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  1. Re:This is normal practice with new technology.. on Does A Pentium 4 Need A Weapons License? · · Score: 1

    > Wouldn't that be more a restriction for economic reasons
    > (like the DVD regio encoding), rather than DoD export restrictions?

    Not if it came stock with a 128-bit crypto version of IE. Not sure if any did, though.

  2. Re:Ah... good old hoaxes... on Forward This Article And Get Paid $203.15 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It has nothing to do with commands being accepted from remote, and everything with characters typed at the remote end being echoed back. It's not a modem problem, it's a *software* problem.

    As for embedding problematic code in messages, that's either a software problem or a brain-dead operator problem. Hayes SmartModems (and every other modem since, AFAIK) by default require 1 second of silence before the escape sequence (+++). And once the remote modem has dropped back to command mode, it takes a *local* (to it) command to make it do anything.

  3. Re:Too late on DoJ - Making Data Public Would 'Crash System' · · Score: 1

    > kill -9 this zombie process

    You can't kill a process that's already dead. The best you can hope for is that the parent will reap its child.

  4. Re:Interesting - 5.1 the magic version number? on Microsoft Word 5.1: The Apex of Word Processing · · Score: 1

    QEMM 5.13 -- does that count?

  5. e450 insanity on Enterprise-class Car Audio · · Score: 1

    The E450 weighs a freakin' TON. I mean it. It takes two strong guys to get one in and out of the rack. Heavy things tend to do well with bumps and shocks and such.

    Also, the HD cage in an E450 is rubber mounted. That sure ain't gonna hurt.

    But still, I'll bet those disks start failing sooner rather than later. Especially if he lives near me. I have to replace shit on my bike every year because it just can't handle the city streets.

    I just understand why the hell he ran a stripe instead of a mirror. It's not like he needs the storage more than he needs the redundancy.

    Oh, and he's going to have to have one hell of an alternator to run that thing, too. IIRC, the sticker on the back of the e450 says 14A @ 110VAC. That's over 1400W, and more than 100A at car-charging voltage!

    Of course, the load varies greatly depending on CPUs and disks installed.

    I say this is a fake. If not, I want to see the monster wires he has running from the alternator to the inverter.

  6. Re:should the terminal emulator be revisited? on Terminal Emulators Reviewed · · Score: 1

    > Why this has not been fixed in Unix about 20 years ago is a mystery...

    Because that would break help in emacs (^H).

  7. Re:should the terminal emulator be revisited? on Terminal Emulators Reviewed · · Score: 1

    Note that the control-V thing only applies to shells built around GNU readline (e.g. BASH)

  8. Re:This hits the nail on the head. on Efficient Power Supply Contest · · Score: 1

    > What applications require AC and would be use more power than DC?

    You mean, besides the electrical grid?

  9. Re:Yeah really.... on SCO Announces Product Line Updates · · Score: 1

    NAPA!

  10. Re:JavaScript on Spammer Apologizes · · Score: 1

    http://ninja250.kingston.net/rot13 -- demo technique, steal away, attribution would be nice.

    Long story short: keep your email address in rot13, decode them on the client side with a DOM/JS browser. Oh, and encode them on the way to a CGI. "legacy" addresses (not rot13d) are not fucked with.

  11. Cool! -- You too can play Kernel Hacker! on Huge Console Auction Debuts · · Score: 1

    > SONY
    > PlayStation 2
    > Linus kit
    > SCPH-10270

    I wonder what the part number is for the Alan Cox kit?

    I knew I kept that PS2 around for some reason.

    I ditched my PS/2, but kept the keyboard.

  12. Re:Still no bidder on Huge Console Auction Debuts · · Score: 1

    You can't bid on an eBay auction over $10,000 (I think? Been awhile) without an ebay-validated credit card and a monster credit limit.

  13. Re:I disagree on Why Learning Assembly Language Is Still Good · · Score: 1

    > I wonder how large the dataset will have to be before you win?

    Let him pick the dataset size if you can pick the data.

    (Hint: sort it first, and flip the last two elements)

  14. Re:Similar thing happened to my family on Cell Phone Customer Service Ranked Next to Last · · Score: 1

    You can't get out of debts by dying: they can sue your estate.

    Well, unless you were bankrupt.

  15. Re:Wow... on Mathematician Claims Proof of Riemann Hypothesis · · Score: 1

    > (B) + (D) + (B) + (D) = (K) + (&)

    Sorry, that's wrong.

    (B) + (D) = (K) + (&) + (R)

    (Brian + Dennis = Kerninghan & Ritchie)

  16. Re:I wish they'd open X/NeWS. on SCO Says No Way To a GPL Solaris, Moves Trial Back · · Score: 1

    I could be wrong, but IIRC Sun can't open NeWS because of a whole pile of Adobe Display Postscript crap.

