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  1. Flash on New Orbitz Terms Prohibit Inbound Deep Linking · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Why dont they just make it a Macromedia Flash based website. No legal issues required, no linking is possible, just a site that blows.

  2. Re:The keyboard lock.. on Most Common Ways to Kill a PC · · Score: 1
    Just to add further comment.

    I never did it. However i did see it happen multiple times. One clueless student even demonstrated it to the Sys admin who could not work out why so many machines were dying. I dont know whether or not he informed the manufacturer, because that probably would have voided all the warrantee claims.

    And it was a private school. Typical private school mentality from the more deviant amongst us.

  3. The keyboard lock.. on Most Common Ways to Kill a PC · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Back in Highschool the 386 and 486 pcs had the old standard keyboard lock. By rubbing your shoes on the carpet, lifting them up and holding your finger milimeters away from the metal keyboard lock a static discharge would then hit the lock. Monitor would go black and an instant fried motherboard was the result. The school just kept replacing them under warranty claims. And these were dropping about the rate of one or two a week.

  4. Re:Not true.. on Mad Penguin Launches Slackware Handbook Project · · Score: 1
    Also, something cant be 'very unique'. It is either unique or it is not. There are no levels of unique-ness. You cant say that something is 'a little unique' or that an object is 'more unique than something else'. But then the grammer of slashdot and its editors is uniqie.

  5. Re:Boo hoo! on WiFi Hotspots to Cost Wireless Carriers $12B · · Score: 2, Informative
    No, you look at how much traffic is now going through the cheaper or free wireless network, and then work out how much it would cost if it was going through your expensive and overpriced wireless carrier. That is how much money you are losing.

    Obviously completely incorrect because people will use it A LOT at the lower price, and almost NOT AT ALL at the higher price. Smells like RIAA and MPAA maths to me.

  6. Re:Ping Times on US Air Force Building Space Router · · Score: 1
    I could actually respect a spammer that had the "guts" to route their spam through a server owned by a group that could unload a platoon of M1A2s on his front lawn and permanently crush everything in sight in about 2 seconds.

    Back in the earlier days of the world wide web, If you wanted to send a friend a million or so emails to jam up his 14.4bbs connection, you simply used a US Military Mail Server as they almost all allowed mail relaying.

    I have no doubt that even now, spam is being sent from Spyware-Owned Windows Boxes under the control of the US Military...

  7. Re:What was their first reaction? on Opportunity Spots Curious Object On Mars · · Score: 1
    Exactly. The scientific value is fairly small. However, the engineering value is huge.

  8. Bluetooth!! on The Wi-Fi Cameras are Coming · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Wifi is nice, but I just want bluetooth on my Camera, that way in the field, I could email photos via my bluetooth phone.

    Very useful for those working in the field needing to get photos back to the office.

  9. Re:Visual Programming Language on How Do You Use UML? · · Score: 1
    These have been around for quite some time... And generally they suck. Parity Software's (Now part of Intel) VOS is an example, and personally, I'd much rather just code.

  10. Re:Head line is way to misleading on Net Worm Uses Google to Spread · · Score: 3, Informative
    A board I assist to admin was done and it Runs Invision Power Board on PHP. The worm kept knocking it over, originally it started as version 1.2 but eventually changed to version 1.3.

    That indicates to me that someone may have been doing some active development on it...

  11. Re:They better be right! on New Vulnerability Affects All Browsers · · Score: 1
    Is it still a vulnerability if we have slashdotted it?

  12. Re:Difference? on Windows 2000 SP5 Replaced With Update Rollup · · Score: 1
    But that is not always true. I found out the hard way that Service Pack 6a for windows NT misses out some crutial updates for HAL to allow multi monitors that came out in service pack 3.
    Install SP3, then SP6a, multi monitor will work.
    Install only sp6a, multi monitor will not work.
    Bad luck in my case, I couldnt un-install 6a, but I couldnt install sp3. *Reformat* time.

