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  1. Re:Word processor? on The Design Of The Google File System · · Score: 1

    It looks like LaTeX to me, though the macros aren't the default ones. The tables are very much in LaTeX's style.

  2. Re:segway == utopian BS on Build Your Own Segway · · Score: 1

    Yeah, yeah. The new postal service experiment with Segway mounted carriers (plus 125 lb bag) will surely displace the tens of thousands of bicycle mounted carriers.

  3. mandatory encryption. on GBDE-GEOM Based Disk Encryption on FreeBSD · · Score: 1

    If encryption is optional, then users might forget to encrypt a file that is sufficiently sensitive to warrant such protection. Moreover, if the swap file (or local equivalent) is not encrypted, some sensitive material might be recoverable by an unfriendly party.

  4. Re:Forget the Segway. Better wheelchairs! on Build Your Own Segway · · Score: 1

    Of course. If a doctor prescribes a wheelchair for a patient (and the iBot, unlike most wheelchairs, is prescription only), and the wheelchair collapses, or malfunctions, the patient could be harmed.
    It's this same authority over "medical devices" that allows the FDA to certify heart-lung machines, stents, catheters, and a great many other medical tools.

  5. Re:Stupid on Ultra High Definition Video · · Score: 1

    NHK is a Japanese company. Japan has had various forms of High Definition Television available for years. Why should Japanese geeks wait for American slowpokes before getting the latest toys.

    UHDTV is still in the prototype stage. NHKs engineers haven't even tried to design a transmission system.

  6. Re:segway == utopian BS on Build Your Own Segway · · Score: 1

    A Segway weighs 38 kg. It's a bit more efficient than even the most spartan car.

    Besides, shouldn't those eggheads wasting time on ultra-efficient gas engines be finding a cure for cancer, instead?

  7. Re:Enough of those double standards! on HyperSCSI Examined · · Score: 1

    Off site backups?
    Just because you cannot fathom a use for a particular technology does not mean that a technology is useless. Some companies find the ability to perform block I/O over long distances to be very useful.

  8. Re:Enough of those double standards! on HyperSCSI Examined · · Score: 4, Informative

    USB maximum cable length: 5m
    Serial ATA maximum cable length: 1m

    Fiber Channel maximum cable length: 10,000 m

  9. Re:Storage... on The Borg MegaCube · · Score: 1

    The Complete nth season issues were each composed of 7 dvds, except for the second season, which came on 6 dvds. Thus, 48 dvds.

  10. Re:Don't forget. on MPAA Calls for Ban on Screeners · · Score: 1

    Best Boy: Assistant Chief Lighting Technician
    Gaffer: Chief Lighting Technician

    Source: IMDB Glossary

  11. Re:An Empire game? on 20th Anniversary of RMS's Original GNU Post · · Score: 1

    I'm still waiting for "file version numbers", as VMS had.

  12. Re:USC-17 on IBM Adds SCO Counterclaim Charging Copyright Infringement · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's title 17. Sections are subdivisions of Titles. For instance, 17 USC 1201 et seq. is where most of the provisions of the DMCA are lodged. Although the criminal penalties are encoded in title 17 (in various places), Title 17 encompasses statutory Copyright law in all its forms.

  13. Re:Cheap cheap cheap on Doctor Who Comeback · · Score: 2, Informative

    No, Hartnell wanted to leave the show for reasons of ill health. Troughton and Pertwee voluntarily retired from the role. Tom Baker got bored with the role. Peter Davidson was afraid of getting typecast. Colin Baker, on the other hand, was essentially fired, but the decision had little to do with saving money. And, of course, McCoy left after the show was canceled.Pity too, as McCoy played a great Doctor.

    Doctor Who may have been a low budget show, but the good episodes weren't good because of the low budget. They were good in spite of the low budget, chiefly because the scripts were well written.

  14. Re:Yay on Doctor Who Comeback · · Score: 1

    Daleks weren't blocked by stairs in Remembrance of the Daleks

  15. Re:Also on BBC News on Doctor Who Comeback · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't he be more appropriate as the Master? Besides, I'm pretty sure that Rickman is too expensive.

