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  1. Re:You sir, are very wrong. on SCO Protest And Anti-Protest In Provo · · Score: 1

    Thank you for your opinion, Mr. Godwin.

  2. You sir, are very wrong. on SCO Protest And Anti-Protest In Provo · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'd hire a SCO employee without hesitation, so long as they weren't the CEO or on the board of directors. The rest of the employees are just trying to do their jobs, in an economy where it's not easy to find a better job. If I were working for SCO when they started this mess, I'd still be working there and I'd be hoping that we might someday get a leader who recognizes that the economy is in shambles, and would try to fix it.

  3. Re:Scary... on Wireless LAN Equipment Shipments Up · · Score: 1

    If you want an AP/Bridge combo, I recommend the Apple Airport Extreme base stations. They work like a charm, and the more expensive model has the handy feature of offering PPP dial-in.

  4. Re:Anything on Safari 1.0? on Massive WWDC Rumor Roundup · · Score: 1

    Safari is very pretty, and it's very fast... but my god does it like to explode. I'm just looking forward to the day when I don't need 3 browsers in my dock in order to use the websites required to do my job.

  5. Re:Current G4 Supplies Depleted on Massive WWDC Rumor Roundup · · Score: 2, Informative

    For all that its worth, I can confirm that there is at least one tier 1 distrubitor who has large backorders of PowerMacs which would help support the theory of a revision bump, or a model replacement. I guess we'll all know the truth in a week though, so I'm trying to avoid getting my PPC970-based hopes up.

  6. Re:I think this is good on Research: Mobile Phones Disrupt Aircraft · · Score: 1

    Everybody knows that Flight 93 was shot down, fool.

  7. Re:a great plan! (for his neighbors) on Implementing WiFi in the Real World · · Score: 1

    WEP encryption is setup by default with the AE. It prompts you for the network name and password during setup, so you can't really forget it unless you actively ignore the setup program.

  8. Re:The lesson to be learned here on RIAA Grabs Student's Life's Savings · · Score: 1
    a lawyer who advises you to settle when you have done nothing wrong is not a good lawyer
    This is assuming that you have the time, energy, money and will to engage in what could be a protracted legal battle. If a $12,000 settlement is likely to save you hundreds of thousands of dollars, and months or years of time and stress, then perhaps the settlement is the best option.

    If your friend had a harder to win case, perhaps you would be telling us about your bankrupt friend, who has a lien against his home.

  9. Deal-Hunting is illegal? on False Positives, Few Matches Plague 'No-Fly' List · · Score: 4, Insightful
    I'm a little confused... are the airlines now prohibiting people to fly on the basis that they went "deal-hunting"?

    I understand that the airline industry is a little tight right now, but that's just insane.

  10. Re:Album sales on iTunes Indie Meeting Notes · · Score: 1

    Your thought was right, you get billed for all the purchases made in a day. I've not yet bought tunes on consecutive days to know if they'd lump two days together or not.

  11. Re:This is Crap on More on Oregon and GPS-tracked Gas Taxes · · Score: 1

    If you're under a stacked road, your GPS won't know where you are at all, let alone your altitude. After all, they need at least 3 satellites to get a fix, and 4 to get altitude, and even then it wouldn't be accurate enough for the 30 foot difference in altitude there. Ever since the Iraq war, it seems like they may be degrading GPS signals again or something, because right at that point in time I started having issues with the units being off by a street in cases of parallel streets and what not.

  12. Re:Hoover dam will stand 1800 years! on Three Gorges Dam Begins Storing Water · · Score: 1
    Your answer would be completely correct if the year were 1934. However you weren't paying close enough attention as you watched that discovery channel that turned you into an expert.

    The dam would have taken a little over a century to cure if they had not cooled it, but as you noted, they did. This multi-stage cooling process only lasted a few years though, and hasn't been operational for many years, as the dam is done curing despite the nerd legend that it is not.

  13. Re:Hoover dam will stand 1800 years! on Three Gorges Dam Begins Storing Water · · Score: 1

    The "proof" that it's cured that was previously given was that it radiates a lot of heat. I was simply noting that I've been in the interior of the dam, and it was not doing so in any sort of noticable fashion, despite the fact that the concrete cooling system has not been in use since 1935.

