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  1. You kids these days! on Are Written Computer Science Exams a Fair Measure? · · Score: 1

    You just don't know how good you have it, you little whippersnappers! Back in my day, we had to write all of our code by hand. There was no such thing as "open source" or "compilers." There weren't even any computers! But we wrote our code all day long without a single complaint. No wimpy caffienated drinks or bathroom breaks for us! No sir! You don't know just how good you have it.

  2. Very easy to cure on Simulator Sickness Cures? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Play with the monitor turned off.

  3. Shameless self-promotion on McAfee Manufactures Virus Threat · · Score: 1

    If you absolutely must continue using Outlook Express (for whatever reason), take a look at my Spam Tamer Proxy. It disables images, viruses, web bugs, pop-up windows, etc. in email. It works with any POP3 email client and it runs on both Windows and Linux.

  4. Re:Shareware registration keys on Information Valuation - The Most Buck for the Bits? · · Score: 1

    Sorry. I can't type today. I should say, "I'll throw in the source code . . . "

    I'm going to go home and quit wasting bandwidth now. Otherwise someone out there is going to revoke my typing license.

    I don't know how many bytes are in a typing license, but if you compare that to my lifetime potential earnings . . .

    [Sorry, too much sugar today.]

  5. Re:Shareware registration keys on Information Valuation - The Most Buck for the Bits? · · Score: 1

    But hey, if you want to buy that many licenses, I'll even through in the source code for free. :-)

  6. Re:Shareware registration keys on Information Valuation - The Most Buck for the Bits? · · Score: 1

    I'm willing to compete. I'll let you buy a shareware key good for 6,000,000,000 licenses. I'm just not sure why you would want to license one of my programs for every inhabitant of the planet. :)

  7. Re:Credit Card Numbers on Information Valuation - The Most Buck for the Bits? · · Score: 1

    I meant to say, "I used to work for American Express." Sorry about the typo.

  8. Re:Credit Card Numbers on Information Valuation - The Most Buck for the Bits? · · Score: 1

    I used to for for American Express. There are a few people out there who use charge tens of millions of $US per month on their green cards. As long as they have a history of paying the balance each month, American Express will let them keep doing it. They may not have a fixed limit, but if I tried to charge $10,000,000, it would probably be denied because I don't have a history of large purchases.

  9. Shareware registration keys on Information Valuation - The Most Buck for the Bits? · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Shareware registration keys can be pretty expensive, especially if you buy a 1000 license key.

  10. Re:OK, but who was the first guy to try it??? on Nitroglycerin Mystery Solved · · Score: 1

    Then again, if I got a lot of it on my skin, I'd probably have an increased heart rate simply because I'd be afraid of exploding! :)

  11. Re:OK, but who was the first guy to try it??? on Nitroglycerin Mystery Solved · · Score: 1

    I've been told that you don't actually need to eat it to experience the effects. Simply getting enough of it on your bare skin is supposed to be enough to cause an accelerated heart rate. Does anybody out there know if this is true? Maybe it was this effect that convinced people to start putting it in pills.

  12. Re:Not as cool as the goat spider silk on A Building Material 12 Times Stronger Than Steel · · Score: 1

    Apples and oranges.

    Spider silk has a very high tensile strength, meaning that you can hang things with it. PYRAmatrix has a very high compression strentgh, meaning you can set things on top of it. Using spider silk to build pillars is a lot like pushing a rope. Now you could use spider silk along with a resin to create a composite material. You could even use this material to create a very strong PYRAmatrix.

  13. Re:Well said. Screw the gadgets on Subversive Gifts for New College Students? · · Score: 1

    So, you mean that the package should include Lego Mindstorms?

