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  1. Sharing Intel is like sharing needles! on HomeSec Blacklist to be Available to Private Companies · · Score: 2, Funny

    although France and UK are reluctant to share intel

    I know how that is! I'm an AMD guy myself, and "Friends don't let friends use Intel." :)

  2. Re:I've read the book, too on Getting Started with Lego Trains · · Score: 1

    Oh, I forgot to mention that I'm a member of the Southern California Lego Train Club.

    Also check out the Bricklink site for hard to find parts. (That's mentioned in the book.)

  3. I've read the book, too on Getting Started with Lego Trains · · Score: 5, Informative

    A good book, but a little short.

    Highly recommended for children who like trains, or adults getting into Lego Modeling for the first time.

    But it is not as advanced as some of the Lego mindstorm books, but still, at the price it is a good deal.

    Note that Jake McKee works for the Lego company, but this is an unofficial book.

    See LugNet for more information on Lego!

  4. Re: RFID is good tech with great abuse potential on Senator Leahy Calls for RFID Technology Hearings · · Score: 1

    Netgear only makes you think registration is necessary. It is not. You can use a proof of purchase instead.

  5. Re:Firewall Antics on iPod Mini Worldwide Rollout Delayed · · Score: 1

    Good, very good!

    You should write sometimes.....

    But only us networkin' geeks will ever get that one. :)

  6. Re:So basically, this is a $2000 whitelist. on SpamHaus Behind .mail Top-Level Domain · · Score: 1

    Hmm.... I guess $75 a year for a domain name is not enough for VeriSign/NS, now they want the bad old days of $2000 domains back..... hmmm.....

  7. So basically, this is a $2000 whitelist. on SpamHaus Behind .mail Top-Level Domain · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Because the cost of entry is high, and perhaps policed, it basically becomes a way of saying, "It's from a .mail domain, so it must NOT be spam."

    Whatever. Just like many whitelist methods, it has the standard flaws.

    But I guess it couldn't hurt! Companies with the big bucks or with donors (I'm thinking Samba mailing lists, etc), could afford it.

    The rest of us slobs would continue to crawl around in the .com, .net, .org, and .dust domains.

    As an aside, could you have the same problem with this domain as with AOL's spam filtering, i.e., false reports? What are the punishments for violating the rules of the .mail domain? Death?

  8. Re:Any /. readers actually buy one? on iPod Mini Worldwide Rollout Delayed · · Score: 1

    Cool! I'm thinking of getting one (would have already if I could have fit "Bombcar Heavy Industries" on the engraving), and I was wondering where to start.

    But my computer has a car build around it, so maybe I should get a mini.

    Hmm... tax return.....

  9. Re:We do Need to Escape on The Wrong Stuff · · Score: 2, Informative
    Source

    103 Commercial nuclear reactors with operating licenses at 64 sites in 31 states

    Nuclear energy provides about 20 percent of the United States' electricity and is its number one source of emission-free electricity.


    103 = 20%, then 515 = 100%.

    So we need 5 times as many reactors. Hmmm.....

    # Percent of worldwide electricity: 16% from 441 reactors. See 2002 World Nuclear Power Generation and Capacity.


    So to power the ENTIRE WORLD, we need:

    441 = 16%, 2756.25 = 100%. I don't know where we'll put 1/4 of a reactor, but hmmmm...

    Uranium is also abundant, and technologies exist which can extend its use 60-fold if demand requires it. World mine production is about 35,000 tonnes per year, but a lot of the market is being supplied from secondary sources such as stockpiles, including material from dismantled nuclear weapons. Practically all of it is used for electricity.


    and

    It occurs in most rocks in concentrations of 2 to 4 parts per million and is as common in the earth's crust as tin, tungsten and molybdenum. It occurs in seawater, and could be recovered from the oceans if prices rose significantly.


    Above is from the Pro-Uranium website.

    Given that there are about 196,935,000 sq miles on the Earth's crust, and it is something like 5 miles deep, we have something around 2000 cubic miles of Uranium available. Some just may be hard to access.

    Nukes for everyone!

  10. Re:Any /. readers actually buy one? on iPod Mini Worldwide Rollout Delayed · · Score: 1

    Ah, the old "How to get through College with the best machine always" trick.

    I've done it myself. Sell the old machine (2-3 months) for just enough to buy the parts for the new.

    But why the mini? If it was always a need for more space, did you finally overcome that? Or do you use both? Kinda hard, I'd think. Please tell us more! Is the small size worth it even with only 10% of the space?

  11. Re:Geeks are geeks not marketers. on iPod Mini Worldwide Rollout Delayed · · Score: 1

    Hey! My firewall is even more 31337 than yours!

    Firewall of power!

    Ping it! It's up! Now, hack it, ph00l.

