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  1. Re:Union Featherbedding, Meh on Teacher Union Tries To Block Online Courses · · Score: 1

    I can understand how degrees by coursework can benefit from this. It will be interesting if universities with real brands will ever allow master or doctorates to be via online study..

    At least in Sweden this is getting more common for masters, doctorates are still campus-only. I have not done a comprehensive search for masters that are online-only but I know of master in GIS, sociology and psychology and some nurses-education. In some cases you are required to take some of the tests on campus or at a "education-center" bur can choose whichever are closest to you. Also in some courses like chemistry and biology there might be some classes that are on campus.

  2. Re:Meh on When Does Signing Up Become 'Opting In?' · · Score: 1

    Three days? That is fast!
    I once was told that it would take three weeks for me to be unsubscribed, with a few mails each week. If I had known that I would be spammed so much I would have shopped at another site.

    And I hate being forced to log on to unsubscribe! It should be possible with only a link in the mail.

  3. Re:Below Germany? on Australia Ranked Fourth In Internet Freedom · · Score: 1

    I am not the one you are arguing with, I was only commenting on one of your conclusions which were wrong. This one to be more precise "apparently freedom house considers the usa to have a better ranking of freedom than those countries."

  4. Re:Below Germany? on Australia Ranked Fourth In Internet Freedom · · Score: 1

    No, freedom house did not consider those countries worse than USA. None of these where even in the report.

  5. Re:NHK World is reporting serious emissions on Nuclear Emergency Declared At 2 Plants In Japan · · Score: 0

    The outer walls of the Reactor 1 building have partially blown off, leaving only what looks like a steel frame. NHK is saying that a sensor within 5km of the plant is detecting radiation levels approaching 1015 microsieverts - that is apparently a year's worth of radiation exposure each hour.

    1015 microsieverts by itself are meningless, you need the timescale. 1015 microsiverts per year are in the normal range of external background radiation.

  6. Re:I don't have a problem. on Cameras Help Cops Catch a Killer · · Score: 1

    One example from Sweden a few years ago.

    The military has a survailliance (sp?) post on the sotheast coast, looking for foreign ships and submarines. A few kilometres from this post there is a nude beach.
    It was later found out that the military people mannig this post mostly filmed the nudie girls on the beach and distributed these movies on the net. /Bornie

  7. Project Entropia on Norrath Economic Report Now Available · · Score: 1

    Project Entropia for a MMORPG wth real money and MindArk for the company making said game.

  8. Re:implications.. on Pictorial Passwords · · Score: 2, Funny

    Nah, don't think so. If they have no sexlife they'll choose their mothers name.

  9. Server-OS on Is Slackware Fading Away? · · Score: 1

    Slackware won't die. It just won't have a large marketshare, as it should be.
    RedHat, Mandrake focuses on desktop-computers and will therefore be installed on a lot more computers while slackware - which focuses on servers - won't be installed on as many computers. And since the desktopmarket grows much faster than the servermarket RedHat and other "graphical" distros will grow faster.

    I don't see any problem with this at all, every distro has its niche and slackware is a server-distro.

  10. Re:Impossible. on Holographic Sonar Cryptography · · Score: 1

    Yes, I know, I adressed that point in my original posting.

    "This implies that all routes are static and no routers ever will go down. " and "If the IP of all intermediate routers are used in the encryption (which isn't clear) a change of route will make the current 'key' unusable."

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  11. Re:Impossible. on Holographic Sonar Cryptography · · Score: 1

    And it is still easy to locate the point where all packet will converge in such way that the message will be plain since all packets has the same destination-adress. With omnidirectional sound that is not possible. This does not take in account that ones uplink (if one is an end host) will receive all packets and will be able to decrypt the message even though is is not meant for them.

    If one want omnidirectionality in net-space one has to exclusivly use broadcast-packets which in this case should be routed indeffinitly. This is not only against several RFCs but are also foolish and will break the net. This still makes it possibly for the uplink for end-hosts to decrypt the message, it is not hard for that computer to calculate the result of the last hop for all relevant packets.

    I don't want to see those broadcaststorms if this is used in a large scale. :)

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  12. Impossible. on Holographic Sonar Cryptography · · Score: 4, Interesting

    "This holographic approach suggests a method of web encryption using multiple hop paths and ping times to create a message which can only be decoded when received at a specific target node!"

    This implies that all routes are static and no routers ever will go down. It also implies that pingtimes are constant between routers/hosts. Both with are false.

