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  1. Yet more proof on Nearby Galaxy Surprisingly Young · · Score: 3, Funny

    that redshift is not a clock. The whole big bang thing is falling apart awfully fast, and everybody seems to be in denial.

  2. Re:The point of Exeem on Decentralizing Bittorrent · · Score: 1

    (1) The cost of suing becomes prohibitive.
    (2) If I'm just routing your requests and their replies, there are explicit provisions in the DMCA to indemnify me against infringement claims.
    (3)Anonymity is protected by law, according to SCOTUS, and hence providing anonymity is a protected activity. (Without anonymity providers, there would be no anonymity.)

  3. Re:But... on Decentralizing Bittorrent · · Score: 1

    Absolutely no question, in the U.S. suprnova would be under substantial liability due to both contributory and vicarious infringement.
    Thankfully, it's not in the U.S.

  4. Re:But remember! on Decentralizing Bittorrent · · Score: 1

    He did not fuck her. Getting blow jobs from interns is serious abuse of power. Borders on rape, in the same way that statutory rape does. Anyhow, nobody really cared. The media exploited the sex angle because it turned ratings. What pissed people off was the perjury. Sitting presidents shouldn't get to commit felonies with a pass. Voting against impeachment made sense because it wasn't worth the political disruption. I'd say it all worked pretty well -- except: If he had been impeached, Gore would probably be president now, and there'd be about 100,000 more living Iraqis.

  5. Re:Sprint PCS with Merlin C201 under Linux on Linux Support for Wireless Laptop Internet? · · Score: 1

    > These days you can get WiFi in most locations if you are willing to go to a place that has it

    Yeah, Sean, I can dig that. And when you get there, there you are. Whoa.

  6. Re:Not supprised on Hong Kong's High-Tech Technology Incubator · · Score: 2, Funny

    You want to see a better system? Look at just about any country Europe, Canada, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, hell even PRC. I'll bitch plenty. I do resent paying one cent to a government that uses my labor to fund their atrocities. Fuck those fascist plutocrats and fuck their fraudulent system of governance.

  7. Puzzling on Subcontracting VPN Solutions? · · Score: 1

    It's hard to believe that anyone would consider contracting out such a trivial task.
    Just use iptables and ssh, and route the data over an SSL link. Then if something goes wrong you don't have to deal with a vendor, and can just fix it immediately. Voila, reliability, savings, productivity.

  8. Re:60mpg? 90mph? Old news I'm afraid on ZAP Smart Car Approved for Sale in the US · · Score: 1

    60% higher....

    almost certainly entirely due to the much higher rate of drunk driving in the U.S.

    "How could anyone be so unkind
    as to arrest a man for driving while blind"
    -- ZZ-Top, Tejas

  9. Re:Change on Desktop Pentium M Motherboard Review · · Score: 1

    Botique crap means nothing to me (and to 99.44% of the market), so I ignore it.
    Really, for the non-premium-gamer market, i.e. in the broad span of their product line,
    the price*performance integral for AMD has been way ahead of Intel, quite consistently,
    for over 2 years now. Spikes like FX-53 are just the exceptions that prove the rule.

  10. Re:Norway next to be annihilated? on Jon Bringing WMV9 to Linux · · Score: 1

    What's really a hoot is the rhetorical attacks agaist the "Mullahs" of Iran, which is the only truly democratic republic in the whole of the middle east. Israel can't claim to be a democracy when they deny the vote to half of the population on the basis of race. Iran is easily as democratic as the U.S. where the final arbiters of disputes at law are a supreme revolutionary council of black-robed priests and prietesses appointed by dead presidents. At least the elected leader of Iran has a moral I.Q. better than Koko the gorilla's.

  11. Re:A step closer to breaking WMV DRM? on Jon Bringing WMV9 to Linux · · Score: 1

    Another option is to use audio and video mirror drivers to capture the consumable data stream.

    Windows doesn't have actual DRM yet. They're just pretending so that content-providers get suckered into WMV.

  12. Re:a plethora of options on Managing the Online Teenager? · · Score: 1

    > once they discover real sex, they will venture outside

    Things must be a lot different where you live.
    Where I live, people who have sex outside get jailed.

