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  1. Flash cards on Ask Slashdot: Best Software For Med-School Note-Taking? · · Score: 1

    http://mnemosyne-proj.org/ This is an excellent program flash card program. You rate flash cards by how well you know them and it does automatic scheduling. Cards you know well show up less often than cards you don't know. You can include images and sounds. It has a good tagging system so you can mark a card for multiple areas. You choose which subjects you want the cards to cover. For example, you could look at all your cards on coronary arteries regardless of subject, or you could look specifically at coronary arteries for one particular class. The key to getting the most out of this program is to include questions that cannot be answered with memorization. Include flash cards that force you to explain the why and the what.

  2. MBR virus on Simple Virus For Teaching? · · Score: 1

    Create a virus that overwrites the MBR making the computer non-bootable.

  3. Monitoring employees off hour on Employee Monitoring · · Score: 1

    In response -- spurred in part by stricter regulatory, legal and compliance requirements -- organizations are not only filtering and blocking Web sites and scanning e-mail. Many are also watching what employees post on social networks and blogs, even if it's done from home using noncompany equipment.

    How does this work? I don't get how companies would 1) know what your blog or social network ID is, and 2) how would they have access to it?

  4. Re:Good and bad... on A Tale of Two Windows 7s · · Score: 1

    The Ubuntu Netbook Remix UI is amazing. I use it on desktops too because it is so good. It is intuitive, functional, and space efficient. I wish the file browser was faster, but that's my only complaint with it.

  5. Re:Nitpicks on Meet Uzbl — a Web Browser With the Unix Philosophy · · Score: 1

    Especially since if you don't like the config files being in the home directory you can just write some symbolic links, and you're good to go. At least that way, it's fairly obvious where they are the first time you look for them.

  6. Re:take that SF on Judge Won't Lower $5M Bail For Jailed SF IT Admin · · Score: 1

    The point of bail is that you are supposed to be able to pay it! Most courts do have the option of denying bail if they think you are too dangerous to let out before trial.

  7. Re:Purpose on Slackware 13.0 Released · · Score: 1

    You should try Arch Linux. It's like Slackware in that it's very transparent what is going on, and it's easy to modify. It's unlike Slackware, since it has a very good package manager (pacman). Pacman also makes it pretty easy to update your entire system.

  8. Re:One word.. on Dirty Coding Tricks To Make a Deadline · · Score: 1

    break(3); or however deep you are in the loop.

  9. Re:power saving tip: disable the optical drive on Why Is Linux Notebook Battery Life Still Poor? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    My experiences are different. On all the laptops I've owned, and all of my friends laptops Ubuntu has a better battery life than XP. Something about anecdotes? It probably comes down to the which OS is better with which hardware.

  10. Re:It's about goddamn time on Mexico Decriminalizes Small-Scale Drug Possession · · Score: 1

    So the drugs that you would live from consuming would be weed, lsd, shrooms, and other misc. pscyhedelics? There's no pratical way to consume pounds of pot, they'd pass out before they could smoke it all. I guess you could bake it into a huge cake and have them eat it, but not many people can eat an entire cake.

  11. Re:Decriminalization in Light of the Drug War on Mexico Decriminalizes Small-Scale Drug Possession · · Score: 1

    The worst thing about the pseudofed sold behind the counter is that if you are sick late and night and run out, you can't get it. I don't know of any 24hr pharmicies where I live. The only 24/7 stores near me are Walmart, and Jack in the Box. Walmart's pharmacy closes at 9pm. This did me no good when I woke up sick at 2am. This also affects people with bad congestion as the decongestents that actually work have pseudofed in them.

  12. Re:More to the Story? on Verizon Sued After Tech Punches Customer In Face · · Score: 1

    The dog would bark loudly while you got you were attacked. Very few dogs unless they are trained to protect people will protect their master. Most people assume that because a dog is big and tough looking, he will attack an assailant, but this is rarely the case.

  13. Re:Worried about the cost of your actions? on Why Should I Trust My Network Administrator? · · Score: 1

    If no one gets hurt it's not theft. How about you give a plausible situation instead of a hypothetical statement? Morality is only relevant to real world dilemmas.

  14. Re:Why online "dating" is useful on Of Science and Choice In Online Dating · · Score: 1

    Maybe I have low standards, or I'm in a lucky area, but I'll date any woman once provided I don't think she's crazy, she's not fat, she doesn't annoy me, she's of at least average intelligence, and of at least average looks. I don't have trouble finding women like this. Politics and religion are not an issue for me, as long as they aren't pushy. I find it a lot more important that we get along well than if she's a liberal or a conservative.

  15. Re:It would help if the media weren't clueless too on Study Highlights Gap Between Views of Scientists and the Public · · Score: 1

    24 news is a scam. There is not 24 hours of newsworthy events in a day. On an average day 1-2hours. On an extreme day maybe 6.

  16. Re:What is free speech? on British Men Jailed For Online Hate Crimes · · Score: 1

    I think I heard of a statutory rape case of a white girl where they tried (maybe succeeded) with a hate crime charge. But I could be talking out of my ass.

  17. homosexist on British Men Jailed For Online Hate Crimes · · Score: 1

    Is the word you are looking for.

  18. Re:The Breakdown on The Dilemma of Level vs. Skill In MMOs · · Score: 1

    Fighting games: All about predicting your opponent.

  19. Re:Being an asshole makes people angry, film at 11 on Researcher Trolls MMO, Surprised When Players Hate Him · · Score: 1

    Oh man I loved that game. Force choking people into pits, kicking people off ledges, pushing/pulling jumping people to their death, what a blast!

  20. Re:Excellent! on UK Police Told To Use Wikipedia When Preparing For Court · · Score: 1

    Or the defense could just vandalize the Wikipedia page and then ream the cop's "expert Wikipedia testimony".

  21. Re:Switzerland and perhaps Estonia! on Emigrating To a Freer Country? · · Score: 1

    Switzerland is also very xenophobic, don't go there if you're black. By the way how would they react to a red haired person with white skin?

  22. Finland on Emigrating To a Freer Country? · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Finland has the best privacy laws in the world, and Finns enjoy a lot of rights, such as "right to roam". Finland also had women's suffrage in 1906, much earlier than most countries. Finland is also a highly technological nation, which since you post on slashdot, is probably a plus. Most of the people there will speak english to some degree, which should make communicating a little easier.

    Finland, however has disadvantages such as, a very difficult native language, immigrating will be tougher than other nations, cold weather, and possible invasion from Russia. If you like Finland, but can't handle the language, you could try a different Scandinavian country, as they all share the same basic values.

    You should find this link helpful, it has an immigration section. http://www.finlandforum.org/index.php

  23. Re:Since copyright is a government grant on China's Green Dam, No Longer Compulsory, May Have Lifted Code · · Score: 1

    Well to me the difference is that it isn't for an individual's personal use. I personally draw a distinction between piracy for personal use, and piracy for business use, and this is closer to the latter. It's different when you are profiting from piracy.

  24. Question for college network admins on Solution For College's Bad Network Policy? · · Score: 1

    My university has a ban on using wireless routers in dorms. What are some plausible reasons for doing that? They already require anyone who wants internet access to run antivirus and the Bradford Persistent Agent. This might also be true for intranet access. The university provides wireless in some areas, but not in any dorms.

  25. Re:Sure, move out. on Ballmer Threatens To Pull Out of the US · · Score: 1

    Some questions. Why is that a fallacy? Do wars help the economy? If so, why does this broken window fallacy not apply to wars?