  16. Re:SCO and China on SCO's Plan Examined · · Score: 1

    A rather lame joke. In any case, there's no excuse for not wrapping links in HTML anchor tags.

  17. Re:How many precincts in CA use Diebold? on Diebold Audit Released, BlackBoxVoting.Org Shut Down · · Score: 1

    Alameda and Plumas use the Diebold Accu-Vote Touch Screen system. Fresno, Humboldt, Lassen, Marin, Modoc, Placer, Plumas, San Luis Opisbo, San Joaquin, Santa Barbara, Siskiyou, Trinity, and Tulare use Diebold optical scanners.

    Riverside and Shasta use a non-Diebold touch screen system.

    7 counties (San Diego, Los Angeles, Santa Clara, Solano, Sacremento, Sierra, and Mendocino) use punch card ballots.
    Source

  18. Re:How many precincts in CA use Diebold? on Diebold Audit Released, BlackBoxVoting.Org Shut Down · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    That's not odd if you consider that the ACLU is owned by one of the political parties.
    So Bob Barr finally switched parties and became a Democrat? Good for him!

  19. Re:It's visUM, not visA. on Virus Knocks Out U.S. Visa Approval System · · Score: 2, Informative

    The English visa is a an import of the 19th century French word le vise, which derives from the Latin plural past participle of videre to see. In Latin, visa roughly translates to "things seen".

    Crudely, a visa indicates that the bearer's documents have been seen by the issuing country. As the issuance of a visa requires the examination of several papers and databases, visa is always plural. Moreover, as the French treat it as a singular form, and English imported it from the French, the Latin is of little consequence here.

    Sources: TF Hoad, ed, Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology (Oxford:Oxford University Press,1986)

  20. Re:Glad they pulled it! on Apple Pulls 10.2.8 Update · · Score: 1, Insightful

    From what I've heard, several builds were seeded to select members of ADC. However, these seeds were released simultaneously with seeds of 10.3.

    I'm guessing that this release was originally supposed to be 10.2.7, but incompatibilities and build problems on non-G5 machines neccesitated a bipartitite release.

    I've had no problems on my iBook so far, but haven't tried ethernet. My Sonica even works.

  21. Re:$15,000 on Geek Eye for the Average Guy · · Score: 1

    $15,079, to be exact. Includes 8GB Ram, 2 23" displays, 500GB hard drives, 1 40 GB iPod, and lot of other junk.

  22. Re:What they didn't test... on Athlon 64 Debuts · · Score: 1
    Nah,
    ./configure; make; su -c "make install"
    is probably the most realistic linux scenario. Maybe you could design some autoconf macros to automate the "fine tuning", though.
    KDE takes long enough to compile--it would be even more of a pain if "experiment and benchmark" became standard operating procedure.
  23. conspiracy, standard issue on Touch Screen Voting Industry Circling Wagons · · Score: 1

    Punch cards may have been "good enough" to elect Davis, but Gray Davis did manage a 6 point margin of victory over Bill Simon (Davis 48%, Simon 42%). The margin of victory in the recall election, provided Davis is recalled, is likely to be far smaller.
    In the latest PPIC poll, Bustamante leads Schwarzenegger 28%-26% (margin of error 3 percentage points). The methodology of punch card voting does not have the precision neccesary to discern a statistically signignificant result in such a race.
    But then again, neither does touch screen voting.

    Celebrating 1000 posts, 1000 flames

  24. Re:Now remember kiddies on Ward Hunt Ice Shelf Breaks In Two · · Score: 1

    Remember to salt the water in the glass before inserting the ice cube.

  25. Re:More elegant? on The Origin of Murphy's Law · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I note that almost none of the recent connector designs share the DB configuration used by VGA plugs. DVI does, but at least it's internally keyed.

    Personally,I look forward to connectors that can be plugged in despite low lighting and cramped conditions, purely by feel, without risking pins on a cable, that by some fiat (FCC?), is non-replaceable.