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  1. Re:450,000 of 500,000 people report crashes ? on Big Challenges for Vista Bug Hunters · · Score: 1

    This post is exactly why i opened up this article. I feel better already :)
    Ofcourse FC6 is postponed because of bugs as well... By the whole 6 days!

  2. Mood on Three Years in Prison for Posting Hatespeak · · Score: 1

    Mood +1
    If only they would put those people through mandatory school in prison.

  3. MVP site behind certificate on Microsoft Gives MVP Award to Adware Pusher · · Score: 1

    To view MVP site or the spammer's profile @ MVP, users are required to accept untrusted certificate. No reading for me.

  4. Rathole on George Lucas To Quit Movie Business · · Score: 1

    Notably, he does not plan on distributing movies online, calling online distribution a 'rathole.'"
    GRR... It's like closing the door and hiding in a dark room, trying to believe whatever you want to believe.
    Well, you can stay in your 'rathole', Mr. Lucas, while we will be left with only one choice how to watch your releases on out home entertainment systems, that are not connected to any broadcast channels.

  5. Re:Power usage? on Folding@Home Releases GPU Client · · Score: 1

    Superconductors do not heat up. The EM just flows to minus.

  6. Re:QoS not needed or wanted on the Internet on IPv6 Essentials · · Score: 1

    You obviously confuse different topics.
    One is net neutrality. The other is technology differentiation.
    (I'm not talking about half-empty lines, where servis differentiation would be almost pointless)
    If certain technology requires lower latency (VoIP), or where packet loss is not wanted (routing protocol traffic), it has to be differentiated, or your Internet would not work at all. Service differentiation will ALWAYS exist, just in different contexts.

  7. Re:And... on IPv6 Essentials · · Score: 1

    Don't talk to him at all.
    IPv6 is not about USERS, it's about ADMINISTRATORS.
    Users will not feel the difference, aside from setting up home networking, which will be more automated than ever.

  8. Re:IPv6 is halfway here on IPv6 Essentials · · Score: 1

    You misunderstood it.
    The conversation is about IP VERSION not IP PROTOCOL NUMBER, that are assigned by IANA: http://www.iana.org/assignments/protocol-numbers

  9. Slashdot FAQ on The I-Tech Virtual Laser Keyboard · · Score: 1

    From FAQ:
    How do I submit stories to Slashdot?
    Before you submit a story, please take a minute to make sure it's not a duplicate of a story we've posted already. Check the main Slashdot page and make sure it hasn't already been posted. If it's not breaking news, you might also run a search to see if it's something that might have been posted on a previous day. Roughly ten percent of all our story submissions are duplicates of stories we've already posted.

    I wonder that slashdot of all doesn't have some shell script that tries to detect if the submission is a duplicate...

  10. Re:They would lose the Intel case contest because on Beautiful Wooden PC Cases · · Score: 1

    You obviously don't have too much wood in your home.

  11. Re:He's not a robot... there IS someone running hi on Quasi the Intelligent Robot · · Score: 1

    My thoughts eactly. I want my 20 minutes back!

    A guy with a microphone...

  12. Re:Only a bit on Mesons Flip Between Matter and Antimatter · · Score: 1

    Science does not prove anything in the universal sense, but physics uses mathematics extensively. Also no theory (that I know of) is alone - theories supporting theories supporting other theories. Like a puzzle. It would strike you if the center piece was round and won't fit, wouldn't it?

  13. Re:Only a bit on Mesons Flip Between Matter and Antimatter · · Score: 1

    You haven't read any evidence, have you?
    Actually, we can see it through gravitational refraction.

  14. Re:I thought that.... on Mesons Flip Between Matter and Antimatter · · Score: 1

    I think the better definition of the difference would be the spin. Half-integer spin particles (fermions) are matter, and integer spin particles (bosons) are energy.
    Multiples of matter in our sense of perception cannot exist at the same place at the same time, which is a definition of half-integer spin particles.

  15. Re:Only a bit on Mesons Flip Between Matter and Antimatter · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Actually "our" universe is much smaller: http://universe.nasa.gov/press/images/cosmos_perce nt_comp.jpg. Us "lighties" are really a minority since dark matter (recently proven to exist) and dark energy dominate.

