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  1. Re:yeah stupid question indeed on Cleanfeed Canada - What Would It Accomplish? · · Score: 1

    How about, "Country X doesn't care as much as Canada about a website hosted within their country that contains child pornography"?

  2. Re:Electronic igniters on Igniting a Programmed Fireworks Display? · · Score: 1

    Creating e-matches is pretty simple - one method is to use your nichrome wire you mentioned and coat the middle with a bunch of black powder. Wrap the fireworks' fuse about this, and run some copper wire to the nichrome - the nichrome heats up (doesn't spark or melt) and ignites the black powder, which ignites your fuse.

  3. Re:Knoppix on What Live CDs Do You Carry Around? · · Score: 1

    ..and not just a liveCD, but I'd have a DVD version kicking around too..seeing as it has nearly every program you could ever want as a temporary solution to something.

  4. Re:Math problem on Wi-Fi Exploits Coming to Metasploit · · Score: 1

    Off-topic, but i = current in amperes for [electrical] engineers. So j is used. 'Course, doesn't help that i, j, and k are unit vectors..

  5. Re:(sigh) on Voting Machines Wreak Havoc in Maryland Elections · · Score: 1

    So you have more people do it. In Canada, every single vote is hand-counted.
    Each federal riding (a "county") typically has 80,000 to 100,000 constituents. Each of those vote for a local running candidate, and at the federal level, the party with the most voted-in members (MPs) becomes the "leader".
    I think it's called "democracy" ;)

  6. Re:Not much, anymore... on How Much Virtual Memory is Enough? · · Score: 1

    4GB of memory is about $400+, $400 is the cost of the entire computer for most users. How could you possibly claim that everyone should have 4GB?

    Not quite $400. Although it's not far off ($300, although a friend of mine purchased 2GB for $80 from newegg), you argument is slightly fallacious. "Most users" don't need 4gb of ram because of the price, but because they have no need for it. Gaming is still comfortable at a quarter of that or less.

  7. Re:Cell Phones on Can Faraday Cages Tame Wi-Fi? · · Score: 1

    That sounds about right, as there were a few cellphone-looking antennas sticking out of the modular office buildings near where the "hotspot" was. There were all sorts of dishes on top of the buildings, which looked a lot like line-of-sight wifi connections.

  8. Re:Cell Phones on Can Faraday Cages Tame Wi-Fi? · · Score: 1

    ..Although it's easy enough to set up GSM/cell phone repeaters, is it not? I worked in a remote construction site which had a local (analog..) cell antenna for cell phone usage. I do not know how it worked, but the nearest tower was out of range for phones.

  9. Re:Whatever happened to... on Building Your First Cluster? · · Score: 1
  10. Re:Find the problem before trying to solve it on Building Your First Cluster? · · Score: 3, Funny
    Cluster need special software to take advantage of the disturbed computing.

    Well, indeed, clusterf*cks might turn your distributed computing project into a disturbed one..
  11. LiveCD Anyone? on A Closed Off System? · · Score: 1

    This sounds suspicously like a LiveCD or DVD of some sort of *nix variant - OpenBSD sounds good.

  12. Re:It's the hard drive, not the fire-wire on Speeding up Firewire File Transfers? · · Score: 1

    Ah, thank you sir, I stand corrected.
    On the other hand, it looks like I need to upgrade my own hardware..

  13. Re:"Review Pictures" job would get old really fast on The Man Behind MySpace · · Score: 1

    I personally did this for one of those free image uploading services. It was consequently sold, but in my "employment" (it was for a friend who supplied hosting), I just went through the thumbnails in my spare time. They were organized per IP, and you could select individual pictures to flag or the entire group. Porn uploaders usually uploaded lots of porn, so my access was easier _.

  14. Re:The last thing the world needs is more landmine on Networked Landmines Work Together · · Score: 0

    Yeah, I think Slashdot is a bit late.

  15. Re:They did this on Deep Space Mine on Networked Landmines Work Together · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I think you mean "Deep Space Nine".
    Freudian ;)

  16. Re:It's the hard drive, not the fire-wire on Speeding up Firewire File Transfers? · · Score: 1

    A modern SATA drive [...]
    Modern? This is from an old computer to a new computer - and those speeds would be for consecutive data. Which I suppose is fair, given that the user defragmented completely. But an IDE drive's speed is far less 400mbit/s.

  17. Mine already are on Why Aren't Powergrids Underground? · · Score: 1

    ..but it's just small, neighbourhood-size power in my town. But on the west coast here, we don't get huge storms that will knock out power - I see lightning 3 or 4 times a year. What does matter is an earthquake threat that'll knock out anything above ground (poles) and below (pipes, etc). Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

  18. Re:Slogan: on Pirate Party Comes to the U.S. · · Score: 1

    The grandparent was inferring to http://venganza.org/piratesarecool4.jpg as part of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

  19. IRC is too complex on Basic Internal Instant Messaging Solution? · · Score: -1, Troll

    Wahhhh.
    All the later chat protocols have been more complex than the IRC protocol :P
    Get them to install mIRC, and give each one an identical configuration script. Set it up to auto-join a server and channel(s) on startup, and then add mIRC to the windows Startup list.

  20. aa in linux? on ASCII World Cup · · Score: 1

    Isn't it easy enough to whip this up easily with aa and a TV decoder in *nix? Now that it's been /.'d. good luck watching now.. so do it yourself ;-)

  21. Application! on The End of Native Code? · · Score: 1

    You're going to get a lot of the same sort of responses now - lots of people arguing about a requirement that these non-compiled programming languages aren't suited for. Every language has a different purpose when its creator(s) decides what direction to take.

  22. Re:Solutions? on Indie Game Devs Should Give Up · · Score: 1

    And we all know Game Maker is far superior to The Games Factory :-P

  23. Re:Linux: A European threat to our computers on Nonsense with Google's AdSense? · · Score: 1

    Stop feeding trolls >:(

  24. Re:Linux: A European threat to our computers on Nonsense with Google's AdSense? · · Score: 1

    Oh man, that reeks of something horri - oh wait, I know. Troll, anyone?
    Made me laugh to read through it though. It should get +5 Funny.

  25. Re:fark-u-google on Nonsense with Google's AdSense? · · Score: 1

    I doubt that wget'ing the js would do much, but thousands of nearly-simultaneous requests..aye.