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  1. Re:Wow Cool on Darwinia Demo Released · · Score: 1

    Holy crap you're right.

    I tried to edit the unit stats in data/stats.txt but none of my changes to the squad took. Then I tried editting the CurrentResearch value in game_data.txt and it worked. This could be an extremely fun little demo to write stuff for.

    strangely, I see no mention of this on any of their forums. Can so many people NOT have figured this out already?

  2. Too little, Too late. on TV Over Phone Lines To Arrive In 2005 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Is it just me or is this a case of too little, too late?

    My cable provider offers video/data/voice already and at 'decent' prices (barring additional 6% yearly increases). They already specialize in television, their data is currently faster than DSL and the voice is (so far) reliable and indistinguishable from traditional telco.

    Still, offering all three can't hurt and hopefully the competition will drive down the costs of both providers . . .

  3. Re: flamebait my ass on Comment Spams Straining Servers Running MT · · Score: 1

    The link above was funny as hell and explained the MT load issue in far more plain language than the original article! Somebody waste some points and get that back up out of the negatives . . .

  4. Difference much? on Ubuntu Beware: Installing Debian with Anaconda · · Score: 3, Informative


    Pardon me but I don't see much of a difference here . . .

    1) Debian
    2) Gnome
    3) Easy installation
    4) Profit?

    So it's got LSB standardization - Yay. With an hour of work I bet you could turn either into the other. Why the hard sell? I'm not a fanboy of either but bickering about distros does nothing but fragment the userbase at large.

    In other news, by the time I'm done writing this someone will probably have posted why gentoo is superior to both of these.

  5. I concur. on 3D Display Hardware/Software Solution? · · Score: 1

    dont you think a few pics and a link with extensive description of your scenario would have made it a little bit easier for the intersted audience to give you feedback

    Yes, And easier for me and my engineering buddies to replicate and patent before you can. What are you thinking posting this to /.???
    (I would never do that of course, but I bet theres someone at CompUSA right now picking up some extra hardware to do just that!)

  6. OP doesn't know what hes talking about? on MPAA Looks to Sniff Internet2 Traffic for Sharers · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "We've been working with Internet2 for a while to explore ways we can take advantage of delivering content at these extremely high speeds, and basically manage illegitimate content distribution at the same time," said Chris Russell, the MPAA's vice president of Internet standards and technology. "Those would go hand in hand."

    What a horribly unsuccessful attempt to marry two completely disparate goals. The MPAA should be allowed to join the consortium as they have a justifiable interest in high speed delivery research. But monitor traffic? Come on . . . Those goals have about as much in common as Richard Stallman and Carmen Electra (respectively). They have no right to monitor traffic, and as a fairly democratic organization I don't believe the endnode members providers/sponsors would consent to it.

    And for those of you wondering if monitoring of such gigantic flows is possible - of course it is. Netflow export can dump flow data to any number of IDS facilities. Even if you can't watch a single 10GigE link, watch the ten (10) GigE links that feed into it.

  7. I need directions . . . on Kerry Concedes Election To Bush · · Score: 4, Funny



    Can someone tell me where I can sign-up for the upcoming Civil War?

  8. Re:Nothing has changed on China Closes 1,600 "Internet Bars" · · Score: 2, Interesting


    Can I shout that at the statue of liberty? Or has that been closed for another three years out of fear of terrurrrrr?

  9. Re:Nothing has changed on China Closes 1,600 "Internet Bars" · · Score: 5, Insightful

    A huge nation with a corrupt, fascist, evil government run by one small party of old men who are all afraid of what would happen to them if they lost power.

    Wait which one - China or the US?

  10. Re:Bigger is better on Keeping Computers (And People) Warm In Winter? · · Score: 1

    You mean like this?

    Wow. you got me. Here's my setup from junior year of college. It was pretty impressive for 5 years ago. I have since embraced the magic of KVM, and have gone from 2 machines with 5 heads to 5 machines with 1 head :), all in a little mini-rack. Only problem is I lost the rails to the KVM so I had to ghetto-weld it into the ass of a 1U shelf :).

  11. Re:Bigger is better on Keeping Computers (And People) Warm In Winter? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Honestly you're right - but I've found CRT monitors more effective at producing heat. Older, larger CRT monitors are basically small space heaters. A multi-monitor setup with old IBM 'powerdisplay' model CRTs will heat a dorm room VERY quickly.

  12. Re:Email on FTP Client For Firefox · · Score: 1

    we're back to bloating it

    Ha! you're right - I've got to agree. I started using fox on my sunray (thin client) at work as opposed to our globaly installed moz because it was so much lighter and faster. I havent checked the solaris port's mem usage lately but my win32 RC1.0 preview weighs in at 43 megs of ram with only a single tab open :(.

    That was a joke :)

    Someday I'll get the humor thing :).

  13. Re:Email on FTP Client For Firefox · · Score: 1


    Whats wrong with Thunderbird?

  14. Excellent work - how about an SFTP client? :) on FTP Client For Firefox · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Very nice - this was one of the features I always liked about IE. Does anyone know of a similar SFTP plugin (or even development of one) for moz/ff? My organization has almost deprecated FTP and I find I have trouble recommending a free, user-friendly SFTP client to users. Im sure more groups would start installing FF en masse if it could fill such a niche . . .

