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  1. Re:Yes, but... on Reducing One Amino Acid Could Increase Lifespan · · Score: 2, Interesting

    So they say but not necessarily for all people. They discovered almost 30 years ago that low tryptophan diets duplicated the effects of caloric restriction (in lab rats). It's not so difficult to lower tryptophan in a vegetarian diet, for instance, if your primary protein source is yogurt.. This works because tryptophan and phenylalanine compete to cross the blood-brain barrier and you can easily identify which foods have the highest ratio of phe to try. I made it part of my life extension program decades ago, and heh, it works for me. The group of Bulgarian centenarians who have eaten large amounts of yogurt their whole lives supports it too.

  2. But who will monitor the monitors? on Police Secretly Planting GPS Devices On Cars · · Score: 1

    at least the rich have an option - Anti-GPS Tracker Device

  3. Re:I'm trying to discover... on Google Pulls Map Images At Pentagon's Request · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    thank you, lone voice of reason. I glanced at these comments only to verify how clueless most Americans are.

  4. Don't be fooled ; military budget is far higher on People Believe NASA Funded As Well As US Military · · Score: 3, Interesting

    that statement actually closer to 21% so irritated me with its fallaciousness I had to reply. the question should have been "Do you keep up with the latest budget shell game of how we can hide spending for the military-industrial complex?" You have only to glance at who ran this poll to realize their obvious conflicts of interest. In fact, 21% is absurdly low, as is 33%. It is actually 64% of net discretionary funding now. Wake the _uck up, sheeple

  5. If only they'd run this on George Bush... on Software Used To Predict Who Might Kill · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...before he was elected. More than 750,000 people might still be alive.

  6. Re:... and why is it locked to fucking Cingular?! on First Look at Sony's Tiny Vaio UX180p · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Does anyone know if this hardware is now fast enough to do any of the cellular networks protocols in software?

  7. good riddance on Google Delists BMW-Germany · · Score: 1

    I drive a BMW, and absolutely love it, but bought back before BMW put their future into Microsoft's hands - like I would ever drive a car with Microsoft inside! Considering this, I am not at all surprised BMW would stoop to unethical business practices.

  8. In that case, Die, RIAA, Die! on Death Penalty For Hackers? · · Score: 1
  9. Re:Don't worry! on Security Flaws In Linux SMBFS · · Score: 1

    actually...

    It is quite easy to CRASH 64-bit win2K3 with samba connections from linux>=2.4.25

    My loser company has to apply ms patches every few days on all their servers, and even with all the latest "official" patches, _any_ directory listing on a samba mounted win2k3 share will instantly crash the windows box.

  10. Re:Two things - Both Wrong! on Berkeley Researchers Analyze Florida Voting Patterns · · Score: 1

    Pull your head out of the Right-Wing's Ass and take a look around for once. There is overwhelming evidence now that Bush did in fact steal the election AGAIN. The corporate media is doing a fine job of covering this up, but at least now we have the option of an alternative source of news. A wonderful source for all these stories, with links to many other sites, is What Really Happened. Stop believing the damn lies!

  11. Re:sorry... here's what i got on HDTV PC Capture Solutions? · · Score: 1
    darn - can't comment and raise your score at the same time. I think you're heading in the right direction here.

    In fact many "pc based" cablecards with linux drivers already exist! They're just not available to consumers as such. I base this on the fact that many high-end hdtv's (like the RCA Scenium) offer internet access and cablecard slots. All of these sets run embedded linux! If you dig deep enough on the web, you will find SDK's and HDK's (Under NDA's!) with all these components. Then at least there is hope that some day in some place w/o IP encumbrances, these devices will be reverse engineered.

  12. Re: Yes - what about these? on Is The Public Stuck With The Broadcast Flag? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Of course they don't "support it". They were all made before the law was passed. You can bet tho' the windows drivers+software will at some point be "upgraded" to support the flag. The whole point is that with an open source driver, even if the manufacturer put BF support in there, you could take it out.

  13. been there, done that. on Broken Links No More? · · Score: 4, Informative

    For those running a real browser, just make this a link, preferably in your personal tool bar.

    javascript:Qr=document.URL;if(Qr=='about:blank') {v oid(Qr=prompt('Url...',''))};if(Qr)location.href=' http://web.archive.org/web/*/'+escape(Qr)

    Now when I click on a link that isn't there, I select my Archive search button and it shows me the Wayback Machine's history of that link. Of course it works only if the url hasn't been modified by the server. If it has it's another couple steps (copy link, ^T, archive search, paste url in pop-up dialog)

  14. Re:Linux needs FULL hardware driver support. on Follow Up to "Linux's Achilles Heel" · · Score: 1

    1. curious. this has always worked for me.