  14. Re: Legal ? on Subversive Gifts for New College Students? · · Score: 1

    Here's what the Utah Criminal Code says:

    76-6-205. Manufacture or possession of instrument for burglary or theft. Any person who manufactures or possesses any instrument, tool, device, article, or other thing adapted, designed, or commonly used in advancing or facilitating the commission of any offense under circumstances manifesting an intent to use or knowledge that some person intends to use the same in the commission of a burglary or theft is guilty of a class B misdemeanor.

    In other words, intent is everything. I bet most states have a very similar law.

  15. Re:lockpick set? on Subversive Gifts for New College Students? · · Score: 1

    Really? Maybe the law here in Utah is different than in the state you are from. I walked into a store a bought a set without any hassle. They don't even hide them behind the counter or anything like that.

  16. Re:If you really want to do it right on Home Made Alarm Systems? · · Score: 1

    Here's where professional alarm systems have a big advantage over PC based systems: A professional system uses very little power. A system for a typical home can run for many hours (sometimes a few days) on the same type of battery that would run a UPS for maybe 10 minutes with a typical PC attached.

    So by buying a pre-built alarm box, you not only get protection during black outs, but you also save money on your power bill.

    If you can afford it, there's no reason why you can't have both. The PC can simply be another accessory tied into the main alarm box.

  17. Re:Why not X10??? on Home Made Alarm Systems? · · Score: 1

    If you are opposed to X10 (the company, not the protocol), you should also avoid the Radio Shack X10 product line. I called X10 (the company, not the protocol) once and the representative told me that the Radio Shack and IBM equivalent parts are simply X10 (the company, not the protocol) manufactured parts with a different brand name stamped on them. There are some other brands out there that do make their own X10 (the protocol, not the company) stuff. You may need to do some digging to find out what's what. One starting place is to look at the X10 (the company, not the protocol) web site. If a component looks just like something on that web site, chances are good that they made it.

  18. Wait a minute . . . on Sony Intentionally Crashes Customers' Computers · · Score: 1

    My wife bought this CD and it plays just fine on our computer. Are there different versions of the CD with different levels of copy protection?

  19. Re:Please do correct me if I'm wrong, but on How to Save PGP · · Score: 1

    Eventually it will be dead for this reason, but we can still get many good years of life out of it. Even when someone builds a suitable quantum computer for cracking PGP, there won't be very many such computers around for many more years.

  20. I want to see the whole movie. on TRON 20th Anniversary Edition DVD Reviewed · · Score: 3, Funny

    For those of you who have never seen the film, I mention some plot details revealed in the third of the film.

    Why are they only releasing a third of the film on DVD? :)

  21. Re:bullet matching software on Searching for Resources on Forensic Computing? · · Score: 1

    I'm sure they would have a use for software that searches a database for a match of just about any kind of evidence. They may want to identify a fingerprint, paint chip, tire mark, foot print, tool mark, behavioral pattern, hair spray sample, doughnut crumb, etc. I know they already have software to search fingerprint databases, but I bet they would love another tool that would help with one of the other evidence types.

  22. Re:More .... on Computing Pet Peeves? · · Score: 1

    Are you sure it shouldn't be called Internet Exploiter? I like you comments. I think your post should be modded up.

  23. Re:Try Truetime on Weird PC Clock Behavior? · · Score: 1

    For the most part, you're right. My lab is a different story becuase the NetWare server's clock gains anywhere from 15 minutes to several decades per day. At least it did until I setup timesync to point to time.nist.gov:123. :-)

  24. Re:Try Truetime on Weird PC Clock Behavior? · · Score: 1

    The only problem here is that the Novell client only sets the clock at login time. If you leave the computer running for a while, the clock will still drift.

  25. Re:FTL - information backwards in time on Electrical Pulses Break Light Speed Record · · Score: 1

    That is one reason. The other is that as you approach the speed of light, your mass increases towards infinity. In other words, even if time didn't slow down, it would take an infinite amount of energy to accelerate you to the speed ot light. The only way to reach the speed of light is if you come into existence already traveling that speed, or if you have zero mass.