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  1. Re:John Cage on DRM for 1'3" of Silence · · Score: 1

    "I might be moving to -- hold it, hold it. We can't possibly start the song off like that. Good god, that's INEXCUSABLE."

  2. Re:Abacus on Top 100 Gadgets of All Time · · Score: 1

    At I guess, I'd say at least a third of the list is items I've never even heard of.

  3. Re:Hmm on SHA-1 Broken · · Score: 1

    When you're talking about regulatory compliance, this is a big deal. Pieces of legislation such as HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, BASEL II, GLBA, and SB-1386 mandate retention of enormous amounts of verifiably-unchanged data, and the integrity-assurance segment relies very heavily on SHA-1.

  4. Re:Hmm on SHA-1 Broken · · Score: 1

    Errr... that should be RIPEMD-160, of course.

  5. Re:Hmm on SHA-1 Broken · · Score: 1

    I believe current versions of GnuPG support MD5, SHA-1, and RIPEMD-60.

  6. Re:Indeed on Eisenstadt's Analysis Of 8 Years' Worth Of Email · · Score: 1

    If you're hosting your own mailserver, Postfix since version 2.0 can be set to reject mail if it's addressed to a non-existent account.

    http://www.postfix.org/LOCAL_RECIPIENT_README.ht ml

  7. four words on Who's Really Responsible In Online Banking Fraud? · · Score: 1

    > I don't run Window$

    or

    "I STAB AT THEE!"

  8. Bugger on Amazon Offers 2-Day Shipping For $79/Year · · Score: 2, Informative

    This program is limited to certain products sold by Amazon.com on www.amazon.com that are shipped to continental United States addresses

  9. Cached pages don't work on MSN Search Has Arrived · · Score: 1

    ...at least not in Australia.

    I tried clicking on a "cached page" link in a search result, and whaddya know...

    The requested URL could not be retrieved

    While trying to retrieve the URL: http://cc.msnscache.com.au/cache.aspx?

    The following error was encountered:

    Unable to determine IP address from host name for cc.msnscache.com.au

    The dnsserver returned:

    Name Error: The domain name does not exist.


  10. Only one question needs to be asked: on Ciphire, A Transparent, Easy PGP Alternative · · Score: 1

    Is the source available? If not, it's snake oil.

  11. Re:Sad :-( on The Forgotten Huygens Experiment · · Score: 1

    More to the point, this guy spent eighteen years working on something... and he left it to SOMEONE ELSE to turn on?

  12. Re:WMA is a good format on 2004 Digital Media Winners and Losers · · Score: 1

    Actually, for low-bitrate encodings -- spoken-word in particular -- I have found WMA to be far superior to both MP3 and OGG.

  13. Units on NASA's Deep Impact · · Score: 2, Funny

    So, the ton of TNT is now a unit of force?

  14. News for Nerds on Impressive Half Life 2 Case Mod · · Score: 4, Funny

    Stuff that Matters.

    Apparently this cosmetic tarting-up of one individual PC matters so much that it has been on the front page of Slashdot three times.

  15. Re:recent trend on An Update on Patrick Volkerding · · Score: 1

    doctors seem less and less likely to actually listen to their patients

    More like "doctors are more and more scared of getting sued into bankruptcy at the drop of a hat by every hypochondriac who gets a cold and thus don't want to do anything that would make them look incompetent in a courtroom, such as taking advice and diagnoses from persons with no medical training".

  16. Re:Best of luck on An Update on Patrick Volkerding · · Score: 1

    '"I am worried. I'm a doctor...
    you can't have pulmonary "pops."
    very, very difficult to have an infection or inflammatory process with a normal sed rate.

    'See from this, I get that hes dieing, and he must be, since the poster is a doctor.'


    It seems to me self-evident that what the original poster was saying is that Volkerding is
    NOT dying, and that Volkerding's own descriptions of his condition do not add up.

    The original poster was politely calling "bullshit". How you got an impression that Volkerding was dying is beyond me.

  17. Re:T-Shirts, get your T-Shirts... on Happy 100th To The Vacuum Tube · · Score: 1

    I got a good one here :)

  18. Re:No new-fangled digitial technology yet... on Happy 100th To The Vacuum Tube · · Score: 1

    I believe the JJ's are produced in the Reflektor factory in Saratov, Russia.

  19. Re:Desktop Google? on What's Next For Mozilla? · · Score: 1

    I use Google Desktop Search with Firefox every day. No idea where this "exclusion" thing came from.

  20. Re:Rank them by importance on What's Next For Mozilla? · · Score: 1

    Oh man, Google Desktop Search is a must-have for me. I can't imagine how I ever lived without it.

  21. Re:Patent!! on The Real da Vinci Code · · Score: 1

    Damn right. The Tele, the Strat, the P-Bass... and don't get me started on the amps. Oh, the sound of that narrow-panel tweed Deluxe...

  22. Re:I can cite at least one example... on The Real da Vinci Code · · Score: 1

    That's like saying "one plus one is (supposedly) three". In other words... bollocks.

  23. Re:I'll be the first to say it... on Working iPod Halloween Costume · · Score: 1

    You seem to be overlooking the fact that this guy's Ipod costume actually works.

  24. Re:"Ricers" on Gentoo Ricer Comparison · · Score: 1

    Read the posts above for the history of the term "rice" in the automotive industry.

  25. Re:AIFF ripping ? on New Apple iPod with Photo Capabilities · · Score: 1

    Recent builds of Itunes -- well, Quicktime -- will encode to AIFF, WAV, MP3, AAC, and Apple Lossless.