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  1. Running MD5sum on Unregistered (with no carriage return) produces the hash 84b8026b3f5e6dcfb29e82e0b0b0f386

    The article used a lower-case u in unregistered, which produces a different hash.

    Still no luck on figuring out e6d290a03b70cfa5d4451da444bdea39
    My email address doesn't hash to it, so I guess I'm not being singled out.

  2. Good for finding vermin? on Police Nation-Wide Use Wall-Penetrating Radars To Peer Into Homes · · Score: 1

    I could have used one of these last summer when I had rats in my walls.

  3. Re:horse drawn transport on Ask Slashdot: Sounds We Don't Hear Any More? · · Score: 1

    ... which obviates the quintessential: Buggy whip

  4. Plural of cyclotron on The Mystery of Glenn Seaborg's Missing Plutonium: Solved · · Score: 0

    = cyclotron's ?
    I simply stop reading when an author makes obvious grammar mistakes.

  5. Re:Ubuntu 12.04 LTS = No Skype for me on Skype Unveils Preview of Live English-To-Spanish Translator · · Score: 1

    Skype used to work well - and yes multiarch was and is on.
    Then Skype would run but always fail to connect to the server.
    I am not the only one with this problem.

    Did you pull an updated Skype release from another repository?

  6. Ubuntu 12.04 LTS = No Skype for me on Skype Unveils Preview of Live English-To-Spanish Translator · · Score: 1

    It would be great to use Skype again, but alas it ceased working on my 12.04 box.
    I was a paying customer (i.e. Skype out) until Microsoft decided that it would no longer support me.

  7. Re:I laughed on Chinese Government Moves To Crack Down On Puns · · Score: 5, Funny

    Puns don't kill people, comedians with puns kill people.

  8. Better Question on Ask Slashdot: Best Drone For $100-$150? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Best way to disable a camera drone?

    If I see a drone outside my second story window, I'd like to take it out.
    Water gun?
    Frequency jam?
    Simple pellet gun?

  9. Cell Phone Interceptor - link to sales page on Judge Unseals 500+ Stingray Records · · Score: 1

    These have been around for years.
    Police departments can buy one from:
    http://www.meganet.com/meganet...

  10. Heart Attacks & Strokes on Doubling Saturated Fat In Diet Does Not Increase It In Blood · · Score: 1

    Obesity, Smoking, Exercise, Genetics, Diet

    Diet is only one small part of the problem
    Genetics - well you're stuck with them - your children are stuck with yours
    Smoking is hard to quit for some
    Exercise - well nobody like to exercise
    Obesity - on the rise - due to sugar, salt, and fat in boxed foods - who cooks from scratch?

    My rant is over

  11. Deep thought on fMRI Data Reveals How Many Parallel Processes Run In the Brain · · Score: 1

    While driving about a dozen years ago, I thought: "Wow, I'm thinking."
    Then I thought: "Wow, I'm thinking the thought: "Wow, I'm thinking.""
    Then I thought: "Wow, I'm thinking the thought: "Wow, I'm thinking the thought: "Wow, I'm thinking."""
    Fortunately I didn't crash.
    However, I couldn't get to the next level without my mind drifting elsewhere.

  12. The Sound of Music ... on Why Scientists Think Completely Unclassifiable and Undiscovered Life Forms Exist · · Score: 1

    ... with which the hills are alive.

  13. Re:Misleading- Good will is common accounting on Steve Ballmer Gets Billion-Dollar Tax Write-Off For Being Basketball Baron · · Score: 4, Informative

    There is no loophole here.
    Imagine buying a truck to use in a business. The cost of the truck can be written off against earnings over a number of years instead of all at once. The accounting principle here is to spread the cost of the asset over its useful life.

    Goodwill is also an asset that can be written off over a number of years. It's an intangible asset with a more ambiguous useful life. The mechanism for writing it off over 15 years instead of, say, 40 years may be questionable. Government policy to attract investment may have led to the 15-year period.

    So long as Ballmer is forced to follow the government's rules and he spreads the cost over many years, I see no problem..

  14. Proper Plural on Apple 1 Sells At Auction For $905,000 · · Score: 1

    Everybody should know the proper plural of Apple 1 is Apples 1 and not Apple 1's.

  15. There is a real problem on ChromeOS Will No Longer Support Ext2/3/4 On External Drives/SD Cards · · Score: 1

    If Google had scripted
    chgmod 777
    everytime a device were plugged in, I suppose people would be complaining about how everyone had access to their files.

  16. Bluish People on NVIDIA Presents Plans To Support Mir and Wayland On Linux · · Score: 2

    I remember watching blue people in flash videos.
    At the time, I blamed NVIDIA / vdpau.
    However it was really Adobe Flash crossing red and blue that caused me to see smurfs everywhere.

  17. Re:Still being made... on The Greatest Keyboard Ever Made · · Score: 1

    I was about to post the same thing - but name the business as well - Unicomp

    It's a good choice, especially if you want a foreign Moldel-M keyboard.

  18. Forget their computer on Ask Slashdot: Remote Support For Disconnected, Computer-Illiterate Relatives · · Score: 1

    You could pay about $100 per year to use Skype to call their telephone whenever you want.
    Alternatives to Skype exist.
    Calling cards are possible (I've had success buying from Nobelcom.com).

    You wouldn't be able to attach any photos, but they're not fun with dial up anyway.
    You would have to call your parents when you are all awake, but calls are more personable than email.

  19. Re:999 on High School Student Builds Gun That Unlocks With Your Fingerprint · · Score: 1

    For the given purpose, 999 is a very large number.
    What sort of firearm requires more than 999 different people to use it regularly?
    A rifle for people learning to shoot might be used by thousands of people over its lifetime, but not all of these people need regular access to the firearm. When a person will never use such a farearm again (i.e. he or she passes a course), that person's fingerprints should be erased from the weapon's memory.
    If a weapon could conceivable be used by more than 999 people on a regular basis (perhaps a backup weapon for a number of military units), perhaps it shouldn't be fingerprint locked in the first place.

  20. Human Subjects on Anti-Ebola Drug ZMapp Makes Clean Sweep: 18 of 18 Monkeys Survive Infection · · Score: 2

    When the human testing starts, should it be old people first? afftected-continent people first? family-receives-high-payment people first?

    I think they should be volunteers at the very least.

  21. Re:Other strange update issues.. on Microsoft Releases Replacement Patch With Two Known Bugs · · Score: 1

    My experience somewhat mirriors yours:
    On the 2nd Tuesday, I connected my Win7 box to the Internet to install the 2nd Tuesday patches.
    After reading a Slashdot article, I uninstalled two patches on the bad-patch list.

    Yesterday, I connected it to the Internet to install the August 27 patches.
    This was a no go. Windows Update was broken and the Windows Update Troubleshooter was no use.
    Only a rollback to a mid-July restore point got the machine going properly again.

    My Windows box (which is not my main box) is generally off the Internet, so I don't know why I patched it so promptly.
    In the future, I'll wait a few weeks longer before applying patches.

  22. Pre-Crime Social Dangerousness on Chinese Researchers' 'Terror Cam' Could Scan Crowds, Looking for Stress · · Score: 1

    Stop the crime before it happens.
    Someone should make a movie about this.

  23. TOR on Ask Slashdot: Life Beyond the WRT54G Series? · · Score: 0

    I hear these onion routers are all the rage now.

  24. Re: Moral of the story on Skype Blocks Customers Using OS-X 10.5.x and Earlier · · Score: 2
  25. A picture is worth a thousand words? on Unboxing a Cray XC30 'Magnus' Petaflops Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    Where's the story?