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  1. Re:Summary, for the non-physicists: on Experiment Shows Neutrinos Have Mass · · Score: 1

    And visable light contains Photons, witch have mass so your saying that light can not travel at the speed of light?

  2. Re:500 miles? on GM Investing in Fuel Cells · · Score: 1

    RTFA - They plan to use power left over from running the car(however small) to get some H2 from the waste H2O. This would not make a perpetual motion machine, but would alow you to reuse some of the wasted energy.

  3. Re:500 miles? on GM Investing in Fuel Cells · · Score: 1

    Bull, Most Handa Accords have a 8-10 gal tank and get 28 - 32 mpg at most you'll get 320 miles out of a tank of gas. Most small cars can drive about 300 miles on a tank.

  4. Re:Same for Digital Cable? on Capture MPEG From TiVo · · Score: 1

    Same here, but the smart card slot is more for a credit card type card then a PC-Card.

  5. Re:Turn of face time on Capture MPEG From TiVo · · Score: 1
    A CD-R on an ISA IDE card? Tell me your joking. try a SCSI card(AHA1540) and an old SCSI CD-R.

    Or an old SCSI card that supports disk spaning and mount the arry as what ever folder TiVo uses.

  6. Re:No need to call. on IPIX Shuts Down Free Software Developer - Again · · Score: 1
    IPIX is only free to view the images. Not to create them. They do intend to sell this product in fact they already do.

    check out www.westcor.com

  7. Re:This is silly, read the articles! on The Fiber Age Meets The Power Grid · · Score: 1
    Is glass stronger than steel?

    It can be, depends on grade of steel and grade of glass. But, the steel will be much cheeper.

  8. Re:stupidest thing I've ever heard on The Fiber Age Meets The Power Grid · · Score: 1

    But your carbon/steel wire will cost up to 100 times what the steel wire will cost. Carbon fiber can be made to ~1000 ksi but would shatter like glass if struck, and would cost and unreal amount of money.

  9. Re:Stronger? on The Fiber Age Meets The Power Grid · · Score: 2

    No, but the Fiber lines are much smaller so you can pack them in. The steel cores are much stronger then they need to be, to limit the amount of sag. Maybe they should try kevlar/nylon mix to support the cables it would be costly but much stronger.

  10. Re:VW Lupo 3l on Diesel Cars - High-Tech Low Tech · · Score: 1

    Here in Phoenix AZ, $1.63 is for the cheepest of the cheep. $1.92 for 92 oct, but two years ago we had the higest gas prices in the US at $1.25 for 87oct. Now we are a little lower than avrage. Ps On Junkyard Wars they built cars that got 200-250 M/g in only 10 hours!

  11. Re:Sniffing keyboards on Security - Logitech Wireless Mice & Keyboards Can Be Sniffed · · Score: 1

    They do in a way. All most all keyboards use 8 bit microcontrolers with 255 possable keys(haven't seen any with that many) each bit pattern will prduce a diffrent RF pattern(tone).

  12. Re:Tempest on Security - Logitech Wireless Mice & Keyboards Can Be Sniffed · · Score: 2
    You can't scan wired keyboards and mice.

    Yes, you can. Mice and keyboards generaly use out dated(cheep) microcontrolers what you do is use an RF reciver to scan in the frq of the controler. From this you can put the key strokes back togather. Most keyboards use just a few controlers and most of them use the same look up tables. With older keyboards you could listen to them from 100's of feet. Now its more like 25-50 feet. I have also worked on forcing RF in to the controler, to make it produce keystrokes didn't work very well but can be done with fairly simple microcontrollers.

  13. Re:Tempest on Security - Logitech Wireless Mice & Keyboards Can Be Sniffed · · Score: 1

    I made a box that could puck up keystrokes from a Intel 805X based keyboard from about 15'. I know some one how used to copy Atari coders from a van outside their office. As long as you know what kind of keyboard they have it's really not that hard.

