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  1. Umm... on RC Submarine Lays Fiber Through Sewers In Italy · · Score: 0, Redundant

    That's going to give a really shitty connection.

  2. Re:well on Best Way To Teach Oneself Math? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Personally, I'd avoid wikipedia math articles. They start out basic, but quickly get much deeper than he wants. Attempting to actually /learn/ the basics from them is doomed. When a person who is relearning math looks for the distance formula, they want the 2d formula, not it generalized to n dimensions.

  3. Re:Lithium Ions on What's Wrong With Lithium Ion Batteries? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ohm my God! We have to stop with these loaded puns. I admit they have potential, but the current situation stretches it a bit far.

  4. Re:Looking at all this legal mumbo-jumbo on Court Ruling Clouds Open Source Licensing · · Score: 1

    Upside of knives: Simple, final.

    Downside of knives: The world would be controlled by physical strength, scientists and engineers (especially computer geeks) would be at a sever disadvantage in culture and law, and sports and physical attributes would be raised far above intelligence in societal worth.

    Wait....

  5. Re:Why not make 64 of these on a single chip? on Via Unveils 1-Watt x86 CPU · · Score: 1

    I was a little loopy at the time... Heh.

  6. Re:Why not make 64 of these on a single chip? on Via Unveils 1-Watt x86 CPU · · Score: 1

    Ignoring the nickle and dime losses you'd have just by design, you run in to the same old problem: What are bad at writing for multiple cores/cpus.

    Concurrency is perhaps the biggest problem to modern day CS.

    If we could figure out how to use all those cores effectively, it would be awesome. Until then, its of dubius as a archaeticture

  7. Re:You fell victim to one of the classic blunders! on Replacing Atime With Relatime in the Kernel · · Score: 5, Funny

    A Slashdot summary wrong? Inconceivable!

  8. Re:Do no evil, despite a monopoly? on Newspapers Reconsidering Google News · · Score: 1

    The Google giveth and the Google taketh away...

  9. Re:It's not just piracy on Only 244 Genuine Windows Vista's Sold in China · · Score: 0

    > China is not the 3rd world country, the west wants us to believe. Sure it's a poorer
    > country, more mining accidents and their government sucks, but it may be a 2nd world
    > (like us during and right after the industrial revolution or the world wars), but I
    > wouldn't call it 3rd world (as in massive amounts of people dying of malnutrition and
    > no hospitals or massive internal wars).

    Just a FYI on terminology, but first/second/third world countries don't mean what people think they do.

    The classification system stems from the cold war, where a first world country was a capitalistic ally / puppet, a second world country was a communistic ally / puppet, and a third world country was an unaligned and undeveloped country.

    The terms you are looking for are MDC (more developed country) and LDC (less developed country); these are in use by most organizations and by modern human geographers.

    People tend to misinterpret what that classification scheme means, so I thought I'd clear it up.

  10. Re:Just suppose on Students Sue Anti-Plagiarism Service · · Score: 1

    I second this comment; it should be noted that it is not, and it never will be, illegal to sell your paper. What you are doing is similar towhat ghostwriters do, which is clearly legal.

    It is, however, illegal to USE such papers.

  11. Call me on The First Evolving Hardware? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Call me back when I can start a culture of Core Duos in a petri dish filled with a silicon nutrient.

  12. Re:But I thought this was already being worked on? on Scientists Re-grow Dental Enamel · · Score: 1

    I imagine being able to subscribe to studies and experiments, and receiving updates when available. The most irritating thing about 'scientific discovery' news articles is the fickle nature of the media to keep people in the loop on it.


    It sounds like what you want is a real scientific journal instead of whatever bastardized version the mainstream press decides to feed you. Nature is always a good one, and perhaps something on medical technology.

    Go Primary Sources!
  13. Radio Detection and Ranging on The Blackest Material · · Score: 1

    > It says that it reflects virtually no light. I wonder if that includes the frequencies that are used for radar.

    Last time I checked, radio waves aren't a frequency of light; they are actually part of the Electro-Magnetic Wave Spectrum, which happens to include light, as well as heat and cosmic rays, among others. To use a dreaded car analogy, a Ford is not a type of Chrysler.

    And I'd say the chance of a given material near-completely absorbing such a large portion of the EM spectrum is very, very low.

  14. Re:One lawyer for sure out of job, more might foll on MS vs AT&T Case Stirs Software Patent Debate · · Score: 1

    > Suppose you or I develop a really great algorithm.

    As a side point, you can't patent algorithms.

  15. Good job on China Heralds Year of the Fluorescent Green Pig · · Score: 1

    All that is left now is to insert the gene for fuckin' lasers on the head into embryonic sharks.

