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  1. Re:Hmm this really isnt new on Spammer Gets Spam Mailed · · Score: 4, Informative

    I think the best thing to do is to bounce it back to the spammer. I know that both KDE's Kmail and MacOS X's mail.app have this feature.

    Essentially, it's better than replying. Not only does it go back to where it came, but it also looks like your email address is invalid, potentially removing it from spammer's lists. (Kind of like the Telezapper works for telespammers...)

  2. Re:Squeeze my sponge and I'll squeeze yours on Investigating Chronic Wasting Disease · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The point that was trying to be made is this: if you don't know how it is spread, you can't possibly say what is (un)safe to do.

    It seems likely that the elks don't rub brains in daily life, so handling the brain most likely isn't the vector of infection...

  3. Re:PDF Files arn't easily modifiable. on Microsoft takes on PDF · · Score: 1

    EPS == Encapsulated PostScript ...and yes you can embed them in a postscipt file. Otherwise \includegraphics in LaTeX would be useless to me...

  4. Re:Wow, that's stupid on Microsoft takes on PDF · · Score: 1

    But Adobe doesn't make money off someone's writing some bit of code that reads/writes PDFs. And how to do that is well documented, so in that sense it's 'open', though to your mind you read 'Open'.

  5. Re:Nah on Microsoft takes on PDF · · Score: 1

    You may be remembering incorrectly. (Or I may...)

    OS X is based on Next. Next was based on Display PostScript. That required a license from Adobe.
    Apple didn't want to license it, so Aqua is based on DisplayPDF (PostScript is a subset of PDF, so Apple didn't lose anything).

  6. Re:Seriously, forget AIBO on Skateboarding AIBO · · Score: 1

    We have a 75 lb pharoah hound. He's a dog that likes to run (~30 miles a week). He eats 40 lbs of Iams every two months (that's $20 /month). So with the $1500, and not investing it, you have around 6 years of kibble for your dog. Investing it, even modestly, should eke out a couple more years.

    By that time, hopefully you will have moved out of the basement and gotten a job (smirk)...

  7. Re:Um... on Doom 3 Alpha Leaked · · Score: 1

    Okay.... NUTTY!

    There, for some reason I felt compelled.

  8. Re:Uses on LinuxBIOS, BProc-Based Supercomputer For LANL · · Score: 1

    New trading innovations are not necessarily adopted widely by everyone quickly. Technological innovations, sure, but not all innovations are technology based.

    Example: Benoit Mandelbrot has been working on using the concept of fractals to predict market changes. His intellect is unique and not likely to be duplicated easily by others. Unless of course he decides to publish his results.

  9. f90 syntax found elsewhere... on Fortran 2000 Committee Draft · · Score: 1

    It looks to me like the f90 syntax of accessing arrays is identical to what is used in MATLAB.

    So it looks like at the very least fortran will live on as long as Cleve Moller and crew still make a living writing software....

  10. Re:-1, Misinformed on MIT Steals Comic Book Character · · Score: 1

    Suspended might as well be cancelled. By the time the lawyers get done motioning each other to death, John Q will not be even able to recall that there was a comic named "Radius", ehh,,,emm... I mean ahh "Radix", yeah that was the name.

  11. Re:Not to justify it or anything... on MIT Steals Comic Book Character · · Score: 2, Funny

    Except that if you had read the article, you would know that Radix is no longer being produced, ever since they found out about MIT's blantant rip and lodged a lawsuit.

    So if an unpublished comic can gain readership, then you sir are correct...

  12. Re:I've fallen in love with Opera, but... on "Fastest Browser On Earth" Cuts Crud · · Score: 1

    Spot on! This would be like typical cookie handling: deny, accept, ask...

  13. Re:It's true even on the P4 Xeon level. on Intel, OEMs Face Lawsuit For Megahertz Marketing · · Score: 1

    Sorry, that's not benchmarking, by which I would mean finding the best performer at a given price point.

    You would have to try that on a variety of processors (and maybe OS's depending on your needs). Some of which a single vendor may not carry.

    Sounds like your friend (a lucky git by the sounds...) found a machine that performed "reasonably" in his eyes.

    Test driving != benchmarking

  14. Re:It's true even on the P4 Xeon level. on Intel, OEMs Face Lawsuit For Megahertz Marketing · · Score: 1

    Who (as in retailers) in their right mind is going to let me install the compiler of my choice (assuming that I am not breaking my license by using it on more than one box...), compile my CFD models, and let them run for a couple of days on a computer I *might* buy?

    Nobody, that's who.

    Nice theory, sucks in practice.

  15. Re:Yes on Is FORTRAN Still Kicking? · · Score: 1

    I wasn't commenting so much on the difficulty/ease of writing compilers (which for me are complete black boxes) as I was on the allure of fortran for scientific computing.

    And some *really* good fortran compilers are free for academic/noncommercial use (see e.g. ifc).

  16. Re:Yes on Is FORTRAN Still Kicking? · · Score: 1

    My understanding was that fortran compilers were better at optimizing the code you fed them. Why is this? I guess because fortran lacked pointers, and the compiler knew explicitly that there was only one way to reference it...

    Of course your mileage may vary.

  17. Re:Does dump work yet on Linux 2.4.19 Released · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Forgive my ignorance, but doesn't rsync provide the same ability to do incremental backups?

  18. Re:EMI on Transparent Water Cooling Case · · Score: 1

    This is what makes the later editions of the iMac so cool, from a design viewpoint. Apple figured out how to shield the computer all the while encasing it in a clear plastic (doctored with metal particles?). I believe they also patented that idea...

  19. Re:Need Link to Source Code and or Binary on Triangle Boy Lives · · Score: 1

    That URL now gets redirected to SafeWeb's home... google cache or mirror anyone?

  20. Re:save your money and get a 7500/7600 on Mac PVR Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    Some of the beige G3's shipped with the same "personality" card. They also had on board IDE...

  21. Re:*sigh* on Yucca Mountain Approved for US Nuclear Waste Storage · · Score: 1

    Blindly believing some engineering specifications as to what the shipping containers can withstand is critical thinking?

    I never said that we should all put our heads in the sand. That is someone else you are thinking of. I am merely pointing out something along the lines of "Build a better target, and the world will build a better terrorist."

  22. Re:*sigh* on Yucca Mountain Approved for US Nuclear Waste Storage · · Score: 1

    I think that the specs on the World Trade Center would've sounded just as impressive, and where are they now?

    Fact of the matter is that the transport may not even be safe for the public at large. Just passing a transport exposes the passengers of a car to a dose of radiation equivalent to gettting and X-ray...

  23. Good to see... on OS X Security Update: Apache, SSL and SSH · · Score: 0, Troll

    that Apple takes security seriously.

  24. remote sensing... on Using Cellular Traffic to Monitor Traffic Jams · · Score: 1

    I think of this as an application of remote sensing. This just saves putting a helicopter in the air to physically *look* at the traffic. You paid for your car. Are you upset that others would use the photons reflected from your car to give traffic reports? Geesh...

  25. Re:CPU level protection on BusinessWeek on Open Source and Copy Protection · · Score: 1

    rouge == reddish color, or makeup applied to cheeks.

    You sir, meant 'rogue'...