  14. Get a life on First Legal Test of the GPL · · Score: 2
    If they kept the GPL'ed code seprate from their code ie use GPL'ed librays and wrote there own interface compiled as seprate files then the files that DO NOT contain GPL'ed code would not be subject to the GPL.

    If I write a prograg that uses one file(compiled) that has GPL'ed code then, that file is subject to the GPL any other files that do not contain GPL'ed code are NOT SUBJECT to the GPL.

  15. Re:interesting..but.. on Superconducting Power Cable in Detroit · · Score: 1
    compress the nitrogen (which would heat it.)

    Compressing it will cool it off that is how A/C works. Commpressing forces heat(Energy) out.

  16. Re:but the onboard video? on Dual Athlon Motherboards Creep Closer · · Score: 1

    That is what the AGP 4X slot is for, anyone bother to RTFA???

  17. Re:Semtex. on Is Encryption Really Secure? · · Score: 1
    NT is not any fun anymore.

    Dos boot disk with Mount NTFS on it and any file on your computer is mine!!

    That is why everything I need to keep safe stays on the smart card in my camera, and I carry it around like a 64meg floppy.

  18. Re:Some clarification on Inexpensive Storage of Terrabytes on WORM Media? · · Score: 1
    The most important thing for you is to make sure you will have some way to access your old data. You should be looking for backwards compatibility!

    Or you will need to keep the old system around for a long time.

  19. Re:Some things coming soon, not fast enough. on Inexpensive Storage of Terrabytes on WORM Media? · · Score: 1
    First off, OTG sucks, but there really is not anything better out there.

    Second, you can use any platform for your storage with OTG so I would not call it NT only. Disk extender works best with WMRM type drives (SNAP server anyone??.) I would setup a data warehouse if you don't already have one (there is a new SNAP server coming out 750Gig raid 5.) Also, you will want to upgrade to lager disks. Use the warehouse to buffer your older data, you won't have to change disks as often.

    DLT will make for less disks but I don't know how long you need to keep this data. Upgrading(if you can) the system you have is your best bet, maybe you can get something that is backwards compatable.

  20. Re:All software has a cost. on MS Passport Privacy Policy Revised · · Score: 1
    Their Software? What about my thoughts.

    Sorry, but no matter what their ToS says some things are still illegal.

  21. Not designed to kill???? on Ask Congressman Boucher About Internet Regulations · · Score: 1
    "The M16 and the AR15 are automatic and semi-automatic assault rifles actually designed to injure. While a shot to the head or heart will kill, a shot most anywhere else (even the hand) will result in instant and severe immobilazation. The thinking is that medics come for the injured and, then you shoot them with real guns... "

    First off the weapons you are talking about are the same, one is the military version that has a 3 round burst setting(M-16A2 the only one in production.) As far as designed not to kill, the 5.56mm(.223) is one of the deadliest rounds made. It's short and light weight, so once it impacts its target it will flip end over end. Most rifle rounds will pass thought causing very little tissue damage. This is a weapon that IS designed to kill. In war you don't want to wound your enemy, a wounded person can still kill you!

  22. Re:They'll need a constitutional amendment on Congress Reconsiders Internet Sales Tax · · Score: 1

    That would apply to the person/company exporting the goods. Not the buyer, you are not exporting something you are importing

  23. Re:Runs into the same problems that gamers see on Whistler "Anti-Piracy" Tools Tie OS To Machine · · Score: 1

    Do you have a bunch to trained monkey to create keys? Any computer-generated numbers will have a pattern, computers cannot generate truly random numbers, not even the PIV's random number generator.

  24. Re:Such a difficult Task... on eBay : Where "Opt-out" Means "Keep Trying" · · Score: 1

    Not only that in most states if you own your house YOU pay to have your trash picked up. So there wasting your money.

  25. Re:Will GTK become Yet Another X? on GTK+ without X! · · Score: 1

    I think it would run better the other way around.