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  1. Speaking loudly more common... on Hard Disks Can Be Turned Into Listening Devices, Researchers Find (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    You have to speak very loudly they say, but that's more common than you may think, just ask my (step)mom. She consistently makes my eardrums buckle whenever she opens her mouth

  2. Obvious bias in article on Netflix May Be Losing $192 Million Per Month From Piracy, Study Claims (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Calling someone that uses their parent's login "piracy" is an unjust label. It even flies in the face of what streaming companies themselves say "it makes no impact to their business" https://qz.com/639726/the-comp...

  3. Re:Analogs on Cocaine Vaccine In the Works · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I agree with your ``It`s my body and I fuck it up if I want to'' slogan, only from the point of view of the government, the reason they ban certain substances is that abuse of it leads to either a) illegal behavior because of the cost to keep you in ``business'', b) generates a significant increase in medical care due to after (side) effects of the abuse, c) a+b

  4. Re:I don't get it on Opera Files EU Complaint Against Microsoft · · Score: 1

    ok hotshot, answer this:

    What rendering engine is used in MSN Messenger
    What rendering engine is used in Windows Media Player
    What rendering engine is used in Windows Explorer

    There's bound to be more that I'm forgetting.

    And the most important question of them all?
    How can you tell above programs to use FireFox for html rendering?

    Not bundled? Think again!

  5. Re:Egads! on AntiVirus Products Fail to Find Simple IE Malware · · Score: 1

    You will be even more shocked to learn that noscript doesn't stop javascript from executing, in fact, code attached to the window`s event handlers will still run.

  6. Ignorance = terrorism on In the UK, Possession of the Anarchist's Cookbook Is Terrorism · · Score: 1

    How was the kid- or for that matter, anyone- to know that the book is considered illegal?

  7. Re:So when a tazer hits you on Scientists Say Nerves Use Sound, Not Electricity · · Score: 1

    And you don't even need a big current.

    I think it was a navy man that killed himself with a 9V battery by placing the two electrodes on an open wound on the opposite side of his body.

  8. Re:Indirect relation??? on Why Do Computer Games Claim Lives? · · Score: 1

    The "source" of addiction is not the substance, but a condition, a disease.

    Being addicted is a disease. Once you have this disease it converts healty
    good persons in weak things whose only thought is getting more of their
    drug. Hurting yourself is not a normal state of humanity and people who
    are addicted ARE hurting themselves and cannot in 90% of the cases cure
    themselves without outside help.

  9. Not the cause, but the effect on Colds May Trigger Childhood Cancers · · Score: 1

    They should conclude out of this that maybe it is *not* the 'Cold' that is the reason for this observation but actually the Cold medicine.

  10. Obsolete on Dotless Top Level Domains? · · Score: 1

    Typing slashdot instead of slashdot.org already takes you to the site.

    Thanks to google, people only need to know a brandname or part of a name to be taken directly to the right site.

    For instance, type dieselsweeties in your address bar and poof, you're there.

  11. Re:Services on Maintaining Windows XP System Performance? · · Score: 1

    I have one xp familial box on which I stripped all unnecessary services.

    Still windows is slow at start and speed goes down the longer it is running, even though all it does is sit there and listen on port 80 so that we can test our php applications on a windows based system.

    I usually have to restart the box twice a week, not because the httpd process is slowing down, but because the overall system speed drops. Sometimes we wait more then a minute before an app starts.

    Compared to our Linux boxes that are fast from boot, and run at the same speed weeks later, windows is one big mess!

  12. Re:My suggestion on What Tools Do You Use for UI Prototyping? · · Score: 1

    I second this.

    My UI prototype tools of choice has always been:

    Pen
    Paper
    Scissors
    Paste

    You may want to use recycled paper, or if you want to go for an environment clean solution, use Inkscape (Free Vector Based Drawing Program, available for Linux, Apple, and even the arch enemy windows).

    Using a vector program rather then a raster program enables you to make shapes quickly (rectangles, circles, ...) and select them later to move to another position or change the shape.

  13. Re:Easy.. on PC Cloning Solution? · · Score: 1

    Just a bit of warning for Linux newbies.

    >dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/your_hard_drive bs=512

    Don't try this at home kids! If you want to find out why, try

    man urandom

    And know this: if=input file, of=output file

  14. Re:Birth of a Legend on King Kong Lived? · · Score: 1

    Right wrong timeline... That's what you get for reading to much Clive Cussler...

  15. Re:Birth of a Legend on King Kong Lived? · · Score: 1

    Excactly!

