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  1. Trivial computation power, felines required on IBM And Mind Input Devices · · Score: 1
    Just read the state of quantum functions outside the brain, not inside it.

    • You are presented with one box after another.
    • To input a one bit, observe a live cat in the box.
    • To input a zero bit, observe a dead cat in the box.
    • This sequence lets you create input to the computer very simply, and the computer only has to observe the resulting state of the cats.
  2. Re:It happens on IBM And Mind Input Devices · · Score: 1

    I do like the science fiction author who came up with the idea of putting mirrors on each side of the metal plates and creating a laser powered by vacuum force. Used it as free energy for a photon-drive sublight starship...

  3. SBC...need Tillamook PC104 like this. on Mini Dual-Celeron Board · · Score: 2
    This is an SBC (Single Board Computer), some models of which you could run standalone but is usually plugged in to a passive bus.

    For a laptop, you want something like the Ampro Little Board/P5x which uses the low power "Mobile Pentium" (Tillamook) processor, and has graphics and Ethernet along with everything else that's usually on a motherboard.

    Of course, if someone would start making a laptop case which can hold PC/104 cards and common LCD, power supply, and drives...then the laptop market would open up as the desktops did with standard cases and components.

  4. Win2000 Terminal on UNIX Advertising From Way-back-when · · Score: 1

    See Windows 2000 Terminal Services and welcome to the 1970's.

  5. Um.. Who? on DNA Testing Of Deep Ancestry · · Score: 1

    It would be nice if there actually was a lineage traced all the way back to those seven women. As it is, all the deep-test shows is that you're part of one of seven groups...but there's no information as to whom those seven women really were. No names, no family info, nothing.

  6. Re:Ritchie and his baby on UNIX Advertising From Way-back-when · · Score: 1
    Esoteric interface? The beauty of the Unix shell is its simplicity. Similar systems of the time had monolithic commands with lots of confusing options. Go look up VMS, Multics, or NOS/BE commands.

    You can't compare DOS to Unix well, as Unix influenced DOS... When MS added subdirectories to DOS they boasted they were going to add more Unix features to DOS (anyone have that announcement in your files?).

  7. on UNIX Advertising From Way-back-when · · Score: 2

    Are you describing old Unix or Windows 2000? :-)

  8. CSoft announcement on Linux Cash Registers? · · Score: 1

    In Linux Weekly News I noticed a CSoft International and Neoware Systems press release. CSoft is bringing their POS system to Linux. Well, iPos is Java-based so can run on Linux, so this seems to be actually an announcement that it will be used with Neoware's systems... but it is a POS system which uses Linux.

  9. Hard Case on U.S. Army To Develop "JEDI" Soldiers · · Score: 1
    Obviously, it would be best to protect all this expensive equipment. Just put it inside a hardened plastic case which the soldier can wear.

    Seriously, they have some implementation problems.

    • They chose Windows CE, which the manufacturer has abandoned or renamed.
    • They used the Iridium satellite network, which the vendor has abandoned.
  10. Re:Heroically Resistant to Jamming? on Engineers Build Satellite Jammer · · Score: 1
    "...that we rely upon went down 10 times a day?"
    You don't work in a Microsoft-based office, do you?
  11. Re:WHY?!?!?!?! on Engineers Build Satellite Jammer · · Score: 1

    No, the error is always in your current location. Your fishing boat will only know within 30 feet where it is, and you have to correct for errors due to wind and current anyway. As you're going across the lake you just follow the arrow to end up at the destination you chose, always only knowing your location within 30 feet. If you're headed for a buoy or dock it's easy enough for you to manually steer to your destination.

  12. Re:Sharp...closed on Run Linux Apps On Your Sharp Zaurus? · · Score: 1
    Well, a Linux SDK would be nice, but it would have helped if someone in the world had the SDK. Only one company made an add-on.

    Sharp did add one game package. Oh, goodie.

