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  1. Re:Heat Output on Comparative CPU Benchmarks From 1995 to 2004 · · Score: 1

    I guess you must be a pentium 4 fan then?

    I too use my computer as a spaceheater, usually `emerge -auD world`. Shame it only puts out about 250w total.

  2. Re:Screen is too black... on What's Wrong with Unix? · · Score: 1

    haven't had a BSOD of my own in about a year and a half, so couldn't remember quite how they go.

  3. phishing... on Computer Viruses Broke 100,000 In 2004 · · Score: 1

    my school email account caught an ebay phish the other day. The fact that the headers showed it coming from south korea kind of gave it away.

    scary thing is, it seemed to make use of the nasty just-about-any-browser spoofing vulnerability that was found not too long ago.

  4. Re:Screen is too black... on What's Wrong with Unix? · · Score: 4, Funny

    STOP ERROR 0x0000073A: SLASHDOT_MODS_DO_NOT_UNDERSTAND_SUBTLE_HUMOR //watch me get modded down for this...

  5. irony? on New Infrared Camera Gets Amazing Orion Images · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    nothing for you to see here. please move along.

  6. Re:Nah on Games Knoppix · · Score: 1

    or, I'm guessing, enemy-territory. since it's native in linux, and free.

    Also, what more could you want for christmas than getting your university's website slashdotted?

  7. Re:Don't forget the Amish on Louisiana Towns Going High-Tech · · Score: 5, Funny

    the hell, the amish have a website?

  8. Re:Not going to work on Using GPS to Track Teens · · Score: 1

    mine doesn't.

    then again, mine doesn't support gps. (or digital networks even, for that matter)

  9. does anyone else see a problem with... on AOL Making Media Player, Music Store · · Score: 1

    their choice of names?

    * media-sound/amp
    Latest version available: 0.7.6
    Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
    Size of downloaded files: 97 kB
    Homepage:
    Description: AMP - the Audio Mpeg Player
    License: as-is

    And, IIRC Nullsoft got nailed with a lawsuit from these guys for having 'amp' in their product name, which is the whole reason they got bought up by AOL in the first place.

  10. Re:Sniff, our little browser's all grown up... on New Vulnerability Affects All Browsers · · Score: 1

    well, if I was running gnome I'd understand it, seeing as 180solutions (the wonderful people who brought us n-CASE) tried to get their crap integrated in it...

  11. Re:Sniff, our little browser's all grown up... on New Vulnerability Affects All Browsers · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I had a popup about a week ago.
    on firefox.
    in gentoo.
    going between pages on slashdot.

    wtf?

  12. Re:War on China on China Bans Game Recognizing Taiwan Independence · · Score: 1

    so, you're saying that all those things are okay if the country has money?

  13. Re:It's called apathy on Given Up to Spyware? · · Score: 2, Informative

    I think one of the best things to do is to just get this whole it's-not-that-hard-to-fix-and-we'll-do-it-for-chea p-or-free idea out to the masses.

    The computer club here at penn college does a 'windows cleanup' every sunday evening, and we usually pull around 15 student computers a night. On top of this, the college pays some of us to do the same during the week (I'm not sure how many they'll pull in a week as I'm not one of them, but there's always a few lying around in there). the usual stuff-- ad-aware, spybot, firefox, thunderbird, windows update, axe messenger, uPNP and such, and most importantly, teach them how to avoid getting more of the crap.
    Costs the students nothing. Well, unless you count the tuition.

  14. Re:Let's anti-protest! on Lone Activist Group Submits 99.8% of FCC Complaints · · Score: 1

    Comedy Central isn't broadcast TV. I'm fairly sure they don't have to.

  15. This is what happens when I read /. at midnight on New Treatment Helps Cure Spinal Injuries · · Score: 5, Funny

    confused polyethylene glycol with ethylene glycol and wondered what they were doing injecting antifreeze into dogs (and wouldn't it be easier to put it in their water dish?)

  16. As a mechanic working for a Caterpillar dealer... on Feds To Have Unified Biometric Federal ID System · · Score: 1

    I work (well, I will when I get back out of school) on generators for the Caterpillar dealer in Maryland, and our territory includes all of the DC area. we get quite a good number of government jobs (I think I pulled jobs on 3 military bases and the new USPTO building this summer, and one of the other guys had a job in the pentagon). Which probably means I'll need one of these.

    I'm not looking forward to it.

  17. Re:Why should they? on Sun Submits New License for Open Source Approval · · Score: 1

    IANAL, but I don't see anything in the license that would prohibit freely redistributing your modifications.

  18. Re:This sounds all too familiar on Lycos Anti-Spam Screensaver Brings Down Spam Sites · · Score: 1

    This seems as immature as channel takeovers on efnet.

    You say that like there's actually anything that is mature on efnet.

  19. Most likely... on Military Robots Get Machine Guns · · Score: 1

    the unit would cease to function, and the rocket(s) would continue on the same unguided path they were fired on. Seems rather implausible to me to guide a rocket via remote control.

  20. Re:Good thinking guys! on AOL Releases Netscape Beta, Based on Firefox · · Score: 1

    RTFA. You can enable/disable the ActiveX controls and IE rendering based on the site. (I'd hope that they have it disabled for everything by default)

    My college's web scheduling relies on an ActiveX control, mainly because the underlying code is extremely old. (they have a team dedicated to writing a replacement for it, but that could very well take a while)
    I don't particularly feel like rebooting into windows just to schedule, and I particularly don't want to have to leave my dorm and go to one of the open labs to do so.

    Then again, doesn't really matter now since I've already scheduled my final semester.

  21. Re:FP! on Biodegradable Cell Phones Sprout Into Flowers · · Score: 1

    only if you're picky and won't consider FP could also stand for 'fourth post'

    And now to avoid an offtopic mod of my own:
    I think the easiest thing is just to not junk your phone all the time. I'm still (rarely) using an old analog Nokia. it gets the job done.

  22. Re:not just the graphical installer. on Gentoo 2005.0: A Live CD And [No] Graphical Installer · · Score: 1

    no, it actually dumped me into grub.

    Even after I disabled booting from hard drive, for some odd reason...

  23. aargh. on Python 2.4 Final Released · · Score: 1

    and of course I managed to forget (again) that comments, being HTML formatted, ignore whitespace.

  24. generator expressions? on Python 2.4 Final Released · · Score: 3, Funny

    2,500KVA @ 0.8 PF? (note: some electrical background required to appreciate the above)

  25. Re:In Korea... on Coming soon: Google TV? · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    In Korea, "In Korea" jokes are only for old people.