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  1. Point #2 on What's Keeping You On Windows? · · Score: 1

    "2) if not, what's keeping you from 'putting your money where your mouth is' - why are you using Windows?" Who told you that using Windows and paying Bill was the same thing?

  2. Re:Somebody explain on Securing Fiber Using Light Polarization · · Score: 1

    Not really. A light polarization can't be so easilly reproduced, as intensity can.

  3. 22 years old? on ACLU Files New DMCA Challenge · · Score: 1

    What is the meaning of telling the age of the programmer in this story?

  4. Re:Crackers? on X-45 Makes Debut Flight · · Score: 1

    It would be real easy to install one time pad, since the plane come often at home. Just consider that part as easy. The hard part would be to be able to be autonomous in a signal jam. I suppose variable frequency reception and multiple simultaneous reception on different frequencies could solve that problem.

  5. A new way of improving nuclear reactor? on Capturing Waste Heat with Quantum Mechanics · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I think this idea is genial, but the cost/effeciency on a car would be "hard" to achieve. What I find interesting, is that this duo laser/maser only require heat from an exaust : nearly the same thing as evaporated water from nuclear reactor. This could lead to a better efficiency of nuclear reactor, and the cost of such laser/maser would be minimal compared to electricity generated by that system.

  6. Re:It's the Last Mile. on Broadband Obstacles · · Score: 0

    The last mile SHOULD AND WILL BE wireless pretty soon. Wireless don't need to be replaced, is extensible and offer good bandwidth! 802.11a or something like that will do the job pretty soon in big cities...

  7. It's even less than simple Firewire AVI DV format on HDTV On Your PC And Hard Drive · · Score: 0

    320x200 in AVI DV format (camcorder) is 3 megs per seconds, so this format is not that huge...

  8. Re:GUI cvs Command on Are GUI Dev Tools More Advanced than CLI Counterparts? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Automation, DDE, pipe DCOM interface, anything else you want to do?

    I'm still using command prompt in windows 2000, and using it since dos 2.0. I don't say it's perfect using automation, dde or any other technology, but DOS is not the perfect way to communicate either. It's ALWAYS a summation of considerations that will tell you wich technology use, not simply "it's the best, let's use it"...

  9. nth digit of pi on Are The Digits of Pi Random? · · Score: 1

    I can't exactly remember where, but this is old from at least 3 years.

  10. sql over freenet? Why not XML & WebServices over! on SQL Over FreeNet · · Score: 2

    Imagine getting XML & Webservices over freenet, instead of getting sql and anoying stuff... It could allow services to be provided in a elegant way. With some parallel DNS (offered by a webservice for example), it could be incredibly cool!!!!

  11. Digital? on A Different Kind Of Digital Divide · · Score: 1

    I still don't understand why every signal is not digital... I mean, digital is the rule!

  12. Anyone talk about SMP? on Pentium IV study · · Score: 1

    I think the main point should be : is it possible to SMP P4??? Without GOOD smp support, p4 is nothing else than a corvette with flat tires. Since bandwidth on the bus is a huge problems, I don't want to see a smp p4 running!!!

  13. Mastering publicity? on Attn: Marketing Department · · Score: 1

    Is it another way to make publicity of the RFC 3092 (maybe also 1884). I think Falardeau understand what publicity mean.

  14. Re:Similar work being done in cryptography. on LZIP Advanced File Compression Utility · · Score: 1

    hahaha man, you should come in Montreal, I would pay you a beer!

  15. Re:steganographic compression techniques on LZIP Advanced File Compression Utility · · Score: 1

    Easy to say, but since all your porn are probably 38DD, forget any compression, it could explode.

  16. Re:Penn State.... on Growing New Cartilage · · Score: 1

    I think you terrify me

  17. Folks, you just don't get it ;-) on Duron 850 CPU Benchmarks · · Score: 1

    Why get a "wow, what a powerfull system that beats piii 700 intel system", when you can easilly do that with a simple dual cheap celeron dual processor? SMP and dual (quad and more...) processors are the future. ALL GOOD PROGRAMS that requires a lot of cpu could be multi-threaded and then, could work on smp system with pretty much performance. When you see the p4 1.5 ghz (with performance that, for as much as I know, is not better than a piii 900), simply get a quad piii 600 100 mhz overclocked at 140 with 512 mo ram and check out the performance vs price of those two systems. I don't know for you, but I will never buy again a simple processor computer, since in every way you can look at it, the two cheapest brand new cpu you can buy on the market outperform the top of what you can buy, for the pc. two intel celeron 700Mhz = 320$ one intel p4 1.5Ghz= 1690$ (CAN$) pretty clear for me, and I don't actually yet have a quad processor mtb...

  18. NOT on Paying For Content In The Future · · Score: 1

    This idea will probably never work, since limiting the access at the base (ISP) could never always be monitored and controled.

  19. Re:Yahoo Auctions 2005 on Yahoo Knuckles Under · · Score: 1

    - Cannot be used to facilitate any abnormal sexual practices

    Shit, I must run fast now...

  20. that's why... on Largest ISP In Philippines: The Catholic Church · · Score: 1

    That's why people should use pgp/freenet/gnutella stuff.

    Anyway, real people already know that.

  21. Re:Silly question about vacuums on Going Up? · · Score: 1

    make the tube long enough to the moon and you could get a vacuum!

  22. Yeah sure on Federal Judge Says It's OK To Port Scan Networks · · Score: 1

    Yes, and knocking to all your 65536 home door is also legal.

  23. Cost of a project on MirCorp dumps Mir station · · Score: 1

    First of all, this is historical value.

    Second, the cost of sending something in orbit is it's weight in gold. I don't know how much cash it represent that Mir station, but I would like to find it any other use that a killer firework.

    One of those could be send it in geostationary for later usage, or even why not send on lunar orbit that Mir?? Huge propultion costs, but somewhere some people could live.

    Maybe I'm only an Old Cracker Jack, but I definitively see future in space, starting by the moon.

    By the way, I was thinking about designing ipv10, with dynamic routing table based on interplanetary minimum distance and bandwidth, combined with redundancy, anyone?

  24. 8mm digital tapes & Sony TRV-203 on Can You Back Up Data On Audio/Visual Media? · · Score: 4

    Hello folks

    My friend and I already though about that. Since it's very easy to do on Windows, we tought it would be a great way to do backup and/or exchange huge files. The simple idea was to do a big .zip, rename it to .avi and then store it on the cam, and vice-versa.

    The problem is to retrieve only a part. Even if it's theorically possible to go to a precise frame and then, do a kind of "fat" which we could store at the first frame or first second, since the data on cd-rom is becoming .30$ / 700 megs, doing parts would render the idea of one big 10 gig file useless for all the troubles.

    The data rate for an AVI-DV is approx 3.5 Megs/sec, allowing 12.6 gig of total space.

    I think seriously that such a way to backup should really remain for hack purpose, because dvd writer becoming available for normal people probably in 2002. The price of dvd-r will probably drop a lot then (as cd first were 3$ each, now less than 1/10 of it's original price), it will make that hack useless.

    But eh, I'll try it tonight

  25. IP? on FCC Considering 10-Digit Dialing [UPDATED] · · Score: 1

    I think people should have their phone number as ipv6 number...