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  1. Re:Go online in Hong Kong, via proxy server on Geeks In Asia Use Clever Hacks To Get Slashdot · · Score: 1
    I remember when the Internet was supposed to survive a nuclear war, because of the interconnectivity and multiple paths that were available.


    Insufficient peering by ISPs? If you're with an ISP that cares about it, they can arrange peering and backup peering with anyone they want, which (save for cutting every link) does what you suggest. It just gets expensive...
  2. Re:The workaround on Australia Rules Linking to Copyright Material Also Illegal · · Score: 1
    I think it's more:

    Mr Cooper had power to prevent the copying in Australia of (copyright sound recordings via his website)


    ie., he doesn't have the power to stop it in Australia. He has the power of stopping the copying via his site. Not copying in general.
  3. Re:Wrong on two counts on Zune Sales Not So Bad After All · · Score: 1

    I'm over 50 and so are most of my friends, and I don't know anyone who kept their old records.

    I know quite a few people on both sides of 50 who still have records...

  4. Re:3Com fixed that problem on ICANN Under Pressure Over Non-Latin Characters · · Score: 1

    OK, I didn't know that. I'll have to re-read the RFCs :)

    You still can't have solely numeric domains though?

  5. Re:Changing a system on ICANN Under Pressure Over Non-Latin Characters · · Score: 1

    It gets worse. A domain name can only start with a letter, and can only end with a letter or number.

  6. Re:Rich? on 100 Gbps Via Ethernet · · Score: 1

    Not necessarily. The theory I heard is that it's more than balanced out, because in the more affluent areas people can afford to go out more often (eg. theatre, cinema, opera, parties, overseas holidays) whereas the mid-lower end of the scale gets more hours of usefulness out of pay-tv.

  7. Re:Polite Warning! on Machine Gun Sentry Robot Unveiled · · Score: 4, Funny

    Or, NUMBER FIVE IS ALIVE!!

  8. Re:Or... on Researchers Find Clue to SIDS Early Detection · · Score: 1
    "Current wisdom?" Who is that?


    The American Academy of Pediatrics and researchers who study infant deaths say bed sharing leaves babies vulnerable to being crushed or suffocated and may increase their risk for sudden infant death syndrome, especially if the mother is a smoker. ...

    In advising against bed sharing, the policy statement pointed to numerous studies supporting its case, including one showing that nearly half of 119 infants who died suddenly and unexpectedly during a four-year period in the St. Louis area did so while sleeping with someone else.

    -- http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/living/15 653590.htm

    Also,
        http://www.kidshealth.org/PageManager.jsp?dn=famil ydoctor&lic=44&article_set=22955
        http://www.med.umich.edu/1libr/yourchild/sids.htm
        http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/living/20033 26657_healthsleep29.html
    etc.

    Google for "co-sleeping" and "baby suffocation" and variants thereof.

    It's really not as simple as it seems to begin with. (I had to go through this when I had my first daughter nearly two years ago... we'd sleep together sometimes, but she was normally in her bassinet rather than our bed).
  9. Re:From the summary... on How MythTV Detects and Flags Commercials · · Score: 1

    At least according to Widipedia, one third of an hour-long show is taken up by commercials.

    In my direct experience (alot of DVDs :), most shows run 38-40 minutes, sans ending credits. It's seems a bit longer for older stuff (towards ~45min).

  10. Re:Real importance beyond jewelry? on Lab Created Diamonds Come to Market · · Score: 1

    From Adia's website, we see only one retailer that resells their diamonds. Here's a company that has been around a few years, and they don't have a lot of support.

    I'm not surprised. It takes a long time for a business to get reseller traction, especially when it's something that's trying to push a new product into an old market. Chances are, the best way to get them into more stores is to go to stores and ask the stores for stuff made with synthetic diamonds.

  11. Re:But is supported for the #1 browser on Alexa, Amazon's Most Flawed Idea · · Score: 1
    The only way that you could pull accurate numbers would be through all ISPs selecting random data points to find what hostnames people were using.


    Some companies do this, eg. Hitwise.
  12. Re:The data shows there are problems on Alexa, Amazon's Most Flawed Idea · · Score: 1
    When you're looking at numbers like total reach, or you're comparing one web site with another, nobody needs statistics that are 100% accurate.


