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  1. Found it! Or at least one. See the paper below. on The Next Big Particle Accelerator · · Score: 1

    http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/physics/0108005

    This one actually proposes trying to observe natural black hole creation!
    I know I found one discussing testing it in a supercollider too, however.

  2. Creation of black hole a theory they are testing on The Next Big Particle Accelerator · · Score: 1

    Based on that theory mentioned some time ago of gravity possible varying significantly below a few millimetres in width due to extra mini dimensions.

    I seem to remember reading an abstract for the proposal on xxx.lanl.gov.

    In any case, far from confirmed, and yes, even if the black holes are created, they evaporate almost instantaneously just as the they would if created by cosmic rays (but hopefully in a characteristic fashion we can measure)It'd be neat though if in fact they are created, and we could figure out a way to feed them fast enough. Perhaps even give them a charge?

  3. Re:Great idea for WTC rebuild! on Living Inside A Giant Wind Turbine · · Score: 1

    The cooling effect might result in this design being only used in places like Los Angeles...

    But yeah, that was the first thought that sprang to my mind. New twin towers - oh yeah!

  4. Re:Reminds me of the classic... on First Factory Use Of 'Replicator' For Spare Parts · · Score: 1

    Pedant alert.
    Actually, making copies of the fluid wouldn't work, since presumably more fluid would be needed for the copy.

    Xerox's future is safe...

  5. Re:So close... on NIST Wants An Electronic Kilogram · · Score: 1

    Nothing wrong with liking science fiction.
    Also, nothing says aliens wouldn't try communicating using gravity waves, which would definitely throw off their balancing act (after they've accounted for everything else, earth shifts, heavy construction equipment, whatever).

    Heck, I wonder if this setup could be used to improve measurements of the gravitational constant.

  6. Re:Life means life on Sklyarov Update · · Score: 1

    I do believe you're right.
    I mean, I don't see it in the list...

  7. Re:Huh? on SSH Taking Stand On Vulnerability · · Score: 1

    The article certainly did not emphasize that at all. I'll take your word for it though, until I have some time to check out SSH.com.

    If that is the case, then I don't really see any obvious solution, apart from an escape sequence to turn on line at a time, or keystroke at a time sending.

    Besides, if what you're saying is true, then this is really not very helpful as an exploit. I'll be on the server, sometimes for hours. I could be typing "cd /tmp" just as easily as "mysecretpassword" . How are they supposed to know what data is important? For that matter, why not simply not use sudo or su while on an ssh connection? Or heck, deny your priveleged accounts outside access. Most people do that anyway...
    Granted, orginal poster said, fake data could be injected, but it doesn't seem serious enough for that.

  8. Re:Huh? on SSH Taking Stand On Vulnerability · · Score: 1

    That's what I thought when I read this.
    The solution is trivial.
    Establish secure channel/determine remote server SSH version.
    If the server is older version, report the potential for vulnerability.
    else
    Grab the whole password, and send it over the secure channel all at once.
    I wouldn't hash it locally, because then you have to figure out what remote hashing algorithm is (crypt, md5, sha1...) since the channel is secure, easier to send it all at once. And in a large, uniform size packet to make guessing the length of the password also impossible.

  9. Can therapy be performed with these lines? on Stem Cell Research Moves Forward In The US · · Score: 1

    Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that to prevent rejection, stem cells had to be created from a clone generated from the patient?

  10. Re:Sidebars on Petreley on Ximian and Mono · · Score: 1

    I don't use bookmarks that often, but I find the Search tab in Mozilla sidebar quite convenient. I have it set to Google, of course. It's nice to be able to quickly jump between results returned by the search.

  11. Re:How the hell did this get moderated up +4 funny on Review: Planet of the Apes · · Score: 1

    A) http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?fabulistic
    Merriam-Webster's seems to accept it as an adjective.

    B) I was trying to understand what was going through the moderator's head. Either they thought it was a joke (in which case a rater weak one), or they felt it was serious (in which case both they -- and you, are wrong).

