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  1. Re:SLA? on ISPs Offer Faster Speeds, Why Don't We Get Them? · · Score: 1

    Well I can guarantee that I and the 20 other customers in my neighborhood get our 3 MbS all the way up to the 10MbS neighborhood network leg that we all share; our 3MbS is in .01 second bursts.

  2. Re:State secret? on The AT&T Whistleblower's Evidence · · Score: 1

    I thought a trade secret that was revealed through an illegal act was still a trade secret. Somebody stealing documents and releasing them wouldn't void the trade secret status, however if the documents was lost in a public place by a person authorized transport the documents would, of course IANAL.

  3. Re:This Just In on The AT&T Whistleblower's Evidence · · Score: 1

    In other new a large contingent of FBI agents have converged on a Milford Michigan Hourse farm notorius for secret mob meeting to search for the body of Jimmy Hoffa. The FBI will search four specific locations identified by a creditable informant.

  4. Re:A relevant quote on Do You Care if Your Website is W3C Compliant? · · Score: 1

    kind of like "You'll need to learn this for the state boards, but you'll never see it again".

  5. Re:Add option #4 on Trojan Deletes Your Porn, Music & Warez · · Score: 1

    I doubt that oscams razor would agree with the malicious "trojan writer is a prick" scenario, most viruses/worms/trojans exist to build a 'bot net for nefarious purposes like spamming or protection rackets to prevent DDosing. The noble but asocial hacker/cracker image is most often a smoke-screen for more typical criminal behaviours; and I've seen no evidence to believe this is anything else.

  6. Re:Translation on Women Get Lots of Info From Male Faces · · Score: 1

    Why not, if it's ok for them to know everybody I've every talked to on the telephone, they should want to know who my daddy is too!

  7. Re:Translation on Women Get Lots of Info From Male Faces · · Score: 2, Interesting

    There was a study pointed to by /. conducted in England that showed that a woman's first and last child was significantly less likely to be her husband's and that the lower her socio-economic class was the more likely as well, rate as high as 30% were found. The biological fathers were more likely to be of higher class than the husband.

  8. Re:And on Women Get Lots of Info From Male Faces · · Score: 1

    Always seemed to me that women don't know what they feel untill they talk about it, men don't know what they feel untill they shut-up and think about it.

  9. Re:dark matter on Dwarf Galaxies Discovered · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Mostly arrogence I'd guess, a "if we haven't seen it yet, it most be un-seeable" kind of a thing. These drawf galaxies are really just a speck of fly shit in the grand scale of things, and comparing them to the missing matter is like comparing mosquitoes to brontosaurses. So we'll just chuckle to ourselves and remember which was the last to bite us in the ass, and how much room there is for little specks of flyshit in the universe; then yell out "Hey , did you look over there yet?", like my wife does after she has "cleaned up" where i left my car keys.

  10. Re:Something is Rotten on Busting People for Pointing Out Security Flaws · · Score: 1

    It has, the last one worked by finding a CGI script that would execute anything sent to It! So basicaly the worm said "please use wget and download a worm, store it in /tmp, chmod +x and run it with all of the privilages of user "nobody"". An embarassing number of webserver owned by big name comapnies got burned by this one, nobody can't do much damage to a system, but it's a matter of principal.

  11. Re:Energy efficiency on Urging Congress to Cancel the Ethanol Tariff · · Score: 1

    I've been interested in CWT's thermal Depolymerization Process, and whil patent searching is an arcane art that I haven't mastered, the only patent they seem to have is 5,269,947 which was filed for on, September 17, 1992. This patent doesn't have a lot of life left, which squares with how cagey CWT has been about information on the process. With only a little over 6 years left on the patent, CWT needs to posistion themselves as the authority on the process, and I don't think they have the capital to do that with plants going for $20 million a pop. Of course they promote the process as scaleable and have table-top test-bed and insinuate that semi-trailor sized plant are effective; other than a boutique plant built with con-agra as a partner, they're not doing any comercialization of it that I'm aware of in the United States, and are concentrateing in Europe where animal byproducts aren't used as animal foder.

  12. Re:Ending the tariff is a good start. on Urging Congress to Cancel the Ethanol Tariff · · Score: 1

    class of '73 and saw it in health class. We wondered why we could never get that high.

  13. Re:Lower MPG? on Urging Congress to Cancel the Ethanol Tariff · · Score: 1

    it's a lot cleaner burning, I know people who failed their emissions test on unleaded, ran out the tank, put in 10 gal of E10 and added a gal of straight methanol then passed the test with flying colors. Check out Clean air choice for info about cleaner E85, not scamming emmissions tests.

