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  1. Re:ROFL on Pakistan Bans 1600 Words and Phrases For Texting · · Score: 1

    Tom Lehreh got it right in Who's Next, with Alabama.

  2. Re:Looser? on Pakistan Bans 1600 Words and Phrases For Texting · · Score: 1

    "Want to come around and grab my DVD of Jesus Christ Superstar, I'll leave the back door key under the mat so you can let yourself in. The door is playing up recently so you may have to pull it a little harder than usual to lock it up, I expect it's just a screw loose in one of the hinges."

  3. Re:Easy! on Ask Slashdot: Inexpensive Anti-Theft Vehicle Tracking System? · · Score: 1

    You could give them enough food and water for twice their number and darwin probably would still dwindle it out. Maybe you should reread the paragraph before and highlight the key word that will be most important to that environment.

  4. Re:We don't make much of anything anymore on Ask Slashdot: Inexpensive Anti-Theft Vehicle Tracking System? · · Score: 1

    I think he is pointing out that most of the figures are from what is produced in california, now lets think what that is, shall we start with the San Francisco Bay area or Los Angelos? hint, hint.

  5. Re:Not new on Controlling a Robot From a Smartphone's Headphone Jack · · Score: 1

    well, technically it's one way, the soundcard on the phone is modulating and therefore is just a modulator, and the one in the robot is demodulating and therefore just a demodulator. Of course, if one hooked up a data channel the other way too, then yes, they are modems. whether they are trying to talk the V.34 or V.92 protocols is another matter.

  6. Re:Audio jack to get a standard connector? on Controlling a Robot From a Smartphone's Headphone Jack · · Score: 1

    You'll need to do some kind of demodulation and signal processing on the robot end of the link. As for music, it depends on how they are doing their modulation and stuff. if one does it right one can filter off the music, but I expect they aren't even considering that kind of stuff.

  7. Re:Not new on Controlling a Robot From a Smartphone's Headphone Jack · · Score: 1

    well, not quite, as I'm seriously doubt they are putting speaker to microphone here, no more like a cable direct from headphone jack to microphone jack. Same concept but no accoustic coupling technically speaking and a lot less interference/things that could go wrong.

  8. Re:Audio jack to get a standard connector? on Controlling a Robot From a Smartphone's Headphone Jack · · Score: 1

    Audio is a universal interface, all one needs is a good enough sound card to modulate it (even crappy onboard ones in smart phones are good enough for that these days).

  9. Not new on Controlling a Robot From a Smartphone's Headphone Jack · · Score: 4, Informative

    You mean like ham operators have been doing to control their SDR radio units for years?

  10. Re:spy satellite calibration targets on Giant Chinese Desert Mystery Structure Solved · · Score: 1

    there is even a nice pic of it half done.

  11. Re:spy satellite calibration targets on Giant Chinese Desert Mystery Structure Solved · · Score: 1

    No, in google earth you can clearly see it was added in 2005

  12. Re:Why not use their own sites? on New Media Giants Take Out Print Ad Against SOPA · · Score: 2

    Don't worry, they are "campaign contributions", all nice and legal that way.

  13. Re:Honor system on RIAA Doesn't Like the "Used Digital Music" Business · · Score: 1

    At that point it becomes broadcast law, and that is another kettle of fish, suffice to say, if number of people listening is greater than a certain number one has to pay for a broadcast licence (government) and royalty fees (RIAA, GEMA, BPI) in most countries (there are some exceptions) but they keep trying to collect royalties on tracks they have no right to do so.

  14. Re:At this point on German Copyright Group To Collect From Creative Commons Event · · Score: 3, Informative

    There aren't many true democracies in this world, though most republics can become democracies for a specific issue, this is called a referendum. A true democracy everyone has an equal direct share. What we have in most cases is representatice republics, where we elect someone to talk on behalf of the group, of course this leads to bribery and corruption.

  15. Re:Not needed any more on The Political Assault On Los Alamos National Laboratory · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I know what it's called and I don't know just how much it would affect things, but I would point out the Chernobyl disaster radiation cloud was detectable in the UK. And a lot of dust is thrown into the atmosphere by a nuke blast (what isn't instantly turned to molten glass that is.
    I think we have just as much to worry about if not more if yellow stone erupted.

  16. Re:Not needed any more on The Political Assault On Los Alamos National Laboratory · · Score: 1

    Actually, that depended on what one is up against, yes, that is how you defend against a cavalry charge, kind of pointless when one is storming a fortress ramparts filled with crossbow corps. And an archer would usually also have a secondary bladed weapon for close combat. There was more than that as to why the English preferred the longbow (we did use the crossbow too), to match the efficiency of the longbow a crossbow man would need two bows one to fire while the other was being loaded, a servant to load said second bow, and usually they would use another as a shield as well as be heavily armoured themselves so they could take the time to line up the shot as they still didn't match the longbow's fire rate. As you said the longbow with the lighter armour is more agile when needed.

  17. Re:Encrypted on Valve Announces Massive Steam Server Intrusion · · Score: 1

    well, technically it could be on a separate server to the database server or the webserver, but generally once one has access to one of the three they have enough access to the other two if they were segregated.

  18. Re:Hilarity on Valve Announces Massive Steam Server Intrusion · · Score: 1

    The forum account password and the steam account password are linked.

  19. Re:Hilarity on Valve Announces Massive Steam Server Intrusion · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Shall we go into how they fired their whole network security team the week before, or the fact the attacks on Sony were orchestrated as a retaliatory strike on them for certain lawsuits (I'm not saying it's right) just there were lots more factors to those specific attacks than just "we were hacked".

  20. Re:Hilarity on Valve Announces Massive Steam Server Intrusion · · Score: 4, Informative

    Well steam fundamentally different from sony:
    1. No-one told you you had to store credit card details in steam, they support paypal which prevents this being an issue.
    2. At least they told their users in a prompt manner.
    3. It sounds like the information was properly encrypted and stored, this did not sound true with Sony.

  21. Re:Fine. You find an asymmetric primitive on Ask Slashdot: Post-Quantum Asymmetric Key Exchange? · · Score: 1

    s/bit/state/

  22. Re:Fine. You find an asymmetric primitive on Ask Slashdot: Post-Quantum Asymmetric Key Exchange? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Different sort of quantum computer, it can't do general computing or schors algorithm, it's more like a quantum calculator, relegated to very specific statistical calculations rather than generic 3 bit computing.

  23. Re:Not needed any more on The Political Assault On Los Alamos National Laboratory · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it's not the nuke itself, that'll take out a small city and spread radiation a little beyond that, it's that if we detonate that many at once we'll spit out enough dust and ash to blot out the sun for several months, tree's start to die and the land turns to desert, then livestock and vegetarians have no food, after they starve the rest of us go the same way.

  24. Re:Not needed any more on The Political Assault On Los Alamos National Laboratory · · Score: 1

    Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs are tiny compared to the sort of nuclear weapons in US/UK arsenals. Variable yeild thermonuclear weapons have a standard Uranium/Plutonium core around which they have tanks to pump deutrium and tritrium in to the required yeild just before launch, depending how much tthey pump in we are talking hundreds of times the yeilds of the core alone, which itself is bigger than the the ones used against Japan in WWII.

  25. Re:That's worth $3.49 more than your geek card:) on FBI Takes Out $14M DNS Malware Operation · · Score: 1

    Well, as BogoMIPS is a benchmark of processor cycles then yes and no, one still has those cycles on any OS. They just would only get measured in that specific unit if on linux.