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  1. Re:Microsoft? Violate your Privacy?! on Hailstorm: Changing Society's Privacy Infrastructure · · Score: 2

    The MS Passport terms were only changed for those whose primary browser language is US English. Change your preference to have your preferred language be British English, Spanish, Portuguese, or whatever other languages you know...then go read the Passport Terms again.

  2. Re:NASA needs some new IT guys on Window(s) on the World · · Score: 2

    How much is the time of an ISS crew member worth, if NASA can afford to have them spending time fixing their computers?

  3. $2M paperclip on Window(s) on the World · · Score: 1

    Does the paperclip dance differently in microgravity?

  4. Am I in orbit? on Window(s) on the World · · Score: 1

    Actually there are several ways to detect if you're in orbit. The most popular method in SF decades ago involved floating something, like marbles, in a pattern and watching for distortion. I believe a circle distorts into an ellipse, with shape and timing giving direction and orbit time.

  5. "Not only can I hold, I'm even floating." on Window(s) on the World · · Score: 1
    Gee, what level of support is NASA purchasing from Microsoft? Can't they get a level of support which gets problems fixed within a reasonable period of time?

    [Gee, MS Support uses someone else's mydomain.com instead of the reserved example.com...and won't give info on support options without a Passport account]

  6. Magnet on Window(s) on the World · · Score: 1

    The magnet-on-a-wriststrap that I saw yesterday might have helped.

  7. Pre-IRC on Searching For Essay on Innovation, UNIX and C? · · Score: 1

    Chat programs were popular on timesharing and BBS systems in the 1970s. IRC is simply a network-oriented implementation.

  8. Managing Jukeboxes on Inexpensive Storage of Terrabytes on WORM Media? · · Score: 1

    OK, so you bolt your jukeboxes inside shipping containers. Data which you're presently using will be stacked in your automated warehouse, having jacks which automatically connected to power/data ports. Archived data will fit on standard container trucks, shipping yards...and in case of overseas acquisition can be shipped around the world.

  9. Re:They shouldn't let SSH out. on SSH Connections Thru The Firewall? · · Score: 1
    What users are doing connecting _outside_ from inside, changes nothing. Telnet may be insecure, but who said that users are accessing something that requires security in the first place? It's outside! I access slashdot without any possibility of hiding my password when I log in, and I have no way to verify any signatures, yet it's perfectly acceptable because my authentication here is not important for security.

    Revealing passwords of outside resources allows subversion of those outside resources by others, which can allow attacks back into your facilities. Finding an outside telnet, ftp, or web mail password allows tinkering with files which may be transferred into your corporate facilities. An employee might trust the attachments on saved email from a trusted source, not realizing that someone has altered them.

    It doesn't matter if the weak link is outside or inside your corporate LAN.

  10. Re:Too complex? Yes. Useful? Yes. on Is UML Really Necessary? · · Score: 1

    Maybe it would help to add context-sensitive pulldown object type menus to the UML objects in Dia. Make the objects so only the proper kinds can connect and restrict the selection to relevant types?

  11. Re:Spring Comdex is a bust on Linux at Spring Comdex · · Score: 1

    Except that the show also gives exhibitors a chance to be noticed by people who then point out the product to others. Just like those mentioned in this article succeeded.

  12. Gramma, Check This... on Linux at Spring Comdex · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, the mistakes were all in the text from the editor. The editor needs editors.

  13. Re:I wish I had mod points on Linux at Spring Comdex · · Score: 1

    ...I also try to keep my comments to my own article on topic...

  14. Re:Grammar check on Linux at Spring Comdex · · Score: 2

    SEWilco wishes to disclaim responsibility for the phrasing which was prepended to his carefully polished report.

  15. Re:only 12 million pounds? on Uncle Sam's Funhouse · · Score: 2
    If your press is less than 40 feet tall, our press will actually crunch yours. Of course, in the process whatever is within your press will really get crushed...

    Many years ago the instrumentation company MTS provided a device to test to destruction a mine jack. Yes, they built a machine to crush a machine which was designed to hold up the rock roof of a mine and measure the entire process. I wonder if that is this device.

  16. Spectrum Analyzer on Measuring EM Waves for Home/Office Safety? · · Score: 1
    If your facility has a "spectrum analyzer", the strength of radio signals across many frequencies can be easily seen. Some recent radio amateur computer-interfaced receivers cover a wide range of frequencies and can do a less precise measurement.

    And if you're concerned about those low-power signals around you, perhaps you should take a walk in a residential neighborhood a mile or two from a radio/TV antenna farm that's blasting 50,000 watts on a dozen broadcast frequencies and the center of as many microwave links. After 50 years, the bright blue trees, the orange grass, and the giant rats will be obvious.

  17. Re:So? on I Suspect M$ That Has Broken The GPL · · Score: 1
    I thought there was way too much bad inference in that editorial. Much more supporting evidence is needed.

    "The lady dost protest too much, methinks."

    So because I say that the law against selling horsemeat is a bad law, you know that I am a horsemeat marketer?

    Incidentally, have you stopped beating your wife?

  18. Re:well now, I'm no statue worshiper... on Star Wars Most Violent Movie Ever? · · Score: 1

    Getting the Hollywood power would certainly be more difficult if this government was destroying those Oscar statues...

  19. Logical Manor on Alas Poor DALnet, We Hardly Knew Ye · · Score: 1

    I look forward to using "Logical Manor" technology on my home page.

  20. Re:All you base belong to us on Base Assignment? · · Score: 2

    Is it poorly translated? Or was it supposed to be a message from someone who is not good at speaking English? Just because a military officer is moved from Earth to Polaris does not mean that he can speak the local languages well.

  21. Visualization on Visually Representing Internet Data? · · Score: 1
    Go to Freshmeat.Net, SAL or your other favorite software directories (or a web search engine) and search for "visualization" or "scientific visualization". Also consider Computer Aided Design tools There are assorted tools that you can feed all kinds of data to.

    I've taken SNMP data from radio network nodes, dropped it into Gnuplot, and placed on a web page a rotating GIF of a 3-D contour plot showing what the error rates are througout a building. There also are tools which can be interfaced to external data. I've used network configuration data to produce charts (although TkIned has tools to do this already).

  22. DeCSS on Slashdot During War? · · Score: 1

    You mean we're not already at war?

  23. Re:Better link on Seven League Boots · · Score: 1

    The http://www.powerskip.de/pricelist.htmlpricelist says they're around $850 EUR (multiply by about 1.137 to convert to USA dollars).

  24. Re:Observations on Seven League Boots · · Score: 1
    You've never heard of gasoline-powered roller skates? 50KPH is possible. I saw one that is 40 years old that reached 2/3 that speed. It's just a matter of connecting a backpack-mounted engine to one wheel with a flexible shaft.

    Make sure you have a lot of money in savings and cancel all your insurance before using one, as it's not fair for anyone else to have to pay for what you're going to do to yourself.

  25. Geeks != Fat on Seven League Boots · · Score: 1

    Well, if you're running for exercise then you don't want to get something that lets you travel faster. You might want to make a treadmill or cycle drive a generator to power an electric motor to turn wheels to move you down the road. Power your laptop from it to get more exercise. Or better than a laptop, a desktop machine. And a microwave so you can have lunch while you're running at lunch time. Enjoy your human-powered minivan.