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  1. Re:Jesus! on Bobby Fischer Found · · Score: 2, Insightful

    There was no US law against what Fischer did. Bush Sr. wrote an executive order forbidding US citizens from doing business in Yugoslavia. This assumes that the US executive branch has jurisdiction over its citizens while they are not on US soil. What is the legality of that?

    Also, he was not convicted by a US jury, he was indicted. To the best of my knowledge we still have an innocent until proven guilty system.

  2. Re:about on Firefox Undocumented Settings Compilation · · Score: 1

    Type about:about to find out.

  3. Re:Arrgh.. on Alan Kay Decries the State of Computing · · Score: 1

    Second, you're right. The Digital Imprimatur is a good read. There are corporate interests and social pressures pushing the net toward becoming a more centralized and controlled space. Its similar to the way large amounts of anonymous cash are being criminalized and discouraged while traceable forms of currency like debit and credit cards are encouraged. Its food for thought. My own ISP now blocks inbound port 80 and outbound port 25 (personal web and email servers) as a spam prevention measure.

    And first, someone with "Eat Goetze" as his sig is complaining about my SK joke? :-)

  4. Re:Arrgh.. on Alan Kay Decries the State of Computing · · Score: 1

    No. Peer-to-peer is the future. Look at skype - free VOIP by going direct p2p. You have every computer connected together, why not use it that way? Why go to Amazon to buy a book, when every author owns a computer connected to the network? (The late) Stephen King was ahead of his time when he experimented with selling a book directly to his customers. Intermediary sites will make that possible. That's essentially what ebay is now.

  5. Re:Who was the statue of? on Diebold Sued (Again) Over Shoddy Voting Machines · · Score: 1

    That would make the Patriot Act the Statute of Liberty??

  6. Re:A little worse then that on Diebold Sued (Again) Over Shoddy Voting Machines · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I thought you were joking until I looked it up. The Independent has an article.

    Anyway, if they wanted to make voting machines more like slots, why not put a seal on them over the screws, floppy, CD, USB, network ports. etc from the time they're certified until after the election? Tampering subject to criminal penalty. They can do it on every gas pump and supermarket scale, why not on voting machines?

  7. Re:How can you compare if binaries not avail on AMD64 Windows vs. Fedora vs. SuSE benchmarks · · Score: 1

    Xeon has a 36-bit physical address (64GB) so this isn't really a 64-bit issue either.

  8. Re:When a domain runs out of numbers... on Bar Coding The World Away · · Score: 1

    Phone systems had NAT before the internet. PBX has one or more outside telephone numbers serving many more internal extensions. DID (direct inward dial) is the equivalent of giving extensions dedicated IP addresses.

    What universal 10-digit dialing will do is allow space left in sparse area codes to be freed up. The first 6 digits will look up central office without the areacode/office hierarchy.

  9. Re:gcc is more fun on Favorite Programming Language Features? · · Score: 1
    The real computed goto is:
    GOTO (10, 20, 30, 40), J
    Just check any Fortran reference manual. My other favorite is the PowerPC EIEIO instruction.
  10. Re:Not to be different -- to be famous on The Traveling Salesman Problem Meets Starbucks · · Score: 1

    Yes. For someone interested in coffee, he could have visited these. Although the Bedford coffee pot house is in sad shape these days, it is being repaired.

  11. Re:Easy one. on Does Your Company Pay For Broadband? · · Score: 1

    IT heads like me are used to carrying a cell phone 24x7. I also set up the SSH/SCP access, filtered mail forwarding, chroot'ed FTP site, text message emergency notification and internal website that includes home and cell phone numbers of key people, including all company officers, in case of emergency.

    My company pays for my cell phone and I think they're getting a bargain.

  12. Re:I would not use MemoryStick on Linux Laptop w/ 3.5" Disk, USB, and No Hard Drive? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Look into a flash file system to minimize writes to flash and to deal with inevitable bad blocks.

