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  1. Re:Smells? on Sony Patents Matrix-Like Game Technology · · Score: 1

    tubgirl?

  2. Re:Use the adblock extension! on Firefox Improves Pop-Up Ad Blocking · · Score: 1

    Thanks PReDiToR. Once I added both expressions, Poof no more annoying intellitxt!

  3. Re:Use the adblock extension! on Firefox Improves Pop-Up Ad Blocking · · Score: 1

    Would you mind posting an example of exactly what string you add to your addblock configuration to block all that intellitxt? I've tried adding .*\.intellitxt\.com/.* but the damned things still get through...

  4. Re:Believe it or not, Apple's DRM doesn't bother m on iTunes DRM Hole Closed · · Score: 1

    What I'd love is a way to download songs from Apple in a non-lossy format!

    The lossy format Itunes currently uses is the only reason I'm still buying CDs.

    Let us not forget that a major part of CD sales was due to people rebuying the same music they already owned. A nasty intuition that I have is that Apple/RIAA is keeping any lossless format back so that people will have to rebuy evreything all over once more to get the higher quality format. I've bought the same tune over the years as a 78, an LP, a Cassette, & as a CD. This was usually due to the suppourt degrading, but now that I have it as a lossless digital file, I'll never have to buy it again.

    Until iTMS proposes lossless, I'll continue to pass on it.

  5. Re:Typical on Source Code Dispute in Boston's Big Dig · · Score: 1

    But has one of it's regional centers in Billerica just outside Boston (ou maybe had as it's been over a decade since I spent any time in the area).

  6. Re:Typical on Source Code Dispute in Boston's Big Dig · · Score: 5, Informative

    RTFA (yeah, I know this is /.). The code was never open in the first place.

    Company A wins the contract to do phase 1 by modifying their existing software product.

    Company B wins contract for phase 2. Company A refuses to deliver source code as it contains significant proprietary info. Segue into N month court battle ending up with a settlement in which company B sublicenses company A's info (for an undisclosed amount) & A gets .3M$ from BigDig.

    Company B goes way overbudet & negotiates a premature end to it's contract. BigDig is now negotiating with Company A to finish what it started.

    The 10M$ pricetag is from 3M$ BigDig wished they could have fined Company A for, + 7M$ in overruns from Company B.

    Opensource could have been a solution to the problems they encountered, but only if BigDig was ready to finance the development of the software from scratch. Company A came to the table with a big head start as they were only modifying their own existing software.

    Supplementary info: Company A is Californian & Company B is local. IMHO it sounds like somebody thought that the developers of the software was generic interchangable pork that could be used to buy votes locally & got burned when company A refused to play along...

  7. Re:Opening phrase of the article on P2P (More) Legal in France · · Score: 3, Funny

    I believe that you are mistaken as this is exactly how it is spelled in Welsh. The difference between the the two languages is that Polish usually has at least one vowel per word...

  8. Re:I know its been around, but...Linking to source on Windows 2003 and XP SP2 Vulnerable To LAND Attack · · Score: 1

    The source of this attack has been globally available for ouver 8 years, you twit. How exactly would not re-linking the C exploit be helpful? Even junior grade script kiddies know how to use google.

  9. Re:What kind of software dev process do MS use? on Windows 2003 and XP SP2 Vulnerable To LAND Attack · · Score: 1

    There is a difference. MS damaged XP home's NTFS & file sharing permissions by only making them available when you boot into their so called 640x400x16 color "safe" mode.

    It's their way of saying "You should really be paying $50 more for XP Pro."

  10. Re:What kind of software dev process do MS use? on Windows 2003 and XP SP2 Vulnerable To LAND Attack · · Score: 1

    The KB article referenced only really applies to XP Pro. The "Use Simple File Sharing" does not exist in XP Home when booted normally. When booted into XP's so called "Safe" mode a number of security commands that are not normally visible become available, but I don't call booting into safe mode, changing a setting then rebooting & discovering thet the changed setting does not work "working".

