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  1. Re:Could someone please post... on E-Mail Patent Roundup From The NYT · · Score: 1

    what like this you mean or some thing similar??? (oh so k-rad) and cool......
    wh47 |ik3 7hi5 y0u (V)34n 0r 50(V)3 7hing 5i(V)i|4r??? (0h 50 k_r4d) 4nd c00|......

  2. Re:Continuous Beta on Red Hat 7.0 Beta Is Out · · Score: 1

    and how would you sell and box this exactly?
    if you continuously create distributions, apart from creating a complete mess in terms of actually trying to sell the thing, it will get to a stage where no-one would actually buy it because it wouldnt work properly as a package.
    and thats what a distro is supposed to do, isnt it?

  3. Re:What happens when copyrights expire? on Hidden-Feature DVD Players Again · · Score: 1

    copyrights will never expire.
    remember disney?

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  4. Re:"Officially" on New Tech In Data Retrieval · · Score: 2

    Here in the UK, (classified)data that is stored by the Ministry of defence is considered "securely destroyed" only when the hard disk has been mashed to a pulp.
    ...but it doesnt do you any good when someone nicks your laptop :)

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  5. data destruction on New Tech In Data Retrieval · · Score: 1

    ...which just proves that the only REAL way to destroy your confidential data is with a BIIIIIIIIG hammer.

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  6. Re:I wonder when RedHat's turn is going to be on Endgame For SCO · · Score: 1

    and you are a fool for responding to a obvious troll

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  7. Re:Selective filtering on FBI E-Mail Wiretaps - The Carnivore System · · Score: 3

    in the UK, there is a bill being passed that if the police etc. wants to look at your encrypted data, you are required to supply the key. faliure to comply results in a jail sentence
    (up to 10 years i think)
    also, never be 100% sure that your encryption is safe, you never know quite what technology they've got....

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  8. for the greater good on Tim O'Reilly Confirms BSD Publications · · Score: 2

    As a recent newbie to linux, the oreilly books actually helped me make Linux into a productive environment, and i still find them good reference.
    I hope that the BSD book does the same.


    free 31337 translation onthis link

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  9. Re:Guesses... Wonders... on NASA Demonstrates Space Sails (In The Lab) · · Score: 1

    the photons are created, newton sux...

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  10. Re:Guesses... Wonders... on NASA Demonstrates Space Sails (In The Lab) · · Score: 1

    the source will react, yes, but it will be of a hoooge mass, and move very little, so it wont matter.

    velocity is not the same a momentum - momentum is mass*velocity.

    photons dont have momentum in the newtonian physics model

    since when the photons collide with the sail, they are destroyed, then energy is conserved

    the process works by basically pressure difference (i think)and it is a load of stuff behind it which creates enough pressure difference to move the sail

    hope this helps..

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  11. Re:WTF network is that? on 'Texting' Takes Over The Philippines · · Score: 1

    probly orange - everyday 50 sounds like it....

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  12. Re:Computers don't work in the classroom on Are Computers in Classrooms Bad for Learning · · Score: 1

    although the geman schooling system is well developed, and good, germany as a country has a severe lack of computer technology professionals (admins techs programmers etc) and its government is offering incentives for german speaking techies to come and work in their country.
    correlation?
    just a thought...

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  13. Re:Not as bad as some fear on French Prosecutor Opens Echelon Probe · · Score: 1

    the whole problem with this lies in the fact that if an ISP is doing its job properly, then their dial up sever (or whatever) should be secure against hax4ors and other nasties. if the bill goes ahead, then the ISP's are going to have to provide effectively root access to all their servers. This is much easier to tap and trace information than the traditional phone and letter thingys, and it can be automated.

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  14. Re:Not as bad as some fear on French Prosecutor Opens Echelon Probe · · Score: 1

    no, but the point is that the ISP must effectively provide a 'back door' to their service. this is the worrying bit.

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  15. an experiment you can try at home on Australian Scientists Produce Giant Mutant Mice · · Score: 1

    dont wear any socks, and then see if you get bigger... if you dont get it, RTFA (read the f'n article)

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  16. Some interesting links... on Printing Out A New Monitor · · Score: 1

    If you really want to know about the light emitting polymer go here to CDT's (the people who are developing the product) website.
    For another article (related, with interesting technical specs) try here

    Incidentally, the specs on this page show that its luminosity (max) is about the same of a TFT display.

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  17. Re:Oh, so THAT'S the big deal on Printing Out A New Monitor · · Score: 2
    I don't know very much abount monitors or TV's.. but I know a little bit .. A conventional monitor uses EXTREAM amounts of light to go through lots of magnets and such to bend the light to hit the monitor/TV in the right places to do different colors, etc...
    conventional monitors dont use light, they use electron beams. the electron beams (three usually) then hit a phosphorescent screen which is excited and emits light.(magnets dont bend light). The brghtness is controlled by the initial acceleration of the electrons and so different (theoretically infinite) brightness can be achieved. i dont know a lot about the new technology, but having read the article, there is of course the possibility that the more potential you apply across the ink, the brighter it is. (some electroluminescent materials work this way) remember, TFT screens are already alomst this thin, and veiwable under most conditions...


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  18. cheese farming???? on Happy Independence Day, Jose · · Score: 1

    what - does he plough it up or something?

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