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  1. My misunderstanding... on RMS: Putting an End to Word Attachments · · Score: 2

    And here I thought RMS was going to stop adding 'GNU' to everything. aka GNU/Linux

  2. Future home oops on Embedded Linux On a High Speed Camera · · Score: 1

    What was the IP of the door web cam again? ticka,ticka,ticka... Oh there is is. Hmm.. Ok, I know him. Oh CRAP.. now what was the *&^&#$^$ IP address of the door lock?

  3. Oh dear on Philips Says Compact Discs Can't be Copyprotected · · Score: 1
    The labels are worried that the rise of home CD-burners has eaten into album sales, particularly after the worst year in a decade for the music industry.

    I have another reason - they squash good music and feed use tripe music. EG. pop singer flavor of the day.

    When the few decide for the many what is good, that's censorship.

  4. Polling Ethics? on Microsoft Caught Rigging ZD Net Poll · · Score: 1

    Why was microsoft.com and sun.com excluded from polling at all?

    Employees are always excluded from participating in company sponsored contests.

    At least you would get a better class of script kiddies.

  5. Hm IS workout tapes. on 9-Track Open Reel Tape Production Ends This Year · · Score: 1

    I used to have to lug 15 of these buggers to other buildings for 'offsite' storage. Now it looks like I have to get a new exercise routine.

  6. Awesome! on 9-Track Open Reel Tape Production Ends This Year · · Score: 1

    Lots of used tapes will be dumped on the market cheap that I can use in my VCR! Seriously! No really!

    That stuff was allways 2x better than the best 'high-quality' tape you could buy. It was winding it up that took the most time.

  7. A technical point on Judge Upholds FBI Keyboard Sniffing · · Score: 1

    After reading the judges filing, I think that keylogger should be classified as a wire tap device. Therefore; you would need a wire-tap order to use it, and not a search and seizure.

    I look at it this way: A search and seisure looks for something that exists at the time the warrant is acted upon. A wire tap is a method of obtaining information that does not exist 'right now' hoping that it might be useful eg. evidence gathering.

    Now if they find the password on a piece of paper they seized, well then too bad.

  8. Re:Firewalling outgoing packets... on Judge Upholds FBI Keyboard Sniffing · · Score: 1

    Most firewall can. However; most firewalls don't.

    I put in a block on our firewall 'just in case' for a virus that was going round. If someone got it in our network it would block any possible outgoing packets to the suspect site.

    If ou know your firewall software well, you can do it. The only problem is knowing where you want to go.

  9. Polticians Report card- "Wasted Money=318,000" on Banning Violent Arcade Games Unconstitutional · · Score: 1
    "It's up to us as parents to teach our children values. However well-intentioned it might be, it's not a function of the government to intervene," Danz said. "We're blowing taxpayer money at a time when we need to be looking at things like sewers."

    FYI I don t live there but...I just hope this appears on the on the "reviews" of Douglas when he tries for re-election. People who support censorship in any form should not be in the government. 1st amendment says "There shall be no law..." so this should'nt have been chalenged in the first place. Sounds like someone was pushing their own opinion, and not that of the public interest.

    Sorry, should have said Flame-on! (with apologies to Marvel comics (human torch) ;)
  10. Re:Linux Tablet Homepage on Using Summagraphics Tablets in Unix? · · Score: 1

    I found a driver that hooks into X there. They apparently use it as a hack to GPM.

    Now It looks like I will have to hack it some. I want to be able to use both a mouse and the digitizer.

  11. 1st & 2nd rules of economics on Techie, Wrench-head, or Both? · · Score: 1

    Sure I did both. Then I started to make more than my mechanic. Now I can get my car fixed and stay clean & warm while playing UT. You ever have a transmission line break when it was not wet/freezing/dark?

  12. Re:Connector on Using Summagraphics Tablets in Unix? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The one I have was a wedge for the db-25 serial port. It had a power connector that you would plug a small power supply into it.. Never did do a pinout on it.

  13. Uses for mini-cluster on Cringely Wants A Supercomputer in Every Garage · · Score: 2, Funny

    1) heat in garage in winter
    2) Top 10 in Seti@home
    3) Porno-ize you favorite anime (Final Fantasy anyone?)
    4) Why are you reading this? I thought you were doing #3

  14. Not really here on Cringely Wants A Supercomputer in Every Garage · · Score: 1

    I can get a clone Realtek card for $10 (or less sometimes) retail. Most other cards are at least $20. I can also pick up a floppy for $1 a piece used.