  13. Re:Because we're living, in a wiki world... on Are we Headed for a Wiki World? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Your moderated as funny. But this was my exact first serious thought as well.

  14. The Problem with this: LACK OF FEEL on Design Your Own Audio Controller · · Score: 3, Informative
    With this device, you cant FEEL the buttons, so you have to look at it as you adjust it.

    Example: My tv remote. I'm watching tv, I pick up the remote, and I can adjust channel, volume, power etc with out looking at the remote. With a device like this, you cant do that, as there is no tactile feel, you cant just feel where the volume button is and press it, you have to visually find it first. There is a programmable LCD remote available that has floundered on the market for exactly this reason.

    This also applies to the main application for this device, audio mixing (as well as stage lighting and visual applications.) Try cueing audio to some on stage effect while having to look at this device instead of looking onstage...

    Its a cool device and I'd love it at home, but the lack of tactile feel will make it useless in many applications.

  15. Re:Does SATA work? on Linux 2.6.9 Released · · Score: 1
    We've been thrashing it out on a test box. Only had one problem and I'm not sure whether or not is SATA related.. The mount magically appeared full. I couldnt anything that was taking up all the space. A reboot and its all magically back to normal. And were talking about 35gb suddenly going missing...

    Apart from that, everything on the SATA drive has been fine.

  16. Re:Source code on Senate Wants Database Dragnet · · Score: 1

    There should be a few outer joins there.... SELECT ss.lastname,ss.firstname,* FROM SocialSecurity SS RIGHT OUTER JOIN FBIFiles FF ON SS.C....... Most terrorists probably wont have SocialSecurity Numbers.

  17. Re:Uneven on Review of Team America World Police · · Score: 1
    I just thought the first half of the movie was funnier than the second half. There were some good moments here and there later in the movie, but the first half had the whole audience laughing hysterically at least once a minute.

    I also found this with South Park the Movie.

  18. Re:Superceded on Navy ELF to Be Scrapped · · Score: 1

    Yes the they have had their fair share of construction problems and the media loves to bash them. However they have proven themselves to be more than capable.

  19. Re:Big numbers on DirecTV Plans 1500 HiDef Channels by End of 2007 · · Score: 1
    This is telecommunications, not computing. In telecommunications, 34Gbit/s is 34x10^9 bits/s.

    Communications has always used 1000 bits per kilobit, unlike the 1024bits per kilobit (traditionally) used in computing.

  20. Re:Ah, more free shit. on Sybase Releases Free Enterprise Database on Linux · · Score: 4, Insightful
    MSDE is only free if you have already bought one of their Operating Systems first...

  21. Re:Wow! Keywords! on New Google Toolbar Brings Browse By Name · · Score: 1
    What, slashdot isnt your homepage?

  22. Re:[Off Topic] Reminds me... on Can DVDs Kill DVD Players? · · Score: 1
    I had a USB2 Card that fried Video cards in a certain motherboard. Add usb card, boot, computer wouldnt boot. Remove usb2 card, motherboard complains of no video card. Replace video card and computer works until some idiot tries to add the usb2 card again!

  23. Re:Australia missing its mark on China Goes Nuclear · · Score: 1
    1. It is Maralinga.
    2. The Tests were done by the British, not the Yanks.

    Your plan obviously forgets the fact the the Electricity generated at Maralinga would need to be transported 1500 or so Km's to get to anywhere that its needed.

  24. Re:Australia missing its mark on China Goes Nuclear · · Score: 1
    Whyalla right? Adelaide will love it when one of the ships importing waste starts to leak waste into St Vincents gulf.

  25. Re:yes, it does invalidate its use on Implications Of The Recent Hash Function Attacks · · Score: 1
    It's more likely that you'd end up changing some word like 'benefactor' to '2knefactor'.

    So that explains why people have been trying to sell me v1AgrA, xeaneix, and derugs all lieglly via my email then...