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  1. Re:mod parent up on Internet Sites Biased Towards Supporting Suicide · · Score: 1

    Not as bad-ass as the stuff from Suicide for Hire.

    Which is very, very disturbing.

  2. K'nex Computing. on Ten Weirdest Types of Computers · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You know, someone on Youtube showed off logic gates in K'nex. But it was only and, or, and not.

    Has anyone figured out how to do an xor in k'nex without horrible permutations along the lines of (in scheme, since it's easy for me to think in today)

    (define (xor a b) (and (not (and a b)) (or a b)))

    ?

  3. Re:And THAT's the problem Einstein on Russia Weighs Going Cyrillic For DNS · · Score: 1

    of course, if it displays as .ru, it's not a problem, now is it?

  4. Re:Why ECC? on Wii Uses Elliptic Curve Cryptography For Saves · · Score: 1

    They probably used the same encryption code on the savegames as they did on the stuff from the Wii shop. That IS encrypted in decrypted in different places.

    And, you know, one algorithm is usually smaller code-wise than two :)

  5. Re:Saturn Games on Wii to Get New Hardware - Possibly Hard Drive? · · Score: 1

    And, assuming Sega still has all their development files, they could probably meet the Wii half-way.

  6. Wow on Disney Video Used to Explain Copyright · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Comments are being promoted to stories now? Maybe this one will be!

  7. Re:they will buy the public domain on The Case For Perpetual Copyright · · Score: 1

    Remember the Peril Sensitive Sunglasses from the HHGG text adventure box? You just discribed them. Pay up.

  8. All too familar on Why Are Students Liable for School Insecurity? · · Score: 1

    I dodged any real punishment, thankfully, but I have been sternly told that ssh is completely against school rules... when what I was using it for was mostly pushing my work home so that I could do it wherever. Oh, and using a sane editor.

    Thankfully, the administration knows me well enough that I got off with a slap on the wrist and a STOP NOW!!!!.

  9. Re:email won't save the job. on Would You Install Pirated Software at Work? · · Score: 3, Funny

    CC it, not blindly, to yourself, your boss, your boss's boss, all the way up the chain... and MS, too, just for the hell of it.

    That ought to make it hard to 'lose'.

    If you're that worried about your job, HR too.

  10. Erm on New AACS Crack Called "Undefeatable" · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Erm, how is this undefetable? If they don't mind sacraficeing the 360, couldn't whoever manages these things revoke its keys and not issue new ones, so that it can't get the volume key, so it can't decrypt the disk?

    I'm probably misunderstanding something, though

  11. Re:As a record store owner on Record Store Owners Blame RIAA For Destroying Music Industry · · Score: 0

    That depends. If you count Veggie Rocks!, then, well, guilty. But Reliant K did Pirates Who Don't Do Anything! I mean, who would pass that up?

    captcha: geranium. Temptation to say "gertie": high

  12. Re:Yay for google on Judge Strikes Down COPA, 1998 Online Porn Law · · Score: 0

    In compliance with Chinese law? Honestly, they had two choices in China:

    - Accept a degree of censorship
    - Don't offer the service at all

    They took the former - and from what I've heard, they generally go as far against that as they can without major, major trouble.

    And anyway, one word: Tor :P

  13. Umm... on Gaming Gets a 'Crossfire' · · Score: 0

    Isn't Crossfire our answer to Crossfire?

  14. Re:You know what will happen... on Using Cellphones to Track Your Kids · · Score: 0

    Heh, you aren't from the United States, are you? SIMs and phones are practicaly welded together here.

    Not that it matters. We have this technology called "tables" that we can "set" stuff on when we aren't there!

  15. Re:FUD??!! on FSF Launches "BadVista" Campaign · · Score: 1, Informative

    It's proprietary software.

    The FSF does not allow themselves to install ANY proprietary software, for ANY purpose, other than to write a free replacement. Unless they joined the ReactOS project and it was retargeted to clone Vista, this doesn't fall into that situation.

  16. Too bad for the Mac users. on Microsoft drops VBA in Mac Office 2007 · · Score: 0

    Many of them (And many pc users) have put in tons of work making scripts work just right, to do things that they couldn't easily do otherwise. This is the only way those platforms are really programmable by end users (Although with Microsoft's Visual Studio Express and Apple's xCode, this may be ending... if the skills get pushed out somehow.) ... Someone want to try to get a really good importer for VBA working on OpenOffice.org, and a native Mac UI?

  17. Re:That's not so easy on Best Buy Institutes Extreme Flex Time · · Score: 0

    Well, the only one in the timezone is rather extreme. I expect that you would have maybe 55-75% of people (the exact people changing all the time, of course) in at a given time during the day. You would still be able to walk down the row of cubes, ask someone to help for a sec, and get it done. Unless you're a night owl, of course, in which case you're probably used to not having help NOW anyway.

  18. Re:might work for some, but not for me on Best Buy Institutes Extreme Flex Time · · Score: 2, Insightful

    My solution would be to set "On Call Hours" and work from home. Or carry a good cell phone and try not to leave serviced areas. Someone has a problem, they call, and if you can't solve it over the phone, you go. You're done, you go back to what you were doing, or the next incident. Only problem is if you're on the way home with groceries...

  19. Re:In classic Slashdot form... on VOIP to be Made Illegal in India · · Score: 0
    There's a reason why the first words out of an officer's mouth when making an arrest are, "You have the right to remain silent, anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law..." In other words, you should truthfully provide only your identity to the police, then act as if you were a mute from there on out.

    WRONG!

    Why do people think that you have to have your writes read (or recited from memory) to you? You do NOT. They only have to read you your rights IF THEY ARE GOING TO QUESTION YOU.
  20. Re:Birds do this too on Singing Dolphins Do Batman · · Score: 0
    I used to have a blackbird that would routinely pirch on my television aerial ... I'm sure I he stood up there negotiating PPP connections.


    So that's where all those worms came from when I was on dial-up!
  21. Re:a necessity? on The Corporate Invasion of Second Life · · Score: 1, Informative

    "All the land is taken"? Someone is an idiot - there is plenty of electricity to run more servers. If you pay LL enough, you could run your own continent - hell, if you payed them enough, they would probably run you a whole grid.

  22. Re:Never going to happen on The Moon's Magnetic Umbrellas · · Score: 0

    Going? No one. Well, the FAA might try, but once you leave Terra, who cares what they think?

    Claiming ownership? At least half a billion angry humans, I'm guessing. Possibly the UN, depending on exactly how things work out with laws of your country, and international law.

  23. Re:Wikipedia on Can Wikipedia Ever Make the Grade? · · Score: 0

    Well, technically, very few people watch articles, many people watch the Recent Changes list, though.

    Just a nitpick.

  24. Re:No it isn't on Securing a High School Windows XP Computer Lab? · · Score: 0

    And don't give them large filestorage.

    I have Vim, PuTTY, and Ruby all on my school account. Sure, it only leaves me with a few megs of space to work in, but I rarely use it anyway. If I stripped out stuff I don't use from Ruby's standard library, I'd be golden.

  25. One at a time, MS! on Microsoft Plugs a Record 26 Security Holes · · Score: 0

    Wouldn't it really make more sense to kick them out the door as soon as they are reasonably sure the patch works, as opposed to saveing them up for a while?