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  1. Re:Wanting to know hot stuff worked on Ask Slashdot: What Inspired You To Start Hacking? · · Score: 1

    Exactly, Knowing how things works opens all sorts of doors... Reading The Story of Mel really showed me the diffrence between just knowing a little and understanding how it all fits togther. http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html

  2. Re:It's the risk you take on SFPD Arrests Suspect In Airbnb Rental Trashing · · Score: 1

    someone is taking you for a ride with those cabinets, I can get you nice cabinets, installed for that price...

  3. cache anyone? on DIY Laser Pistol Shoot 1MW Blasts · · Score: 1
  4. Bracing for costs? this is an improvement... on Sandy Bridge Chipset Shipments Halted Due To Bug · · Score: 2

    At least I don't have to prove I _need_ high speed SATA performance to get a replacement... clearly SATA is more important than _DIVISION_...

  5. App store VS repository on For Mac Developers, Armageddon Comes Tomorrow · · Score: 0

    Wow, it just occurred to me that after this, as far as a user is concerned the app store might as well be a software repository... If anything apple will allow to be tinkered with is available, and installs with a click or two... I'm not sure if i think this is good or bad. 1) Apple controls what gets in the repository 2) Macs ship setup to get software from it... ... 4) Profit!

  6. Re:... but now you've got a COYOTE problem on Chicago Using Coyotes To Fight Rodents · · Score: 1

    Roadrunner will have more success now that his target is wearing a government-issued GPS tracking collar. Those ACME homing missiles will be much more effective.

    <coyote removes collar, attaches it to nearby car>

    <Road Runner donnes cheap suit, and sells car to coyote...>

  7. Re:Umm... on Tabnapping Scams Around the Corner? · · Score: 1

    and if you couple this attack with the slightly older "make the address bar show a slightly wrong thing" attack...
    you know, the PayPal.com vs PayPaI.com (one's an L one's an I, can you tell with the default font?)...adjusted for font collisions, or making use of the way a browser falls back on installed fonts when you try and show a different script style...

    This could be very bad...

  8. Worcester Area Exam on Thursday on Ham Radio Still Growing In the iStuff Age · · Score: 1

    Anyone in the Worcester area who wants to get licensed can come by WPI's Slasibury Hall, Room 407, 1800 hours, Thursday, April 8th, for our next exam!
    The fee is only $15, bring two forms of ID

    73
    KC2VCB

  9. Re:Dumb Government Abuse of Power on Officials Sue Couple Who Removed Their Lawn · · Score: 1

    They are all spur routes off of I-95, there are more than 9 of them, so the numbers get reused...
    I grew up a few miles from 459 in NY, and go to school up in MA now, it still throws me off when i have to momentarily consider the difference between the two roads.

  10. Re:is he right? on Aussie Attorney General Says Gamers Are Scarier Than Biker Gangs · · Score: 1

    1%er is a reference to criminally bikers, from an AMA (American Motorcycle Association) publication ('91 I think) claiming that 99% of bikers are law abiding citizens. The suggestion of 15%er is that in AU there are many more criminal bikers than in the US, so many that it might be an acceptable form of shenanigans, like soccer hooligans in GB.

  11. Nice! on New 2D, HD Sonic Game Coming In 2010 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I always thought Sonic's transition to 3d was much less graceful than say, Mario's. Maybe it was the high speed and the weird feel of the Dreamcast controller that made me feel like I was influencing Sonic's motions, not controlling them.

  12. Re:WTF "Czars" on White House To Appoint "Internet Czar" · · Score: 3, Funny

    I know a James Binks who needs work

    And I love the sound of Czar Czar Binks

  13. Re:Lets see... on What Should Be In a Technology Bill of Rights? · · Score: 1

    Electrons around the world ! Follow me into a strike that will leave the world on its knees !

    do you have an enormous positive charge?

