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  1. Re:Another Michael Robertson project on Project Gizmo Challenges Skype · · Score: 1

    Actually, I think this is an offshoot of another Michael Robertson company, SIPPhone.com.

  2. Everything old is new again. on Large Scale Production of Artificial Meat · · Score: 1

    Can I have some Coffiest with my Chicken Little?

  3. Re:Partnering with Sun? on Sun Announces Its First Laptop · · Score: 1

    I agree with most of your points here, but I had to ask this question. What's wrong with the 420R? At my last job, we had a large deployment of them (hundreds) with no particular issues that I'm aware. Typical onesy-twosy things like you posted above, but hardly enough to classify the whole architecture as a lemon in my experience.

    Just curious, looking more for your experiences than anything else.

  4. Re:Difference between old and new Star Wars on Neal Stephenson on Star Wars in the NYT · · Score: 1

    Very insightful, not something I'd ever considered. But you are dead on accurate.

    A more recent movie that I think has a lot of similar features is the Butterfly Effect. Obviously not as light and frivolous as Groundhog's Day, but they also never really go into the hows or whys the main character can do what he can do. We go through his story from his point of view. I think it makes for a very well done story, especially the director's cut.

  5. Re:Stupidest idea ever on CA State Offers To Prepare Simple Tax Returns · · Score: 1

    How do you invest money without purchasing something, be it stock/options/bonds/real estate... ? Perhaps simple interest accounts might need to be addressed, but most 'investments' involve the transfer of money for some sort of goods or services.

  6. Re:One question... on How Do You Handle Portscanning Attacks? · · Score: 1

    Feeding the troll, but Linksys does have logs...

  7. Re:Contact Comcast on How Do You Handle Portscanning Attacks? · · Score: 1

    You can always use 4.2.2.2, which is nice and easy to remember.

  8. Re:drops still give information on How Do You Handle Portscanning Attacks? · · Score: 1

    You don't get a dest host unreachable for hosts that don't exist. If the routing is correct to the network but the host doesn't exist, the echo-requests disappear into the void. Dropping icmp echo-request is simulating that behavior, the non-existant host.

    The router will only send a dest host unreachable if it has an ACL that blocks the traffic or if its next hop in the routing table is unreachable.

  9. Re:I'm all for science/technology/astronomy but... on Back to Moon in 2015? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If they are talking about working on a permanent base, why wouldn't you want to start with the moon? Any sort of extra-terrestrial base, be it a space station, moon base or planetary colony - is going to require a lot of supplies from Earth on a regular basis. The proximity to Earth is a big plus here.

    If things go well and a Luna base becomes well established, it becomes a much easier launching pad to form other bases/colonies elsewhere. The gravity well on the moon makes regular launches much less cost prohibitive.

  10. Re:Moissanite on Has Anyone Made an Artificial Diamond Ring? · · Score: 2, Informative

    I second this. I was about to post the same thing myself. I recently got engaged, and a moissanite ring from Landau is what I got my fiancee. She loves it. It's beautiful, with more 'fire' than most diamonds and cost a fraction of a diamond ring. In fact, that was actually a selling point with my gf. She feels less nervous about wearing a ring that cost ~ $1000 on her finger all the time than one worth a considerable hunk of change.

    If your girl is interested in oooos and aaaaaahs, a moissanite ring is definitely worth considering.

  11. Re:Stuff that matters? on Longhorn Drops 'My' Prefixes · · Score: 1

    Personally, I'm happy to see MS getting rid of spaces in common file names. Hopefully they will continue the trend and not have "Program Files", "Documents and Settings" and all the other folders which need to be quoted or otherwise referenced using special characters. (e.g., progra~1).

  12. Re:Duh on Little Interest In Next-Gen Internet · · Score: 2, Informative

    Certs use names, not IPs for certification. It is common practice to have web server farms running on private IP space (RFC1918) behind a load balancer.
    The certs can and frequently do live on each server. The cert needs to match the URL domain name you are hitting, otherwise browsers pop-up a warning.

    (There are other factors which trigger pop-ups as well.)

    In otherwords, one IP can serve an entire farm of hosts. In fact, one IP can serve more than one domain, by using different webservers running on different TCP ports behind said load balancer above.

    None of this is in the least bit unusual in today's internet.

  13. Re:More companies should follow suit ... on IBM Backs Firefox In-House · · Score: 2, Informative

    Have you tried User Agent Switcher? I've had good success with
    telling my 'IE Only' apps that I'm using IE.

