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  1. Dvorak? on Flexiglow Illuminated Keyboard · · Score: 1

    5 out of 5?! But there isn't a dvorak version availible!

  2. Re:Here's how you fund a Mars mission on Going Back to the Moon and Mars · · Score: 3, Funny

    20 women vie for the love of on male pilot. As he searches for "The One". Systematically voting them off, he narrows down the competition. The twist: he isn't a pilot at all!

  3. Re:not quite accurate summary on Stretch Announces Chip That Rewires Itself On The Fly · · Score: 1

    Does mean that on windows boxen, a new BLUSCRN command will be added (evolved in)to the instruction set?

  4. Re:Notice the shock resistance on 100GB, 9.5mm thick HD from Toshiba · · Score: 1

    Yes, x(t)=xi+vi*t+1/2*a*t*t and v(t)=vi+a*t

    for v(8.33m/s)=0+g*t, t=.846s
    then
    x(.846s)=-3.51m

    So if the time of the collision was 1ms, the drive could be dropped from a maximum height of 3.51meters.
    ignoring air resistance ;)

  5. Free Open Cookbook on Cooking with the Internet? · · Score: 1

    And why isn't there a larger open cookbook on the net?

    Like this?

  6. Failed Paradigm? on The World's Safest Operating System · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'm going to say this just be cause no one else will. Suppose Linux simply is less secure than Windows. I have been hearing the opposite from the slashdot crowd with no information to back themselves up. They simply state that because it's open source, it must be more secure.

    Then when information proves otherwise, they say things like, I'm going to say this just be cause no one else will. Suppose Linux simply is less secure than windows. I have been hearing the opposite from the slashdot crowd with no information to back themselves up. They simply state that because it's open source, it must be more secure.

    Then when information proves otherwise, they say things like, they may have been the most targeted or Linux is over-represented as a target of hacking because there is so much low hanging fruit out there

    Modding this as Flamebait only proves how Linux-centric Slashdot is.

  7. Google Link on Development Of The TiVo Remote Charted · · Score: 4, Informative

    Google Link here

  8. Re:SUVs have bigger blind spots... on Radar For Safer Driving · · Score: 0

    in the rest of the world cars have small and narrow blind spots
    The rest of the world also has small and narrow cars .

  9. A force to be reckoned with on Google Traffic Takes Down Web Site · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Perhaps this is the begining of the 'Google Effect' ;)

  10. Re:Whitey on the moon on Europe Joins Race To Send Humans To Mars · · Score: 0

    Its nice to think that we can solve all of the Earth's problems first and then travel to space after that. It won't happen though. We will never be able to solve all of Earth's problems. There has never been a point in human history where ALL local, and global problems have been solved. The best approach is a two pronged plan to worldly and nonworldly projects. That way the lack in one does not hinder us from the other.

  11. $299 on What's The Actual Cost of A Virus? · · Score: 0
  12. leet God? on Thyne Oldest Known Tech Manual · · Score: 0

    And God woot
    best damn quote in the whole thing.

  13. browsing around on Orkut Goes Dark, At Least For A Bit · · Score: 0

    In case anyone wants a little more information their help section And no, I'm not a member, I was looking around, got a 404 and managed to find my way there.

  14. Used to on Sweet Dreams Are Made By This · · Score: 1, Interesting

    A few years ago I became interested in lucid dreaming/dream control. I wrote what dreams I could remember in a dream journal every morning and after a few weeks I could control and remember a few dreams a night. A wokeup one morning to realize that I had 5 dreams that night and I could remember each one. It was if I wasn't really sleeping at night, I wasn't really rested.

    Sure dream control is a cool thing, but I enjoy feeling rested in the morning more. ;)

  15. Re:oh... on A Mars Mission's Greatest Challenge: Radiation · · Score: 0

    Not if it containted an irrational number. like c/e or c/pi. Those are unrepresentable by a fraction.

