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  1. Re:it's so dark... on Chalkboards With Brains · · Score: 1

    I thnk a real pity about this is that it seems to require the room to be so dark. can anyone think of a solution for this?

    How about Sony's Black Screen .
    I guess now they'll call them blackboards again.

  2. Re:I'm willing to bet quite some money on Trojan Built for Industrial Espionage · · Score: 1

    The identity of the person who wrote the trojans is known (and publicized) and so are the people who actually stole information from the companies, and the employees in the companies who requested the information.
    It's all in the article(s).

  3. Re:microsoft-bashing aside on Trojan Built for Industrial Espionage · · Score: 2, Informative

    I live in Israel, and this topic was just on the evening news. They interviewed a secretary in one of the corporations whose computer was compromised and confidential documents were stolen from it. It was a Windows machine.
    But that doesn't mean all of the infected computers had Microsoft products on them.
    The media coverage is pretty thin on technical details, but it is known (and I believe is stated in TFA) that the trojan was written specifically for each corporation, by order of the competing company at a cost of about 2000 GBP. So it is possible that some trojans were written for OS systems.

  4. Re:Not news on Iomega Patents 850GB DVD Nano-Technology · · Score: 1

    Cold Fusion has been promised by scientists for decades and used to appear in the news as the answer to all our energy problems every so often since the fifties.
    Lately, it seems this doesn't happen as often as it used to (I at least don't recall such an incident for some years now).

  5. Not news on Iomega Patents 850GB DVD Nano-Technology · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Every few months, some new technology pops-up with promises of greater storage capacity (all simpsons episodes on 1 disc!!1!1one) on today's or future optical/magnetic media.
    Be it some variation of Holographic storage, which has been promised over 10 years ago or something different.
    This is this generation's Cold Fusion.
    Besides, seeing how much trouble there is with the Blu-Ray and HD-DVD war, I doubt we'll see any other format come up in the next 7-8 years.

  6. Re:Mac? on Chronicles of Narnia Trailer · · Score: 1

    Try this (save as...)
    I used this direct link generator for Apple Quicktime trailers.

  7. Re:One question before we begin... on UK to lnstall Wireless Mics on London Streets · · Score: 2, Informative

    So, if we duct tape Google and Wikipedia together, they're unstoppable!

    Plagiarised

  8. Re:Troublesome on Fat Geeks Healthier Than You Thought · · Score: 1

    So while it is the food you eat, it is also your BMI.

    The point several posters tried to make is that BMI is a poor indicator for obesity, let alone health. As it doesn't take into consideration the fact that weight could be a result of fat or muscles tissue.
    if you want to measure how much fatty tissue someone has, use body fat percentage. Although, I wish there was a reliable way to easily measure that.

  9. Re:Ooohh... Google on GMail Getting RSS Aggregation Feature? · · Score: 1

    I don't like explaining jokes, maybe I should have bolded "errors".
    Maybe using Firefox/Mozilla for too long made you forget about IE's annoying habit of opening a dialog box every 10 minutes with some sort of warning or notifying you you've made an illegal operation and the police is on their way.

  10. Re:Ooohh... Google on GMail Getting RSS Aggregation Feature? · · Score: 1

    Almost forgot...the up and down errors work as well...give it a try.

    Just as I suspected, you're using IE!

  11. Re:Who decides the truth? on The Early History of Nupedia and Wikipedia, Part II · · Score: 5, Funny

    There is a saying, the victors often write history.

    With the wiki model, whoever has the most time to spend editing the work of others writes history.

    So basically, it's the losers that write history these days.

  12. Roses are red, Violets are blue on Google Founders Cut Salaries to $1 · · Score: 1

    Steve Jobs rocks, homage to you

  13. Re:How many... on Wikipedia Reaches Half a Million Articles · · Score: 5, Informative

    I don't know about spam, but none of these are "Stubs". As per TFA: Wikipedia currently has 501783 articles. That number excludes discussion pages, articles without links to other articles, very short ("stub") articles and pages about Wikipedia. Including these, we have 1405147 pages.

  14. Re:Actually.. on Israeli Army Frowns on D&D · · Score: 1

    In my "generic screening interview" a few months ago, I told the interviewer I read Slashdot and play CS. Luckily, so did he. But they won't let my intrests and my CS skills (not Counter-Strike this time, but Computer Science) stop them from recruiting me to the infantry...