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  1. Re:Other things that have to be considered. on New OSS Doomed In Enterprise? · · Score: 1

    Most of the software I use in windows is F/OSS and it all installed without problems. The Gimp dose hang up once in a while in windows.

  2. Re:Other things that have to be considered. on New OSS Doomed In Enterprise? · · Score: 1

    It's assumed if your trying to build from CVS that you actualy know a bit about what your doing and having dependecy problems isn't unusual, in fact it's expected when living on the bleeding-edge. If your having those kind of problems installing from the stable branch on to a modern distro your doing something very wrong like forcing redhat rpm's onto a SuSE machine, so I'd suggest not spending a little money on MS products because you'd likely fuck that up beyond any repair as well.

  3. Re:MicroracleSoft on Oracle Bid to Acquire MySQL · · Score: 1

    Nobody cares what MySQL's interpretation of the GPL is, it's the Court's interpretation of the GPL that counts. Do You think Oracle's lawyer want to tango with RMS and the FSF as an expert witness on the GPL's intentions?

  4. Re:They could kill it. on Oracle Bid to Acquire MySQL · · Score: 3, Interesting

    if your running MySQL and need transactions, that's provided by the berkely DB, supported by Sleepycat, or InnoDB supported by Innobase, both were bought by Oracle. If Oracle is seeking to kill MySQL, then it's dead man walking right now. However if Oracle's intentions is to aquire MySQL, make a few modifications and have it compatable enough with oracle that they can use it for the entry level database that can be a step towards a full oracle installation, it doesn't matter because they can still contribute code to MySQL. How many MSSQL instalations happen because somebody outgrows access?

  5. Re:Tower on Continued Success for Space Elevator Tests · · Score: 1

    you forgot to mention nano-bot with more computer processing power than a pentium chip a few trillion times its size.

  6. Re:Don't get me wrong here... on Continued Success for Space Elevator Tests · · Score: 1

    What would impress me is just leaving a conductive cable of any kind suspended high in the air for a while. Seems to me that it would be very vulnerable to static charges and or lightning strikes. Ben Franklin was lucky when he flew his kite in a thunder storm. The hindenburg disaster may have been cause by a static charge on a balloon

  7. Re:Don't get me wrong here... on Continued Success for Space Elevator Tests · · Score: 1

    The G forces from acceleration are just increadable, artillery shells with terminal guidence are do-able;
    Laser-guided Copperhead artillery shells withstand 10,000 G.
    Experimental circuits developed for railgun launch withstand 100,000.
      To get to orbit I doubt that there is any propellant that would build enough pressure before the projectile left the tube; even if there was there would be no tube that could contain it.
    If there was a material that would work for the tube, it probably would be better used as an elevator ribbon. Stapping a rocket motor onto the base of the projo, just means more tube preasure to get the same muzzle velocity.

  8. Re:Indies? on Using Watermarks to Combat Piracy · · Score: 1

    There are only so many different ways to string mucical notes to gether that sound right; with copyrights at 90 years we actualy could run out of new music.

  9. Re:When my dad was in a cardiac ICU on Botnet Attack Shuts Down Hospital Network · · Score: 1

    Most is the same here, a piece of equipment is plugged in to an electrical outlet on the public circuit, that's on a seprate circuit with dedicated back-up generator and has it's own onboard batteries; or the equipment comunicates to the central desk via ethernet, with RF back-up and and of course the instument itself in the patents room. With the automated systems, down the nurses will have to go into rooms and document readings periodicaly, say every 15 minutes which interferes with other patient care activities.

  10. Re:first computer on What Was Your First Computer? · · Score: 1
    The CoCo was my first store bought computer, and therfore first practicle computer; I almost cried when the SAM chip finaly blew. The CoCo was the first consumer computer with
    • color graphics,
    • had alternative operating systems, FLEX and I think OS2
    • used those newfangled 3.5 inch floppy disks


    Before that I built the COSMAC ELF computer which I never quite managed to get working, I still have that one, in all of its hand wire-wrapped glory. You program that one by setting the load switch, toggleing the bit in each byte and then hitting the single-step button to load each byte into the 255 bytes of static RAM.
  11. Re:If only it felt like it on 20th Century Warmest In 1200 Years · · Score: 1

    From what I've seen on the TV weather it seems the the jet-streams are move more North-South than usual. That means that winter temps can be either much higher than normal or much colder for a particular region. Perviously the jet-streams track more North-West to SouthEast sifted by the corealis effect. The shift in jet-stream paterns has caused me to believe that the equator region is warmer than normal and the difference amplifies the flow of cold air from the poles to the equator and warm air to the poles. Of course I'm not a meterologist or a climatologist so my interperation could easily be whacko.

