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So, all those people who have donated their time, money and bodies to science knowing full well they will never get a dime for it, are okay but this person seems to require compensation?

Whatever happened to 'for the greater good' that the left keeps telling us about? Oh, that's only when they want to take rights away from 'the people.' I forgot.

DanH
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To 'knowingly disrupt computer network' traffic or similar if it's not your own network?

Why do they make laws for acts that already are illegal?

Breaking and entering works for computers too.

DanH
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Maybe we'll get to see some honest prices for shares for service and support companies instead of the feeding frenzy of the past couple years.

On the other hand, those of us who bought before last January still have a positive numbered return from our portfolio.

DanH
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Silly!

If it doesn't work worth a darn, people already know the name lightsaber from Star Wars and know what one is. The doctors will figure out it's a piece of crap faster than the marketing will and if it doesn't work, it'll die quietly. If it does work, though, it's not going to damage anything name-wise, but will equate light sabers with life saving devices.

DanH
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Uh, don't forget the possibility of retreating blade stall, where the effective airspeed of the retreating blade (the blade going 'backwards' relative to the flight path), due to rotor rotation and relative wind, is low enough to cause it to stall. The rotor disc then tends to roll off in that direction (quite nastily).
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That does make sense. One of the problems that a lot of companies who try to make things easier for the user start at the easiest fixes. Unfortunately, they will probably not make money in the *NIX field at all if they stay at the minimum. Most of the people using a *NIX based system have already graduated from 'how do I turn off remote access' and the ones just learning also learn fast that the newsgroups will help them out faster, cheaper, and with a more complete solution than places like zero knowledge.

DanH
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With all the cut backs in the tech industry, it doesn't pay for smaller companies to support more than one OS. Do the math, if you have enough people to only support one, which one will bring the most clients?

On the more paranoid note, could it be possible for them to have received a 'consulting fee' to only support WIN based products?

DanH
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"The only one who agrees with me is the blood sucking Lawyer"

Well, it seems that lawyers CAN be good guys. They're still to be regarded with suspicion, though.

DanH
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They've already introduced the idea that it CAN be done, people will become numb to the idea. After a couple more outrageous incidents of invasion of privacy, the feds will then institute a 'reasonable' searching technique.

After the people are used to these extreme measures, the 'reasonable' ones will seem mild and unobtrusive in comparison. The only problem is they would bring immediate picketing and demonstrations 10 years ago, but today's society is so used to having no backing for the constitution that they're used to flat out ignoring it for the most part and accepting what is told them by the news that it may not even be looked at crosseyed.

DanH
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IINAL, but I believe if you could show that you had legitimate reason to believe what you printed, NOT that the voices in your head told you, rather sources that were in a position to know told you or gave evidence that led you to that conclusion, you would still be covered.

If that were not the case, no newspaper would survive.

DanH
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You mean it won't have the full kernel and any of the software available in the distros?

It's not worth reading if that's how it's presented. Do you mean a stripped down distro using the Linux kernel?

DanH
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Now, just a little while ago we had an article about the use of an asteroid as an offensive weapon. The article went on to describe how they could maneuver it to hit the Earth and obliterate the country's enemys. Today we have one on how to get the asteroid to avoid Earth.

Couldn't someone put the two together and instead of redirecting it to HIT, maybe how to redirect it to MISS? or is that asking too much.

DanH
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Papers use that all the time. The very fact that they deny it makes it all that much more plausable. right?

DanH
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Case of what is following what people think. People hear of DSL companies falling right and left and don't want to sign up for it, thus causing the gain to be smaller and causing more companies to fail...

Cable does not have that particular problem. Cable DOES, however, require that you share bandwidth with your neighbour and that will cause people to get fed up and look at DSL for a change.

Should even out in a couple years.

DanH
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He finally figured out what is important. Yes, driven people tend to get things done, but a lot of them forget they have families and loved one and forget to spend time with them when available. LinuxPPC will continue and has a hell of a jump start thanks largely, if not entirely on Haas. Now he can get the rest of the college done and dabble in PPC AND have time for the important things in life, family and friends.

Sometimes people forget that the really important things in life are their family and get focused on things that will continue after they are gone.

For some of us, it took deployments and a war to figure that out. I'm glad he does have the time and chance to get to that conclusion.

