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  1. Re:The Long Run? on Cryonics "Noah's Ark" · · Score: 1

    The main problem with cryogenics is that in order to prevent having ice crystals form and destroy the organ (think "freezer burn") each one has to be frozen at a specific rate under specific conditions. This is fine for freezing a heart for transport, but freeze a whole human and you basicly pulp most of their internal organs.

  2. Re:Braces vs Whitespace on Guido van Rossum Unleashed · · Score: 1

    Wow, another M programmer!
    Isn't scoping what the NEW command is for? If you use the argumentsless DO command, you can even get dynamic scoping.

    TEST
    W !,$ZV
    N X
    S X=4
    W !,X
    D
    . N X
    . S X=5
    . W !,X
    W !,X

    D TEST

    Produces:

    Open M [ISM] for OpenVMS V7.x (Alpha) 6.4-F.12 (build-02) 11-MAY-1998 14:15:01.6
    4
    5
    4


    Granted stuff like
    N X S X=5
    FS X=$O(^GLOB("TEST",X)) Q:X=""D
    . ;;STUFF

    Can be tricky to parse at a glance ;-)

  3. Re:We don't need to upgrade. on When Your Hardware Isn't Obsolete Soon Enough · · Score: 1

    Compiling just the browser yields a 2.9M dist/bin directory.This was as of just before Northpoint croaked and I stopped doing nightly builds. >:-(

  4. Re:Self-contradictory military mind on NASA Prototype Plane Scheduled To Attempt Mach 5+ · · Score: 1

    I'm no pilot, but I would guess that rapid changes in direction at mach 5 would be ill-advised ;-)

  5. Re:What about the big picture? on Soybean Powered Harley · · Score: 1

    but what is to say you can't use food oil tomorrow (i.e. recursive production :-) ?

    Thermodynamics, Law 2.

  6. Re:Traffic control on Surveillance Society · · Score: 1

    I think it's more his right to have his actions weighed by a real person with a faculty for reason. If you run a red on a back road at 2am because you're tired (not drunk) and you get pulled over, a lot of cops will let you off with a written warning, especially if you don't have any recent violations. You'd get no such clemency from an automated video system.

  7. Re:LOL! CNN's old review of The Matrix on Hollywood and Hackers · · Score: 1

    I always thought that the rasteferian refrences were a nod to Gibson. In Neuromancer Case stops off in the Zion cluster to get help from the rastas, the rastas refer to the corporate society enslaved by tech as Babylon, etc..

  8. Re:This is why I opted for... on Dangers in the DSL World · · Score: 1

    I forget the exact designation, but AFAIK the physical line that the DSL is running over is part of their required tariff schedule. i.e., they have to offer/support it. So if you have issues with your local loop and they are not being resposive to you, then by all means report them to you PUC.

  9. Re:/. FAQ on The BSD Family Tree · · Score: 1

    Sure he does, I got this account ~sept '97

  10. Re:jwz said it right... on Free Software's Star to Rise During US Recession? · · Score: 1

    Another Dom, neat!

    -Dom

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

    Caffine is a diuretic (sp), it depletes your body of water. eg, When you drink cofee you piss out most of the water you drank.

  12. Re:efdtt through c2eng : 92 lines of English. on Slashback: 2600, X-Many Bytes, Results · · Score: 2

    What else, the text of beowulf.

    Yuk, yuk, yuk.

  13. Re:Sony are a bunch of tarts! on A PlayStation In Deep Blue, Or Vice Versa? · · Score: 1

    Mine routinely overheats and starts skipping after 90 minutes of DVD play. I've tested this by letting it cool down for half an hour and returning to the same spot, play fine then. The audio also occasionaly falls out of sync and I have to pause/unpause the movie to resync it.

  14. Re:Sealand's History on Napster Going Offshore? · · Score: 1

    Actually, Texas is a republic. I don't know if it's true, but I heard they have to re-ratify their membership in the Union every few years.

  15. Re:But will it be as successful as vhs macrovision on The Bride Of Macrovision · · Score: 1

    Many DVD players do not have passthroughs.

  16. Freenet Mirror on The Largest Unpiloted Legged Robot Yet · · Score: 1

    Remove any spaces that /. inserts

    freenet:CHK@L~ijwvGY4muOIqcqPb2HSBlhxEYOAwE,Ol4HRW 4g1y0-oFhYMK0AKA
    freenet:KSK@www.discover.com/mar_01/featrobots.h tm l

  17. Re:Okay, lets analyse this on VeriSign Usurps .com · · Score: 1

    That could work, only problem is if a machine was particularly obscure, it could fall off Freenet from not getting requested often enough. I suppose you could store the whole zone file under an SSK so it could be updated too. I doubt that an entire domain on a healthy Freenet would dissapear.

  18. Re:We do this in some cases on Microsoft Access As A Client For Free Databases? · · Score: 1
    <%
    Option Explicit
    Dim oRS, index
    Set oRS = Server.CreateObject( "ADODB.RecordSet" )

    Call oRS.Open( "SELECT foo FROM blahblah...", _
    "DSN=A_MySQL_DSN;UID=auser;PWD=pass", _
    adOpenStatic, adLockReadOnly )

    For index = 0 To oRS.RecordCount
    'Process data
    Next

    Call oRS.Close()
    %>

    You may have to use the numeric values of the Open() constants, I forget if loading the library is suffecient to define them.

  19. Re:Reality Check on Stack-Hacker Itojun Talks About IPv6 · · Score: 1

    Just curious: would it be possible for local ISPs (who probably move a lot faster than AT&T et al) to roll out IPv6 to their local customers, and then tunnel it across the back bone? i.e., upgrade bottom up instead of top down.

  20. Re:If the idea of this excites you: on Reaching Unsanctioned TLDs With A Plug-In · · Score: 1

    You don't need to rewrite gethostbyname(), just distribute a small cacheing-only DNS server that only accepts connections on 127.* Allow users to configure it so that it can query the various registries in any order, and have them point their DNS at 127.0.0.1

  21. Re:Was 7.1 so good? on Mandrake 8.0 Beta Released · · Score: 1

    No problem. You may just have to rm -rf news and recreate the directory. I was getting argument list too long errors when trying to rm news/*.gz.*

  22. Re:Okay, lets analyse this on VeriSign Usurps .com · · Score: 1

    Are you sure that is a good idea? Freenet is kinda high latency for something that needs to read data as often as DNS.

  23. Re:What the hell is up with Western Digital drives on Mandrake 8.0 Beta Released · · Score: 1

    Exactly what I've switched to. You pay a bit of a premium, but it's better than the Maxtor shite at the local CompUSA.

  24. Re:What the hell is up with Western Digital drives on Mandrake 8.0 Beta Released · · Score: 1

    I used to swear by WD, but now I now longer buy them. I've just had too many problems with them, the last two I bought did the grind of death within months of being installed.

  25. Re:Was 7.1 so good? on Mandrake 8.0 Beta Released · · Score: 1

    This is a known issue with logrotate in 7.1. There is a fix for it:

    http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/security/2000/M DK A-2000-009-1.php3?dis=7.1

    I noticed this when my my CPU stayed pegged at 100% for most of the day. Not only was logrotate going crazy rotating thousands of *.gz files, but slocate was taking forever to grind through the mail and news log directories.