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  1. Re:Maybe a dupe, but that was bad advice. on How (and how well) do Wireless "Worldphones" Work? · · Score: 1

    buy? cellphone? to many people the
    juxtaposition is oxymoronopoetic.

  2. Re:Nanotubes on Another Form of Carbon: Magnetic Nanofoam · · Score: 1

    Hypothesis:

    Fullerenes are crystals in the same sense that
    a benzene ring is a crystal. I.e., not
    according to any familiar definition of "crystal":

    Basis:

    Every nomenclature use of "crystal" in my
    experience requires an unlimited tiling geometry.

    Plan:

    Please correct any errors above with statements
    of facts or references to facts.

  3. Re:Obsolete decision on Adobe Kills FrameMaker for Mac · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I've designed, written and maintained
    cross-platoform GUIs on MacOS (pre OSX),
    Win32 and X11/Unix since the advent of Win32
    (the youngest of the three platforms).
    While my OSX experience is limited, I am
    at least aware that the OSX platform now
    includes X11 support.

  4. Re:swapping? on Swap File Optimizations? · · Score: 1

    The first big bloat egg I heard of was
    Bill's horse pic in win95. From which we
    can reliably conclude that he prefers horse
    to whores, although the statement is
    misleading in some ways.

  5. No on Real Time Video Stream over Firewire? · · Score: 1

    That's not possible. Not even with quantum
    superposition of states. It's actually a
    logical contradiction.

  6. Low pay, high job-security, pleasurable work on From School to Work to Working at School? · · Score: 1

    what more is there to say?

    perhaps that the social/moral "productivity"
    of the work is no more or less questionable,
    so that if it is an issue for you, asking
    the question is wise.

  7. Time to update the GPL on Creative Commons -- Now With More Science · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The GPL needs to be updated to make it
    compatible with attribution restrictions.
    The old BSD license debate should be informed
    by the newly available facts. A detailed
    argument would be vast and misplaced, since
    only RMS has actual decision influence over
    the GPL, but promoting community reflection
    of the inconsistencies in his principled
    stance is not misplaced.

  8. iptables on the linksys on Policy-Based Routing Using Software Firewalls? · · Score: 1

    if the linksys itself is running linux,
    and you can replace the system image
    (tutorials exist for linksys routers)
    then you can easily write a shell script
    to select the outgoing connection by
    destination port using a couple of iptable commands. No additional hardware is required.

  9. Obsolete decision on Adobe Kills FrameMaker for Mac · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Apparently Adobe's strategic plans are being
    made by technically incompetent people who
    do not understand that OSX is a variant of
    Unix (in the API compatibility sense, rather
    than the trademark sense).

  10. Re:I've been running PHP/Apache 2 for a while... on Apache 1.3.x vs. 2.0.x: The Debate Returns · · Score: 1

    Given that Apache development is predictably
    going to continue on the 2.0 branch (which is
    a questionable point of departure), keeping
    your site secure with minimum maintenance cost
    requires using binary releases on the 2.0
    platform for web applications.

  11. Re:The race is off on Trusted Computing Rollout Hits the Desktop · · Score: 1

    Now this is a serious problem.

    I suggest subtly breaking every TCPA-enabled
    computer that you come into contact with,
    so that they die the death of red ink.

  12. Re:That's the ticket on Trusted Computing Rollout Hits the Desktop · · Score: 1

    Nah, people like Apple *Hardware* cos it is
    stable. It's the same reason everyone wanted
    a Sun Workstation back in the late 80s.

  13. CR deadlock is a bogeyman on Spam Solutions from an Expert · · Score: 1

    The CR traffic does not need to be filtered.
    It's a UI issue is all.

    Consider for example, a system in which I send you
    a cold email. Your MUA caches it, and sends me a
    challenge token. My MUA recognizes the challenge
    token and the fact that it corresponds to a sent
    mail. It gets flagged and replies with my response,
    a pgp public key. Now you can see my mail, and
    decide if you want to blacklist me, or whitelist me.
    All future mail is private.

    It's just software -- go write it.

  14. Re:Great on Bypassing The Great Firewall of China · · Score: 1

    Most SPAM comes from the USA. Perhaps we should
    cut *them* off from the Internet.

  15. Electrical Engineering on Computer Studies w/o Excessive Coding? · · Score: 1

    Typically, EE requires little coding, Physics
    less, and Mathematics even less.

    What you seem to want is a system administration
    career. For that, a technical school diploma
    is more suitable than a 4-year college diploma.
    You could go see what the instructors at the
    technical school majored in.

  16. Re:Nail biting on Protecting Your Gear from Pets? · · Score: 1

    Haban~ero pepper extract will deter any sane,
    genetically intact, pet.

  17. Re:Server Unresponsive, Article Text on How We Knew AL00667 Would Miss Earth · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Clearly they are very much on the ball.
    It's amazing that they can make accurate
    observations and orbital calculations on a
    30 meter object so far out. I can't imagine
    why anyone would be complaining about the
    process when it is working so brilliantly.

  18. Messing peoples lives up on Real Pain Dulled In Virtual Worlds · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why mess up peoples lives with this therapeutic
    crap when there are perfectly good drugs available
    that cure the problem?

  19. FBI on Too slow! FBI Shuts Down Hosting Service · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    What do you expect from the Federal Baby Incinerators?
    These people bring new meaning to the phrase
    "Satanic Murder Cult".

  20. Perhaps on Sports Videogame Student Enticements Banned · · Score: 1

    Perhaps a more appropriate question would be
    whether public schools are a valid approach.
    Forget phy ed, what about physics? I'd rather
    send my child into rotating knives than a
    public school.

  21. Support L Ron Hubbard! on Earthlink Invests In Broadband Over Power Lines · · Score: 1

    Earthlink is owned by Scientology.

  22. Re:National Semi was doing it on Is the x86 Ready for Consumer Appliances? · · Score: 1

    Tivo did quite well by doing a first iteration
    on an easily accessible platform, and a second
    iteration with more sophisticated (expensive)
    hardware design.

  23. Re:Just a Question... on Is the x86 Ready for Consumer Appliances? · · Score: 1

    Hardware is never "inherently unstable".
    It is the combination of hardware and software
    which may be stable or unstable. As Marc
    Andreeson observed, Windows is just a badly
    debugged collection of device drivers. As
    such, it is unstable.

  24. Advansys on Is the x86 Ready for Consumer Appliances? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Advansys is selling Ezra-800MHz SOM (system on module) in ETX form factor (3.7 x 4.5 ") for twice EPIA prices, at this link; while their EVA SOC (system on chip) only reports 80186 performance levels, and have embedded RTOS, probably TRONso it's not what you're looking for.

  25. Re:SGI engineers actually told me about 5dwm on SGI & The IMD4Linux Project? · · Score: 1

    I really liked NEWS, now I want PDF extensions in X11.