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  1. Preventing infection on Taming Conficker, the Easy Way · · Score: 1

    Could infection be prevented on a clean machine, by just creating the conficker mutexes when starting a machine, before the virus gets a chance? All you'd need is a small tool that would start as early as possible during boot.

    This same tool could also be used as a simple test for infection. If the mutexes are already there, it means the machine is infected.

  2. Re:Let it run for president... on Microchip Mimics a Brain With 200,000 Neurons · · Score: 1

    According to a recent discovery http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/24/1856221, the previous one apparently had built-in GPS.

  3. Free will in pairs? on If We Have Free Will, Then So Do Electrons · · Score: 1

    How does this free will work when particles are entangled? They chose each other?

  4. Muscle powered? on Fujitsu To Show Off "Zero-Watt" PC At CeBIT · · Score: 1

    Maybe it's hand cranked.

  5. It's also a time machine... on A Robotic Cyberknife To Fight Cancer · · Score: 1

    permitted to treat 50,000 patients in the first semester of last year.

  6. Re:Dutch are stingy on How To Make Money With Free Software · · Score: 1

    How can you be sure, if you never get out?

  7. Re:Dutch are stingy on How To Make Money With Free Software · · Score: 1

    Thank you for sharing your basement world view.

  8. Re:Polar orbit on Unbelievably Large Telescopes On the Moon? · · Score: 1

    Communication won't be a problem when using a polar orbit. But apparently this is more difficult than it sounds:

    http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2006/30nov_highorbit.htm

  9. Re:Article is missing a beard length pie chart on Becoming a Famous Programmer · · Score: 1

    That would explain the lack of women on the list.

  10. Re:this will go completely against the grain here on How To Convince My Boss Not To Spam? · · Score: 1

    >There has to be other employment for someone with your skills.

    That's right, the competitor could use someone with better emailing skills...

  11. Re:Maps of human travel on earth on Ancestry Surprises From New Genetics Analysis Method · · Score: 2, Informative
  12. Re:Surely there's an easier way...? on Japan's Cyborg Research Enters the Skull · · Score: 2, Funny

    > On the other hand, it would probably run linux.

    I guess that's going to impact the 80% rate, one hand running Windows and the other running Linux...

  13. EU Recommends Slashdotting? on EU Recommends Slashing Search Data Retention · · Score: 2, Funny

    Did anyone else misread the title?

  14. Re:why they chose nanaimo on Nanaimo, The Google Capital of the World · · Score: 1

    Doesn't 'nanaimo' sound like "Yo momma" to Filipinos?

  15. Re:Libaration on UN Makes Its Statistical Data Free and Searchable · · Score: 3, Informative

    Translated from cbs.nl:

    http://www.cbs.nl/nl-NL/menu/cijfers/statline/default.htm

    "StatLine is the free electronic database of the CBS (Central Bureau of Statistics). You can create your own tabels and graphs. The information is free and easy to print and download."

    "StatLine is de elektronische databank van het CBS. U kunt in StatLine zelf tabellen en grafieken samenstellen.
    De informatie is gratis en gemakkelijk te printen en te downloaden."

  16. I think they just stopped it. on NSI Registers Every Domain Checked · · Score: 1

    Or maybe their script got slashdotted. I'm trying maybethisoneisstilfree.com and petersowndomain.com and they just stayed available for at least 10 minutes.

  17. Imperial Mach on How We Might Have Scramjets Sooner than Expected · · Score: 1

    No, that's just Imperial Mach 1.6 versus Metric Mach 2.56.

  18. Re:Wait a minute... on Lunar Lens Takes A Step Forward · · Score: 1

    >>Borra envisions a telescope with a liquid mirror measuring 66 feet to 328 feet wide.

    > Anyone with any knowledge of telescopes will immediately see why astronomers are drooling right now.

    Okay, now they can start drooling:

    a telescope with a liquid mirror measuring 20.1168 m to 99.9744 m.

  19. Re:Where's the wheel? on PC World's 50 Best Tech Products of All Time · · Score: 1

    And what about beer?

    And birth control? Oh sorry, wrong croud.

  20. Re:Obligatory answer on New Horizons Probe's Images of Jupiter · · Score: 1

    And the probe won't go near Uranus either.

  21. Re:I swear... on Windows Genuine Advantage Gets More Lenient · · Score: 1

    I swear this is true.

    The Dutch version of WGA, after validation, is showing this option at the bottom:

    "Laat mij enkele voordelen zien van het gebruik van illegale software als ik op voltooien klik."

    Which translates to:

    "Show me some advantages of the use of illegal software when I click Finish."

  22. The Genographic Project on When Were the Americas Populated? · · Score: 1

    All of this should eventually match up with the Genographic Project: https://www3.nationalgeographic.com/genographic/at las.html

  23. Orion's Arm on Fermi Paradox Predicting Humankind's Future? · · Score: 1

    An interesting website, about a possible future where humans have already colonized part of the galaxy:

    http://www.orionsarm.com/main.html

  24. Re:I'm going to invest on Public Iris Scanning Device In the Works · · Score: 1
  25. Re:Fight it how? on Fight DRM While There's Still Time · · Score: 1

    "When somebody can give me a sound, scalable, generic and implementable economic design"

    How about using time? Protected content should automatically become free, a certain amount of time after it has been created. Movies could be freed after 3 years, music after 2, software after 5, etc.