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  1. Re:Slight problem with this approach on Microsoft Wants To Give You A Rorschach · · Score: 1

    Turn the entire, pulse-thumpin' body into the password.

    Or, derive the password password from one of those machine kids dance to in malls. Lens overhead, objects move, then feet keep up. How you jiggle and wiggle structures your password. This might be safe for OLPC.

    But, adult-oriented password/action access can be derived from thrust-n-strut gyrations, maybe in a chair. Sorta like responding to a lapdance (without touching the computer) to eventually gain access to the computer's ass sets. This might be safe for cubicle workers. But, not for musical-chairs workers in lobbies...

    Now, anyone trying to break (or break dance to) someone else's password will have to grind away...), with the best passwords deriving for wholly unholy, undiginified umm ndignified origins.

    OTOH, maybe mshaft can come up with "Poke-a-dot to access your computer"...

  2. Enter the... on Microsoft Wants To Give You A Rorschach · · Score: 1

    Dot Matrix...

    Is this really new?

    Eventually it'll be something done by Open Source from the future SeaCode employees...

    But, also, hasn't this been show in Sci-Fi shows? (No, I'm not talking about "cheating" to make a result/action appear on screen). It would be ghastly if a patent is "awarded" for this...

  3. Re:But Sun is already doing that... on Sun Offers Reward Program to Boost Open Source Effort · · Score: 2, Informative
  4. Re:Most open source will come from India??? on Sun Offers Reward Program to Boost Open Source Effort · · Score: 1

    Maybe to be "out opened"?

  5. Re:A billion times... on Freakonomics Q&A With Bruce Schneier · · Score: 1

    How many Real Dolls of Congress are we talking about?

  6. Re:But first, make sure you have the Bruce facts on Freakonomics Q&A With Bruce Schneier · · Score: 1

    Who would win between THEM vs these:

    1. Nutcracker
    2. MacGyver
    3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N96DWI5wuB4

  7. Re:Freakonomics Q&A with Jonathan Coulton on Freakonomics Q&A With Bruce Schneier · · Score: 1

    Yeh... like "Combat Riverine Dance", in which FPRD (First-Person River Dancers) stomp the living this, umm living shit out of da enemy... whomever "da enemy" is.

    Valve CRD Slogan: "These boots were made for trompin' and stompin'"

    Character sayings:

    "I love the smell of worn leather in the morning..."

    "We don't need no stinkin' bullets..."

    "'Air strike'? What's that? All I need is my BOOTS and dazzlin piurette (sp?) and some GRENADES..."

    "This is my RIFLE, THIS is my GUN, these are my piurettes, dazzzling by buns..."

    Now, all they need is urban combat themed leotards, grenade satchels, and some fluttery helmet garb and a new era of war and pea.. umm piece can commence...

    (But, first, send those dipshit politicians to combat first, or back to combat if they've forgotten due to the smell of contract money...)

  8. Re:I love MacGyver on Microfluidic Chips Made With Shrinky Dinks · · Score: 1

    MacGyver doesn't SLEEP... He INVENTS....

    (But, I wonder if he can invent an Anti-Chuck-Norris roundhouse kick...)

  9. Re:Still Obvious on $360M Patent Suit Over iPhone Voicemail · · Score: 3, Informative

    I worked for a courier company into the early 90's and sometimes was an on-call driver/dispatcher after hours. I had this honkin Motorola cell and pager. When customers ordered an after-hours delivery, I'd go into the voice mail via the phone line in my computer. A graphical box displayed calls and messages. I could pick them. I'd completely forgotten about that and I think I was the one who told my company's president about the software. I can't remember how or where I'd found it, but it worked out for a while.

    I hope that is prior art that can be found. I don't have the disks. I WANT to think it might have been part of Killer Windows Utilities for Win 3.x (the big thick book with the tiger on the cover...), but that I cannot remember is frustrating. I DO still have my KWU book somewhere...

  10. Re:Support CC authors and related publishers. on An Acerbic Look At the Future of Reading · · Score: 1

    Thx!

