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  1. Re:If they experimented on humans this much... on Genetic Modification Produces Mighty Mouse · · Score: 1

    I'm sure it's not an abstraction of justice... (I can't think of one except maybe 'legal stuff'?).

    Might be an obstruction though.

  2. Re:PEPCK Apoplecticism on Genetic Modification Produces Mighty Mouse · · Score: 1

    Steroids make you more agressive too and athletes haven't had any qualms about taking them, so I don't see that as a problem. The killer is of course you'd have to modify the dna before conception, which is kinda hard for a current athlete (unless they've invented a star trek DNA resequencer when I wasn't looking).

    The solder thing? You can bet 100% that this kind of thing is going on *already*. Where do you think the money comes for funding this kind of stuff.

  3. Re:The good outweighs the bad on Leopard Early Adopters Suffer For The Rest of Us · · Score: 2, Informative

    They haven't made the networking a whole lot better than 10.4 - it's presented better, and now you can occasionally see a list of machines (only windows machines, and not all of them, but at least it's a list.. plus for some bizarre reason the list doesn't include osx machines) but they still haven't figured out login - you still have to enter a username/password for every single network share and store it in your keyring even though you're logged into the active directory (smbclient -k works so it's merely the UI that's busted). Of course that means if you change your password you've got to manually re-login to every share again and update your keyring.

    They also haven't got WINS working yet - as in 10.4 there's a place to enter the server IP (not the name, oddly) but it still only uses broadcast to find the machine so can't find the machines in the other subnet even though the wins server (and all the windows and linux boxes) have no issues finding them.

  4. Re:Danger of re-self-assembly and evolution? on Femtosecond Laser Shatters Viruses · · Score: 1

    Remember folks, keep your AV updated!

  5. Re:Hmm? Applicable to AIDS? on Femtosecond Laser Shatters Viruses · · Score: 1

    Is there a big problem with the spread of AIDS at Apple Computer Expos then? I wasn't aware of this.. I'll stay away from them.

  6. Re:Open Source Alternative? on BBC "Not In Bed With Bill Gates" · · Score: 1

    The bbc broadcast unencrypted over satellite, cable and terrestrial. Why the DRM requirement now? They're already broadcast DRM free to most of northern europe.

  7. Re:what's the big deal... on BBC "Not In Bed With Bill Gates" · · Score: 1

    A small number, yes.. but 600 users out of 70 million? Give me a break. The 0.41% figure mentioned is ~280,000 linux users based on their own stats.

    That also doesn't explain why no osx client... 5% of 70 million is 3.5 million users they've pissed off.

  8. Re:math dogs on Brains Hard-Wired for Math · · Score: 1

    That's been pretty much proven to be the dog taking cues from the trainer/owner. They did the same with horses. In such cases if you remove the trainer from hearing/sight the dog 'loses' the ability to count.

  9. Re:Numbers or numerals? on Brains Hard-Wired for Math · · Score: 1

    'III' is roman (they also had no zero).

    The summary is implying they had some inherited recognition of the character '3' that just doesn't make sense.. it's more likely that they just recognised it as a symbol they'd seen before.

  10. Re:What they don't say on One-Third of Employees Violate Company IT Policies · · Score: 1

    nd I have to deal with retards whining about "WHY IS MY COMPUTER SLOW?" and have to spend 5 hours cleaning up MyWebSearchToolbar, New.Net and fuck all else...

    No you don't.. we had a standing rule - fuck up your computer and we'll reimage it for you (takes about 5 minutes in norton ghost) and give it you back. Had work on it? Your fault for not making backups.

    We actually had to do this about twice.. after that they learned.

  11. Re:Are google shipping a phone or only an OS? on Verizon Might Deliver Google Phone · · Score: 1

    I can't see that working - Nokia and Motorola aren't about to give up on Symbian which is already pretty much in a monopoly position on mobiles. They're also fighting Windows Mobile, and Linux is appearing on phones now. Developing a new phone OS from scratch is damned hard.. ask Apple who've been totally bitten by this (iphone is pretty but has major failings as a phone due to its immature software).

  12. Re:MST3K? on Joel and Original Cast of MST3K Riding the Cinematic Titanic · · Score: 1

    Youtube search came up blank.. is this really as lame as it sounds or is it actually good?

  13. Re:I respectfully disagree... on The Real Mother of All Bombs, 46 Years Ago · · Score: 1

    Mostly it was word of mouth (as was common in the ancient world) - I've not heard anyone suggest that the letters were written the day the events happened - most accept that the first gospel (Mark) was written down somewhere between 50CE and 75CE.

