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  1. Not an inch worm an earth worm. !!!! on Robotic Inchworm Drill for Mars, Europa · · Score: 2



    Good point, but I dont think this would be very hard to address. If you notice the drills that were used to dig the chunnel had a debris conveyer system. Holes in the head that fed back to a train. (there was a junk yard war episode where they delt with this very issue). Now since it works like an earth worm( earth worms leave no dirtpile) It will loosen the earth (or europa in this case) then digest it of sorts the poop it out the back just like an earth worm. This system should be designed as such that it is reversable.
    you know if knowone has thought of this before I claim patent rights.

  2. Going out on a limb !?!? on Carbon Releases in Asia · · Score: 5, Interesting



    I know I'm going to get flamed for this. But we Human beings are part of the ecosystem. As opposed to watching over it. If we were to pollute the earth and kill ourself off. In a millennia or so the ecosystem would cylcle and bring forth a whole plethora of new species. I'm not saying we should do as we want. But I do think peopel should just admit we are protecting our own posterity and not "mother earth" As george carlin used to say all the earth has to do is shake us off like flees. Balancing our use of resources so that it doesn't affect the environment is more to protect us.

  3. I disagree on Idaho Gets Serious About Broadband · · Score: 5, Interesting


    broad band is an amenity that many companies and individuals require. Typically those home users requiring broad band are tech savvy. Thus making them valuable capitol. Also many small businesses are now at a point where broad band is a requirement. I'm a Admin for an Architecture firm with several sites and our locations that do not have accessibility to broad band are a pin in our side. relocating the office was a valid option until Allegiance gave us a T1 for half the cost of the local Telco.

  4. will my pet hamster freak ? on Embedding Data Signals In White Noise · · Score: 2


    Will my pet Hamster Fred, freak out ? Inaudable usually means higher sound frequencies. If it is audible but comes off as white noise ... I hate white noise. The humming of all this equipment drives me MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD!!

  5. 3d graphics & Cad on New Tadpole SPARCbook RSN · · Score: 1


    I'm not sure what the graphics support is on this. Many main stream 3d graphic programs Maya, Houdini, lighwave all prefer UNIX, or to be more specific Solaris, & IRIX OS's. Though the graphic capability may not be there it's a nice way to continue working while on a business trip. This also applies to high end CAD applications. This way it is possible to use the same apps and utilities that are used at design stations. Thus making it easy to return from some seminar and just plug in and not worry about interface probs. I like. plus the backing of SUN is always nice.

  6. Here is the WHOIS note contact ama_72@yahoo.com on Saddam's Inbox Hacked · · Score: 5, Interesting


    Kinda wierd to think the most clear and present danger to the free world uses a yahoo address for there administrators.

    Registrar:domaininfo.com
    Domain Name: URUKLINK.NET

    [Owner of domain name]
    osama khalid
    27 april street
    baghdad, 0000
    IQ

    [Administrative contact]
    khalid, osama
    27 april street
    0000 baghdad
    IQ

    Email: ama_72@yahoo.com
    Phone: +964 1 5372494
    Fax: +964 1 5434731

    [Technical contact]
    khalid, osama
    27 april street
    0000 baghdad
    IQ

    Email: ama_72@yahoo.com
    Phone: +964 1 5372494
    Fax: +964 1 5434731

    [Zone contact]
    khalid, osama
    27 april street
    0000 baghdad
    IQ

    Email: ama_72@yahoo.com
    Phone: +964 1 5372494
    Fax: +964 1 5434731

    Record created: 29 May 2000
    Record last changed: 22 Nov 2001
    Record expires: 29 May 2005

    Nameserver: nic1.warkaa.com (62.32.60.1)
    Nameserver: nic2.warkaa.com (62.32.60.2)

  7. Obvioulsy you've never used Exchange on Yet Another Exchange Killer? · · Score: 5, Insightful


    Typical Scenerio.