  16. Re:As They Should on Department of Defense Now Blocking HTML Email · · Score: 1

    In my day email was banging stones together on a tall hill.

  17. If you can't think of anything on Where Should I Get My Job Interview Code Samples? · · Score: 5, Funny

    You can always "lift" some snippets from here.

  18. Deja vu on Even The Blind Get Deja Vu · · Score: -1, Redundant

    It's almost like I've seen this article before...

  19. ssh kinslayermud.org on How Would You Usurp the Web Browser? · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Last login: Sat Nov 18 06:40:30 2006 from dsl-is-an-ip-address.slashdot.lame-filter
    narg@km ud:~$ ls
    10.weave       Merge.tar.bz2         index.php                    livemud.zip
    11.weave       PHProxy.class.php     javascript.js                mbox
    12.weave       README.txt            kbak                         merge
    13.weave       TODO.txt              kinslayer                    src
    14.weave       a.out                 kinslayer-8.28.tar.bz2       style.css
    15.weave       circle                kmerge-8.25.tar.gz           temp_bak.tar
    CVS            copy.tar.bz2          kmud.2006-08-06.bak.tar.bz2  test.cpp
    ChangeLog.txt  current-25th.tar.bz2  kmud7-11.tar.bz2             url_form.inc
    FAQ.txt        current6-30.tar.bz2   ksrc-7-15.tar.bz2            weave_chart.xls
    From Galnor    dg_mobcmd.cpp         ksrc7-25.tar.bz2             weaves
    LICENSE.txt    dg_objcmd.cpp         ksrc8-1.tar.bz2              weaves.tar
    Mail           dg_wldcmd.cpp         livemud.tar.bz2
    narg@kmud:~$                                           

  20. Re:Edgy is the name of the release! on What Really Happened To Ubuntu's Edgy Artwork? · · Score: 1

    pun n. use of words, usually humorous, based on (a) the several meanings of one word, (b) a similarity of meaning between words that are pronounced the same, or (c) the difference in meanings between two words pronounced the same and spelled somewhat similarly.

  21. Re:Winamp? Hello? on Windows Media Player 11 Released · · Score: 1

    Winamp was kinda the crux of media players; It was one of the last good ones that was partially just a player and partially a music manager. Some programs were taken to the extreme of being just a player (mpg123 anyone?), while other were focused more on the cohesive collection management in the program (useful when you have 10k songs).

    Personally, [mpg|ogg|flac]123 is my favorite player, while Amarok is my favorite collection manager.

  22. Good Idea on The Largest Digital Photo · · Score: 4, Funny

    Find one of the largest files on the Internet... Check.
    Find a site with a large amount of people browsing it... Check.
    Make a post interesting enough that people will look at it... Check.
    Watch your victim's bandwidth bills skyrocket... Check
    Smell the great smell of burning silicon... In Progress

    Linking directly to one of the biggest files around on Slashdot.
    Sheesh.

  23. Once upon a time... on Common Interfaces for Gnome and KDE Released · · Score: 3, Funny

    I was walking across a bridge one day, and I saw a man standing on the edge, about to jump
    off. I immediately ran over and said, "Stop! Don't do it!"
    "Why shouldn't I?" he said.
    I said, "Well, there's so much to live for!"
    "Like what?"
    "Well ... are you religious or atheist?"
    "Religious."
    "Me too! Are you Christian or Jewish?"
    "Christian."
    "Me too! Are you Catholic or Protestant?"
    "Protestant."
    "Me too! Are you Episcopalian or Baptist?"
    "Baptist."
    "Wow! Me too! Are you Baptist Church of God or Baptist Church of the Lord?"
    "Baptist Church of God."
    "Me too! Are you Original Baptist Church of God, or are you Reformed Baptist Church of God?"
    "Reformed Baptist Church of God."
    "Wow! Me too! Are you Reformed Baptist Church of God, reformation of 1879, or Reformed
    Baptist Church of God, reformation of 1915?"
    "Reformed Baptist Church of God, reformation of 1915!"
    To which I said, "Die, heretic scum!" and pushed him off.^W^W^W^W^W^W^W"That's ok, I am from 1879, but we can be friends anyway!"

  24. Re:What are you doing about it? on Microsoft Plugs a Record 26 Security Holes · · Score: 1

    I actually saw a completely secure OS once, it was OSS, too. The code was in assembly (so the compiler can't introduce bugs), but I think I can translate it into C for you:

    int main()
    {
          while (1)
          { /* Ignore all input, especially those damn users */
          }
    }

  25. False on Untraceable Messaging Service Raises a Few Eyebrows · · Score: -1, Redundant

    If a human can see it, a computer can get a screenshot of it. Need I say more?