent hits...

  4. Re:Half Life on ATI Drivers Geared For Quake 3? · · Score: 1

    Yes you are correct, Quake is the one and only. However Quake 2, Quake 3 Arena and other such things with 'Quake' in the name somewhere are worthless attempts at cashing in on a successful game/engine (other than quakeworld of course). Quakeworld/Teamfortress is still about the only thing thats still fun to play online nowadays...

  5. Re:Great... on FBI Wants to Tap The Net · · Score: 1

    The US is 1948 in reality.

    Umm maybe you mean 1984? I can't think of anything particularily significant about the year you said off the top of my head...

  6. Re:Performance, price to consumers? on FBI Wants to Tap The Net · · Score: 1

    I thought the same thing till reading the article more closely. It appears that the FBI will request that ISP etcs will be asked to duplicate certain traffic and send it to the monitoring points as well as its intended destination. Something like the port mirroring on ethernet switches but on a higher level and scale.

  7. Re:IE 6 vs others on Gecko May Replace IE In AOL/CompuServe · · Score: 1

    There's definitely a preference for this. Uncheck something along the lines of "Search from the address bar" in the advanced settings.

    I had a good look for this but I can't find it anywhere (msie 6.0). Could you tell us exactly where to find that option?

  8. Re:GNU HURD on Slashback: Drives, Errors, Copyright · · Score: 1

    Yes if you use it RMS will stop hounding you to prefix everything with GNU/ ... On that note why isn't he calling HURd the GNU/HURD yet? Maybe he's waiting for everyone to actually start using it before he feels its worth sticking his 'label' on the system.

  9. Re:WEP keys easily breakable... on Wanted - 45 Mile Wireless Broadband? · · Score: 1

    Shamir presented a paper that nukes WEP from orbit

    Was that really the only way to be sure?

  10. Re:the next step... on US Starts Attacking Afghanistan · · Score: 1

    Its a jihad because it is non-muslims attacking muslim state. This entitles them (under Islamic law) to make it a religious affair, irrespective of the opponents intentions.

    No even even that is a stretch of the rules and is not something a Jihad can be called for. As far as I understand it a Jihad can only be called for an actual attack against Islam itself. For example a Jihad could of been called during the Crusades when the European invaders were killing/converting anyone who wasn't Christian.(someone who knows history better can say if there were any called in those times?)

  11. Re:the next step... on US Starts Attacking Afghanistan · · Score: 1

    whereas this time we're more on our own

    So the suddenly the Northern Alliance no longer have any interest in kicking out the Taliban?

  12. Re:Main Character is Dead on Farscape Signs for 2 More Years · · Score: 1

    Oh great thanks for the spoiler alert.

  13. Re:-1 (Redunant) on Slashback: Safety, Transmissions, Breakage · · Score: 1

    -1 (Redunant) (Score:1, Redundant)

    I hope we all see the irony there.

  14. Re:Matrix on Body Powered Batteries -- Thermoelectrics · · Score: 1

    insert obligatory human-beowulf-cluster comment here

  15. Re:Vendors on Wanted: Turn-Key 10-Node Beowulf Cluster · · Score: 1

    Penguin Computing [penguincomputing.com] ships beowulf clusters

    This ask slashdot might not of been neccesary if the original questioner wasn't filtering slashdot's banner ads. :)

  16. Re:Mirror for Images/Video on More Links And Reports On Terrorist Attacks · · Score: 1

    Here the link with http:// on it so it works:

    http://beefdart.csh.rit.edu/index.php

    But I think the site might be broken right now?...

  17. Re:The thing is, a lot of nerds w. money play D2 on Diablo 2 Items Bringing Home the Bacon · · Score: 1

    Yes you can, just play golf like Diablo and EQ and use your existing clubs to get better clubs. PKing on the green might get your kicked out of the club though.

  18. Re:Infoceptor had great coverage on Diablo 2 Items Bringing Home the Bacon · · Score: 1

    From the article:

    Not only that, but for minimal lag, the Anderson's have setup a satellite connection.

    Okkkk a satellite connection for minimum lag? Whoever sold them that is an even better salesman than they are.

  19. Re:This has been tried on Diablo 2 Items Bringing Home the Bacon · · Score: 1

    Who are you calling riff-raff? :-(

  20. Re:About private jet economics and lifestyle on Oh, Your Private Jet Is Just Subsonic? · · Score: 1

    Yeah I know, but how its written it, it can be interpreted either way so I made the most of it.

  21. Re:About private jet economics and lifestyle on Oh, Your Private Jet Is Just Subsonic? · · Score: 2, Funny

    The aforementioned Citation X is about 100 knots (or 25%) faster than a typical commercial flight, and you can arrive at a general aviation airport about 15 minutes before takeoff.

    So you can keep taking off and landing and move further and further back into the past? Now thats a neat plane, guess it doesn't matter how fast it actually moves through the air if its got a flux capacitor fitted.

  22. Re:unmetered local calls on Full-Screen Video Over 28.8k: The Claims Continue · · Score: 1

    Australia both have unmetered local calls, even the outback has unmetered local calls.

    Pity that a local call area might not extend outside your own property if you live far enough out that way...

  23. Re:Overkill on A PVR For Two Straight Weeks Of Video · · Score: 1

    ---- The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. (Try actually thinking about that for a minute.)

    I did, I stopped to consider it for a minute but while I was doing it I found my rights had been bulldozed and found myself living in a police state.

  24. Re:how long? on Finally, A Solution To The DMCA · · Score: 1

    Wow we've already got our first great schism between the camps of the void main()s and the int main()s. Please dont go crusading over Europe over this issue just yet.

  25. Re:Magic Data? on Aussie ISP Scans Downloads For Copyright Violation · · Score: 1

    Actually there is legislation that was passes last year in Australia that is not far off from the DMCA, its called the Digital Agenda Act (CADA). It has some similiar section such as the following:

    The CADA provides civil remedies and criminal sanctions against the manufacture, commercial dealing, importation, making available online, advertising, marketing and supply of a circumvention device or service used to circumvent technological protection measures such as program locks. The actual use of a circumvention device or service is not specifically proscribed.

    Sounds familiar?