  12. Re:What about other countries on Limited Email Surveillance Approved · · Score: 1

    then Other countries are fair game, applies.

  13. Re:What about other countries on Limited Email Surveillance Approved · · Score: 1

    Other countries are fair game, infact because it was illegal, for americans (as in CIA and NSA) to survail americans and illegal for the Birtish to survail Brits, the americans had the Brits survailing the americans, and they inturn survailed the Brits. Most Embassies look like a hedgehog because of all the snooping antennas sticking out.

  14. Re:Btdd on Limited Email Surveillance Approved · · Score: 1

    I get spam all the time that looks like is was realy sent to someone else, subject line like "here's the nude pics you wanted", hard not to get currious.

  15. Re:Btdd on Limited Email Surveillance Approved · · Score: 1

    My first point is the FEDs really really like this new toy and are smart enough to know if they get too carried away with it, congress is going to slap their little pinkies and take it away. Once it's taken away, it'll be really hard for them to get it back. I expect the feds will show a lot of restraint in using this because they don't want to lose the whole ball of wax.
    My second point is the FEDs are going to quickly realise that your completely right. In fact pretty soon they'll realise that stoping viruses and worms and the bot-net they produce from spewing spam, DDOS attacks and shit like that is a National Security Matter. They don't have a snowball's chance in hell of figurinng out terrorist's social networks when a spambot is spewing 10K spams and only 3 people know the jibberish isn't a baysian filter circumvention but a coded message.

  16. Re:I would sue the Scouts too on Red Cross Condemns Misuse of Emblem In Games · · Score: 1

    But most of the gays I know would support lynching on sight for NAMBLA members;
    Gays want sex with consenting adults of the Same sex, Straights want sex with consenting adults of the opposite sex; both group find NAMBLA revolting.

  17. Re:Two decades, hell... try 900 years on Red Cross Condemns Misuse of Emblem In Games · · Score: 1

    "Internationally, the use of the Red Cross emblem is explicity reserved under the Geneva Conventions of August 12, 1949. In this regard, you may wish to consult Chapter VII Articles 38-44 of the Convention" I believe we signed that one, where the law to back it up is I haven't a clue

  18. Re:I would sue the Scouts too on Red Cross Condemns Misuse of Emblem In Games · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure how pedophilia and pederasty relates to homosexuality, a lot of perverts are married to people of the opposite sex, certainly enough to make identification based on Homo or heterosexuality impossible

  19. Re:Hard to defend the trademark... on Red Cross Condemns Misuse of Emblem In Games · · Score: 1
    Not a trademark
    from a link in the article

    Canadian Red Cross
    Croix-Rouge canadienne

    January 30, 2006

    Re: Misuse of Red Cross Emblem

    On behalf of the Canadian Red Cross, I wanted to bring to your attention a practise which appears to be rather widespread in the video game industry. The practise I am referring to is the unauthorized and indeed illegal use of the Red Cross emblem by the industry. A number of examples have been brought to my attention which display the Red Cross emblem to depict "First Aid" "Health" or "Injury Recovery" within the content of these games. The emblem has also been used in video games depicting Red Cross facilites and vehicles in combat situations presumably to give the games more versimultude.

    Internationally, the use of the Red Cross emblem is explicity reserved under the Geneva Conventions of August 12, 1949. In this regard, you may wish to consult Chapter VII Articles 38-44 of the Convention. As Canada is a signatory to the Convention, domestically the exclusive use of the emblem is reserved for the Medical Corps of the Canadian Forces and the Canadian Red Cross Society. This is confirmed in Canadian law under the Geneva Conventions Act and the Canadian Red Cross Society Act. With respect to the former, I would draw your attention to Articles 44 and 53 of the Schedule 1. In the case of the latter, you may wish to consult Section 4 of the Act. ... David Pratt Director, Humanitarian Issues Program

