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  1. Truth is Stranger than Fiction on Man Cures Himself of HIV? · · Score: 1

    Does this sound like Saint Shapely to anyone else?

  2. Ambiguous Domain A Problem Too on Lessig - Public Domain Dead in 35 Years · · Score: 1

    There are tons of works out there that would be great to reuse, remix, recycle, but the original or current author/owner is hard to find or almost unknowable. This makes it difficult for people to use these thing for fear of getting sued at some later date. Is there a way to make this more balanced?

  3. You Want Prior Art? on Google to use TrustRank for News, Possibly More · · Score: 2, Interesting
  4. Re:the books dedication on Linux Cookbook · · Score: 1

    Well, sadly it appears that carla's partner passed away recently and people closer to their home than the pope don't approve either.

  5. Photo of One of the Pranksters on Caltech Pranks MIT's Prefrosh Weekend · · Score: 1

    With the prank images hosted in ~gremmer it wasn't too hard to dig up likely prankster Isaac Nielsen Gremmer and his residence, with a map to his room.

  6. Re:PVR-350 + MythTV = Love at First Sight (Almost) on Hardware MPEG2 TV Tuners Compared · · Score: 1

    The problem is xv doesn't work with the PVR-350 currently. The output is made up of two layers, one the MPEG-2 decoder output and two the overlay which X outputs to, using only x11, not xv. I'd be happy as a clam if xv worked with the drivers, but I'll settle for appropriatly working output to the decoder directly from the video player software.

  7. PVR-350 + MythTV = Love at First Sight (Almost) on Hardware MPEG2 TV Tuners Compared · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I've got an Epia M10K box with a PVR-350 that works like a dream for TV recording and viewing. The built-in encoder and decoder means the processor is barely touched when performing actions with the card. The only draw back is the non-MPEG-2 video/DVD playback. Without unpatched video players you are forced to use the regular x11 output which chews up enough processing power to make somethings unwatchable. There are some hacks for mplayer and xine to work around this, but so far they have had audio delay issues with my current setup or required downgrading the driver version for the card. For now I live with slight frameloss when watching DVDs, but am looking forward to new hacks on mplayer and xine.

  8. For Linux? on XGI, VIA Release Open Source Drivers · · Score: 2, Funny
    From the download site:
    To install the driver, save any unsaved work and close all applications then click on the driver download link (above). Choose the "Save File" option and save it to your folder under Windows where you file your drivers. Unzip the file. (To unzip the file right click and highlight "Extract All") Then double click on the Setup.exe file to run the installation program. Follow the prompts and restart at the end of the installation.
    Do you need WINE installed too or something?
  9. Mesh This! on Intel Announces New Chips, Chipsets · · Score: 2, Funny

    Now if everybody would just carry around one of these devices and cooperate in a mesh network then I could finally achieve my dream of....

    Well, it would be really cool.

  10. We Need a News Version of This! on P2P Bibliographies with Bibster · · Score: 3, Funny

    oh wait....

    Seriously, having a collaborative system for journalism with moderation and web of trust like elements could be wonderful - anyone got any bright ideas on how to do it?

  11. I don't get it... on Linux Violates 283 Patents, says Insurance Company · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Normally insurance companies offer a large population indemnification against certain things. The likelyhood of a large number of, say auto drivers, needed to cash in on their policy is low. But it seems that if you are insuring people who use the Linux kernel and there is a patent infringement in the kernel, then you could be faced with paying out to ever single one of your customers. Plus - couldn't it be a strategy for patent holders to go after those with insurance because they have a certain dedicated portion of money set aside specifically for that possibility?

  12. Former Cray Folks Move On on On the Supercomputer Technology Crisis · · Score: 2, Informative

    And do interesting things. And try to keep in touch.

  13. More Info on P2P Leaks Surprises · · Score: 1

    Looks like a few other sources have some info on this.

  14. Re:Since /. has no meta topics, this is ON topic on Phish Scams Fooling 28% of Users · · Score: 1

    Yes - it hurts my eyes too, especially on the laptop screen - viewing it even slightly off-angle makes it nearly unreadable.

  15. Legislation Making Testing and Research Harder? on Phish Scams Fooling 28% of Users · · Score: 1

    It seems like all of the anti-spam/phishing/whatever legislation lately will make testing like this illegal, or at least more difficult because of the threat of legal action.

    Maybe on the positive side though it will help reduce the amount of "Shocking!" yellow journalism that's out there.

  16. Re:so what does this mean for us? on Motorola Field Tests Wireless Broadband At 300Mbps · · Score: 1

    hmmm, getting spam while driving - a whole new level of road rage.

  17. Free Software Automobile Telemetrics? on Motorola Field Tests Wireless Broadband At 300Mbps · · Score: 5, Interesting

    "..traveling at typical highway speeds (in excess of 100 kilometers per hour or 62 mph)."

    With a connection like that you could easily set up some pretty cool homebrew telemetric systems. Maybe have a community database of good restaurants?

    "Car - please direct me to the nearest Thai restaurant favored by Slashdot readers who enjoy icefishing..."

  18. Re:I want my...I want my... on TiVo Bug Shuts Out Many Series 1 TiVo Owners? · · Score: 1

    Was the modding of this post supposed to be funny?
    Or do they just hate the Dire Straits?

  19. I want my...I want my... on TiVo Bug Shuts Out Many Series 1 TiVo Owners? · · Score: -1, Redundant

    TIVO

  20. Is it as cool as the Pulsar? on Tissot's MSN Direct SPOT Watch Reviewed · · Score: 3, Funny

    I wonder how long till it ends up here?

  21. Looks like their already dealing with it on Latest MyDoom Variant Gives Google Problems · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Just got this reply: Your client does not have permission to get URL /search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=e-mail+example.com&btnG=G oogle+Search from this server.

  22. Re:Its not racism...Nigeria has a problem on Africa Enters Global Market For IT Outsourcing · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Africa is a lot bigger than just Nigeria. Plus it seems any company trying to attract outsourcing would need to do a lot to maintain security protocols - otherwise no one would do business with them again.

  23. Light and Fluffy, but interesting on Africa Enters Global Market For IT Outsourcing · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's not super in depth, but over at cio.com they have interactive maps comparing different parts of the world for outsourcing.

  24. Gee, but I thought... on Operation Moon Bounce · · Score: 1

    these were moon bounces?

  25. Re:Funny little sidebar... on Ethernet at 10 Gbps · · Score: 1

    I certainly concede that my post was unclear, but it's really the kernel that matters here - the userspace stuff has little impact. For the record, I use Debian, Gentoo, and a little Slack when I have to.