  11. Re:Heh on An Acerbic Look At the Future of Reading · · Score: 1

    If you can't dogear, crimp, fold, ball up, tear, or spindle-da-Kindle, then it is NOT paper.

    It'll just be a matter of time before Fujitsu or LG or Samsung or someone comes out with folding, spoolable/spindleable flat books. Just carry your Spindle book in a carrier tube with a shoulder strap. Unfurl it like a scroll. Even stick it up on a wall and read it as if pondering art in a gallery, if the material is engrossing enough....

    "Do not fold, spindle or mutilate" used to be on government documents, checks, vital forms etc. I wonder if Amazon is trembling, fearing:

    "Do not fold or spindle or mutilate the Kindle..."

  12. Re:Support CC authors and related publishers. on An Acerbic Look At the Future of Reading · · Score: 1
  13. Re:Support CC authors and related publishers. on An Acerbic Look At the Future of Reading · · Score: 1

    http://lobsterhunter.joeuser.com/index.asp?AID=167496

    also fails to load... a few more of these and I'll start to wonder whether Amazon is nailing pages that might be negative about Kindle..

    http://www.google.com/search?q=why+kindle+will+fail+mirror&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

    So, I went to:

    http://www.linuxchix.org/live?page=5

    and nothing. Then, i just searched it, and STILL nothing...

    is Amazon paying off or forcing people to end their anti-Kindle pages?

    Is anyone else having problems finding negative Kindle blogs or articles or comments?

  14. Re:Support CC authors and related publishers. on An Acerbic Look At the Future of Reading · · Score: 1

    Something I found about Kindle via Woot, back to Amazon... Hmmm....

    http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000FI73MA/?tag=urlbind-20%E2%80%99ve%20tried%20to%20narrow%20down%20why%20I%20think%20it%20will%20fail%20to%20once%20sentence:%3C/p%3E%3Cp%3E...%3C/p%3E%3Cp%3ELast%20night%20I%20set%20an%20%3Ca%20href=

    But then, "Why Kindle Will Fail" is at:

    http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/technologyevangelist/bkxI/~3/187822521/why_the_kindle_will.html

    Maybe it's being amazon-dotted, or slashdotted... I can't see the page... The connection keeps resetting during page loading...

  15. Re:Heh on An Acerbic Look At the Future of Reading · · Score: 1

    At first, my eye & mind thought "An ARABIC Look at the Future of Reading", but not as in characters, but as in reading direction, from right to left. But, actually, I don't know if Arabic reading is from right to left, tho I would probably say it is if a test tick box were before me.

    But, I carry my shoulder bag on my right shoulder, and even when using just one strap of my backpack I do so. So, with a load on my right shoulder, I find it hard to read books and mags of any size from left to right. Must be something I picked up in Japan, or from reading Japanese mags here in the states. I actually LIKE reading from right to left, and actually apply it to US/English-written mags. It's also one way to scan (if one reads word by word) so as to not get to caught up in one's own work while trying to proofread one's own work.

    However, I would like this thing to come down to $200, and allow page reversal (digitally reverse the numbering, tho I don't need to read each line from right to left...)

  16. Re:Just great! on AT&T To Decommission Pay Phones · · Score: -1

    He can change in the lavatory room... slice/wave a hand under the stall, or tap his feet. Things can then get super, soupy or souped-up... Then, all those senators can get them some "SUPERdick tonite..."

    (That's what a relative of mine said about Loise when she got into bed with Clark for the first time "She gon get her some SUPER dick, tonight"(in the theater screening back in the 80's); the audience roared wildly when they heard him say that about the two characters...)

  17. Re:Why a soundcard ! on Wireless Keyboard "Encryption" Cracked · · Score: 1

    They apparently watched Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea's episode "Escape from Venice"

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0742263/

    and thought they could break the encryption. They had the notes wrong... shoulda been:

    "La lah lah lah, lah lah luh luh lahaha, luhu, luha, haha la..."

    Next time, they should get somebody with phantom of whatever music to decrypt the ms keyboard... Logitech's will need Bach or Beethoven or something better...

