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  1. Re:Bank of America on One-Time Pads To Protect Electronic Bank Access · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    ... but if anyone else uses Bank Of America, I would suggest a call to them.

    If anyone else uses Bank of America, I would suggest looking for another bank, or better yet, a credit union.

    B of A charges fees for anything it can. If this article is to be believed, B of A is the fifth most-profitable company in the world. That profit comes from all the money B of A extracts from its customers.

  2. Re:What security on One-Time Pads To Protect Electronic Bank Access · · Score: 1

    Karma.

  3. Re:Rubber hose crypanalysis on One-Time Pads To Protect Electronic Bank Access · · Score: 2, Funny
    ... so you wouldn't want to knock Mary up.

    You wouldn't want to knock her up because then you might later have to pay her 936 child support payments, which most likely will add up to far more than you could ever get from her account in the first place.

  4. Re:Great news, but is there a typo? on Gartner: Linux Servers Booming · · Score: 1
    You forgot that extra .3, which is the partial server my company bought.

    Oddly enough, .3 dollars is how much the Linux installation discs cost (about 10 cents per disc).

    Unfortunately, that is 50% more than the company spent on the installation media for Solaris 8 for the Intel platform.

  5. Re:You know, it occurs to me Microsoft is un-ameri on MS Rails On Open Source, Appeals To Gov't Greed · · Score: 1

    Here is an opportunity for parallel importing.

  6. Re:Blimp Cruises on Blimps... In... Space... · · Score: 1

    Who said we're coming back?

  7. Re:Better yet on Creator of the Gaia Hypothesis Urges Nuclear Power · · Score: 1

    Will you volunteer to be one of the 5 billions 'erased' from the planet, or will make a run for it like Logan did?

  8. Re:Where do you go? on Feds to Open BlackBoxVoting User Logs? · · Score: 1

    Spain.

  9. Re:Gotta trust the system... on Feds to Open BlackBoxVoting User Logs? · · Score: 1
    Good point.

    But even if a majority of people thought internment camps, torture, etc. were good ideas, they would be wrong.

  10. only Congress can declare war on Feds to Open BlackBoxVoting User Logs? · · Score: 1

    The U.S. has not declared war since World War II.

  11. fragmentation of Linux file systems on Measuring Fragmentation in HFS+ · · Score: 1
    For more information about defragmentation on Linux file systems (especially ext2 and ext3), read the 'Defragmenting a disk' section of Resizing and defragmenting Linux filesystems.

    This article, Interview With the People Behind JFS, ReiserFS & XFS asks the developers directly about fragmentation. XFS, JFS, and ReiserFS are extent-based file systems, which keep fragmentation to a minimum.

  12. Re:My view as a scientist... on US Losing its Scientific Dominance · · Score: 1

    In large parts of Asia, people have no religion.

  13. Re:Amen! Mod parent up! on US Losing its Scientific Dominance · · Score: 1
    Sad, but true.

    Some friends of mine have gone to get Masters or PhDs. Great work, but they make less than most of us who stopped higher education earlier out.

    Worst of all, post-docs work their asses off for little pay. They may make some good money if they can become professors or researchers, but may not.

    One grad student I know was tempted to work as a receptionist for a biotech company because it would pay so much more than she could make in marine biology research.

  14. let's go Metric! on US Losing its Scientific Dominance · · Score: 1
    Can we go Metric again?

    I was too young in the 1970s to really participate.

    But really, 3/8 inch is guesswork, but 9 mm makes the perfect size bullet for a Glock.

  15. Re:Science doesnt need dominance on US Losing its Scientific Dominance · · Score: 1

    A large amount of "intellectual property" is neither intellectual nor property. Discuss. . .

  16. Re:blame blame blame on US Losing its Scientific Dominance · · Score: 1
    We had these when the US was dominant, too. Obviously it is some other factor.

    There is poor logic.

    Yes, we have had IP, copyrights, and patents for a long time now. But the way patents and copyrights are granted and used today is a lot different.

  17. Re:That's it, hand the country to know-nothings on US Losing its Scientific Dominance · · Score: 1
    Care to find a pigeon hole for me?

    Found one.

  18. Re:immigration the biggest problem on US Losing its Scientific Dominance · · Score: 1
    things have to change in November.

    I would like things to change in November, but I have two shitty choices for Senator. The House of Representatives don't look like they plan to change anything either.

    If it ain't broke, don't fix it. But the corollary of that is obvious. Some things are not working so well these days.

    Congress better think for itself and make decisions that are good for the people, and how to spend our tax money.

    And states might want to start exercising their rights, especially if the federal government keeps things on this track for too much longer.

    Unfortunately, the federal government can still control immigration, national funding of education and research, taxation, etc.

    What are some solutions?

  19. Re:Argh... on US Losing its Scientific Dominance · · Score: 1

    But the German scientists were flown to Alabama, which was (and still is) like a Third World country.

  20. Re:Argh... on US Losing its Scientific Dominance · · Score: 1
    but note that most of the engineering is done back in the U.S. - expect that to change tho.

    Want to keep your engineering job? Try this method:

    1. Set up an engineering company overseas (in Mexico, Hungary, India, or some place with lower labour costs).

    2. Make up four or more names to use as your aliases. They should sound like names of natives of that place you chose.

    3. Get a contract with a North American or European company to do engineering work "overseas".

    4. You really do the work at home, and attribute it to some of your new aliases. (It appears your work is being done by four or more natives of that foreign land.)

    5. Collect four or more paychecks (preferably over 100% of your current salary in total).

    If those Benedict Arnold CEOs want to screw us over, why don't we fight back?

  21. Re:At the expense of HP-UX on USA Today and NYT on Linux rising · · Score: 1
    I worked for Battelle there when it was still called PNL.

    In one group, we used Macs for workstations and OS/2 to run the mass spectrometers. In another group, the workstations were mostly running Windows, and some of the mass spectrometers were run with Windows, some with OS/2, and some with good old-fashioned mechanical switches and dials.

    Thanks for bringing back the memories. . .

  22. Re:Old! :) on USA Today and NYT on Linux rising · · Score: 1
    I agree with you there.

    For people raised in Chinese culture and other cultures that were heavily-influenced by the Chinese, dates are in that format. (Literally, it is 2004-year, 5-month, 4-day to represent 4 May 2004.)

  23. Re:Use schools as a model? on VoteHere Whistleblower Suit · · Score: 1
    We have been using that system to vote here in Seattle for the past several years.

    Before that (in the early 1990s), we used a pen to punch out the holes in our ballots. What fun!

  24. Stan Lippmann on VoteHere Whistleblower Suit · · Score: 1

    I have voted against Stan Lippmann many times.

  25. don't get married so young on Appreciating Your Stressful IT Job? · · Score: 1
    Notice to all Slashdot readers:

    Don't get married so young.

    If possible, listen to Tom Leykis on the radio, or at least learn about Leykis 101.