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  1. Re:How Long? on From Archive.org, Free Multimedia Hosting for Life · · Score: 1

    As I recall, their revenue plan was: Sell stuff.

    It works for a lot of people.

  2. Re:I'm using VoicePulse on Using BroadVoice with Asterisk How-To · · Score: 1

    Teliax offers local DIDs for 5.00, and
    charges .029 for toll-free incoming.

    Voipjet.com offers outgoing US for .013.

    I use nufone.net because of low latency (for me,
    since I'm close to Chicago) and the ability to
    pre-pay via paypal. I do not like convincing my
    CC company to stop recurring charges when I cancel
    a service.

  3. Re:yawn on Google 302 Exploit Knocks Sites Out · · Score: 1

    no, no... gotta be tits.

  4. Re:OS on the GPU on 3D Raytracing Chip Shown at CeBIT · · Score: 1

    When was the last time you ran into a call to sin() in the Linux kernel?

  5. Re:Benefits? on 3D Raytracing Chip Shown at CeBIT · · Score: 1

    > Can anyone here with more experience than I explain what raytracing gives you that you couldn't fake more cheaply?

    Unlimited parallelism.

  6. Re:FPGAs are not a good tradeoff on 3D Raytracing Chip Shown at CeBIT · · Score: 1

    But specialized chips don't get economies of scale. 1000 Asics chop up the marketplace into 1000 little tiny slices, while an FPGA solution could handle all of those cases, aggregate the market, and have production runs 1000 times as large. That would pull the per-unit cost of the FPGA solution down by an enormous factor.

  7. better on High-Capacity PCMCIA Drives for Backup? · · Score: 1

    get a laptop with 2 hard drives in raid-1,
    and never worry about backup again.

  8. Re:Recycling software on Repurposing Old Usable Cell Phones? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, flipping bits increases entropy in the universe. Destroying or creating a bit requires a lot of energy. That's why a "rotate" instruction is always preferred over a "shift" instruction. Besides which, they tend to fill up the bit bucket, and you'll have to empty out /dev/null sooner.

    By the way, anyone in the market for some used inodes? I have some spare ones from an old Macintosh, and if you swap the bytes they can be used on Windows too.

  9. Re:Apple vs Microsoft on Samsung Cell Phone Features 3GB Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    Yeah, because static is so much harder to defend gainst than complex bugs introduced by ground loops. Mild sarcasm there. Actually, you can drain static into a pair of power lines just as well as into a ground line.

  10. Re:To Bloat a Stoat on Samsung Cell Phone Features 3GB Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    And the weirdness of your mind invalidated his pants?

  11. Re:Maybe I should just RTFA... on Samsung Cell Phone Features 3GB Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    > real men...NSA records...for them.

    Now if only we could find an application for this
    novel form of write-only memory!

  12. Re:Finishing school... on Best Degree to Pair w/ a B.Sc. in Computer Science? · · Score: 1

    Most of my cow-orkers could use a stint in obedience school.

  13. Re:It's not good enough on Windows 2003 and XP SP2 Vulnerable To LAND Attack · · Score: 1

    And that's why the notion of a corporate intranet safe zone, cordoned off from the Internet ruffians, is a fools quest to achieve. The correct way to secure sensitive data and services is to put a tight little impenetrable safety wrapper around the high-value target. Military strategists have understood this for millenia.

  14. Re:Bios upgrade? on Monitoring Your Laptop's Health? · · Score: 1

    Political contributions by Michael Dell.

  15. Re:Bios upgrade? on Monitoring Your Laptop's Health? · · Score: 1

    "Buy a Dell, go to hell".

    Michael Dell is a major supporter of mass murder in the middle east.

    I like Toshiba kit for durability.

  16. Re:Just because it may not be a law... on John Gilmore's Search for the Mandatory ID Law · · Score: 1

    Well, if you can't do the things necessary for life without an I.D., soon everyone will either have an I.D. or be dead. That means that the world is full of docile sheep, and hence much safer. Especially for the lone remaining wolf.

  17. Re:Just because it may not be a law... on John Gilmore's Search for the Mandatory ID Law · · Score: 1

    So... you hate our freedom. Therefore, you are with "the terrorists". That makes you an enemy combatant. A blackhawk will shortly drop 5 kilos of hexamine on your ass.

  18. Re:Because. on John Gilmore's Search for the Mandatory ID Law · · Score: 1

    There isn't any place with decent health care for anyone in the bottom 90% of the income distribution. Fortunately, every place has decent health care for people in the top 10%.

    I'm relocating to China, where I will be free. The U.S. is used up and being sucked dry, to be discarded like a used juice carton, and I don't intend to be trashed along with it.

  19. Re:Unfortunately, John WAS allowed to travel w/o I on John Gilmore's Search for the Mandatory ID Law · · Score: 1

    > didn't the Supreme Court knock that down?

    The practice of torturing and assassinating U.S. citizens under executive order has never even been brought to the attention of the court system in a substantive way. The Virginia man who is accused of conspiring to assassinate King George may soon change that, at least for torture, if not for assassination.

  20. Re:TFA is broken on John Gilmore's Search for the Mandatory ID Law · · Score: 1

    The FAA *pretends* to have the legal power to make such rules. But whether this power is going to be allowed to remain effective is up to the courts. That they do not have the *right* is nigh self-evident.

  21. Re:Yes, you're right! on John Gilmore's Search for the Mandatory ID Law · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Like a spikey cat, the phrase "identity papers" has a charge for a damn good reason, and euphemizing it to "ID" is a distraction from reason.

  22. Re:Why, indeed! on John Gilmore's Search for the Mandatory ID Law · · Score: 1

    Watching the incarceration of the communists didn't inconvenience Niemoller, either.

  23. Re:Why, indeed! on John Gilmore's Search for the Mandatory ID Law · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If there was a legitimate rule, they wouldn't be keeping it secret. The only plausible reason for the secrecy is that there is no rule, they're just fucking with you because they can. Supposing there were such a rule, it would be a patent violation of the natural right of travel. If the airline doesn't want to carry me unless I submit to a proctological examination, that's their look-out, but it's beyond annoying that they pretend it's due to a legitimate legal requirement. It's not. I stopped flying (after years of routine bicoastalism) because it's just not worth it. Take my daughter on a U.S. flight, to get wand-raped by some semi-mongoloid TSA goon? As if.

  24. Great! Now I have just 1 wish on New Open Source VoIP PBX · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If only sipX would support IAX2 protocol, we'd have
    a really useful component which would peer with
    Asterisk servers and be operable over stupid NAT
    devices such as the majority of connected systems
    use to connect to the Internet.

  25. Re:Capability? on New Open Source VoIP PBX · · Score: 1

    Yes, you can. You will need to subscribe to a
    telephony service such as nufone.net ($0.02/minute)
    or packet8.com ($19.95/month), unless your parents
    have a SIP phone as well.