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  1. Re:Recycled Comment on Tridgell Reveals Bitkeeper Secrets · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You know you can look at the packets going both into AND out of your computer, right? Why would you need physical control of the server to see its packets?

  2. Re:Tridge Speaks on Torvalds Unveils New Linux Control System · · Score: 1

    What client access license did he agree to exactly? When was it presented to him?

    Of course I've heard of client access licenses, they just aren't relevant to the discussion.

  3. Re:Tridge Speaks on Torvalds Unveils New Linux Control System · · Score: 1

    He's letting someone else run the servers for him (using publicly accessible servers).

  4. Re:Draconian? on Congress Declares War on File Leakers · · Score: 1

    No kidding, who was ever physically or financially hurt by the act of carrying a concealed weapon? Oops, I bumped into you, couldn't see your knife under your jacket, and it cut me? It's pretty hard to imagine.

  5. Re:BS on Kernel Changes Draw Concern · · Score: 1

    I figured there must be. And great, my serious question got me modded troll. I just didn't understand how there could be no music drivers in linux, was the grandparent just joking?

  6. Re:Rare? on Nintendo Revolution Under Wraps Past E3 · · Score: 1

    When was the first time?

  7. Re:Black holes also being created at RHIC? on Data Suggests Early Universe was Superfluid · · Score: 1

    Well, while I believe the current theory about small black holes being too small to devour the earth, it's not for the reason you describe. A 200kg black hole might well be large enough to devour the earth. The problem comes not from the gravitational attraction of 200 kg, but from the growth of that mass. As the black hole is drawn towards the center of mass of the earth, it comes into contact with matter. For instance, it might fall from you experimental apparatus to the floor. Suddenly a small part of the floor joins the mass, and now it masses more than 200kg. Every bit of matter that it comes into contact with on its way to the center of the earth adds to the mass. Soon it reaches the center of the earth, where it resides inside a small vacuum shell that is generated by local mass falling into the hole. Since the center of the earth is presumed fluid, more and more matter continues to fall into the hole, and the hole grows. Eventually, the center of the earth is hollow, and the crust cracks, and the remainder of the earth falls into the hole.

    Bottom line, a sufficiently massive black hole falling into the center of the earth is a scenario which ends badly for us all.

  8. Re:Black holes also being created at RHIC? on Data Suggests Early Universe was Superfluid · · Score: 1

    Just so you know, current theory suggests that such tiny black holes aren't self sustaining, and just evaporate before they have any chance to become earth devouring.

  9. Re:BS on Kernel Changes Draw Concern · · Score: 0, Troll

    What, there's no midi support in linux?

  10. Re:In other news... on InPhase Announces 300GB Holographic Discs · · Score: 1

    And by the time it is released, no one will mind.

  11. Re:Possible? Yeah on Finnish Firm Claims Fake P2P Hash Technology · · Score: 1

    But that's not a true assumption: the size of files _is_ bounded, in this universe anyway.

  12. Re:They have cracked strong hashes, huh? on Finnish Firm Claims Fake P2P Hash Technology · · Score: 1

    So then you hack a client which blacklists the best hosts on the network by falsely reporting that they are spewing garbage, and you run this from a few different sites so the reports seem to the tracker to be coming from a variety of sources.

  13. Re:Odd examples. on Plastic That Changes Shape In Light · · Score: 1

    How about plastic displays that use light activation to make a solid display that requires no backlighting.

  14. Re:I want animated program icons on Longhorn Preview · · Score: 1

    I am shocked, shocked to receive a helpful reply from AC. Thanks.

  15. Re:Heh on Longhorn Preview · · Score: 1

    That would be addition, not enhancement. If microsoft wanted to express that they would need to say: "Longhorn: now with security!"

  16. Re:Is it worth it? on Longhorn Preview · · Score: 1

    Can you run that dir command on a system with a terabyte hard disk? Did that filesystem have security and recovery features?

  17. Re:I want animated program icons on Longhorn Preview · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What do you replace the default shell with?

  18. Re:the answer is.. on Does Adblock Violate A Social Contract? · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm not sure I'll be thankful i'm alive if all i've got to eat is spam. Some things are a fate worse than death.

  19. the preexisting contract on Does Adblock Violate A Social Contract? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Stated that websites weren't allowed to pop-up advertisements. When they started to do so, a renegotiation of the contract became necessary, and the new contract states that while web sites may attempt to pop up windows, I am free to disallow that on my system.

    If web sites have a problem with this, they need to learn to read the fine print before they sign.

  20. Re:Player Model? on AACS Specifications Released · · Score: 1

    Except, that's going to be a secure encrypted path with the new HDTVs.

  21. Re:Huh? on Sousveillance in Seattle - Watching the Watchers · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually, you're incorrect on part of that. The law says that if they sell you alcohol, they get held responsible, and that their only protection is to go through a proper identification process.

    In california, for example, they may get hit with:
    #

    Sale to minors: maximum penalty of $250 and/or 24-32 hours Community Service
    #

    Sale to minors - 2nd offense: maximum penalty of $500 and/or 36-48 hours of Community Service

    So they need to check your id to protect themselves.

  22. Re:Will it work? on Google Readies Platform for Video Distribution · · Score: 1

    But then you have googles ability to delist you, and as opposed to p2p it could actually work.

  23. Re:Doesn't really mean much... on Survey Reveals Americans Support Blog Censorship · · Score: 2, Funny

    It depends on whether or not they're covered with dangerous bacteria or not, I suppose.

  24. Re:Doesn't really mean much... on Survey Reveals Americans Support Blog Censorship · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I really felt like the country was going backward during those 8 years. ;-)

  25. Re:Think Twice .... on Start-up Granted Injunction Against Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Then you should support my point ... whatever man can do to free, enable, and support his fellow man should be your path. Microsoft stands for the very opposite of that point of view in nearly every way. Acting against evil in a non-violent way is nearly the ideal course in my view.