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  1. MacGyver on Bringing Science and Math Into Writing? · · Score: 4, Funny

    MacGyver may be a help. It also will teach thinking and improvising.

  2. Re:No talk about RFI on Implanted RFID Chips Linked To Cancer · · Score: 1

    Reflect it??? No, they emit it. Just because they are powered by RFI means that they do not emit RFI. Reflect means to bounce back w/o change.

  3. No talk about RFI on Implanted RFID Chips Linked To Cancer · · Score: 2, Interesting

    There was no talk whether it was the container or the RFI emission. I would have liked to see the results of 'dead' chips versus 'live' chips.

    This may answer the issue of cell phone cancer.

    Of course, the cell phone company will claim that it only happens if you have the phone (headset) to your ear for 6 hours a day. And of course, the manual says that they only recommend no more than 4 hours of use a month.

  4. They can't. on Appeals Court Tosses $11M Spamhaus Judgement · · Score: 1

    If they sue an ISP in the US, the ISP probably would show up. Linhardt only sues people he thinks will default. When he sued several NANAE participants, including me, he dismissed the case (a 2nd time) when the judge was about to rule on two motion to dismiss for lack of jurisidction. Mark Ferguson (www.whew.com) included documentation regarding Linhardt creating fake signup documents.

    If an ISP was sued, both CAN-SPAM and the CDA gives immunity to the ISP for filtering and blocking. See White Buffalo Ventures, LLC v. University of Texas at Austin (5th Cir. 2005) http://www.spamlaws.com/cases/whitebuffalo2.shtml

  5. Linhardt is in trouble now. on Appeals Court Tosses $11M Spamhaus Judgement · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Though the default judgment still stands, the trial court judge will have to look harder at any injunction and money damages -- not take Linhardt's word for it.

    The reason for this is my case against him, at http://www.barbieslapp.com/spam/e360/timeline.htm , because in my case, I argued (and lost) personal juridiction of Linhardt, in part because he said (and the court believed it) that he had no business in California. I pointed out in his affadavit in the Spamhaus where he said "e360 and I lost contracts..." and "e60 and I lost business opportunities.." and that of the 7 companies listed, 4 are in California, he explained it away by saying that he really meant that when he said, e360 and I he meant e360 and I in my role as president. If you don't suffer harm personally, you have no standing to bring a lawsuit. I filed a motion for reconsideration, on Linhardt's personal jurisdiction, in part based on this.

    Spamhaus's lawyers are aware of this.

  6. Sort of on Appeals Court Tosses $11M Spamhaus Judgement · · Score: 4, Informative

    Spamshaus came into Court and filed an answer that in part said, You didn't serve properly and you have no jurisidiction. Then they said, we are not going to play this game, we want to withdraw our answer.

    If you don't answer at all, a default is entered. This is what happened.

  7. 2257 on Kaspersky Wins Important Ruling for the Anti-Malware Industry · · Score: 1

    The government can't block porn, but they can make it easier for others to do it. They can also make it more difficult for companies to make it available.

    The government used 18 USC 2257 for that. 2257 requires the producers of porn to get IDs for the people in porn movies. Seems sensible, right? Well, they have played with it. 1. They only permit the use of US ID if you make it film (pictures, etc) in the USA (to get on the plane you have to show government ID). That means, the I can't do movies with the Swedish twins, Helga and Inga, from last weekend. 2. They require people who distribute (secondary producers) it to have the IDs on the models, and just think of the potential for stalkers -- Any horny geek can now start a web site, buy content, and get all the personal data on the porn actress.

  8. Buzz... Wrong answer on TorrentSpy Must Preserve Data In RAM For MPAA · · Score: 1

    Wrong answer on many counts. If you encrypt the entire data stream, you would have to decrypt the data to use it. Then they would ask for the decryption code. Where would the data be returned to, if the data is encrypted?

    If you redesigned the system to have a routing server talk to the index, then you could do this, but then the Court will issue an order for both and also not be happy that you redesigned the system to avoid the Court's order.

  9. What about costs? on TorrentSpy Must Preserve Data In RAM For MPAA · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I am surprised that the costs issue was not addressed. Generally, and if I recall, that if there are costs on on electronic discovery, that cost can be shifted on to the requesting party.

    For this the costs would be expensive.

    There are two ways to archive this:
        1. By snapshotting the ram.
        2. By rewriting the server code.

    By snapshotting the ram, it would require a program with root access to snap this and lots of data to be archive.

    By rewriting the server code, it would take months to rewrite it properly and test it. Then they would to license the IP2location database to perform lookups on the IP address filter out US addresses. I suspect that this filtering would require one or two more computers to perform this.

