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  1. Re:Fan = not silent. on How Neuros Built Their Nearly Silent HTPC · · Score: 1

    Watching a solid block of aluminium. Now that's time well spent. Kids today and their TV sets.

  2. Re:outsourcing and unemployment on Indian CEO Says Most US Tech Grads "Unemployable" · · Score: 1

    On the topic of strange Slashdot behaviour. Can anyone explain why Slashdot comments often look like this? This is with Firefox 3.0.11 in Ubuntu.

  3. Re:But what about the quality? on Researchers Build a Browser-Based Darknet · · Score: 2, Interesting

    That certainly is a problem. A brute force solution to that problem is to make sure the network has enough "non-government" nodes to drive down the probability figures in such analyses. I guess if the probability of identifying an end node is low enough, that also makes it less likely for the government to seek warrants. (Unless they are just trying to bring down all nodes of the network.)
    The I2P website has a list of different threat models and links to related papers. I guess this one falls under partitioning attacks.

  4. Re:But what about the quality? on Researchers Build a Browser-Based Darknet · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure I'm qualified but, in loose wording. The entity running N nodes should not know how long the bounce length is. In that way it cannot determine if the nodes it is talking to are endpoints or just routing nodes. Also, since the data is encrypted, the entity cannot read it in transit.

  5. Re:Cool, but where are the kernel sources? on Palm's webOS Root Image Leaks Out · · Score: 1

    The real question is whether it runs X11 like the Nokia 770/N800/N810, allowing it to run unmodified desktop apps.

    From a glance, it looks like drawing is done via directfb.

  6. Re:So, where did they steal this idea from? on Microsoft Releases New Concurrent Programming Language · · Score: 1

    There was a question about this on the Axum forum, where Niklas elaborates some about the inspirations for Axum.

  7. Non-Van on DIY 1980s "Non-Von" Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    It had been a wonderful evening and what I needed now, to give it the perfect ending, was a little of the Non-Van.

  8. Re:First post on Global Warming Irreversible, NOAA Scientist Finds · · Score: 1

    Sounds interesting, can you link to a good source with more info?

  9. Re:Wow! Top 10?? on Pirate Bay Gets a 4,000-Page Complaint · · Score: 2, Informative

    They have more members than the green party , which HAS seats in parliament.


    Looking at the pirate partys web page, they clearly state (on the first page) that they have roughly half the number of members as the green party. Furthermore, the green party got 5.24% last election being the coalition party with least votes, while the pirate party got 0.63%, behind SD and FI which got 2.93% and 0.68% respectively. So saying that the pirate party was close to a seat in parliment is not really true at all.
  10. Re:Well on The Pirate Bay Files Suit Against Big Media · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it's a real shame you can't make money of your hobby.

  11. Been there, done that on Grow Your Own Heart Valves · · Score: 3, Funny

    I grew my own heart valve once.

  12. Re:lasting effects? on Scientists Create Artificial Blood · · Score: 1

    Dan Brown, is that you?

  13. Re:Commodore C64 on PC World's 50 Best Tech Products of All Time · · Score: 4, Informative

    Actually, they didn't forget it, they bundled it with TRS-80 under the Apple II entry, "competitors like the Commodore 64 and TRS-80 Color Computer were mere toys by comparison". And that's pretty much where I stopped reading...

  14. Re:Two ways already used in Europe on Secure Ways to Determine 'Something You Have'? · · Score: 1

    Some Swedish banks use OTP devices like these http://www.actividentity.com/products/tokens_otp__ home.php (I've got one like the third one down on that page). The device I use is accessed with a PIN code and then used to sign a challenge when logging in, it's also used to sign new target accounts when transferring money and to sign the amount of money at each transfer.
    You have to pick up the device in person and provide ID and they also make you set the PIN when you check it out. All the signing might be a bit of a hassle, but feels way easier than handling dual passwords and sheets of one time codes like some banks. I don't know anyone who has a problem using it.
    Given the level of security this provides it's a great solution for the customers.

  15. Re:Oddness in kernel release cycle on Virtualization In Linux Kernel 2.6.20 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Quoting Torvalds from the 2.6.19 release announcement:
    'So go get it. It's one of those rare "perfect" kernels.'

  16. Casting on Lucas, Ford to Start Filming New Indiana Jones Film · · Score: 1

    They should cast Sean Patrick Flanery as Indy and Harrisson Ford as Jones Sr. Then maybe they could do a decent movie.

  17. Re:Nails still much faster. on Top Gadget of 2006 — The HurriQuake Nail · · Score: 1

    No, that's just common sense. You get what you pay for, and if doubling or tripling the wages for laying the roof affects the total costs of building your house in a major way, there's something seriously wrong. If you don't realize that, you're free to check up the 'facts' yourself, I'm not about to do comparative construction cost analysis on a sunday evening.

  18. Re:Nails still much faster. on Top Gadget of 2006 — The HurriQuake Nail · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If paying the hours of Joe the nail driving roof guy is a major cost factor when building a house, the house is probably too cheap and won't stand a hurricane anyway. Joe can probably use fewer screws further apart and still get a better result than this alleged super-nail at roughly the same price, only increasing costs of wages.

  19. Keychain obligatories on Outré USB Gadgets · · Score: 1

    And yet, still no combined bottle opener/usb memory.

  20. Re:Well, how many dimensions do we have to work wi on Holographic Storage a Reality in 2006? · · Score: 1

    Typical slashdot to count dimensions in binary.

  21. Re:Coming up next on "Ask Slashdot": on Children Arrested, DNA Tested for Playing in a Tree? · · Score: 1
    -Bill Gates has a bazillion dollars. Isn't that too much?
    "Isn't that to much?"
  22. Re:Regarding the open source complaints... on Google Releases Picasa for Linux · · Score: 2, Informative

    You might want to check out googles list of OSS projects: http://code.google.com/projects.html

  23. Re:Neither/nor on Open Source is 'Not Reliable or Dependable' · · Score: 1

    Perhaps they meant it's either not reliable or it's dependable.

  24. Re:My two $ 0.02 on Europe Warms to Nuclear Power · · Score: 1

    I see, thank you lachlan76 for clarifying bmgoau's point. :)

  25. Re:My two $ 0.02 on Europe Warms to Nuclear Power · · Score: 1

    What's your point? It's impossible to send objects from earth to the sun due to earths gravity field?