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  1. Re:Anyone using this instead of folding, sucks on SETI@Home Close to Half-Billionth Result · · Score: 2

    If the corporation own the gene, then people who can't afford the treatment/drugs will keep on dying. It's worse to have the cure and not afford it.

  2. Re:Donate on "eCycling" Pilot Program in 5 States and D.C. · · Score: 2

    If your hardware is too old to be usefull, they will properly dispose of the hazardous material, or direct to to a place that will.

  3. Donate on "eCycling" Pilot Program in 5 States and D.C. · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Others may be able to make use of your old PC. There are many places arround the country, like Freebytes in Atlanta.

  4. Re:Many groups doing this on Reduce, Reuse, Recycle · · Score: 2

    If you're in the Atlanta area, Check out FreeBytes.

  5. Just to Nitpick on Microsoft And The GPL/LGPL · · Score: 4, Informative

    Mozilla is licenced under the Netscape Public Licence, not the GPL.

  6. Rosen's full quote on Slashback: Favoritism, Alternacy, Moo · · Score: 4, Informative

    "The Gateway commercial is fun, but their website is nothing but a gateway to misinformation. No one has proposed anything that would 'prevent all digital copying.' If Gateway truly believed that illegal copying hurts all artists and labels who make the music we enjoy, they wouldn't be relying on these misleading scare tactics -- they'd be working with us to find a solution to the piracy problem. If only they would devote a little bit of the millions of dollars they're spending on this ad campaign to help stop illegal downloading...but that wouldn't help them sell more CD burners, would it?"

  7. Re:JPEG does have a lossless mode on JPEG2000 Coming Soon · · Score: 2

    Ogg Vorbis uses MDCT and not wavelets.

    See the FAQ for details.

  8. Trade*mark on Intel Puts The Squeeze On ... A Yoga Foundation? · · Score: 2

    Is it just me or do trademarks have nothing to do with specific trades anymore. I could understand Intel being pissed about another chip maker using "foo inside" to promote their products. Hey it's just like patents, too broad and seriously abused.

  9. Re:Future? on VP3.com: Future VP3 Releases To Be LGPL · · Score: 2

    According to the VP3 homepage the source is already available.

  10. I do have both on 30-pin SIMMs · · Score: 2

    I have a 4MB one for my key-chain, with ~50 more in a box. I also happen to have virtually every version of slackware since 3.5

    Fun stuff!

  11. Re:Ummmm, on Jupiter To Be Visible · · Score: 2

    The big deal is that somebody at CNN wrote about it. Nothing really special. If you wanted something special one of Jupiter's moons made a transit across the surface of the planet last thursday. That was cool.

  12. Re:Perhaps /. is a bad place for this. on Linux Kernel 2.5.1 is Out · · Score: 2

    didn't you read the from line:

    from the only-the-brave dept

    It's obvious that only experienced kernel developers need apply.

  13. Re:2.4? on Linux Kernel 2.5.1 is Out · · Score: 2

    Should be only bugfixes for now, but I guess it's up to Marcelo.

  14. Re:Field day on Wanted - 45 Mile Wireless Broadband? · · Score: 2

    Kind of like RFC 2549, IP over Avian. Might requrie messing with packet size to work smoothly.

  15. Re:I think... on Embedded Open Motif Released · · Score: 2

    I was refering to QT. Works with X11, Win32, and embedded.

  16. News for Nerds. on Did Whales Evolve From Pigs? · · Score: 2

    Yup, Stuff that matters.

  17. Re:100% compression on Parrot: For Real · · Score: 2

    LZIP featured here. Offers the ability to compress files down to 0% of their original size.

  18. International Dark-Sky Association on Light Pollution: Beacon in Chicago · · Score: 4, Informative

    For those interested, the IDA provides information on what the problem is, how to help, and has some pictures that illustrate the problem well.

  19. Freebytes on What Do You Do With Old Computer Parts? · · Score: 1

    Freebytes, in Atlanta, is a 501(c)3 that will take almost any computer, fix it, and give it to other non-profits and schools. If your hardware is too old, they will properly dispose of it for you.

  20. I think... on Embedded Open Motif Released · · Score: 1

    It would be great, if there weren't already a better looking, more popular option.

  21. Re:bring it down on a shuttle, and sell on E-bay on The Hubble's Fate In Debate at NASA · · Score: 1

    Yeah, Like I'm going to buy a 99" warped mirror.

  22. Keep 'em comming on 2.4.9 Kernel Released · · Score: 4, Funny
    Please use mirrors:
    http://kernel.org/mirrors/

    2.4.9 Changelog

    Wow, 2.4.8 lasted a whole week.

  23. Re:Scheier recommends PGP on What Encryption Do People In The Know Use? · · Score: 2, Informative

    For those who like to look a the source, there is GPG.

  24. Re:Translation on Win $200,000 In RSA's Factoring Challenge · · Score: 2
    Yes, the number of secure keys decreases by one, but there are (by my calculations) 1.89e151 512bit prime numbers. We will have quantum computers before we run out of numbers.

    They are doing this to continually prove how difficult it is to factor numbers. Even with everybody's new 1.7GHz P4's it still takes forever.

  25. It is dark. on Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest · · Score: 4

    It is stormy. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.