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  1. Re:searching is not their problem on UK Cops Want "Breathalyzers" For PCs · · Score: 1

    Heh yeah. I love the assertion that they could just plug in the device and find the single incriminating email. Such naivety is truly heart-warming 8^) Sure makes you wonder why businesses waste so much money on e-Discovery, when in reality, it is so trivially solved.

  2. Re:This on Halliburton Applies For Patent-Trolling Patent · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I thought of that before you ;o)

  3. Re:MOD PARENT UP!! on German Doctor Cures an HIV Patient With a Bone Marrow Transplant · · Score: 0, Troll

    Sooner or later someone must stand up to rid our society of this sickness that has befallen us.

    Hilarious. You really believe that crap. Get a life.

  4. oh dear on (Useful) Stupid Vim Tricks? · · Score: 1

    I just typed 1G to try and get to the top of this webpage.

  5. Re:retab on (Useful) Stupid Vim Tricks? · · Score: 1

    :se ff=unix

    nice, I just posted :set fileformat=unix|dos, didn't know there was a short form for that :o)

  6. Re:dos2unix equivalent on (Useful) Stupid Vim Tricks? · · Score: 1

    you can also :set fileformat=unix or :set fileformat=dos appropriately

  7. beep beep on (Useful) Stupid Vim Tricks? · · Score: 1

    to make vi[m] beep, just press Esc Esc ;o) Also :e! restores to the previously saved version

  8. Re:clue ? on Space Litter To Hit Earth Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    Yep, I also brought along the knowledge that the summary is occasionally incorrect or imcomplete ;o) Did you see the boolean OR in my question ?

  9. clue ? on Space Litter To Hit Earth Tomorrow · · Score: 0

    does anyone have a clue where this stuff will land, or how much damage one of the larger pieces will cause ?

  10. Re:you are wasting company money. on How To Deploy a Game Console In the Office? · · Score: 1

    You CANNOT show your customers that a game is more important than supporting the business.

    These guys are *developers*. I usually find that routing support issues to the *support* team is the most effective way to get them resolved.

  11. An Essential Development on Google's Obfuscated TCP · · Score: 1

    Thank you - something of this sort is essential for the semantic web to work as envisaged by Berners-Lee - ubiquitous osfuscation/encryption ensuring trust in the medium carrying the knowledge. With Moore's law, there are good prospects for making tcp have strong inbuilt security. I've long thought that some of the mechanisms in use (SSL, Cookies..) are at too high a level in the stack. So I review this as the start of a much-need re-factoring. Kudos !

  12. Re:Simple solution on Report Says China Will Demand Source Code · · Score: 2, Insightful

    1) provide source code for product x to Beijing
    2) get product x accredited
    3) add nefarious functions to source code, re-compile, surreptitiously update product
    4) ???
    5) profit!

  13. Re:how much power does it use on Germany Fired Up Over Clean Coal · · Score: 1

    I guess you must be right, there must be a net gain, otherwise why would they bother ? Unless they are intent on destroying the planet - Mu-wha-ha-haaarrgh ! Time for a lie down....

  14. Re:how much power does it use on Germany Fired Up Over Clean Coal · · Score: 1

    you are saying it is more that 100% efficient ?

  15. Re:how much power does it use on Germany Fired Up Over Clean Coal · · Score: 1

    so how do they get the nitrogen out of the air ? they must use some power source, right ? power sources generally emit CO2, or leave stockpiles of materials with long half lives. Or are they using a clean power source ? If so, kinda begs the question, why not just use the clean power source in the first place and avoid all the hassle.

  16. Re:how much power does it use on Germany Fired Up Over Clean Coal · · Score: 1

    hey Brian, you got it ! Extracting nitrogen from air has to generate a fair amount of CO2. It looks like some algae can do it, not sure what the by-products from that would be.

  17. how much power does it use on Germany Fired Up Over Clean Coal · · Score: 4, Interesting

    really, how much CO2 is generated in removing the nitrogen from the air used to combust the lignite ?

  18. Re:I see some issues here... on Researchers Test BitTorrent Live Streaming · · Score: 1

    good point, well made, although I'd still like to see 'seek forward into future of live stream' in the next release ;o)

  19. Re:I see some issues here... on Researchers Test BitTorrent Live Streaming · · Score: 1

    You could always have the torrent client compensate for that, too -- the indexes aren't that big. Just have the client fetch the end of the file first.

    except in live streaming, the end of the file doesn't exist

  20. Re:Looks like it's next-gen primary disk... on Xiotech Unveils Disruptive Storage Technology · · Score: 4, Informative
    not only self-diagnosis, but onboard disk remanufacturing ffs

    100 or so engineers involved in the project have replicated Seagate's own processes for drive telemetry monitoring and error detection -- and drive re-manufacturing -- in firmware on the Linux-based ISE. ISE automatically performs preventive and remedial processes. It can reset disks, power cycle disks, implement head-sparing operations, recalibrate and optimize servos and heads, perform reformats on operating drives, and rewrite entire media surfaces if needed. Everything that Seagate would do if you returned a drive for service.
  21. Re:what a tool ! on Nokia Claims Ogg Format is "Proprietary" · · Score: 1
    From Stephan Wenger's website http://www.stewe.org/contrib.htm -

    I write many of these contributions at 39,000 feet on my way to those meetings. Don't expect tutorials, but do expect typos, weird language, less then optimal presentation, procedural arguments, political statements, and sometimes errors. Oh, that's ok then ! I mean, it's only W3C, accuracy is not important really, is it ?
  22. what a tool ! on Nokia Claims Ogg Format is "Proprietary" · · Score: 4, Insightful

    All these alternatives are, in our opinion, preferable over the recommendation of the
    Ogg technologies, based almost exclusively on the current perception of them being
    free. The current perception ? WTF ?
  23. Re:Relevant on The Semantic Web Going Mainstream · · Score: 1

    psykocrime, I totally agree. The possibilities of semweb are really quite stunning. A few months back I posted a semweb 'use case' at http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=233445&cid=18993283

    What's exciting about twine is that it appears to be based on W3C standards (RDF/OWL et al), but doesn't require knowledge to be engineered. Can't wait to see where this goes.. :o)

  24. Re:Goofy project on The Semantic Web Going Mainstream · · Score: 2, Insightful

    .. and 640k ought to be enough for anyone ! lol

    Artificial Intelligence is a very different field from Semantic Web. The technology for SemWeb is here now, AI is still a ways off, I will admit.

  25. Re:Internet is all that counts! on MS Responds To Vista's Network / Audio Problems · · Score: 1

    I don't think so S ! Big hugs, M ;o)