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  1. Re:Well on Can eBay Make You Rich? · · Score: 1

    What? You mean a holga camera isn't a lens for a large format camera?

  2. Re:Useful for post-war clean up too! on Networked Landmines Work Together · · Score: 1

    Except that explosives get more and more touchy the longer they sit out there. They need to detonate when the war is over.

  3. Re:Give me a break... on Nerds Switching from Apple to Ubuntu? · · Score: 1

    I think it says more about his ability as a sysadmin. He replaced some kernel module dealing with his RAID array, without knowing it would work first, or what to do if things went wrong? Bad move.

    This says nothing about the stability of Gentoo, merely the skill of one person. That person apparently decided to move to a system that holds your hand more.

  4. Re:Cause for concern.. on Open Source Point-of-Sale - What's Out There? · · Score: 1

    Most stores with older tills have a seperate Interac Machine. The banks don't care if the till is a computer or a cash register if you use that kind.

  5. erm... on Canadian ISP Shoulder Surfing · · Score: 1

    You seem to have confused "Ontario" with "Canada".

  6. Re:I wonder if... on Songbird Source Released · · Score: 1

    Or maybe their business model depends on something other than selling licenses to use software, Like promoting live performances, or they are doing this to promote consulting for custom XUL apps.

  7. Re:Oh I wouldn't worry on Prototype System Blocks Digital Cameras · · Score: 1

    On reading the description, I immediately thought of a very easy way to defeat it: use a lens hood. Unless you're taking a picture of the jammer, it should work just fine.

    Or use a film camera. The jammer will show up as an over-exposed spot, but everything around it will be fine.

    This sounds like a solution that would block camera phones, but not anyone who wants any actual useable detail from their pictures.

  8. Re:So... on MPAA training Dogs to Sniff Out DVDs · · Score: 1

    No, only to make the copy yourself.

  9. Re:Nice Try on UK Hacker loses Extradition Case · · Score: 1

    It also raises the issue of where the offence took place. Did the offence take place where the person acted, or where the effect of their actions was felt?

    In the air-India bombing case, the accused were tried in Canada as that's where the bombs were placed on the flights, not Japan, where a baggage handler was killed, or India, where the company that owned the plane that was destroyed over international waters was headquartered.

    Here I'm not meaning to compare killing 300 people with a computer security breach, just that the action and the effect were in different countries.

  10. Game Ballance. on Shadowrun Game to Rewrite the SR Universe · · Score: 1

    If they stay completely canon, the long-time shadowrunners will know exactly what's going on at all times, but the new people will be going "huh?" the whole way through.

    Ever played Neverwinter Nights? (spoiler warning!) the first time I heard Desther talk I knew he was chaotic evil and involved in the conspiracy. Too much D&D backknowlege. Similar hints throughout the game took away the challenge for the observant.

  11. "Mandate of Heaven" on China Employs Campus Internet Overseers · · Score: 2, Informative

    According to chinese culture going all the way back to the Shang dynasty, the mere fact that they are in power signifies that they are legitimate. When they lose the Mandate of Heaven, they will be removed from power, and the removal will be a sign that they have lost the Mandate of Heaven. Whoever comes to power will clearly weild the Mandate of Heaven, and the people will rally around the new government.

  12. Canada Too. on Self-Serve Car Rental · · Score: 1

    Here the company is a consumers' co-operative too, so you get low rates and get any profits back as rebates.

  13. How Piracy Hurts at the Box Office on New Piracy Loss Estimate · · Score: 1

    Hollywood Studios make a HUGE movie, say like Gigli.
    Hollywood TV Studios hype hype hype said big movie on shows like ET, Access Hollywood, or Live with regis and kelly.
    Someone pirates a screener of Gigli and posts a torrent.
    Gigli opens in theatres.
    A few people really into movies either download the torrent or see it opening day.
    Those people who are really into movies are also the people that others go to to find out if new movies are any good.
    Noone goes to the theatre by the second day.

    Clearly the losses were because of the people who downloaded the torrent, not because the movies are pap.

  14. Re:That's not all on Using Laptops to Steal Cars · · Score: 1

    Is it really stealing if they put the electrons back when they're done with them?

  15. Re:All good programmers... on Multi-threaded Programming Makes You Crazy? · · Score: 2, Funny

    No proberen and no verhogen make software something something

    Go crazy?

    Don't mind if I do!!!

  16. Re:Actually pretty smart.. on ABC Launches Full Episode Streaming · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Put up a torrent of the shows in HD, and I'd wager most people wouldn't bother cutting out the commercials.

  17. Re:US only on ABC Launches Full Episode Streaming · · Score: 4, Informative

    I'm sure you can find a torrent link to get them in HD without the commercials.

  18. Re:Selectable Stylesheets on Slashdot CSS Redesign Contest · · Score: 1

    You're not allowed to significantly change the HTML, so most of those are out.

  19. a 105 IQ? on EOE Concerns w/ Electronic-only Job Application? · · Score: 1

    OMFG! Please back this up! That is not significantly off the normal range.

  20. Re:Discrimination / lower education level on EOE Concerns w/ Electronic-only Job Application? · · Score: 1

    What about positions like shelf stocking? How much education does that need?

    I'd probably find it easier to fill out the online form though... An injury caused me to have reduced fine motor control, so I'd have real difficulty handwriting in tiny boxes.

  21. Re:MMO Material on Palladium Books Going Out of Business · · Score: 1

    We just played RIFTS or Shadowrun settings in other game systems, like GURPS or that one based on 1d6 (I forgot the name of it).

    Sure, you can make a 150pt uber-juicer orc, but he'll have one eye, alcoholism, and the shakes. And would still be taken out by a lucky kid with a sling.

    But the most fun was playing the Aeon Flux setting.... surveilance cameras made out of telepathic rat-brains, etc.

  22. Re:MMO Material on Palladium Books Going Out of Business · · Score: 1

    And you'd still have a game where an extremely powerful mage will be mashed with no contest by the first moderate fighter who happens by. Palladium game system sucks because it's severely unbalanced, not just because of game mechanics.

  23. Re:Its pronounced nukular. on Environmentalists Coming Around to Nuclear Power? · · Score: 1

    Unless you count highly toxic (and slightly radioactive) mine tailings and enrichment plant by-products. And what to do with old reactor parts that have been exposed to neutron flux for 30 years.

  24. Or even better... on Matrox TripleHead Triples Your Viewing Pleasure · · Score: 2, Funny

    3 times the frozen bubbles!!!1!



    w00t!

  25. Re:Yes on Microsoft Tool To Help Users Avoid Typo Domains · · Score: 1

    That's what I meant.