  16. Re:Support musicians! on RIAA Extends Legal Action · · Score: 0

    Stealing a car is stealing. Music piracy is simply copyright infringment. Or an I completely mistaken?

  17. Horray! on Retooling Slashdot with Web Standards · · Score: 0

    I think Its a great idea that slashdot is complying with the w3c standards. Howerver; not all browsers comply with the w3c standards. I'm currently designing a website for an individual. I tried to use the CSS1 tag, background-attachment: fixed; and I quickly foundout that IE does not fully support CSS1. I have validated my html code, and yes, It does make it more compatible with browsers. I worked out a lot of cross browser issues by simply validating the code.

  18. Re:So what? on RIAA Threatens 15-Year-Old · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Well, you see, I'm not sure about that. In order to get their information about who was sharing they used a modified client on a P2P network. This could quite possibly be considered as trespassing. Also, modifying the client, would be a copyright violation (assuming they didn't write it from scratch)... In either case, I believe they should get a call from the lawyers at Sherman Networks...

    IANAL, but arn't there laws concerning the methods used to obtain evidence? I'm sure that evidence can't be obtained in an illegal manner. EG: phonetapping, then using it as evidence to incriminate someone.
    If the RIAA is using tainted evidence, then the whole case is rendered moot.

    I hope that someone with a little more legal knowledge can reply to this, as I'd be happy to know the answer.

    If the evidence is tainted, I'd be happy to take on the RIAA any day. ;-)

  19. Not Dumpster Diving on Creative Recycling: Dumpster Diving · · Score: 0

    To get started, Wallflower founders Mitch Kahn and Gordon Clyne bought 150 old but unused laptops from liquidators and via eBay...

    This is not what I would consider dumpster diving. buying from eBay is buying from eBay, not crawling around on the bottom of a dumpster at 11pm at night. A friend and I actually tried it once. I got a few binders and Volume 1 and 2 of the West's California Judicial Council Forms. It takes a lot of perserverance to get anything worth keeping (electronics).

  20. Not I. on A Monocultural Alternative: TheOpenCD · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Most schools are immersed in a Windows monoculture.
    My highschool was quite the opposite, Most of the computers ran MacOS, with a few running win98/xp, and none running any kind of open/free software.
    It's great that a CD like this was made becasue people need to be given a chioce. However, I hope this doesn't become a war of dogmas (free/ proprietary). As nothing good can come of that.

  21. I can almost.. on NASA Installs Linux Supercomputer · · Score: 2, Funny

    Imagine a beo...oh never mind.

  22. Re:This happened to me. on The Anatomy of Cross Site Scripting · · Score: 1

    But its also possible to use str_replace and striptags in ways that DON'T protect from malformed user input and how are you to know the difference?

    Part of good programming is accounting for all possibilites in a section of code. YES, it is possible to use str_replace and strip_tags in nonprotective ways, BUT they can also be used to protect. It's not what the tool does, it's how it is used.

  23. This happened to me. on The Anatomy of Cross Site Scripting · · Score: 1

    I've been working on a personal website for the last month and a half, and had this happen. Not to any degree of maliciousness, but it did screw with PHP.

    My expirence with XSS was due to my lazy programming. I didn't filter user content before it was displayed. Someone posted guestbook content with malformed PHP commands. Luckly they didn't know PHP that well, and an error was returned.

    As far as PHP goes, functions like str_replace(), and striptags() should be used to parse all user-inputed data before it is displayed. I'm sure other serverside scripting languages have similar functions.

  24. I hope he doesn't bite me! on From Artist To Spam-Hunter · · Score: 1

    .. literally foaming at the mouth," Markley set out to track the spammer down.
    And I'm literally laughing at the rabidness of prolific spamers.

  25. First my fridge.. on TRON Enters Alliance With Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Next MS is going to want to install Palladium in my children. Does that mean i can't reverse engineer them? (DMCA) ;)