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  1. Re:Hard disks? on Affordable Backup Hardware for Today's Systems? · · Score: 2

    I didn't say the RAID array was a copy of your file systems. It's a backup device. You should have several backups for just the reason you give. This disk backup device may have a directory for each day. Or maybe you're checking all your files into CVS...

  2. Re:Do i like this? on China Aims At Moon · · Score: 2
    "its wonderful to see some seemingly just-for-the sake-off-it space exploration/travel."

    The ABC article says they intend to actually do things on the Moon. It is not just exploration. They don't say if they're going to mine tritium, build bases, refine ores, or launch building materials from the Moon.

  3. Re:China to the moon is good for US on China Aims At Moon · · Score: 2
    We've been there and determined all that we needed to know.

    Then we shouldn't have bothered sending ships to look for water on the Moon. And we know some of the minerals on the Moon...but China is interested in actually mining them. Well, we already know what minerals are there, we don't have to actually use them...

  4. Re:Nano? on Nanosatellite Satellite Inspection · · Score: 2
    What are they going to call real nano-satelites when the technology can get us down to the atomic scale?

    Nano-Nano

    No, seriously.. maybe they'll just call atomic-scale devices "atmospheric drag".

  5. Re:Benefit of the doubt on Red Hat Claims They Started The Open Source Revolution · · Score: 2

    The Red Hat statement needs more context. The Red Hat 7.0 Getting Started Guide mentions the 1991 start of Linux. The 6.0 Guide recognized there were 100,000 Linux users in 1994 when Red Hat started. This Linux timeline refers to 100,000 Linux users in December 1993 -- with a link to a missing Red Hat page. Note that Slackware started in 1993. Is there a Linux timeline?

  6. Re:Hard disks? on Affordable Backup Hardware for Today's Systems? · · Score: 2

    Or a cheap array of RAID IDE drives? Reserve one row of drives for backups, with automatic poweroff set on them so they'll go to sleep while you're not using them...

  7. Re:Am I dumb or something? on High-res Volumetric 3D Display Prototype · · Score: 2
    A drug researcher could put up an image of a protein that's a receptor on the surface of a cell. To get the cell to accept a medicine (either for ingestion into the cell or to block the receptor) one has to find/create a molecule that fits the 3-D shape of the protein. One use is to make easier the job of fitting together the 3-D puzzle pieces.

    It really gets fun when instead of directly blocking a receptor, one instead uses a large molecule which fits a neighboring receptor -- blocking the real target indirectly. Trying to find the proper fit for that situation is much harder...

  8. Re:Scapegoating? on IIT's Carnivore Review "A Sham"? · · Score: 2
    The best part is at the end of the Chronicle article. The Justice Department is saying it was the Institute which provided the poorly-redacted document. They chose reviewers who can't keep their own names secret.

    "But Ms. Watney blamed the oversight on "administrative staff" at the research institute, saying they had provided the file to the Justice Department with the names already redacted, and that the department had merely posted the information online."

  9. Re:Built-in Encryption! on Digital Convergence Likes Hackers (?) · · Score: 2
    "I thought they meant the ID embedded into each Cat."

    Oh, so you were thinking of its being used as a security token. "... is that your :Cue:Cat in your pocket?"

  10. Re:Fungi in space? on Space Fungus Eating Mir (Really) · · Score: 2

    Several years ago bacteria inside a Russian space camera were analyzed. They'd gotten there accidentally...but they were there and survived to be analyzed. So, yes, there are Earth bacteria in space objects. For that matter, some have probably been blown off the top of the atmosphere also...

  11. Re:Amazing... life goes on... literally on Space Fungus Eating Mir (Really) · · Score: 2

    Maybe they need a little ultraviolet-emitting robot crawling around and inside things. Just like an aquarium needs some fish/snail which keep the glass clean. Have to design it to keep away from warm human bodies, to avoid UV in the eyeballs.

  12. Doubt it... on Hawking On Earth's Lifespan · · Score: 3
  13. But We Don't Have Venus' Atmosphere on Hawking On Earth's Lifespan · · Score: 2

    Earth does not have the atmosphere of Venus. Venus' atmospheric pressure is 90 times that of Earth. We lost most of our atmosphere in the impact that created the Moon.

  14. Help! Help! I Just Am! on Barnes & Noble Challenges Amazon 1-Click Patent (UPDATED) · · Score: 2
    "Information wants to be free"

    Information wants to not be anthropomorphised.

  15. Re:OK... on Barnes & Noble Challenges Amazon 1-Click Patent (UPDATED) · · Score: 2
    "Yes, you are correct.. doing a query is not novel."

    Of course, Amazon.Com should know a lot about novels.

  16. Re:An embarassing metaphor... on Space Fungus Eating Mir (Really) · · Score: 2

    Well, we've got an Earth environment in orbit. But it's an environment that is not balanced. We need to add things that eat fungus, and things that eat those things, and things that eat those things that eat the fungus... but none of them should eat wires...

  17. Re:Space 'shrooms! on Space Fungus Eating Mir (Really) · · Score: 2
    "...the fires and collisions."

    The burning and scratching... maybe it's cause and effect...

  18. Heel, Palm! on Palm Pilot Robot Kit · · Score: 3

    I need a "Follow Me" program so my Palm won't lose me...

  19. Distributed Computing on The Scientific Internet · · Score: 2

    The Slashdot article only mentions networks. This project is distributed computing: having a pool of computers and assigning various data and programs to them. Like Seti@Home, but more general.

  20. Red Hat is not Linux on Red Hat Abandons Sparc · · Score: 2

    Right. Red Hat is simply trying to fill their wide market, they're not trying to fill every niche. There's also no Red Hat support for non-x86 handheld platforms, but that's not stopping Linux from being there.

  21. Re:Golf Ball on Lunar Landing Historical Site? · · Score: 2

    The ball is near the javelin, that straight line in a crater. Try the text description of the image. The image is also described in this transcript of Apollo 14 EVA-2, as well as the javelin throw and golfing.

  22. Have a :Cue? on Rambus going after AMD & Transmeta · · Score: 4

    Are Rambus devices allowed to have :Cues on them, or would there be an Intellectual Property reaction?

  23. Golf Ball on Lunar Landing Historical Site? · · Score: 4
    The artifacts scattered across the lunar surface by U.S. astronauts include a golf ball knocked over the horizon ..."

    Well, I don't think it was "over the horizon" when it was visible in a picture from the Lunar Module [picture in direction of Turtle Rock]. Shepard estimated "the first ball went about 200 yards (183 meters) and the second 400 yards (366 meters)".

  24. Re:My bet... on AES Algorithm Coming Soon · · Score: 2

    NDij 8mxOmf8 mnD*md sslcmv KD nfd dfmsoimvdl nm09mlj mdfeim.

  25. More National Historic Sites on Lunar Landing Historical Site? · · Score: 4
    I'd like to nominate the following for U.S. National Historic Site designation:
    • Yucatan Meteor
    • North American Glaciers, Recent Ice Ages
    • Sun
    • West Berlin, Germany
    • North Pole of Earth
    • Mount Pinatubo, Phillipines