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  1. Re:When BSOD hits... on Microsoft Invents Split Screen PC · · Score: 1

    yes, then one side will reboot and the other continue to operate normally.

  2. will never work: Rayligh fading, Doppler effect on The Real Reasons Phones Are Kept Off Planes · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You can redesign every plane, but still, it moves at 500mph, and the fading and Doppler effects will kill the cellular signal. Your handset is not capable of operating at these speeds.

  3. IBM and Intel both a anounced major breakthrough on Intel 45nm Fab Process Launched And Penryn Preview · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You are missing the point here. IBM and intel, on the same day (Friday), independently announced a breakthrough in transistor design. Now isn't this strange? The biggest advance in transistors in the last 40 years or so - and two different companies announce it on the same day?!?!? Fishy.

  4. Re:Worst Day Fishing better than Best Day Working on Living the Good Life, Leaving Google Behind · · Score: 0

    The thing is, in Googleplex they have a fishing pond.

  5. Re:iI like vi on The Birth of vi · · Score: 0

    you are aware of the fact that :x does the same as :wq, right?

  6. Re:The most retarded story ever? on Vista Hackers Get Busy · · Score: 1, Funny

    Also, by changing three files in Vista, you can trick it to think it is Win9x, and use 50 times less memory than it uses otherwise.

  7. Just use Latex! on Microsoft Office Genuine Advantage (OGA) · · Score: 0

    Easier, results look much more professional, most editors are free, ...

  8. Re:Grues on Interactive Fiction Then and Now · · Score: 0

    Good thing the lantern could last for at least 300 moves or so.
    Did you use to turn it off when reaching a room with natural light? I always tried to save battery power.

  9. McCarthyism on Search Companies Questioned About Chinese Policy · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    All over again.

  10. Re:Where's.... on Massively Multiplayer Games For Dummies · · Score: 1

    The Chinese translation will have a red cover, with a picture of chairman Mao on front.

    They are pretty stuck in translating though, since they couldn't find anyone in the world who speaks both English and Chinese.

  11. Cheat idea on Admission Tickets as Text Messages · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Let's program our cell-phone to display random barcodes at a fast rate. Put it in front of the barcode reader and wait for a few seconds. If we show enough barcode options, and I assume the barcode reader works fast, we might be able to fall on a valid one.
    How many digits are there in a barcode?

  12. Re:Google is a marketing Co. not a technology Co. on Google Default Search For Opera Mobile · · Score: 1

    You have something there, but I think that Google still has something under its sleeves.

    for example, check out gbrowser.com and gphoto.biz which are both registered to google inc.
    What are they up to? A browser and an online photo album? Wait and see...

  13. Re:blah blah blah on ISP Restrictions Based on Hardware/Software? · · Score: 1

    Put Micro$$$oft aside, you have to admit there is something true in the idea.

    You may know, that most mail spam is sent from 'zombie' computers, which have been taken over by spyware/virus. Some of These computers might belong to some 75-year-old who touches his thingy once a year. So, these computer owners, by their 'incation', cause damage to others (in this case, the people getting the spam, the ISP's mail servers, etc.) Why not block them? Really, why not? In the USA you could probably sue them too..

    True, the line you must cross is very thin, (between what to block and what to allow). But don't disagree altogether, because there is something there.

  14. I would like to see on Massive Graphics Card Review · · Score: 2, Insightful

    a gfx card that can draw not only polygons, but also natively draw round objects (i.e. circles).

  15. Re:Speed on A Look at Data Compression · · Score: 1

    And don't forget - never underestimate the bandwidth of snails with DVD wheels:
    http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/2 6/2251234

  16. Re:Why compress in the first place? on A Look at Data Compression · · Score: 1

    You sound a bit like Bill Gates who said nobody will need more than 640Kb of RAM..

    Also, data corruption has nothing to do with compression. Take an uncompressed EXE file, mess up a couple of bytes - and the whole package is useless.

  17. Re:Weird on Time Warner To Be Split Into Four Parts? · · Score: 0

    The merging has not stopped - see other fields. e.g. the Europian Union now holding - what - 15 countries?

  18. Re:Slashdot doing downhill on Study Finds Regulation Good For Telecom Customers · · Score: 0

    See, the problem is that /. is also a monopoly.
    Maybe we need some government to regulate what can and cannot be posted.

  19. Re:BBC article on World's Tallest Building Causing Earthquakes? · · Score: 0

    Allow me to take sides, and guess that there is absolutely no connection between the 101 and the earthquake.

    If anything, then surely the earthquake could be felt more on the top floors of the 101, that's due to simple physics.

  20. An alternative name... on Cyber Monday Doesn't Exist · · Score: 5, Funny

    From the article:
    They quickly discarded suggestions such as Black Monday (too much like Black Friday), Blue Monday (not very cheery), and Green Monday (too environmentalist), and settled on Cyber Monday.

    I would call it - 'November's fools day'.

  21. Re:I was killed by Linux on Lockheed Martin Selects Linux for Missile Defense · · Score: 1

    They forgot to put a no-killing-please section in the GPL.

  22. Don't use VI / VIM on Time Saving Linux Desktop Tips? · · Score: 1

    Use xemacs.

    Oh, and use sunscreen.

  23. Will Chris. Reeve be playing Superman? on Superman V: The Sordid Story · · Score: 1

    Maybe Marlon Brando will also get a part?
    seriously, who besides Gene Hackman survived from the original 1978 cast?

  24. Re:What about Tolkien? on Top 20 Geek Novels · · Score: 1

    There are two different translation of 'Hobbit' to Hebrew. The story goes:
    during the ongoing war between Israel and Egypt in 1970, a group of 10 Israeli pilots were taken as POWs by Egypt. During the few years they were in prison, they got a package from the Red Cross with the books 'Hobbit' and the ring trilogy (in English). In order to keep themselves occupied, they translated 'Hobit' to Hebrew. It took them 4 months to complete the job. After that they did not go to translating the trilogy (although they were in prison for 3 more years!) because they said the translation caused a lot of arguments between them, and disrupted the shared life they tried to create.
    I read their translation and it is a fairly good one.

  25. Re:YAD on RetroCoder Threatens Security Vendors · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Win XP was a dup of Win 2000 and no one seems to complain.
    G.W.Bush is a dup of G.Bush and no one seems to complain.

    Or do they?