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  1. Re:I feel real sorry for her on UCSB Student Engineers Grade Hack · · Score: 1

    your house protects you and your data. If I am paying you to house my data and my things, you'd better have something better than a wooden door and a deadbolt. I'm not saying that what she did was justified (I see nothing that would imply that, she fucked up), but that doesn't let the U off the hook for lax security. If someone breaks into the bank, eah they broke the law, but the bank should have stopped them

  2. Re:Doesn't 'format' do this already? on Microsoft Offers New Data-Security Scheme · · Score: 1

    no, format only destroys the table, it doesn't delete the data

  3. Re:Upgrade or Fresh Install to Tiger on Mac OS X "Tiger" Enters Final Candidate Stage · · Score: 2, Informative

    archive and install is often the best. With major steps, upgrading can sometimes caue you to miss out on some features and make it a bit clunkier. A&I will save all of your apps, the majority of your preferences and usually all of you networking settings. Stuff that affects the kernel needs to be reinstalled, but it's a lot less work than redoing the whole box

  4. Re:sweet deal on New Photovoltaics Made with Titanium Foil · · Score: 1

    I'm not that poor right now (I don't worry about food), but I've spent plenty of time chilling on the bottom. One of my closest friends makes 7.15 an hour and her boyfriend makes 8 something but can't work full time.

    And I know it well enough to have to try to convince her boyfriend to let me take him to the hospital after he'd been rolling around on the floor in the worst pain of his life for a couple hours. I think he is still in debt from it, but the hospital was going to try to get him on medicaid to pay for it.

    so yeah, I haven't had to sleep on the street and I haven't gone hungry, but I spend my time with people who do, and i've spent time with people of similar economic status in canada and here sucks in comparison.

    It costs $125 to get a GED in michigan. for my friends who didn't finish highschool, this is fucking outrageous. it only costs 27 (i think) to take the ACT, but god forbid your parents are hellish ghouls and you have to drop out.

    If we had universal healthcare (which is cheaper anyways), you might be right, but as it is, our social program SUCK.

    Oh, and these are the people who didn't get into drugs and have been trying to get their shit together. I'm next to detroit now.. if you want to see how wretched we can be to the poor, walk around it sometime. Engler emptied out all of the state mental health facilities into detroit because they were too expensive.

    When I was little my family qualified for reduced lunches, but no, I'm not a poor person in the US, but I do feel that I'm not pulling it out of my ass

  5. Re:sweet deal on New Photovoltaics Made with Titanium Foil · · Score: 1

    US poor live kinda crappy compared to the rest of the developed world and the US isn't a very happy country.

  6. Re:get what you pay for on BBC Writer Tries PC Repair, Finds Poor Software · · Score: 1

    Where I am is probably a special case, but I use MAC filtering, but unencrypted IM. (i ssh in and out and email is encrypted) We like our wireless network to be open to whomever, but i ban anyone who is being a pest (causing IP address conflicts.. mainly some people with some crappy no name korean router)

  7. Correcting you on NASA Unveils Centennial Challenges · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Tesla ruined himself trying to make it practical
    http://www.tfcbooks.com/articles/tws8c. htm

  8. Re:A 40MB file on slashdot. on OmniTread: A serpentine robot · · Score: 1

    Um, why you responded to me instead of the parent is sort of confusing. when the London Law game got posted on slashdot, it destroyed EECS.umich.edu. I was in the 4th floor eecs opteron lab at the tme, and we were all rather pissed. (I was in 470 and needed some of the specs on the server) I don't have an eecs account, so all I actually know about it is that it is running solaris 8.

    I've been going through the archives, and I found a dupe of the story, but not the actual one (unless comments got ripped from it)

  9. Re:A 40MB file on slashdot. on OmniTread: A serpentine robot · · Score: 1

    no, no

    that was eecs.umich.edu. eecs is probably some dual pII in a closet somewhere. It serves up static pages, mostly for internal usage.

    engin.umich.edu is a bunch of heavy iron suns. Probably right now there are more than a few instances of matlab and some simv procs running

  10. Re:too bad everyone uses UNBALANCED i/o on Are 'Monster' Cables Worth It? · · Score: 1

    most runs in people's homes aren't worth it and the transformer that should be used to unbalance the signal adds weight and money. That being said, balancing rocks (though I'd probably go TRS over XLR for home use)

