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  1. Re:Another day in paradise... SNAFU on Florida Regulators OK Plan To Increase Toxins In Water (washingtontimes.com) · · Score: 2

    Tap water regulations are usually very strict.
    But once you bottle the water it becomes food, and food can contain pretty much anything.

  2. Re:I feel like I'm missing something here... on After Years of Serving X11, X.Org Stands To Lose Its One-Letter Domain (phoronix.com) · · Score: 2

    That's how we did it back in the olden days around here.
    This was a fun day when Microsoft let passport.com expire, luckily some slashdoter renewed it for them.

    https://web.archive.org/web/20140921073357/http://slashdot.org/articles/99/12/25/114201_F.shtml#40

  3. Re:More dramatic gossip from CERN today on CERN, LHC Sets New Luminosity World Record · · Score: 1

    An epic 'I told you so' by Wu if it's confirmed.

  4. 4G is a big deal on Cutting Through the 4G Hype · · Score: 4, Interesting

    For the first time we'll get decent latency over cell phone connections with 4G.
    LTE atleast promises huge cuts in latency which will make many new applications possible.

  5. Re:So what does it do? on AMD Publishes Open-Source "ATI Evergreen" Driver · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Please tell me where nVidia has an open source driver with 100% features working?
    This is about the AMD open source driver, not about the AMD closed source drivers, which supports Evergreen just fine.

  6. What's wrong with a monthly salary? on Eric Baptiste Weighs In On Copyright Summit Issues · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What is it with these 'copyright holders' that makes them think they're supposed to live forever of one weeks work.

    Wouldn't it be better for the community if they worked their entire life producing new stuff for whoever wants new media.

  7. Re:Full Manual Re-entry is Possible in Soyuz on Soyuz Ballistic Re-entry 300 Miles Off Course · · Score: 1

    The Soyuz TMA actually does generate some lift, not so much but enought to prevent rock-like behaviour usually.
    But not this time apparantly.

  8. Re:That is the democratic way of dealing with it on Legalize File Sharing, Say Swedish MPs · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yes, people speed.
    That doesn't mean they don't support the laws against speeding. They usually accept that there has to be a law against it, they just choose to violate it and accept the penalty.

    With filesharing people do not agree they are committing a crime.

  9. Re:Good intentions? on Swede Hacks Embassy Account Information From Around the World · · Score: 1

    He did not run a cracker against anything at all.

  10. Re:Problems? on Robotic Telesurgery by Remote Surgeons · · Score: 1

    You can do much better than 200ms across the atlantic.

    ~110ms between Sweden and New York right now for example. However it won't ever get much faster than that.

  11. Re:So much for this on Novell's Releases Linux Usability Testing Videos · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How many you use is not important.

    It's how they solved it, you are trying to find problems not produce useless statistics.

  12. Re:wow, no torrents.. on Sixth DebConf Ends in Success · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Noone who has enough bandwidth cares.
    Torrents are for people without enough bandwidth.

  13. Re:Self-contained? on Iron Council · · Score: 1

    Well, he thinks the books are standalone. So ofcourse he should read Perdido. :)

  14. Self-contained? on Iron Council · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No wonder you don't understand the city if you havn't read Perdido Street Station.

    Read the first two books and I might take you seriously.

  15. Re:Quick Question Actually. on Comcast Raises Bandwidth in Shot at DSL · · Score: 1, Insightful

    All these speed limits are entirely artifical.

  16. Re:security? on P2P Through Firewalls · · Score: 1

    > what good is NAT if there is a work around like this?
    That's just the thing, NAT never was any good at all.

    The people who have been pushing this "NAT is firewalling" thing should have been shot ages ago.
    NAT exists to cope with a lack of IP space, nothing else. If you want anything else you'll need to configure a good firewall.

    Now everyone is using NAT, breaking communication between hosts without providing much added security.

  17. Re:Ahhh... Usurper and LORD on 7 hour BBS Documentary Nearly Ready · · Score: 1

    Bah, Usurper leads to MUDs.
    MUDs leads to bad grades.

    It was all that sysops fault!

  18. Re:Ob. Slashdotting comment on Red vs. Blue Season 3 Begins · · Score: 1

    If you pay $6/GB you need to find a new ISP.

  19. Re:Admirable. on EV1Servers.Net's CEO Regrets SCO Deal · · Score: 1

    Uhm.

    That's Robert Marsh. He owns EV1Servers.

  20. Re:Shooting the messenger .. on Controversy Surrounds Huge IE Hole · · Score: 5, Informative

    Ok, I expected that more people read bugtraq.. which is obviously not the case.

    Their version of november is not actually the real november. From Andreas Sandblads mail:
    "Microsoft was initially contacted 2002-10-04."

  21. Shooting the messenger .. on Controversy Surrounds Huge IE Hole · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Ok, so they acknowledge that microsoft has known about the problen since November. But the messenger is still the one that should be shot. And not microsoft since they are "investigating the issue".

    The article is just stupid ...

  22. Re:It does rank up there.... on Antibiotic Resistant Staph Infections · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately this is only partly true.

    There are soaps, perhaps not a very large number but you can find them in most stores, with triclosan in them. Triclosan is just about everywhere.

    The braindead people behind those schemes deserve to be injected with some resistant infection.

  23. Re:Yea, bash MS some more... on W3C Releases Drafts For DOM L2 And More · · Score: 2

    IE6s :hover is pretty much broken. You can change the color yes, but you can't get change the display: of a box within the :hover element.

    No nice popup menus in other words ..

  24. Re:Two Words... on BMG Stops Producing CDs · · Score: 2

    They already said they did not like the CD labeling of crippled discs.
    BMG going up against Philips seems to be a very bad move, especially considering that Philips build many of the players that are supposed to play the crippled discs.
    If they want to fight back they could just adjust all future players not to play these discs and BMGs sales would disappear.

  25. Re:actually ... on Google's Search Results Degraded? · · Score: 5, Informative

    There is a company called Search44 which seems to have made this kind of stuff their living.

    They index lots of other sites pages and when google comes around spidering they return random content from them. If you follow one of these links from google you will be redirected to their portal.

    No doubt it gives them quite a bit of traffic.