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  1. Re:Mostly? on Quantum Computer Possible From Silicon Fab · · Score: 2

    Mostly be corrected? Am I the only one for whom this does not sound particularly reassuring...or usefull?

    I'm not certain.

  2. Re:don't do it! on Wardriving From 1500ft Up · · Score: 2

    Hey I've played Counter-Strike at 30,000ft before (hmm very blurry photo...). However we just used a UTP crossover cable, no wireless.

  3. Re:How to find frag parties on Fragfest · · Score: 2

    Well as your in the UK it might not be all that useful for you. But down here in Australia all LAN Parties worth going to are listed on the AusGamers registration system calendar. And watch out for this 1000 player lan (Big Day In) in Melbourne early next year.

  4. Re:If you don't want to affect the environment... on Study: Jet Exhaust Affects Weather · · Score: 2

    Good plan, however after a while I think the breakdown and decay will be breeding a lot of bacteria which will most definantly have an effect of some sort.

  5. Re:Winners unite on Some Spammer Has a Crush on You · · Score: 2

    Generally its a little too late for them to meet if they've already won....

  6. Re:It'll cost you. on Computers That Thrive in Salty, Humid Environments? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Dont forget space rated, same as the above but 1000x cost and will be delivered 5 years after you need it.

  7. Re:Adams on Douglas Adams, Narnia, and Trailers · · Score: 2

    Salmon of Doubt which I read not very long ago is mostly a tribute to him and a collection of random short pieces by him, and then the actual first 1/4 or 1/3 of the actual work in progress. It just cuts off with too much unanswered just as it was getting interesting. The fact that I'll never see the end of it is too depressing (Marvinism not intentional). They really should not of tried to publish it with what there was, it just doesn't fit together quite as well as a finished work and the aforementioned fact that most of it is missing.

  8. Re:Green light in Murcheson's Eye (nebula) on Amateur Lightwave Tricks · · Score: 2

    Someone's been reading a little too much Niven.

  9. Re:What's next? on Warchalking Visual Cues To Urban WLANs · · Score: 2

    What like the Net Srumbler one?

  10. Re:IIUC on Apache Vulnerability Announced · · Score: 2

    Really? Maybe I should take a closer look at the advisory, I didn't know that chunked requests were even possible. Everyone else disregard my above suggestion. (Unless you really want to turn off chunked responses for some other reason) ;-)

  11. Re:3 aust cities in top 10 locales on Slashdot Effect, Live and In Person · · Score: 2

    As I just looked at it Melbourne is now on 27 members. Taking a closer look at it theres nothing to distinguish which city it is exactly, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia or Melbourne, Florida, USA. Maybe some of those people are not quite sure which side of the planet they will meetup on. ;-)

  12. Stonecutters! on Slashdot Effect, Live and In Person · · Score: 4, Funny

    We should hold an ole fashioned stonecutters conventions. We all just wear our Slashdot User Numbers and the lower numbers get to order all the newbies around. While quaffing beer and signing bawdy songs. ;-)

  13. Re:IIUC on Apache Vulnerability Announced · · Score: 2

    Well about the only way you could realisticly disabled chunked encoding off the top of my head is force the server to only support HTTP 1.0 rather than HTTP 1.1 with a directive such as:

    BrowserMatch "*" downgrade-1.0 force-response-1.0

    Chunked encoding is generally used by HTTP 1.1 when the server does not know the total size of the data to be sent, ie dynamic cgi's and the like and will just keep sending it in chunks until it is all sent.

  14. Re:Wot about LED's? on WiFi, Light Bulbs, And The FCC · · Score: 2

    They light longer when powered by batteries though because their intensity doesn't drop off as much as incandescents do as the voltage drops.

    According to that you could run them on less voltage for not that much less light then? And hence be more efficient...

  15. Interesting Technology on Laser Powered Paper Plane Takes Flight · · Score: 5, Funny

    using the laser to power its direction by, for instance, blasting off parts of the wings.

    Dont some airlines already do that though? Ie just dropping bits of its wings during flights. I wouldn't call it revolutionary, except in using a laser to do it rather than metal fatigue.

  16. Re:Are you a legal man, or a moral man? on Live from Iran, Film88 · · Score: 2

    Let's define what information is then, shall we?

    Well your definitions makes some sense, however looking at the big pictures everything can be considered to be information. I can even look at your as information, the product of your DNA and life experiences, all I would need to do to duplicate you is gain a copy of all that information. However whether it is moral and good thing to do, to duplicate you is another thing altogether.

  17. Re:Doom 3 in the woods? on Mobile Gaming At Desktop Speeds · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'd play DOOM in the woods alone in the summer at night

    Nice idea, doesn't work to well in practice, just think of the clouds of insects that will gather between your face and the glowing screen...

  18. Re:Do antivirus companies write viruses? No. on Win32/Linux Cross-Platform Virus · · Score: 2

    Or the 4-line perl script that does DeCSS for that matter

    Well you could make a word processors in a 1 line C program. Of course it might not be the most readable code once you've stripped out all the newlines.

  19. Re:True.. (Or NOT) on Subversive Gifts for New College Students? · · Score: 2

    So there are perfectly reasonable circumstances that a private citizen might own lock-picks. :P

    Thats right officer I dont own any keys at all, I just carry around a set of lockpicks so that I never need to fumble for the correct key in the dark.

  20. Re:Better gameplay, please on E3: SimCity 4 Preview Goodness · · Score: 2

    Since simcity's designers realised roads would eventually be outmoded, they provided for Acropolises in the far flung future.

    I think you mean arcologies, acropolises were built by the ancient Greeks as refuges or bastions in the middle of their cities in case on enemy invasion.

  21. Re:Ender's Game... ugh on Slashback: Swiftness, Ender's, Streams · · Score: 2

    would involve a species with uncontrollable breeding pressures and limited resources...

    Like humans?

  22. Re:Roger Ebert on Quickies from a Galaxy Far Far Away · · Score: 2

    uhhh.....original Quake was not 3d accelerated untill months after it came out. Even Quake 2 could be played in software. There was not any "forcing" going on.

    Actually maybe he means Quake III Arena which would not run at all unless you have a 3d accelerated video card of some kind. There was a hack to force it to play with software opengl drivers, but it was so slow as to be worthless. However it should be noted that this was released well after there was already quite a degree of market penetration of 3d cards in general...

  23. Re:The best part... on Quickies from a Galaxy Far Far Away · · Score: 2

    There is not a romantic word they exchange that has not long since been reduced to cliche.

    Comeon, this is a long time age in a galaxy far far away, so I think its not cliche there yet..

  24. Re:Well if Ebert is wrong on Quickies from a Galaxy Far Far Away · · Score: 2

    Whats our clearance Clarence?

  25. Re:Thursday after May 11th? on Slashback: Towel, Linkage, Drafthouse · · Score: 2

    Yeah, I realized a short time ago that Towel Day was coming up and came up with the same page. I'm surprised noone has claimed towelday.org or the like and put up 'official' information there. Especially as the above (incorrect?) page is the first google hit for 'towel day'