    As the grandparent has correctly noted, MS removed many things in XP Home, among them NTFS & network security using MS's own UI. Luckily by installing cygwin you can set the security you want using chmod, chown & setfacl.

  11. Re:You can drag the map ! on Google Launches Mapping Service · · Score: 1

    I like how the lite & clean interface scrolls quickly too, but I wish I could make the map full screen.

    If you want to see a slick java map applet take a look at the (europe only) www.map24.com. It's slower but can be switched into fullscreen mode, displays hotels & gas stations onscreen, and even lets me quickly calculate road distances onscreen

  12. Re:Actually, that would be a sin. on Carbon Dating & The Shroud of Turin · · Score: 1
    In a free society, the people do not grant the government the power to regulate sexual activity.

    So, in your "free" society, rape & pederasty would be "unregulated"?

    Some conduct will always be regulated. Your freedom stops as soon as it impacts anybody else at one point or another. The debate is where that point is.

    Either you posted a meaningless over-generalization or you've got criminal tendancies (as defined in OUR society). I'm curious (if you reply) to see which.

  13. Re:Already contacted people on New York's Oldest ISP Gets Domain-Jacked · · Score: 3, Funny

    Your sig forks a process per file, how inefficiant...
    Try using:
    `find / -name "*your_base*" -print | xargs chown us:us`

  14. Re:Multiple mailfolders on Mozilla Thunderbird Reaches 1.0 · · Score: 1

    You're right, thanks. Every subfolder in "Local Folders" is two separate files: "Foldername" & Foldername.msf".

    I'd assumed that TB stored "Local Folders" the same way OE & Outlook do: as a single OS-level file (the .pst file I'd mentionned).

    Thanks for setting me straight.

  15. Multiple mailfolders on Mozilla Thunderbird Reaches 1.0 · · Score: 1

    Does anyone know when/if TB will support multiple mailfolders? Currently you can have multiple IMAP/POP/NNTP accounts in TB, but only ONE local mailfolder (much like OE).

    The default mailer I use at work is Outlook. Outlook can use multiple mailfolders (.pst files) so that I can organize the folders I want to see into groups that can be added/removed as I need them. I have YEARS worth of Email which is classed into subfolders by client name.

    When using Outlook once I have a finished a contract, I can move all the Email (& multi-megabyte attached files) I have exchanged with them from my current mailfolder into another mailfolder (archives-2004) which contains all closed affairs.

    Normally I keep all the old archives for prevoius years closed, but when I need to look upo an old Email, All I need to do is open the archive for that year & search in that clients subfolder.

    Using multiple mail folders like this also keeps the size of my backups down as the archive mailfolders rarely change after a year or so & they do not need to be backed up as often.

    I've looked at TBs roadmaps, but I've never seen any mention of going beyond one mailfolder. Is TB always destined to be a (much nicer & secure) OE clone or is there a planned update to multiple mailfolders that I missed?

  16. Re:Vulcanism on Human Activity to Blame For 2003 Heatwave · · Score: 1

    Without any corroborating sources, why should anyone believe you?

    Who'se numbers did you use to "work them out"? Did your numbers also include comparison of industrial & "natural" sources of other greenhouse gasses like methane? Probably not.

    Gaping holes like this are why I've never had any confidance in political feel-good band-aids like kyoto.

  17. Re:cool on NASA to Attempt Mach 10 Flight Next Week · · Score: 1

    Agreed, it's cool. However, it's still a expensive, useless application of technology looking fo a non-existant problem to solve. Scramjets accelerate poorly (when they accelerate at all) & need to be in the atmosphere, where the heat load quickly becomes unmanageable.

    No one to present has come up with a use for the technology! Orbital staging using scramjets are out: First something else (like a rocket) is needed to go hypersonic. Then scramjets peter out before mach 12 due to the heat & acceleration issues. 60% of the acceleration needed to attain orbit needs to be done exo-atmospherically in order to avoid burning up.

    In the end rockets which accelerate quickly both in & out of the atmosphere are much more useful.

