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  1. Re:Pah... on Vietnam Medic Makes Homemade Endoscope · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Merek's problem is that when faced with evidence that their drugs might not be safe they spent over a $100 million a year on direct to consumer marketing. They delibrately concealed evidence that their drugs might be quite harmful and $250 million might not be enough of a penalty.

  2. Date on MySQL Mug and Ten Years of MySQL and PHP · · Score: 1

    April 29th, 1995

    or so.

  3. Re:For The Bandwidth Challenged on Fedora Core 4 Test 2 Released · · Score: 4, Informative

    Fedora does do a netinstall.
    1) Download the Boot CD

    2) Boot with the aguments askmethod

    3) Choose HTTP/FTP

    4) Enter http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux /core/test/3.91/i386/os/ as the source

    5) Profit.

  4. Re:Software Firewall on Stopping ChatZilla Installs on FireFox Systems? · · Score: 3, Informative

    DeepFreeze by Farconics Software

  5. Re:Let's see... on Apple Releases 10.3.5 · · Score: 1

    thats ignoring the fact that all SP1a did over SP1 was remove a feature.

  6. Whats next? on Jerry Falwell Wins Dispute Over Fallwell.com · · Score: 4, Funny

    Will www.godhatesfigs.com be shut down beacuse it is too similar to another site

  7. Re:Beware the simple, elegant solution. on Genetic Algorithms and Compiler Optimizations · · Score: 1

    Someone once said: "A genetic algorithm is the second best solution to any problem"

  8. Re:My favorite feature on OpenOffice.org Hits 1.1 · · Score: 3, Informative

    There is a redirector which will redirect a printer port to a ghost script process, which is essentially a free version of distiller.

  9. Re:Second Holy Grail on Nikon D2H: Digital Camera + 802.11b Option · · Score: 3, Informative

    The D2H uses a different battery pack than the D1h, but the review said it had a larger battery. That being said I've used the D1h extensivly, and with minimal LCD use you could take 1000- 1200 pictures on a single battery. These camera's aren't aimed at the average user, but rather at professional photographers shooting for newspapers and the like. Battery life isn't their biggest concern beacuse when you're already carrying two D1h bodies, a small array of lenses, and a monopod it doesn't matter if you have to toss in four extra batteries.

  10. Re:Is this really so much worse... on RFID Tags on Mach3 Razorblades Snap Your Photo · · Score: 1

    When you sign up they generally give you a bunch of cards, so give some of them to strangers. Make their data useless. Suddently they can't be certain that you're the one making a purchase in a place.

  11. Re:really ot on Black Box in Speeder's Car Helped Conviction · · Score: 1

    I'm in charlottesville, at the lovely University of Virgnia. If you are who I think you are, I went to the same high school as you.

    (Yeah, CleanClannel sucks. Luckily there is WWWV and WNRN around here)

  12. Re:OT: sig on Black Box in Speeder's Car Helped Conviction · · Score: 1

    not really WTOP, but when I used to live in the DC area they were on WHFS and DC101.

  13. Re:Works both ways on Black Box in Speeder's Car Helped Conviction · · Score: 4, Informative

    Actually most police cars aready have these chips. These chips started out in fleet vehicles(ambluances, police cars and the like) and just now are moving to consumer cars. Also many cop cars have video cameras that they turn on when they're pulling cars over or persuing a car. The cameras not only gather evidence, but should they be involved in an accident (Well we can see on the camera that the cruiser cross into the opposing lane.)

  14. wow that must be a nice contract. on Sims Creator Signs TV Deal · · Score: 1

    In fact, it was so good that he signed it twice!

  15. Re:Credits on Denial of Service via Algorithmic Complexity · · Score: 5, Informative
    If you scroll down to the bottom of the advisory you'll see a link to orginal advisory. Here's the begining of the message:
    List: linux-kernel
    Subject: Route cache performance under stress
    From: Florian Weimer <fw () deneb ! enyo ! de>
    Date: 2003-04-05 16:37:43
    Please read the following paper:

    <http://www.cs.rice.edu/~scrosby/tr/HashAttack.pdf >

    Then look at the 2.4 route cache implementation.

    Short summary: It is possible to freeze machines with 1 GB of RAM and more with a stream of 400 packets per second with carefully chosen source addresses. Not good.
    It seems the advisory stems from the paper, not the other way around.
  16. Re:Ways to crack it on Self-Destructing DVD's Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    I wonder how much air does it neet to react with? If you place the disc in a ziploc bag(to drastically limit the air supply) would it never expire? Would this violate the DMCA? Would plastic bags now be a circumvention tool?

    Enquiring minds want to know.

  17. Re:Haters come out! on ISS Discovers A Remote Hole In Sendmail · · Score: 1

    hey! I resent that.

    You know one of these days I'm just going to come back here with all my guns......

