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  1. Re:802.11a? on World Radiocommunications Group OKs New WLAN Spectrum · · Score: 3, Informative

    802.11a uses part of the 5GHz band; now it can use more.

  2. Re:Who am I? on USPS To Provide Personal Identity Certification · · Score: 1

    You can take it for granted there will be a high fraud rate -- as there already is in the domain registry records.

    I wouldn't automatically assume this. All you need to register a domain is an email address and $8, while this new process requires you to appear in person with multiple forms of ID.

  3. Re:Old News, but Interesting on USPS To Provide Personal Identity Certification · · Score: 1

    In all PKI it's up to the user to keep control over their private key.

  4. Re:1 WEEK WITH PANTHER on Panther Analysis Getting Underway · · Score: 1

    Mac OS 8.5 even had themes (aka the Appearance Manager) and Apple developed serveral themes in-house but never shipped them. My favorite was Drawing Board that made all the widgets look kinda like a blueprint.

  5. Re:"Trusted computing", baloney on A Critical Look at Trusted Computing · · Score: 1

    If the Wintel crowd were serious about security, they'd push for a hardware architecture that supports secure microkernels really well and put a very partitioned OS on top of it.

    What do you think the Palladium nexus is?

  6. Re:Bynari Connector + Cyrus IMAP on Open Source Microsoft Exchange Replacements? · · Score: 2, Informative
  7. Re:XP Look 'n Feel? on Java 1.4.2 Released · · Score: 1

    Windows Server 2003 is a server OS; that's why it doesn't have as much eye candy.

  8. Re:Solution to P2P poisoning on EFF Ad Campaign On File Swapping · · Score: 3, Insightful

    the DMCA can work both ways, you know.

    Actually, I suspect if you tried to use the DMCA against RIAA/MPAA they would just get it revised. The law won't help you because they can change the law and you cannot.

  9. Re:It's important to know... on G5 Benchmark Roundup · · Score: 2, Informative

    Apple did publish full disclosure information on the VeriTest site. Since it often takes SPEC a while to post results that have been submitted to them, we don't really know whether Apple submitted their results to SPEC or not.

  10. RTFA on Backscatter X-Rays Coming to Airports · · Score: 1

    It's not another article; it's the same AP article on a different site. Even the photos are the same. Think.

  11. Re:Comments on the Article on Video Chat Software Reviewed · · Score: 1

    Do you want to play? Get MSN. Do you want to communicate? Get iChat.

    More like do you have Windows? Use MSN, because you sure as hell can't run iChat. Got Mac? Use iChat since you won't be doing any video with MSN.

  12. Consumerist hypocrisy? on First Review of the Treo 600 Smartphone · · Score: 1

    Americans complain about being locked into contracts or the limited selection of telco-provided phones, but OTOH they aren't willing to pay the real (unsubsidized) cost of phones. If people accept the fact that the phone has to be paid for one way or the other maybe they'll stop complaining. It would also help if there were higher-profile ways to buy unlocked, unsubsidized phones.

  13. Copyleft makes no difference on Red Hat Plans Open Source Java · · Score: 1

    Let's say MS starts shipping some broken Java VM, and because it's copylefted they release the source. The bottom line is that if you want your app to run on MS's broken VM, you have to code for Windows; having the source doesn't change anything.

  14. SPEC results are bogus on New G5 Power Macs "Fastest Desktop In The World" · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Compare Apple's numbers against the official SPEC results from other companies.

  15. Re:could you explain that? on The Next Step in Fighting Spam: Greylisting · · Score: 1

    It's not end-to-end. ISPs are supposed to transport packets, not block them.

  16. Re:Yet another high cost update.... fun fun on Jaguar is Over · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yeah, but it looks like Apple is releasing as many new features in one year as Windows gets in three.

  17. Re:"tiny sites"? on Tiny Sites Aren't Small Potatoes · · Score: 1

    Nielsen is defining each Weblog as a separate site; the fact that there are a bunch of Weblogs on one server doesn't matter since they aren't necessarily related. So free hosting doesn't affect the size of Weblogs.

  18. Re:Expose? on Screenshots of Mac OS X 10.3 Panther Leaked · · Score: 1

    I''ll take a guess: it makes all windows translucent and gives you some way of raising formerly-obscured windows.

  19. FP performance is not comparable on Apple Marketing Hypes New PowerMacs · · Score: 1

    Itanium will beat the 970 in floating-point performance, and if you need something with more than 2 processors the 970 is not an option.

  20. Won't help on The Next Step in Fighting Spam: Greylisting · · Score: 1

    My impression is that spammers don't send mail through ISP relays; they send it directly from the originating machine to target mail servers. Unless ISPs want to play nasty tricks such as firewalling port 25, they can't control how much mail their users send.

  21. Re:Linux PPC on Apple Marketing Hypes New PowerMacs · · Score: 1

    I think SuSE has the jump on Yellow Dog, since they've been shipping a ppc64 distro for quite a while.

  22. Re:mmmmm, NUMA! on Apple Marketing Hypes New PowerMacs · · Score: 1

    Give the AC a cookie; I couldn't have said it better myself. (Although we call them pSeries instead of RS/6000 these days.)

  23. Re:spam.....hrmmm on The Next Step in Fighting Spam: Greylisting · · Score: 1

    Hashcash cannot be forged AFAIK.

  24. Re:mmmmm, NUMA! on Apple Marketing Hypes New PowerMacs · · Score: 1

    What makes you think it's NUMA?

  25. Re:free ip's on Pentagon Wants IPv6 by 2008 · · Score: 1

    Yes, ISPs can get IPv6 addresses really cheap, so they won't have to buy /16s on the black market any more.