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  1. Re:A Car in Boston Airport Was Found on Further Updates On Terrorist Attack · · Score: 1
    More from the Boston Globe (end of page):

    Meanwhile, other officers converged on the Park Inn at Chestnut Hill in Newton, a Boston suburb. Newton police officer Russ Adam said the FBI was conducting an investigation at the hotel.

    News reports said searchers found Islamic papers and a manual on how to fly a 767 airplane in a room at the Park Inn.

  2. Re:Terrorist newsgroup post? on First-Person Account Of Today's Attacks · · Score: 1

    He is still actively posting, see the new thread.

    It seems that he is already famous around that newsgroup (for being crazy).

  3. Re:Sliderules on The Sliderule As Paleo-Geek Artifact · · Score: 1

    Chalk up another one for science fiction. I read a story years ago about the only man left on Earth who knew how to multiply and divide without a calculator. He was (in the story) co-opted by the Pentagon and became a secret weapon

    That's Isaac Asimov's "The Feeling of Power". It's in some of his antologies.

  4. Re:What bugs me about GPL on Microsoft Plans "Shared Source" .NET · · Score: 1

    Am I the only one bothered with this:

    The terms of the licenses will be that if you're distributing it, you're distributing it for non-commercial use.

    However, if somebody wanted to do a commercial implementation of the CLI on Linux, they could certainly look at our shared source implementation and learn from it. But then, we would insist that they use their own code, in that case.

    If people thought they were interested in licensing the commercial version, or a commercial license of the shared source version. We're willing to talk. We usually are.

    Now, in what is this better than the GPL?

  5. Re:Rato! on Tiny Little Computer · · Score: 1

    According to the Michaelis dictionary, "rato" or "rato doméstico" belongs to the genus "Rattus", although some species of "Mus" are also called "rato". "Camundongo" is a small rodent, gender "Mus". According to webster, "rat" belongs to genus "Rattus" and "mouse" to "Mus". Finally, "ratazana" is a just a big rat or a female rat.

  6. Re:Proof that this is a Really Bad idea on "Smart Tags," Round Two · · Score: 1

    Maybe I'm just slow today, but it took me a REALLY long time to catch on to the author's joke here.

    Worse: I actually clicked the first "link".

  7. Re:Publishers rights on "Smart Tags," Round Two · · Score: 1

    I don't see your point. Every work is copyrighted as soon as it has an author (even a pseudonymous will do), unless explicitly put in the public domain. And I don't see how the DMCA applies here, since there is no "copy protection device" involved.

  8. Re:dd is not good enough to erase data on The Pentagon Discovers dd · · Score: 1

    Correct me if I am wrong, but I thought that urandom was only slightly less random than /dev/random [ref]. In other words, urandom would become pseudo-random only during the short intervals where the entropy pool is depleted. For this application, probably it is randomized often enough.

  9. Re:In other news... on The Pentagon Discovers dd · · Score: 1

    It's even more close to what happened, because if the boards are anything like the ones here at my university, they are readable after erasing (with some effort).

    It is believed that hard disks are still readable after simple zeroing (with special hardware), and this is the rationale behind functions such as PGP's overwriting with several passes of random bits.

  10. Re:Rato! on Tiny Little Computer · · Score: 1
    Only in Portugal. Down in Brazil we call it "mouse" (with English pronunciation, even). At least "rato" (rat) is shorter than "camundongo" (mouse).

    This applies to most other computer terms.

  11. Re:Link on Tiny Little Computer · · Score: 1

    That's Spanish. In Portuguese, "ano" == "year".

  12. Re:Another too-early to tell application. on New Remote Configuration App For Linux · · Score: 1

    What's next, Linux Certification? Linux Certified Engineers?

    Actually, RedHat has a Certification Program.

    Latin american Conectiva has its own, also. I know one of their certified engineers.

    (No, I dont work for them, I just happen to use their distribution.)