    User: I want to be able to share my schedule contacts and project info.

    admin: sure we can install exchange it will cost $$$$$$, ohh yea it also runs on Win2k.

    user: wtf? are you nuts. aren't our win2k servers the ones that all went down because of that mimlinda, in lisa and melissa and code red, .. is there anything else that will let me use ms office and its nifty features such a schedule sharing and such.

    admin: well errr , lets see .. aaahh. no ..

    moral, SuSE (my distro of choice) is giving users an option to MS that will not be as much of a bite in the butt. ohh yea it runs on linux.

    ps. I dont give a damn about the spelling errors

  8. Re:stupid commercials on Camcorder Jamming Devices Announced · · Score: 1, Offtopic



    I live in southern california and our local edwards theater shows approximately 20 mins of commercials before the movie ?!?! this pisses me off since i'm still paying $8.50 for tickets, $3.00 for a coke, and $4.50 for a box of popcorn

  9. good ! on Camcorder Jamming Devices Announced · · Score: 1, Redundant


    I made the mistake of purchasing a boot legg tape once and it was o obvious that someone sat in a theater with a camcorder. Even the sound sounded like a microphone in a card board box. To be honest I wouldn't spend mondey on developing this product because the quality of these tapes are horrific. Plus with digital video being available on the net who needs to do that anymore. I saw the chinese version (subtitled) of starwars episode one while it was still in the theaters.

  10. Pharmasuticals have a hard sell on Patents Choking Off Medical Research · · Score: 4, Informative



    My sister used to work for Bristoll Myers. One of her main points was it takes an excess of 8 years to perfect a drug. Wherein a list of ten potentials you may get one that qualifies for clinicals. Now keep in mind your development team for lack of a better word concist of PhD chemist and Biologist commanding a 6 figure per anum paycheck. Now the catch is after all that R&D investment drugs that pass clinicals only have a patent lasting 5 years before generics can be made. Thus the consumers take it in the pocket with high drug prices.

  11. spy vs spy on More on JSF Laser System · · Score: 2


    anyone else have images in there head of a joint strike fighter being sizzled with the black spy (insert terrorist of your choice) in a broken down mig one with a mirror hanging off the tail fin grinning in the for ground.

  12. Re:GREAT !?!?! months down the drain. on Microsoft PPTP Buffer Overflow; VPNs Vulnerable · · Score: 2



    yea right, IPTables does not support Protocol 47 which is required. the only way to get it to work is to patch the kernel. For which the patch only works with version 2.4.17. If you do get it to work it only supports one connection at a time. My server wouldn't work on a 2.4.17 kernel because of required hardware versions that worked only with later versions. so the patch is out of the question. The IPTables version of the pptp patch was just released with patchomatic and that fails whenever you try to apply it.

  13. I think not. on Microsoft PPTP Buffer Overflow; VPNs Vulnerable · · Score: 2



    These are not bugs, just extended features that have not been documented. In this case a remote administration tool. :) Hell technically speaking viagra was a bug initially it was designed as a medicine for hypertension which failed. But it's bug was well you know.

  14. GREAT !?!?! months down the drain. on Microsoft PPTP Buffer Overflow; VPNs Vulnerable · · Score: 2



    I spent months trying to get my IPTabled firewall to allow PPTP connections to my NT server. I doubt microsoft will address this since they have all but abandoned this type of VPN. Thats settles it IPSEC in tunneling mode here I come.

  15. how do we know it wasn't a movie on Five Year Retrospective: Mars Pathfinder · · Score: -1, Troll



    lets be real, 5 years before blundering failure. 5 years later perfect landing with a little hollywood suspence (bouncing lander) Oooh god it's bouncing, no not again. dramatic pause after sending the uplink signal ............... beep beeep . IT WORKS !!!! it's all a hoax they never went to mars, neither did they go to the moon. They are not fooling me.

  16. Here is his OS list on 37 Operating Systems, 1 PC · · Score: 2

    Dos 6.22 w/Dosshell Dos 7.0 DR-Dos FreeDos OS/2 warp IV SkyOS Windows Menu: Windows 1.01 Windows 2.03 Windows 3.1 Windows 95 Windows 98 First Edition Windows 98 SE (2 installations - Main, Lite) Windows ME Windows XP Pro Windows 2000 Pro Unix Menu: AtheOS Syllable OS Aos (Bluebottle)/Oberon 2.3.6 BeOS 5 Personal Edition BeOS 5 w/ Mac skin BeOS 5.03 Developer Edition QNX 6.1 QNX 6.2 FreeBSD OpenBSD NetBSD Minix LInux Menu: Storm 2000 Immunix Conectiva Libranet Vector JBLinux Slackware Trustix Red Hat 7.2 Mandrake 8.2 Debian Dos Window Managers Menu: Tandy Deskmate Desktop 2 Dos94 Dosstart Egress Gaze Glance IconDOs Iconshell QBfos99 Iconshell 2.1 xgui 3 xgui 4 MAcShell MilleniumOS XTos

  17. This is a marketing stratagy for Autodesk on Why Software Piracy is Good for Microsoft · · Score: 3, Informative


    In my field (architecture) AutoCAD has pretty much the monopoly, despight other packages such as ArchiCAD, Microstation and DataCAD. Why ? It's simple, this is the tool that everyone knows. By filling schools and colleges with thier software and having student version for little and nothing ($200 for a AutoCAD12,3DStudio,AA package)the only software package that anyone knows is AutoCAD. Since it's very expensive to train someone to use a new software package proficiently can costs upards of $3000 most employers just settle with AutoCAD even though it may not be the best or cheapest package.

