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  1. Re:Bookmarking this! on Judge Rules in Favor of Websurfing at Work · · Score: 1

    Nope, not yet.
    Besides my boss seems to have the attitue of:
    If your work gets done I'm happy && as long as I don't get heat for your actions I'm happy
    As long as both those conditions are met I'm free to do what I want. These last few months I've been working on a kids to work day project using sound energy and resonance.
    -nB

  2. Alpha on Everyone's A Beta Tester · · Score: 4, Funny

    The new beta.

  3. Re:Why are you using Verizon email anyway? on Verizon's Aggressive New Spam Filter Causing Problems · · Score: 1

    speaking of which, does anyone know how to get bandwith and bandwith only at a lower price than will all the extra crap? (I'm in SBC territory)
    -nB

  4. Re:Berkeley on Start-up Could Kick Opteron into Overdrive · · Score: 1

    But according to another /. article http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/04/ 24/0358210
    This will fund terrorisim by allowing us to transcode media files at an absolutely astounding rate*.
    -nB

    * Actually this looks great for the likes of LAL, Pixar, and other video shops. I'm a die hard Intel fanboi (last used AMD on my 386sx33) and this has me looking to buy a platform....
    Didn't someone try this on the memory bus once? Someone by the name of neuron? Whatever happened with that?
    -nB

  5. Re:This is what I think about ARS on Google Violates Miro's Copyright? · · Score: 1

    sux2bu sux2bu sux2bu sux2bu sux2bu sux2bu sux2bu sux2bu sux2bu sux2bu sux2bu sux2bu sux2bu sux2bu sux2bu

    Now where's my babana?
    -nB

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  6. Re:Not really security on N.Y. County Mandates Wireless Security · · Score: 2, Interesting

    yup, even with wep/wpa you can sniff the ssid off packets.
    -nB

  7. Re:Not really security on N.Y. County Mandates Wireless Security · · Score: 1

    o_o
    My sunday morning just got lots brighter. Thanks for the laugh.
    -nB

  8. Re:Question on Evolution of the Netflix Envelope · · Score: 1

    I always double up.
    Im my logic a single slightly heavy envalope is cheaper than two just over half as light ones.
    Also, it mitigates breakage by reinforcing the parcel better (that or I'll loose two at once).
    -nB

  9. Re:Careful! on Evolution of the Netflix Envelope · · Score: 1

    kinda wish they did though...
    Might be embarassing when they give you new reccomendations ;)

  10. Re:Neat to see. on Evolution of the Netflix Envelope · · Score: 1

    That depends... I've gotten some very flimsy ones in the past.
    Anything that comes from more than a couple counties away tends to have a 50/50 chance of being broken.
    Once I got the remains of an envalope, and one shard of dvd in one of those plastic USPS "We're sorry" bags. I returned the whole mess to netflix in a 8x12 manilla envalope with a netflix mailer taped to it.
    -nB

  11. Re:Tourism & fishing on Tilting At Windmills · · Score: 1

    Does the water get to deep?

    yes

  12. Re:Too True on Tilting At Windmills · · Score: 1

    Funny thing is that you are right, but the enviromentalists don't know they are being tooled in many cases.
    Not all enviromentalists are tools, but those that are likely have no idea :-)
    -nB

  13. Re:Too True on Tilting At Windmills · · Score: 1

    Once again the idea of running on the platform of shooting all the stupid people in government is calling to me....

    -nB

  14. Re:But ... on Wildlife Defies Chernobyl Radiation · · Score: 1

    While I realize that you are trying to illustrat a point through absurdity, let me attemt to answer that:

    Because it is $DEITY's will
    Because it was a "natural" process
    Because it was a "natural" process that $DEITY designed for
    Because a doctor didn't do it
    Because they don't know how to stop it from happening
    Because they haven't thought of that yet (and damn you for giving them another idea :-)

    -nB

  15. Re:But ... on Wildlife Defies Chernobyl Radiation · · Score: 2, Informative

    The only way a child is going to be affected is if it is directly exposed or if the mother were to have an uptake of radioactivity large enough to expose (significantly) the child some time later. An uptake of this size would preclude the mother from living long enough to give birth.

    No, it wouldn't.
    If the exposure was enough to damage the DNA in the Ovum (or sperm in the male, should mating have occured shortly after the bombing), then the offspring could have a genetic anomoly without the mother receiving a lethal dose.
    These anomolies could be silent, preclude procreation, be fatal to the fetus, or simply be disfiguring. In all cases where the fetus is not sterile and survives, they will be passed to subsequent generations.
    -nB

  16. Re:Diluting on Wildlife Defies Chernobyl Radiation · · Score: 1

    -1 nitpick, but:

    "This, along with any other short lived isotopes, is long gone from the environment."

    No, it has been reduced to the point that we can not detect it. The whole half life thing means that there is still some left, just not much. Thus the correct statement is:
    This, along with any other short lived isotopes, is no longer a threat in the environment.

    (wouldn't be /. without the nitpick eh?)
    -nB

  17. Re:While we're doing movie quotes on Wildlife Defies Chernobyl Radiation · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Before.
    Though it had limited use.
    The one place it worked well was on the user home dirs. Quickly got to see who's accounts were bloated well above the average. Seing it as a bunch of 3D objects allows your brain to use the visual centers to perform averaging functions and such, much like the current GPGPU effort now that I think about it ....
    -nB

  18. Re:So just for perspective... on How Vista Disappoints · · Score: 1

    SharePoint == evil app
    -nB

  19. Re:You've got to love Apple on Apple to Build Second Campus · · Score: 1

    no no NO.

    The building would be named infinate loop and the street address would be 1 second st.
    -nB

  20. Re:Problem with hosts... on Livejournal Bans Ad-Blocking Software · · Score: 1

    Installed the UA extension. Do you have an import list of the most common search engines?
    Cheers,
    -nB

  21. Re:I'm waiting. on Tiny Biodiesel Reactors · · Score: 1

    you must be new to this country.
    .
    .
    .
    .
    I's OK you'll either adjust or go insane.
    -nB

  22. Re:Come on on Should Linux Use Proprietary Drivers? · · Score: 1

    I have a feeling that newer GPUs are more ASIC than they used to be, but the older units did in fact have a large array of gates, whose functions were defined by the driver. They were not so generic as a traditional FPGA, but there was lots of room to change features around.
    -nB

  23. Re:plausible deniability on Open-Source or FIPS-Validated Disk Encryption? · · Score: 1

    Yup, at least in my case.
    -nB

  24. Re:Come on on Should Linux Use Proprietary Drivers? · · Score: 1

    Exactly, the only reason this doesn't work on many mainstream cards is that they are AGP, which for this kind of use is a unidirectional bus (output only).
    -nB

  25. Re:If only.. on Mafia Boss Using Crook Crypto Captured · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm willing to bet he "discovered" this cipher on his own. Had he researched it at all he would have known better.
    -nB