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  1. Re:That's what Groklaw is doing on Large-Scale Paper-To-Digital Conversion? · · Score: 1

    Clearly, the easy solution is just to get your documents included as a filing in one of the SCO cases and let Groklaw do it.

  2. Re:World Leagues ? on Become a Professional Gamer · · Score: 1

    From what I understand, the Koreans dominate international competitions; their games tend to be relatively short and fierce, with doesn't-look-possible micromanagement of combats being key.

  3. slashdotted on Andy Tanenbaum on 'Who Wrote Linux' · · Score: 1

    I think his webserver could use a performance hack right about now.

  4. Re:Use the Firewall on The Windows Security Nightmare · · Score: 2, Funny

    And if you're on a wireless LAN?

    Wrap your computer in tinfoil.

  5. no PDAs? on Device for Taking Travel Notes? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Not sure why you're ruling those out. An obsolete Palmpilot (say, a Vx) with an external keyboard will fit the bill nicely, down to being a decent alarmclock, too.

  6. Re:Airbags? on Amateur Rocket to Carry Ham Radio Payload to Space · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Probably no parachute is a ground safety issue; if they deploy one at that altitude, there's no telling where the thing might land.

  7. Re:Duh on Hybrid Cars Don't Live Up to Mileage Claims · · Score: 1

    You can buy inverters that will convert cig. lighter slots to 120-ungrounded, but you can't push that many amps through standard auto wiring that way...

  8. Re:What was that line in the book of Revelations on RFID Implants for Spanish Revelers · · Score: 1

    Revelations 13:17
    and he provides that no one will be able to buy or to sell, except the one who has the mark, either the name of the beast or the number of his name.

    Obviously, by "name" read certificate, and by "number of the name" read certificate fingerprint...

  9. Re:Efficency isn't their main purpose on Hybrid Cars Don't Live Up to Mileage Claims · · Score: 1

    They don't. Some modern non-hybrids have emissions that are just as low.

  10. SashXB? on IBM To Announce Web-Based Desktop Apps · · Score: 1

    It also sounds like SashXB, a sort of Javascript applet thing some IBM summer hires wrote a while back. It was a little manager app that would download current versions of various javascript GUI apps on demand.

  11. Re:tough sell to management on IBM To Announce Web-Based Desktop Apps · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Management is getting POed by all these windows viruses, and the IBM name carries a lot of weight in some shops...

  12. Re:Investment advice please on Royal Bank of Canada Cashes Out of SCO; SCO Begins Layoffs · · Score: 1

    The stock price would crash.

    They won't.

    They'll feed it into a computer program that'll sell 5k shares here and 5k there on a dozen different official and unofficial exchanges in such a way that it's not blatently obvious what's going on.

    But there's no way you can disguise that sell volume on a stock with this volume; I suspect that'd do it over more than one day, and you might well see the price dropping pretty sharply...

  13. Re:It's a Longhorn Killer! on Red Hat Desktop Unveiled · · Score: 1

    VMware type app - huh? Can you clarify?

    We're starting to use VMware; so far, looks sweet, but a bit pricy for the server stuff.

  14. Re:SCO does have some legit claims on DaimlerChrysler Looks for Dismissal of SCO Suit · · Score: 1

    And more to the point, you didn't actually ask before; you sent a non-registered letter to the wrong address, so we hadn't even heard of this nonsense until the court case.

    Go away, don't come back, and pay us for our wasted time, please.

  15. Re:Two questions on High-Altitude 'Security Blimps' Coming Soon · · Score: 3, Informative

    The distance a gun will shoot striaght up is surprisingly limited; small bullets suffer from a great deal of drag and you actually can't neglect gravity.

    Handguns are a non-started; you'ld need a large, specialized anti-aircraft gun to even think about it.

  16. Re:If there's one thing I've learnt... on Data Transfer Has A Speed Limit · · Score: 1

    Signals, maybe, but not information.

    Speed-of-light is a constant PITA now and has been for years. It's an issue for everything from Quake ping times to disk interfaces to memory bus design to chip design.

  17. Re:The general optonion of India around here.... on India Starts All-Electronic National Elections · · Score: 0, Troll

    India has a lower population density than Palo Alto; what's your point?

  18. Re:Expensive Electronics? on Technology Makes New Cars Too Expensive to Fix · · Score: 1

    You're not kidding; an experienced mechanic working a bit of overtime can easily get his salary into 6-figures. It's really not far off from the IT payscale.

  19. Re:please explain on Injunction to Enforce GPL · · Score: 1

    Doesn't matter if you wrote that particular line of code; legally, it's still derivative.

    This happened with the GPLed Quake code; with the open source, certain cheats became more common. One guy started shipping a binary patch that would prevent them, and refused to release the source (which would have defeated the purpose); ID lawyers came down on him like a ton of bricks, and the patch was pulled.

  20. Re:please explain on Injunction to Enforce GPL · · Score: 1

    No, he is correct.

    If your patch+GPL software = modified GPL software, you have to abide by GPL.

    If your code only uses 'external' interfaces (eg, *maybe* binary drivers, almost certainly userspace code), you're probably ok.

    The question is legal, not technical. If your code makes sense as an entity seperate from the GPLed code (eg, a program/driver that could run on other OSs), it probably isn't derivative. But distributing your version of Linux as a 'diff' doesn't get you off the copyright hook.

  21. Re:Ethereal in University Setting on Ethereal Packet Sniffing · · Score: 1

    Odds are, they won't see much. Just *try* to buy a hub (not a switch!) with more than 4 ports these days. It's a PITA if you actually do want to use ethereal to sniff outside traffic.

  22. Re:Table locking anyone? on Diebold Fails Again in San Diego · · Score: 1

    I have a little secret I've learned over the years that I'll share with you today, grasshopper:

    Most programmers are incompetent nitwits.

  23. ethereal & OpNet on What Network Sniffing Tools Do You Use? · · Score: 1

    For freeware, you can't beat ethereal. I use it several times a week.

    If you have a serious budget, check out OpNet, which can do fun things like response time breakdowns, or "how well will this app run if the client is across the country instead of next to the server," or "what happens if I have another 300 clients like this one submitting requests @ 5/minute with a poisson distribution", or "If I make the following configuration change to router X, then router Y fails, and we have a network backup running, how much interruption in the transaction will occur."

  24. joe sixpack on Draft of 'Broadcast Flag' Treaty Now Available · · Score: 1

    Time to call the local sports talk radio and tell them, "Are you aware that the UN is plotting to outlaw HDTV VCRs?"

  25. Re:Don't worry too much on Canadian X-Prize Entry Gearing Up · · Score: 2, Informative

    Armadillo's last two updates have been huge progress on the engine front; they seem to have the problem (mostly...) solved, although it's not clear they have enough thrust/fuel to make it with their current exact design, if they indeed have to abandon parachutes for powered landing.

    OTOH, I don't think they have a full-scale vehicle even started, though a close-to-that flight tester is mostly ready for the engines.

    I'd guess they're a couple months away in the absolute best case scenario.