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  1. Re:IPV6 would be helped by this on The Beginnings of a TLD Free-For-All? · · Score: 1

    Why would adding domain names increase IP usage? Are there suddenly going to be millions more computers connected to the net?

  2. Don't do a kit on Best Electronics Kits For Adults? · · Score: 1

    If you want to learn, use the manufacturer's application notes and start from there. Usually they have sample circuits with equations. Buy your parts from Digikey.

  3. Re:Wrong. on Oldest Computer Music Unveiled · · Score: 4, Funny

    If you leave out all the notes, it is also John Cage's 4'33".

  4. What I need on Computer Scientists Scour Your Holiday Photos · · Score: 3, Interesting

    ... is a program that will remember the names of the people in the photos.

  5. Re:Wow, I applaud your laziness. on PhD Research On Software Design Principles? · · Score: 1

    Or, you know, consult experts on formal software development practices rather than random slashdot readers.

  6. Re:Two things on Microchips With Multiple "Selves" · · Score: 1

    Lets see:

    10,000 hours of programming at $100/hr = ONE MILLION DOLLARS (in best Dr. Evil voice).

    Annual global music industry sales = $21 billion in wholesale revenue (2005).

  7. Re:*Ahem* on Microchips With Multiple "Selves" · · Score: 3, Informative

    About 15 years ago I worked on a design that had to be split into multiple chips because we needed a lot of I/O pins. We realized that there were enough gates to put all four designs on one die and just activate one of them depending on a couple of program lines. That way we only had to make one mask and one set of test vectors (and pay one NRE) and we got four different chips. The PC board hardwired the program pins so we could just solder any chip anywhere and it became the right thing. That would be a good use of multiple-personality chips.

    The use in the article seems to be: you buy what you think is a certain product, and it behaves differently and has different bugs from what everyone else buys. That would be the last product I bought from that company.

  8. Like on Star Trek on Ask Lt. Col. John Bircher About Cyber Warfare Concepts · · Score: 1

    What do you do about the problem where a computer is informed that it has made a logic error and it starts spewing smoke and then explodes violently?

  9. Re:#1 question on Spit Will Be Worse Than Spam · · Score: 1

    Why not? Do you think that people who hack other people's computers to send spam would not be willing to hack other people's phone IDs and use their minutes?

  10. Re:Oh, that's right... on SwiftFuel Alternative To Alternative Fuels · · Score: 1
    Didn't you read the article?

    "I know a little bit about the oil business ... here is what's going to happen over the next 2-3 years. The price of oil is going to come down substantially" If Robert X. Cringely says it, you can take it to the bank (that would be Countrywide Financial, BTW).
  11. Re:Short answers drive me nuts on Study Finds Instant Messaging Helps Productivity · · Score: 1

    LOL

  12. Re:Translating from Canadian is hard on Canadian Gov't Victim of Cyberattacks · · Score: 1

    I was driving in Vancouver last simmer with the usual courtesy that I use in Boston. A Canadian driver yelled at me the worst insult that he could: "Tourist!"

  13. Re:Should be criminal anyway on Graphics Advances Make Identifying Real Images Difficult · · Score: 1

    Suppose someone paints a picture and sells it as pornography (as distinguished from legitimate art, whatever that is). You don't know whether it was painted from life or from the artist's imagination. Should it make a difference in whether the painting itself is legal or not? It seems like the painting has to be inherently either legal or illegal, independently of the circumstances of its production, just based on what it depicts.

    A strong first amendment argument would be that the painting is free expression and legal. The strong anti-child-porn argument would be that it is illegal regardless of whether it was drawn using live models.

  14. Should be criminal anyway on Graphics Advances Make Identifying Real Images Difficult · · Score: 1, Interesting

    The justification for child porn laws is that real children are harmed in making it. The justification for arresting purchasers is that they create the market for it. It doesn't matter whether they buy CG or real porn, they still encourage the crimes against children.

  15. Re:Old Look? on Firefox 3 Hits Release Candidate 2 · · Score: 1

    Ctrl-T, open in new tab preference, and right clicking in the tab bar aren't enough? You also need a button?

  16. Re:Confused on Does Antimatter Fall Up Or Down? · · Score: 1

    My auntie says that it does.

  17. Re:Eh on Inside the TRS-80 Model 100 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Someday it will be available within one's horseless carriage.

  18. Re:old news on Search For RMS Titanic Was a Cover Story · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I think a mod does not share your sense of humor.

  19. Re:Software radio... on Nominations Open For "Most Likely to be Shut Down By Government" · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Whereas before you needed to be able to plug a crystal into a socket in order to do this. Geez. Hams have been accidentally or on purpose wandering around the frequency spectrum since radio began.

  20. Words chosen on Scientists Build Mind-Reading Computer · · Score: 5, Funny

    The list of words chosen were: funding, grant, tenure, award, patent, contract, ...

  21. Re:Sooo..... on DoE Announces 'L Prize' For Solid-State Lighting · · Score: 2, Funny

    Which part of "liquid crystal" matches with "solid state"?

  22. Re:Misspelled on FCC Pitches Free, Bowdlerized Wireless Internet Access · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually, they misspelled bowdlerized.

  23. Re:Too late on Stealing From Banks One Cent at a Time · · Score: 1

    class action suit.

  24. Re:Superman 3? on Stealing From Banks One Cent at a Time · · Score: 3, Funny

    That explains why I've been losing money counterfeiting pennies!

  25. Re:Why wouldn't there be disjoint partitions? on Six Degrees of Wikipedia · · Score: 4, Interesting

    In theory. I haven't found two articles with a separation greater than 4, tho.

    Orca
    Argentina
    Saxophone
    Oboe
    3 clicks needed