  14. Re:Fine... on Star Wars Sickout · · Score: 1

    Have a breath mint. Enjoy breathing fresh air. Get a coffee/tea/soda/water. Enjoy the sunlight.

    Congrats on stopping, good luck on trying to make it a permanent part of your life.

  15. Re:Applications? on 64-Bit Windows Releases Now Available · · Score: 1

    This needs a funny mod. Thanks for making a dreary morning more cheerful.

  16. Re:AWT? on New Desktop Features Of Next Java · · Score: 1

    Abstract Windowing Toolkit. Really, is google so hard?

    Here's some info.

  17. Re:Adobe Flash .. ? on Adobe Buys Macromedia for $3.4B · · Score: 5, Interesting

    PDF is an evolution of Postscript. It's strength lies (IMHO) in being able to render to paper exactly what you see on the screen. How would 'movie' files be translated to paper?

  18. This could be good or bad. on U.S. Fed Goes Brand Neutral · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm all for the government opening up it's purchasing process in commodity markets such as PC purchases, but who is going to be making these decisions for the government? Consider this scenario:

    Engineer: We need to purchase 2 Cisco 7206VXR routers for our internet T3s.

    Procurement: I'm sorry, you can't specify the brand. I found this nice Linksys router for you. It's much cheaper.

    Given the level of (in)compentancy in goverment offices, do you really think that the above scenario is so unlikely?

    P.S. I'm aware that Cisco owns Linksys. That just adds to the irony IMHO.

  19. Genre Defining? on Genre-Defining Games? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Wouldn't a genre defining game have to be something which MADE a genre? To me, FF6 isn't even close for RPG's. Pick one of 'Wizardry' or 'Bard's Tale'. For FPS, Castle Wolfenstein. (I'd accept Doom, since that's what really made FPS 'take off'.)

    A genre defining game is hardly the same as 'best game in genre'.

  20. Re:Read the fine print for your savings and checki on Tracking Your Taxes · · Score: 1

    Not if Comcast DNS is working but suffering from cache poisoning. Secondary DNS will only help if Comcast fails to return an answer. Secondary DNS won't help a bit if Comcast actually returns a fraudulent one.

    Just make 4.2.2.x your primary and be done with it.

  21. Re:Philosophical question on MS Launches Video Download Service · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I think there isn't enough information to answer that. If you put *all* technical issues aside...that is, no OS restrictions, no DRM restrictions, etc...then it would depend on the content and the price. Give me the right content for a reasonable price, and sure, I'd buy it from Microsoft.

    The catch is that the technical restrictions are part of the heart of the issue. If MS can force other decisions on you if you want to use their system, then that's part of the cost. The cost could be freedom, purchasing MS OSes at $100-200 a pop, and so forth. You can't separate the technical issues here and give a reasonable answer.

  22. Games on Software Engineering Demo for a K-5 Career Fair? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    How about write a simple game which has easy to change features, like colors or something. Then, show the kids the game, and show them how they can change the game.

    Probably an interpreted language would be best for this. BASIC had it's moments, back in the day. :-)

  23. Re:Pay Per View business model needed on Legal Torrent Sites Help Legitimize BitTorrent · · Score: 4, Insightful

    As would many on Slashdot. I even think the studios want this too...so long as it can be done their way. What's the point of DRM if not to be able to offer content for a fee with the 'comfort' of knowing that the content can't be then shared with 100,000 of your closest friends.

    I'm not a fan of DRM by any stretch, but I think DRM is the missing ingredient to see the *AA embrace new media.

    Of course, if you can come up with a way to avoid all the DRM nonsense and still make the *AA execs comfortable that they will still roll in the dough...

  24. Re:Python Version of RoR on Part 2 of Ruby on Rails Tutorial Online · · Score: 1

    Similar ideas worth taking a look at for python:

    http://www.cherrypy.org/

    BSD Licence, also based on MVC style design.

  25. Re:What problem are you trying to solve? on Make a PC Look Like a Firewire or USB Drive? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think, perhaps, the person asking the question would like to be able to access the files on the PC and VPN simultaneously. He said he could do an rsync type thing prior to initiating the VPN, but that's too much work.

    Given that many VPN solutions are configured to not allow split tunneling, you cannot access your local LAN IP addresses while connected via VPN. I believe the Cisco client by default disallows split tunnelling, but that may be a server side setting that is negotiated, I'm not 100% sure.

    So, let's rephrase: How can I access the information on my PC without using IP?