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  1. Re:I dunno.... on Can Time Slow Down? · · Score: 1

    Also, the subjects must kill evil leather-jacketed goons to refill their bullet-time meter first.

  2. Re:Wish there was a Mormon Trail... on Academic Games Are No Fun · · Score: 1

    "You have died of dysentery."

  3. Illegal video downloads on Ask MST3k Creator Joel Hodgson · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Recently on my college campus there has been a huge rise in popularity of MST3K among people who have never seen an episode before. I think this is due to the ease of illegally watching episodes online. Do you think that this trend is good or bad?

    Alternate question: What is it like to watch regular movies with those jokes going on inside your head?

  4. Re:Makes you think?? on Cannabis Compound Said To "Halt Cancer" · · Score: 1

    There is a myth about such highs: the user has an illusion of great insight, but it does not survive scrutiny in the morning. I am convinced that this is an error, and that the devastating insights achieved when high are real insights; the main problem is putting these insights in a form acceptable to the quite different self that we are when we're down the next day.
    -- Carl Sagan in Marihuana Reconsidered (1971)
  5. Re:I just can't keep up anymore on Microsoft Plans Flickr Competitor · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but unlike Zooomr, I'm pretty sure Microsoft won't just make a 1 to 1 copy of the Flickr html and tie it together with django and 10 kb of python.

    There are some seriously good people working at Microsoft and they have a corporate policy of constantly reinventing the wheel. Usually this is a bad trait, but in this case it might work out for them.

  6. Re:Say what? on Microsoft Plans Flickr Competitor · · Score: 1

    Windows Mobile 6 is pretty sweet. It's functional, pretty and almost never crashes. Feel free to reply with your horror stories, everybody.

  7. Re:Exhaustive? on Cracking Go · · Score: 1

    I really hope nothing screws up the Go experience by solving it, at least not until I'm old and crazy. Fortunately there are considerably more ending possibilities than stars in the visible universe.

  8. Re:Finally! on Your Chance to be an Astronaut · · Score: 1

    Good luck! I meet all the requirements except for the degree. I'm still in college. If you make it, you've gotta post on /. from space.

  9. I hope... on NetApp Hits Sun With Patent Infringement Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    I hope they are trying to hit Sun at night.

  10. Re:IBM guidelines on IBM to Regulate Employee Second Life Behavior · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it looks like you're right. The business conduct guidelines are written in very terse legalese to keep themselves covered. The blogging guidelines, which are written more informally, seem perfectly reasonable. "Don't be a dick while representing our company to the public."

  11. A real cloaking device?? on Merely Cloaking Data May Be Incriminating? · · Score: 1, Funny

    And with how quickly my posts are being modded up/down, I could use the polarity change as a new source of clean energy!

    Slashdot is truly the breeding ground of new technologies.

  12. Re:So...? on IBM to Regulate Employee Second Life Behavior · · Score: 2, Informative

    I seem to be having the same problem today. I think Slashdot is getting "raided" by idiots from 4chan or something. Either that or the mods are all on acid.

  13. Re:Other types of cloaking... on Merely Cloaking Data May Be Incriminating? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Offtopic? I think this is a perfect question to ask. Why is it incriminating simply to have something in a format that investigators might not understand? What if I decide to keep all of my documents in Mandarin instead of English? Is that incriminating?

    Also, The linked article is on local vulnerabilities in two common forensic software packages and doesn't even mention data "cloaking" techniques. If anything is offtopic here, it's the article or the headline.

  14. Other types of cloaking... on Merely Cloaking Data May Be Incriminating? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What about using a rare file system? If I want to put all of my stuff on ZFS and the FBI can't read it will they ship me off to Gitmo?

  15. Re:IBM guidelines on IBM to Regulate Employee Second Life Behavior · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Your private life is very much your own. You are, however, an IBMer both on and off the job and a conflict of interest may arise if you engage in any activities or advance any personal interests, at the expense of IBM's interests.
    Nice. "Your free time is very much your own as long as you aren't doing anything we don't like."
  16. Re:OT: E.V.O.O doesn't mean what she thinks it mea on Compound From Olive-Pomace Oil Inhibits HIV Spread · · Score: 1

    Thanks, I'll let "him" know.

  17. Re:OT: E.V.O.O doesn't mean what she thinks it mea on Compound From Olive-Pomace Oil Inhibits HIV Spread · · Score: 1

    His mistake wasn't using olive oil. His mistake was using extra virgin olive oil.

  18. Advantages on Are In-Depth Articles Better Than Blog Postings? · · Score: 4, Funny

    There are huge advantages to popular blogs and social news sites. For instance Slashdot can:
    - Provide commentary by famous people like Wil Wheaton and... well, just Wheaton, really.
    - Melt unsuspecting servers into slag
    - Ruin the ending to the next Harry Potter book (bastards.)
    - Display your news in borders of your favorite color or pink
    - Make you laugh at cooking/AIDS jokes
    - Determine whether something could, in fact, run Linux

  19. Re:HIV is not AIDs on Compound From Olive-Pomace Oil Inhibits HIV Spread · · Score: 1

    Ah nevermind, there is a story about it directly on the university's website.

    Linky
    It even has the researcher's email and telephone. I love academia.

  20. Re:HIV is not AIDs on Compound From Olive-Pomace Oil Inhibits HIV Spread · · Score: 1

    Didn't I read about this in that "All Natural Cures THEY Don't Want You To Know About" book? A quick google search reveals a few other pop-sci sites reporting the same stuff, but no link to a paper. There does seem to be a Andrés García-Granados at the Universidad de Granada, according to their website, but this sounds too much like a miracle herbal cure.

  21. Re:OT: E.V.O.O doesn't mean what she thinks it mea on Compound From Olive-Pomace Oil Inhibits HIV Spread · · Score: 1

    Olive oil's low smoke point could be dangerous when frying. I know a guy who cleaned a cast iron pan with olive oil and then heated it to about 500 fahrenheit. Luckily he didn't burn down his kitchen, but he's still cleaning the smoke marks off the wall.

  22. Re:Start counting here on Attempts to Count Linux Users Remain Pointless · · Score: 1

    With the BSD license's ability for projects to be relicensed by third parties, I think it's safe to say that BSD will always be dying and never be dead. Like some zombie OS, it has been reportedly killed many times but still hungers for code.

    COOOOOODE.

  23. Re:1501 on Ubuntu Dell $50 Cheaper Than Vista Dell · · Score: 1
    The 1501 apparently ships with a wide choice of wireless cards. The following command will get you the make and model.

    lspci | grep Wireless
    Mine is the 1390. The rest can be found here.

    I had the same problem. I used the driver from a howto guide that would let me connect for about 3 seconds before turning off my card until I rebooted. If Dell would just use different file names for their different driver files, this wouldn't be a problem.
  24. Re:1501 on Ubuntu Dell $50 Cheaper Than Vista Dell · · Score: 1

    That's a good point. A google search turned up a serious exploit that was patched back in November (before I loaded the driver, fortunately.)

  25. Re:1501 on Ubuntu Dell $50 Cheaper Than Vista Dell · · Score: 1

    Yeah. WAP, WPA everything works fine. The win wrapper works better than the fwcutter method, but since it is a windows driver you have to make sure it's the right driver package. There are a bunch for the 1501 and some will work with less features and stability. Really it was only as hard as your average Windows driver hunt.