  11. Re:Not again... on HP Contract Workers Sue For Recognition · · Score: 1

    in a down market, negotiating as an individual becomes impossible. Now if we had a nationwide union of technical workers

    *drool*

    *scampers off to go get ready for picketing* (not kidding either, there is a walkout on thursday)

  12. Re:Services are turned off by default... on Symantec: Mac OS X Becoming a Malware Target · · Score: 1

    02000 allow ip from any to any via lo*
    02010 deny ip from 127.0.0.0/8 to any in
    02020 deny ip from any to 127.0.0.0/8 in
    02030 deny ip from 224.0.0.0/3 to any in
    02040 deny tcp from any to 224.0.0.0/3 in
    02050 allow tcp from any to any out
    02060 allow tcp from any to any established
    02070 allow tcp from any to any 548 in
    02080 allow tcp from any to any 427 in
    02090 allow tcp from any to any 6891-6900 in
    02100 allow tcp from any to any 22 in
    02110 allow tcp from any to any 5190 in
    02120 allow tcp from any to any 5297 in
    02130 allow tcp from any to any 5298 in
    02140 allow tcp from any to any 80 in
    02150 allow tcp from any to any 427 in
    02160 allow tcp from any to any 4000 in
    02170 allow tcp from any to any 139 in
    02180 allow tcp from any to any 3689 in
    12190 deny tcp from any to any
    65535 allow ip from any to any

  13. Re:Ira Glass on Sources of Intelligent Audio for Commute? · · Score: 1

    or you could just download the .rm for free

  14. Re:Now all they need is fire and the wheel on Apple Developing Two-Button Mouse · · Score: 1

    even though i personally use a 6 button mouse with my mac, i appreciate the effort as all mac programs work with one button, which I think is good (context menus can and should be optional)

  15. Re:A contraction and two words: Don't do it! on IAS/RADIUS Implementation in a Coffee Shop? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    -random-
    The Beehive rocks!
    -/random-

  16. Re:New LED tail lights... on Flickering Curiosity? · · Score: 2

    the dc system in a lot of cars is just a really simple rectification of an ac signal, so there would be a flicker (even with a LPF, if it were going 12v-15v at 60hz, some people might be able to see it)

  17. Re:Hardware encoding on 3D Raytracing Chip Shown at CeBIT · · Score: 1

    ASIC should potentially run even faster

    sed -e "s/should potentially/will/"

  18. Re:FINALLY on 3D Raytracing Chip Shown at CeBIT · · Score: 0

    It takes a while to reconfigure them and there is a relatively small number of rewrite cycles. A lot of algorithms suck on them as well (anything that doesn't reduce cleanly to a few levels of sum of products)

    They suck for general purpose work and are more expensive than ASICs for large run chips.

    On the other hand, for demoing hardware, low run hardware, or slow but hardware dependent tasks (audio cards, DSP, things that can be done in parallel well), they ROCK

    so, they are cool, but they won't replace ASICs

  19. Re:ADDENDUM on A Crazy Cambridge Contraption · · Score: 1

    there is a much easier way. Download VLC.

  20. Re:Pity the rest of the OED isn't online on Major Update For OED Science Fiction Project · · Score: 1

    Main Entry: cite
    Pronunciation: 'sIt
    Function: transitive verb
    Inflected Forms: cited; citing
    Etymology: Latin citare to rouse, call on, summon
    1 : to demand the appearance of in court : serve with a citation
    2 : to quote or refer to as a precedent or authority

    Source: Merriam-Webster Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc.

  21. Re:I'll stick with NetFront for now... on MiniMo(zilla) Running on Windows Mobile · · Score: 1

    Have you tried /. light?

    there is slashback too, but /.light works with lynx pretty well, so i'd imagine that it'll work for a pocketPC too. (its in the homepage preferences)

  22. Re:Windows 98SE support? on OpenOffice.org 2.0 Preview · · Score: 1

    I've had really good luck with AbiWord

  23. Re:A S H C R O F T ! on Datamining the NSA · · Score: 1

    I like Earth First (not elf) as activists, but I don't want them running the contry.

  24. Re:GoogleOS on Microsoft Loses Key Engineer to Google · · Score: 1

    nah

    at elast according to the google employee that crashed on our waterbed a few weeks ago. They all run linux.

  25. Re:Study of what can go wrong in a democracy on John Gilmore's Search for the Mandatory ID Law · · Score: 1

    http://www.northernsun.com/cgi-bin/ns/19573.html