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  1. Umm...Terraserver? on Microsoft and Google Fighting for the Skies · · Score: 1

    Hmm that's funny, the arial photography looks exactly the same as the 1m photos at http://terraserver.microsoft.com/, except with addressing by street addr instead of lat/long or UTM. With google earth (or maps.google.com) I get both capabilities, plus color arial/sat photography. Personally I'd rather just use USAPhotoMaps to download the terraserver topo/photo images and google earth for street maps/directions and arial/sat color photos.

  2. 404? on Indian Call Center Employees Hack US Bank Accounts · · Score: 1

    Hmm I keep getting "404 Page not found", perhaps they're overloaded with password changes? I found this great alternate site to change passwords here: https://www2.citibank.com/chpass. Don't tell anyone though, we don't want this one crashing too.

  3. Re:Write C for C programmers on Optimizations - Programmer vs. Compiler? · · Score: 1

    Interesting, because that exact statement threw off my lab instructor this past term. It wasn't until I typed the statement into a program and showed her the output that she admitted her mistake.

    Quite frankly, anyone who has knowledge of cstring functions should understand the counter-intuitive behavior of strcmp() when testing for equalitiy...especially if they're supposed to be teaching it!

  4. Epic 2014, anyone? on Google Launches Mapping Service · · Score: 1

    I think we just made another step towards Epic 2014

  5. A personal favorite.... on Best Wireless SSIDs You Have Seen? · · Score: 1

    A kid in the dorm room next to mine named his AP "Internet would be nice".

  6. Re:As a on Caller ID Spoofing for the Masses · · Score: 1

    As an anonymous coward, to you I have to say SHAME!

  7. Re:Article, incase of the /. effect on Analyst Doubts Intel's Dual-Core Demo · · Score: 1

    Plus he just wants the mod points

  8. Re:ack! <--solution on Thunderbird 0.7 Released · · Score: 1

    Tools->Account Settings->Server Settings
    Set "Local Directory" to the same for all accounts

  9. Re:Dupe... on The Wireless Backpack Repeater · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It's times like these that I wish we had a "-1 Dumbass" moderation choice.

  10. Re:In case of slashdot... on Big Screen for NYPD · · Score: 1

    haha my bad...simple oversight

  11. In case of slashdot... on Big Screen for NYPD · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Heres's the direct link to the BusinessWeek story

  12. Face it... on Will Providers Provide Equally? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ...companies are looking for a profit, not to make you there best friend. As long as they can keep the profits coming, they could care less what you think of them.

  13. What about the other frequencies? on Cell Phone Jammers: Coming To An Event Near You? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So sell phones are only a few frequencies out of the million that could be used to transmit "trigger" signals to bombs. What's to stop a terrorist from using some cheap VHF handheld to denonate their bomb? If they transmit the code over airport security frequencies or whatever, you can almost garuntee those won't be blocked.

  14. Re:I wouldn't do this... on Build Your Own Stun Gun · · Score: 1

    even if the battery has been disconnected for quite a while

    Well, that depends on how long it's been disconnected for. The voltage (the main item of concern) decreases by the function V=emf*(e^(-t/RC)) where emf equals the electromotive force (a little different than the "voltage") of the battery and "e" is the inverse of the natural log function (e^x). In other words, electric potential across the terminals decreases exponentially.

  15. Re:This is dangerous on Build Your Own Stun Gun · · Score: 1

    Why attach them in series? In series capacitance adds as the recipricals 1/(1/C[1] + 1/C[2]) whereas in parallel they add directly (C[1]+C[2]). In other words, capacitance adds the opposite way resistance does in simple circuits.

  16. It's called a capacitor :-) on Build Your Own Stun Gun · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yeah so the article really just says that the battery in the camera can charge the capacitor, and you can procedure to discharge that capacitor on a grounded person. Big deal.

  17. Re:Since article has been ./ed.... on Linux Filesystems Benchmarked · · Score: 1

    sure, if you want to be restricted to 8.3 filenames

  18. Re:How is this news? on Revealed: How Fedora And The Community Interact · · Score: 1

    I guess that depends on if you're reading the title.gif image or the on the home page.

  19. Re:How is this news? on Revealed: How Fedora And The Community Interact · · Score: 0, Redundant

    1. With 1-2 new stories an hour, even your 1 in 10 figure means 3-4 tech news stories a day. There's just not that much tech news out there each day. Even check out http://www.cnn.com/tech/, sometimes they don't update that page for days. Feature stories and "filler" are a reality, so deal.

    2. The tagline is "New for news, stuff that matters". If you're going to make a point with it, at least get it right.

    3. If you don't like the stories, submit better ones. Remember, 99.9% of the stories are user-submitted, so the solution is in your hands!

  20. Here it is....in color :-D on Revealed: How Fedora And The Community Interact · · Score: 5, Informative
  21. That's all I ever do... on Spyware Becoming Worst Tech Support Problem · · Score: 1

    Haha, thats all my friends/family ever asks me to do nowadays. Forget the days of setting up modem init strings, configuring IRQs, etc. No, now that everyone's on broadband, its spyware and "porn popups" for which my services are most frequently requested. Thanks adware makers, you keep me employed :-D

  22. Too heavy for flats on A Running Shoe For Agent 86? · · Score: 1

    I would only use something like this for a road race, and the motor would make it much too heavy for flats.

  23. The only problem is.... on Putting Google to the Test · · Score: 1

    ...you can't call your friend or the library any time you need to find out the answer to one of those questions. After a while, they get fed up and tell you to google it :-P

  24. Took the A exam, done with 1hr to spare on First Java AP Computer Science Exam Complete · · Score: 1

    I had literally an hour on each section of that AP...what a joke. I took the C++ AB exam as well, and this was nothing comparitively.

  25. Re:Must be closed on Coming Soon to a Wireless Hotspot Near You: Ads · · Score: 1

    Hehe...can we say SSH tunnel :-D