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  1. Re:What is the deal with 64 bit? on Merom in MacBook and MacBook Pros in September? · · Score: 1

    Actually with Intel Processors (Since the Pentium Pro) and possibly AMD 32 processors, there are at least 4 extra address lines for the ram. This gives the option of up to 64GB of RAM. In Intel naming this is known as the PAE. In other words... We've been past the 4GB limit since the Pentium Pro.

  2. Homeland Security.... this seems to ring a bell on Microsoft Bracing for Worm Attack · · Score: 1

    So, everyone was saying "EEEEEvilllllllle Homeland Securtiy is telling us to do something with out releasing details! They must be up to something..."

    Yep, they were telling us that something like this was about to happen.

  3. Re:Just enough for them to limp along... on Cray Wins $52 Million Supercomputer Contract · · Score: 1

    Depends on who you ask. Last I heard (back in 1998), the NSA had bought a new Cray every other year... since the company started.

  4. Re:Huh? on Network Card for Gamers - Uses Linux to Reduce Lag · · Score: 1

    Any chance it could also be a pre-fetch, lookahead, cached dns/best route algorithm that could actually speed the connection by directing the packets through certain links?

  5. This all gives one a sense of perpsective... on More on Leopard, AOL, Reuters and the Universe · · Score: 1, Funny

    Doesn't it? AaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrGgggggggggggggggg gggg!!!!! Hey, that looks like a piece of cake.

    (p.s. stupid caps checker... Bah!)

  6. Re:I have it on good authority... on An Older, Larger Universe · · Score: 1

    I believe it actually was around a Frogstar planet. It's just that it will have been created at the end of TIME for the universe.

  7. Re:Wavelength-accurate cameras on Photonic Breakthrough Allows 'Lab-on-a-Chip' · · Score: 2, Interesting

    IIRMECC (if I remember my electronics class correctly). Muxes and DeMuxes are complimentaries of the other, but they cannot be "used in reverse". This my not apply to optics, but I'd wager that they wouldn't use the logical circuit naming if it wasn a near parallel in operation.

  8. Re:Stenography Encryption on VoIP Numbers Stations were Social Experiment · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Of course, if you are visible as a "citizen" through credit card purchases, debit cards, atms, banks, etc. and all your other traffic is encrypted... It might make a case for a visual tail to be attached to you. Warrants are only required for searches... not observations in public areas.

  9. Wow, submitted this 2 hours ago.... on Microsoft Invites Black Hats into Vista · · Score: -1, Troll

    And they dump mine and go to someone elses.

    gtzpower: Microsoft Invites Black Hats into Vista Friday August 04, @11:25AM Accepted
    hcob$: I double dog dare you. Friday August 04, @10:58AM Rejected

    Guess that's what I get for posting a foxnews.com link.

  10. Re:Step by step on Apple Announces More Options Troubles · · Score: 1
    In other words, the submitter took one line from the quoted article, then added 90 percent bullshit to it.
    Welcome to slashdot... where not even the submitter RTFA!
  11. Re:At first. on Matt Damon as Kirk in Star Trek XI? · · Score: 2, Funny
    As young Kirk I think he would do really well.
    Dont't you mean:

    "As... a... young Kirk, I.... believe... he would..... do... really well! ARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAA.... SPahhhhhhhhhhhhhK!
  12. Re:Road Construction on Japan Plans a Moonbase by 2030 · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Under the plan, astronauts will be sent to the Moon around 2020 to start construction of the base that will be completed by 2030

    This reminds me of the timeframes set out by the state construction workers on our highways.
    Actually, those are very accurate timelines that are presented for highway projects. Believe it or not, Civil Engineers actually have to plan that far out.
  13. Re:Not so bad really... on Hackers Clone E-Passport · · Score: 1
    Well.. I suppose it dependes of how powerful is your transmiter and sensitive is your receiver..
    Since you have a FARADAY CAGE around the device when it's closed. You're not going to penetrate to the reciever. Also if you were to build a machine powerful enough to penetrate the cage, it would surely melt said cage and overload your target...
  14. Re:Logging IP Addresses on Search Companies Team Up Against Click Fraud · · Score: 1
    It would take some really sophisticated worm/malware to get that many machines these days to do that kind of fraud.
    errr....

