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  1. Re:Doesn't anyone read the actual article? on Lunar Space Elevator Instead? · · Score: 1
    Have there been any long term studies of the effects of space conditions on materials like Kevlar and M5? The ultraviolet, radiation and temperature extremes can be harsh in the long term.

    With more than one cable, you could also do intra-lunar transfers. (Handy for hanging out the washing too!)

  2. Re:Oh deary me... on SBC's VoIP End Run · · Score: 1

    Lowering the priority on packets from elsewhere might get them into contract trouble if they're high enough up the food chain to have peering agreements.

  3. Re:Next can some enterprising physics student do.. on Build Your Own Cyclotron · · Score: 1

    I forget. Was that Duran Duran's organ or the pill-sex thing?

  4. Re:No big deal..... on Build Your Own Cyclotron · · Score: 1
    I remember when kids chemistry sets still had the dangerous stuff. "Fire on an ice cube" was always a favourite.

    These days, if you can buy them, I doubt they even come with the little baking-soda/vineger rocket.

  5. Re:water filter on Hacking Vodka · · Score: 1

    No no. It's spelled Hoka. Not sure it's vodka, but it's said to have a kick.

  6. Re:Half Life 2 on Does Anyone Still Play-by-Mail? · · Score: 1

    I've been playing in deathmatch, and some #$%@ has been camping on my spawn point for weeks!

  7. Re:Am too. on Microsoft Patents 'IsNot', Enlists WTO · · Score: 2, Funny

    What VB really needs is a WhoCares() function and a FsckIt() procedure.

  8. Re:Just asking for trouble on Valve Takes the Offensive on Warez Users? · · Score: 1

    Zowie! The pirate warez version comes with a TOS and a box?

  9. Re:Take a lesson on Valve Takes the Offensive on Warez Users? · · Score: 1

    Only if it tries to open a server socket. There isn't any outgoing block in the SP2 firewall.

  10. Re:Why not release it? on Gates 'World's Most-Spammed Man' · · Score: 1

    The filters are his Mole Man Army. He doesn't release them because they're chained to their desks.

  11. Re:Gee. Thanks. on Ballmer Threatens Linux Patent Lawsuits · · Score: 1

    I said it brought tears to my eyes, but so do onions and pepper-spray.

  12. Re:Does anybody know Steve's birth day? on Ballmer Threatens Linux Patent Lawsuits · · Score: 1

    Don't you think he'd be better suited for the "baby back ribs" look? (Just imagining him doing the "developers developers developers" dance in a kilt brings tears to my eyes.)

  13. Re:You mean creationist claims #CC111? on Humans in America 25,000 Years Ago? · · Score: 1

    Ummm .. if you place them side-by-side, you are comparing them. ;)

  14. Re:I've wondered at this myself on Humans in America 25,000 Years Ago? · · Score: 2, Informative

    You don't date the rock. (At least, not with radio-carbon which depends on living processes to concentrate an isotope of carbon.) You date the organic stuff around it. That's why it's important to find an undisturbed strata with few gopher holes, or 22,000 year old archaeology sites. (And everyone knows that digging a flower bed will suck the rocks through the soil for quite a distance.)

  15. Re:Used for voting on Humans in America 25,000 Years Ago? · · Score: 1

    That would explain the circles of hanging stones. Obviously the site of an ancient recount.

  16. Re:Canopy, not Microsoft, requested destruction on Should We Follow Novell v. MS in Detail? · · Score: 1

    So Canopy didn't want to be canopic.

  17. Re:Space elevator practicalities on Space Elevator Prototype Climbs MIT Building · · Score: 2, Funny

    If it's a tall illuminated tower, it's not very natural. Maybe we could leave the lights off and select for smarter airplanes?

  18. Re:HA! RMS was there first! on Bill Gates Proclaims End of Passwords · · Score: 1

    Ah, sorry. Lost the ironic message that a security system using a cryptokey device is in any way close to what Richard Stallman would want. :)

  19. Re:Count me as a fellow Lone Coder on Is The Lone Coder Dead? · · Score: 1

    If it's not about making it up on support, how many people will buy your program? What's your value-added that you provide over just downloading it and installing it? The alternative is to use a services/subscription model where people have to pay to connect to your servers to use it. (MMPOGs, etc.)

  20. What about malware? on Is The Lone Coder Dead? · · Score: 1
    Is there still a niche for the lone coder in malware? There's certainly no patents to worry about .. I think. ("A Technique for One-Click Trojan Infection"?)

    Of course, over the last year with the alliance between spammers and virus writers, has the business grown to the point that it's become just another wage-slave job? (With the benefit of a possible star-appearance on Bubba-Eye for Script-Kiddy Guy, the complete "lifestyle-makeover" reality show with a 5-10 year run.)

    Just how large are the visible sort-of-legal spyware companies in Windows market? (The Bill-Gatorware companies, in other words.)

  21. Re:Not to worry... on Is The Lone Coder Dead? · · Score: 1
    They send the software to their team in India for reverse-engineering. They bring the results back to the US where the idiot patent is valid.

    Or they secretly reverse-engineer, and then pull a lawyerly trick like "It seems to use our method, please produce the source code in court to prove it doesn't."

  22. Re:WHAT?! on The Verdict on WinXP SP2? · · Score: 1
    Different sounds depending on the port/protocol rather than amount. Defaults if nothing is set. Not quite so mellow as raindrops. (I did have a fountain SFX, but it sounded so much like something else that it cracked me up too much.) User configurable, of course.

    It's at the URL in my header. If nothing else, it's a nice collection of wav files. Source available once I clean it up. Just ZoneAlarm support so far.

  23. Re:Man in the middle attacks? on Bill Gates Proclaims End of Passwords · · Score: 1

    It's a valid question for any OS. A root-kit'ed Linux box has the same problem. If this system depends on trusting the PC, then they've installed an armour door on a straw house.

  24. Re:It sucks on The Verdict on WinXP SP2? · · Score: 1
    Over the years, I've been burned too many times. Things like: changing one LAN setting, and it turning on file/printer sharing for the whole internet. Installing an application that changes a core OS DLL that breaks many other apps. SP2 decides that my LAN Subnet must be all my 255.255.255.0 DHCP neighbours on my ISP.

    I don't trust their default choices, and if their firewall had any outgoing blocking, I'd expect that every MS app would automatically add itself to the Exceptions list.

  25. Re:Biometrics are not sufficient by themselves on Bill Gates Proclaims End of Passwords · · Score: 1
    The press release (the first link is fubar) didn't mention anything about defence from man in the middle attacks. Like, maybe, from a PC with dozens of trojans and spyware apps running...

    They also have to protect the process of security verification. The card is a seperate black box, but I wonder how good the link protection is through a compromised PC.