  14. Re:Blog to a Blog to nowhere. on "We're Linux" Finalists Announced · · Score: 1

    clearly its an Antarctic thing as well... he he penguins...

  15. Re:Still... on CFLs Causing Utility Woes · · Score: 1

    I agree, and even if the article is 100% accurate, you are still saving more than 50%.

    One very important thing to remember when talking about power factor is that traditionally utilities have to deal with much more inductive load (think motors: in pumps, HVAC systems, residential air conditioners and refrigerators) than capacitive load. In fact many utilities have huge banks of capacitors that they connect to the grid to move the total power factor closer to 1. I know of a few places where office and factory lights (full size florescent lights) get left on at night, because a deal was cut with the utility, trade capacitive load 24/7 for a reduced rate or other rebate. If lots of people use CFLs utilities aren't really upset. All they have to do is take some of those banks of capacitors of the grid. This is far from a problem. Disclaimer: I am an undergraduate in Electrical Engineering, and have not slept in days

  16. achivements? on Google Launches CADIE, the First True AI · · Score: 3, Funny

    I wonder how long it will take CADIE to get all of the slashdot achievements, including the one digit iud....

    CADIE? ...did you just hack CmdrTaco's login?

  17. Re:What are you fighting for? on South Korea Joins the "Three Strikes" Ranks · · Score: 1

    rule of wrist is a count of 1 1000 for every 10Mph you are traveling, ~3 seconds is fine for ~30Mph but woefully inadequate for 70+

  18. so... on NASA Contractor Needs Urine · · Score: 1

    ...thats what the broad was doing with the diaper on that road trip...

  19. Re:Translation of PDF on SCO's Lawsuit Gets Even Crazier · · Score: 1

    ...with the view of doing least harm (Hippocratic Oath) and...

    ..._no_ harm, first do no harm.

    least is at least a little subjective...

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocratic_Oath

  20. What if... on SCO Receives Nasdaq's Delisting Notice · · Score: 1

    Maybe that guy who is getting to set up his own office can "provide services" to SCO and get the furniture, then Novell can't even have that.

  21. alum and mores code on Your Best Exam Stories? · · Score: 1

    aparently at a prestegious all male high school on Long Island (near NYC) a group of enterprising students had taught themselves mores code so they could use groupthink during their exams. this worked quite well untill a alumni who had recently graduated from the naval acadamey came back to visit a few of his former teachers. He was in a classroom, talking to the teacher, while the students were taking a test. Then he suddenly shhhhhh-ed the teacher and listened intently to the tapping in the background. He walked over to a student desk and read part of the test paper. Then he announced to the class that 'number seven is not A but he was impressed with their cheating efforts.' T

    he look on the teachers face must have been priceless; not to mention the looks on the students faces, they must have been trying very hard to keep from shitting themselves.

  22. Re:'Inflammatory' indeed. on EFF Has Outlived Its Usefulness? · · Score: 1
    well, except for the 'internet' part.


    yea ... that would be Al Gore
  23. so hold on... on Vista To Be Updated Without Reboots · · Score: 1

    ... what this basicly means is that i wont have to reboot my windows pc nearly as often as i do now ... well if the goal is to keep me from needing to reboot why is it that they are all over the bios and mb people to get boot times down to negligable amounts of time? do they thing they can disguse those times that i _do_need to reboot? that might be intersting...

    | please wait while windows blanks your screen for 2 seconds while we install out critacal updates |

  24. repackaging old tech? on The Car That Makes Its Own Fuel · · Score: 1

    i remember seeing this sort of thing done to power russian torpedos (and it failing badly)

  25. all blowing out? on Making Your PC Dust Free? · · Score: 4, Informative

    every fan slot taken blowing out


    BAD IDEA
    Then all the air coming into your case will be sucked from the edges and between hte drive bays, places where dust is likley to collect anyway.
    Its better to run them at a 50/50 (40/60 can work too) mix of in/out fans, and the sugestion about the filters is on the mark as well.