  18. Re:who ordered this? on Michelin to Include RFID Transmitter in Every Tire · · Score: 1

    A lot of companies (truck companies, bus companies and the like) rent their tires from the tire company. They pay them a penny per mile driven on the tire. Now someone has to keep track of which tires are on the bus or truck, where they are, how many miles have been driven on them. This is a lot of work. Even if you're a small bus company with 30 transit busses you still have over 180 tires on the vehicles at one time. Think of trying to keep track of them.

    These devices could greatly simplify the paperwork of knowing what tire is where for how long.

  19. Re:side issue-california weirdo tax attempts on Update To Pavlovich DeCSS case; Stay Lifted · · Score: 2

    aren't the legal ones called politicans?

  20. Re:What? on eBay Customers Targetted by Credit Card Scam · · Score: 2

    not immediately available for comment is journalism speak for "we tried to get another source, but they didn't get back to us in time" or "we really did try to research this topic." I think they meant they couldn't get a specific comment from the ebay on the topic, but were pointing out that ebay had put an annoucment up on their website (i.e. not denying it had happened).

  21. Re:I remember the last one... on Uprated "10-ton" Ariane 5 Fails · · Score: 2

    If I remember correctly the guidance system had some debug code which printed some data. When it did it cast a floating point number to a integer. That conversion threw an exception when the floating point would overflow that int. That exception was unhandled and caused the guidance to abort.

    Generally a bad thing.

  22. Re:Definitely useful on Secure, Efficient and Easy C programming · · Score: 3, Funny
    glue != prototype. (in fact, it's E210: invalid type comparison, cannot compare apples and oranges.


    I'm tired of this constant discrimination against the citrus fuits. One of these days the people will get up and say "I'm tired of people thinking that oranges aren't good enough for comparison." They'll say "I can compare apples and oranges". They'll run to the windows and say "This orange is much yellower than this apple". People will be running through the streets screaming "This apple is much more smooth than this orange."

    And then my group(The People for the Ethical treatment of Cirtrus (PETC)) will be happy.
  23. Re:Truly horrible on ISP's Slapping Techs For Lending A Hand · · Score: 5, Informative

    Again a possilbe gray area. Generally a salaried employee is still eligible for overtime unless they fit the "White Collar Exemption"(Here are more common overtime exemptions).

    The two best fits in the whitecollar exemption are(from http://www.dol.gov/esa/regs/compliance/whd/whdfs17 .htm:

    "Administrative Exemption

    Applicable to employees who perform office or non-manual work which is directly related to the management policies or general business operations of their employer or their employer's customers, or perform such functions in the administration of an educational establishment; who regularly exercise discretion and judgment in their work; who either assist a proprietor or executive, perform specialized or technical work, or execute special assignments; who receive a salary which meets the requirements of the exemption; and who do not devote more than 20% of their time to work other than that described above (40% in retail and service establishments).

    Professional Exemption

    Applicable to employees who perform work requiring advanced knowledge and education, work in an artistic field which is original and creative, work as a teacher, or work as a computer system analyst, programmer, software engineer, or similarly skilled worker in the computer software field; who regularly exercise discretion and judgment; who perform work which is intellectual and varied in character, the accomplishment of which cannot be standardized as to time; who receive a salary which meets the requirements of the exemption (except doctors, lawyers, teachers and certain computer occupations); and who do not devote more than 20% of their time to work other than that described above."

    Now IANAL, but there is a great deal of room for interpretation in there. A front-line (or even higher up) tech support person most likely doesn't meet the adminsitrative exemption (beacuse they won't be seetting management policy) and possibly the professional exemption

    The FLSA is a big complex mess designed to stop employers from screwing employees. Sometimes in the process they limit worker's choices too. People run into this same issue in other areas too. Volunteer firefights in many counties have to resign from their volunteering position if they take a within the Fire/Rescue department of that county (even if there is no overlap between jobs). The problem is that in general many "volunteered" hours to companies aren't voluntary.

  24. Re:Truly horrible on ISP's Slapping Techs For Lending A Hand · · Score: 5, Informative

    Employees volunteering time falls under a very gray(well actually not that gray) area of the Fair Flabor Standards Act(FLSA). The general consensus is that empolyees cannot volunteer time to their employer: almost always this falls under the definition of Hours Worked. The ISP is most likely worried that some point down the road their Tech (who was originally doing this of their own free will) will demand compensation ( and the requisite overtime) for their "voluneered" hours.

    You know if I was the employer, I would do the same thing.

    The Department of Labor Elaws has some easy to understand interpretations of various FLSA previsions.

  25. Re:Consumer Cameras are REAL far off on Digital Camera Quality Passing Film? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    One more place where digital is killing film: newspapers.

    No longer do you need to develop a roll, look at them on a lighttable, scan a picture in, and then edit it to be used on the page. Now you can just download all the pictures, arechive the ones you want, edit the others, and send it to production. Savings of 30-40 minutes.