  13. It works! on IP-Based Location Determination Patented · · Score: 3, Funny

    I traced a spammer to his exact location using the information provided in the database:

    1060 W. Addison St.
    Chicago, Illinois

  14. Re:What the shuttle is worth on ISS Gyro Fixed Via Spacewalk · · Score: 1

    The research that I've seen is based on how people value their own lives, as determined by the extra pay required to make them take a job with additional risk, like coal mining, for example. When you look at it that way, astronauts put negative value on their lives. Most have advanced degrees and could make a lot more money in safer lines of work. The mistake that economists make is to only consider money in the equation.

    If you consider the above post about the cost in lives of each shuttle launch, then we should just abandon the astronauts on ISS. Its not worth spending hundreds of people's lives in order to save a few, right? Especially since the long-term plan is to "go to mars" instead of space habitat research. Personally, I see more near-term value in L5 space habitats.

  15. Re:This does NOTHING for SPAM on Lead Developer of SPF Anti-Spam Scheme Interviewed · · Score: 1

    No need to change domains because of SPF, keep valu-mail.biz or whatever as long as you want. SPF will prevent you from sending mail claiming to be from citibank.com or paypal.com (should those guys ever get around to publishing TXT records). Every company is going to publish SPF just to avoid being the target of phish scams.

  16. Re:SPF on Lead Developer of SPF Anti-Spam Scheme Interviewed · · Score: 1

    I would much rather serve 1 million TXT requests then get 1 million bounced emails and my domain listed in hundreds of blacklists.

  17. Re:It's a start. on Lead Developer of SPF Anti-Spam Scheme Interviewed · · Score: 1

    No reason to do this. As he says in the article:

    Wayne Schlitt ... tracked down all the major forwarding service providers and put them into a whitelist at trusted-forwarder.org.

    So you can fail any mail with non-matching spf. Individuals will get bounces if using old-style unix .forward files and will have to update to use remailers.

  18. Re:Cure 81 doesn't work, try #82.... on Can A Bounty System Cure Spam? · · Score: 1

    That's it! Fight email that you don't like with criminal fraud! In your cell, you can at least be happy about the spammers who had to pay $20 penalty fees.

    There's nothing like overkill, except more overkill.

  19. Re:Cure 81 doesn't work, try #82.... on Can A Bounty System Cure Spam? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That's it. Everyone buy one thing from a spammer, have your credit card number stolen, and lose your credit rating! Please don't forget the scum that you are dealing with.

  20. Easy on DoJ - Making Data Public Would 'Crash System' · · Score: 3, Insightful
    SELECT * WHERE organization != "Haliburton"
    and Country != "Saudi Arabia"
    and Topic != "Energy"
    ORDER BY "Contribution Amount"
  21. Re:No 4-player... on Atari 2600 Paddle TV Game Gets It Right? · · Score: 1

    Yes. Many lunch hours were spent playing Warlords at work ca. 1980. The only other multiplayer game that compared was nsnipes.

  22. Re:Password the Modem? Require User To Verify Call on Telus Puts A Stop To 'Modem Hijacking' · · Score: 1

    because a program able to install an autodialer is also able to watch your keystrokes and remember your password.

  23. Re:How many people still use modems? on Telus Puts A Stop To 'Modem Hijacking' · · Score: 1

    ...and by the time everyone has broadband, we'll also have some kind of "pay-per-view" internet sites which will be the target of future scams. New technology is all about creating new opportunities and making money. Its never about solving old problems just for the heck of it.

  24. Re:Weird comparison on PCs Use More Sick Days Than People · · Score: 4, Funny

    I can't stand elitists, either. That puts you and me in a special class, right?

    As for nerds being enlightened, study this koan:

    A software engineer had an impending deadline. As she worked
    she found that the investors were closing in threatening
    a takeover and layoffs. The night before the deadline arrived and
    the engineer was late at work, when she found a basic flaw
    in the architecture of the software which could take months
    to fix.

    Just then the pizza arrived. How sweet it tasted!


  25. Re:One can only hope... on Linux Journal On Linux's Adoption In U.S. Courts · · Score: 1

    Especially since this article only talks about server migration. Desktops, especially in the legal field, all have Word.