    Not sure how much you could get the realteks w/rom for bulk but you would have to call around

  15. Re:Better throughput than Gigabit? on Cringely Wants A Supercomputer in Every Garage · · Score: 1

    Ethernet works by the dump the data on the wire and hope for no collisions.

    Every time you get a collision 2 pcs have to resend their data. so you redue the bandwidth by 66%.

    So by adding more channels to send on you decrease collisions and increase throughput.

  16. And they keep missing the target. on Let's Kill the Hard Disk Icon · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Both the desktop and a folder metaphor is inacurate. Nobody but me understands MY desktop, but everybody understands a forest.

    Until we store files on the harddrives differently (non-hierarchical) there will always be a diference in the WYSIHWTDI 'what you see is where the data is' views.

    A disk is equivilant to a tree. A tree has branches(path), and leaves (files). In a forest I can see all the leaves or just one branch, or a leaf. If I prune a tree that branch is gone. If I move a branch, I cut and graft (not paste) Vines are interlinks between fiels, and sometimes trees. Devices are fruits(mp3 devices) and or flowers/nuts.

    Now when I see a 3D version of my forest then it will be good.

    Trees was the original metaphor.

    Now, where was that hedge trimmer?

  17. Rollup patches on Uber-patch for Internet Explorer · · Score: 1

    Either that or the fruit flavored nicotine patches to stop smoking

  18. How is this different? on U.S. To Drop Charges Against Sklyarov · · Score: 1

    What they have a super crime prevention device that stops crime in its racks?

    BTW. Why whould this be different him than everybody else?

    I'm convinced that lawers have no brains, or have brains and don't use them.

  19. Oh great... on U.S. To Drop Charges Against Sklyarov · · Score: 1

    Now what am I gonna do with all these "Free Sklyarov" bumper stickers?

  20. Plain Brown Wrappers on Grand Theft Auto Still Banned Down Under · · Score: 1

    "If you outlaw gta3, only outlaws will have them!"

    Wait a minute... I thought AU was where we sent our criminals ... (USA)

    Now the pOrn sites will have GTA3 ads instead ... suddenly they seem less lame.

    --
    Commit random acts of thought. Post to /.

  21. Common Carrier on VPN Clients Not Allowed On Residential Service · · Score: 1

    Not if they want to stay a Common Carrier. That status says in brief "Hear,no evil, see no evil, say no evil"

    This is seperate them from any lawsuits that involve the 'owner' of passed over their systems. (ala the post office)

    In a lot of ways the 'internet' in general is becoming a common carrier, but the ISP are in a strange place. They have the unique position of allowing/using filters to filter content simply. (Spam anyone?) A traditional common carrier is not allowed to do this.

    I would like to see a opt-in or customizable (by user) method for the ISP to do some filtering for me.

    Ok, now where is that DeCSS code ...

  22. Aaauugghh! It's in the hardware now! on DVD Player Chipsets To Support Windows Media Files · · Score: 1

    So now I'll have to pay a MS surcharge on any DVD player? No thank you.

    Call me when they put the Div-X (en)decoder in hardware.

  23. Saturation point on Fed Raids Software Pirates in 27 Cities · · Score: 1

    offtopic maybe...

    IMHO the real reason that some software is so expensive is this. The pricier your software the less you spend to support it. eg. the higher, the fewer. Ever notice that you have to pay for _both_ the software _and_ the support for it?

    No matter what price you set your software at, there will be warez. All you do is set the saturation point. eg at $200 dollars 60% of potential customers will use it, at $20 - 90% will use it. Above this saturation point is the warez factor. I will guess 5% more usage. (I wonder what it really is)

    This gives me hope for all OSS. To paraphrase a Dune quote. There is a place terrifiing to us, to MS. If you look in that dark place you will see Tux looking back.

  24. Anarchy relates to which law of thermodynamics? on Fed Raids Software Pirates in 27 Cities · · Score: 1
    If real life existed the way the /. crowd thinks it should be, we'd live in total anarchy.i>

    Relating to the law s o fthermodynamics:
    1. Capitolism: you can win
    2. Socialism: you can break even
    3. Buddism: you can quit the game
    Where does anarchy fit in this?. Anarchy would mean that I could super-spam the luser spammer directly, and not hear the cry of DDOS from them. My mom always told me that I could never start a fight, but I could finish it. When did we as a whole become a bunch of wusses who could not stand up for ourselves?
  25. AALIB - the new ascii pOrn on Google Expands Usenet Archive to 20 Years · · Score: 1

    Now we can have ascii movies of pOrn! Now where was that tape...