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  1. Re:Forget Antigravity, how about a Gravity device? on NASA Still Trying to Verify Anti-Gravity Claims · · Score: 1

    What is the difference?

    If you can create gravity you can use it to counter the effect of gravity...

  2. Remove the clause... on Cure For Bad Software? Legal Liability · · Score: 1

    in most software licenses that states that the software is not guaranteed to be fit for a particular purpose.

    Why should software be treatedly so differently from other commercial goods?

  3. Re:Hollywood's blessing necessary for broadband? on Chained Melodies · · Score: 1, Insightful

    It is only your opinion that you sell DSL for a living?

    What does your employer think you do?

  4. Re:What about the drunks? on Berlin's Robotic Pub · · Score: 1

    *members only*, you probably waive your rights etc. when you join

  5. IPod on Professional, Portable, Live MP3 Encoding · · Score: 1

    I seem to remember one of the chips used in the Ipod (Texas, I think) supports real-time mp3 encoding.

    The Ipod os doesn't support this but with modification/hack?

  6. Re:What could the device be? on Woz's New Startup · · Score: 1

    If he comes up with a vehicle for the gods then I win.

  7. Re:What could the device be? on Woz's New Startup · · Score: 1

    Ok mister smarty-pants. Since you too lack the neural capacity to figure out the patently obvious point of the initial un-demanding and faily-fucking-simple post I will explain it to you.

    Dimbo.

    It is highly unlikely that the name bears any significant relationship to the porduct and was only chosen to fit with his name. I honstly don't expect him to be constructing a VEHICLE FOR GREEK GODS TO TRAVEL IN.

    If he is then whohay for you. They might use it to drop your missing-since-birth brain off.

    Chris Burke, good name BTW. Coincidence? I think not. See above.

  8. Re:What could the device be? on Woz's New Startup · · Score: 1

    No, thank *you* fuckwit.

    You you really think he came up with a name and then thought "oh jee-fucking-wiz it spells the first three fucking letters of my name, fancy-frigging that, what an a1l-too-tit-faced-tops coincidence."

    I doubt it. So go away.

  9. Re:What could the device be? on Woz's New Startup · · Score: 1

    WOZ - W(heels)O(f)Z(eus)

  10. I think not. on ZeoSync Makes Claim of Compression Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    Definition of random data is data with an AIC (information content) of 0.

    So I doubt it.

  11. Re:hard part on Battlefield Lasers · · Score: 1

    Damn right. Zero page had lots of spare bits just waiting to used as counters, flags etc.

    Don't much care about the laser.

  12. Re:Faster than light communication on Quantum Holography · · Score: 1

    No.

    Your example didn't appear to use entanglement but if it did then all you would notice is different random noise to the random noise you would have otherwise received.

    You wouldn't be able to make any sense of the new random noise unless you knew the message which was being transmitted. Once you knew the message you could interpret the noise as being the message correctly. But it wouldn't be much use then...

  13. Re:Schroedinger's Cat on Quantum Holography · · Score: 1

    I think he has it wrong.

    We cannot know both the momentum and position of a particle (i.e. electron) at a given time not because of the limitations of experimentation (due to interference of the observer) but because electrons (for example) do not have both the properties of position and momentum at a given instant. An electron can have either a known position *or* a known momentum at a given time, never both.

  14. Re:There are Always Inside Jobs on Bush Wants an Unhackable Private Network · · Score: 1

    You forgot;

    c) Eliminate Government Data
    d) Eliminate the Government
    e) Eliminate EVERYONE

  15. Re:"dynamic" search engine on AltaVista Can't Keep Up · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a client side process.

    'spose you could send back 404s to the search engine to update it's database. But would the serarch engine trust them? Probably not.

  16. Re:Your nick on Torvalds Tells All · · Score: 1

    Nabbed from The Art Of War, old hat.

  17. Re:Hey! BT's phones *are* in use! on AT&T's Internet Pay Phone · · Score: 1

    They are currently free (albeit amazingly slow and unresponsive, which is to be expected from British Telecom (itself an amazingly slow and unresponsive company)) but will not be for much longer.

    I understand they are to start charging for access soonish.

  18. Unless I'm mistaken...(which I probably am) on How I Completed The $5000 Compression Challenge · · Score: 1

    Data can be expressed as a number.
    Random data can be expressed as a random number.

    Take A to be the random number.
    Take B to the the nearest prime number.
    Take r to the difference between the prime number and the random number.

    B+r=A

    Likewise take C to be the nearest prime number to r and so on...

    B+C+D+E+F+r=A

    The data in your compressed file could consist of;

    32334/2000/231/22//23222

    (obviously you would need to delimit them differently)

    Your decompresser would add the 32334th prime to the 2000th prime to the 231st prime to the 22nd prime and add 23222 to the result.

    So long as you know the data to be compressed why could you not *rig* something like this to work?

    Then again...

    I assume it wouldn't...

  19. Re:Too bad Duhbya doesn't know... on Bush Won't Be "The Online President" · · Score: 1

    Try;
    http://www.spammimic.com/

  20. Pahoo. on Napster Offers $1B For Music-Swapping Rights · · Score: 1

    "...as many as 10,000 files per second by defendant's own admission."
    Who, except the government and large corporations have this kind of bandwidth?
    I can't even do one file per second.
    It is probably the NSA and FBI swapping tunes.
    Go figure.

  21. Re:Seems a tad absolute on Professor Describes Unbreakable Cryptosystem? · · Score: 1

    Check out quantum crypt.
    Messages sent using time pads are impossibe to break.
    Any system built on one time pads is unbreakable so long as the distribution of the pads (or equiv.) is secure.
    These things are provable, you quoted Bruce out of context.
    Check out quantum crypt.

  22. Sorry? on Live Streaming Video? · · Score: 1

    You are refusing to use Windows Media because it is Microsoft? If that is your only consideration then maybe someone should sack you.

  23. Re:Article about an article about an article sucke on Bill Joy On Extinction of Humans · · Score: 1

    No. All a 'robot' needs to do to 'wipe-us-out' is to make more copies of itself using all matter it comes accross. The rate of growth of such things would a tad rapid after a few generations. Personally I suspect we will be wiped out by swarms of sentient gangs of kitchen appliances long before.