    P.S.: In Hawking radiation the effect of more matter than antimatter is also observed.

  16. News objectivity on Ask an Expert About the Future of 'Citizen Journalism' · · Score: 1

    How can we prevent sinking in our close-mindedness if all news would be "filtered" by natural subjectivity?

  17. Re:How to make a tech movie that does NOT stink on 10 Terrible Portrayals of Technology in Film · · Score: 1

    I think it's easy - Create a visualisation that would portray the state of the administered technology. Like a falling apart bridge with lots of cars, when you start fixing it, the group of builders come in and start fixing the bridge (for broken BGP sessions). Or bacteria attacking living organism, and you blast them with lasers (for viruses).

    Basically create a visual association to what people understand.

  18. Re:slashdotted .. on 10 Terrible Portrayals of Technology in Film · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I wasn't fast enough either :( I hope Admin comes in soon and does what it says.

  19. Network "trunk" on OpenBSD 4.0 Pre-orders are Available · · Score: 1

    From the description it sounds like an extended version of 802.3ad standard, which is great. But under "trunk" most network admins imagine interface that tags VLANs as per 802.1q. Great feature nevetheless.

  20. Air Quality on Combatting Global Warming With Artificial Volcanos? · · Score: 1

    I thought that the secondary concern was that we breath more and more crap. To release more crap into the air would make the air more crappy.

    Cough - cough.

    Today i saw in the news how natural gas prices are so high, that people start heating their homes with forrest wood, because it's cheaper... Real smart... Who is going to convert your CO2 back into Oxygen, you dummies? No way we ever going to move anywhere with this problem until majority understands it. But that's not going to happen while Exxon and Philip Morris are around (read: ignorance).

  21. Trayer on FVWM-Crystal 3.0.4: Speed and Transparency · · Score: 1

    Well, I was in progress of checking if i have all the prerequisits, when i noticed i need "Trayer". No problem. But after typing "./configure" guess what... "-bash: ./configure: No such file or directory" a quick ls -la confirmed this. I hope Crystal can function without trayer.

  22. RFID based? on Shopping for Building Access Security? · · Score: 2, Informative

    General access at our work use have contact-less (?) cards that every single employee has. I really like the system since the card is the size of the standard credit card (not fatter) and works over the distance of about 10-15 cm, and not being blocked too much by the surroundings (e.g. deep inside the wallet) so i can keep it in there all the time.

    The card is assigned a unique number (which can probably be linked to username in Active Directory or the likes), and all cards are administered in groups by a central database, so granting/deniyng access is a matter of minutes. The card reader is a small box (about 10cm in height and 5 cm in width) and can be installed on doors and turnstiles likewise. All data is transfered to the database on-line, so the guard-lady/guy actually sees who you are and and all the other necessary info on the screen in front of them (I finally don't have to sign in every time i go to work at night or on weekends)

    For more restricted access we have finger-print readers (retina scanners were too expensive at the time of installation), but that is not for general access.

    P.S.: From personal experience i think it is important for the card to work through clutter and not to have it take out from the wallet (purse, bag etc). At least that's the difference for me between the cards i like and the cards i don't like.
    P.S.: also i had cards on several ocasions that were not working in close proximity to each other (overlapping frequencies?)

  23. Re:forget about the browser on Privacy Web Browser 'Browzar' Branded Adware · · Score: 2, Interesting

    And after a few years of use we will findout that "Blackbox" is a government project...

  24. Oxymoron on Privacy Web Browser 'Browzar' Branded Adware · · Score: 2, Funny

    Browser designed to protect a user's privacy which is based on the Internet Explorer core is an oxymoron oto my ears.
    Besides, how do you "BASE" something on closed source? Isn't it a fancy term of creating new front-end to the "same old same old" using an API?

  25. Replacement for XBOX on A Truly Silent Home Theater PC Built for Linux · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Finally I will be able to replace my XBOX, which is used solely for home theater purposes, with this HD-DVD capable system.
    There is no HDMI, but component and DVI should suffice for most.