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  1. "is this supporting terrorists or stockholders?" on Paying Hacker Extortion · · Score: 1

    "is this supporting terrorists or stockholders?"

    Both.

  2. Re:sign me up on Scientists Propose One-Way Trips To Mars · · Score: 1

    I just want off this rock.

    however, i propose sending me to not to mars, but to establish a colony instead on the inner face of phobos, the one that always faces mars. easier to get to, and might help sheild from radiation and cosmic rays.

  3. sign me up on Scientists Propose One-Way Trips To Mars · · Score: 1

    Sign me up. I'll go.

  4. firefox only on Ubuntu Moves To Yahoo For Default Firefox Search · · Score: 1

    so this only applies to firefox? meh

  5. uhhh on Analysis of 32 Million Breached Passwords · · Score: 1

    I think Shulman is missing his own point.

    "The problem has changed very little over the past 20 years, explained Shulman, referring to a 1990 Unix password study that showed a password selection pattern similar to what consumers select today. Its time for everyone to take password security seriously; its an important first step in data security.

    So 20 years later we still have all of exact same problem? The lesson here is _not_ that "it's time for _everyone_ to take pw security seriously". The lesson is that the basic mechanic's of passwords doesn't work. I'm sure they tried to take pw security seriously 20 years ago. The average user doesn't understand the math behind making a complex password. Password requirements add to the confusion: one pw changes every 3 months, another 4, some must use mixed case, ohters 2 numbers and a special character, and don't write it down, etc, then throw in some passwords fields that cannot use special characters, my bank pw cannot start with a number, can't reuse a pw for 12 uses and the result is simplified easier to remember passwords. Same as the last but add a '1' at the end, incriment to '2' in 3 months.

    Old Dakota wisdom says that if you are riding a dead horse, get off. Shulman seems to think that if we just get serious and dig in our heals we can suddenly get the dead horse to trot. Meanwhile management will ignore Shulman and instead decide to double the horsepower-- by buying another dead horse.

  6. how do you on Is OpenOffice.org a Threat? Microsoft Thinks So · · Score: 1

    open a PDF with MS office and edit it, I can't seem to get them to open like they do in openoffice.

    openoffice is a bit sluggish to open but definitely has more functionality than MS office these days -- for instance, no retraining workers to use the ribbon interface on a new machine since openoffice works like they expect it to.

  7. distance on Could Betelgeuse Go Boom? · · Score: 1

    The distance to Betelgeuse is not known with precision but if this is assumed to be 640 light years- wikipedia

    In 1369 AD there was still a star where betelgeuse is susposed to be, but it may go nova before Columbus heads of for Haiti in the next century (verb tense: future past imperfect).
    Rigel is 700-900 light years away (years ago)
    Epsilon Orionis 1300 ly
    Gamma Orionis 250 ly

    All are part of orions belt, and looking up at the sky I see them all at the same time, but its an illusion. Like one of those pictures where perspective makes it look like a person is taller than a building, or holding up the moon. Whatever happened to Betelgeuse in 1400 is shown in the same view of Orion next to an image of Gamma Orionis from 1759, and a picture of Epsilon Orionis from the 700's and without using photoshop.

  8. color me not impressed on Research Vehicle Reaches the Bottom of the Ocean · · Score: 1

    Currently, the deepest-rated vehicles are able to descend to 6,500m, allowing scientists access to 95% of the seafloor.

    Deep Flight Challenger

    Deep Flight Challenger was built to enable adventurer, Steve Fossett, to set the ultimate solo dive record for all time (37,000 feet). Unfortunately Fossett perished in a plane crash before he could dive the submersible to record depth. Hawkes Ocean Technologies is now the only organization in the world that has full ocean depth technology.

    Flight endurance: full ocean depth and back in 5 hours
    Speed: Cruise 2.2 knots; Max 3 knots
    Ascent/Descent Rate:350 feet/second at +/- 45 degrees
    Operating Depth: 37,000 fsw
    Crew: 1

    http://www.deepflight.com/subs/df_challenger.htm

    37,000 feet > 6,500m normally. News reporters seldom seem to actually fully understand reality or what they are reporting, is it any wonder that the rest of the news sounds so distorted and that headlines are usually one way hashes?

  9. why on Why Fear the End of the R-Rated Superhero Movie? · · Score: 1

    Why are superhero movies even PG as a norm? shouldnt they be G? they are based on comics which conform to the moralist comics code, ie the source material is G rated (dark knight is part of a more recent era of comics which is no longer bound by the old code. its an exception).

    To add some perspective, what would you think about a remake of the Wizard of Oz with an R rating for nudity and profanity. How about Tom Sawyer and Huckfinn adapted to the big screen with that R rating, and the screenplay altered to be more commercially viable-- Jim is now secretly working for the 'railroad' and huck and tom have repressed feelings for each other.

    How about King Lear being performed for over a 150 years with an alternate 'Happy' ending written by Johnson?

    I'm not saying no to non-G super hero movies, just think about why PG-13 or R would be considered the norm, when the source material is so 'clean'

  10. Joke on More Websites Offending Thai Monarchy Blocked · · Score: 1

    The young Thia King was a kindly man full of humor and mirth who was always making self depricating jokes about himself. So of course he had himself put to death.