  17. Re:One thing on What Keeps You Off of Windows? · · Score: 1

    > ssh backupserver "dd if=/backup/winbackup_20040607.gz"|gunzip -c |dd of=/dev/hda1

    ssh backupserver tar -zcf - /backup/winbackup_20040607/ | (cd /mnt/winbox | tar -zxvf -)

    Boo-yah.

    I like keeping my backups as files, that way I can grab just a piece of them if I don't want to actually re-image.

    Of course, that might not work with Windows, who knows. I avoid that platform like the plague, and I sure as hell don't back it up.

  18. Re:EASY IQ DETECTION on Is Caps Lock Dead? · · Score: 1

    Funny, I thought it was "mormons"

  19. Re:Whining but no substance on McAfee Granted Far-Reaching Spam-Control Patent · · Score: 1

    > However it does not prove that McAfee didn't invent it first. If you
    > really think Paul's article shows prior invention, why not submit a third party request for
    > reexamination based on that article?

    > Oh, I forgot, you're just a slashtroll who doesn't actually know what you're talking about.

    Actually, you're probably *capable* of doing this. How many guys like me putting up fifty bucks a pop would it take to get this done?

  20. Re:Whining but no substance on McAfee Granted Far-Reaching Spam-Control Patent · · Score: 1

    Maybe you should read the fucking slashot header an/or article?

    The filing date of the patent is Decemeber 2002, so this Dec 2001 date you're coming up with is totally and completely irrevelevant.

    The article poster mentioned Paul Graham's paper, which was published in August, 2002.

    Just so that you are clear, August comes before Decemeber.

    Have you read Paul's paper, or are you just another Slashdot whine-bag?

    Long story short: Paul's paper describes Bayesian filtering, and provides a virtual roadmap for an implementation. Bogofilter was based on this paper, and IIRC it came out about six weeks after the paper.

  21. Re:Prior usage? on McAfee Granted Far-Reaching Spam-Control Patent · · Score: 0

    > Slashdot is "fork, knife and spoon" (in German we call it "Besteck" but I know that the english
    > language has no equivalent for it)? Just curious about that...

    In certain circles, they will be referred to -- with great originality -- as a "KFS". Although this is more commonly used to describe the three utensils when they can be joined together in one compact unit, such as for use by the military during field exercises.

  22. Re:The US has it lucky. on Automakers Try To Keep Repair Codes Secret · · Score: 1

    > I have heard all this 'prices are over 2.00 a gallon". Whoop-dee-do. Here in Canada, my
    > gas is 1.00 / litre now. That is over $4.00 USD / US gallon. At current exchange rates, that's over
    > $2.90 / US gallon.

    Jesus, you've got to be the three hundredth person I've corrected on the last two weeks. All of you are from the freakin' east coast, too.

    There are 3.78 litres in a US gallon.
    Todays consumer rate is about $0.74 US = $1.00 CDN

    1.00L * 3.78L/gal * 0.74 US$/CDN$ * 1.00CDN = $2.80

    So, you're paying US$2.80/gal. Big deal. The highest price today in the US was $3.25; the lowest was $1.75, and the average was $2.03.

    Guess what? YOU LIVE IN NEW BRUNSWICK! OF COURSE GAS IS GOING TO BE MORE EXPENSIVE THAN AVERAGE!

    I filled up today at CDN$0.86/L.

    3.78 *.74 * .86 = $2.40

    I live in Ontario. Prices are pretty "average" here. Our gas is US$0.37 per US gallon more expensive than the average price in the excited snakes. BIG DEAL. I suppose this is probably news to you as well: taxes are higher here than south of the border. And there is a butt-load of tax on gasoline.

    Gas is not that expensive here, either. Get over it (and learn how to multiply).

  23. Re:Spamhaus Opening New Branch in China on Spamhaus Opening New Branch in China · · Score: 1

    Would you like to upsize that penis for only twenty-nine cents?

  24. O/T GSM 03.42 on Secondary Exam Results In India Mean An SMS Flood · · Score: 1

    Working in the industry myself, I'm trying to find phones which work with North American GSM frequencies and supports GSM 03.42 (or whatever its called nowadays) Huffman Compression for interoperability testing.

    Anybody know of any?

  25. Re:That throughput is impressive on Secondary Exam Results In India Mean An SMS Flood · · Score: 1

    The OP is right, more or less.

    He's talking about a single MO device, but obviously one without more-messages-to-send enabled (or the network doesn't support it).

    There is a little more to a cellular network than just sending short messages. 300/hr (I've clocked it higher than that, BTW, but I can't remember the exact figure.. Somewhere around 500 IIRC) is about the upper bounds of how fast you can type on those friggin' keypads anyhow.