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  1. Re:Thank goodness I'm not in the US.. on 34 ISPs Subpoenaed By U.S. Government · · Score: 1
    Religious people don't just want to remove [insert_immoral_action_here] from their own life. They beleive it is their sacred duty to prevent everyone else from doing it as well.
    And furthermore, he's fighting Islamic radicals to prevent them from doing exactly the same thing, but with a different immoral actions list.

    Too bad I am in the US. :(
  2. Re:Opera? on Slashdot Firefox Extension · · Score: 2, Informative
    Hey, just stick a header on there, delete the "javascript:", save that as some_file_name.user.js, and that's a Greasemonkey script!

    Not that it seems to work for me, Greasemonkey or otherwise. Did /. munge some characters?

    Example header:
    // ==UserScript==
    // @name Slashdot View Moderation
    // @namespace http://your-web-site/
    // @description If you hover over the comment Link (#15013415) it will pull the moderation results for this post with xmlHttp, and display the result table in a DIV tag, beside the current post.
    // @include http://slashdot.org/*
    // ==/UserScript==
  3. Re:Reasoning based on false assumptions on U.S. Internet Growth Stalling · · Score: 4, Informative

    Likewise, from the end of the article:

    Puente doesn't even have a computer at home. That would mean spending close to $1,000, plus an additional $15 to $20 a month for Internet service, not to mention the inevitable upgrades. "You always have to buy some new software to make it juicier," she says. "What kind of juice would I be getting out of it? Nothing."

    1. You can get a computer for ~$500.
    2. I have internet for $7 a month (going up to $10 after the first year).
    3. Aside from software required for school or work, I haven't bought any software in years. There are too many good free/OSS solutions out there!

  4. Re:bad weather? on Balloon Based Wireless Floated · · Score: 1
    From TFA, the balloons will float above any storms.

    noblach is certain the balloons will work for cellular service in North Dakota -- even in cold or stormy weather. He said balloons were launched even during Hurricane Katrina.

    Up to 20 miles above the earth, well above commercial airliner pathways, steady stratospheric winds would push the latex balloons across the state at about 30 mph.
  5. Re:There's a Botnet named Brain? on Botnet Brain Pleads Guilty · · Score: 1

    Or better yet, a botnet formed a brain!

    Today the infamous Botnet Brain pled guilty to attempting to take over the world. It has agreed not to infect any more computers, and will spend the rest of its days in jail computer labs performing community service.

  6. Re:127.0.0.1 on How Interesting is Your IP Address? · · Score: 1

    Yes!

    Your IP address has scored: 12. This is ranked #2565 of the 9288 IP's spotted so far.

  7. Re:It's almost slashdotted ... on How Interesting is Your IP Address? · · Score: 1

    Hey! They said the Mirrordot IP was not interesting. But 2 is a prime, dangit!

  8. All these incidents on What Should People Understand About Computers? · · Score: 1

    It would be nice if they understood why all the people in these incidents were stupid.

  9. Re:Hey, that's my idea! More things to consider... on Smart Elevators Coming to Seattle · · Score: 1

    How about putting the kiosk system on the LAN? Enter your destination at your desk, let the wait time be the 60 seconds it takes to walk to the elevator (or enter a specific wait time say 5 minutes), and have no standing around!

  10. Re:Balance is the key on Meetings are Bad For You · · Score: 1

    That's why Scrum can be good - if you follow all the rules.

  11. Re:Dynamic Demand on Smart Power · · Score: 1

    That web site has a cool power meter, which gives me an interesting idea. If PCs could receive dynamic power data like this, which was reliable (and they claim this meter isn't calibrated), they could be set to adjust their screen blanking interval accordingly, which would save a great deal of power from CRT monitors.

    The user could set a minimum, average, and maximum screen-blanking interval, and an extreme power emergency could force monitors on, or maybe even off.

  12. Re:Remember every web browser is spyware too. on Apple Responds to iTunes Spying Allegations · · Score: 1

    - operating system name and version
    Huh. I never noticed this in my Firefox headers before.
    - your CPU type
    I don't see this in the headers either.
    - usually your ISP
    Well, they get that from your IP, which it's hard to avoid sending (you need an anonymizer proxy).
    - your browser and version and sometimes extras added onto your browser
    This really helps send a version of the page that will display correctly. And it's mostly harmless.

    If you want to get rid of anything but your IP, there's the Proxomitron. http://www.proxomitron.info/
    I think I'll delete my OS info.

  13. Re:Windows/dos more difficult than linux for me on Switching to Windows, Not as Easy as You Think · · Score: 1

    Psst... Floppys use FAT-12. http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/file/partSizes-c.ht ml

    Actually, Windows is a lot better than it used to be, in the old Win98/DOS days. You can do simple loops with commands like for (though they're ugly). To get help on any command, just do command /? (like -? in *NIX). There is help on some command-line commands in the Windows help (though it's hard to find).

  14. Re:Why not scramble all DLL's and EXE's on the fly on Interview with Ilfak Guilfanov (WMF Patch Hero) · · Score: 1

    Has anybody written a scrambler like this for generic executables? Of course it wouldn't have fixed this bug, but it could be very useful in the future.

    Is this along those lines?:

    http://www.itlocation.com/en/software/prd54552,,.h tm

  15. Re:Prime numbers aren't all that rare. on New Possible Record Prime Number Found · · Score: 1
    It's not clear exactly how many 0's your numbers have. But testing around that range, 10^10000000+13 is not divisible by any number less than 8 billion, according to NewPGen. When testing to 1 trillion, I find that around 1/100 numbers tend not to be factored. The Prime Number Theorem says that roughly 1 in 23 million numbers of that size will be prime. So this number has a roughly 4 in a million chance of being prime.

    Anybody want to run a PRP test on this number? It will probably take at least 2 CPU-months.

  16. Re:Whao this has so many digits on New Possible Record Prime Number Found · · Score: 1
    Except that people will see that your GPG key is so large it has to be composed of one of a very few primes that have enough digits. That narrows the search to one or two primes.

    Not to mention that using a prime of this form means Williams' P+1 method will crack your key in no time!

  17. Re:FPGA prime number calculator on New Possible Record Prime Number Found · · Score: 1

    There once was a dedicated prime-finding device called a Dubner Cruncher, but those are getting pretty old.

  18. Re:SETI on far side of the moon? on SETI Disrupted By Cell Phones in Airplanes? · · Score: 1

    I like what I presume is Buzz Aldrin's plan (from his book, Encounter with Tiber). You land one radio receiver in a crater. A crater isn't a perfect dish, but it's not too bad. Stick the reciever up on a pole.

    Then, whenever you get more money, send up a robot with a piece of radio-reflective material. Have it land itself in the same crater (this is the trickiest part), find a spot, and shape its material to focus on the antenna. Eventually you get a fairly good, though omnidirectional, radio telescope.

  19. Re:Images available on Huygens Probe Lands on Titan · · Score: 1

    They seem to have been pulled.

    I saved a couple. Only one that I haven't seen elsewhere.

    Copy/paste the url:

    http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/Ken_g6/triplet.436. jp g