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  1. Re:Google on Reverse Engineered 802.11b+ Drivers · · Score: 1

    The funny thing that if you search on his quoted text, you get nothing on Google, because there's no match when you include the '+' on the end of 802.11b. perhaps he was commenting on the slashdot editors/story submitter getting 802.11b 'wrong'? Or was just being pedantic, when most people would assume that 802.11b+ == {802.11b, 802.11a, 802.11g}

  2. But would it be legal... on Overture To A Patent War? · · Score: 1


    If Google is getting sued for patent infringement, would it be legal for google the company to use google the search engine to find prior art? :-)

  3. So, what we need is for the congress-critters to.. on House Bill to Make File-Sharing an Automatic Felony · · Score: 1

    get email that when the link is clicked, it uploads some copyright data (some windows dll) onto a P2P network. Then all the congressional staffers are in jail and they can't pass any more stupid laws!

  4. Re: The bastion of freedom and democracy on DirecTV Sues Anyone Who Bought Smartcard Reader? · · Score: 1

    Revised list:
    Law-makers

  5. Re:Legal extortion. on DirecTV Sues Anyone Who Bought Smartcard Reader? · · Score: 1

    That's right officer, I burried that smart card reader at the bottom of that pile of garbage...

  6. Re:latex has its problems on Is Latex Still Worth Learning? · · Score: 1

    I don't know any TeX or LaTeX, but it seems to me that you should have created your own style file for the first conference/journal, and then since it was already factored out, you would have only to have created a different style file for the second conference, not revisit the whole document.

  7. Re:prepare on Merger (or Acquisition) Recommendations? · · Score: 1

    Better yet, make sure that the deal (the in writing part) makes you rich enough that when they lay you off the day of the merge, you are happy about it!

  8. Re:FireWire, USB on Switch On For Powered Data Networks · · Score: 1

    What RJ45 connectors have over USB and Firewire connectors is that they don't pull out when the cable get's tugged.

  9. Re:My Network security... on Guido van Rossum Leaves Zope.com · · Score: 1

    Yeah, you don't have to worry about security, because you've already been 0wned.

  10. Re:Dammit! on Wal-Mart Cancels RFID Trial · · Score: 1

    Never mind, a quick search showed the readers being WAY too expensive for the cats I don't like anyway. Maybe I'll just shave them and tattoo bar codes on their sides :-)

  11. Re:Dammit! on Wal-Mart Cancels RFID Trial · · Score: 1

    Actually, I was just thinking that an RFID scanner would make those cat doors which only activate when the cat is wearing a collar with a big magnet hanging off it more useful. (Our cats are always losing their collars)
    Wonder how much a scanner is.

  12. Re:In-dash distraction on Hardware-Based Commute-Map Gadget · · Score: 1

    Anytime you're moving and your eyes aren't on the road, you're putting yourself and everyone around you at much greater risk.

    That's why I support doing away with Spedometers in cars!
  13. Re:Cat 5e vrs. Cat 6 on Building A (Serious) Home Network From Scratch · · Score: 1

    Fiber is cheap. Terminated fiber is _very_ expensive. You can lay unterminated fiber, and then terminate it later, when you actually need the fiber.

  14. Re:Doesn't change the law on Is ROM Collecting Wrong, or Just Misunderstood? · · Score: 1
    > Many people mistake copyright as being > about money--it's not. It's about control. Not according to the constitution. According to the founding fathers, it's about promoting the science and the arts:
    To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
  15. Re:The other side on RFID Explained · · Score: 1

    Octopus is only anonymous until you swipe the card in front of a camera with face recognition software. From that point, they've tied the RFID to the person, and they know it was you buying detergent and gasoline in large quanities, or maybe just porn...

  16. Cool, I can offer up my daughers for sex w/guests. on Biblically Themed RPG Discussed · · Score: 1


    I've always wanted to do that, since I look to the bible for 'right behavior' :-)

  17. Re:Pipedot. Geek news without the slant. on X-Box Hackers Trying to Blackmail Microsoft? · · Score: 0, Troll

    Really, on Slashdot, I expect that suggesting you read the article would get modded down as a Troll!

  18. Re:What for ? on TiVo Data Collection Ramifications · · Score: 1

    Not all the ads. My wife always gets pissed at me when I say, "wait wait, backup, I want to see that ad." Usually a movie ad for a movie I think I want to see. But there _are_ _some_ other good ads. Though, they don't seem to work very well, because I can't remember the brand of a single one of them! :-)

  19. Re:Current G4 Supplies Depleted - what's NeXT ? on Massive WWDC Rumor Roundup · · Score: 1

    You can get a pretty nice NeXT ADB keyboard and an ADB->USB adaptor and use the keyboard on your mac. I did that for awhile, then convierted to a Belkin USB keyboard that I cut and re-routed traces so that CapsLock->Control.

  20. Re:"Dated installation" ?!? on Sun's Last Stand · · Score: 1

    All my home PC's have the 'ok>' prompt, or similar. My Macs, and my NeXTs. Oh wait, I did buy that one PC on eBay for the Tape Drive, but it's just gathering dust...

  21. Re:Read carefully the FBI warning at the beginning on On The Legality of Public Viewing? · · Score: 1

    I hope that the school lost their shorts, being that they were indoctrinating the kids with that Disney crap. There's plenty of educational PBS content for kids, no reason to show the sugar-water stuff.

  22. Re:Demographics are not an invasion of privacy. on TiVo To Sell Customer Data · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah, the trouble is that _everyone_ over generalizes.

  23. Re:macos x on Mount Remote Filesystems via SSH · · Score: 1

    I think one of the biggest mistakes that Apple did was not doing away with resource forks as file forks when going to OS-X. I understand that they needed to preserv the API of resource forks for all the classic and Carbon programs, but they could have had the back-end implemented as separate files with well-specified names. When NeXTStep would mount HFS filesystems, you could access the resource fork by opening #rsrc#. This would allow easy POSIX access to all of the Mac filesystems, allowing 'rsync' and 'tar' to handle _all_ the files you generate under OSX.

  24. Re:RMX is designed to take care of that on The Anti-Spam Research Group's Plan for Spam · · Score: 1

    Actually, I think I'm going to go with Sonic.net. Based on what I've been reading they have a great community going via usenet and local groups where I'm moving to (Sebastopol, CA), and have a bunch of rabidly happy/positive customers.

  25. Re:Hidden Features on The Anti-Spam Research Group's Plan for Spam · · Score: 1

    I've got SMTP-AUTH running on my qmail setup at home. Wasn't too easy, and needed a patch, but works like a charm. Even for work email that I send from my home machines, I send it via my home SMTP server, since it tends to be more reliable than my ability to get to the SMTP servers at work (not sure if it's the connectivity or the actual MTA at work). I just hand it off to qmail, and let it worry about retrying delivery as needed.