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  1. Re:On a serious note, .... on Human Species May Split In Two · · Score: 1
    The U.S. is the only 1st-world country with a growing population.
    Ah. France is no longer in the 1st world?

    From http://www.insee.fr/en/ffc/pop_age4.htm:

    In 2005, 807,400 births and 537,300 deaths were registered in metropolitan France and the overseas departments. The natural growth thus rose to 270,100 people. The migratory balance is estimated to be 97,500 people. Overall, the population has thus increased by 367,600 people in one year.

  2. Re:If this is true on North Korea Says It Has Conducted Nuclear Test · · Score: 1

    Who do you think is their leader? The "president"? Think again.

  3. Re:1.6MW enough for 1,000 california homes? on Google Campus to Become Solar-powered · · Score: 1

    Ok, so it would handle the average usage of 1000 homes, but household electricity usage tends to be synchronised with the sun - the time of peak usage tends to be the same for most homes.

  4. Re:Surge in Hybrid sales... on The True Cost of Standby Power · · Score: 1

    23 cents/kWh? Wow, I'd build some nukes if I were you.

    I know - you could put 'em on long island.

  5. Re:Commendable on Google Campus to Become Solar-powered · · Score: 1

    Cooling towers? For a hydroelectric dam?

  6. 1.6MW enough for 1,000 california homes? on Google Campus to Become Solar-powered · · Score: 2, Informative

    So 1 home needs 1.6kW of electricity?

    Don't people in California have airconditioning?

    The smallest contract my electricity company (EDF) will sell is 3kW, and nobody uses that 'cos your main circuit breaker would blow if you turned on a couple of electric heaters and a microwave.

    As far as I can remember I've got an 18kW contract, so this thing would be able to power around 100 people like me.

    (Personaly I'll stick with my nice PWR thankyou).

  7. Re:Seamonkey on IceWeasel — Why Closed Source Wins · · Score: 0, Troll

    No, Mozilla are evil for saying:

    "This is free software, but if you modify it you can't use our trademarked images or name."

    Free software you can't modify - a great new invention of the Mozilla corp.

    Mozilla sort of hinted that they'd close their eyes if Debian modified their version of BlazingVulpine, but Debian isn't about Debian having the freedom to modifiy the software, it's about letting everyone have that freedom. (You know, like maybe Ubuntu, or you, or me).

  8. Re:OMG on uTube.com Business Stalled by YouTube Purchase Hype · · Score: 1

    Bad idea - vigorous plunging actions can sometimes make the tubes burst at their joins - usualy were they're hidden behind some hard/impossible to move kitchen furniture.

  9. Re:If this is true on North Korea Says It Has Conducted Nuclear Test · · Score: 1
    If Iran gets the bomb, they will only wait long enough to build 5-20 devices and figure a way to deploy them to Israel and the United States. (They might send a few into Europe for good measure)

    and your evidence for this is? How many wars has Iran started? How many times has Iran used WMD?
  10. Re:Ghostbusters on Perspectives on Spamhaus's Dilemma · · Score: 2, Funny

    Get real, Tony is George's bitch, if .UK was disconnected Tony would just say "oh, harder, harder my love" - after all, if .UK isn't disconnected then "Terrorists Win!"

  11. Re:This is interesting... on A New Angle on Martian Methane · · Score: 4, Informative
    Ok,

    1. just turning C02 + H2O + energy -> CH4 + ...
      would be seriously dumb as CH4 is a much more potent greenhouse gas than C02, and stockpiling it would harder than just stockpiling the CO2 in the first place.
    2. and turning C02 + H20 + energy -> CH4 then burning the CH4 to get C02 + energy is just a nice way of wasting energy.
    3. You're not talking about a power source, just an expensive and dangerous power transmission medium.
    4. And finaly, what on earth do you mean by fragile biological processes? Artificial processes are way more fragile than biological ones.
  12. Re:Not Google's only screwup on GMail and Sourceforge E-mail Bouncing Saga · · Score: 1

    Huh? If he's a moron he's in the right place.

    You can stick around too.

  13. Re:It works for me on Looking Back on Five Years of Windows XP · · Score: 1

    Which shitty video cards have drivers that work with XP and not 2K? In my (admittedly limited) experience drivers for one work with the other.

  14. Re:It works for me on Looking Back on Five Years of Windows XP · · Score: 1
    It's [XP is] based of the NT kernell but was aimed at the same market as 95/98.

    2K is basicaly the 95/98 UI ported to the NT kernel. XP is a minor upgrade to 2K. XP Home was marketed as a 95/98/ME replacement for home users, but XP PRO as a 2K workstation replacement.

