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  1. Re:IEEE 802.3ba code name on IEEE Releases 802.3ba Standard · · Score: 5, Funny

    Unfortunately there is no corresponding 100000Base-MrT

  2. Hospitals and Universities on Finding Student IT Security Placements in the Industry? · · Score: 1

    You should contact security/IT departments in Universities surrounding your university. Depending on the number of students your organization servers, getting a student assistant position created that rotates out a new project to whatever student's term wouldn't take a lot of effort.

    Hospitals may also provide that same amount of communication if your faculty/staff can help explain the program to someone in the office of IT/CSO @ the hospital. Many of those organizations are bogged down with HIPAA implementation right now and are looking to address these security issues.

  3. Re:Blizzard will have a field day..... on 400,000 Additional DSs Available by Year's End · · Score: 1

    Actually, blizzard classic has 3 games on the gba platform.... Granted, they are all much older than warcraft style games but they atleast have some cycles spent on the low end.

  4. Future solutions need to look to the history on Round-Up Ready Coca Plants · · Score: 1

    I ran across this article at the beginning of the month and then ran in to Cocaine: An Unauthorized Biography by Dominic Streatfeild. It's an amazingly quick read. It does a good job of pointing out that a 500 year old culture won't be able to get rid of the 4500 year old coca trade.

    One thing it points to is the farmers involved in production don't have many other crops available to them. In the article, if coca is the only thing that will grow since everything else dies from roundup, then how will you grow anything but coca?

    Probably the next step involved in the drug war is Fusarium oxysporum http://www.scienceblog.com/community/older/2000/C/ 200002876.html.

    In the book above it calls this the a-bomb of herbicides. While some strains will only attack coca, it mutates easily and then can destroy the entire farm land. It will contaminate the soil and make it impossible to grow anything else. Here's a list of other forms and some plants it attacks: http://www.extento.hawaii.edu/kbase/crop/Type/f_ox ys.htm.

  5. Re:One nice new thing in Firefox on "Phishing" Attacks to Increase · · Score: 5, Insightful

    One thing I just got onto my banking website for is in a new version, they switched to using components spread amongst 4 domain names.

    It's hard enough telling grandma that www.examplebank.com is different from www.example-bank.com for phishing scams. It's only harder when the banks themselves are spreading confusion.

  6. Re:I'm definitely not a technical guru... on Akamai DNS Outage Messes up Net · · Score: 1

    That works for sites that own their ip but with so many sites relying on vhosting, DNS is even more important

  7. Re:For Once I don't Agree on Playfair Relocates to India · · Score: 1

    Only apple products (and the HP ipod) support Apples DRM. My wife's ipod gets hooked up to the stereo all the time and I'd much rather buy something lik e http://www.slimdevices.com/ and stream AAC to it directly from the house fileserver rather than reencoding it.

  8. Use Pacakges where possible on Build From Source vs. Packages? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If you have an application that you need performance out of, spend time compiling that once and then packaging it once and installing it on your 10 machines.

    When looking from the prof's view, it will be easier to get someone else up to speed after you have graduated if your machines stick closely to standard packages.

    Use the time that you'd spend compiling/installing doing more CS related activities.

    Most people (including myself) that have gone through the phase of wanting to compile everything get out of it as soon as they have some real problems to solve.

  9. Re:Not true on AOL Now Publishing SPF Records · · Score: 1

    If I understand correctly, this only helps when I can control the domain in question.

    An easy case that comes to mind is I'm at home and I need to send a mail into work saying I'm sick. I really don't want to use my personal email address then and I configure my MUA to use cmg@example.com and relay off my ISP's mail server. Now, how am I going to go convince any reasonably sized company to add 3 neighborhoods of netblocks to modify their DNS setup to let me get a nice fancy email.

    The alternative is that I use company.com's SMTP directly but plenty of places I've been intercept connections to external SMTP servers to handle this spam problem.

  10. Re:Slowly taper off. on Best Way To Beat A Caffeine Addiction? · · Score: 1

    I too had to cut down on caffiene per doctor's request because it had a noticable 20pt increase on my blood pressure.

    I was on 5 or so cups a day + sodas and now just learn to treasure the one cup day and drink it slowly :)

  11. Books with motivation behind implementation on What Kind of Books do You Want? · · Score: 1

    Often, I like to see the problems that inspired certian fields such as math. One thing I had troubles with in traditional math classes is a set of theory with no motivation for problems.

    In technical books, this often is explanations for why this feature is the way it is. It's also the part of technology that gives a lil bit of history to things.

    It also helps give ideas on how to approach problems that are similar to what the original purupose were.