    Almost every religion on this earth speaks of a flooding so big almost nothing survived - which should collide with the time a giant astroid hit the ocean somewhere around Cuba...

  16. Underlying reason on Obtaining Multi-Tier Application Logs for Reseach? · · Score: 1

    You say you want it to make a business model etc, but you don't say what your final goal is.

    Since you're already on ./ tell us what you really want in the end, and we might find a workaround. One rule with asking questions is never assume you are right. You ask for help, so let us draw the conclusions.

  17. Speed on Should Linux Have a Binary Kernel Driver Layer? · · Score: 1

    Won't doing this slow down the overall performances?

    Having a driver being part of the kernel should be faster then loading it externally right?

    Having a binary driver instead of an open source means you can't contribute to it yourself?

  18. Money on Google Paying for Firefox Installs · · Score: 2, Interesting

    They certainly have enough money to pay the "milions" of FireFox downloads. And rest assured that they will MAKE money out of it as well.

    The prime reason for M$ being number one is because M$ bundeled the browser with its operating system. I certainly hope that FireFox or why not KHTML-based browser beats m$ explorer. IMHO the only way to make the web more secure. Heck why not abandon m$ altogheter and switch to Linux or Mac. Stories of viruses, worms, and zombie's will all soon be a thing of the past.

  19. Re:I will switch to foobar2000... on What Does Open Source Need for Mainstream Desktop? · · Score: 1

    The cause of 80% of the amaroK crashes are its dependencies. Specifically taglib.

    Make sure amaroK and ALL its dependencies are build with the same compiler and amaroK will be stable as a rock.

    You might want to check http://amarok.kde.org/amarokwiki for more info on that.

  20. Shy & stuff on Is a CS Deg Needed to Make Game Soundtracks? · · Score: 1

    Funny how these stories always begin with "a good friend of mine". Are people really that shy to say "I"?

  21. Re:Gnome?? on Neanderthal Genome to be Sequenced · · Score: 1

    LOL

  22. Re:it's about cooling on Any Recourse for Failed Drives? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    When you turn equipment on, changes are higher that you will break it then if you had left it running.

    The electrical resistance of a part varies with its temperature. In general, the colder a part is, the smaller its resistance.

    Current I=U/R
    So the smaller the resistance, the greater the current.

    Consider that most lightbulbs break when you turn them on.

  23. Can't do when 'hot' on Stopping Unstoppable Malware? · · Score: 1

    Hi frustrated person.

    I think it is almost *impossible* to do this while windows is running since there are ways to hide a process from the process list.

    Even when starting windows in 'safe' mode, the program can be loaded in memory.

    I suggest using a Live CD (like Knoppix) and mount your ntfs partition there. Writing to NTFS is supported these days. If you are afraid to screw your ntfs partition by deleting files, then you might want to do cat '' > file so that the disk structure doesn't change but you actually erase the contents of the file.

    * prepare
    In windows, identify as much related files as possible
    * Boot from Live CD
    Erase those files

    Optionally
    * use a 'offline' registery editor to remove the offending keys from the register. (google for it)

    Boot windows
    If needed, repeat steps

    An additional note on the Live CD. Every good computer guru has one in its toolbox. Even if you are called to repair only windows systems, then still it has great use. Most Live CD's detect configure automatically all the hardware and the internet connection so if you are missing a driver to start windows, just pop in your Live CD, download the driver and restart in windows.

    While you're at it, why not ask your friend to switch to 'nix for its daily taks (Surfing, Email, Chat, Office, Multimedia,...) and switch to Windows for games?

    Kind regards

    x_terminat_or_3

  24. Re:Why is IM better than a phone? on Microsoft Messenger Virus Hits Reuters IM · · Score: 1

    I don't know what OS you're using but on m$ for instance there is this utility called winpopup. The only requirement is that both machines are running winpopup and that they can see each other on the local workgroup.

    On Unix and 'nix based OS's, many options are available to you. Like opening bash session from your local computer so you can paste directly onto the target computer without even leaving your own.

    Comme and join us!

  25. Re:use jedi mind tricks on What UNIX Shell Config Settings Work for Newbies? · · Score: 1

    True, but then use some tricks.

    Make file readme.txt in the home directory
    make file readme.exe with your bash stuff inside it in /usr/local/bin
    chmod +x it
    in the user's home directory, put a dummy file README.EXE

    It doesn't matter that it will not get executed, when the user types readme, the command that gets executed is /usr/local/bin/readme (provided /usr/local/bin is in the path)

    Cheat away!