  14. Re:Energy efficiency on Urging Congress to Cancel the Ethanol Tariff · · Score: 1

    For tutorials try journey to forever to get started. They are geared toward helping indiginous people produce fuels and energy so it not high-tech to an unreachable point for real human beings and do-able in your garage to suppliment your fuel for lawn mowers and string trimmers, and yes gas engines in them can run on 10% biodiesel gasoline mixtures. I'm looking into making a b10-e10 mixture!
    This site has forums, biodieselnow with lots of interesting questions and answers about biodeisel; everything for garage setups to large scale commercial production.

  15. Re:Energy efficiency on Urging Congress to Cancel the Ethanol Tariff · · Score: 3, Informative

    For the most part we are big beef eaters, and the farmers already grow a lot of corn for cattle feed, switching the already purchased agricultural infrastructure from corn for cattle feed to corn for ethanol production cost is effective for the farmer; additionaly the ethanol has as a waste product a high protein waste called distiller's dried grain which is a good cattle feed, so the corn that was going to be grown anyways makes ethanol too.
    There are basicaly two catagories of corn grown, field corn is a tough starchy veriety which farmers like for cattle field because the lower sugar content makes it less likely to spoil in storage, and the toughness gives the cattle the roughage they need to stay healthy, it tastes like "old" corn and is a bit chewier.
    Sweet corn is grown for human consumption, and is sweeter, and doesn't store as well; sweet corn turns starchy if it gets old. I'm not a farmer but grew up a round them, so yes I've really eaten field corn.
    When ethanol becomes main-stream you'll see some changes like the big-boys developing verieties specialy adapted for ethanol yield, and remember both corn and sugar cane are grasses so gentic manipulation is highly possible to boast sugar yields.
    My area is a big sugar-beet producer I'm sure there will be ethanol plants made that utilize beets effiently.
    I also think that emzymes to breakdown cellulose into fermentable sugar will be developed to increase ethanol effiencies pretty soon so even wood chips, saw dust and especial tree bark will turn up as ethanol in our tanks.

  16. Re:The Real Problem on Employers Trolling for Current Employee Resumes? · · Score: 1

    I'd advise anyone to think of their HR personnel as vampires, who's sole function is to suck the life out of every person in the company, while presenting to the world that they are your savior. If the company doesn't have some kind of checks and balances on the vampires your screwed, if they do your probably still screwed.

  17. Re:The Real Problem on Employers Trolling for Current Employee Resumes? · · Score: 1

    If I were you I'd make sure my "christmass card list" was up to date, you know keep in touch with the "old crew"; Doesn't sound like these asshats will last long in their new enterprise. Bringing the old bunch back together could be profitable for you a little bit down the road. Sometimes employees are replaceable cogs, sometimes they are valuable resources that are the result of care nurturing and investment, many from the preditory school of business don't know the difference and are surprised when former replaceable employess drive them out of the business that they paid millions to aquire.

  18. Re:DIY Experiment on What Happened to Blue Security · · Score: 1

    After thinking about it, what does BS do?
    I send them my email address,
    I send them my spam,
    they process it,
    they send opt-outs to the 1% that has an opt-out address,
    That's it, For an experiment I grabbed third spam in my Gmail spam bin.
    no opt out and a link to http://jhwfhjwbff.g27g.com/
    DOMAIN
    Domain Name : g27g.com (GGC42-BMN-DOM)
    Registrar : BookMyName
    Whois Server : whois.bookmyname.com
    Referral URL : https://www.bookmyname.com/
    Registrant / Admin Contact :
    ORGANISATION
        aleadz (ALEADZ2-BMN-ORG)
    180 broadway suit 112
    10005 new york UNITED STATES

          Contact
                John PACE
                phone : 2128372837
                fax :
                e-mail : a1gaming@gmail.com
    an obvius phishing site.
    the email came through
    (59-113-191-104.dynamic.hinet.net [59.113.191.104])

    inetnum: 59.113.0.0 - 59.113.255.255
    netname: HINET-NET
    descr: Chunghwa Telecom Data Communication Business Group
    descr: Taipei Taiwan
    country: TW
    no opt out, no unsuscribe at the "website".

    The truth is most of us here could write a Perl or Python script,
    that scans our spam-bin looking for opt-out addresses,
      and sends out an automated unsuscribe, and failing that
        crawls the website looking for opt-out links,
        if it doesn't find one remebers the site so it can check back for updates (Muhahhahaha like one every minute). Hell if we were really nasty we could insert bogus data into their forms, there are credit card numbers that are always invalid, email addresses that are allways invalid, phone numbers that don't work like 555-????, streets that don't exist, (Muhahahahah).

  19. Re:This isn't just between PharmaMaster & Blue on What Happened to Blue Security · · Score: 2, Interesting
    These guys must be on an alternate plane of reality!