DanH
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U.S. Gov't wants to ban everything, encryption-wise, that they do not have a back door for. The MPAA, RIAA, LMNOPA, et al want to ban encryption of which THEY don't have back doors to. Seems Joe User is just about screwed no matter which way it goes. The Federal Gov't will just not allow them to BE an ISP or the TLAs (Three Letter Acronyms, four this time) will SUE them until they give in or go broke, whichever is fine with them.

Just say no to back door mandates.

DanH
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Takes a couple days/weeks to really get used to it, but once you do it's difficult to go back to the 'standard' keyboard. I would like one in the chair that is IR run instead of wire run, that would eliminate all of the stopppage due to cable running out at other side of room stuff.

Now I'm going to have to try the Cpt Kirk chair with keyboard installed.

DanH
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Now if we could get Estees to mass produce some of these ideas, we could get some newer models and ideas.

DanH
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I wonder which gives them the highest electric bill, the servers themselves or the airconditioner required to do it?

I'd just give up and get a handful of S/390s and do the same thing.

DanH
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I see all the negative moderators are out in force today...


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IBM has been into the open source idea for a while now, if only to annoy MS. DB2 is IBM's baby so why are they going after something they already have?

Wishful thinking maybe, but could an open source informix be in the works to put onto their S/390, now z/whatever servers and go after certain other players in the DB field that are not even vaguely threatened by the open source movement.

It's an idea.

DanH
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The Washington Post has what little there is to tell on this page

A killer whale looking thing flying at 65,000 feet. I cannot wait to hear what the UFO watchers have to say about this

DanH
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1 year ago we were breaking 1GHz for speed and today we're pushing 2GHz.

Does the name Moore ring a bell with you?

DanH
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My point exactly.

DanH
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If I'm sitting at my computer, it doesn't work too well if the monitor and keyboard are 200' away. Have to get up everytime a compile fails and walk over there?

DanH
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Is it Wednesday already?

And me without any soap.

DanH
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Does that mean that I can run benchmark tests and publish my data with full disclosure as an anonymous entity and not get sued?

DanH
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So the rest of the US can use that as a case law. If you did small claims court, each state has to have it's own version of it and while your case will be used as a 'see?' it does not hold weight. This was a California statute, though and the wording may and probably will be different between the states.

But it's worth a try to use it even if you are not in California.

DanH
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It wouldn't be "smalltalk" now would it?

DanH
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Some of the batteries I've seen are about as wide/long as a laptop and about 1" thick and those last about 12 hours as well. They cost about 150% of a normal lithium battery so have a good cost/benifit ratio, especially for airplanes where the battery size doesn't matter all that much.

DanH
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It's a good stereo wire set, it carries telephone with the best of them, it's shielded so everything is nice and clean signaled and it's not that expensive at all.

DanH
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Embrace, extend, destroy. Corporations have saturated most of the ways they can make money, especially the largest ones that have utterly saturated their audience. Sales are flatening, profits flat or decreasing. What is the next logical thing to do?

Make people pay for EACH use of their product. The more dependant the person is upon the product, the better off this stratigy works. Instead of claiming 'fair use' which SHOULD be an exception to any copyright law, try explaining in terms of "you mean if a person in the hospital requires dialisys, not only do they have to pay for the use of the machine which must be maintained, the electricity, which is used each time, but also the SOFTWARE TO RUN IT, which is static and does not diminish with use. Plus, you are mandating that the software company can shut off the software at any time without prior warning, even if this is a life support machine. Is this fair?" and see how willing the legislator is to pass that particular law.

DanH
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However, it does become a tower of babble when there are more scripting interepters and compilers on your hard drive than there are programs.

Updating an OS is bad enough as it is without the need to update all the subordinate things associated with a language update.

DanH
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Are you talking about the same Washington Post that has demonized hackers for years?

I guess a blind squirrel DOES get an acorn every once in a while.

Now if the Post would just put the political commentary where it belongs, in the Op-Eds and leave it out of their reporting...

DanH
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The cost is borne because it is truely advertising costs. If they didn't get those people to use the free services, they wouldn't have as many hits and could not command such a premium for advertising. I believe there will always be free services for as long as there is an internet.

DanH
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I thought that was what IPv6 was supposed to do. If it's just websites you want, apache has this built into it with virtual hosts, proxy serving and other nifty things.

