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  1. Re:is $2600 cheaper than.... on House-Sitting Robot Hits Store Shelves in Japan · · Score: 1

    Dude, who cares: this is a much cooler toy. Because it's all just toys anyway.

  2. Re: Wow, you seem to know a lot about this on The Decline of Science and Technology in America · · Score: 1

    Your spelling of 'time' as 'tyme' seems rather oldfashioned. Especially with 'sometyme'. Is it a dialect, or what?

  3. Re:$30,000 versus $1,000 on Vietnam Medic Makes Homemade Endoscope · · Score: 1

    Congratulations! Your Health-o-Meter shows green.

  4. Re:$30,000 versus $1,000 on Vietnam Medic Makes Homemade Endoscope · · Score: 1
    (Hint: It rhymes with funny, but isn't.)

    I give up. What is it, bun-ny?

    Stock compa-ny? Felo-ny?

    ... Hegemony? Phony?

    .. zany?

    Oh, I get it .. Money!. Damn that took me a few minutes. You americans assume that that's what everyone immediately thinks of.

  5. Re:This is what patent law is for on Vietnam Medic Makes Homemade Endoscope · · Score: 1

    Working too much will only create new problems though. Is living in a society where life=work giving you a good life?

  6. Re:Or... on Star Wreck 6 Finally Complete · · Score: 1

    No it isn't. Let that hair out if its jail! Make it flow in the wind in a way that would put a medieval fantasy knight standing on a high windy cliff put to shame.

  7. Re:Seems to be working real well..? Or not. on Super Door of the Future · · Score: 1

    That's still pretty fast actually. What was it before? 1 m/s, or even more? My god what a chopper 2 m/s would be.

  8. Re:Free download will be available.. on Star Wreck 6 Finally Complete · · Score: 1
    2005-10-01

    ISO 8601, no less.

  9. Re:Salting *and iterating* on New Online MD5 Hash Database · · Score: 1
    That's the problem. How do I know that the hash for my 15-word diceware password doesn't collide with the hash for 'qwerty'? I can compute it myself of course, but only if I know which hash function, which I generally don't know on systems I don't manage myself.

    In other words, should a good password always be checked against all known hash dictionaries, before it can really be considered a secure password? I can imagine it being a pretty good idea for a system that wants to avoid dictionary attacks, doing a routine hash-checkup for every user that changes his password.

  10. Re:Obg. on TI Calculators Play Movies · · Score: 1
    Hmm and what would it be able to run?

    Emacs!

    No wait...

    vi!

    ..uhm, no...

    .. ed? Still won't leave much room for typing those reports though... Oh, I got it!

    true!

    9704 bytes of pure sunshine. Damn, I love running that command all day!

  11. OMG! on Google Releases GDS 2.0 · · Score: 1
    A sidebar!

    The epitome of revolution!

  12. Re:Interestingly... on New Online MD5 Hash Database · · Score: 1
    And don't do anything with these unsalted hashes from a database dump courtesy of Google cache.

    Ok, so I tried some, but it didn't work. Too old dump I guess.

  13. Re:MD5 is nice but... on New Online MD5 Hash Database · · Score: 1

    Actually, the smartest would be to require diceware passwords with a few simple permutations.

  14. Re:Salting *and iterating* on New Online MD5 Hash Database · · Score: 1
    One of my friends made a file compression algorithm that compressed any file to zero bytes. It simply deleted the file, thus freeing up the disk space.

    When you wanted to uncompress, it undeleted the file. Lossless compression, mostly!

  15. Re:Salting *and iterating* on New Online MD5 Hash Database · · Score: 1

    What kind of hash function would be collision free, if the input is arbitrary in length?

  16. Re:With every study they do on Violence in Video Games Debate Continues to Rage · · Score: 1

    On the other hand, it's not easy to be a parent, let alone a good parent. I don't think violent games are making it much easier...

  17. Re:How about a study on the parents? on Violence in Video Games Debate Continues to Rage · · Score: 1

    What was the epiphany about?

  18. Re:Seems to be working real well..? Or not. on Super Door of the Future · · Score: 1

    That's interesting, how did the accident happen? All revolving doors I've encountered stop automatically when is detected in a bad place.

  19. Re:Uh-not. on Super Door of the Future · · Score: 1
    Oh, please.. :)

    Here's a translation by something that isn't a toy.

    For sensible translations from japanese:

    1. Go here
    2. Select the second radio button (ja->en)
    3. Click big button
    4. ???
    5. Best autotranslation on the web.
    If you compare Google/Babelfish with Excite, you'll notice that the former are indeed toys in comparison. If you find the japanese language of excite intimidating, use my handy panel/sidebar for ja-en translation.
  20. Re:Uh-huh. on Super Door of the Future · · Score: 1
    There is an interlock that prevents both doors from opening at the same time.
    I can sense a horror movie happening...
  21. Re:Uh-huh. on Super Door of the Future · · Score: 1

    How many well trained feet can you find? Feet that have actually gotten a lot of braking training?

  22. Re:Uh-huh. on Super Door of the Future · · Score: 2, Informative
    What the hell are you talking about? The brake distance becomes shorter because locking the wheels is inefficient braking. The ABS prevents the wheels from locking, and thus increases braking power, except on soft roads, or if you have an inefficient system. If you need efficient braking on a soft road (like gravel), you are driving too fast in the first place. And if you want to lock your wheels on a snow/ice road, you are suicidal.

    Do you think an average person, or indeed, a more-than-average person can outperform ABS brakes in terms of lives saved? Do you know how unlikely that is? Remember that maximum safety is a probability, learn to live with it. That's what I learned in driving school: how braking works with it on, with it off, and why it won't save the driver from his own stupidity.

  23. Re:The Purpose of the interface? on New Display Interface Standard in the Works · · Score: 1
    No, it's much better than that: cheap access for broads to premium content (slashdotters)!

    Unfortunately it won't solve the problem...

  24. Re:Second Verse, Same As The First on New Display Interface Standard in the Works · · Score: 1
    Moderated -1 again, Failed To Use HTML Entities:
    &gt;_&lt; gives >_<

    Sorry. :)

  25. Re:Short list on Graphics Card Comparison Guide · · Score: 1

    Well, perhaps the graphics drivers aren't bloated, but my friend has an nForce driver that installs Apache, to provide remote configuration, or something. No, not a small, optimized mini-web server: an entire Apache.