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  1. Re:Most confusing article ever! on Bernstein Cryptography Case Dismissed · · Score: 1

    What a fucking snarky comment. If you think it is important tell us why.

  2. Re:It won't affect your bills in the winter. on The Cost of Distributed Client Computing? · · Score: 1

    Do people really heat their apartments with electricity? That seems incredibly wasteful. Gas heat is so much cheaper.

  3. Re:full speed ahead on The Cost of Distributed Client Computing? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Most processors actively turn the clock off to parts of the chip that are not being used. So when you are doing nothing the processor is doing much less than when you have the computer do something.

  4. Re:Passive vs. Active Systems on Is That Cell Phone Tower Watching Me? · · Score: 1

    The wave length is really about 16 cm. for 1.9 GHz

  5. Re:It's not that bad on EMusic Acquired, Halting Unlimited Downloads · · Score: 1

    They were lying when they said that the would pay for music if it was about 1/3 of the price.

  6. Re:alertness on 3G Waves Causes Headaches, Sharpens Memory · · Score: 1

    4 Watts!!?? digital cell phones put out less than 1 Watt.

  7. Re:What does this have to do with spam? on Building Better Spam · · Score: 1

    There are two atricles. The one on teh pbs website talks about how this method was used to make better spam amoung other things.

  8. Re:WiFi and Hurricanes on Amateur Radio Braces for Hurricane Isabel · · Score: 1

    Water does not absorb microwave radiation like a sponge. If it did you micro wave would not work as well. The frequency for maximum absorbtion by water is about 10GHz your micro wave operates at about 2.5 GHz.

  9. Re:How does an overflow work? on Buffer Overflow in Sendmail · · Score: 1

    Good answer. Thanks.

  10. Re:How does an overflow work? on Buffer Overflow in Sendmail · · Score: 1

    How do you know how far it is. My understanding of these things is that either the buffer is put on the stack or the buffer is from dynamic store. Either way how far to the next line changes a lot.

  11. Re:How does an overflow work? on Buffer Overflow in Sendmail · · Score: 1

    That does not really answer the question. The question is with stuff being stored on the stack or in dynamic memory how do you know with some reliability what code is being overwritten by your extra data? Are the buffers insterted by the compiliers in the middle of the code? Don't they separated the data and code into somewhat different regions of memory?

  12. How does an overflow work? on Buffer Overflow in Sendmail · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Does anyone have a good explanation of how a buffer overflow allows you to execute arbitrary code? It seems to me that the memory that gets overwritten is some what random. It is either the stack or some memory in dynamic store. It seems like each time you sent in the overflow data it will be writing a different area of memory so you don't know if you code will get executed or not. Since you have to start executing at the right place you would almost never be able to execute your code.

  13. Re:Galileo down to the meter on Satellite-Assisted European Road Tolls Next? · · Score: 1

    They turned off selective availability a while back. Now every body gets the accurate GPS.

  14. Re:Hardly the only eBay scam out there... on Profile of an eBay Scammer · · Score: 1

    You would think that they could get the grammar correct. They would probably take in more people if they had a website that looked good.

  15. Re:32 bit swapping to 64bit on Los Alamos to Use AMD's Opteron in Linux Clusters · · Score: 1

    Actually lots of propritary are starting to get ported to linux. Lots of CAD tools are being ported to linux.

  16. Re:Is spam even effective? on What Is The Real Cost of Spam? · · Score: 1

    Those most wanted cards sold great once the spam started.

  17. Re:Missing the Obvious on Whatever Happened to Micropayments? · · Score: 1

    Yep pennies are a waste of money also. They only survive because they are left over from when they were not a waste.

  18. Re:Psychological Evaluations on WiFi Exposes Sensitive Student Data · · Score: 1

    It wasn't common where I went to school (in the US).

  19. Re:Yeah, way to stimulate the economy! on Cable Modem Tax Proposed by FCC · · Score: 1

    No it is in a slump the likes of which we haven't seen since 1992.

  20. Re:Significant sosiology phenomena on Canadian Census: 20,000 Jedi Worshippers · · Score: 1

    Didn't you see the ten commandments. Great special effects.

  21. Re:The married life on The First Steps Towards Asimov's Psychohistory? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Only $100 for a purse? I should be so lucky.

  22. Re:Comics on Online Newspapers Turning a Profit · · Score: 1

    www.comics.com www.ucomics.com meet some fo your requirements. The main one the don't meet is charging a fee.

  23. Re:Probably not allowed on Dial-A-Cam · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Most network operators would love you to have something that makes a lot of calls. You do understand that they charge money to make phone calls don't you?

  24. Re:Disposable Email Addresses -- Effective? on Forty Percent of All Email is Spam · · Score: 1

    I have used sneakemail. It does work as advertised. I do not however get any spam forwarded through them. Which means the people I gave these email addresses out to didn't sell the address or maybe it means I gave my email address to OK guys or maybe it means that people could filtered it as a bogus address or perhaps something else.

  25. Re:What's so bad about maximized browser windows? on Hyatt Discusses Tabs · · Score: 1

    Because we are doing more than just browsing. That is the main reason I have the brower not maximized. It also gives a more book like aspect ratio to what I am reading.