    If the IP of all intermediate routers are used in the encryption (which isn't clear) a change of route will make the current 'key' unusable. Further, the ping-time between hosts/routers vary alot as the use of internet vary and will also make this system unusable. A simple DoS-attack will completly destroy any encrypted data in transit which will make it only more insecure.

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    Börnie

  13. Re:war on Germany Denies Plans to DoS Neo-Nazis · · Score: 1

    If one nation pingflood a site in another nation everything between those two points will go down or suffer. If an airport or an univeristyhospital is between the attacker and the target people may die.
    It is very hard to make a pinpoint attack against a website from any one country.

  14. war on Germany Denies Plans to DoS Neo-Nazis · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't this be a act of war?

    If Sweden doesn't like nazis in german and we throw a few bombs on their hq's, German certanitly would consider that as an act of war. Why then should not a ping-flood be an act of war?

  15. Re:Probably only faster for simple operations on FPGA Supercomputers · · Score: 3

    "Since these specific tasks can run in hardware, they will run 1000 times faster than a Pentium. There is no way in the world this machine is going to run general purpose applications at this speed. Only very specific, small, algorithms. Sorry, no 6000 fps for Quake ;-)"

    Humm.. 1000 times faster, 6000fps in Quake with this, do you really mean to imply that you only get 6fps in Quake with current technology? :)

  16. Re:Umm on FPGA Supercomputers · · Score: 1

    Reason: This is _not_ an general purpose machine.

  17. Re:Carbonated Milk? on Exceptionally Unexceptional Quickies · · Score: 1

    "3. Saying that milk is outright 'good for you' is just plain irresponsible. Milk contains fat, cholesterol, and lactose, all of which are bad for you in sufficient enough quantities. (But see note below)"

    The same holds for all things. Sufficient enough water will make all your cells explode, sufficient enought air will probably kill you to if handled correctly.

    But i do believe that one can not get to much of me. :)

  18. Re:Peer to Peer Instant Messaging? on AOL Blocking Open Source IM Clones ... Again · · Score: 1

    Why would _anyone_ want to base their p2p IM in AOL's protocol?

    It would seem much better to write a completly new protocol and use instead, and not a multi-purpose protocol, that won't work with all the overhead and giant bloatware like AOL/MS. A protocol made just for p2p IM and nothing else, no files, no sounds and so on. I would love that, my friends would love that. To bad it won't be big enough.

  19. Re:This is important! on Microsoft's DNS Down · · Score: 1

    Ahhh!!

    That will explain why I haven't received a single mail since yesterday. :)

  20. Re:Newton laws on The Reactionless Space Drive? · · Score: 1

    Well.. the quantum laws do ignore the newton laws.

  21. Re:Why scripting languages? on 4 Web Scripting Languages Compared · · Score: 1

    Because they are easier to do.

    Fast development, less courses fot the employee seems to be the norm.

    Meet an Oracle-Java developer some days ago. When I told him de programmed c under linux he was somewhat shocked. He thought c-developers was an extinct species. It was saddened.

  22. Re:Be closer to the customers, but don't talk to t on Motorola's Getting To Know You · · Score: 1

    "The only possible explanation that doesn't make Motorola sound like evil bastards is the concept that they're simply asking for this information in an effort to be closer to their customers."

    Well, that would be true if the asked. But they don't, they demand it. "give me you data or you will be out of buisness"

    But otherwise i agree fully with you.

  23. Re:Slashdot values on Gnutella Vs. SPAM · · Score: 4

    "Child pornography -- INFORMATION MUST BE FREE!!!!"

    I have never received any of that.

    "Stolen software -- INFORMATION MUST BE FREE!!!!"

    I have never received any of that.

    "Stolen music -- INFORMATION MUST BE FREE!!!!"

    I have never received any of that.

    "Stolen movies -- INFORMATION MUST BE FREE!!!!"

    I have never received any of that.

    "Bomb-making instructions -- INFORMATION MUST BE FREE!!!!"

    I have never received any of that.

    "but legal commercial advertisements?"

    I receive several of those every day.

    Anyone see's the difference?

  24. Re:Poll Topic? on Jupiter-Sized Planet Orbits Epsilon Eridani · · Score: 1

    We are the Sol System and thay are the Epsilon Eridani System.

    I would create pretty funny conflicts with aliens if we both call our origin homesystem for the home system och origin system. I'd hate to have an interstellar war over a copyright issue. :)

  25. Re:Actual Percentages on Hotmail about to collapse under load · · Score: 1

    "and 5-10% from Windows 2000"

    Your 5-6% falls under what they say even though they seem to have used a higher value to impres the media.