    No, but you want stats that are at least indicative. A slight userbase difference taste (such as, being against installing random toolbars that gather personal data) suddenly makes a huge difference. While you can tell that Bob's Fishery website isn't getting as much traffic as Amazon, any comparison of competitors within 10x of each other is troublesome, at best.
  13. Re:useless suggestion on Root Exploit For NVIDIA Closed-Source Linux Driver · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's also the version without GL support. Without GL support you might as well have a Mach64 in there.

    And dual-head.

  14. Re:Buy a mac? on New Copy Protection to Make Playing DVDs on a PC Difficult · · Score: 1
    ...but they did NOT find my NetBSD-enabled toaster! MWA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!


    Just imagine if they'd tried to get your files out of it. Especially if it turned itself on when it detected something had been placed in the cooking slot...
  15. Re:Depends. on Swiss to Use Spyware to Listen to VoIP · · Score: 1

    Well, the ISP basically controls how you view the Internet. The next .exe you download via HTTP could be modified.

    Have fun with Debian users, then :)

    Modern Apt uses GPG signatures to verify package lists, and contains MD5 and SHA1 *and* SHA256 hashes in the lists for the individual packages.

  16. Re:SmartShuffle on The Perception of 'Random' on the iPod · · Score: 1

    With SmartShuffle, the order is randomized, but it remains the same until you "reshuffle".

    Is it different from the way XMMS et al. create their shuffle lists?

  17. Re:No charge.. on What Inept Billing Software Have You Encountered? · · Score: 1

    One of my friends has been receiving a "bill" from the local telco with 17c credit for the better part of a year now. Weird thing is, he's never actually directly had any accounts with them, only ever with resellers.

    We just want to see how much money they'll spend telling him about his 17c that he never actually gave them...

  18. Re:Actually, bookstores *are* consignment shops on Publishers Thank Google for Book Sales · · Score: 1

    FYI, bookstores "buy" books from publishers with the right to return them for full credit if they don't sell. So in real life, in the end, publishers supply them on consignment.

    Like many things, that depends on the publisher. Many book stores seem willing enough to buy books in small quantities on an account, rather than on consignment.

  19. Re:Hurry up and make this, then make Star Trek XII on Star Trek XI - What We Know · · Score: 1

    Has nobody considered the possibility that it's the sum of the digits that has to be even?

    1 = 1 = Odd
    2 = 2 = Even
    (etc)
    9 = 9 = Odd
    10 = 1 + 0 = 1 = Odd
    11 = 1 + 1 = 2 = Even

    So, XI will actually be a good film :)

  20. Re:Longest running? on Doctor Who Makes Guinness Book of World Records · · Score: 1

    In any case, many of the Dr. shows were broken up into three, four, or five parts so it's questionable whether those parts should be counted as different episodes or parts of a whole. I prefer the latter method. It doesn't make sense to count separate parts of one story as individual episodes.

    You must have an awful lot of trouble explaining what 40-minunte-segment of that multi-year-long 'Babylon 5' episode you watch each week...

  21. Re:render it on overlay - no screenshots on Untraceable Messaging Service Raises a Few Eyebrows · · Score: 1

    If you've ever tried taking a screenshot from a movie (ie. windows media player) you know what i'm talking about. The surface of the overlay area comes out as blank (mostly pretty pink).

    Or you could just turn off video acceleration for a minute. It doesn't even need a reboot or anything...

  22. Re:Link does not work:Who is the admin on 10 Terrible Portrayals of Technology in Film · · Score: 1

    Good thing you posted as AC. Seeing how it isn't a MS webserver or DB Engine. Your handle could've been a laughing stock for years to come.

    Duh, it was acting!

  23. Re:How stupid is E*Trade? on Data Theft Notifications - How Soon is Too Soon? · · Score: 1

    You could always setup a wildcard mx/wildcard dns servers, so even foo@thisdoesntexist.mydomain.com works.

    That would mean his server still has to respond to the spam. His way, the spammer's DNS lookup of the domain fails and there's absolutely no effort on his part to deal with the deluge of spam to that address.

  24. Re:Space Station and Shuttle, against the Sun on Chemical Leak on ISS · · Score: 1

    Let's just say that they can read the display on your iPod, and tell what kind of cigarettes you smoke.

    That's awesome! My iPod is in my drawer! How does it do that! :-)

    (Failed HDD... and I don't smoke ;)

  25. Re:The devil is in the details on VoIP with Analog PA Systems and Visual Alerts? · · Score: 1
    I sure hope you've got a air tight way to screen out telemarketers.

    I believe the submitter meant calling an internal (extension) number.