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  1. Re:Stop and think for a minute people on Sony Warned Weeks Ahead of Rootkit Flap · · Score: 1

    But Sony dsitributed it. What you propose would be like crucifying Einstein
    or Feinman for their part in atomic weapons. of course in that case a) they
    actually had consciences and felt remorse b) were doing real/orthogonal/
    scientific work.

    But hey, maybe somebody can make a case with the DMCA against them :-P

  2. Re:Some simple things on Time Saving Linux Desktop Tips? · · Score: 1
  3. Re:What's wrong with the OS the box came with? on Breathing Life Into Older Computers · · Score: 1

    Support for new hardware, or even support for the old hardware. I have a Toshiba
    Satellite (PPro, 166) and it runs 98 fine but I can't use the USB port. Anytime
    you plug something in the system freezes until the device is removed. A damn
    site inconvient since a USB key is about the only useful way to get content off
    of the thing.

  4. Re:Easy solution on Is SETI a Security Risk? · · Score: 1
  5. Re:May be one case where security by obscurity wor on Is SETI a Security Risk? · · Score: 1

    Not only that, that information is not yet available elsewhere (you can't beat c).

  6. Re:The Japanese solved this years ago on To Flush Or Not To Flush · · Score: 1

    In dry climates grey water is best used for irrigation. In soggy places rain water can be
    used for flushing. Here at MIT the Stata center collects rain water for toilets, but where
    I work in facilities we've been "testing" a waterless urinal for over a year. It works great,
    my only complaint is that the custodial staff need to be sure to keep the oil topped up,
    and maybe spray the thing down with orange oil occasionally (to clear the surface of dried
    spots and errant hair)... they are largely dependent upon a slick smooth surface to function
    properly.

  7. Re:Better Idea! on Fix Your Crashing X-Box 360 With String · · Score: 1

    It takes excruciatingly high temperatures for many minutes to achieve temporary sterility.

    Immersion of the testicles in the 116F water, 45 minutes daily for three weeks is said to
    result in six months of sterility followed by a return to normal fertility.

  8. Re:Don't try to play Operating System on Reducing Firefox's Memory Use · · Score: 1

    Firefox runs on things other than Linux, in particular
    isn't everyone supposed to be pushing for IE-FF switch?

  9. Re:No debs on the site yet.. on Intel Begins Support for Debian · · Score: 1

    Strictly speaking you are incorrect.

    tar - The GNU version of the tar archiving utility

    -S, --sparse
                                handle sparse files efficiently

  10. Re:Digg and /. on The Rise of Digg.com · · Score: 1

    Everybody plays up the freshness of Digg, but they forget the staleness.
    Looking at the first two pages yesterday (once the damn thing loads) there
    were a) new unseen things b) things common to ./ and c) lots of ancient
    cruft that's just now making its rounds of the unwashed masses :-P

    I like a but not at the expense of c.

  11. Re:You've made some spelling mistakes on UK To Passively Monitor Every Vehicle · · Score: 1

    It's called a short ton. A long ton is nearly a tonne at 2240 lbs.
    Consult your local units.

  12. Re:what kind of word is this? on The Areas of My Expertise · · Score: 1

    It's funny because it's true. While stuck outside Paris one night this past
    Spring I noticed all the ATMs at a bank rebooting Win2K. This from a place
    whee you are assigned a 4 digit PIN that you cannot change. *shudder*

  13. Re:Sounds like Brittanica Guy on The Areas of My Expertise · · Score: 1

    More interesting is _Julie and Julia_, Julie did a recipe a day from _The Joy of Cooking_.

  14. Re:Data Center != 1 rack on Data Centers And DC Power · · Score: 1

    And it's not a fucking city either. So you end up with a little
    redundancy and a few dozen processors per power supply instead
    of one to one but not a single supply for a whole building like
    you seem to insist is the only possible solution.

  15. Re:Computers are high voltage on Data Centers And DC Power · · Score: 1

    Citywide WTFYTBW? You most certainly could provide 12V to a rack,
    consider your car. Granted, most of the components in a car are
    less stringent in their requirements than a motherboard... but then
    look at the next-gen systems (52V IIRC, also apparently a common
    setup for A/V equipment) for an idea of the regulatability.

  16. Re:DC more dangerous than AC power on Data Centers And DC Power · · Score: 1

    And like all the other clueless folk, you neglect to realize that
    computers are not high voltage. Nay, they run on 12, 5 and 3.3V

  17. Re:How little will it include? on Star Wars Trilogy MIT Musical · · Score: 1

    It's 3 hours. They did episode 4 (Han shot first, probably 90 minutes long)
    a few years ago: http://www-tech.mit.edu/V123/N1/star_wars.1a.html

  18. Re:All Your Resource Base Are Belong to Us on China to Land on Moon Around 2017 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yeah! We wouldn't want to scar it's face with craters or anything.
    Look, I'm greener than most but unless there's life on luna, I have
    no problem mining it for He3. Of course, lunar based PV would be a
    better power system.

  19. Re:lower tech approach... on MIT Mapping Students WiFi Access in 3D · · Score: 1

    Except that it's complete and utter bullshit. The labs are not empty. some of them are, but it's the same ones that always have been. Who the fuck wants to go half-way across campus to a dank room in the basement?

  20. Re:RFID bandwagon? on Fatal Flaw Weakens RFID Passports · · Score: 1

    Or a smart card, you know, built-in encryption and all...

  21. Redundant on Fatal Flaw Weakens RFID Passports · · Score: 0, Troll

    *Fatal* flaw *weakens* RFID passports.

    *Fatal* *weakens*

    Um yeah.

    Not to mention the fact that it's only fatal if they decide not to proceed.

    dumbass.

  22. Re:GNU Screen. on Top 10 Items in the Linux Admin Toolkit · · Score: 1

    I suspect one reason is that the default binding is not
    emacs-style bindings (emacs and shell line-editing)
    friendly. I've found ^U to work pretty well (that
    obscures the umm obscure argument passing key combo)

  23. Re:Skewed Results on Using Cell Phones to Track Traffic · · Score: 1

    True, but in a simplified model all you care about is how fast the blips are moving, vis a vis posted speed limits.

  24. Re:Trackball Alternative? on Ergonomic Mice Reviewed · · Score: 1

    I suspect the idea is to minimize the amount of force you have to exert
    e.g; spin a Space Invaders ball vs. a marble.

  25. Re:Version numbers on everything on Is There Such A Thing As A Final Cut? · · Score: 1

    Umm yeah, I'm pretty sure tha's already done; just use the year of release.
    And if Lucas spits out five revisions of Sith inone 12 month period you get
    2006a, 2006b, 2006c...