  15. Audio link of Moyers giving ~the same speech on Are Journalism and Politics Inextricably Joined? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I had heard something extremely similar from Moyers last week on some dude's homepage. Found it again because it really blew me away. This was his keynote speech at the Media reform conference and is a bit more left-wing (warning Faux News viewers - your heads may explode).

    Part 1
    Part 2

  16. Fix the problem - Municipal CO with open backend on Companies, Government and Community Fiber Rollouts · · Score: 1

    This arrangement amounts to unfair competition because Eagle Broadband receives "tax exempt public financing" that is not available to other cable and telecommunications providers, Abel said.

    This is the argument that will squash this movement unless change is made to open competition at the far end.

    Here's what I came up with for a public policy class a few years ago: Have the municipality rollout a fiber plant to each block or superblock of homes, all terminating at one or a small number of COs. Assume the costs of maintaining that fiber plant through property taxes. Over these lines the town can offer their own voice/data/video services OR allow access to similar private services through the magic of Vlans or some similar setup. The cost to the private companies should be lower since they no longer have to maintain the local loop, the municipal service should keep costs down by offering an alternative and legally everything should be on the up and up!

    Possible bones of contention include aggregation equipment at the pole level (what kind of pole-mountable switch can switch all three types of service) and the home level (what demux can seperate out these three services once they reach the home). Who would 'own' this local equipment is also an issue, but as technology marches onward I'm sure this is another area the municipality can buy/outsource and keep 3rd party providers OUT of the local business altogether.

    Some argue that this is anti-capitalistic (since it's a local givernment entering a formerly privtae market) but in reality it's not. One of the pretenses of a working open market is a low-cost entry barrier. That is, the costs to open a business shouldnt be so high that they discourage the entry of new participants. With telecomm it's virtually impossible to enter the market without rolling out new infrastructure (enormous, prohibitive cost). This setup allows small companies to enter the market because they would only have to deliver PHYSICAL lines to ONE place (the municipality CO).

    . . .My 3 cents (originally 2 cents but I've been thinking about this for so long that they accrued interest)

  17. Re:Is bush even denying the accusations? on Bush Service Memos Questioned · · Score: 1

    jhaynor is a $NASTY-LIE-OR-FALSEHOOD-HERE

    I now deny your statement and ask you to present evidence, since you initial claim was not backed up by any.

    Sheesh that wasnt that hard. Had you inserted $evidence, ie Memos detailing my $nastiness, I would have had to providence $contrary-evidence. That's what we'd like to see from bushie now that the ball is in his court.

    I like the string reference though :).

  18. Re:Is bush even denying the accusations? on Bush Service Memos Questioned · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Wait wait I think you typoed there . . .

    The President answers questions several times every day, through his press secretary

    should read:

    The President ducks questions several times every day, through his press secretary

  19. Re:Is bush even denying the accusations? on Bush Service Memos Questioned · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Wow, so anything not denied is automatically true

    Presumption of innocence kind of when out the window when multiple primary witnesses and supporting documents were produced by a reputable news agency. Your statement is akin to a defendant reminding the jury of his presumed innocence after evidence of his guilt was introduced.

  20. Re:Is bush even denying the accusations? on Bush Service Memos Questioned · · Score: 1

    one month and eight days

    If bush had to answer questions every month and 8 days the democrats wouldn't be worry about polls at this point :).

  21. Re:Is bush even denying the accusations? on Bush Service Memos Questioned · · Score: 2, Insightful

    He can only talk about what he has done

    He can refute the absence from rating period, refute the missed physical and explain how he got an honorable discharge after going AWOL without first obtaining a transfer . . . But I'm guessing he won't. The man doesn't even take questions.

  22. Is bush even denying the accusations? on Bush Service Memos Questioned · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I said it before today but I'll say it again:

    Whether or not you can replicate the doc in word or on your 1907 eniac prototype typewriter is irrelevant if the candidate doesn't come out to deny the allegations . . .

    If he DOES come out and call shenanigans then let professionals take a look at the docs and make a judgement - if he won't deny what's being implied then it's fairly obvious that reproduced or not, they're the truth . . .

  23. Will bush chime in on this himself? on New Bush Guard Records Released · · Score: 1

    Is all of this junior encyclopedia brown crap necessary? Whether or not you can replicate the doc in word or on your 1907 eniac prototype typewriter is irrelevant if the candidate doesn't come out to deny the allegations . . .

    If he DOES come out and call shenanigans then let professionals take a look at the docs and make a judgement - if he won't deny what's being implied then it's fairly obvious that reproduced or not, they're the truth . . .

    So how about it, georgie?

  24. A deeper meaning? on West Virginian Mayor Might Defy Popular Vote · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I can see the obvious point he's trying to make (I hate bush) but could he also be trying to open people's eyes to the dangers of the entire electoral college system? By making such a wacky move he'll open the eyes of voters (regardless of party) to the fact that there's a slim possibility that their votes may not count after all . . .

    Hahah I said may not count - I almost forgot about last election!

  25. The WSJ thinks otherwise on Daily Electoral Predictions · · Score: 1

    http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/i nfo-battleground04-frameset.html

    Just thought I'd chime in with the WSJ map - they only update a few times a month but it's fairly in-depth.