    Why did XP becoem huge? it wasn't just because it was based off the NT kernel. It's because it had a wide range of supported devices, ran almost everythign 96/98 had and was more stable.

    What devices does XP support that 2K doesn't? What programs does XP run that 2K doesn't? Why is XP more stable than 95/98/ME - 'cos it's based on 2K.

    I am unable to understand this:

    It was aimed at the same market as 2000/NT because it lacked any of the security features.

    Are you claiming that XP was aimed at the same market as 2K? That XP lacks any of the "security features" of 2k? (For the security features - yes, it's an irritating bug in the XP home UI that you can't get the ACL's of a file - but you can fix it by changing a registry value).
  15. Re:1984. on Experts Fear Future Will be Like Sci-Fi Movies · · Score: 1

    1984 was inspired by the UK in 1948. Rationing, post-war destruction, control of the media, (Eric Blair (no relation) worked for the BBC).

  16. Re:Time Travel on Experts Fear Future Will be Like Sci-Fi Movies · · Score: 1
    Nah,

    The Slashers do not believe they should be limited by what happened in the past [i.e. destruction of all life on earth] and embrace new technology. Their official name is the Federation of the Polities, but they trace their existence back to "an alliance of progressive thinkers linked together by one of the first computer networks", whose symbol was a slash and a dot [...]


    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_Rain

    Loved reading that book on the metro on my way to work.
  17. Re:It works for me on Looking Back on Five Years of Windows XP · · Score: 1

    But why compare XP to 95/98? If you want to know whether it is different from the OS that preceeded it compare it to 2K.

    And discover that it's almost identical (as an OS, the UI has changed a bit).

  18. Re:great on Spamhaus to Ignore $11.7M Judgement · · Score: 1
    Ok, seems I may be slightly wrong here: http://www.askthe.police.uk/content/Q78.htm says:

    Using barbed/razor wire and broken glass in order to stop people getting in to your home is not advisable. You are making yourself liable to civil action as you owe a duty of care to ensure that visitors to your property are reasonably safe. As absurd as it may seem you also owe a lower duty of care to trespassers.


    So, not a crime, but you might get sued.
  19. Re:great on Spamhaus to Ignore $11.7M Judgement · · Score: 1

    You have seen someone charged with a criminal offense because they put barbed wire on a wall?

    Care to identify the case?

  20. Re:Yes/No/Maybe on Was the 2004 Election Stolen? · · Score: 1

    Uh, please name a treaty that talks about WMD's.

  21. Re:Dumb on Virgin Atlantic Bans Dell, Apple Laptops · · Score: 1

    Hey, my kid resembles that remark.

    (The only reason I take my laptop with me is so he can play half-life instead of bothering me).

  22. Re:Seat power outlets on Virgin Atlantic Bans Dell, Apple Laptops · · Score: 0

    Dump the thinkpad, get a VAIO TX3 (5-6 hours on 1 standard battery).

  23. Re:Spamhaus does alot of ignoring on Spamhaus to Ignore $11.7M Judgement · · Score: 1
    See, I was under the pretty clear impression that, even if you got an IP allocation less than a /24 (a webhosting company I used to work for had a couple of really small allocations from our ISP to cover our router interfaces), upstream providers never announced a route smaller than a /24 into the global route tables. They would aggregate smaller routes under their larger allocation and route the traffic internally to you.

    You are exactly right.

    But, I guess my question is - would a RBHL use the listed route, or the allocated block?


    Afaik they use individual addresses, escalating to allocated blocks in the case of big spam operations.

    I don't think they look at routes at all.
  24. Re:great on Spamhaus to Ignore $11.7M Judgement · · Score: 1

    And this is why no walls in the UK ever have barbed wire or broken glass on them.

    Not.

    Why bother writing something that 0.001 nanoseconds of thought would have revealed as nonsense?

  25. Re:Spamhaus does alot of ignoring on Spamhaus to Ignore $11.7M Judgement · · Score: 1
    An ISP can allocate to you as many or as few IP addresses as they have available, for example:
    $ whois 213.39.1.224
    [...]
    % Information related to '213.39.1.224 - 213.39.1.255'
     
    inetnum: 213.39.1.224 - 213.39.1.255
    netname: CALVA-FR
    [...]
    status: ASSIGNED PA
    sure looks like a /27 to me.

    Of course you're right that there isn't likely to be a direct route to anything less than a /24, but you can still get to me via my ISP:
    [...]
    % Information related to '213.39.0.0/18AS3291'
     
    route: 213.39.0.0/18
    descr: PSINet CH / Interoute
    origin: AS3291
    But what we're talking about here is spam blackhole lists, not routing, so it's no problem bunging a less than /24 in the list.