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  1. Yes, you are right on OpenBSD Gains "Fuzzy" User Profiling IDS · · Score: 1

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  2. Re:This was unsafe ... on ICANN Troubles At UN Summit On Internet · · Score: 1

    then you can colour me entirely unconvinced

    Granted. The picture is more than evidence.

    Just thought RMS would be able to tell a hub from a switch.

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  3. TI EXPLORER LISP MACHINES ... on Lindows Ordered To Stop Using Lindows Name · · Score: 2, Informative

    ... were pre 1990. E3-Project

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  4. Re:How soon.. on Police and Lawyers Love E-ZPass · · Score: 1

    (or they'd make political hay from mandating a no-evil-uses-with-EZPass policy, but this is Slashdot, so we all just assume a police state is inevitable, right?)

    Here we have a synopsis of it all. Excellent read - and there is not only 1984.

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  5. Re:SYN attacks are not bandwidth hogs on Security Experts Doubt SCO's Claims of DoS · · Score: 1

    who in their right mind merges the public internet server and internal intranet server ???

    Well, I was working in a (small $3m/yr) company (www.ma-res.de) where supergod 'CTO' arranged the intranet-server to also be the web server that was connected to the net without a firewall machine and on top of that he was constantly 'working' as root on that same box which he also claimed as his 'workstation' in order to save on cost.

    Just a real world story.

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  6. This was unsafe ... on ICANN Troubles At UN Summit On Internet · · Score: 1

    That said, it's probably safe to say that no one in the meeting knew a switch from a hub

    Dr Richard STALLMAN, President, Free Software Foundation, rms@gnu.org
    Mr Marco CIURCINA, Speaker, Free Software Foundation marco@hipatia.info
    Mr Juan Carlos GENTILE, Speaker, Free Software Foundation, jucar@hipatia.info
    Mr Loic DACHARY, Artisan Logiciel Libre, APRIL - Association for Promotion and Research in Libre Computing, loic@gnu.org
    Mr Georg GREVE, Representative, Delegation of Germany, greve@gnu.org

    (thanks to s.o. who posted the list with all participants - which is rather frustrating to go through, though)

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  7. Re:Minolta X-700 on Best 35mm SLR Camera for Beginners? · · Score: 1

    As an exception I post that I agree totally. I own one for ~20 years now and I am still reluctant to go digital.

    X700

    The above already mentioned predecessor XD 7/11 is fine as well and has even more options.

    XD 11

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  8. There might be a drawback ... on Software Approvals For Consumer Markets? · · Score: 1
    • criteria for software are much more fuzzy than for perhaps any hardware
    • the powers of the market are more unevenly distributed

    • Both in conjunction might lead to (unfair) exclusion of unbeloved competition.

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  9. FAQ on Australian Researchers Push Near-Broadband IP Over VHF · · Score: 2, Informative

    FAQ...etc.

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  10. Re:broadband ? on Australian Researchers Push Near-Broadband IP Over VHF · · Score: 1

    The definition seems to be an issue, starting with 128k/s; user space seems to accept.

    In the end it is marketing, here (de) they sell 768k/s as broadband.

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  11. Too optimistic a view ... on Sun to Offer Support for OpenOffice.org · · Score: -1, Troll

    if I recall what Szulik said, "Differentiated service skills around Open Source software will be in demand based upon the large transition which will occur over the next 10 years as businesses transition from proprietary to commodity hardware and open source software." [as in the original copy]

    I imagine they (and others) are just preparing to get their share. IBM (of course) has long realized this, others begin to do so.

    Tendency: Let a lot of unpaid unemployed (their low end jobs have been outsourced as we have learned elsewhere) coders (developers ?) do the work and gain on services.

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  12. In Kassel already in 1977 ... on Laser System to be Tested in Boulder, CO · · Score: 2, Interesting

    namely at the Documenta 6, developped by Baumann and to be seen here .

    Another occasion when art was faster than science ? Well, not really.

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  13. Frame rate needs to be 16 ... on Are Videophones Ready for Prime Time? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ... to give the impression of continuous movement due to the idiosyncrasies of human perception.

    Thats why the old fashioned 8mm movies were (usually) shot at that speed.

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  14. Re:Sigh. When will we learn - to spell on Finding the Perfect Family Game · · Score: 1

    ... its Lorentz. Sigh.

    Besides, Human Factors (whatever that might be) can of course be reduced in any way one likes. Even in real life. Politicians usually give good examples of scaled down models.

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  15. GNUPLOT & ... on Airspeed Velocity Of An Unladen Swallow · · Score: 1

    ... a member of the TeX family (PiCTeX), maybe.

    At least this combo should do the job.

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  16. Swallows ore not on a par ... on Airspeed Velocity Of An Unladen Swallow · · Score: 1
  17. =fear to be treated the same on SCO's Lawyers Analyzed · · Score: 1

    sic!

  18. 1214 downloads as of now ... on Cougaar 10.4.6 Released With Source · · Score: 1

    ... just some empiricism.

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  19. 593 downloads as of now ... on Cougaar 10.4.6 Released With Source · · Score: 1

    ... does not seem to be popular (presumably due to complexity).

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  20. So Sad ... on Novell Announces Agreement to Acquire SUSE · · Score: -1, Troll

    ... given the high market-penetration that SUSE has over here - I suspect that Novell will get rid of the specifics of SUSE. My personal projection is that Novell will manage to kill it.

    Another brick taken. Germany slowly moving to the level of --? Portugal ?

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  21. Nice try ... on Swedish ISP Blocks Computers That Send Spam · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ... but: ... Telia will block are primarily those that have been infected with "trojans" which are being used, without the customer's knowledge ...

    would read better like ... Telia is helping customers who are infected to get rid and be more aware of ...

    Telia will learn that.

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  22. Re:Slashdot in violation? on Microsoft Patents Your Local Weather Report · · Score: 1

    ... but there were definitely other web systems that could deliver content based on user preferences seven years ago.
    ... The Age of the Customized Web Site
    Reprinted from Web Developer(R) magazine, Vol. 1 No.1 Winter 1996
    Sic{k}.
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  23. Lear Siegler ADM 3A on What's the Oldest Hardware You are Still Using? · · Score: 1

    Still works as a terminal - but I rarely use the veteran.
    MINT !
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  24. The way to go ... on China's Space Launch Near; Malaysia Wants One, Too · · Score: 1

    ... for all /. heroes :) CC.

  25. Observations without explanation ... on Socionomics: the Science of History and Social Prediction · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ... do not form science.
    A rough quick guess is that systems with a large number of interacting particles with only a limited set of behavioural degrees of freedom (or states, if this pleases more) must exhibit the type of pattern as described.
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