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  1. Welcome to the 21st Century on Use A Regular Phone For Cellphone Calls · · Score: 1

    We've been waiting for you :)

  2. Amazing on Spam Costs U.S. Companies $22B Annually · · Score: 1


    Every time a spam study comes out, everybody seems to want to one up the last person
    and claim that they receive more spam than anyone else. When will they realize that
    they're just advertising their stupdity to the rest of the world.

    Hint - don't give your email address to the all the porn sites you visit, all the dating
    services you subscribe to, to get Viagra for more than your DR would charge, or to
    get a software crack that doesn't even work ...

    It is not rocket science people.

  3. Re:Precious on 2.4GHz Wi-Fi Detector Ring Project · · Score: 1

    LOL LOL LOL !

  4. Better Not Instant Message Any More on Jail Time For P2P Developers? · · Score: 1

    I cannot think of one Instant Messaging application that doesn't include File Transfer capability between communicating parties.
    Do I have to uninstall AIM, Yahoo, MSN, Trillian, et cetera now?
    Better yet, if we all install MSN and start transferring files, will Billy go directly to jail.

  5. Why so complicated ? on 2004 MN4 Probably Won't Kill Us · · Score: 1

    Can't you just say 44 choose 6 and be done already.

  6. Re:wtf is this movie supposed to be? on Doom Movie Update · · Score: 1


    i've got it ...
    this is not DOOM3
    it's the future of George W's legacy ...
    the virus is from Al Queda who we are really starting to piss off
    the Swat members are because we have no more troops left to protect the US because someone sent them all to Iraq for unknown reasons [besides the obvious ones like oil]
    it's on Earth because we cannot afford to explore Mars and give the wealthy tax cuts

    ... and we're all screwed because we just re-elected a President who reads books upside down to kids while terrorists fly airliners into buildings !

  7. Correct on Is The 'CSI Phenomenon' Good For Science? · · Score: 1

    Take a computer vision course and you to will learn how to write programs that take many images and create higher resolution or panoramics.

    Governments use this to enhance satellite imagery.

    Basically, you warp all the images to one viewpoint using something like a projective transformation. It only takes eight corresponding points per image pair [non-planer].

    Make sure your up on your linear-matrix algebra fist !

  8. Unbelievable on Senate May Rush Copyright Legislation · · Score: 1

    Pretty soon, when buying food from the store, you will be told how you are allowed to eat your Reeses Peanut Butter Cup. Gone are the days of eating the edges first as you will be breaking the law by circumventing the rights of the peanut butter to be eaten in a fair manner alongside its chocolate counter part.

    Are you some kind of discriminatory racist criminal? You surely belong in jail, but we wont tell anyone where, why, or even acknowledge that we were involved in the hate crimes you were pushing onto the people of this fine country.

    Obviously, the advertisers are tracking who watches what commercials and then pay the broadcasters accordingly.

    If you skip the commercials, the cable companies don't make any money ... oh wait a minute ... that's right, they are still making money off of us paying for their cable service.

    The greedy bastards should all die.

  9. Re:openbsd rm on Shootout: 'rm -Rf /' vs. 'Format C:' · · Score: 1
    If you read the article, it becomes clear that they are just very simply adding an extra dimension of information by recording timestamps for each bit.

    When you write a file for instance, starting somewhere around 12 or so [0-11 are reserved for future use], you must record the layer each bit was written to. You can either perform a linear search to determine the number of layers or use some reserved layers to keep count.

    When reading the file, use this recorded information to read the correct bit from the proper layer. All of this is in binary by the way.

    F.A.Q.

    Question -- "But where do we store the recorded layer information?"
    Answer -- In additional layers of bits of course.

    Question -- "Why do you start at 12?"
    Answer -- Because layers 0-11 are reserved for future use!

    Question -- "Isn't this like going back in time?"
    Answer -- Exactly, but that is possible because we're using l-a-s-e-r-s and m-a-g-n-e-t-s?

    Question -- "Ok I think I understand ... but wouldn't a tri-linear search be faster?"
    Answer -- No

    Question -- "That's pretty amazing, can it be further optimized?"
    Answer -- Of course we can! By storing each file solely in the extra dimension of a single bit ... I will now make the math.

    200 GB HDD

    1,717,986,918,400 bits

    1,717,986,918,400 files * average file length of 750 KB [jpgs]

    10,307,921,510,400,000 bits

    10 quadrillion bits of information !!!

    It should be obvious that 10 quadrillion is much greater than 1 trillion.


    Question -- "Wow that's simply amazing!"
    Answer -- Yes

    Question -- "I bet that's the best you can do, right?"
    Answer -- Of course it's not. By going even further, we can store the entire OS in the dimension of one bit.