  14. Re:Hoover dam will stand 1800 years! on Three Gorges Dam Begins Storing Water · · Score: 1
    The concrete is completely done "baking". I've toured the interior of the dam and I can assure you that it's not warm at all, it's rather cool, due to the dam staying quite close to the temperature of the water in Lake Mead.

    In case you don't believe me, here is a picture of hoover dam taken from the bottom of the dam. You can see a small opening in the dam, nearly directly in the middle of the structure. This is a picture of the downstream valley, taken from that opening. Here is a photo of the turbines inside the dam, and here is a restaurant that serves delicious prime rib. Oh wait, hmmm... that last one wasn't really on topic, was it.

  15. Re:What? on Three Gorges Dam Begins Storing Water · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Actually I was thinking of the wrong thing when I mentioned the Gouhou dam collapse, which killed a couple hundred people. The collapse of the banqiao and shimantan dams were far more destructive, killing between 80,000 and 250,000 people.

    As far as sources go, this is a forum not an academic paper. If you want a source, go ask google.

  16. Disaster looming? on Three Gorges Dam Begins Storing Water · · Score: 5, Informative

    Let's just hope this one works out better than the Gouhou dam did. It's my understanding that there are longstanding questions about the build quality, and that there have already been problems with cracks appearing in the dam.

  17. Re:Some other project does this already on Mount Remote Filesystems via SSH · · Score: 1

    An admin can give ssh access without giving sftp access, and they often do for a number of often non-technical reasons. As for installing your own copy, I think it's safe to expect that you'll lose your account if you try to run daemons on university servers.

  18. Re:Fun! on SCO's Real Motive... A Buyout? · · Score: 1

    The use of RICO to apply to Hare Krishna was despicable, no matter how you feel about the group. There were a few isolated incidents of child abuse, and the government attempted to seize the assets of the whole religion instead of going after the child abusers. If the case had not been laughed out of court, I can only assume that the US government would also own Vatican City right now.

  19. Re:Some other project does this already on Mount Remote Filesystems via SSH · · Score: 4, Informative

    Not really. LUFS can access a machine which you have sftp access to whereas this project allows you to access the filesystem of a machine that you have true shell only access to, as is common especially in some university environments.

  20. Re:Another option on Mount Remote Filesystems via SSH · · Score: 4, Insightful
    fish is a great idea, implemented in the completely incorrect location. This kernel module gets it right.

    Filesystems should be handled by the operating system, not the window manager.

  21. Re:New bug fix, more restrictive? on Apple Updates, Cripples iTunes · · Score: 4, Insightful
    the guy who figures it out over iTunes 4.0.1 is going to be pretty popular.
    I disagree wholeheartedly. If somebody fucks up my rendezvous sharing, I'll punch him in the nose.

    Seriously, there are so many ways to legally share your music... heck, just setup a live365 station if you want to share your music. Why insist on doing it illegally, and ruining it for everybody?

  22. Re:New bug fix, more restrictive? on Apple Updates, Cripples iTunes · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I think a more accurate assessment would be: well, we tried to let you share your stuff between work and home, but then tens of thousands of dillweeds decided to share with random strangers instead, so now we have to fuck everybody.

  23. Re:Explain to me again... on Microsoft's Software Philanthropy: The Goodwill Ploy · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Well, it undercuts it because it leverages a monopoly.

    But I don't think that's the game here anyway. I think there are two games being played.

    Game one: The tax write-off. Give away a billion dollars of software, reduce your corporate tax liability by 390 million or so.

    Game two: The support calls. When the free software breaks, start charging the famous Microsoft $300/incident fees.

  24. Re:This is not lethal but ... on When Bad Software Can Kill · · Score: 1

    You might also want to pay $10 for the doctor's choicepoint report. This will report their credentials and any sanctions. It's far from knowing about any complaints against the doctor, but before a surgery such as lasik, it'd probably be good to check for sanctions.

  25. Re:Kolmogorov encoding on Game of Life in Postscript · · Score: 1

    most high-end postscript printers have hard-drives, yes.