    No software from Northworks Solutions Ltd. may be used for spamming activities. Any software from Northworks Solutions Ltd. that collects emails can only be used for information / database management purposes on legally-owned link / email addresses / servers and databases. The creator / distributor of any software from Northworks Solutions Ltd. can't be held responsible for any misuse of software from Northworks Solutions Ltd. for spamming or any other activity that may be considered illegal in the software users state / country. The creator / distributor doesn't support spamming. By using any product from Northworks Solutions Ltd., you agree to use them legally. No software from Northworks Solutions Ltd. can be considered spamware. ...
    Using any software program from Northworks Solutions Ltd. you agree to comply with the laws of your current residency, the European Union, the United Kingdom and the United Kingdom Data Protection Act of 1998.
    Anti-Spam Policy, © 2003 by Northworks Solutions Ltd.
        info@northworks.biz

    LOL!

    ECraw Price: $395 / license.
      When you purchase the full version you will be allowed to use it on 1 computer and move it a maximum of 2 times ... ECrawl and has the ability to reach speeds of over 2,000,000 emails per hour, which makes it the fastest website email harvester ever developed.

    ProCrawl Price: $395 / license.
      When you purchase the full version you will be allowed to use it on 2 computers and move it a maximum of 2 times. You will need an extra license for each computer beyond the second which you would like to run ProCrawl on. If you wish to obtain 2 or more copies, then please contact us. This product comes with a lifetime license and free support.
        ProCrawl ... extracts emails directly from the mailservers. It can with ease find millions of emails per hour when working on a normal DSL connection. This extracts emails with the highest speed an accuracy compared to any other programs on the market.

    Sure we don't let our software be used by spammers!
  20. My brain just crapped its skull. on What Happened to Blue Security · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'd probably do that too if I were an astro-truffer for a sleazey spammer, instead I'm going to down-load the linux version of the bluefrog client and connect it to my spam account and let it run. In fact I'm probably going to engage in activities designed to get those accounts on as many spam lists as is humanly possible. I've got accounts at yahoo and gmail that get about 10 spams for every legit email, maybe I can get the clutter down to the point where they'll actually be usable again.

  21. Re:A compromise needs to be made. on Microkernel: The Comeback? · · Score: 1

    I'm working on one right now, I just need to learn a bit more Ada first.
    Sorry I couldn't resist that one, it just seems all of the timing, sequential vs. concurrent, etc issues of a microkernal sounds very difficult and similar to issues that Ada was designed to be strong in. Syncronization would be a nightmare.

  22. Re:The thing is... on Microkernel: The Comeback? · · Score: 1

    I agree, I was on a cruise ship once and the majority of the watertight doors between compartments were open during normal operation, you can't expect normal passengers to unseal, open, close and reseal water-tight doors. The other thing I noticed is that normal passenger areas were well above the water-line, normal crew living and work areas seemed to be above the water-line, and what was below the waterline was engineering spaces such as engines, generators, water and waste processing, stabilizing gyroscopes, fuel and storage holds.

    So to follow the analogy:
    1. well above the water line is normally open between compartments and closed only in dire emergencies,
    2. slightly above the water line expected to be closed but opened frequently and not guaranteed to be closed.
    3. below the waterline, doors closed except for infrequent opening and probably interlocked so when unsealed status indicators are updated.

    I know commercial freighters are more likely to keep doors sealed higher than cruise ships, so the question is really where the waterline is, and if we are building freighters or cruise ships. Torvalds assumes the kernal is above the waterline and the hardware is below; Tanenbaum assumes it's below the waterline and the hardware is the water.

  23. Re:If there is a volumetric shape, there is a cent on One Big Bang, Or Many? · · Score: 1

    The galaxies are moving away from each other, but not so much as in they are traveling through time-space like driving in a car from your home; that the time-space is expanding, like your car being on the road traveling toward your home at 25 MPH while the road is getting longer at 50MPH!
    If you pick a direction to traveling in the universe, and go that way, because the universe is curved you'll eventually end up where you started. It is tempting to think of the center of that curve as the center of the universe, but if you change directions, you get a new pseudo-center. If you travel in all directions in a single plane the pseudo-centers line up and you travel paths becomes a torus, and in all directions it looks like a sphere. The universe probably has a non-spherical shape from the outside, since everything in the universe seems to rotate, it possible that the universe as a whole rotates; but because all of our yardsticks are in the universe, they distort and would measure no asymetries from the inside so an external shape is undefined to us.
    So how big is the universe? A definition as good as any is when it would have to travel at the speed of light to satisfy Hubble's law, which means any light from an object would have its frequency reduced to 0 Hz; anything outside the universe would have to have a negative frequency, which means that it's imaginary to us and doesn't exist or is undefined.

  24. Re:Better question... on One Big Bang, Or Many? · · Score: 1

    how about a horizon, one you can't fall off but might be able to fall in? An event horizon about 13.957 billion light years away, but you can never get there because time-space curves you away.

  25. Re:Better question... on One Big Bang, Or Many? · · Score: 1

    I'm the center of the universe, well my universe anyways; you're the center of yours, anywhere we go the center moves with us, the edge is always 13.957 billion light years (c / Hubbles constant) from where the observer is, hows that for a non-absolute frame of reference