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  1. Transparancy on US Supreme Court Expected Political Ad Transparency · · Score: 1

    Misspelled title.

  2. Just like regular mail on Federal Judge Says E-mail Not Protected By 4th Amendment · · Score: 2, Interesting

    "When a person uses the postal service, the user's actions are no longer in his or her physical home; in fact he or she is not truly acting in private space at all. The user is generally accessing the postal service with a zip code and mailbox owned by the United States Postal Service. All materials in transit, whether they are letters or packages, are physically temporarely stored on facilities owned by the USPS. When we send a letter or a postcard from the comfort of our own homes to a friend across town the message travels from our home to facilities owned by a third party, the USPS, before being delivered to the intended recipient. Thus, "private" information is actually being held by third-parties."

  3. Already covered by RFC on Suitable Naming Conventions For Workstations? · · Score: 1

    RFC 1178: Choosing a Name for Your Computer, http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1178.txt
    RFC 2100: The Naming of Hosts, http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2100

  4. Re:Different tools for different purposes on How Do You Sync & Manage Your Home Directories? · · Score: 1

    It seems what he needs is "Fast System VerSioning" (FSVS) http://fsvs.tigris.org/

    It is a complete backup/restore/versioning tool for all files in a directory tree or whole filesystems, with a subversion repository as the backend. You may think of it as some kind of tar or rsync with versioned storage.

    In which ways is FSVS better than subversion?
    * FSVS keeps the modification timestamp, the owner, group and access mode of your files in the repository, and restores them on update/export.
    * svn is restricted to files, directories, and symlinks; FSVS does device nodes too.
    * The svn client needs the .svn-directories, with the full-text of your text-base in them; that means 4 times the inodes, and more than 2 times the space needed in your filesystem.

  5. Re:Catching up to the other countries on Some Mexican Classrooms Adopt Hi-Tech Teaching · · Score: 1

    Estimado Tatisimo: nos harías un favor a todos si usas "US American" para decir estadounidense. Los mexicanos somos americanos también ;-) .

  6. Dianetics and Scientology for kids? on Using Technology to Improve Kindergarten? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I found interesting that under the "Philosophy" section of the school's site they quote the "educator" L. Ronald Hubbard, better know as a pulp fiction and science fiction writer and founder of Dianetics and Scientology.

  7. Re:Hmmm.... on Giant Mexican Telescope Launched · · Score: 2, Informative

    Mexico paid 70% of the 120 million USD of the project. You may want to learn that 12% of US citizens live under poverty line... so following your argumente the US should solve that problem instead of keeping "pet projects" like Irak...

  8. Chocolate on 2,600-year-old Mayan Chocolate Found · · Score: 5, Informative
    (The Mayans liked to drink their chocolate rather than eat it.)

    That is why it is called "chocolate", from the Náhuatl choco ~= froth and atl ~= water: frothy water. Náhuatl is the language spoken by the aztecs and other peoples in Mexico.

  9. Lame header on UK Lab Responsible for VNC To Close · · Score: 4, Troll

    "UK Lab Responsible for VNC To Close" is lame.
    A better header would be "AT&T Kills Lab that Created VNC".

    The "UK Lab" is responsible for VNC, not for its closure. AT&T is responsible for closing the lab.

  10. Pleonasm: "Auto"-Suicide on Auto-Suicide for Grey Market Electronics? · · Score: 1

    What other types of suicide do you know, besides "auto"-suicide?

    It's a pleonasm!

    (please get a good editor/style-checker)

  11. Use just one COM port on Hotsyncing PalmPilots On Multiple COM Ports? · · Score: 1

    I am assuming you are using Windoze to sync your Palms. Use a "Y" serial cable to connect both cradles to the same PC port. You can leave both Palms connected as long as you do not try to Hotsync the two of them at once. That's the setting I have for my IIIxe and my wife's V.

    A "Y" cable is easy to make: one female and two male conectors, each male pin is connected to the corresponding female pin.