  18. Re:The problem is making the first step on Will Our Cars Become Our Chauffeurs? · · Score: 1

    More problems that are being ignored:
    Will it recognize the small child/bicycle/animal/fallen tree/oil patch in the street as well as an attentive human driver?

    I drive a motorcycle every day. Every autonomous system described to date assumes that everyone else is driving a 4 weeled vehicle where 50lbs/25kilos of weight isn't a prohibitive addition to its weight. Until these issues are addressed, AV's are a non-starter.

  19. Re:Key items to note: on Kerry Concedes Election To Bush · · Score: 1

    I'm replying way after the storm has died down as I ran across your post when meta modding.

    The big problem with your question is that it calls into question without basis the beliefs of everyone who does not share YOUR beliefs. Of course, YOUR beliefs are well thought out, its just the OTHER guys who must be wrong...

    Whether it's Labor, Environment, Abortion, Welfare, Big-Enders*, there will always be issues that people feel strongly enough to choose a candidate on. Why should religion be any different, hmm? Because YOU are agnostic/atheist?

    * See Gulliver's Travels which was an 18'th century parody of closed minds.

  20. Re:Shipping the fuel to Mars = $T on To Mars and Back in Ninety Days · · Score: 1

    You seem to have forgotten that the mass of the return package is going to be much smaller than that needed for the trip to mars. The availability of a means to send the mission to mars faster without augmenting it's mass has major trickle down advantages over the mission as a whole.

  21. Re:That's what you get... on Indymedia Seizures Initiated In Europe · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Encrypted disks for servers only sounds like a good idea until you consider how you enter the key/passphrase/oter on system reboot. You have the choice of using a plain text key, using a removable key (which the authorities will sieze along with the HDs) or waking someone in the middle of the night (usually hours after the system has rebooted due to some "unplanned maintenance").

    In addition, for the last "solution", in some countries like France, refusing to divulge passphrases is a separate crime...

  22. Re:Superceded on Navy ELF to Be Scrapped · · Score: 1

    Were the gloves to really come off between the USA & someone trying to play mobile minefield (aka fuel-cell sub) against the USA, it is probable that air laid minefields outside the fuel-cell subs homeports would sink them before they ever came out to play. According to benders rules I should be able to claim that the MK-60 captor mine is "more advanced" than a Class 214.

    Before calling fuel cell subs more advanced than the the seawolf, you need to compare the rest of their mission capacities. Bender didn't. I did & concluded that a fuel-cell sub cannot be called more advanced unless it fulfills the same mission as otherwise it is comparing apples to oranges.

  23. Re:Superceded on Navy ELF to Be Scrapped · · Score: 1

    Not so. You stated that the fuel-cell fueled sub was more advanced. I replied that the mission parameters for the seawolf rule out your fuel-cell sub thus it cannot be more advanced as you are arguing apples to oranges. If you are unable to see the absurdity of your position, I posit that a P-3 laid MK-60 captor minefield outside your sub's homeport renders your sub completely obsolete.

  24. Re:Superceded on Navy ELF to Be Scrapped · · Score: 1

    No, they are not. Fuel-cell subs are small, range limited & thus primarily useful for defending. The US submarine force is almost exclusively used for power projection. A US sub needs to to be able to leave it's home-port un the US, transit at at least one ocean (at 20+ knots -- taking 3 weeks to cross the atlantic is not acceptable), perform normal patrol duties & return to their home-port. It also need to be contain enough weapons to be multi-role as returning to a nearby port to replace the 15 odd torps is not an option. Zero VL tubes also rule fuel-cells subs out for anything else than local patrol duties.

    Until fuel-cells can achieve these objectives, they are not a solution to a problem the USA has.

  25. Re:Are spammers the cyber-scapegoat? on Hotmail Cracks Down on Spam · · Score: 1

    Since you offered...
    antispam@noos.fr

    Brave? no. It's a temporary account which I'll only read to get the info on the gmail account then delete in a few weeks.