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  1. Re:Self contained artificial organs, cobber! on Body Powered Batteries -- Thermoelectrics · · Score: 1

    Only problem is if you use this tech you'd still have to put pads on the outside, or at least very near the skin to have enough temperature-difference to actually be able to get any reasonable amount of power...

  2. [OT] Formatting on Aqua Mozilla OK with Apple · · Score: 1
    use the
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      luke...
  3. Re:distributed power on Consumer Hydrogen Fuel Cells · · Score: 1

    Apart from it being water... (right? Right...?)

  4. Re:Progressive output.. HDTV Recording? on More on the Replay TV 4000 · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't doing the deinterlacing before encoding give much better compression ratios?

  5. Re:Gravity is a really weak force... on Man-Made Black Holes Looming? · · Score: 1

    Actually, a while back some guys at the university of washington verified newton at 0.2mm... Don't have a link, sorry, just a newspaper article... (paper. Ugh.)

  6. Re:Don't ride the bomb... on A Physicist with the Air Force · · Score: 1

    Doh, got too smug with myself, I forgot to actually think :) .. it was ofcourse Sterling Hayden

  7. Re:Don't ride the bomb... on A Physicist with the Air Force · · Score: 1

    peter sellers. imdb is your friend.

  8. Re:It's NOT Artificial Intelligence on IBM's Virtual Helpdesk For The Masses · · Score: 1

    Expert systems are AI too. Not all AI will eventually evolve to a sentient being.

  9. Re:Allocations of IPv6 on Pentagon Wants IPv6 by 2008 · · Score: 2
  10. Re:Hidden Motivation? on What Are Microsoft And Napster Talking About? · · Score: 1

    Depending on the mp3 encoder and you using the exact same settings, you might be able to get an mp3 to encode the same from a decoding, however chances are small... However, if you didn't hear the difference to begin with...

  11. Re:Read Closer. on Remote 'Root' Exploit in IIS 5.0 · · Score: 1

    So lets say http://www.microsoft.nl and http://www.microsoft.be aren't vulnerable then? (sorry, couldn't resist...) (just two of the three I happened to check. On the plus side, www.microsoft.de is still running IIS 3.0 so it's safe from this one...)

  12. Re:Feature requests: on Preview Of Linux 2.5 · · Score: 1
    • Have you tried a named pipe? Admitted, you can't get ioctls, but for most stuff it's enough. I admit, this would be nice, but I don't think it's high prio.
    • Agreed, iirc it's being worked on.
    • Being worked on too, again iirc.
    • Why? Unless you want to put the whole video-card driver from X/berlin/whatever into the kernel, I really don't see the benefit.
    • Being worked on (or at least discussed)
    • Been done. There's a patch for 2.0, it's been ported to 2.2 I think. Some day someone'll port it to 2.4 (It could be you... :-)
    • Been discussed a lot, linus doesn't like any sacrifices for this...
    • Yup
    • Yup
    • Ehmm, capabilities, ACLs, etc. I think as you've just stated, it already exists.
  13. Re:yeah... but also... on "Cell Executioner" Gene · · Score: 1

    Actually, nearly all virii kill the host cell. They 'reproduce' inside the cell, the cell eventually dies, and the newly created virus particles leave the host.

  14. Re:Is md5sum 1:1 unique? on AOL vs. Open Source AIM Clones · · Score: 1

    An md5 checksum is a 128 bit number. Programs however, display it to the user in hexdecimal, giving a string of 32 chars. As hexadecimal only has 16 digits, you have absolutely no chance of finding a P in a hexadecimal number :-). The number of possible md5sums is of course 2^128=340282366920938463463374607431768211456

  15. Re:looks like... on Ever Improving Laptop · · Score: 1

    Like so many things, it does if you configure it correctly. loadkeys, xmodmap, the like. See www.linuxdoc.org

  16. Re:The Tax?!?! on Report On The Texas Censorware Bill · · Score: 1

    Hosts.deny is only for software which uses tcpwrappers, which is only meant for servers. Not to mention the terrible access-times a big hosts.deny file would give due to the fact that it's pretty loosly parsed plain-text...

  17. Re:portrait mode on XFree 4.0.3 Released · · Score: 1

    Though iirc it kills any and all hardware accel....

  18. Re:Method? on Geographical Borders on the Web · · Score: 1

    IIRC neotrace uses DNS loc entries... (Yes, just as forgeable)

  19. Re:Math is a young man's game. on Georgia Teen Stumbles On New Theorem · · Score: 1

    Then again, he did do a lot of his groundwork when he was a lot younger, iirc his obsession with fermat's last theorem started when he was twelve or something.

  20. Re:British Intelligence on Biotech Insects to be Released Into the Wild · · Score: 1

    how could it be an african hedgehog? African hedgehogs are non-migratory!

  21. Re:Suggested email .sig on Descrambling CSS w/ 7 Lines Of Perl A DMCA Violation? · · Score: 1

    Are you sure? I thought that was just with the brittish RIP (or whatever it's called) act...

  22. Re:British Intelligence on Biotech Insects to be Released Into the Wild · · Score: 2

    Sorry, but I think that even if you do give them parachutes (and a plane to jump out of), the hedgehogs still have a very slim chance of actually catching a bat...

  23. Re:Suggested email .sig on Descrambling CSS w/ 7 Lines Of Perl A DMCA Violation? · · Score: 1

    How exactly does receiving something illegal involuntarily make you a criminal?

  24. Re:Defeating web bugs on Microsoft: The Biggest Web Bugger · · Score: 1

    Hardly. Netscape keeps it's cookies in memory until you exit it, so all cookies work perfectly as long as you don't quit netscape. What I do is add the cookies I want to .netscape/cookies, then chmod 440 it... You get all the site logins etc you want, but all the non-approved cookies go away as soon as you quit netscape...

  25. Re:Yawn on Professor Describes Unbreakable Cryptosystem? · · Score: 1

    One time pads are completely unbreakable (read "Applied Cryptography" if you doubt me).
    Yes, of course, I didn't claim they where.

    The problem is, if you want to use a OTP, you can't have a key smaller than the plaintext. This does have a key smaller than the plaintext, hence it is not a OTP, hence it is not proven secure.