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  1. Take the code from the dos App. on Reversing a Checksum Algorithm? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    you said you have a DOS application that generates the data.

    Well run it in a debugger and locate the part the does generates the checksum, you could rip the code out directly(or load the application up into memory and call the checksum bit), this will probably violate a few laws though.

    So the best way is use there code to work out the algorythm and then write you own code(even better get someone else to do it) based on the algorythm

  2. Take one appart on Unauditable Voting Machines · · Score: 1

    That's not quite an audit, what if you take 99 apart but do look at the one that doesn't work(or is rigged a bit!)

  3. all fine and well but... on Unauditable Voting Machines · · Score: 2

    1). The adverage IQ is 100 that means half of the people who can vote have below adverage IQ however you measure IQ, thats just the way it is, who's to say you vote is better than somone elses.

    2). They should really have thaught about this first, don't forget polititians have an adverage IQ of 90,

    anyhow i think there should only be numbers on the ballot and any campains so that you have to know what your voting for!.

  4. voters trust a voting mechanism on Unauditable Voting Machines · · Score: 1

    99% of voters don't even trust who there voting for, that is if they even know there name,

  5. OpenBSD on Gates and Lasser on Palladium · · Score: 1

    I think the BSD licence lets them use the whole OS as a basis for a closed source system, I wouldn't put it past them.
    I'm sure bill would manage to slip an extra O in there somewhere though.
    OpenBSOD

  6. Re:cheers on Crypto Restrictions Are Taking Over the World · · Score: 2

    Well at least we can aggree about something!

    Anti-drugs campains go along the same lines,
    Make drugs sound nasty evil etc... and a hell of a lot of people will through in the 2 cents without having a clue about what there talking about.

    I once got asked by my manager if i was taking drugs, I bit shocked by this i replied 'Regurally, I'll make you a cup of coffee if you want one'

    Most political views are held by people who don't know squat about them. I'd like to see ballot papers and manifestos just list number of candidates e.g. candidate #1
    , no names and no parties that way you have to know a bit about who you voteing for.

  7. cheers on Crypto Restrictions Are Taking Over the World · · Score: 2

    Ok lets pick out the rights you mentioned in the past couple of comments that impose someone elses morals on another.

    "claims the land" , again who decides that you've claimes it....

    "US National Forest" has more rights than normal land, this has imposed the moral of not destroying the forest on say logging companies

    You mentioned that is my responsiblity to learn so I can't just go to a place of work and start working there, it is my responsibility to learn, read previous desussion on responsibilities and rights, this point was made very early on.

    the skills, you failed to extrapolate the argument and take into account why skills are required.

    Remeber I don't want you to believe the things I believe, I just want to make sure you realy know what YOU believe and try to express an argument using terminology that you understand and pointing out where I don't understand your terminology. If your arguments contain paradoxes and conflictions then you mind isn't clear in your beliefs

    And what the hell do you have agains Gay Wales that makes you want to nuke them?

    BTW, I got kicked out of collage and am more or less wholly self taught. My main work is breaking down systems into components and performing abstract dataflow analysis, I have been doing this for 15years and am respected by both my peers and colleagues, conflict resolution and Systems analysis is what I do and what people praise me for doing.

  8. Who Owns the land? on Crypto Restrictions Are Taking Over the World · · Score: 2

    Who Owns the land?
    No-one it's the begining of time. infact who decides who owns the land, who has that right?

    The whole basis of the philisophical argument is taken from the begining of time and then extrapolated, this produces a logical argument with no moral conflicts. Starting the argument as the current time implies all current moralities on that argument.

    "You have a responsibility to learn a useful skill"
    Well who is going to teach me, goto begining of paradox loop.

  9. paradox on Crypto Restrictions Are Taking Over the World · · Score: 2

    You've just created a paradox, this is why we have 'rights'

    I cannot force you to obey my will
    and you cannot forge me to obey your will.
    But what happens where there's a conflict.

    I want to build a house on this bit of land,
    you also want to build a house on the same bit of land (after all i want it so it must be good!)

    Extend the argument to lots of things and there are huge networks of conflicting interests, someone has to decide who's going to win and who's going to loose (there by forcing there will upon you!).

    I cannot live through subsistance because it conflicts with others who want land. So I don't have the right to be subsistant (i.e. I need a Job) and inturn land owners &co have a responsibility to employ me.

    This is the sheep and wolf problem.
    The sheep want to eat grass, and the wolfs want to eat sheep, the comprimise is for the wolfs to manage the sheep population which inturn manages there population. (we do this through farming)

  10. better watch out for on Light-Emitting Polymer Displays · · Score: 2

    Screen burn, or bad pixels,

  11. three wolves and a sheep on Crypto Restrictions Are Taking Over the World · · Score: 2

    You've just changed your stance.
    Well done, read through all the comments you have made and make sure there consistant.

    you've argued everything from god given rights and natural law (three wolves and a sheep!) to morality

    What you've just said is that thease things don't tie up in the way you think they do, but you havn't realised that yet.

  12. MM has the "right" on Crypto Restrictions Are Taking Over the World · · Score: 2

    There not Christian.... Have you not read the bible?

  13. s3 savage dri drivers on Linux on Laptops Manufacturer Report Card · · Score: 2

    S3 verge/ savage cards a common in laptops,
    Xfree drivers for S3 cards have just started to appear in the DRI CVS

  14. This is a US parent on Suddenly a JPEG Patent and Licensing Fee · · Score: 3, Informative

    Did the WIPO get there evil little way and make US patents that would not be granted in other countries applicable in those countries?