  12. Re:Managers Like Names... on Future Of IDS · · Score: 2, Informative

    Check out http://www.sourcefire.com if you are in that kind of situation

  13. Re:The hard part is telling just who is guilty... on Technology vs. Cheating at the University of Virginia · · Score: 1

    I had this very problem with. I'm now a master's student and I've been fortunate to move all work onto my own machines but I find many MANY people that would tromp through your homedir just to find an assignment.

    It got to the point where I would have a fake non working world readable but compiling solution and a hidden version that would not be made readable until the professor had to read it.

    Im all for cooperation in the academic sense but when you are identified as a good student and you become a target for copying from the unscrupulous.

    I also get miffed about when professors have the same exam each year and the people that won't go memorize some old test ( programming languages in particular at this school ), you get to be graded against a scale that is an rewarding system for those testing their own knowledge.

  14. What code represents on Report From The 2600 Appeal Hearing · · Score: 1

    Code is a realization of a significant portion of my life. It is not uncommon for people to dream about code and perform elegant solutions to new problems.

    Programming languages can express a range of thoughts very difficult to explain in speakable languages. By stating that code is not expressive, it is saying that programming is an insignificant activity in the eyes of our laws.

    If programming is merely stating algorithms with no expressiveness given by the author, why can several people program the same algorithm in ways that convey different amounts of understanding the reader.

    Real world examples of expressive code that should be easy to explain to an observer could include perl poetry and demos ( the lil graphics/sound things - focus on ones that only contain algorithmic generation of output).

  15. Re:Did you approve of the Parrot joke? on Ask Guido van Rossum · · Score: 1

    I really hope this is a joke.

    Lots of language names have been jokes or plain silly. C C++ C# Java

  16. AS-IS (Was: Re:Doesn't surprise me) on MS Passport Privacy Policy Revised · · Score: 1

    CEOs listen to dollars. If customers don't want it, they won't buy it under reasonable licensing agreements.

    I certainly don't want people to be liable for software use unless they are explicitly paid to take this responsibility. Only companies with HUGE pocket books can even afford to consider the terms that they could take responsibility for their product's use and everyone with those pocket books knows better.

  17. Re:Press release on FPGA Supercomputers · · Score: 1

    It is a "Press Release". They're giving easy to handle stuff so that a reporter can write a page of fluff telling you the same stuff in your local paper. NASA wants to get their news out and hopeufully get that "nasa does neat stuff - lets not cut their funding" thought flowing through the general public.

  18. Re:Ice age looming on Firm Evidence for Greenhouse Effect · · Score: 1

    Thats basic economics. The way to get greener energy supplies is to raise the cost of unfriendly energy sources. This can be done with popularity (ewwww he drives a gasoline powered car), incentives (I'll give you 5000 if you drive an electric car), tarrifs (40$ a barrel extra), or as OPEC is doing for us, an overall increase in price (by slightly reducing supply) to increase their own profit margins in the short term and give them a slightly longer economic outlook for oil riches as long as they don't make it so expensive that major portions of hte world don't switch to non-oil transport.

  19. Re:Killer applications on Auto-Suicide for Grey Market Electronics? · · Score: 1

    The uncrippled price goes up. Way up if very few people opt for anything other than the cheap version.

  20. Re:Down with orcs! on A "Vow of Chastity" For Game Designers · · Score: 1

    Especially when something when the Quips are of the style used in MAD Magazine... ( and I bet they werent the first either ).

  21. Re:not simultaneously on Superconducting DNA · · Score: 1

    Yes it was the liquid nitrogen required stuff that caused the excitement. I forget how cold liquid nitrogen (173K seems to pop to mind) is but its damn toasty compared to liquid helium @ 4K which was required for other superconductors.

  22. Re:LAME will survive on New "mp3PRO" From Fraunhofer, But What About LAME? · · Score: 1

    32gb for 500 is "stupid-cheap" to people with a long time frame in computers. Think back ( not so long ago ) when storage hadn't reached the $1 / meg mark.

  23. Re:Duh? on If ICANN Can't, Who Can? · · Score: 1

    > 4. A cause, a principle, or an activity pursued with zeal or conscientious devotion

    Well, if atheism is what you pursue with devotion, that seems to qualify as a religion.

  24. Re:Is there a catch? on Sony Super CD: More Bits, More Bucks, Mo' Betta? · · Score: 1

    Low end DAT decks record the SCMS bit into the stream. When I record live music ( allowed by the band ), It means I can only make one generation of copies without switching to a more expensive model of deck. These machines have the habbit of making everything copy protected even when it shouldn't be.

  25. Re:one word: cron on RH7 Crashes In Three Weeks (But Fixed) · · Score: 1

    The emphasis should be "don't write your own long running daemon and use cron instead".

    Yes cron is a long running daemon. Yes they've come up with solutions to most of the problems involved.