  12. How the hell did this get moderated up +4 funny? on Review: Planet of the Apes · · Score: 1

    A) Fabulistic is a real word.
    B) Even if Reality Master 101 was aware of that, it doesn't make their post all that funny.

  13. Re:I wonder if /. editors read the links... on OpenSSH Management - Understanding RSA/DSA Authent · · Score: 1

    Why use Putty when you have Cygwin?
    Cygwin has all the SSH utilities, as well as the daemon. And if someone can't figure out how to invoke them from Cygwin, a shell script link could easily be put on their desktop.

    That being said, we also use Cygwin to tie together the windows and nix machines.

  14. Imitate live action underneath on Review: Final Fantasy · · Score: 1

    I think these animated films would be more of a success of real actor facial and body movements were recorded, and used as the basis for the animation.

  15. Java only cross-platform way to do search? on Perl CD Bookshelf 2.0 · · Score: 1

    ...
    Ever heard of Perl?
    And if the complaint is Perl doesn't do good cross-platform GUI, then try TCL/Tk or Tk mod for Perl.

    Still faster, and easier then Java GUIs, and definitely the most logical choice for a Perl CD

  16. Here you go. on Slashback: Mono, Names, Locking Up · · Score: 1
  17. Re:ignorant questions, no flames pls on "Opt-Out" Of Financial Data Sharing · · Score: 1

    A cleverer store would be one that says.
    "We honor all bonus cards"
    That would allow them to gather information without adding to the number of cards, and also get some idea of what other stores people use.

  18. Re:An Interesting Experiment on Dept. of Defense Adopts StarOffice · · Score: 2

    Sharing files problem is due to Microsoft not giving out the specs for its Office format (unlike, say, RTF or PS).
    Font ugliness and anti-aliasing are the responsibility of X, and do not show up in the Windows version.
    (granted StarOffice does not use the X fonts properly, and when I add TrueType fonts to X, SO52 doesn't grab them)

    Lightweight is something I doubt a complete office suite will ever be, just like wanting a complete browser like Mozilla or IE to be lightweight.

  19. Re:The Christian Science Monitor? on Corporate-Sponsored Research Untrustworthy · · Score: 1

    Actually, their bias is not at all orthogonal, since Christian Science holds that all illnesses are in the mind.
    It is simply that the Monitor is able to restrain these religious biases from their reporting. Hopefully successfully.

  20. Re:Hypocracy on The Speed Demon That Is Tux 2.0 · · Score: 1

    Well, if you want to get technical, it is probably:
    Hypocracy - Less than normal rule, under rule (hypotonic, democracy)

    Hypocrisy: Duplicitous behaviour.

    But that's less funny.

  21. Something else gcc let me do... on GCC 3.0 Released · · Score: 1

    int main(int argc, char *argv[])
    {
    int ary[atoi(argv[1])][atoi(argv[1])];
    return 0;
    }

    Convenient, no? Instead of doing a for loop and malloc()ing through it?

    But completely uncompilable on any sane compiler. :)

  22. You have no sense of humour, do you... on WSJ Reports On MS Using Open Source · · Score: 1

    It was a joke on the complexity of the proprietary code.

  23. Fiction from Fact. on Protein Music · · Score: 1

    DNA music was first created 3 years before Children of God was released.
    Not that it isn't a fairly good book although The Sparrow was much better, even though its characters were horribly stupid in a Star Trek sense.
    "Ooh. After a journey of many years over light years of space, we have arrived at an alien planet we know nothing about." Welp, atmosphere seems earthlike, lets land and see if there are any toxins on the ground that will kill us. Or maybe some man-eating flowers."

  24. Re:Plato's Forms explains all. on Disney and Anime Plagiarism? · · Score: 1

    Ok, I can understand a +5, funny...
    But a +5, interesting?

  25. Re:Jesus freaks? Another liberal crawls forth on Early Man: The Cause of Mass Extinction? · · Score: 1

    I take it back.
    Elsewhere you are clearly just joking.
    My congratulations on doing a very good imitation of YEC arguments.