    In the UK/europe you cann't (yet) patent
    Gene sequences,
    Computer Software
    Business Models
    etc....

    So why the hell should countries that don't allow that kind of patent bother to act on them.

    Move all your R+D &co out-side the US when you want to avoid US laws like DMCA and stupid patents

    Even better lobby the government whatever county you in not to accept those stupid patents.

    I have never read the JPEG patent but using applied first principles I could probably come up with several lossy/non-lossy compression algoithms that violate that patent. There no real added value in applying first principles.

  15. Rights and obligations on Crypto Restrictions Are Taking Over the World · · Score: 2


    Forcing me to feed my kids isn't a "right" is a violation of my "right" to let the kids die..

    In general a right is something that prevents discrimination or persecution of a group, a right is given to someone.

    on the other side there's obligations,
    An obligation might be something like you are obliged to feed you kids.

    You have the right to be treated fairly by an employer, this is done by giving that employer some obligations.

    Your kids have the right to be feed by you, this is done by giving you some obligations.

    If someone fails in there obligations and deprives you of your rights then there rights are removed from them... E.g. the right to have/look after children, the right to own or run a company and employ people.

    In the UK when someone fails in there obligations your rights are still upheld, the kid still gets fed, you get support until you find a job etc....

  16. Where did they get that idea from on ATI R300 and R250V · · Score: 1

    not Apple the marketing freeks, no way..
    Either Apple has turned from a Jornalist/ graphics designer platform for a Geek one or those apple boys have got there marketing team in full swing!!..

    Sections..

    Apachie 1
    Apple 8 !!!!
    askslashdot 9
    books 1
    bsd ZERO
    developers 8
    features 2
    interviews 1
    radio ZERO
    science 7
    yro 4

    Only ask /. beets Apple!!!

  17. Here goes 2 comments part 1 on Software for the Realtime 3D Modeler? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I've had to do a couple of posts because the lameness filter killed the acii art. This is a very brief example, there's far to much for a /. post
    And you'll have to do a veiw page source for the correct formatting!

    Here's a simple 2d 4 wall world in ascii
    \ /
    --- \ /
    | \
    | \

    I'll call the walls

    \ = A
    -- = B
    / = C
    ! = d

    draw a line through the world along line A,
    this PARTITIONS the world into two BINARY spaces. B and D are on one side(the space infront) of the partition and and C are on the other side(the space behind).

    so we have a partial birnay tree

    A
    / \
    B+D C

    each node can only represent one line through the space

    The space infront has two walls in it, B and D. So partition the space infront of A down line B. This gives you D infront of line B and nothing behind line B

    The binary space partition looks like this

    A
    / \
    B C
    / \
    D []

  18. Why Quake isn't good for modeling. on Software for the Realtime 3D Modeler? · · Score: 3, Informative

    The last time I looked quake was using binary space partitions, portals etc... in the rendering process.

    These are very quick for real time play, because world is broken up into subspaces and placed in a binary tree when the wold is pre-render compiled for the game.
    all of this breaking up takes a hell of a long time, it's also a slow process to merge the subspace trees whenever a space changes, this is why it's all pre-rendered and shiped with the game.

    So the quake engine isn't good for dynamic real-time modelling, but it is good for realtime play with a fairly static world.

  19. judges are equally or less trustworthy on Crypto Restrictions Are Taking Over the World · · Score: 1

    But they provide a second check,
    It isn't the Job of a Judge to arrest and find people guilty, but it is the Job of the police and they may have targets to meet.

  20. The UK has less rights than the US? on Crypto Restrictions Are Taking Over the World · · Score: 4, Informative

    Well that all depends on your point of view.
    The UK has far more employment rights than the US has.
    also the right to medical treatment.

    the right to life (no death penality).

    The right to get arrested without being put in handcufs.
    Hell I can even crack a joke with the police if they get stopped, and give them a bit of hastle e.g. Have you got any ID? so long as i don't break any serious law or take the piss to much.

    I can buy tin foil, baking soda, spoons, bongs etc.... without feer of being arrested.

    I can have a open bottle in the car.

    I can cross the road.

    When I was younger I had even more rights, maybe the UK is just trying to catch up with the poor human rights policy in the US.

  21. Mod Anonymous Coward UP on The Age of Aggressive Linux Advocacy Is Upon Us? · · Score: 1


    That's exactly the kind of help I'm looking for for my projects and I'm ending up paying for some of the work.

    I pay about half market rate to part time people still at collage mainly, it gives them a bit of experience and encourages them, there's no time lines or anything etc.....
    n.b. 1/2 market rate is well over what you'd get paid in a salary job.

  22. Apple == Evil on Apple to Unveil .Mac Today · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Apple has always been an evil proptitrary expensive dictatorship there like Microsoft but more extream.

  23. resell everything on One Terabyte On a 12-inch^H^H^H^Hcm Disk · · Score: 3, Insightful

    on one disk!

  24. and other languages on Designing a New Version Control System? · · Score: 2

    XML could be tracked using DTD changes.
    Java could use the C++ methods.

    Change control would be so much easier!

    The other option is just to look at all the changes in the commit, and try to match up things that have moved or been coppied, in the file or accross multiple files, that shouldn't be too hard, using per line hashing and match rejection to reduce the workload.

  25. Not quite it, here's an example... on Designing a New Version Control System? · · Score: 2

    dosomthing.c has amoung it's functions
    formatString
    formatDate
    formatBill

    dosomthingelse.c has amoung it's functions
    formatString (copy pasted from dosomthing.c with a few fixes)
    formatTime
    formatAddress

    I wan't to move all the format functions into
    formatData.c
    merging formatString
    and preserving the change history on the rest.