    2. I have full use of the hardware on my Audigy 2. What are you doing wrong? I can't play a dvd-audio on linux because that isn't a hardware issue - it is windows-only software that comes with the card. HP has already provided the linux drivers for their all-in-one printers.

    I would have to say that every major vendor has already had to commit to supporting drivers for enterprise hardware, if they want to stay competitive. At least there is already serious money involved in servers.

  15. Re:Err ... on Follow Up to "Linux's Achilles Heel" · · Score: 1

    exactly. that is precisely what seems to happen at my company (10000 employees). The managers are actually rewarded for how BIG (and expensive) their projects are!

  16. Go For It! on Gigabit Networking for the Home? · · Score: 1

    For my uber-HTPC with HDTV-recording, etc I bought the SIIG JU-2NG011 gigabit eth/firewire/usb 2.0 card for a mere $80. The Netgear gigabit switch was $60 and cat5e cable was $15. It's clear when using it, that hard-disk I/O is rate-limiting, but that's ok as I usually stream HD streams for recording to my much faster RAID server. Most new server/workstation machines already have gigabit ethernet on the motherboard, so that's like a freebie. I also use it for DVD ripping over the network, and numerous other things I play with.

  17. invisibility cloak! on Polymer Vision Produces 5" Rollable Displays · · Score: 2, Interesting

    make a total body suit out of these, and project a rear image forward... ok so it would only work in grey light conditions now, but we're getting there.

  18. Compile Time on Linux 2.6.0 Kernel Released · · Score: 1

    Single make thread = 12'51''
    make -j3 ... = 7'2"

    dual Athlon MP 2400 scsi/raid. Not stock - turned on all the drivers to support my system.

  19. Re:Card reader support? on Linux 2.6.0 Kernel Released · · Score: 1

    ha ha! no, you need the mvs emulation layer for that.

  20. Re:fooey on Tom's on New Graphics Company, With Working Cards · · Score: 1

    Tom's wasn't the only site to do this, but they compared the actually released Athlon64 to a hastily repackaged Xeon (the "P4EE") which wouldn't ship for another 2 months, and declared Intel the winner! AND, all the benchmarks were in 32 bit!

  21. fooey on Tom's on New Graphics Company, With Working Cards · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    After their Athlon64 fiasco, a whole article that doesn't even mention support for other OS's?! losers.

  22. so that's why this company is so fsck'd... on PHBs Getting "Secret" IT Training · · Score: 1

    My largish company has a tradition of important IT architectural decisions being made contrary to the advice of all the internal technical experts. I have often wondered how these non-technical managers could justify repeatedly making the worst possible technical decisions. This article is one such possibility but I suspect that more likely venal and ulterior motives are involved. I imagine my CIO thinking she's "in the know" when she gets "personal" emails from Bill telling her how bad linux is. Oh, that, and all the kickbacks and bribes...

  23. Re:What are the best linux applications? on Living Life in Fast-Forward · · Score: 1

    sad to say, I can 't find any linux application support for this (I've been searching for the last day). This is indeed rare - wish more /.'ers had paid attention! The key search terms are "time scaling" and "pitch scaling". There are lots of options for speeding up playback but they would have to be combined with a corresponding amount of pitch scaling (to bring the pitch back to normal) There are several audio options, like Steve Harris pitch scaling plugin for xmms, but I can 't find a video one... There are lots of obscure options to mplayer tho' and I imagine it is possible to combine speed up with frame drop and re-syncing. If your video player supports sound piping, then you have a number of options like ladspa or jack and freqtweak.
    Some hardware is sold with time-scaling support (ATI Radeon, Creative Labs Audigy, Nomad...) but I couldn't find any linux driver support for these features, so I presume it is a software only feature.

  24. Re:"republic" on More Linux Activity in German Government · · Score: 1

    ok, presidency may not quite be the "equal opportunity" position they claim it is, but more importantly, the presidency is mostly a figurehead - a PR man and puppet for the mf's who own and control everything - and THEY are most definitely a hereditary aristocracy.

  25. Re:Abolish "intellectual property". on W3C Objects To Royalties On ISO Country Codes · · Score: 1

    I agree. The whole point of patents in the first place was to allow the inventor _time_ to implement his idea, and profit from it, before someone else (like M$ with incomparably more resources to implement said stolen idea) could copy it.