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  1. Obligatory on DNSSEC Implementation Held Up By Tech Delays · · Score: 1

    Young whipper-snappers! Back when I wanted a secure DNS server, I had to use djbdns! And this was before it was it was open-sourced, no apt-get or rpm -i for me. Why back in my days, you had to set your IP address yourself, none of this new-fangled DHCP.... mutter mutter Arcnet! mutter...

  2. DDR on Cracking PGP In the Cloud · · Score: 1

    Sounds like someone was doing 'Difficult Data Retrieval'

  3. Laptop on Low-Power Home Linux Server? · · Score: 1

    I bought my wife a new laptop, upgraded the hard drive in her old one and used that. Works well!

  4. No organizational memory. on Intel Caught Cheating In 3DMark Benchmark · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Marketing execs change all the time. Each one says "Hey! I have an idea...." The programmer who is asked to put in the cheat is not wildly enthusiastic about the idea, knows it won't work and does a quick and dirty hack.

  5. Master of Magic on Linux Games For Non-Gamers? · · Score: 1

    Runs in dosbox!

  6. Re:Also linked to lyme disease... on Alzheimer's Disease Possibly Linked To Sleep Deprivation · · Score: 1

    Pics^^^W Replication or it didn't happen.

  7. This is Slashdot! on ISP Emails Customer Database To Thousands · · Score: 1

    1 Million user details or it's not news!

  8. Acronym on New Standard For EU-Compliant Electronic Signatures · · Score: 1

    ETSI = European Telecommunications Standards Institute. (It's not obvious from the article.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Telecommunications_Standards_Institute

  9. Re:source on Skype Trojan Can Log VoIP Conversations · · Score: 1

    Porting is so hard. If only we had the source code...

  10. Re:I like SF, but on Avatar, Has Sci-fi Found Its Heaven's Gate? · · Score: 1

    Welcome! Now we are two.

  11. I like SF, but on Avatar, Has Sci-fi Found Its Heaven's Gate? · · Score: 1

    I didn't see Dances with Wolves (DwW) and I probably won't see this. First (and only) member of the didn't see DwW society. (DSWwWS)

  12. Re:why would you ... on The Decline of the Landline · · Score: 1

    Insensitive clod! We can't drop voice and keep DSL in this country!

  13. MOM on Which Game Series Would You Reboot? · · Score: 1

    Master of Magic! Actually, I just want the original released under the GPL.

  14. Re:Still justifying its existence on Hubble Photographs Jupiter's New "Scar" · · Score: 1

    Yes, Jupiter is fulfilling it's purpose as a comet sink. Glad our Repillian overlords put it there?

  15. S&P 500 on Red Hat Is Now Part of the S&P 500 · · Score: 1
  16. Re:Ok for a tech demonstration on Novel Algae Fuel-Farming Method Gets Big Backing · · Score: 1

    And the factory is now carbon neutral. (Minus energy and transport costs etc..)

  17. Re:Concern. on Novel Algae Fuel-Farming Method Gets Big Backing · · Score: 1
  18. Re:High Thrust, High Specific Impulse (Isp) on Successful Test of Superconducting Plasma Rocket Engine · · Score: 1

    I assure you my germ-line genetic experiments in hibernation and G-force tolerance will be very useful in space! They are NOT stagnation! Not perfection either, but getting there.

  19. Re:Flash memory? on Revisiting the Five-Minute Rule · · Score: 1

    SSDs = Flash

  20. Distance on NASA Suggests Nano Robots To Explore Mars · · Score: 1

    Safer to do it far away from us.

  21. Stanley Steamer Mark II on Chicken Feathers May Hold Key To Hydrogen Storage · · Score: 1

    The article didn't mention how to get the hydrogen OUT of the feathers. Maybe you just burn the feathers.

  22. Ambitious man on Rod Beckstrom Named New ICANN CEO · · Score: 1

    Well, he has more actual power now.

  23. Progress Quest! on Can Video Game Accessibility Go Too Far? · · Score: 1

    I've 'played' it. http://www.progressquest.com/

  24. Re:Less Buck Rodgers. on Buzz Aldrin's Radical Plan For NASA · · Score: 1

    Okay, I can get behind that!

  25. Less Buck Rodgers. on Buzz Aldrin's Radical Plan For NASA · · Score: 0

    Less fleshy ones. More robotic probes...