You can also have only one box with secure shell or something similar with two NICs and the other one is on a network with the other servers you want to get at.

DanH
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RoblimoSapiens?

DanH
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Heat causes weird things to happen with computers. Radio shack and just about every computer store on Earth sell 3" fans that plug into drive power supplies that you can put anywhere in your case. Whenever I get a new computer that is the first thing I get to put in, blowing directly onto wherever the CPU is. If the case supports it, I get two or three of them for the front of the case to blow in and the rear of the case to blow out. Yes, CPUs get HOT and the more air you can move around/over them the better off you are.

DanH
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Or is it copyrighted and you're not allowed to download it without payint RIAA a gizillion dollars of which the astronaut gets $1.98(CAN)

DanH
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As long as there are no strings attached, EVER, this is one area where I wouldn't mind our tax dollars stepping in to help something.

PBS puts out a good programming schedule. It also is not dictated by corporate sponsers.

I don't know how they could do it, so I think I'm going to pony up some more than my yearly contribution to PBS. May not be a whole lot, but if a million others did it as well, this would be a non-issue.

DanH
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This is a known issue, however, as with all software ensure you trust the source of the rpm. If it's an rpm, you can probably find the rpm at http://rufus.w3.org/ or http://www.freshmeat.net/ and I would look at one or both of those before I went to joessoftware.com and downloaded anything.

As usual, get the source and look for yourself inside to see if there's anything you should be wary of before you build and install. Build as your user and run the program a couple times before you 'make install' as root.

Now with binary rpms, you can use midnight commander, type 'mc' at the command prompt, and you can look into rpms and find out what files are listed, where they are going and you can even get them out of the rpms into your home directory AS THE USER and use the binaries without root permissions. That would limit the damage should one be evil. After you assure yourself it's okay, THEN install as root.

DanH
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Diamonds and solar cells make sense. Considering rubies are some of the better laser making crystals, it follows that anything with light works well with natural substances and the more pure the substance the better the light that comes through.

I wonder if cubic zirconium would create the same effect or a slightly lessor effect at a fraction of the cost.

DanH
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People think the US is trying to be the world's police force? Not hardly, it's the darn corporations that are being silly with the enforcement.

DanH
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For a brand name called "fido" having one that was named www.phydeaux.com would be a logical (to me) way to have a domain name about the company if you had strong feelings.

Here I thought that having a sound alike only mattered if you were in a business that was in direct competition of the trademark holder. How silly of me.

DanH
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Here's what it feels like to be slashdotted...

DanH
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I honestly hope this one is basically a final product, not the prototype that was introduced a couple weeks ago.

If so, I'll be on my way to the store about a day after it comes out.

DanH
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The U.S. Army has a long history of using rockets. The minuteman, honest john, nike and others were in the inventory for quite a while. This is just a logical extension of those inventory items. What is interesting is that it's only now that the Army gets back into this.

DanH
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Is there a tech company or organization that makes it's announced target date? I can think of only one or two instances that the release date and the announced date are within a month or so of each other. So, this is news?

Yes, I'm all for honest reports of instability, difficulty in a company, and other negative press, but to have 'missed their target date' for the primary purpose of the news article is a bit over the edge in zelatroy (and if that's not a word, it should be.)

I'm a Linux user and believe entirely in it's ability to do the job better, stronger, faster, cheaper than almost anything MS puts out, but if their pushing back the release date is to ensure a more stable platform, this is a bad thing? Maybe they're learning that people don't want an unstable platform and want to be able to depend on their machines, especially the newbie/technophobe and they're responding to user input. That would be a good thing and would prove the 'competition brings better market items' therom.

DanH
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"Big Media" is dictating what we can or cannot hear.

This is just a logical extension of radio. Even better, the stations do not have to purchase/lease a frequency, they just need 'net connection. Maybe that's the problem, the producers cannot control it and therefore want it shut down until they can get a stranglehold over how/when things are broadcast.

So much for the little guy being able to have a web-streaming radio station.

DanH
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Jupiter, gas ball with a whole bunch of different gasses than the Earth, Probably has a whole different spectrum of colours within it's Aurora. I wonder if our eyes can pick up the wonders of that one without digital enhancement. I, for one, would like to see colour pics, without touchups, of the whole thing just to see the differences.

DanH
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