  18. Re:Bogus on The $10 Billion Poker Game Begins · · Score: 1

    There'd be "interference" with cash flow, too. That's why the governments are playing Form 1099 Poker via the "internets"... They want to suck from the tubes all the spectrum income flow they can get... What an udder shame...

  19. Re:Enforcement mechanism on The $10 Billion Poker Game Begins · · Score: 1

    No, they will just find out why there were *1,099* licenses. Obviously, the government KNOWS someone will collude, and when found out, these "*collusionists*" will learn what a Form 1099 is for.

    "Those who receive 1099 income come from a wide spectrum."

    http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-1099-form.htm

    The government knows how to play poker, too...

  20. Re:C average on Alabama Schools to be First in US to Get XO Laptop · · Score: 1

    Somebody wants those kids to get not a C, nor a C+, but a C++, and they want them to be not A#, but C#.

    Either that, or someone wants to find future recidivists early...

  21. Re:Reinforcement on Chimps Outscore College Students on Memory Test · · Score: 1

    LOL! I got scored/ranked as "0 + Troll"...

    OK, SCORE ONE (for the Chimps and Friends of the Chimps)...

  22. Not sure how to tie this into Facebook's on NJ Blogger Fights for Anonymous Free Speech · · Score: 1

    founder, but:

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/12/03/zuckerberg_files/

    From the URL:

    "Facebook founder loses court battle to keep personal data offline
    Poked by his own petard... bitch"

    and:

    "Mark Zuckerberg has been given a taste of his own medicine: his personal information is being plastered all over the web forever.

    The Facebook boss has failed in a court bid to gag a magazine that published data including drunken extracts from his college diary and his social security number.

    Federal judge Douglas Woodlock told the 23-year-old's lawyers on Friday that the independent Harvard alumni magazine 02138 had the right to release the documents, which were part of another court case.

    02138's investigation centred on the dispute between Zuckerberg and the operators of ConnectU, another Harvard-founded social network. It's alleged that in the early days of Facebook, "the new Bill Gates" nicked ideas and source code from brothers Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, who had asked him to work on their project."

    I wonder what kind of slander and libel and smearing might come about if this other case turns out to have basis in fact, and what this might do to msoft's investment in Facebook. I bet Google is GLAD it did not get to be attached, now...

  23. Re:BAC! WHOO! Some REAL monkey business? on Chimps Outscore College Students on Memory Test · · Score: 1

    Seems like microSantaSoft doesn't/didn't want to be outdone:

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/12/03/santa_filth_outrage/

    "El Reg says: Maybe you shouldn't eat it?

    Santa says: See if you can get someone else to eat it!

    El Reg says: Eat it

    Santa says: No thank you. I don't eat things!

    El Reg says: Eat it

    Santa says: See if you can get someone else to eat it!

    El Reg says: Eat it

    Santa says: You want me to eat what?!? It's fun to talk about oral sex, but I want to chat about something else...

    El Reg says: You dirty bastard!

    Santa says: I think you're dirty bastard."

    Sounds like the msfot devs need DNA testing, BAC testing, and more... AI at its best?

  24. Re:Reinforcement on Chimps Outscore College Students on Memory Test · · Score: 0, Troll

    When they can write sonnets, say, "Ode de las lunes de los champas solar de fuego y boletos con vx gas to la humans" and produce p0rn, say, "Monkey Fist Power" or "True Grits", then we've got a LOT to worry about...

  25. Re:Wrong training ... on Chimps Outscore College Students on Memory Test · · Score: 1

    So, if we teach these Monkeys the business end of Tai Chi, or Gong Fu, or Bokator, or Hapkido, Varma Kalai, Muay Thai, then would this be engaging in Monkey Business, or would they be Bullet-Proof Monks?

    Give them uniforms and guns and they'll be Shock Monks... (Peter Gabriel might be ... "shocked..." LOL)

    See:

    http://www.buddha-fist.com/modules.php?name=Sections&op=viewarticle&artid=111

    and:

    http://www.hackwriters.com/khmer.htm