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  1. Re:Down to picking the very small nits on A Peep From Transmeta And Toshiba (And RLX) · · Score: 1

    Well of course, I'm just making the point that if it produced no heat it would require no energy, this is of course only theortically possible for quantum type computers for computations while giving no answer. Anyways the entire point was that most if not all of a processors energy use is turned into heat, and therefor a 80% deduction in one should produce an 80% deduction in the other.

  2. Re:What's wrong with Konqueror? on Mozilla 0.9 Out · · Score: 1

    Actually most of 0.8->0.9 was fixes and rewrites of core functions.

  3. Re:Not what Transmeta's employees are saying on A Peep From Transmeta And Toshiba (And RLX) · · Score: 1

    You obviously don't play the market much do you?

  4. Re:Try again re: Single Point of Failure on A Peep From Transmeta And Toshiba (And RLX) · · Score: 2

    80% less heat and 80% less power (do the two really translate so directly like that?),

    Actually yea they kinda do, as a perfect processor that would release absolutly no heat, it would use absolutly no energy though such is basically impossible, it is a thoretic possibility. Of course the monitor and other moving part devices would use energy.

  5. Re:Try again re: Single Point of Failure on A Peep From Transmeta And Toshiba (And RLX) · · Score: 1

    Actually if you read the article it does sound exactly like the cluster you described, read again.

  6. Re:More information please...? on Napster Judge Groks Filename Variation · · Score: 2

    Huh? Court cost are of course going to be paid by RIAA, or possibly Napster if they loose, there really isn't any chance that the judge would rule otherwise ??? What crack have you been smoking

  7. Re:Quickie practical explanation on Making Quantum Crypto Actually Work · · Score: 2

    As a "real" physicist can you tell me if the whole being able to transmit information from entanglement is really possible, because a few years ago I had a respectable physicist tell me that it was simply a slight of hand trick and nothing practical could really be done with it, sorta like that experiment mentioned a while back about info in light leaving a tube before the original light should have. Or has more proof of its reality come out in the last few years?

  8. Re:IPV6 in SMTP on New Mail RFCs Released · · Score: 2

    Oh so what your saying is that "sendmail" or other has to support IPv6 even if it isn't actually used. Is it not supported now?? I havn't really kept up with things.

  9. Re:IPV6 in SMTP on New Mail RFCs Released · · Score: 2

    Where did you get this from, the RFC does support IPv6 but it also supports IPv4, and in fact I quote "SMTP is independent of the particular transmission subsystem and requires only a reliable ordered data stream channel."

  10. Re:Red Hat, the only serious distribution. on Red Hat Linux 7.1 Release Announcement · · Score: 2

    Not always, freqently slaves are taken to be rented or sold for sex, it even happends in the US, though significantly less than other countries.

  11. Re:Ummmm... on HOW-TO: Asteroid -> Strategic Weapon · · Score: 2

    And very importantly, you can destroy a nuke before it explodes, and it doesn't go off, you destroy an asteroid, well it may help some.

  12. Re: if I count correctly ... on Dave Winer On Microsoft, SOAP, XML-RPC In NYT · · Score: 2

    Well, actually it was because the computer refused to let me install '97, whenever I uninstalled 2000 and installed '97 it would tell me my license was invalid when I tried to run any '97 programs. Messed with it for a while and finally gave up, and installed 2000 on a few computers that needed to directly interoperate with that one computer. Then I got complaints from other groups about interoperability, even though it was rare that they shared documents, and they could have manually converted, I got tired of them complaining and installed it on all computers
    N=20 actually, not a huge number. Anyways shortly after doing do it occured to me that I could have probably reinstalled windows and been able to installed '97 on the initial machine, but it was too late. And I felt pretty stupid about it :)

  13. Re:102 on 101 Dumbest Dot-Com Moments · · Score: 2

    Wow, when did that happen, I didn't even realize it, but its true. Now, I'm trying to remember the site that used to be at slashdot.com, and I can't :(

  14. Re:How are they going to do this? on Windows XP to Target MP3 Files · · Score: 2

    Well, not exactly altering the conversion process, they will simply make other encoders crash, so you will be forced to use their encoder, which does exactly what it advertises to do to your content so smile :)

  15. Re:How useful is this? on Dave Winer On Microsoft, SOAP, XML-RPC In NYT · · Score: 1

    Just to comfort your fears someone has to get access to a telnet or something simular to run X there is simply no other way, and X offers no more access than the person already had with the command line. Now if you do run a remote X connection there are security problems of such a connection being tapped and possibly taken over, but that is solved in other mannors.

  16. Re:sad on Dave Winer On Microsoft, SOAP, XML-RPC In NYT · · Score: 1

    I remember I upgraded several computers in my office simply because a computer I bought came with office 2000 and it simply refused to allow me to reinstall office 97, in reflection I should have formatted and reinstalled windows completly, but as I can get office 2000 for less than $50 a copy it didn't seem worth the trouble :)

  17. Re:May be useful on Open Power Management Console · · Score: 2

    Its not about how much power they use, its about how they completly screwed up their deregulation process, creating absolutly no monitary insentive for the creation of new power plants, or power production in the first place. This lead to a power grid made to support much less people than are currently in California. With proper insentives for power production and a reasonable population growth rate, its not difficult to keep up with demands.

  18. Re:I thought the keyring was encrypted on Is Encryption Really Secure? · · Score: 2

    You obviously don't understand
    93^50 is 2600000000000000000000000000000000000000
    000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 0
    000000000000000000

    that should be 97 0's I may have miss counted
    but anyways thats approxmatly the same as true 327 bit encryption

  19. Re: yes, and earth's rotation will stop too on Wave/Sea Power - What Are the Dangers? · · Score: 2

    Ok so I made up the 100 billion, I can never remember numbers but it was something along those lines maby it was 100 million but that sounds too short, shrugs.

  20. Re:yes, and earth's rotation will stop too on Wave/Sea Power - What Are the Dangers? · · Score: 2

    Well, the thing with the moon is kinda true. Heard a serious physicist say that the moon will crash into the earth in about 100 billion years (I made up that number don't remember what exactly it was) and that our sucking energy from its rotation through tidal dams will reduce that by a few hundred years.

  21. Re:4p! on The Guts Of An iPAQ · · Score: 3

    Suprisingly enough Compaq makes great laptops and other small devices, and of course they are involved with alphas, now when it comes to x86 desktops from Compaq, I wouldn't touch one with a 10 foot pole.

  22. Re:.NET on Windows Marketing Executive Doug Miller · · Score: 2

    No, they stated they would bring .NET server support to Linux, no mention of clients.

  23. Re:Wondering... on Don't Trust Code Signed by 'Microsoft Corporation' · · Score: 3

    Actually its only accepts code also signed by the identical certificate as this is a different certificate but the same name it would not automatically accept it based on a previous acceptance of "Microsoft"

  24. Re:Unconstitutionality? on ACLU And Libraries Challenge CIPA · · Score: 2

    Yes, but essentially the federal government is taking money from people in Texas, by way of taxes (tounge twister) just to give it back to the people in a mannor that controls said people. So I can't honestly see justifying such controls. Honestly I do understand the need for such taxes on the federal level, so as to distribute money from the rich states and give it to the poorer states. But taking money from a state and giving it back to that same state, is just a loophole around the fact that the federal government can't directly control said state.

  25. Re:Sorry on Broadband From On High But Not In Orbit · · Score: 1

    Formatting got fried.. but you get the point (I tried to do it as plain old text, but it kept telling me it had junk characters in it)