    IP Spoofing???

  15. Re:I wish I knew. . . on Where to Advertise for Open Source Job Openings? · · Score: 1

    and your point? Resumes are about selling yourself to someone who won't see you face to face to form an impression. Clear, concise and meaningful resume (about 2 pages MAX) does more than writing the Tome of The Dougster.

  16. Re:So... on Microsoft Encouraging OEMs to Beautify Computers · · Score: 1
    That certainly explains why Apple continues to dominate sales of new PC
    Considering that they are just now making IBM PC compatable computers (which is what all "PC"s are), I think they've captured a rather large section of that market.
  17. Re:What they really said... QWZX on Microsoft Encouraging OEMs to Beautify Computers · · Score: 5, Funny
    Am I the only one who HATES the look of the Mac?
    Yes... now go play with your dolls.
  18. Re:Hot grits? on Microsoft Encouraging OEMs to Beautify Computers · · Score: 1
    Well they sell me boxes of instant grits to go with that Natalie Portman-shaped computer?/blockquote? Of course they will. Just be careful of that "adapter" and "tuning nobs" that you'd like to play with. 500W of power might smart a bit.
  19. Re:Diebold lobbied slashdot... on Worst Ever Security Flaw in Diebold Voting Machine · · Score: 0, Troll
    I've noticed a disturbing trend... people seem willing to assume that no one in a position of power can possibly be corrupt.
    I've noticed a distrubing trend on /. People seem willing to assume that everyone in a position of power is corrupt. However, before we ASSume too much about each other's views, no system is perfect. I personally would prefer paper ballots where you place a CHECK MARK WITH A PEN next to the name you want, or write in a name that you would prefer. Still this can easily be rigged as well.
  20. Re:Girls on E3 2007 A More 'Targeted' Event · · Score: 1
    I believe the question on everyones mind is not will E3 be gone, but will the pretty girls be gone?
    Of course not! They will just be strippers and callgirls now.
  21. Re:Diebold lobbied slashdot... on Worst Ever Security Flaw in Diebold Voting Machine · · Score: 1

    Lets see if the election people noctice someone flipping a machine over, unscrewing the back, changing some things around, putting in something else, slapping it all back together and telling them they didn't see anything. Riiiiight.

  22. Re:The real reason on Big Brother Wants Into VoIP At Any Cost · · Score: 1
    Without the extensive eavesdropping powers Bush claims
    Yoy mean those powers of intercepting international phone calls? Quit drinking the kool-aid and think. Hopefully you don't suscribe to the party that the leader calls for "an end to divisivness" and calls another politician from Florida "Stalin" and yet another Prime minister from a foreign country (Iraq) an anti-Semite.

    Please tell me you don't.
  23. Re:Oke... on Big Brother Wants Into VoIP At Any Cost · · Score: 1
    If your not with us your with the terrorists or must have something to hide. Yes we wiretap your calls, log all your intertet traffic, and look over your shoulder, but it is to protect you!
    Becuase of course, raising your taxes, redistributing wealth to support the people who won't even TRY to work makes us all free too.

    Gross generalizations work both ways.
  24. Re:Big brother here we come! on License Plate Tracking for the Average Citizen · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Oh, so you mean I just need to put an IR filter over my tag? Since we can't SEE IR with our eyes, we just have a high-pass light filter on our tags such that police can view them with their eyes, but not this pesky tomato-suace spy cam. 1.) Post SCARY article about possible big brother tracking you everywhere 2.) Market ir filters for tags... 3.) Charge 4x market value to /.TFHC (slashdot tin foil hats club) 4.) Profit~!!!!

  25. Re:Timing on Feds Arrest Private Eye at HOPE · · Score: 1

    Or maybe they knew exactly what this would look like. So, they specifically chose this time and place to throw the scent off another investigation. Some people in Government are actually highly intelligent strategists.

    Or it could just be that they knew where, when, and how. Makes it easier that way.