    I would assume that other signatory nations to the convention would have similar laws in effect. I wonder if blowing up a videogame hospital in virtual combat makes you a war cirminal?
  20. Re:again.. on U.S. Gov To Spider Internet · · Score: 1

    those communities of friends are what they are interested in, the analysis I assume is to
    1. store who is who's friend and foes
    2. when a badguy(A) is found, who are his friends
    3. when badguy(B) is found, who his friends are
    4. determine if the friends of B and A intersect and if any of them are badguys
    5. determine if the foes of B and A intersect and if any of them are badguys

    is the current riots about the pictures of the prophet really about the pictures or about Denmark getting a seat on the security consoul?
    Sorting out which spikes are 'legitimate' and not is going to be impossible without total surveillance. The signal to noise ratio on my Email is about 100:1, they better solve the spam problem before they try to analyse my Email; is that jibberish in the Email a secret message or just an attempt to fool my baysian filters? This might be a good thing in the end.

  21. Re:Idiotic on No Time Travel, Sorry · · Score: 1

    We are time traveler's in our universe, time sweeps us along as rapidly as flotsum in a raging current; it takes great effort to even slow our time travel by a perceptable amount.

  22. Re:BUSH BOMB WHITE HOUSE on U.S. Gov To Spider Internet · · Score: 1

    The sever keeps logs that look something like this
    127.0.0.1 - - [06/Feb/2006:12:43:14 -0500] "GET /LabMage.css HTTP/1.1" 304 -
    127.0.0.1 - - [06/Feb/2006:12:43:12 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 49238
    127.0.0.1 - - [06/Feb/2006:12:43:15 -0500] "GET /index.php?=PHPE9568F34-D428-11d2-A769-00AA001ACF4 2 HTTP/1.1" 200 4644
    127.0.0.1 - - [06/Feb/2006:12:43:16 -0500] "GET /index.php?=PHPE9568F35-D428-11d2-A769-00AA001ACF4 2 HTTP/1.1" 200 2146
    127.0.0.1 - - [06/Feb/2006:12:43:27 -0500] "POST /index.php HTTP/1.1" 200 9577
    127.0.0.1 - - [06/Feb/2006:12:43:29 -0500] "GET /toolbars/LocalePressed.png HTTP/1.1" 404 283
    which shows that Ip address 127.0.0.1, localhost, the time of access and the image LocalePressed.png wasn't found (I'll have to fix that).
    anything more detailed you'd probably have to download and analyse slashcode, most of the good stuff is probably in the karma system which I understand isn't under the GPL

  23. Re:again.. on U.S. Gov To Spider Internet · · Score: 1

    And E-mail is considered private unless the company states in writing that it is subject to being opened by the Company.
    I don't think so, I think anything done on company computer's and company time is the company's unless some law says specificaly otherwise, or the company does. If email were realy private, then the company realy couldn't even virus scan it. If you have a problem, you can bet that the Email-admin is definately going to open your Email, his/her not reading past the headers is a point of honor him rather than a point of law.

  24. Re:again.. on U.S. Gov To Spider Internet · · Score: 1

    Try reading some of the crap in your junk mail folder, most of it is filled with jibberish to try and fool the filters! You could send anything buried in the jibberish and no one would notice.

  25. Re:again.. on U.S. Gov To Spider Internet · · Score: 1

    That's eaxactly what a system like this is designed to detect; when Amazon.com suddendly get spikes in sales of an obscure title for no appearent reason it is a loud event for these social-pattern analysis programs. It would be much better to use a book on the NY best seller list that everybody is carrying arround, the sales would be obscured deep in the noise that way.
    My suspicion is the feds will not care about what's in the "traffic" at first, they are looking for patterns in the flow as much as what the flow is. When some nut-ball on the fringe of things gets popped, it makes the pattern of traffic he's sent and recieved intersting. The weakness of a terrorist org is they have to recruit members, so they need a public face. The potential members are then assested and some won't make the grade because they just stupid nut-balls, most become members but are on the fringes and very few will make it to the "inner-circle" cadre. The trick is to catch one of the stupid nut-balls and link him to the recruiter, then the recruiter leads you to the fringe members and sometimes even some of the cadre.

    The terrorists know we do this, the criminals know we do this, we've always done this; we're just using more advanced technology now. it's the same old cat and mouse game played with bigger toys now.