  11. cant get there from here on Hands-On With The Kindle · · Score: 1

    i wonder what robert scoble had to say, probably nothing important, at least nothing important enough to show to people with opera

    kyte: Browser Requirements
    In order to view the kyte website, you will need the following:
    JavaScript enabled.
    If using Internet Explorer ActiveX must be enabled.
    Version 9.0.28 of the

  12. first sale doctrine on Two US States Restrict Used CD Sales · · Score: 1

    whatever happened to the first sale doctrine?

    flip side is, in florida, you should now be able to get a full warrenty refund anytime within 5 years of the purchase of the new CD. by default we all have 2 warrenty's for 5 years for 'merchantability' and 'fitness for a particular purpose'. merchantability being the ability to resell an object

  13. old allies on Clinton and Lieberman Ally With ESRB · · Score: 1

    aren't these the same pair that went after the Dead Kennedy's for the Frankenchrist album back in the 20th century? PMRC anyone?

  14. faster and smaller can be far worse on Microsoft Claims OpenDocument is Too Slow · · Score: 4, Interesting

    http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=200511251 44611543

    using a text editor, would you rather try to fix a bug in an odf or ms xml file?
    MS XML
    <w:p>
    <w:r>
      <w:t>This is a </w:t>

    </w:r>
    <w:r>
      <w:rPr>
       <w:b />
      </w:rPr>
      <w:t>very basic</w:t>

    </w:r>
    <w:r>
      <w:t> document </w:t>
    </w:r>
    <w:r>

      <w:rPr>
       <w:i />
      </w:rPr>
      <w:t>with some</w:t>
    </w:r>

    <w:r>
      <w:t> formatting, and a </w:t>
    </w:r>
    <w:hyperlink w:rel="rId4" w:history="1">
      <w:r>

       <w:rPr>
        <w:rStyle w:val="Hyperlink" />
       </w:rPr>
       <w:t>hyperlink</w:t>
      </w:r>

    </w:hyperlink>

    </w:p>
    OpenDocument
    <text:p text:style-name="Standard">
       This is a <text:span text:style-name="T1">

       very basic</text:span> document <text:span
       text:style-name="T2"> with some </text:span>
       formatting, and a <text:a xlink:type="simple"
       xlink:href="http://example.com">hyperlink
       </text:a>

    </text:p>

  15. vista? on Dell Opens Up About Desktop Linux · · Score: 1, Insightful

    so, I take it Dell won't support Vista as well since it will have many different versions?

  16. Re:Everquest namechange on Blizzard Made Me Change My Name · · Score: 1

    i wanted a surname of guppy for a hobbit i was playing, first name morp, a fiesty little rogue that i've 'played' in many games. when i hit level 20 and it wouldnt let me have that surname, i petitioned, and the gm response was that they "do not have the power to do anything with surnames." i was irritated and typed "/lastname enis" which just took, no "are you sure you want that stupid surname? yes/no." so i petition myself for having a bad surname. gm responded that you cannot petition yourself and closed the ticket. so i had a friend petition my surname.

    i log in and my surname is removed and my first name changed to "rumpoop" about 6 hours later a gm responded to another petition and changed my name to "morp guppy" and i got the surname i wanted.

  17. Re:yeah on 7-Year Old Prequel Fan On ANH · · Score: 1

    I read the always there are 2 thing as more of a political aspect, ie there can be many sith, but only one sithlord and one sith apprentice. sorta equivalent to , there can be many politicians, but only one president and one vice president. "always there are two, a president and a vice-president"

  18. openoffice on Adobe Acrobat Toolbar Worse than Malware? · · Score: 1

    open office has been real handy to have with its native ability to export to pdf or flash, however, one of the tasks i usually have when working with pdf's is to build a single pdf out of a variety of sources. are there any alternatives to acrobat for doing merging? and more importantly, why does acrobat whine and refuse to merge a couple of files created with open office with an error to the effect of "both documents contain the same font, so cannot be merged?"

  19. Re:Techs don't understand the law on Precedent for Warrantless Net Monitoring Set · · Score: 1

    good points

  20. who owns the copyright on Parody or Satire? Threat To Sue JibJab · · Score: 1

    Pete Seeger, June 1967: When Woody Guthrie was singing hillbilly songs on a little Los Angeles radio station in the late 1930s, he used to mail out a small mimeographed songbook to listeners who wanted the words to his songs, On the bottom of one page appeared the following: "This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright # 154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ourn, cause we don't give a dern. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that's all we wanted to do." W.G.

  21. never bought one on ReplayTV May Drop "Commercial Advance" · · Score: 1

    the commercial skip feature wasnt useful enough. as a consumer i want to skip the ads. they take that away, and theres one less reason to buy one. they shoulda learned from intuit, that making things worse for the consumer hurts the bottom line, making things better for disney helps them avoid frivolous lawsuits. first company with a good commercial skip will drive them out of business. my mom always told me that intelligence is not something you should avoid.

  22. Re:BWAHAHAHAHA on RIAA Smacked by DoS · · Score: 1

    Oh neat, I follow the link and set opera to reload page every 5 seconds.

  23. answers on Dr. Richard Wallace, part 3 · · Score: 1

    "tell all truth, but tell it slant, success in circuit lie"-- Emily Dickenson

  24. pot meet kettle on The Culture of CD Burning · · Score: 1

    'We have got to do something to protect intellectual property. It's just not right to steal,'' says Albhy Galuten, vice president of new media for Universal Records

    Not paying royalties is stealing, burning a cd is only copying. To steal you have to take from someone. Dont think the industry steals from artists?...
    Yet even Costello acknowledges that, at least in terms of the big record companies, ''They've loaded the game so the house has been winning for a long time. Now it's time maybe for the house not to win for a while. Maybe they have to take some losses.''

  25. I have to agree with him on one point on More Mayhem From MSFT's Mundie · · Score: 2, Funny

    "What we have done with PCs so far is not natural..." --Craig Mundie