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  1. Re:Measuring speed? on Carter Copter Breaks Mu-1 Barrier · · Score: 1

    They mesure airspead. Groundspead is totally irrelivant.

  2. Bible and math in one joke without Gamatria on What's the Best Geek Joke You Know? · · Score: 1

    So G-d creates the Heavens and the Earth and he says to all the animals "Go Forth and Multiply" Well the snakes are having some problems so they come to G-d say say, we are having some problems here. G-d says "I said go forth and Multiply" but the snakes are still having problems. So G-d says to the snakes ok Build a table out of wood, make it 1 cubit high and 4 cubits by 4 cubits across. So the snakes build the table and soon there are lots of little snakes.

    For you see even Adders can multiply on a log table.

  3. Re:Reasons for being Stealthy on Do Stealth Startups Suck? · · Score: 1

    Pretty much yes. We are talking to some folks about this, mostly in terms of building a biz plan and getting some seed funding.

  4. Reasons for being Stealthy on Do Stealth Startups Suck? · · Score: 1

    It depends on why you are being stealthy and for how long you intend to be that way. I'm working on a new startup now that I don't want to talk about. Its not that I'm really afraid of someone stealing our ideas. Its just that we don't yet have anything to show and there is no reason to go talking about a million and one things that our software will do when it is done. At some point we will get something that works and then put it outthere.

    Right now most of our company is a lot of notes on a wiki.

  5. Re:Glad to hear it on Yahoo! Closes User Created Chat Rooms · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It seems what really got Yahoo's attention was when the sponsors pointed out that this was in direct violation of the Ad contracts that they had signed with Yahoo and until Yahoo fixes is they are going to loose a lot of money.

    Speeking as the parent of 2 pre-teen girls I am very happy to see these kind of chatrooms gone. (And in case anyone asks we don't let the girls on the net without parental oversight)

  6. Jewish Angels on Secret Codes Protect Ancient Torahs · · Score: 1

    Jewish though on Angels is very different from Christian. The most important thing to understand is that as far as Jews are concerend Angels don't have any free will. They exist only to do what G-d tells them to do. So the idea that one of them could "Fall" or defy G-d makes no sense. The Satan (its a title not a name in Hebrew) is an angel who tests people but he does it at G-d's command.

  7. Re:However on Secret Codes Protect Ancient Torahs · · Score: 1

    No it really doesn't. Just think 3000 years ago the Torah mandated that even slaves would get one day a week off of work. How many free folks work 7 day weeks today? Or spend their weekends running from here to there trying to catch up with lives that are too busy during the week. I want a day when I can turn the computers off and not pick up the phone. I can spend one day a week spending time with my kids or with my neighbors in a social setting.

    On shabbat I don't worry about the bills that I may not be able to pay on Sunday or work or much of anything else. Of course if we were to be attacked on Shabbat (as happend on Yom Kippor 1973) we would respond normally, in fact in that case it probably was a bit faster than normal as the roads in Israel were empty of trafic and they didn't have to spend anytime tracking down reservists.

    You should also realize that in this case "Work" is a translation of a technical term in Hebrew which is much more specific.

  8. Re:Holes make a Torah unkosher on Secret Codes Protect Ancient Torahs · · Score: 1

    Well that is rather assuming they let you pick it up in the first place. Sifri Torah* are rather closely guarded as things go.

    * one Safer Torah, two Sifri Torah.

  9. Re:Micro-perforation sounds like characters to me. on Secret Codes Protect Ancient Torahs · · Score: 1

    Actually the Talmud dictates exactly how the characters are written, to the extent that even in a few places a letter is written larger or smaller.

  10. Re:Holes make a Torah unkosher on Secret Codes Protect Ancient Torahs · · Score: 3, Informative

    The laws of writting a kosher Torah are quite complex. For example with 6 exceptions each page must begin with a specific letter "Vav".

    There are complex laws for how a Torah is written, read etc. If you drop one of the floor everyone in the room is required to fast for 40 days (generally Monday and Thursday for the next 20 weeks). This is an object for us that is increadably special to us.

    I should point out that most Jews I know also own at least one printed version with commentary etc. In my case its a Hebrew/English translation but as I live in Israel many folks have a Hebrew only version.

  11. Re:What is considered an addition to the text? on Secret Codes Protect Ancient Torahs · · Score: 1

    Well Jewish thought has always said that the Torah is a miracle and was given as is by the Holy one, blessed by he, on Shavout 3000+ years ago in the desert to Moses and the Jewish people.

