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  1. Fastest? on Green GT's All-Electric Supercar Unveiled · · Score: 2, Informative

    "...the most powerful electric race car ever built."

    Maybe for a certain class of race car, but The Buckeye Bullet broke 300 mph years ago, and the new model will have been tested before this Green GT car is built.

  2. Yeah right on A Chip on DVDs Could Prevent Theft · · Score: 1

    Sound great, until someone gets access to a machine that can change the little chip...

    Oh yea, and they'd have to have one of those machines at every cash register.

  3. Non-uniform heights on The Math of Text Readability · · Score: 1

    How does this law apply to punctuation and multi-part characters like i and j? Does the area to left of the space between the dot and stroke of the i count towards the 'volume'? Does all small punctuation have to be exceedingly far away from everything to maintain that space, or does the law just not apply in such cases (in which case, what is the generalized law?). Cool idea none the less, but it'd be nice if it were better specified.

  4. WTF on What Vista Is Really Like · · Score: 1

    When I buy something, I make sure it will do what I want it to, and if doesn't once I get it, then I'll get rid of it and buy something else. This guy just goes out and gets vista, discovers it can't do anything useful but since it has some graphics changes from XP he'll get used to it. That's exactly the apathetic behavior that causes so many things to suck. He really needs to grow a pair and do something about the fact that he just blew a few hundred dollars on a piece of junk. Instead of writing a metaphorical post to live journal he should go find something that does what he wants it to do.

  5. Yep, this is real news right here... on Water Logic Gates Built at MIT · · Score: 1

    My dad built the same thing over 30 years ago when he was in high school.

  6. First... on AMD Reveals Plans to Move Beyond the Core Race · · Score: 1

    First we made specific hardware for the task at hand.
    Then we made more general hardware and specialized with software.
    Now we're making specific hardware again...

  7. Re:Open Source? on Open Source Spying · · Score: 1

    Did you even read the /. post none the less the artical? It says 'open source software' not 'open source intelligence'.

  8. Open Source? on Open Source Spying · · Score: 2, Informative

    Just because they said Open Source on one of ten pages doesn't meant they're talking about open source software. Blogs and Wikis are concepts, and it wasn't mentioned what software they run on. The whole thing was just about (surprise surprise) how much technology sucks in the government, and how two people (out of all of inteligence community) are trying to change it. The reported just used the term 'Open Source' to mean shareing.

    RTFA.

  9. No Ads on Philips Shows Light Emitting Clothing · · Score: 1

    Quit thinking there are going to be ads everywhere just because they put a screen in a shirt. If you haven't noticed, we can print stuff on tshirts already, and sure you see some branded shirts, but you don't go railing off on how bad society is because people wear their free microsoft tshirts. And anyways, since the display can be changed companies won't have a way to make sure their ads stay on the shirts.

  10. Re:OK we need more info on this... on Eight Hour Coding Session Causes DVT · · Score: 2, Funny

    The UK isn't part of the USA. There's like some water between them.

  11. Smart Kids on Steve Jobs In Praise of Dropping Out · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I don't think people at stanford need 'brainwashed' into thinking that they should get an education.

  12. Re:What defines a scripting language? on The State of the Scripting Universe · · Score: 1

    The operating system isn't acting as a intepreter, it's being invoked by the program.

  13. Re:my version on Google's X Files Vanish · · Score: 1

    Very nice, the text above the icons gets a bit jumpy, but fun to play with none the less.

  14. Mitnick on IE Vulnerable to Cross-Browser Spyware Attack · · Score: 1

    I think this would be a good time to mention Kevin Mitnick's book "The Art of Deception" which focuses "on the human factors involved with information security, Mitnick explains why all the firewalls and encryption protocols in the world will never be enough to stop a savvy grifter intent on rifling a corporate database or an irate employee determined to crash a system."

    http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0471 237124/qid=1110834651/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/103-192461 8-6149422?v=glance&s=books

  15. Nothing New on Google Goes to Answers.com · · Score: 0, Redundant

    As noted, this isn't anything new, or really interesting for that matter. I saw it a while back, and although my first response was negative since I'm use to dictionary.com for looking up words, I really don't mind it.

  16. Power on CeBIT 2005: SLI Shuttle Surfaces · · Score: 1

    Don't SFF cases usually have weak psu's, and don't high end video cards consume lots of power? Doesn't seem like a good match to me.

  17. That'd be me on Ohio Wants eBayers to Post $50k Bond · · Score: 1

    My family is slowly preparing to move to another house in the next few years, and one thing we're doing is getting rid of stuff, since it'll be a smaller house. One thing I planed to do was put all my old collector toys on ebay to get some money out of them (some of those junky old toys sell really nicely). I've never used ebay before but I'd probably be going into the more than casual user group really quick with some of the stuff I have.

  18. Re:This is great but... on Introducing 802.11s - Wireless Mesh Networking · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I believe the idea is that each node is also hooked to the internet, or at least a good number of them. From there the pressure on any one internet connection could be reduced by distributing it to other nodes. However, even if a mesh was seperated, there would still be an internet connection for each side of the divide.

  19. Re:Universal slashdot translated summary on Kong in Concert - Donkey Kong Country Arrangements · · Score: 1

    Yea, but your posting on slashdot, so you've just lost your chances at getting laid.

  20. Lightsabers on Dave Barry on Electronic Voting · · Score: 1

    Who paid Yoda for all that jedi training?

  21. Some Good Links on Best Training in Linux Administration? · · Score: 2, Informative
    Here's a good online book:
    http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html.gz

    The best place for questions:
    http://www.linuxquestions.org/

    More reading:
    http://www.tldp.org/

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