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  1. Re:I already thought of this.. on Larrabee Based On a Bundle of Old Pentium Chips · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You should look at this . 256 8 bit processing engines. Their product lineup used to have a product called the K1024, which had a PPC core with 1024 of these 8 bit processing engines.

  2. Re:Attn: Viacom on YouTube Must Give All User Histories To Viacom · · Score: 1

    I am Jack's loop back address. Without me, Jack could not resolve the address 'localhost.'

  3. Re:It is not a sign of success, really. on Firefox Breaks 8 Million, Gets Into Guinness · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's not Microsoft they're worried about pissing off. Network Associates and Symantec pay OEMs good money to pre-install McAfee and NAV. If you promote a browser less likely to get a machine infected, and the 90 day trial AV doesn't intercept an infection, the AV makers have no reason to advertise their software on your machine.

  4. Just did a youtube search. on YouTube Must Give All User Histories To Viacom · · Score: 1

    For "fuck viacom." It yielded some interesting results. I also hope that someone at viacom catches it in the search statistics when the review the data that youtube has to hand over.

  5. WTF?? on Guide to DIY Wiretapping · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The article also links to this product. They never had toys this fscking cool when I was a kid.

  6. Re:A blast from the past on Guide to DIY Wiretapping · · Score: 1

    That's good. You have taken your first step into a larger world.

  7. Re:How do you wiretap a cell phone? on Guide to DIY Wiretapping · · Score: 1

    The article references software for smart phones that you can install on your spouses/coworkers/employees/etc. phone that function as a back door. Additionally, there has been mention that the scrambling on GSM phones has an implementation vulnerability that can be broken with a couple of FPGAs. There was an article on /. within the last year or so.

  8. Re:voltage drop on Guide to DIY Wiretapping · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If you were going to build your own tap, you could add a variable resistor inline to the hook switch. Before listening in on the call, you would dial the resistor up to its highest value, pick up the line, and then reduce the resistance until the audio was at a level you could understand. You could take it down to its minimum value as long as you did it slow enough that the volume drop wasn't noticeable. The professional taps would intercept as soon as the line was picked up though. You wouldn't notice a drop in volume.

  9. It was.. on Guide to DIY Wiretapping · · Score: 2, Informative

    The official, albeit illegal kind do occur at the telco, at least these days. Before modern switching a residential tap would have be the way it was done.

  10. Re:Yes, but does it run on Linux^H^H^H^H^H on Mac OS X Root Escalation Through AppleScript · · Score: 1

    Yes, but only on the "iCoffee Touch" line of coffee machines.

  11. Re:Question on Mozilla Outage On Firefox 3 Record Launch Day · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why is it that 24 hours after the crash happened, we're now hearing about how the servers were down 24 hours ago? Because this is Slashdot, where describing servers engulfed in flames is a type of fetish pr0n.
  12. Re:...Brought to you by Carl's Jr. on 35 Articles of Impeachment Introduced Against Bush · · Score: 1

    You wouldn't happen to be Fred Dalton Thompson, would you?

  13. Re:Don't worry NASA is not stupid. on NASA Plans Probe to the Sun · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You owe me a new keyboard. I just spit soda all over it.

  14. Re:first post on Google Earth Beaten By Autorendering From Photos · · Score: 3, Funny

    You should feel right at home here, then.

  15. Re:People don't seem to learn from reading, either on Barack Obama Wins Democratic Nomination · · Score: 5, Funny

    That doesn't make sense. That's Gandalf's line, not Saruman's. :)

  16. Re:Bought two used ones a long time back on Inside the TRS-80 Model 100 · · Score: 5, Funny

    From page 4 of the article: "Peeking in from the left is the reset button, which the user needs from time to time due to a few pesky bugs in the ROM code, reminding us that even non-Windows systems can crash." I guess the quality of Microsoft software has stayed the same as the days when Bill was writing code.

  17. Re:Where on Google Earth is Carmen Sandiego? on Google Earth, Now With Browser Goodness · · Score: 1

    Why did this get modded funny? I used to love When in Time is Carmen Sandiego. Google Earth + Wikipedia = Kick ass Carmen Sandiego Action.

  18. Re:A crack-high moment. on Bill Gates: Windows 95 Was 'A High Point' · · Score: 1

    Sure do. My high school had a 3.11 box with trumpet and the 16 bit Netscape Navigator. Then they got a second machine. They called me into the library one day because their tech could figure out why the new Win95 machine they got kept crashing when they tried to run their copy of Navigator on it. The 16 bit Navigator was expecting a 16 bit winsock stack. Navigator would open up fine and you could load local .htm (friggin 8.3 fat names) files, but as soon as you would request a site, boom. Got the 32 bit version for them and everything was cool.

  19. Re:And so it begins. on Unofficial Homebrew Channel For the Wii · · Score: 1

    Except that Nintendo doesn't sell the Wii at a loss. They make profit on each unit sold. This was covered on /. over a year ago.

  20. Re:Hooray for cos-play Star Wars on The Secret History of Star Wars · · Score: 2, Insightful

    A person whose sig quotes "Howard the Duck" does not get to tell anyone what constitutes as dorkiness. For the record, I find Howard the Duck to be quite funny and I've never dressed up as a Star Wars character.

  21. Re:Great News! on Microsoft Acknowledges NBC's Wish is Its Command · · Score: 1

    <Homer>Your ideas are intriguing and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.</Homer>

  22. Re:DVD on Linux Desktop to Appear On Every Asus Motherboard · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the info. Do you have a link to the series? I'd like to read up on it more.

  23. Re:Why did this not effect TiVo. on NBC Activates Broadcast Flag · · Score: 1

    Maybe NBC snuck this one in there to see who was lying about being Broadcast Flag compliant.

  24. Re:DVD on Linux Desktop to Appear On Every Asus Motherboard · · Score: 1

    I could see it as an add on feature, but they probably didn't include it for three reasons.

    1. They would have to get each board licensed to legitimately play back DVDs.

    2. The only commercial decoder is from Cyberlink and I don't think they make in anymore.

    3. The linux crowd, myself included, would be pissed off at proprietary stuff in splashtop.

    Assuming that a splashtop image flashing becomes a possible task, there will be plenty of people loading decss and their favorite player.

  25. Re:Bad Precedent on Linux Desktop to Appear On Every Asus Motherboard · · Score: 1

    Older macs also (New World firmware, before OpenFirmware) had toolbox ROM which actually was api calls on ROM. The Performa series had the ROM chip on the removable cache module, IIRC.