  13. Re:Just another reason... on Color Laser Printers Tracking Everything You Print · · Score: 1

    ...anal virginity and ability to vote...

    There are some states where felons are not allowed to vote, but not many. Florida is one. As for anal virginity, anyone who committed a homosexual rape in a prison would be a dead man. I don't believe in the bogey man either.

  14. Re:Countermeasures? on Color Laser Printers Tracking Everything You Print · · Score: 1

    Hostile governments? I'd worry more about "friendly" ones. In particular, the U.S. government. Oh, I forgot, they don't have authority to print money.

  15. Re:Was I seeing these yellow dots, or others? on Color Laser Printers Tracking Everything You Print · · Score: 0

    ...was I committing a felony...

    Probably. And if you commit a crime (or are deemed by the president to have committed a crime), you can be designated a terrorist, and have your citizenship stripped. Then you can be shipped to Syria (for torture) or Egypt (for disappearance). Ain't it great to be an American, where at least you know you're free?

  16. Re:RFID is cool! on Innovative Uses of RFID Tags · · Score: 1

    Hopefully, a new terrorist group will form to kill everyone in the RFID business, and thereby remove this scourge.

  17. Re:Change on Desktop Pentium M Motherboard Review · · Score: 1

    GHz are useless for EVERYBODY. The only thing GHz could be used for is warming your tea or popping popcorn. What is useful is throughput, and P4 never had any. AMD spanked Intel for more than 2 years, and now they're beginning to realize that they made a very very bad bet when they put the farm on P4.

  18. Re:pentium M laptop + docking station = heaven on Desktop Pentium M Motherboard Review · · Score: 1

    I was running wife 1.0, but performance was poor, and the noise was terrible. Besides which, the form factor was looking a bit outdated, so I checked out wife 2.0. 2.0 is a mad upgrade, with some really sexy stylins and genuinely hot performance, but really hard on the cache. On a tip, I tried Mistress 1.0 at the same time, but i had a big problem with insufficient cache, and found switching back and forth to be inconvenient and confusing. I'm hoping that wife 3.0 can combine the features of both, but for now I'm going to stick with just wife 2.0.

  19. This surprises anyone? on Desktop Pentium M Motherboard Review · · Score: 1

    Pentium 4 has been crap since it was born. Not as bad as Itanium, but still crap. If it weren't for their excellent glue and video chips, Intel would deserve to be laughed off the market. Finally, with the M series, they're recovering some of the lost glory of the P3 days when they could lead the market in performance and features.

  20. Re:Excellent job on Intel Linux Driver Version 1.0 For Centrino WLAN · · Score: 1

    No, there's a simple solution: Make all your RFPs specify criteria that exclude NVidia products. That's what I do. When enough companies do this, NVidia will fold.

  21. I'd like to know on What's The Ultimate Multi-Laptop Bag? · · Score: 1

    Why VMWare doesn't satisfy your needs? Get twice the laptop and carry half the crap. I do cross-platform development on the road with a single 2GB 2GHz Athlon SXGA+ laptop. I can run a dozen virtual machines simultaneously in a wide variety of network configurations. I'll carry a powerbook sometimes, but since my OSX testing requirements are fairly minimal, I'm inclined to run OSX clients in a PearPC emulation, running on a minimal VM for checkpointing (so I don't have to endure the emulated boot times).

  22. Re:So Intel is basically saying... on Intel "East Fork" Technology Migration · · Score: 1

    I think it means an ALU on the RAM die. No bus/controller latency to memory would ROCK,
    and Intel could eliminate the commodity DRAM market, glomming all that revenue until them-greedy-little-selves.

  23. Re:this is getting ridiculous on RFID Labels On Prescription Drug Bottles · · Score: 1

    And wifi is nominally 300 ft, but at defcon they go something like 15 miles using parabolics.

  24. Re:How beefy? on Building/Testing of a High Traffic Infrastructure? · · Score: 1

    Hell, I see a single dual p3 linux box serve up 800
    simultaneous connections for a php app every day.

  25. Re:Cisco 1300 or 1400 on WiFi Bridging? · · Score: 1

    And for less than $300 you can get a pair of Senao bridges with rockstar radios, and spend the other 2700 on hookers and coke. Or Compassion International, depending on how you get your kicks.