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  1. great on Theo de Raadt On Firmware Activism · · Score: 1

    to see people out there really pushing hardware co's to open up and increase their potential client base... you think this would be something they would undertake on their own...

  2. features on Nokia Smart Phone Recognizes Handwriting · · Score: 1

    lots of features are great but are there no longer people who want a phone that is just a phone... i long for the days where a cells screen displayed 1 line of text and was a pocket calculator style lcd... who's with me!... nobody? thats ok

  3. I laugh at your format... on Shootout: 'rm -Rf /' vs. 'Format C:' · · Score: 2, Informative

    You want your data really gone... Follow these rules... The DOD rules for HDD disposal. 1. Triple Overwrite security erase. 2. De-gauze with a powerful electro magnet. 3. Crush drives with a cement roller. 4. Melt fragments into slag. 5. Bury Slag in a secure waist disposal site under a minimum of 6' of cement.

  4. tv on Canadian Public Radio Streaming Ogg Vorbis · · Score: 1

    if the cbc makes an attempt to put their video online and encode it in an open format that would be pretty amazing and set quite an example for other public orgs...

  5. campaigns & tech on U.S. Election Gives VoIP Traffic A Bump · · Score: 2, Insightful

    it's been rather interesting to see the campaigns uses of technology this election... from blogs in the dem primaries to the databases and communication networks that were being used to drive the vote for the election... hopefully now that the people who make up the gov or at least aspire to are beneficiaries of these technologies they will think hard before trying to add useless regulation to them...

  6. the act... on How has the USA PATRIOT Act Affected You? · · Score: 1

    looks lit it will likely be made permanent in the second term... judjing by most of the comments in this thread there are some legitimate concerns over it's reach and use... it would be prudent for all the people who have expressed concerns here to contact their congressman and let them know...

  7. Neat... For now... on Standards-Based CSS/XHTML Slide Show · · Score: 1

    Neat uses of existing technologies such as XHTML/CSS just put more focus on the need for standards compliant browsers like Firefox... However the likleyhood of IE7 conforming to standards doesn't seem too high since these very standards give people alternatives to products that are MS's bread and butter... I've seen some XULs that will bring the browser wars to a whole new level...

  8. 1MB on IBM Smart Card OS On A 1MB Smart Card · · Score: 1

    1MB may be amazing by todays standards but it's quite likely with constantly falling flash prices that we may see smart cards sporting 512MB+ in the near future... Possibly changing the way people use systems in corporate and public environments...

  9. benchmark on RC4 Code Achieves 319 MB/s On AMD64 Opteron · · Score: 1

    rc4 will be my new performance benchmark...

  10. lcd on Are LCD Displays Ready For Gaming? · · Score: 1

    lcd technology has come a long way since the days when "real" gamers still only used crt... nowadays you'll be hard pressed to see a difference... other than the extra desk real estate

  11. shadowcrew on High-Tech Crimes Revealed · · Score: 1

    if you're looking to buy books as howto giudes you'd best pay cash... what happened to shadowcrew should serve as a reminder that "they" may be watching you.

  12. ogg on Simplest Ogg Streaming Clients for non-Unix Users? · · Score: 1

    it seems that most all players that now support mp3 support ogg (not hardware players) with the exception of windows media player which you need to manually install the codec for...

  13. true... on Why Apple Should Port Games · · Score: 1

    you think this would be obvious most of the people i know who are mac fanatics still have an x86 box that they turn on for games only... other people would never try a mac in the first place because it could never be their all-in-one solution

  14. support on Apache 1.3.33 Released · · Score: 1

    does anybody know off hand how long they will contunue to support apache 1.x

  15. sata on The Art of Cable Folding · · Score: 1

    i'm guessing they're not talking about serial ata cables :(

  16. sco sues slashdot on SCO Gives up on Linux Website · · Score: 1

    i noticed there was no link to sco in the story... probably a good idea to avoid doing anything that may lead to a barrage of litigation...

  17. space race on China Plans 5-day Manned Space Mission · · Score: 1

    looks like a new space race is under way... it will be interesting to see who is next to the moon

  18. spring on Monitoring the U.S. Elections Online? · · Score: 1

    i hope we aren't monitoring this thing until the supreme court decides who is president. hopefully there will be a clear winner and we can all move on.

  19. prices on An Exhaustive 16X DVD Burner Roundup · · Score: 1

    it is amazing to see that prices have come down so much that you can now get a top of the line dvd burner for under $100

  20. hardware... on OpenBSD Activism Shows Drivers Can Be Freed · · Score: 1

    once there are more people/companies that only buy hardware with oem open source drivers companies will rush to get their own drivers ready