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  1. Re:A bit too enthusiastic IMO.. on NASA's Shuttle Plans · · Score: 1
    The foam isn't to stop anything from overheating, it's to stop the liquid hydrogen and oxygen in the fuel tank from causing the humid Florida air to condense and form ice on the outside of the tank.


    Have they thought about moving the launches to Arizona, New Mexico, or Nevada?
  2. Re:Intelligent Design is bollocks on Butterfly Unlocks Evolution Secret · · Score: 1
    For thousands of years people have tried to prove the existence of god. They all have failed. There is not a shred of usable evidence. Nothing.

    The biggest flaw I see with all these arguments about evolution vs. ID/creationism is that everyone focuses in on how life got here and how was created and/or evolved. Why doesn't anyone ever ask 'How did the universe get here?' The most common answer would be 'the big bang', but where did the matter and energy for the big bang come from?

    Who's to say that someone didn't create the largest Rube Goldberg device ever known? Life might be just an accident, or it could be the purpose.

    I don't know if life is because of ID, creationism, or evolution, but I do know that matter and energy doesn't just come into existance from nothing and that means to me that there has to be a higher being that existed before anything else.
  3. Re:Negative Influence? on Thompson Goes After Sims 2 Nudity · · Score: 1

    I'm a parent and I'm going to complain to the FCC, Hillary, or whoever in the government will listen to me about /.

    I've seen /. posts with filthy language, racism, sexual innuendo, extreme right AND extreme left ideas, and all kinds of links to hacking, porn, how to hack porn, how to hack games for porn, porn games, and goatse.
    My kid could hop on the computer at any time and go to this disgusting site. There's no protections or ratings anywhere!</sarcasm>

    There once was a time when parents were involved in their kid's lives. Now they just put them in front of the tv or computer and let the great electronic nannies(or is it nannys?) take over. Then, it's the broadcaster's fault when they watch a TV-PG/MA show. Why don't parents take responsibility for raising their own children any more and instead blame everyone else for their mistakes?

  4. Re:It's for the children! on U.S. House Votes to Extend Patriot Act · · Score: 1
    If you'll read that, you should notice that it gives the President complete authority to use any action he deems appropriate even for individual 'persons' so there is no oversight provided by Congress

    How long until a president determines that Congress or SCOTUS "aided a terrorist" by doing something he doesn't agree with and disolves congress and/or the courts to "prevent future attacks"?
    Once the public is used to the PATRIOT act being the norm, they'll put in something just a little more restrictive and wait until it becomes the norm. Eventually, with this much power, I think it's just a matter of time.
  5. Flash cookies on Net Marketers Worried as Cookies Lose Effectiveness · · Score: 1

    Didn't macromedia already put out an article on how to disable 'flash cookies'?
    Just wait until they pay MS a bunch of money and IE comes with a cookie-type system you can't disable.

  6. Re:Sophistry at its finest... on SpamSlayer - should we DDOS spammers? · · Score: 1

    I don't think the "Do not spam list" will work until there is a way to verify where the email came from. Until that happens, any list is just going to be a ready to use list of known valid email addresses.
    The only reason the "Do not call list" works, is because when you pick up a phone, the phone company knows exactly where you are. You can be pretty sure that the number on the caller-id is where the user is calling from. However, this might change if more telemarketers start using VOIP. There's been instances where you can forge the originating caller's number.

  7. Re:Outstanding on Longhorn to Require Monitor-Based DRM · · Score: 1
    Already happening. Try accessing MSNBC.com's free video content with anything but Windows IE - won't work.

    And from the flash popup box...
    "Watch it any way you want" <font size=0 color='blue'>as long as it's using a certain browser, on a certain OS, using a certain media player</font>
  8. Re:Get them young huh? on Microsoft's 10-year-old Certified Professional · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I've taken(and passed) 3 W2K MCP tests. W2K Prof installing, config, and admin, W2K server installing, config, and admin, and a IE/IEAK test.
    They are all about 'what is the default install dir?', 'where do you add and change users?'.
    Very few of the questions actually did any problem solving such as 'Your workstation has no network, use this sim to fix it'. I believe the hardest sim was for server and it was 'set up a network printer and share it for the 'accounting' user group to use between 8am and 5pm'

  9. Re:Legal precedents ? on The Internet Archive Sued Over Stored Pages · · Score: 1
    there is no special exemption to copyright because you're Google or the Internet Archive
    Actually, there is.
    Other articles have stated that this also applies to web pages unless the author requests removal.
  10. Re:Microsoft and allies are wrong about experience on Microsoft's 'Hands-On' Linux Lab · · Score: 1

    Under RH/Fedora there's a small program called redhat-config-httpd. It's as easy/easier to set up apache as it is to set up IIS. As a parent post said, if you need something more than what either gui can do, at least you can edit httpd.conf on apache. Trying to futz with the metabase/registry on IIS is scary.

  11. Re:Relax! on VeriSign Can Raise .net Prices in 2007 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Since they are the sole suppliers of .net domains to everyone, normal free-market pricing doesn't come into play. If you want or must have a .net domain because your domain name fits with it or a business need, you're going to pay whatever verisign says to pay. It's like going to the doctor and wanting drug X that does everything you need with few side-effects, but only being able to afford less effective generic drug Y because multiple companies make it.

    If you are the sole supplier of something, whether it's a tld, OS, or drug, you can charge whatever you want and free market be damned.

