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  1. This is a first! on Vista Security Discussions Get a Rocky Start · · Score: 5, Funny
    Your search - "totally our fault" site:microsoft.com - did not match any documents.

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  2. Narrow-bandwidth Television Association on A Single Pixel Camera · · Score: 1

    This is ancient history, of course, but if you're interested there's a club for enthusiasts.

    "Mechanical scanning devices which can be used include the Nipkow disc (shown above), the drum, the mirror drum, the mirror screw, oscillating mirrors and combinations of these. The camera usually has a lens to form an image which is then scanned and the light passes through to a photocell which generates the electrical signal" - Narrow-bandwidth Television Association

  3. Re:No Incentive to Cause Failure on Dvorak on Windows Genuine Advantage · · Score: 1
    I really fail to see what incentive a cracker would have in making someone's legitimate copy of Vista appear to be illigitament.
    So they can't use Windows Update to patch the security holes that the cracker is exploiting. Also - it's funny!
  4. Re:Doubt this is possible on Dvorak on Windows Genuine Advantage · · Score: 1

    Microsoft have never yet produced any major system that's totally secure. Just because you can't instantly see how to break WGA, why on earth would you conclude that it can't be broken? Personally I think they've just made life simpler for every crook why wants to extort money from Windows users.

  5. Spin, not security on FBI Head Wants Strong Data Retention Rules · · Score: 3, Insightful
    "They can train themselves over the Internet. They never have to necessarily go to the training camp or speak with anybody else and that diffusion of a combination of hatred and technical skills in things like bomb-making is a dangerous combination" - U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff
    You can learn knowledge over the Internet but skills require practice in the real world. For example chemistry is not easy. Alleged plotters who take no practical steps are losers not terrorists.

    This is about control of disaffected people not fighting real terrorism.

    And what's with the comment about not needing to "speak with anybody else" - are the FBI scared of shut-ins now?
  6. Islam on Britain's First "Web-Rage" Attack · · Score: 1

    The Yahoo chatroom was called Islam 10.

  7. RecklessWanderer: please read on FDA Set To Approve Products from Cloned Cows · · Score: 2, Informative
    I definitely have no interest in a slow painful death
    Then I suggest you avoid doing things likely to cause diabetes, or make it worse, which unfortunately means being careful what you eat.

    BTW I think my second link answers why they didn't say what you were examining your feet for.
  8. Re:"There is no excuse" on International Music Industry Amps Up Anti-P2P War · · Score: 3, Funny
    "In each of the 17 countries involved in today's actions there are legal music services available to consumers. There is no excuse."
    He's obviously a very ignorant man who doesn't read Slashdot. Readers have submitted literally thousands of excuses.
  9. Ban all sports! on Judge Clears Bully For Publishing · · Score: 1
    Mr Thompson criticised the decision to have an employee take him through the game, arguing he could have avoided making violent choices.
    Just because players normally choose to use a baseball bat or pool cue to hit a ball doesn't mean they couldn't make more violent choices. Ban everything!
  10. Re:Interesting legal argument. on Email Servers Will Choke, Says Spamhaus · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You're actually agreeing with GP. You're both saying that anyone who is clearly not subject to US law nevertheless has to represent himself before a US court to establish this, which means everyone is in effect subject. And anyone who disagrees risks huge damages.

  11. Web 2.0 is doomed on Laser TV — the Death of Plasma? · · Score: 1, Funny

    Web 2.0 emphasises pastel, deliberately limiting the color content to even less of what the eye can see, so presumably it's doomed. Also Slashdot after its new design. But I'd love to see this guy's original press release. Did he follow his own theory that people like more color, or was the text black-and-white?

  12. This already happens on Perspectives on Spamhaus's Dilemma · · Score: 1

    ... except that the system is simple and informal. If you're a legitimate email broadcaster, like my company, you contact the ISP/blacklist supplier and explain, and almost all the time you get immeditely unblocked. BTW problems are rare and mainly concern sending from newly-created domains, which everyone is very suspicious of, but which clients like because they can e.g. replicate their new product name in the URL.

  13. Thrushes migrate at 0 to 2624 feet on Migrating Birds Take Hundreds of Powernaps. · · Score: 1

    "In migration along the coast, the Swainson's Thrush has been reported from sea level to about 800m [2624 feet] elevation." So they seems to be flying dangerously low if they do stop flying while sleeping, but not impossibly low. I wonder how many do crash?

  14. Re:How do they avoid crashing? on Migrating Birds Take Hundreds of Powernaps. · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately this is about thrushes. D'Oh! I wonder how high they fly?

  15. How do they avoid crashing? on Migrating Birds Take Hundreds of Powernaps. · · Score: 4, Interesting

    FTA, these swallows sleep for "9 seconds on average".
    If one stops flying completely for 9 seconds, the approximate distance it would fall is s = ut + 1/2at**2 ... 0+1/2*32*9*9 feet ... 1296 feet.
    But the barn swallow typically migrates within within 100 feet of the ground .
    So how do they avoid crashing?

  16. You've got this all wrong! on Could I Run a TV Station on Linux? · · Score: 2, Funny

    You're stuck in the mindset of proprietary programming. Just publish a couple of videos under the GPL, then everyone who wants to can modify them into their own ideal TV Shows.

  17. Will it work? Just ask it! on Google To Predict Accuracy of Political Statements · · Score: 1

    Feed Schmidt's prediction to the truth predictor itself.
    In other news, Google has "no plans" to simply offshore the work of answering these questions to an Indian call center.

  18. Pimp that Virus on Making Computer Memory From a Virus · · Score: 3, Funny

    What will those crazy scientists bling next?

  19. Why do I need secrecy? on HOWTO Commit Corporate Espionage · · Score: 1
    If you aren't doing anything evil why do you need secrecy (or privacy)?
    Because "people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones" does not imply "people who don't throw stones should live in glass houses".
  20. 22 million tons of people on US Population to Top 300 Million · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's about 22 million American tons of people. If you're checking my math, remember to allow for kids.

    Look up your own satirical comparison here, for example New York alone allegedly produces that much waste anually.

  21. Those Instant Messages - Link on Rethinking IM Privacy For Kids · · Score: 1
    Now that the world has read the despicable instant messages from Rep. Foley
    No the world hasn't - only America) - so here's a transcript (NSFW and yeuch)
  22. No call is important enough to interrupt a meeting on Caller ID Watches · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ...unless you're a self-important asshole with no consideration for the other attendees. Better solutions are to keep your meetings really short, or schedule breaks.

  23. Happy Days! on Paypal Agrees to Consumer Protections · · Score: 4, Insightful
    "We hope this agreement with an industry leader will set standard best practices for Internet businesses across the country to follow," said Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott ... PayPal must also establish a conspicuous "Contact Us" link on its Web pages and provide a toll-free customer support number that operates at least 14 hours daily, according to the attorney general's office. - Star-Telegram Austin
    Standard best practices??? 14x7 and a toll-free number that probably only works within the continental USA? Welcome to 1950.
  24. Dishwasher-proof Mouse on Self Cleaning Mouse · · Score: 2

    Why doesn't some manufacturer design a mouse and keyboard that you can clean in a dishwasher?

    (Also iPods, 'phones, tv remotes and all types of electronic goods in all types of washer. NB patent trolls, if this is original, I claim prior art by publishing here. PS eeuw)

  25. Re:Not so fast on IBM Adopts Open Patent Policy · · Score: 2, Insightful
    But there are lots of things which aren't trivial at all.
    Name three. I am fed up with the way pro-patent folks claim there are all these great patents out there, then never produce even one as evidence. Here are 10 stinkers - let's see you link to some good patents.