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  1. Re:Other Similar Systems: Signal Pre-emption on 14-Year-Old Turns Tram System Into Personal Train Set · · Score: 1

    Have you ever considered that people are slowing down because of angry, jerk drivers like yourself are making them feel unsafe by tailgating etc? I certainly make a point of slowing down at least 10Kph when someone is really tailgating me, I think it's pretty funny (for me at least) to do this actually.

  2. Re:Porn - first proof of ET's... on New Chip For Square Kilometer Radio Telescope · · Score: 3, Funny

    Im not sure that we would want to be trading porn with an alien species. What if they all look like jabba the hut? Some things you cannot unsee.

  3. Re:Yes, another confirmation. on NSI Registers Every Domain Checked · · Score: 1

    ICANN has already demonstrated their complacency and incompetence during the Registerfly.com debacle. Why would this be any different?

  4. Re:Prior Art from the 70's on Apple Files for OLED Keyboard Patent · · Score: 1
  5. Re:It's a Release Candidate on Vista SP1 Release Candidate Available · · Score: 1

    My parent's chihuahua lunges at your face, when you are sitting with him on your lap, and tries to stick his tongue in your nose, or ears if you turn my head to avoid it. Pretty funny dog.

  6. Re:FPGA Huggers on Sun Niagara 2 CPU Now Open Source · · Score: 1

    Is the book you are thinking of an edition of: John D. Carpinelli, Computer Systems Organization and Architecture, Addison Wesley We used the 4bit CPU specification from this text to code a simulator for a class in college for an assignment. Our group also made an assembler for it.

  7. Re:No Shit Sherlock on Former Anti-Nuclear Activist Does A 180 · · Score: 1

    Because the sun might asplode!

  8. Debate over on Graph Shows Fraud in Russian Elections · · Score: 1

    Godwinated

  9. Re:Ham's day is over, probably on Ham Radio Operators Are Heroes In Oregon · · Score: 1

    In addition, with the Internet you can basically walk to your computer and email the person you just talked to halfway around the world. You are assuming that people on slashdot actually get up from their computer.
  10. Re:END MODERATOR ABUSES NOW - A MANIFESTO OF EPIC on Ham Radio Operators Are Heroes In Oregon · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    leave Britney..er Taco Meat alone! just leave him alone!!!

  11. Re:Wouldn't it be nice.... on Users and Web Developers Vent Over IE7 · · Score: 1, Troll

    What do you expect? You don't say bad things about Firefox here.

  12. Re:I don't undertstand on The $10 Billion Poker Game Begins · · Score: 1

    I think a good way to delegate use of a given frequency is to make it fully controlled by an open digital protocol. That way there is no need for administration other than ensuring all clients conform to the protocol. It would take care of interference with collision detection, and make efficient use of the bandwidth.

  13. Re:Should be shot on Comcast Continues to Block Peer to Peer Traffic · · Score: 1

    Fragrantly violating the network standards that allow communication between different networks to interoperate is literally trying to destroy the internet, and cannot be tolerated. So, not only are they sending reset packets, they are sending their customers stink bomb packets?
  14. Re:In Soviet Russia on Russian Police Seize Kasparov · · Score: 1

    And possibly Alexander Litvinenko.

  15. Re:Natural? on Has Wikipedia Peaked? · · Score: 1

    I don't understand why people feel the need to delete things like that. Maybe a better solution would be a user setting so people can opt in or opt out of seeing things like trivia. If It upsets you don't look at it.

  16. Re:Windows should be strictly for gaming. on Is id Abandoning Linux? · · Score: 1

    You end up with the case where 90% of developers think that if a square peg isn't fitting into the round hole, the answer is to just shove in a lot of really small square pegs because that's all they know how to use.
    Yes. Its called integration.
  17. Re:Well in that case on Bloggers Immune From Suits Against Commenters · · Score: 1

    you forgot to click the "Post Anonymously" checkbox

  18. Re:If they'd just fix each other... on When Malware Attacks Malware · · Score: 1

    If your dog was running around the neighborhood barking at people and biting them, they'd make you do something about the dog. I don't see why your computer gets to the do the same thing on the internet with such impunity. This isnt a perfect analogy though. It isn't the average Joe's fault that their computer is messed up it's Microsoft's for writing crappy software and the worm writer's for being malicious. If your dog was running around through the neighborhood barking and biting, in an analogous situation, it would be because one of your undesirable neighbours has captured your dog, and, in the worm writer's case, tortured it or given it rabies or something, and in the Microsoft/crappy software case, because your dog is retarded.
  19. Puppy Linux on French Kids Get OSS on USB Sticks · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Are they getting something like Puppy Linux? http://www.puppyos.com/ This can be used on a flash drive to run Linux on any computer that is capable of booting from USB.

  20. Re:Unique feature? on OS Comparisons From the BBC · · Score: 1

    Additionally merely putting a swap file on a flash drive might cause a lot of writes.

  21. Re:He ASKED for this... on British Police Identify Killer in Radiation Case · · Score: 1

    These guys are trying to instill major fear in their opponents. Would you rather die from:
    a: a shot to the head
    b: a slow, painful death over several weeks

    The KGB guys probably considered him to be worse than most since he betrayed them. Of course psychos like that are gonna do something nasty like this

  22. Re:I wonder who these "computer experts" are? on British Cops Hack Into Government Computers · · Score: 1

    The police probably just asked medium level bureaucrats for the passwords they needed to get into the system, and called it hacking.

  23. Free printing on Printers Vulnerable To Security Threats · · Score: 1
    My college uses a private print contracter to manage printing services. They use a print program dialog that you need to fill up with a credit card and each time you print it lowers your balance. They charge 9 cents for a single sided print and double that for a two-sided print. Over the 2 years I have attended the college it has been a cat and mouse game of students figuring out a way to make the printers print for free.

    • last year somebody figure out that by putting in a minus sign into the program your balance increases
    • You used to be able to log into the web management interface if you can figure out the printer's IP and do all sorts of crazy stuff. They locked out that feature though.
    • Nowadays all you need to do to get a free print is ftp into the printer and drag and drop your postscript file to one of the folders that are shown. Trying to drag and drop a .doc or .xls or other makes the printer sit there and print out page after page of random seeming characters.
  24. Re:Hi Martians! on Mars Probe May Have Spotted Sojourner Rover · · Score: 1

    if I looking for robot
    him name is Sojourner red robot
    I lost my frog
    301-286-2000
    Love,
    NASA
    P.S. I'll find my robot
    Who took my robot
    Who found my robot

  25. Re:Perfect platform? Really? on A Fully Programmable Mobile Robot · · Score: 1

    Not only RS-232, you can hook up some A/D to the AVR chip if you want to use analogue sensing parts :D This has alot more flexibility than the lego stuff, but requires a bit more know-how (or work) to get good results.