  14. Re:I respectfully disagree... on The Real Mother of All Bombs, 46 Years Ago · · Score: 1

    The idea that the enemy are animals, barely human allows you to persuade people to butcher them.

    One of the more common uses of media in fact... In WW2 we had 'Hun', 'Nazis' these days we have 'Insurgents', 'Terrorists'.
    We do the opposite too - when one of 'our' people dies in battle we have a 10 minute biopic on his grieving family, just to highlight the difference.

  15. Re:snobs on Call For Halt To Wikipedia Webcomic Deletions · · Score: 1

    You talk like a million is a big number. It's not.. there are 4 billion people on the planet (one project I worked on has over 2 million users just based on the direct download stats, and it's hardly notable).

    Of course if you really were to talk about 'notable' in the numeric sense wikipedia would have about 3 pages on it.. there's loads of stuff on there that only applies to a few people (like obscure final fantasy statistics).

  16. Re:So is ODF (the format) dead, then? on OpenDocument Foundation To Drop ODF · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    In practical terms though it's dead. The foundation setup to promote it has abandoned it.. so it's a walking corpse now.. pity, but I'll wait for openoffice to support whatever this new standard is in the next release.

  17. Re:OSX and security on Ars Technica Reviews OS X 10.5 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Not just semantics - very important. If a firewall couldn't distinguish they wouldn't be functional firewalls.

    With TCP the packet type is a part of the packet data and even the old stateless firewalls could handle it. With UDP you could argue that there's no difference but even then you rely on certain standards to filter (in the old days you just let any UDP packet with a destination >1024 in.. luckily those days are long past us).

    There's a *huge* difference between asking to OS to block all *incoming* connections and asking it to block replies as well. No firewall works like that.

  18. Re:OSX and security on Ars Technica Reviews OS X 10.5 · · Score: 3, Informative

    They're not incoming connections, they're replies.

  19. Re:John's right about Stacks... on Ars Technica Reviews OS X 10.5 · · Score: 1

    I was absolutely amazed at the brokenness of the new dock... If you haven't read the review at least go to page 13: http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/mac-os-x-10-5.ars/13

    Just scroll down and look at the pictures is enough. Who at apple thought that was an improvement??

  20. Re:OSX and security on Ars Technica Reviews OS X 10.5 · · Score: 1

    You probably /don't/ want exactly what you say, since blocking *all* incoming connections would render you unable to access the Internet.

    Huh? Why would you need *incoming* connections to access the internet?

    Blocking all incoming connections is the default mode of nearly all routers, and all modern operating systems (in the last couple of years anyway). If OSX doesn't do it when you tell it to it's a security hole that needs fixing.

  21. Re:Leopard... on Ars Technica Reviews OS X 10.5 · · Score: 1

    It was the same with 10.3->10.4 (in fact sometimes when I have to switch.. my machine dual boots them.. I forget which one I'm on - they're *that* similar).

    You always get hype with a new OS release but it's only a point release so don't expect miracles.

  22. Re:Hatred for the interface changes on Ars Technica Reviews OS X 10.5 · · Score: 1

    Upon getting into Leopard, I was gobsmacked to find ALL of my local machines in the new Sideba

    They've fixed the network browsing? Great... that's one off my list. I always hated the way you had to know the name of the network share to connect to one.

    Have the fixed the AD integration yet? (ie. can you login as an AD user and browse shares without having to reenter your password constantly).

  23. Re:lookin good on Ars Technica Reviews OS X 10.5 · · Score: 1

    The whole apps not terminating stuff annoys me intensely (I've got into the habit of going through the dock doing right click/close every hour or so, or if it's really bad simply rebooting), and also the complete absence of any alt-tab equivalent is horrid... but I get by. I couldn't use osx full-time.. you spend too much time mucking around with stuff that should be simple. I'm hoping some of this is fixed on leopard (which I have but haven't installed as I'm waiting for the compatibility issues to be sorted).

  24. Re:Sorry... on FEMA Sorry for Faking News Briefing · · Score: 1

    There was a feeble attempt at an election made a little while back. The majority of americans were perfectly happy with their government, so they stayed.

    I'm willing to bet that they win next time too.

  25. Re:in no way extends on Microsoft EU Decision Protects OSS Projects From Suits · · Score: 1

    For a lot of patents they can't anyway.. we have no software patents here so a lot of the MS patents are basically US only in the first place. It's an easy shoe-in for microsoft to say they won't assert them, since they don't (in a legal sense) exist... they've lost nothing.