  10. +/- 5 or whatever is not a secret limit. on Comcast Cuts Off Users Who Exceed Secret Limit · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The reason for this is not because of a secret limit. It is because of accuracy of the measurement.

    A radar gun is at best +/- 3mph. If you "admit" to speed, the issue of accuracy is moot.

  11. Porn? Pleasure??? on Teen Hacks $84 Million Porn Filter in 30 Minutes · · Score: 1

    Porn is more like going into a restraint, smelling the food, watching people eat, looking at the menu, but not being able to eat.

  12. If it is infringment, then sue on A Campaign to Block Firefox Users? · · Score: 1

    What bullshit. The site claims it is contributory infringement and in violation of copyright law. If so, then take it to court.
    Of course, isn't that what Zango, Gator (Claria, or whatever name they use today) also do?

  13. microwaves, broken laws, call homeland security on German Physicists Claim Speed of Light Broken · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    These guys mentioned microwaves and broken laws, they must be terrorist planning on making a bomb that explodes before it exists. Call Bush, he'll understand it and stop them.

  14. USB Card punch on DSS/HIPPA/SOX Unalterable Audit Logs? · · Score: 2, Funny

    And you thought there was no use for a USB card punch.

    Hard to change punched cards. Just don't trip with your box of cards.

  15. PRM on Don't Overlook Efficient C/C++ Cmd Line Processing · · Score: 1

    I still use it. I have not been able to find an e-mail program that will run on OS/2 that allows me to attach notes to e-mails w/o effecting the original e-mail. The PRM stickynote feature.

    It does cause fits for opposing counsel when I provide the files in OS/2 format.

  16. I disagree on Don't Overlook Efficient C/C++ Cmd Line Processing · · Score: 1

    While I agree that most modern compilers can out optimize the average programmer, you are still looking at generalities.

    Both compilers and abstract container class have to deal with generalities which may not apply to YOUR specific case. The class writer does not know the specific case or conditions (presuming you are not writing the class for that specific condition). A class writer has to (or should be) check arguments and conditions, where if you know it has been checked (and am damn well sure) you can skip that.

    When writing an abstration layer, you are adding a layer.

    On the other hand, a good programmer would not try to optimize a bubble sort. I was working on a resource compiler (in DOS) back in 1989. It would take 45 minutes to 'compile'. I rewrote it to take about 3:15 minutes. But during the writing my AVL btree insert was taking forever. A would allocate the memory to do the insert, when it found the word was in there, it would free it. Deferring the allocation fixed that.

    If you know the entire program/system you can better optimize.

  17. I'm doing it. on Don't Overlook Efficient C/C++ Cmd Line Processing · · Score: 1

    I'm currently rewriting Post Road Mailer, which is in C on OS/2. I also wrote a e-mail scanner. It all depends on what you need to do.

    I did a phone interview for a job a couple of years ago. Remote underwater sensor equiptment. Had to run on battery, you think they would have written in in C or C++? It would once in a while turn on the hard drive one the flash drive was full.

    The more you abstract something, the less efficient it becomes.

    There are millions of lines of COBOL code still running.

    "The Jenolan could probably fly rings around the Enterprise on impulse." Geordi LaForge.

  18. Forget hard drive on Cross-OS File System That Sucks Less? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just get a USB card punch and reader. I think 029 punch code is pretty much standard.

  19. If he studied brain on Brian May, Rock Legend, Soon-To-Be Astrophysicist · · Score: 1

    If he studied brain surgery, he could get a job at The Banzai Institute. I think that they dropped the Rcket Car license requirement last year.

  20. We don't need on High-Tech Squirrels Trained to Conduct Espionage · · Score: 1

    We don't need no stinkin badgers!

  21. The Quality bar. on Next Version of Windows? Call it '7' · · Score: 1

    the quality bar

    Isn't that the bar on the MS campus that has free beer and test the Windows code quality?

    If the beer is free, it would explains the quality of the Windows code.
  22. meanwhile at the ministry on OLPC Used to Browse Porn · · Score: 1

    At the ministry, they are adding tents outside for children to send e-mails saying that they are friends of a rich princes and need assistance in obtaining money.

  23. Thank you. I'm going to be rich now. on OLPC Used to Browse Porn · · Score: 4, Funny

    That just gave me an idea that will make me richer than Bill Gates and cure the energy crisis at the same time.

    I'll build a device that goes on a man's cock and generates electricity by an up and down motion.

  24. Re:What's with that L on your forehead ? on Computer Science or Info Tech? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Lots of Idiotic Serparated Parenthesis.

  25. Bunk. on Dark Energy May Lurk In Hidden Dimensions · · Score: 1

    That's it. It solved my problem. My ZPM is online. That solved the last problem before it got it online. Anyone have a space ship I can borrow, I want to build a larger version, but I need to test it in a vacant solar system.