  12. Re:Remember the part-timers... on EU Proposes Online Music System · · Score: 2, Informative
    From the US Copyright office docs:
    Register your copyright anytime, but remember that, if registration is made within three months before an infringement of the work, the owner can collect statutory damages and attorney's fees in court action. If the work is not registered, he or she can collect only actual damages and profits.
    You'd lose your quarter(and a whole lot more) in attorney's fees just trying to collect that quarter. If you register, then it's worth going after people. If you don't register, then you need to charge a whole lot more than $0.25 for your work.
  13. Re:Chickenless Nuggets?! on Large Scale Production of Artificial Meat · · Score: 1

    What was meant is that they're probably going to have to create genetically modified cells to grow quickly in the artificial environment and since there is no immune system available, antibiotics are(99% likely) going to be necessary.

  14. Re:Chickenless Nuggets?! on Large Scale Production of Artificial Meat · · Score: 1

    A lot of people are worried about eating genetically modified grain and the antibiotics they use in animals because they may cause bad side effects.
    What do you think those people will say when you combine both of those into a lab-grown artificial food product?

  15. Re:Misleading headline on Your Environment May Change Your Genes · · Score: 3, Funny

    Headline: Slashdot now banned in Kansas and Serbia!
    Probably in a few other places too.

  16. Time for IPX on Planet Discovered with a Massive Core · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'd say it's time for IPX to head out and start mining that core. There's probably quite a bit of rare minerals in it.

  17. Re:More Stupidity! on P2P and TV · · Score: 1
    It's obvious shows beginning with the letter 'F' are destined to fail.
    It's more obvious that shows beginning with the letter 'F' are destined to make triumphant returns.

    Family Guy came back and Firefly will soon have a movie in the theatres.
    And from the June 15 Onion AV club:
    Billy West "Fox was really pleased with the sales of the Futurama DVDs. They're really happy with it, so they're talking about a budget for it. Yeah, and I'm thrilled to death."
  18. Re:I hope they pack well on Russia Planning Double Mission to Mars · · Score: 1
    If they forget the shotgun they'll be screwed on like the fourth lebvel.
    They need to bring their own duct tape for the flashlights. As everyone knows, there's no tape on mars.
  19. Re:relevance in slashdot? on Supreme Court Rules Private Property Can be Seized · · Score: 1

    I would think it would be favorable to build close to a mall/shopping center/hotel. It's already there and is already on land.
    If you get a home where there are no malls/shopping centers/hotels and other people start to move there, someone is going to want to put up a mall/shopping center/hotel in that area...possibly where you and your neighbors houses are because all the utillities are already there.

  20. Re:Ambiguous praise on Hotmail To Junk Non-Sender-ID Mail · · Score: 2, Informative
    It will stop SPAM that is from a forged sender, which is a non-trivial amount. Meaning, I can't send you a message purporting to be from billgates@microsoft.com, which is how things are right now. Look over your SPAM headers, and you'll see, most of the return-addresses do not match the machine that relayed the message.
    But what if I buy a domain, and enter into the zone file editor this:
    spamer.com TXT "v=spf1 ip4:1.0.0.0/2 ip4:64.0.0.0/2 ip4:128.0.0.0/2 ip4:192.0.0.0/2 a mx ptr ?all"
    I just authorized everyone on the internet to send mail using my domain name, and it only cost me about $10 to register and 2 minutes to add a completely valid SPF line. Now hotmail users can see my spa^H^H^Himportant messages about stock tips.
  21. Re:Let's Not Get Behind Ourselves Now on New Model Solves Grandfather Paradox · · Score: 1
    Clearly, the present never is changed by mischievous time-travellers: people don't suddenly fade into the ether because a rerun of events has prevented their births - that much is obvious.
    If the event was prevented and never happened, could you actually remember it?
    So, if you know the present, you cannot change it. If, for example, you know your father is alive today, the laws of the quantum universe state that there is no possibility of him being killed in the past.
    What about hiring someone to kill your father in the past that you did not tell was your father and they did not know that person was supposed to be alive?
  22. Re:Slight difference? on Lost Credit Data Improperly Kept, Company Admits · · Score: 3, Interesting
    ...corporate America isn't giving a damn about security for the average joe's accounts and such.
    But they'll charge you sky-high intrest rates when your credit is messed up because someone used your information to open 30 accounts across the nation. I really hate to say it, but we need a personal/banking information 'PATRIOT' act to force all these companies to take security seriously.
  23. Re:"Scathing" != "Untrue" on Linux For Losers According To De Raadt · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The title of the article 'Is Linux for Losers?' was written that way to attract readers.
    You get both:
    "What?!? Someone said linux sux?" and "Ha! I knew linux sux!"

    So now they get readers from both sides to view the advertisements on forbes.com. I wouldn't be surprised if they knew it would get posted to /. and they could get extra money from all the click-thrus to the story.

  24. Re:Fedora Core 4 is great... on Fedora Core 4 Available · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Now, their workstation costs $180 PER YEAR minimum. ....Come on, people. RedHat shot themselves in the foot. They can't even compete with *MICROSOFT* on price anymore, hell, when you buy 2003 server, you at least get 5 years (plus or minus) of updates included.
    Available in Standard Edition:
    Web and phone-based comprehensive support
    5x12
    4 hour response
    Unlimited incidents

    Try making 1 call into MS about a problem on your server and you'll end up paying more than $180.
    And you can still get updates after your subscription runs out, you just can't use RHN. You have to download and install the updated RPMS manually, just like when everyone used NT4.
    Or better yet, switch to apt-get.
  25. Re:Will Anime last? on Can Hayao Miyazaki Save Disney's Soul? · · Score: 1

    They make cartoons with American written scripts animated in Korea.