  13. Re:what Cliff? It's not important? on COPPA, What Are You Doing About It? · · Score: 1
    "Is it even something that deserves worrying about?"
    You're asking from the user's side, while he's on the server side. Apparently he's in a company which can decide which laws to ignore. He must be working for Clinton or Gore.
  14. Re:Screen Size on Run Linux Apps On Your Sharp Zaurus? · · Score: 1

    The article phrasing indicates that it's an API port, which allows you to compile programs to run on this device. So you have to start with source code and use these tools to compile it to an executable. That does not mean that you can compile and run everything...unless someone translates the mystery page as saying that.

  15. Sharp...closed on Run Linux Apps On Your Sharp Zaurus? · · Score: 1

    I got a Sharp organizer as a gift. Sharp doesn't have open development tools, and only two software add-ons have appeared. It's going to be replaced with a Palm or a Linux PDA.

  16. Re:XML? on On Creating Multilingual Web Sites? · · Score: 1
    I believe with XML you can have all the versions of the text in an item, then the server chooses the appropriate one to display.

    Think of an XML item as a collection of labels and values for each label. If what you have is a HOME_PAGE item, it can contain values for WELCOME_ENGLISH, WELCOME_FRENCH, and WELCOME_AMERICAN. The server knows which language it should use, and you have your XML-based server program select the appropriate text for that language.

    Yes, XML entries can contain sub-categories. So that might actually be implemented with the actual texts buried within several levels of labeled categories. (I forget the actual XML terminology, but basically everything is labeled, and new data structures can be defined which contain other data structures)

  17. Dependent upon what you know on Interesting Uses For Old GSM Mobile Phones? · · Score: 1
    It depends upon how much info and what tools you have, and what you want to accomplish.

    If you want to use them with a cellular contract, some phones such as Nokia are well enough understood that you can connect them to PCs, audio, or phone devices...and they can be used with analog devices, digital links, or SMS. Linux tools are available also for Nokias.

    I don't know if GSM phones have protocols for talking directly with GSM phones. Now we'll hear from others...

  18. Re:books will always be around on RMS On eBooks · · Score: 1

    You can use an ebook as an ebook shelf or a hiding place. It depends on the size of what you want to hide, just as with a paper book. And in both cases, removing internal components to make a hiding place reduces the capabilities of the book. Of course, if you want to simply hit someone with a book then you might have better success filling the ebook with dense plutonium.

  19. Re:Its up to the original author(s) on GPL/LGPL Issues - Moving GPL'd Code into Libs? · · Score: 1

    Actually, the original author could release a new version of the original code under another license. The GPL version is still under GPL. The LGPL version would be separate. Any modifications to the GPL version would also have to be done separately to the LGPL version, preferably by the author of the mod.

  20. Re:Hello, there _is_ no back door on Microsoft -- Designed for Insecurity · · Score: 1

    Okay, this says it's only a bug, not a backdoor. Oh, no, not a bug in MS code. What a shocker.

  21. Re:Where's the back door? on Microsoft -- Designed for Insecurity · · Score: 2

    The point is that you had to ask the question, and we can't tell you to look it up.

  22. Re:Heaven's Gift? -- Nope on Backdoor In Microsoft Web Software? · · Score: 1

    Actually this was FUD against closed source. Latest reports suggest that the "weenies" key was actually for obfuscation of a client/server link. With open source the experts who noticed the key would have simply looked at the source to see what the DLL does.

  23. Re:I'd rather have black gold on Solar Cells For Laptops? · · Score: 1

    Read again. He's not digging test wells around the world with his little shovel, others are testing and finding oil in "impossible" places. And just this week was the announcement of researchers confirming that methane can be produced by oil-eating bacteria without requiring sulfur, which helps explain methane deposits in more places than previously thought, and that methane did not require any fossil decomposition process.

  24. Re:Possible Uses of the Gathered Data on Linux on the Brain · · Score: 1

    Well, if you've got nanites in your bloodstream then you won't have a hat. You'll have nanites wiring your brain directly, but then the next step is to just make a copy of your brain map...and then you have decide if you'll upload yourself.

  25. Beowulf cluster? on Linux on the Brain · · Score: 1
    Imagine a Beowulf cluster of human brains...

    Oh, that's been done. It's The Matrix...no, wait, The Matrix is a sink of computer power, so where does the computer power to image The Matrix come from?