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  1. what i find most interesting about this.. on WHO Report Links Weed Killer Ingredient To Cancer Risk · · Score: 1

    is that Monsanto and the GOVT have been working together for decades. I'm suprised that the WHO is going after them, because that would imply a breakdown in their agreements. if not, it's extremely bizarre. logically speaking,

  2. what's strange about this: RE nano particles on Controlling Brain Activity With Magnetic Nanoparticles · · Score: 2

    what's strange about this is anti psychotic injections: invega and risperidone consta, already contain nano particles as their method of delivering the medication to the brain/blood stream. believe me, I would have never done this to myself but otherwise I'd be without a place to live right now.

  3. Re:A little late on Moore's Law For Razor Blades? · · Score: 1

    to poster, or to me? article was posted on here today, :p I've been reading slashdot for years.

  4. when old becomes new again.. on Moore's Law For Razor Blades? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I've been shaving with a 1930's Gillette safety razor for the last 5 years now. I have spent 10 dollars on blades during this time, and have used about 40% of them. They stay sharp a very long time. I've recently in the past month, switched to a straight razor, and find it wonderful. Oddly enough, when you leave the bathroom after your morning shave, you have a feeling of adrenaline and satisfaction, of which I can only imagine comes from the realization that you haven't just taken your head clean off.

  5. well.. on Friendster Patents Social Networking · · Score: 1

    sorry, I'm not buying it. Tribe has been around for 8 years. I'm really irritated by the recent impending media blitz on social networking sites. We _will_ not pay attention to ads, I really don't see why large corporations see the need to control these jewels of the internet.

  6. Re:I removed my scratches w/Brasso on iPod Nano Scratches Result In Suit · · Score: 1

    honestly i think it's the lexan type surface over the top of it. that seems to be different. the other ipods dont have a non beveled edge either.

  7. Re:It depends on In Which OS Do You Feel More Productive? · · Score: 1

    wmaker does that too, and i've found it to be far more useful insofar as productivity goes, (minimising and hiding windows, window shading, etc.. if os x had window shading capabilities, much like previous mac operating systems did, i'd say i wouldnt have much use for expose, and my productivity in the mac world would go up. i always feel more productive with the windows xp box in photoshop, although i'm just getting used to the mac version lately. the mac tempts me to play too much, the eyecandy imho can be distracting, but the simplicty of the whole deal is deceptive at times, and nice. i feel most productive in the os configuration world with my debian box, where it's very easy to do many things very quickly that the other os's essentially suck at, insofar as handling extremely large amounts of tabs in firefox, moving things around in the CLI , etc..

  8. ...slashdotted. on Robots to Rid Us of Cockroaches? · · Score: 1

    mirrors anyone on the pictures site?

  9. interesting. on Hardware That Recognizes You · · Score: 1

    has anybody gotten a chance to try acco's biometric offering? i saw it at comp usa for $50 US the other day... i was quite tempted to pick it up.

  10. well....it's all inconsequential at this point... on Huge Console Auction Debuts · · Score: 1

    anyway...the auction has been pulled with an ebay error message i've never seen before, and i'm guessing somebody in china is in handcuffs..

  11. what about TOMPG? on 2nd Multi-Format 128kbps Public Listening Test · · Score: 1

    My personal favorite encoder is Xing's TOMPG, v3.0 circa 1998... it's fast as blazes, does a pretty damn good job, supports bitrates up to 160kbps... although nobody seems to remember that it even exists.

  12. Re:i used to use ftp all the time..until... on PDTP - The Best of Both FTP and BitTorrent? · · Score: 1

    the box is debian box actually completely locks up.. mouse is no longer responsive, keyboard isn't either, numlock is frozen in the on position.. while meanwhile the windows box realizes eventually that it's not pushing any data over, and the transfer speed ends up at zero. and at that point, i have to reboot the deb box. same thing happens with samba. i checked my kernel config, there's no ipv6 support enabled.

