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  1. Re:Too little too late? on Lucent Sues Microsoft, Wants All 360s Recalled · · Score: 1
    per patent number 5,227,878

    17. The apparatus of claim 13, in which the decoding means comprises:

    a means for receiving a compressed digital video signal comprising at least one DC coefficient representation related to the video signal;

    a means for producing an estimated DC coefficient in response to a coding type signal; and

    a means for producing a decoded DC coefficient signal in response to the DC coefficient representation and the estimated DC coefficient.

    I fail to see where this is limited to physical devices
  2. Re:Corrections to the article on Oracle and PostgreSQL Debate · · Score: 1

    your CRM is broke:

    Warning: session_start(): open(/home/groups/h/he/hermesweb/htdocs/demo/herme s/misc/locks/sess_7fc3d3dfc4121739d686b6ad637f7da9 , O_RDWR) failed: Read-only file system (30) in /home/groups/h/he/hermesweb/htdocs/demo/hermes/ind ex.php on line 17

    Warning: session_start(): Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent (output started at /home/groups/h/he/hermesweb/htdocs/demo/hermes/ind ex.php:17) in /home/groups/h/he/hermesweb/htdocs/demo/hermes/ind ex.php on line 17

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    Warning: mysql_connect(): Unknown MySQL Server Host 'mysql' (0) in /home/groups/h/he/hermesweb/htdocs/demo/hermes/DBA L_mysql-1.0.0-b.php on line 40

    Warning: mysql_query(): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2) in /home/groups/h/he/hermesweb/htdocs/demo/hermes/DBA L_mysql-1.0.0-b.php on line 81

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  3. Re:We Need a Company Masseuse on Health Problems Related to the Geek Lifestyle · · Score: 1

    very interesting, still they are measuring a one minute exposure on teeth coated with plaque and the buffering muco-polysacarides it contains as opposed to drinking all day on what I hope are frequently brushed teeth

  4. Re:Difficult, no on Oracle and PostgreSQL Debate · · Score: 1

    vi! spoild young whippersnapper, real unix men use ed

  5. Re:Postgres tcp/ip too difficult to configure on Oracle and PostgreSQL Debate · · Score: 1

    It is according to the AOL tech support person as he started to talk me through hand editing a Hosts file using notepad.

  6. Re:Been through it on Should the Computer Science Guy Be CEO? · · Score: 1

    Not is not like they can't be 51/49 common stock and 49/51% preferred either if it's a strictly financial concern.

  7. Re:get VERY used to saying "no" to suggestions on Should the Computer Science Guy Be CEO? · · Score: 1

    I tend to agree, but the really important usually isn't what the answer is but why the answer is what it is. I assume the VC are saying "we will only budget one execution for your company, so you can't have two heads to roll", and from what I've seen lately have disposable CEO is pretty fashonable so not making an asset person the sacrificial lamb makes sense.

  8. Re:There was a simpler way. on RIM Chairman Wants Changes to U.S. Patent Law · · Score: 1

    NTP is a corporation, so you can't really kill them. Even in bankrupcy or disolution the assets live on. What you just have to tag the majority stochholder and make the widow an offer she can't refuse; once you've got control of the board, you just cancel the litigation. I'm not saying anybody should do this, I'm just sayin it happens.

  9. Re:Am I missing something? on RIM Chairman Wants Changes to U.S. Patent Law · · Score: 1

    I believe our system use a date of conception principal, which avoids some of the "land office rush", but starts court fights over date of inception. I remember seing a TV story about the guy who invented the laser, complete with technical drawings but no working prototype as it was techincal impossible at the time and the application was turned down. Eventualy lasers utilizing the NeHe discharge tube were patented that was exactly like the original drawings, which began a 15 year court battle eventualy resulting in the original application being granted. Fortunatly for the guy the patent was granted at a time for 17 years from the court order, when laser were in use all over the place.
    So at least in this case you can apply for a patent and let somebody else build the prototype for you.