  12. Re:Any /. readers actually buy one? on iPod Mini Worldwide Rollout Delayed · · Score: 1

    Just a question, do you really own every version of the iPod? 5, 10, 15GB, etc? Wow.

    Why buy every version?

  13. Re:PDA on iPod Mini Worldwide Rollout Delayed · · Score: 4, Funny

    Why buy an iPod when you can get a Portable PC with subwoofer and 120 GB of MP3s? And it supports Ogg, too!

  14. Re:Intercompatibility? on Why You Should Choose MS Office Over OO.org · · Score: 1

    The main problem Microsoft has now is that they're fighting themselves! They can't change the format of .doc too much or it'll break compatibility with Office 95,97,2000,2003, etc.

    And that's where OpenOffice can make an attack, because the .doc file can't move much. If Microsoft were to break .doc compatibility, then people'd just give up, and say, well, it doesn't work, might as well go to something else......

  15. Re:"Intelligent" Help agent? on Why You Should Choose MS Office Over OO.org · · Score: 1
    Doesn't it have the little lightbulb instead?


    The Help Agent

    The Help Agent starts automatically when you are performing a task that might require some assistance. The Help Agent appears in a small window in a corner of the document. To view the help for the task, click inside the Help Agent window.
  16. Re:Redhat may count the cost... on IBM Invests $50M in Novell, May Ship SUSE Linux · · Score: 1

    If you're going into Gentoo, may I recommend distcc?

    Comes in very handy with any source based distro, and speeds up Gentoo compiles quite a bit.

    Gentoo right now, however, is more of a Desktop Distro, but it is quite usable in a server situation, but that isn't where the main emphasis has been recently.

  17. Re:slashbot on New Documents Shed Light on Microsoft's Tactics · · Score: 1

    Amen, brother!

    I'm still using mine; if you don't want yours, drop me a line! :)

    I still love having the FULL version of Lotus 123 on there, easily beats little toy versions of Excel.

    And the improvements that they have made (double speed - more RAM, etc) are very nice. Someday I'll have to get an upgraded one.

    Palmtops forever!

  18. Re:slashbot on New Documents Shed Light on Microsoft's Tactics · · Score: 1

    Pocket portage computing has been usable since the release of the HP 95/100/200LX beginning in 1991.

    See here and the Palmtop Paper.

    These little clamshell devices are the size of a check book but about an inch thick, and are little 1MB 186 DOS machines, and the 200 LX can run any software designed for DOS 5.0 and CGA graphics. They're quite useful, and I still use mine over higher powered "Palm" devices. The entire though small keyboard is usable for notetaking, and the standard PCMCIA card allows for much expandability.

  19. Re:How? on RIAA To Subpoena Univ. of Michigan Names · · Score: 1

    Not if you invite them in (at least in the US).


    "Villains!" I shrieked, "dissemble no more! I admit the deed! -- tear up the planks! -- here, here! -- it is the beating of his hideous heart!"


    Good ol' Edgar!
  20. Re:sources of failure on HA-OSCAR 1.0 Beta release - unleashing HA Beowulf · · Score: 2, Funny

    I've heard (no sources, google it) that Grendel is hard for beowulf clusters to deal with.....

    Maybe? I dunno. :)

  21. Re:Damn on Muscle Cars And Smokin' Chips · · Score: 1

    Sweetwater Auto is still there, along with Ecology (now with a Foreign and Domestic branch).

    Sweetwater is the only hope for older Moparts, almost everything else has been picked over beyond belief......

    And I still need a new backseat for the '66 Fury....

    National City, CA

  22. Re:OK, but... on eBay Fraud Vigilantes · · Score: 3, Informative

    Netbank.com doesn't allow paypal to transfer money FROM your checking account, but will allow paypal to transfer money into the checking account.

    And it is free. As Dan's Data would say, Recommended.

  23. Re:Yes, yes, yes, Apple's dying, blah blah blah on Why iPod Can't Save Apple · · Score: 1

    You've got your own newsgroup, alt.total.loser.

    It exists.....

    But it is alt.total-loser. :)

  24. Re:Standards? Anyone? on DVD-RW Incompatibilities? · · Score: 1

    Sorry 'bout that, a quick Google search didn't turn that one up. :)

  25. Perhaps IPv6 could actually help here.... on Broadband Access Leading to Internet Breakdown? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    One virus vector is plain old portscanning......

    But you can't portscan 340282366920938463463374607431768211456 possible addresses very fast.

    But IPv6 is a ways off, yet.

    What we will see is an emergence of firewalls, etc, that make things more difficult for spam and viruses.

    And my guess is that the backbones will also grow, as there is a lot of dark fibre left over from the internet boom. And for the RIAA, I think the genie is out of the bottle. Even mailing disks around would perpetuate it.