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  1. Re:Didn't your mom teach you... on Linus Rants About C Programming Semantics (iu.edu) · · Score: 1

    And yours to keep your mouth shut when you don't know what you're talking about?

  2. Re:Microaggressions on Linus Rants About C Programming Semantics (iu.edu) · · Score: 1

    Bravo! Still laughing!

  3. '30s era anti-explosion phone on What's the Oldest Technology You've Used In a Production Environment? · · Score: 1

    We had a few years ago to install a 1930's era phone (made in Germany, still with a small swastika inside) that was used in a oil refinery. It was an "anti-explosion" phone, where all the electric part was double isolated from the outside so as not to spark any inflammables.

    We tried to make it work with a Cisco ATA device. The device was already changed in the 80's to support nowadays electrical voltage, but otherwise still worked fine. The rotary dial was useless, as the ATA did not support it. But as it was configured as a PLAR line, it did its job flawlessly.

  4. Re:How does it work? on Fingertip Mouse Fits On a Ring · · Score: 1

    It kinda looked like it was like that... but the lack of any practical example makes me think this might be vaporware, not as practical as it seems or does not yet exist.

  5. How does it work? on Fingertip Mouse Fits On a Ring · · Score: 1

    I saw a lot of what it could do, how it could change the world... but I did not see how it works!!!

  6. Re:I think this is probably wrong and demented.... on Southwest Declares Kevin Smith Too Fat To Fly · · Score: 1

    "Being obese will shorten his lifespan."

    And you are? His mother? Father? Wife? Even those people have no right to say that he must change his diet!
    Anyway, as far as I know, and he describes it, his plane was not even full.
    If things are as he said (there's always the version, of course - and I've read nothing about it) than I think it's discrimination. Period!

  7. Re:"from a European spaceport" on TerreStar Launches World's Largest Telecom Satellite · · Score: 0

    Touché!

  8. Re:"from a European spaceport" on TerreStar Launches World's Largest Telecom Satellite · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I think it was intended to sound like an European site (it's true, ESA is European, not just French), like when you refer to the American Base at Okinawa, and not the Japanese Base at Okinawa.

  9. Really? Not here on Blu-ray Adoption Soft, More Still Own HD DVD · · Score: 1

    Really? Not here in Portugal. Sure you see a lot of computers (mainly HP) with HD-DVD drives (I have one myself), but although HD format has had a slow adoption, Blu-ray is definitely here - you can see them in any store and video rentals. Only trouble tough are the HIGH prices and crappy movies.

  10. Re:Summary on BeOS Successor Haiku Keeps the Faith · · Score: 1

    With Virtual Box mine booted in 23 seconds.

  11. Re:So what's the bottom line? on Plane Simple Truth · · Score: 1

    Flawed!!
    To get a correct fuel efficiency you should know how much fuel per passenger or how much fuel per mass transported.
    A modern airplane can take from 4 to 600 people.
    A Prius can take what, 5 people?
    Amtrak can take hundreds?
    Probably you'll get surprised!!

  12. Re:US, welcome to the world on iPhone Forcing Open Wireless Networks? · · Score: 0, Redundant
    I think the ignorant here is you!

    Europe's area: 10,180,000 km (3,930,000 sq mi)

    Density: 70/km (181/sq mi)

    Population: 710,000,000


    USA's area: 9,826,630 km (3,794,066 sq mi )

    Density: 31/km (80/sq mi)

    Population: 303,151,000


    You figured it all wrong: in Europe you need MORE antennae installed to cover all the population that is widely scattered. You don't have VERY LARGE areas uninhabited in Europe. And because you have more people, it makes sense to have a standard across different countries.

  13. Re:Timex Sinclair 1000 on The 10 Worst PC Keyboards of All Time · · Score: 1

    The Timex Sinclair 1000 was a remake of the ZX-81... It's there!

  14. Re:Let's use some familiar units people! on Three Neptune-sized Planets Found Nearby · · Score: 1

    Yeah, 41 to get there... Best chance they decode it in 1 month, send reply, another 41... Well, totals 82 years to get an answer. Expecting you don't send it as a baby, let's take it while in college, add another 15~18 years... you get it around your 97~100th birthday... Hardly in most folks life time. But I get your point!

  15. Replicatiors on Open Source Self-Replicating Robot · · Score: 3, Funny

    Have we contacted the Asgard? Smells like trouble to me!

  16. Re:Trend Micro on IE Vulnerable to Cross-Browser Spyware Attack · · Score: 1

    First of all: JAR ain't a Javascript file, but a JAVA Executable/Package, so, as IE (XP SP2) blocks and asks for permission to RUN ActiveX content, why shouldn't FF ask if you wanted to download that JAR archive?

    Second: Never confuse Javascript with Java, they are both Java, but one depends on the browser and the other depends on Sun's Java.

    Third: Excluding some exploits that exist within JPEG, why should I consider "dangerous" that the browser CACHES GIF, JPG or PNG files?

  17. Trend Micro on IE Vulnerable to Cross-Browser Spyware Attack · · Score: 3, Informative

    When I tried to open the page he shows as the source of infection, my TrendMicro Antivirus Software automaticaly detected it and trashed it.

    What scares me most, is that FF didn't ask to download the file, it just downloaded the JAR into the cache folder.

  18. Re:Seems Kinda Weird / Wired on Possible uses for Power over Ethernet · · Score: 1

    I guess when you have about 350 IP phones, 140 cameras and about 13 APs (all of the use PowerOver Ethernet)and about 200 computers, you'd probably prefer to buy 60 Catalyst 3550 than to make all new cabling to support all the powering needs. Let's not include the necessary power "bricks" for all the phones: they're big and each one costs about $40.

  19. And my Netserver? on RIP Pentium II, 1997 - 2006 · · Score: 4, Funny

    That means I can't buy parts for my old HP Netserver??

  20. Re:Mod parent down on Open Source Security: Still A Myth · · Score: 1

    Like we say arround here: "You missed a good chance if you shutted your mouth"

  21. Re:Duh...? on Mandatory Banknote Detection Code? · · Score: 1
    I have here a € 5 note, and if you pass your fingers on the medium size five (bottom left on the side that has the arch) you can feel the number five very well.


    It's not braille, but the marker is there!

  22. Re:How is this different from normal? on Linksys WiFi Gateway Remote Attack Risk Discovered · · Score: 1

    Driving through Lisbon, in Portugal, with my laptop and using netstumbler, in 20 minuts, I picked 72 APs... Of theese, about 60% where wide open, many of them being Linksys. I know for sure that many of them are from a popular cable company that sells this APs without any protection, or indication for regular users in how to activate it. One of the most hilarious stories I found was about a guy that since he bought the AP he never payed any traffic (yes, here you have a fixed ammount for downloads, about € 37,00 a month. Any extra megabytes are payed as a surplus)... I'm just sorry for the guy he was "borowing" the net from.

  23. Re:'Death of the PDA?' question revisited. on Sony-Ericsson P900 Released · · Score: 1

    Are there any "fundamental" differences with American transportation habits and other transportation habits around the world (namely Europe)?

  24. Re:Interface options on Low-power FM Transmitters Banned in UK · · Score: 1

    Is there anyway to make a cable compatible with SONY BUS CD Changer?? I haven't found anything yet to make it work...

  25. Re:What? on SGI Releases New Workstations · · Score: 1

    I'm sure I still own an IBM PS/2 Model 30 (1987), that uses an Intel 8086 (16 bit bus).