  10. Re:From TFA: on Health Problems Related to the Geek Lifestyle · · Score: 1

    ... and everybody will know your password! You'd be amased at how many lost password Emails of UID qwerty or poiuyt and passwords of poiuyt or qwerty used to come to us when we had poiuyt.com

  11. Re:We Need a Company Masseuse on Health Problems Related to the Geek Lifestyle · · Score: 1

    lets see water pH 7.0, diet coke pH 3.39, battery acid pH 1.0, I guess you want to throw me some more denture bussiness.

  12. Re:Sounds mostly familiar on Health Problems Related to the Geek Lifestyle · · Score: 1

    Night-splints, bite-guards or occlusal guards can be a big help for a lot of people, I've always snored, but since getting a bite splint I've found I don't wake up with brused ribs and thinking my name is "roll over, your snoring". Neck, back and jaw pain are pretty much history. Your teeth should only touch when your eating, if your Dentists has ever said thing like "wear facets or flat spots", "toothbrush abrasion" or bone or tooth loss without periodontal disease you definately need one. Ear clicking when opening your jaw or yawning are strong signs, waking up tired or falling asleep durring the day as well as neck and or back pain are signs.
    The over the counter "boil and bite" either types don't work or make the problem worse because they shift the point of contact to the rear, when the posterior teeth recieve pressure, the reflex is to bite harder. When your front teeth feel pressure the refex is to relax.

  13. Re:Sounds mostly familiar on Health Problems Related to the Geek Lifestyle · · Score: 1

    Same problem but not as bad, my right eye was near-sighted, left eye was about normal, this turned into a big advantage on the rifle range. Military qualifies with 3D pop-up targets at ranges from 25 - 300m and various angle, so squinting through a peep-sight with one eye means you can't see shit on the range. We had guys that were totaly obsesed with competative shooting, they could make 3 inch groups at 450m standing on known distance bulls-eye targets but could qualify on the pop-up.

  14. Re:Sounds mostly familiar on Health Problems Related to the Geek Lifestyle · · Score: 1

    I don't know if depression causes pain, pain causing depression seems more likely, but I know when I'm depressed I sure feel it more. When your back is a bit tender, you tend to favor the muscles that are tender, which shifts stress to new muscles which become tender

  15. Re:How is this different on Is Your AJAX App Secure? · · Score: 1

    What is AJAX? it is a method to get the marketingdroids, graphic artists and "web" designers off your ass about including unreasonable amounts gratutuious graphics and flash bullshit. If the simple page didn't include 1 meg of crap, you wouldn't even need AJAX; yeah I know google maps is a cool AJAXs app and necessary, but most I've seen is just AJAX for AJAX's sake.

  16. Re:But you never could... on Microsoft Says Recovery From Malware Becoming Impossible · · Score: 1
    If I was at all worried about security, /bin /sbin, /lib, and /usr -/local would all be mounted RO unless the machine was being updated. The point is you could find all of theses problems and change the files to known good, the windows style rootkits can't even be found, and per the article even by Microsoft.

    "When you are dealing with rootkits and some advanced spyware programs, the only solution is to rebuild from scratch. In some cases, there really is no way to recover without nuking the systems from orbit," Mike Danseglio, program manager in the Security Solutions group at Microsoft, said in a presentation at the InfoSec World conference here.

    He's not saying it more cost effective to wipe to a clean slate he's saying our security model is so hopelessly FUBAR, even they can't fix it. It would be a cold day in hell before I'd admit that in public; I'd nuke even line of code in Vista from orbit first. If you can't fix it, you have to chuck it!
  17. Re:What Do You Expect? on Microsoft Says Recovery From Malware Becoming Impossible · · Score: 1

    OK Troll baby, how do you equate a third part php script that does something that has been on the top 10 web security violations for years, runs not only on Linux but bsd and unixes and yes even microsoft when php and a compatable webserve is installed and runs as usernobody to being a rooted linux box? Rooted means root, that's admin in M$ speak, the "worm" you reference sits in /tmp a world readable, world writeable directory, not invisible hidden from even the operating system.

