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  1. Airbags on Netgear's Amusing "fix" for WG602v1 Backdoor · · Score: 1

    Takata/Highland industries used to make the entire airbag supply for the north american market (and a few european manufacturers) here in Cheraw, SC. Now the plant's in the process of shutting down and moving to Mexico. My point is, they're already blue, IIRC from my school field trip last year.

  2. Re:outrageous on Don't Smudge The Sensor When You Press 'Play' · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    What the fuck are you talking about?

  3. Re:No surprise there. on Japanese Anime Industry In Danger Of Fragmentation · · Score: 1

    Ah man, Cowboy Bebop is just the best thing ever... even though it cycles the whole series in just a month or so, it's still running almost every night on Adult Swim for how long now? There's a good reason for that kind of We Are Not Pulling This Off The Air mindset. I still choke up every time I see that scene at the end of Hard Luck Women where Ed & Ein take off on their own.

  4. Re:Wow, just like slashdot. on Bruce Sterling On Lovelock's Pro-Nuclear Stance · · Score: 1
    Decades? Try years. Current rates of consumption aren't going to be sustained, there'll be a need for more and more as once ignored third-world countries industrialize so they can sell their cheap labor to the US.

    Here are some more references.

    http://www.peakoil.net

    http://www.dieoff.com

    http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0406/featu re5/index.html

  5. Re:Chicken Run / Wallace and Gromit on HHGTG Screenwriter Interviews Himself · · Score: 1

    Only two words need be said regarding the "americanization" of chicken run. Mel. Gibson.

  6. Wow, this is pointless on Apple Uncommunicative About Security Holes · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The whole thrust of the article seems to be "There might be dozens of holes in OSX, how do we know?". Seems making an argument like that, they shouldn't be comparing it to another proprietary system like Windows but instead Linux or *BSD. And then they mention a hole in Apache? WTF? Not Apple's problem.

  7. Speaking of Departmental Battles... on Math And The Computer Science Major · · Score: 1

    Here at the University of South Carolina, the College of Liberal Arts and the college of Science and Mathematics are being merged into a single entity, with only one dean. We're expecting the universe to spontaneously collapse any day now.

  8. Re:Not a concern for most Slashdot readers. on Who's Behind the Shower Curtain? · · Score: 1

    Speak for yourself, I was delivered by Cesarian...

  9. Re:Well... on How Should One Review a Distribution? · · Score: 1

    I've been using SuSE 9.0 for exactly that purpose, but anything with XINE and maybe Kaffeine if you like a good GUI should serve well.

  10. Re:Much like development on How Should One Review a Distribution? · · Score: 1

    like distrowatch? (prepares to get modded -20 redundant)

  11. Guinea Pig? Not Me on Security Updates, Notices for Mac OS X · · Score: 2, Funny

    I think I'll wait a while before downloading these patches, Apple seems to have a bit of a history of b0rking things with them, like that iTunes patch that came a while back. Oh, and I don't have a mac yet;-(

  12. Re:And then there's the Gaming Sequels Rule of 3. on Unlike Movie-Goers, Gamers Love Sequels? · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm looking at you, Ninja Gaiden...

  13. Re:The Great Modem in the Sky on What Happens To Your Data When You Die? · · Score: 1

    Styx? This truly is Hell!

  14. Re:A link on swbell.net? Oh, that'll last. on 1981 Personal Computer Catalog · · Score: 0, Troll

    Parent is a troll, Page 27 is the infamous hello.jpg

  15. I guess I was first to RTFA on Big Brother Will Be Watching You In Florida · · Score: 1
    From the article:
    "One of the nation's wealthiest towns will soon have cameras and computers running background checks on every car and driver that passes through. Police Chief Clay Walker said cameras will take infrared photos recording a car's tag number, then software will automatically run the numbers through law enforcement databases. A 911 dispatcher is alerted if the car is stolen or is the subject of a "be on the lookout" warning."

    So, it's basically a bunch of paranoid rich assholes using technology to weed out the undesirables. Whee.

  16. Re:Nice and all on Atari Paddle TV Game Confirmed, Capcom, EA Next · · Score: 2, Informative

    Not exactly what you're after, but www.starroms.com trades in licensed MAME images. I guess it's a start, but seeing what's happening with GBA ports, don't get your hopes up about Nintendo.

  17. Well... on On The Privacy Subtleties Of GMail, Other Webmail · · Score: 1

    Once you send someone any kind of letter, electronic or paper, it would seem to me that they can do as they please with it. Should they choose to let Google archive it until pigs fly, so be it. If you need to give a GMail user sensitive information, and they expect you to send it to their GMail account, politely let them know that they are what I and some of my friends refer to as "legally retarded"

  18. I can vouch for this on Text Based User Interfaces in the 21st Century? · · Score: 4, Insightful
    It's amazing some of the things that have been done with ncurses lately. I don't even have X installed anymore, I just switch between three vterms.

    NAIM - text-mode instant messaging client. I even use this when I'm on my friends' computers because the interface is so neat and clean.

    Links - The hihgh-speed web browser you should all know and love

    Mplayer/AALib - for all my pornographic urges

  19. Re:Cars and the US on Virginia MagLev Project Back on Track · · Score: 1

    I find myself in a similar situation living almost directly in the center of downtown Columbia, SC. As a starving college student with no car, I often find that the structure of this fair city consists of a gentrified core perhaps a mile or two across containing high rise office buildings, expensive hotels, and disgustingly upscale dining opportunities; this affluent center is then surruounded by a vast tract of third-world hellhole until getting far enough out of the town proper to be in the 'burbs. Quite frequently I have to ride 10 or 15 miles to the low density sprawl zones along the ring road to shop for goods such as books, records and clothing at reasonable prices.

  20. Re:Qt interface to Parrot? on A Taste of Qt 4 · · Score: 1
    *cough* GTK *cough*

    I'm just saying you left it out, not trying to start the holy war. In keeping with that goal, I'll offend both sides in one of the other well known battles and openly tell the world... I prefer nano

  21. Re:I disagree on Chipset Integrates Gigabit Ethernet, RAID, Firewall · · Score: 1

    yes it is rediculous you could just install a network card then

  22. Re:Not sure what an Extended Keyboard is on Apple Extended Keyboard Lives Again · · Score: 1

    Spring loaded hyper-clicky goodness. This is basically an IBM Model M with the awesome "Apple Look". God I want one...

  23. Actually on Linux Distributions Respond to Forrester · · Score: 1

    While you sound like the commendable type who's willing to spend the money to support further development, for the sake of accuracy I feel compelled to mention that you don't have to spend the initial penny on SuSE professional, you can install it over FTP from any of several servers. 129.79.5.130 is pretty fast :-)

  24. Re:"Beneath Steel Sky" on 3D, FPS File Manager · · Score: 1

    I just installed SuSE 9.0 yesterday and was stunned to see Beneath A Steel Sky as part of the default install.

  25. Hello? Ninja Gaiden? on Anatomy Of 2D Side-Scroller Lecturer Picks Favorites · · Score: 1

    I can't believe nobody else has mentioned it yet, especially with the resurgence on X-Box recently. Of course 3 sucked, but meh. The others were greatness,