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  1. I posted anonymous! on Jane's Intelligence Review Lauds Slashdot Readers as Cyberterrorism Experts · · Score: 1

    Damn, I posted a very long piece anonymously, because I was too lazy to log in.

  2. Planet X never dies on A 10th Planet in Our Solar System? · · Score: 2

    I remember hearing about "Planet X" in grade school.

    Seriously, though, it's a good bet that this is a brown dwarf (basically a small, dormant star).

    And yeah, orbiting the opposite way, it definitely doesn't sound like it was formed in the accretion disk around the Sun.

    Hey, but maybe we have something useful to send a probe to now past Pluto. Provided NASA doesn't botch it and mix up metres and yards.

  3. I prefer QWERTY because less exact repetition on Keyboards - Dvorak or Qwerty? · · Score: 1

    One reason that I prefer qwerty is that I can move my fingers to widely varying parts of the keyboard frequently.

    With Dvorak, which I have tried briefly, I barely seems to move my hands sometimes.

    Now with RSI, isn't it supposed to be worse if you don't vary what you're doing as much? With QWERTY I find that movement is constant.

  4. heh...I thought about it once.. on Henley.com, Reznor.com. Is Your Name Next? · · Score: 1

    My last name is Ford, and I thought about registering a domain way, way, back, but I decided it could be more trouble then it'd be worth.

  5. Re:CGI security through chroot? on ZDNet Admits Mistakes in Recent SecurityTest · · Score: 1

    send it to the apache cvs tree or however it's maintained?

    It could be a compile-time option.

  6. IIRC Microsoft "experts" helped with the NT system on ZDNet Admits Mistakes in Recent SecurityTest · · Score: 1

    I believe that they said that Microsoft assisted them in setting up the NT system.

    "Community resources" assisted them with the LINUX system.

    In any event, not installing the fixes is incompetence.

  7. AP wire story, so why post NYT? on Sony founder Akio Morita dead at age 78 · · Score: 1

    Why not just give a link to the ap.org story? Why make people register for NYT?

  8. problem is interference... on 700 MHz Athlon · · Score: 1

    My microwave says 2450 GHz on it.

    With CPU's, I think as emittance goes up (with freqency), power consumption may go quite a bit up. Also circuits and components on the CPU must be redesigned.

    Now if your MOTHERBOARD were running at 1 GHz, it's be a different matter.

  9. they have close relatives... on Scientists Hope to Clone Woolly Mammoth · · Score: 1

    The modern elephant is really close to the Wooly mammoth. They even are wooly when born.

  10. ummm .. the Redhat minor numbers are bugfixes on Red Hat Releases Version 6.1 · · Score: 1

    5.1 and 5.2 were mostly patched versions of 5.0.

    At some point, it sucks for new people to download 6.0 and apply 25 patches. So 6.1 is released, new and improved.

  11. they'd better keep it as a subsidiary on @HOME - AOL Deal Brewing? · · Score: 1

    There's a reason some of us go with @Home. And it's not to be labelled as an AOL lamer. They'd better keep it separate and distinct.

  12. valve failed open most likely on Japan Suffers its Worst Nuke Plant Accident Ever · · Score: 2

    Hi,

    I worked in an (unnamed) Chemical plant under construction, and there were valves that should have been Fail Closed which were Fail Open. Why? The EPC (Engineering Procurement Contractor) had ordered the wrong valves, and someone had switched the designation to cover it up. Because of Due Diligence, we discovered it and were able to make proper safeguards.

    It's likely that a valve designed to regulate the flow of a slurry of Uranium Oxide (or PuO2, but that'd be a national secret if they were purifying Pu) failed open.

  13. K6 and up use this method on Transmeta Awarded Another Patent · · Score: 1

    As far as I understand, K6's and above have a CISC translator which converts x86 to some custom RISC processor instructions for execution by the real processor.

  14. LINUX is better than any CS thesis on Now It's Doctor Linus Torvalds · · Score: 1

    I think that alone should qualify him.

  15. MCSE != PE on Ask Slashdot: Is Professional Engineering Certification Necessary? · · Score: 1

    Professional Engineer is much different from the Microsoft certifications.

  16. What OS is retinal scanner based on? on One-person Air Scooters · · Score: 1

    I'd hate to have the Win98 based software decide it needed to revalidate me in mid-flight, and shut it down....

    Any good thing would have a a hardware interlock that would prevent the retinal scanner from interferring once it was started... Hmmm, so you might say, "Put it on the starter". Okay, well what if the engines quit in midair? You need to be able to disable the retinal scanner interference until you are safety on the ground.

  17. perhaps only software that can use NOW is on w2k on Physical-layer Ethernet Encryption · · Score: 1

    That doesn't mean that they won't release specs soon.

  18. domain names versus trademarks on German Law Firm claims Linux Trademark · · Score: 1

    Those registers of domain names were NOT claiming any trademark.

    This law firm has REGISTERED or filed to register a trademark and is claiming it.

    The argument on domain names has been that domain names should be separate from trademarks in the real world, especially if there is another reason for them (i.e. veronica.org = someone's name).

  19. scp is no ftp replacement on CNN On Story on GnuPG 1.0 · · Score: 1

    ...at least not until we get something like "ncscp" or something, or even an equivalent of the ftp program. It'd be nice if it had an interactive mode.

  20. /.'ed already on Computers Make Good Ad Execs · · Score: 1

    Not the story link, but that link to the ad. generator that it has. Even though the link is a bit wrong, it's obvious how to use it, and the site seems to be not responding.

  21. and spammy on Assorted Slashdot Updates · · Score: 1

    "You can purchase the amazing CD of emails addresses of nerds for only $19.99. Over 500 000 email addresses! Compiled from sites like slashdot, .... We retrieved all the entries and now you don't have to do all the work.

    These geeks will guy anything if it looks like it might be a cool gadget..."

    I think you get the idea.

  22. It's a company press release... on SuSE and Siemens Release Linux Memory Extension · · Score: 1

    ...from Siemens, not a media story.

  23. I suppose you will decide who is educated on Ask Slashdot: Internet Voting? · · Score: 1

    Or who will? As soon as you try to create a class system for polling, you are moving away from any semblence of democracy.

    Government is supposed to serve ALL the citizens, not just those with IQ > 130 or who happen to have a certain ethnic background. Oh, did I say that? I guess I did. Yes, I am comparing your suggestion that only educated people should be allowed to vote to other reasons used in the past to deny the vote. For example, race and sex.

    If the citizenry is stupid enough to elect someone based on his haircut, so be it. It's their bed, and they'll have to sleep in it.

    And I suppose you would like to create a commission that would decide voter eligibility. Oh, I'm sure there's *no* way that could be abused.

  24. fraud on Ask Slashdot: Internet Voting? · · Score: 1

    An electronic voting system, internet or otherwise, is easier to defraud than a traditonal paper-count system.

    In a paper count system, you have multiple people at ever level counting ballots.

    In an internet or other network based system, where does the accountability come from? You can't through average citizens into the counting process and expect them to understand it. But in a traditional system it's easier to understand when someone is stuffing ballots or lying about the count.

    So what, is every returning officer going to be some geek, and people will have to trust that it is accurate and not tampered with? No thanks.

  25. Seems fair to me. on On the Subject of Trolls · · Score: 1

    I hope you really don't work with that many people who are like that.

    But if you have a better solution, email Rob. Basically he's taking the necessary steps to stop excessive troll-bombing. I don't see another way.