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  1. Re:Working in the wrong direction on To Pay With Your Credit Card, Please Speak Up · · Score: 1

    1) joe sixpack and walmart dont find criminals, thats why there are police officers and FBI agents and whatnot.

    2) every last measure like this will be thwarted. the best way to reduce fraud is to reduce the number of people committing fraud.

    3) "most folks" do not want to do anything more than swipe their card and go. extra authentication does two things:

    a) slow down checkout lines

    b) create an artifical market for the authentication technology

  2. Working in the wrong direction on To Pay With Your Credit Card, Please Speak Up · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Rather than working to make it harder to use a stolen credit card, companies should work at making it easier to find somebody using a stolen credit card. Maybe start requesting that stores associate a purchase with a time and a checkout lane, which could lead to accessing security camera archives once a purchase is claimed fraudulent by the account holder. I am sure there are more possibilities.

  3. Re:Derived work on Unintended Consequences of Using GPL Fonts · · Score: 1

    What if its a piece of ASCII art?

  4. Re:58% misguided fools on New Technique for Tracking Web Site Visitors · · Score: 1

    http://optout.doubleclick.net/cgi-bin/dclk/optout. pl

    bam, an easy way to opt out of doubleclick tracking. its essentially id=OPT_OUT and nothing more.

  5. Re:$2200/hour is a steal to many companies on Microsoft Drops Blaster Author's Fine · · Score: 1

    Hold on a second there, you got ass for removing a worm or virus from a computer? Thats a sweet deal. How did that work?

  6. Re:No, No, No on MGM v. Grokster: Here's Why P2P is Valuable · · Score: 1

    Two things:

    So any punishment is okay if it is used often enough to not be unusual? Lets start cutting of the hands of all petty theives!

    So any punishment is okay if it is not bad enough to be cruel? Lets start forcing all petty theives to crab walk everywhere they go!

  7. Re:That means on Computer Cracks 5x5 Go · · Score: 1

    solving a board a quarter of the size only solves one sixteenth of the problem. thats what i read.

  8. Re:Uuh, kerberos is what? on Kerberos: The Definitive Guide · · Score: 1

    (MS) Passport is a linux box in a redmond basement running kerberos.

  9. Re:Probabilistic algorithms on Unpredictability in Future Microprocessors · · Score: 2, Informative

    heh, 63 is the median in your given array. since the returned value does not need to be in the array, just add 1 and return that. or multiply by some large constant. or just return the sum of all the numbers you encountered. theres lots of options here.

  10. Re:Slashdot Needs a New Feature on Public Park Designated Copyrighted Space · · Score: 1

    my favorite args:
    argc, argv

  11. Re:Each creature has several 'brains' on Does the Octopus Hold the Key To Robot Design? · · Score: 1
  12. Re:Apples to Oranges on Mac mini to PC Hack · · Score: 1

    What they also fail to compare is the amount of bugs, security vulnerabilities, viruses, and spyware per square inch you get with a windows based PC.

    Because everything running on x86 is Windows®.

  13. Language Lives! on Using The Web For Linguistic Research · · Score: 1

    Good! Natural language is a moving target. The web is an excellent communication medium and ignoring it would be quite a
    silly move. The example reminds me of "To boldly go", which was not proper, but its elegance is hard to argue against.

  14. Make the information free on FBI Wants To Limit Document Searches · · Score: 1

    How about making the all information free in the first place, and having a gigantic library in DC dedicated to it? Make people do their own searching, eliminate the request system, and do not do anything you dont want the people to know about?

  15. Re:ECHELON on Why Did The FBI Retire Carnivore? · · Score: 1

    Thanks.

  16. Re:I write too on New Netscape Browser Prototype Available · · Score: 1

    theguywhosaid writes An Anonymous Coward writes that An anonymous reader writes "Mozillazine.org writes, ...

  17. Re:Gmail Inivation Emails here on Gmail Messages Are Vulnerable To Interception · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ive got some i want to get rid of too.

  18. Re:View from Canadia on Countries Plan Land Rush in Warming Arctic · · Score: 1

    Point taken. Two things tho:
    1. Do you beleive everything you read on the internet?
    2. It seems to say you are a US citizen in your bio.

  19. Re:View from Canadia on Countries Plan Land Rush in Warming Arctic · · Score: 1

    wait a sec...

    "View from Canadia" you say? if indeed you are a Canadian, it is nice to know United Statesians arent the only ones who think Canadians should come from Canadia, not Canada. That would make you Canadites or something like that.

  20. Re:I don't get it. on XLiveCD: Cygwin and X For Windows On A Live CD · · Score: 1

    X(in this case) is all about remote login. Save the scripts on the computer you are ssh-ing(or whatever) into, and pretend windows is a fancy terminal.

  21. for all the slocate guys on Yahoo! Releases Desktop Search Tool · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "find / | grep junk" and "updatedb; locate junk" both have one problem in common. they do not check the content of the file. try "grep junk `find /`". and really people, who wants to wait for that to finish?

  22. Thanks on Offshoring IT · · Score: 1

    Thanks for your commentary /.
    I think I will be spending some time at the Career
    Center here at school. See you in the workforce.

  23. Mini Ask Slashdot on Offshoring IT · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I am still in school. I have a mediocre GPA, good skills (IMHO), I am tall, and I am friendly. Will my computer science degree land me a good job in the field, or will I have to teach (respectable, but I would rather not personally), or join the military or something to be doing something that involves my expensive education in a meaningful way?

  24. good opportunity to say on HP Plots New Courses with HP-UX/Tru64 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    HP-SUX.

    I mean it in a nice way though.

    They are letting Alpha CPUs die, even though they rock, because they sank so much money into Itanium.

    They are dropping a Unix better than their own, because they can't suck it up and admit Tru64 is better. (I am taking your word for it #6336)

    HP-SUX

  25. Re:This has likely been discussed..but.. on Ohio Law Could Send Spammers To Jail · · Score: 1

    Billboards. Other peoples clothing. The sticker every car dealer sticks on every car they sell. The logo on your tvs remote control. rented fences around construction sites. when you boot your computer.

    advertising is everywhere. if your opinion really mattered, abercrombie and fitch wouldnt be able to put their logo on clothing they make if there was a chance of someone wearing it walking into your field of view.