  18. Lets see $10,000/1million= :( on RC5-64 Success · · Score: 4, Funny


    In further news all participating Distributed.net users will be issued a check for 1 Cent.

  19. would be my dream come true on The Days of SysAdmin Numbered? · · Score: 2


    I still have question like, how do I create a signature in my outlook. and why doesn't my outlook complete all my e-mail addresses instead of some. or my computer wont turn on (turn yoru monitor on). perhaps Sun may automate many of our tasks but eliminate sysadmins. Not ever.

  20. Re:I think this is necessary ( dont shoot me yet) on Federal Cyberspace Policy Draft Released · · Score: 2


    There would be no censorship, just classification. Lets take the three tiered approach. .kids, .com, .foo these are just three examples the .kids is regulated by some UN council which determins content based on worldwide suggestion. leaving further filtering up to each country. Then the .com which woudl be deteremined by some commerce group, so strickly companies sellign product or related. then .foo for everyone else. then perhaps a .edu .med etc. for educational matter. So everyone would have access to all three groups, but this would allow easier filtering for companies, schools homes. you see my point.

  21. Slang is not english. on "L33T" Speak Invades Schools · · Score: 3, Funny



    It cracks me up to think there are people who believe that just because something is birthed of the internet it is devine. Be it music piracy, netslang, software piracy. I remember when I was an IRC junky I had to re-learn how to spell when it came back to the real world. Not to sound like an old geezer but people need to speak plain english, or whatever language you may speak. For those quick to point out my mispellings kiss my a** i'm a recovering undernetoholic.

  22. I think this is necessary ( dont shoot me yet) on Federal Cyberspace Policy Draft Released · · Score: 2

    I realize that many, myself included believes the net should be completely free from censorship. After growing up a little and having children and responsibilities I think that this may not be the case. I personally advocate different levels of the net. Much like AOL vs the net. Where AOL is a very sheltered censored version of the net and the web being everything. There has to be some way to filter out the massive amounts of porn kiddie porn, and illegals. I admin a two offices and periodically check outgoing connection just to keep a tab on things and it amazes me how much people look at porn, and waste time lots of it. I know it's your right but damn. I would love to see the net segregated into tared domains. the first being child and educational environment friendly, the second enveloping commercial work, then the last tared no holds bard. This way parents employers have more control on content.

  23. Nimda ISP warning program on 1 Year Anniversary of Nimda Outbreak · · Score: 2

    http://www.treachery.net/~jdyson/earlybird/

    I recieved this link from a linux group. It basically detects nimda attacts on your apache/linux system then attempts to e-mail the sysadmin of the ISP. it works great. It has spam potential yes but nimda and the incompitent Admins who incubate this virus on there system needs to be irradicated.

  24. Re:NIMDA the sysadmins friend :-s a little anecdot on 1 Year Anniversary of Nimda Outbreak · · Score: 2



    Here is my Nimbda nightmare. I manage two offices, primarily CAD and graphics. Both connected to the net via a T1. My local office sits behind a nice iptables firewall with my patch and locked down NT server serving one IP for VPN. The other office is managed by a consultant because I cant' always get there as needed. Long story short the server died ( dead array) so after 12 hours of recovering the work I headed out instructing the consultant to lck down the server ( patch it, remove uneeded service, apply lockdown patch close unecessary ports) ofcourse he didn't in the space of 12 hours my entire network was filled with nimda eml nws files. luckly that was teh extent of teh infection that office. The server was a fresh install W2k server. Needless to say the next few days was speent hand picking corrupted files from the server. Before I even thought nimda was cute but now it's hell's own scurge. I consistently e-mail ISP's notifying them of infected machines probing my network.

  25. am I the only moron who didn't know palms are red on Getting Help Building Your Computer · · Score: 2



    Am I the only one who doesnt' know palm LCD's have red backlit screens ? In the dark red wont dialate your eyes, plus it's cool.