    Question -- "Doesn't that make current harddrives over 1 bit kinda useless?"
    Answer -- Maybe. But bigger is usually better when it comes to computers.

  10. Re:Yea you are really safe keep telling yourself t on Spyware/Adware Prevention In Large Deployments? · · Score: 0

    Got Code ... Got Dictionary?

    why don't you try out jeopardize instead ?

  11. lol on Public Exploit For Windows JPEG Bug · · Score: 1

    crash my computer ...
    it loaded in about 1/2 second and i didn't even notice because IE autoresized it to fit the screen

  12. unbelievable on Google's Math Puzzle · · Score: 1

    i used to check ./ every day
    lately, there seems to be less and less reasons to continue
    now i don't think the editors even read the site any longer
    wow - holy cow - same old sign, same old story ...

  13. Re:Why not link to... on Transparent Aluminum Is Here · · Score: 1

    but do it without the trailing slash ... like this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transparent_aluminum

  14. Re:Why not link to... on Transparent Aluminum Is Here · · Score: 1

    ... or go for the kill and link directly to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transparent_aluminum/

  15. Re:doesn't it say on Database Glitch Grounds American/US Airways · · Score: 2, Informative

    By the way, when's the last time you saw Microsoft.com go down?

    Uhh ... like 2 days ago.

    http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.j html?articleID=12808118

  16. Image Incorrectness on Database Glitch Grounds American/US Airways · · Score: 1

    That is not a BSOD.
    That is simply a Fatal Exception Error.
    With a FEE, there is still a chance that the OS may recover ... after you hit the key to continue about 20-30 times.
    A BSOD does not offer the ability to hit any key to continue but rather dumps your RAM to disk and then stares at you !

  17. Re:Its easy on RFID More Hackable Than Retailers Think? · · Score: 1

    exactly, you can always claim ignorance, "huh, i didn't know ... must've been one of them hackers remarking prices on everything ... if i we're you, i'd go check the prices on everything in the store again" ... LOL

    and since you [or your companion] just remarked everything in the store previously, your story sticks up pretty well, huh ...

  18. Re:No offense to checkout assistants, but... on RFID More Hackable Than Retailers Think? · · Score: 1

    i know ... Walmart should hire minders to follow you around the store while you shop!
    little Aibos and then people would steal and mod them too!

  19. All things come to an end ... on Patriot Act Used to Enforce Copyright Law? · · Score: 1

    ... and eventually so will the MPAA. We can only hope it's sooner than later.

  20. That's Nothing on eBay Scam Victim Strikes Back · · Score: 1

    I was online browsing around and almost fell off the end of the Internet, really!

  21. Free Business Advertising on From Your PC to Reality in 3 Easy Steps · · Score: 1

    Wow, Micro Logic sure did get a good deal on /.
    Two websites advertised twice within a week.
    Can I advertise my business free too or do you have to know someone at /.

  22. think about it on Modding Laser Tag Gear? · · Score: 1

    i think the obvious solution is a combination of paintball with laser tag. it could be called laserball or paintag [either way].
    seriously, combine the best features of both.
    take the "feel" nature of the paintball with the enforced nature of lasertag.
    upon being shot, the system could disable your paintball gun in milliseconds preventing any type of cheating.
    you just have to detect the paintball hits and rig the paintballl guns to be electronically disabled.
    take a hint from the US, include depleted uranium in the paintballs and attach geiger counters to the paintball guns.
    obvious!

  23. Re:This is another reason why C should be deprecat on New Linux Kernel Crash-Exploit discovered · · Score: 1


    ... yeah, that really gets me alot of the time too !

  24. Re:make us pay for relgious value! thanks! on WTO Wants USA to Gamble Online · · Score: 1

    Why can't people mind their own d*** business
    when it comes to telling other people what they
    can and cannot do with their body and it's abilities...

    A woman could steer clear of the doctor, not tell
    anyone or any government organization that keeps
    records she was pregnant and successfully keep
    the "law" from knowing...

    She could then decide to have an abortion and get
    it done discreetly and the self-righteous
    know-what's-best-for-everything would never even
    know to have something to complain and whine
    about in the first place...

    Omg, what would they whine about then?

    Is it then going to be illegal to get pregnant
    and not tell anyone , wtf is going on?

    Do I have to let the government know everytime
    my body chemical levels have changed because
    I just took a f***ing shit too !!!

    What if women everywhere got real pissed off and
    stopped having babies for about 2-3 months...

    Is the government then going to forcefully
    impregnate woman "to keep the world from ending
    as we know it" or realize they're just a bunch of
    freaking wack-offs?

  25. Re:The real reason NASA has to "fix" colors! on Colorization of Mars Images? · · Score: 1

    that's too funny... lol
    if i had em, i'd give em