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  1. Re:Knuth on Tim Bray's Top Twenty Software People in the World · · Score: 1

    Knuth, like alot of these "top twenty", are just Ivory Tower acadamics with no real applications in industry.

    You must not know much about computerized typesetting. Try gooling "TeX" or "Metafont".

  2. Re:City council? on Cincinnati Gets Broadband Over Power Lines · · Score: 1

    Did you mean one of the US cities with the most amount of parkland per capita? 10 % of the total city land seems like a lot to me.

    The city counsel, both past and present, has been pretty inept though.

  3. You've already ridden it? on Slashback: Mutuality, Transport, Spyware · · Score: 1

    I could understand why you might have been able to walk there faster, seeing as how the monorail in the article isn't supposed to be completed until 2004.

  4. Re:Watch out, goatsex link. on AtheOS 0.3.5 Released · · Score: 1
    Thats why this line is in my /etc/hosts file:

    127.0.0.1 goatse.cx

    Hmm... I should probably block the ip at my firewall too, in case this guy stumbles upon a clue.

  5. Re:Coding is design on No Shortage Of Programmers? · · Score: 1

    There are different levels of design. Desiging a few functions and laying out the components and interfaces of a large application are two different things.

    You don't have to be able to do the latter to do the former well.

  6. Re:OT: other fights on DVD Case Follow-Up · · Score: 1

    What's the logic behind makeing religious organizations pay taxes to become elegible for government grants for community service programs, while the non-religious organizations that get the grants now are tax exempt?

  7. Re:Sort of the reverse of Atlas Shrugged on Dark City, San Francisco? · · Score: 1

    Umm, no.

    The problem is that with the "deregulation", there are still governement regulations restricting power companies ability to raise prices (even for reasons like rising costs) and build new power plants.

    With the current situation, the power companies are having a hard time meeting demand, hence the possibility of rolling blackouts, and are having a hard time turing a profit at all.

  8. Re:Open Source Software security on DoD and Net Attacks · · Score: 1



    My guess would be yes, since they probably wrote most if, not all of it themselves.

    If they are using any open source software though I don't see what reasoning they could have for not auditing it.

  9. Re:Why would the call affect the West? on Statistics, Elections, Frustration · · Score: 1

    I already posted this elsewhere, but here goes again. The polls in all of Florida closed at 7:00 pm local time. This story from the Miami Herald mentions that Florida was called at about 7:50 pm eastern, when the polls in western Florida, which happens to be on central time, were not yet closed.

  10. Re:the polls were CLOSED on Statistics, Elections, Frustration · · Score: 1

    The polls in florida did close at X o'clock, with X being 7:00 pm local time. The thing is, Florida covers two time zones. When the networks called Florida at about 7:50 eastern, the polls were still open in the panhandle. Not a very long time, but it could still be argued that it made a difference.

    If you want a URL, try this one from the Mimai Herald. It's a little ways under the "Just the Beginning" heading.

  11. Re:Question was submitted online. on The E-mail Tax Hoax Meets The Candidates · · Score: 1

    I just can't believe that they didn't at least have some intern verify the question. It took me all of 5 seconds to go to congress.gov, type in 602P under search for a bill, and get back "602P is an invalid bill number."

  12. Question was submitted online. on The E-mail Tax Hoax Meets The Candidates · · Score: 2

    This CNN article doesn't give many details, but apparently the question was submitted online for the debate. Whoever was in charge of screening/selecting those questions is probably a little nervous about going to work tomorrow morning...

  13. Re:What do you mean, "Unordered"? on Digital Convergence In Violation Of Postal Regs? · · Score: 1

    Mine wasn't packaged with the magazine. It came in a seperate box with only Wired logos and an ad for Delta-Air.com on the outside -- no indication of what it was.

    As far as it being part of the magazine order, as stated in a previous post, there was nothing about it on the order form when I subscribed. Just 12 magazines and a free mousepad for ordering before some date. Therefore it was unsolicited, and is now mine to do with what I want.

  14. Re:Linux VR on LinuxWorld · · Score: 1

    It looks to me like the Linux VR they are talking about is the Linux VR project at www.linuxvr.org, although it's not mentioned on their site. The Linux VR project is a port of linux to the NEC VR series of processors, which is what the Agenda is running.

  15. Re:I like this. on Java Security Hole Makes Netscape Into Web Server · · Score: 1

    especially the ones with a username in the URL. Hope they're behind firewalls...

  16. Re:Of Course, None Of This Matters on Boies: Music Industry Could Lose Copyright · · Score: 2

    IANAL...

    Actually, on page 33 of the .pdf (marked 32) Napster is claming that they fall under the "safe harbor" section of the DMCA. The reasons they site are:

    - General knowledge of possible infrigment doesn't count.
    - Monitoring is not required.
    - They have informed users that alleged infringer's accounts will be terminated.
    - The have terminated the accounts of alleged infringers upon proper notice.

    From that it would seem that if you want to protect yourself, all you need to do is post a warning that you can terminate auctions and boot any users you get complaints about. This of course has the possibility of screwing your users since it only has to be _alleged_ infringment.

  17. Mirror? on Boies: Music Industry Could Lose Copyright · · Score: 1

    Could someone mirror the .pdf for those who can't get to napster.com? My uni blocked them a while back due to a doubled bandwidth bill...

  18. OpenBSD FAQ on OpenBSD, Security, and Theo de Raadt · · Score: 2

    Never used OpenBSD before, but this is from their faq:

    8.3 - I forgot my root password, what do I do now?

    A few steps to recovery

    1.Boot into single user mode. For i386 arch type boot -s at the boot prompt.
    2.mount the drives.
    bsd# fsck -p / && mount -u /
    3.If /usr is not the same partition that / is (and it shouldn't be) then you will need to mount it, also
    bsd# fsck -p /usr && mount /usr
    4.run passwd
    5.boot into mulituser mode.. and remember your password!

  19. Re:Software DVD on Prototype Hardware DVD Decodoer for Linux-needs help · · Score: 1

    I believe this was stated more than once above, but... The reason there is no software decoding solution for linux is not that somebody hasn't "got with it". To be able to write a decoder, one needs access to the propritery encription methods used for DVD movies. Not only does getting a licence cost a good amount of money, but I believe there are also restrictions on who can get a licence. This leaves finding a company to develope and release a binaray only decoder, or develop a hardware decoder w/ open source drivers as the only reasonable solutions.