  18. Re:Read the Study on Swedish Study Finds Cell Phone Cancer Risk · · Score: 1

    Another thing that just occured to me is the frequencies from a cell phone are fairly low from a physiological point of view, so I would assume the dose-curves are pretty deep and would be basicaly inverse-square; so have a preponderance of tumors one the cell phone side might actualy imply the cell phone aren't responsible as the irradiation difference of side vs. the other would be slight

  19. Re:Assumptions on Swedish Study Finds Cell Phone Cancer Risk · · Score: 1

    unless you're running a H2/O2 torch, you're not going to get burned by the UVB from a fire, the color temperature has to be in the 7000-9000 K range to pose a significant hazard. If you're so sensitive to UVA/B that a wood fire gives you sunburn you better not go out in the sunlight without a good coating of zinc oxide for protection.

  20. Re:Sarcasm makes a poor argument, try reason and f on Swedish Study Finds Cell Phone Cancer Risk · · Score: 1

    no the study said that a heavy cell phone user is 240% more likely to have a malignant tumor on the side of the brain next to which he/she normally holds the phone than the side opposite to the cell phone. The article didn't mention if that meant the heavy users were less likely to have malignancies on the brain side away for the phone or not or even if the the people with "cell phone" malignancies were greater than the general population in general.

    Perhaps the cell phones are attractive to brain tumor cells, so I'm inventing an antenna array designed to attract the bad tummor cells to areas of the brain that are easier to operate on and treat! Maybe if people put their heads inside microwave ovens, it would have enough power to suck the tummors right out of their heads

  21. Re:Assumptions on Swedish Study Finds Cell Phone Cancer Risk · · Score: 2, Informative

    Most people concider the word sunburn to mean the internal cellular damage and inflamatory resonse caused by low energy ionizing photons eminating from the sun commonly refered to as UVA and UVB rays. I suspect that the damage you are reciving is from non-ionizing infrared, if your so close to the fire that your getting burned from IR absortion, you need to make smaller fires and move back a bunch or you'll never live long enough to get cancer.

  22. Re:Read the Study on Swedish Study Finds Cell Phone Cancer Risk · · Score: 2, Interesting

    wrong answer, 85 out of 905 CA patients were high users; that's 9.4 %, much less than the amount what you're ridiculing the study for being alarmist over.

    One thing I'd be curious about is because the study reported that people who use cell phone have a 240% greater chance of their tumor being located on the side of the brain that they hold their cells on, what percentage of right-handed people have malignant tumors on the left-side of their brains (left brian controls right body) and left-handers with maligincies in the right side of the brain.

  23. Re:I'm wondering about porn mags. on Pr0n's Effect On Society · · Score: 1

    Never raised any of those 9 year old male crittrers have you? One night, coming home after college classes, I noticed the front windows drapes carefully pulled close, except they missed a tiny crack, looking in the room, I saw every kid in the neighborhood sitting there, watching a porno tape on the TV. So I walk over to the door and try to open it quietly which didn't work because it was locked; with no element of surprise at stake I knock and listened to the scurreying in the living room before the door was opened to reveal "Destroyer Duck" playing in the VCR. I asked them whatcha watching?", "Destoryer Duck Dad" so I asked them to rewind it the the scene that was playing before. After they rewound the tape a bit I said " no not that one, the one with the naked people in it having sex"
    The bottom line is the kids aren't getting exposed accidentaly to porn except very very rarely. The majority of the exposure comes from a couple kids, usualy older, who then share it with their freinds, just like they share their food, clothes and music.

  24. Re:Gender on Pr0n's Effect On Society · · Score: 1

    not married are you

  25. Re:Damn, pr0n in the title... on Pr0n's Effect On Society · · Score: 1

    If they can't get real porn, it'll be Mtv costumes and loungerie catalogs. Half the stuff on network TV would have been considered porn at one time. I remember Elvis Presley shot from the waist up on the Ed Sullivan show.