  12. Re:However on Secret Codes Protect Ancient Torahs · · Score: 1

    Well most synagoges store them in some form of safe and probably have some sort of security system, though that has to be turned off before shabbat or a holiday.

  13. Re:Heisenberg on Drawing uncovered of 'Nazi Nuke' · · Score: 1

    Well it should be pointed out that many of the scientists at both Los Alamos and the Rad Lab were Jews who had flead from Hitler's Europe. (Teller, Fermi*, Leo Szelard many others)

    Fermi was not Jewish, but his wife was.

  14. Re:There's still a market, believe it or not on Netscape 8.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Well asl ong as the folks who put it out think its worth it It will happen. I'm quite happy with firefox, but its always nice to have a few more choices.

  15. Re:Not freedom? on Key Advantage of Open Source is Not Cost Savings · · Score: 1

    Ok take it as a bug in the software in both cases. I didn't phrase it well. You are right if the power supply goes it really doesn't matter what the OS is. My development server was down for a day or so a while back when the power supply did die.

  16. Re:Not freedom? on Key Advantage of Open Source is Not Cost Savings · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Sounds like a lot of them did say that, in terms of "Less dependent on vendors". That is freedom in a very real sense. A problem with "freedom" is that it is very hard to put a real value on it. For many people in IT it is important for exactly this reason.

    If your NT 3.5 server which has been running in a corner for years dies you may be screwed, but if your old redhat 5.1 box has a bug you have a much better chance of being able to fix it.

    Speeking of Freedom, today is Independence day here in Israel so I'm off to a neighbor to have a cookout and spend time with my neighbors.

  17. Re:What's with the ._* files with macs using samba on Turning a PC into a Firewire-Based SAN? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Its how mac OS stores some metadata for the finder. (File labels and such) the best bet would be to use find from a crontab to go and get rid of them every so often.

  18. Re:Most likely the... on PHP & AJAX Presentation Online · · Score: 2, Informative

    Check out my XAB toolkit Its a tool to make it easier. It uses code generation to build a lot of code for you so that you can do the interesting bits and let the computer do the dull stuff.

  19. Re:What is this... on PHP & AJAX Presentation Online · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Yes, actually not only have I implemented it, I've built a toolkit to automate it. (I hate doing boring reptative work). The XAB toolkit can build an Ajax based database application (or at least most of one) for you with automaticly generated PHP, XML and Javascript. It uses Mozilla's SOAPCall functionality so for right now it won't work in IE, but I expect to fix that at some point.

    There is also a program in there to take a PHP class and automaticly generate javascript code to wrap it.

    I have also set up an Ajax Wiki.

  20. Re:The private life of public figures. on Publisher Wiley's Books Pulled from Apple Stores · · Score: 1

    I would guess the impact of a specific brand of books at the apple stores on Apple's bottom line is so small that it can be ignored. And as apple just turned in a profit more that 5x of the same quarter last year I would guess that apple's stock holders have very little to be upset about.

  21. Re:Ummm on iPods Valuable in the College Classroom? · · Score: 1

    IF I was a professor I would want people to ask me before they recorded my lecutres. On the other hand I would say yes. Hell if I was a prof I might well tape them myself and put them online for students. I had a few professors in college make up nice notes and post them on the class web page for sutdents. So a PODcast of the class might be a normal thing in 2-3 years.

  22. Re:Penetration testing on Google Hacking for Penetration Testers · · Score: 1

    I once had a prof ask if everyone had a stripper. Of course he ment a wire stripper as it was an electronics lab class.

  23. Re:Why not go to DST permanently? on Daylight Savings Change Proposed · · Score: 1

    The fact is that DST is different in a lot of places. Not every state in the USA does DST. Various countries do it differently from each other, or not at all.
    The software must have a way to deal with this already

    Hell here in Israel its setup to (mostly) work out around Passover and Yom Kippor, except this year it wasn't because passover is late due to it being a (Jewish) leap year.

  24. Re:Where, PA? on D&D Blamed For Stabbing Deaths · · Score: 1

    There is also "Mars Pa" A friend of mine's mom is from there. So she really can say that her mom's from mars.

  25. Re:a problem either way on GPL 3 Forking Risks Discussed · · Score: 1

    because there are a number of issues that have surfaced over the last 13 years that were not covered in version 2. For example use in embeded systems of various forms. What are the rules if you are using linux to drive a Tivo or an elavator or something?

    I suspect that it will end up being a big non issue.