  13. excuse me but .. on Homeless to be Implanted with Subdermal RFID Tags · · Score: 1

    what the heck....?

    just because someone is down trodden, it doesn't mean they're to be taken advantage of.

    i haven't read the article yet, but I know that we tag animals, not RRID, but still we tag and keep tabs on them, and this doesn't seem much different. Homeless PEOPLE are still people, not animals.

    this is a really weird idea, at the very nicest thing I could say about it...

  14. i used to use ftp all the time..until... on PDTP - The Best of Both FTP and BitTorrent? · · Score: 1

    i got samba correctly configured, a while ago.
    recently i've reformatted my box and freshly installed debian, and for some reason, when i attempt to transfer files via ftp, or samba, the system locks up instantly. no indication of why in /var/log/ either. what a bummer.
    kernel 2.6.4. ipv6 is not enabled.

  15. Re:Forevermore hits it right on the head on Comcast Targets Internet "Abusers" · · Score: 1

    correct. without reading the article, pulling it out of the back of my mind, i believe i read in TOS a few years ago that comcast's monthly bandwidth limit is something around 1gb/downstream per month...I've gone over that a few times while I had a broadband account, as I'm sure a lot of others have, but I was never contacted or anything. I used to run an apache server off the same connection... =) And yes, it was slow.

  16. interesting.... on Hektor: the Graffiti Robot · · Score: 1

    now what's the point? it looks kind of flimsy to me..

  17. Re:U.S. GOVT involvement with SARS? on Speculation on SARS Origins · · Score: 1

    you've been inside fort detrick's germ lab?

  18. Re:Who cares? on X10 Xmas Light Control with Pan and Zoom · · Score: 1

    you gotta admit though, it's geeky, and it's cool. now what i think would be even better, is if you could interact on some sort of basis with the dog.

  19. Re:Why is Mitnick so famous? on Mitnick Calls for Hacker Stories · · Score: 5, Interesting

    because he was held without a trial for so long.... and eh, in the mid 90's people in the phreaking/hacking community decided to rally behind him. that part, i don't remember the specifics of. also, he was one of the first publicly discussed (newsmedia, websites) individuals banned from computer or electronic device use. funny sidenote, in highschool several years back, i was testing innoculate's latest patches for the school (without telling the network admin bumblehead), and i ended up being banned from touching all electronics at school nearly indefinitely! they wouldn't even let me troubleshoot a printer or a vcr... fools. it was funny though, and i was the first such case in the school district. go figure.

  20. U.S. GOVT involvement with SARS? on Speculation on SARS Origins · · Score: 2, Funny

    i read somewhere that the us govt created SARS in the lab, and sold it to china to make billions. unfortunately i can't find the article any longer.. conspiracy theory or truth?

  21. Re:Non-GPS-enabled phones... on Your Cell Phone Is Tracking You · · Score: 1

    in that case, of drm type things, evil .. we can assume or at least hope that some sort of phone provider is started via the eff or something of that nature. maybe we can put the phones software under the gpl (running linux with an arm processor maybe), thusly somehow disguising it as not so much of a phone/more of a pda type thing, which may not be subject to that injunction as it's not primarily a phone?

  22. Re:Non-GPS-enabled phones... on Your Cell Phone Is Tracking You · · Score: 1

    true cellular triangulation is quite commonly used.. do you have any idea what happened to telcodata.us ? =\

  23. Re:Why do people put up with it? on D-Squared Can Resume Pop-Ups, For Now · · Score: 1

    hopefully more people will start running linux as it gets easier for the "general public" to control and configure...the new debian installer for example.. i'm going to start burning copies of that installer and leaving them in public places.. *smirk*

  24. Re:Why do people put up with it? on D-Squared Can Resume Pop-Ups, For Now · · Score: 1

    ummm...what programs do you run via xp? solitare? hah.. i've observed around a ninety day uptime with my xp box, but that's the most... far longer with the debian box.

  25. Re:I have an idea on D-Squared Can Resume Pop-Ups, For Now · · Score: 1

    their systems run on linux.