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  1. DJ Prune Juice on Fighting Parkinson's Disease With Rap · · Score: 1

    Sometimes the cure is worse than the disease. :-)

  2. Re:That's why I leave everything on all the time on Smart Grid Could Pose Threat To Privacy · · Score: 1

    In my state the public utility has worked with law enforcement. They have busted marijuana grow houses based on power consumption.

  3. bad comparison? on 1/3 of People Can't Tell 48Kbps Audio From 160Kbps · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I would be more impressed if the same encoding format was used. I think both samples should have been ogg or aac and not a mix. If comparing aac at 48 and 160 are the results different? Same goes for ogg at 48 and 160?

  4. The three big problems.... on US Nuclear Power Industry Poised For a Comeback · · Score: 1

    I always thought the nuclear industries three biggest problems were time, distance, and shielding. :-)

  5. confinement issues on Pain-Free Animals Could Take Suffering Out of Farming · · Score: 1

    Most "free range" cattle are confined by barb wire or electric fences. If they feel no pain how will they know not to attempt to go through? I am in no way making a statement on how humane barb wire and electric fences are or aren't. Just discussing the current reality and pointing out a potential adoption issue.

  6. Re:Indy Children's Museum on Science, Technology, Natural History Museums? · · Score: 1

    I will agree the Indy Children's Museum is awesome and my daughter still talks about our vacation there. But I would lean towards the Chicago trip. The Fields Museum of Natural History, the Museum of Science and Industry, the Planetarium, and Shedd's Aquarium are all within a few miles of each other. I also think you will find the cuisine choices more impressive in Chicago than Indy.

  7. Kermit sings "Hurt" on Mac OS X v10.5.8 Ready For Download · · Score: 1

    But have you seen him sing this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57ta7mkgrOU

  8. nothing broke yet on Mac OS X v10.5.8 Ready For Download · · Score: -1

    Installed at 4:15 central. All is good so far. No noticeable differences yet.

  9. Re:Solution For College's Bad Network Policy? on Solution For College's Bad Network Policy? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I work in the IT department of a college. We started implementing more network security after blaster and welchia on student machines brought down the entire campus network. We segregated the dorm to a different physical network from the academic network. We bought antivirus for every student so they would no longer have a reason not to have it. Turned off cross talk between ports on the student side so they wouldn't infect each other over the network. On the Academic side we do require Cisco Clean Access agent to use the campus wireless to access intranet resources. It checks to see if Antivirus is installed and relatively up to date. It also checks for OS security patches. If you don't want to install the Clean Access agent, you don't have to. We provide guest access for those that don't. They however have access to no intranet resources and are limited to 256k. We don't scan for files, we don't do key logging. The only way I see illegal filesharing is when they are on the same subnet as me and I happen to have Itunes open. Limewire, Frostwire and several other leet virus vectors that students run use multicast dns (bon jour) to broadcast "susie jo's limewire tunes" which shows up under shared in Itunes. Only when an idiot insists upon broadcasting and sticking this in my face do I open a multicast dns browser to get the IP. I then go into the Cisco Clean Access Manager to see who has that ip address (Cisco is tied into our directory services.) I then go to their Facebook profile which is always wide open and call the cell number they have posted there publicly and politely request they discontinue the activity pursuant to the campus network policy as published in the student handbook. In the very rare circumstance they actually were smart enough to not leave Facebook open to the world I send them a polite email.

  10. GPS enabled Cell phone on Making a Child Locating System · · Score: 1

    As others have mentioned, a GPS enabled cell phone is the easiest option. I think some of the responses were far less rational than your request. I live in a small-ish community of 185,000 and just yesterday read of a girl that has been missing for 8 years with no leads. If you live in a large community, it is even more common. Between pedophiles and girls being forced into prostitution I think this is a reasonable thing to do. I have even read stories of forced prostitution rings in Iowa, so the problem is pretty wide spread. Only you can decide what is an appropriate trade off between safety and security for your child. You know your neighborhood and naivety of your child better than anyone blasting you on Slashdot.

  11. Re:It's not their fault! on Wikipedia Bans Church of Scientology · · Score: 1

    Nice catch spell nazi. :-) Pardon the typo. While on the subject of i before e except after c except sounding like a as in neighbor and weigh..... explain the word "science"

  12. It's not their fault! on Wikipedia Bans Church of Scientology · · Score: 5, Funny

    Their Thetans made them do it. :-)

  13. Re:Sounds RACIST - instead only check on Homeland Security To Scan Citizens Exiting US · · Score: 1

    So followers of The Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy shouldn't travel out of the country? Especially May 25th! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Towel_Day

  14. Do as I say..... on Conference Board Admits Plagiarism, Pulls Copyright Report · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Not as I do! ;-)

  15. Sandy Berger on Hard Drive With Clinton-Era Data Missing From Nat'l Archives · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sandy Berger borrowed it. I'm sure he will return it soon with no revisions made. :-) http://articles.latimes.com/2005/apr/02/nation/na-berger2

  16. Re:Klingon's use Windows on Sophos Releases Klingon Language Version · · Score: 1

    They do have a Mac and Linux version, but the Klingon version is only available for Windows according to their site.

  17. Klingon's use Windows on Sophos Releases Klingon Language Version · · Score: 1

    Should be be happy or offended that Sophos assumes Klingons use Windows and not Linux or Mac OS X?

  18. Universal timeless programmer problem on Old-School Coding Techniques You May Not Miss · · Score: 4, Funny

    Documentation!

  19. Re:Apple reverse engineered on EFF Sues Apple Over BluWiki Legal Threats · · Score: 1

    Thanks. May you never make a typo while posting on slashdot. :-)

  20. Re:Yeni on Town Fights Cricket Plague With Led Zeppelin · · Score: 1

    I don't know about Yanni, but if you play Zamfir backwards it sounds like the winds of Hell.

  21. Re:Apple reverse engineered on EFF Sues Apple Over BluWiki Legal Threats · · Score: 1

    Yeah. Unfortunately what is recommended and what is likely are often in juxtaposition to each other.

  22. Re:Apple reverse engineered on EFF Sues Apple Over BluWiki Legal Threats · · Score: 1

    Realize that was poorly worded. I meant to say they sold the kits to peers. I doubt if it was used to bypass charges talking amongst themselves. :-)

  23. Apple reverse engineered on EFF Sues Apple Over BluWiki Legal Threats · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Apple relied on reverse engineering especially in it's early days back when Woz was doing the Apple I and II. Steve Jobs sold Blue Box phone freak kits made by Woz that allowed you to bypass phone charges to there college peers. They need to lighten up.

  24. Chinese organized crime? on Chinese Hackers Targeting NYPD Computers · · Score: 1

    Human trafficking? Drugs? Two obvious ones off the top of my head.

  25. Re:Questions from an 8.10 user on Ubuntu 9.04 Released · · Score: 2, Informative

    Time for someone to remove their face from Ballmer's loins and download a Ubuntu ISO. You can boot to it and become informed without removing or altering your precious Windows environment.