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  1. Re:ISDN to mars on Spirit Sends Debug Information to Earth · · Score: 1

    Why was this redundant? I hope you get metamoderated to oblivion. The closest I came to being redundant is when someone posted about the Packet-IP over SHEEP. After my post.

  2. Re:ISDN to mars on Spirit Sends Debug Information to Earth · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Here ya go:

    rfc3271
    rfc1607

    Could be others...

  3. Re:Are these all the attacks? on NIST Releases Guide to Cyber Attacks · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    if (slashbot.uid=="678002") {
    slashbot.girlfriend = NULL;
    }

    Here, lemme give you some pointers...

  4. Re:Are these all the attacks? on NIST Releases Guide to Cyber Attacks · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Are we so naive to believe that following such advice will make us secure?

    I don't think you could have read the article in the time it took to make your condemnation of its intentions.

    I see only good things coming out of this. Especially in comparison to the SOP up until now. There is no accepted standardized stance but what is (probably) being proposed in this document. Publishing this is a positive step in that direction. It appears (based on a cursory glance through the contents) to be focused on incident response, but in that direction also lies the experience to foresee future events, and taking the appropriate action to forestall them.

  5. Re:Leave GOD out of it. on One Company's Response to SCO · · Score: 1

    This is capitalism. Not communism.

    And capitalism is practiced in the courthouse.

    God help us.

  6. Re:SCO stock price dip on Tuesday on One Company's Response to SCO · · Score: 1

    SCOR provides property-casualty and life reinsurance on a worldwide basis. Property-casualty operations include reinsuring to primary insurers of property, casualty, marine, space and transportation, construction and credit and surety risks.

    That isn't SCOX you are looking at there, for one thing.

  7. SLC Front page article on One Company's Response to SCO · · Score: 1

    Linux has crept up on Microsoft, challenging its stranglehold on the server market...

    Oh, it's a humor article! (On the front page?)

  8. Re:Important on Experts Critique SERVE Internet Voting System · · Score: 1

    he is far from rating a comparison to Hitler

    Not if you look only at the the stuff he did prior to gaining absolute control. And consider that Bush (or, more accurately, his power-elite) are on the same tenure-track.

  9. Re:Maestro update! on The Dirt On Mars, In Words And Pictures · · Score: 1

    If there is life on Mars, then suddenly Darwinism takes a huge leap and Biblical creationism, at least the most common interpretations, takes a step back.

    Oh come on! This has nothing to do with evolution. Nothing. Evolution already stands on its own, and very pointedly ignores the creation question.

    I can't but agree with the point about Biblical creationism though, if you are referring to the strict interpretation. And it would apparently require a certain catholicism many... christians... seem incapable of.

  10. Re:The politics of it all.... on Space Tug to Save the Hubble? · · Score: 1

    And you heard this... Where again?

    Some think Dubyuck has been couching the dismantling of many NASA projects and the redirecting its priorities to military ones under the rhetorical device of "putting a man on mars".

    Because such a program won't be realized for many years even if there is a deliberate effort to do it, the movement of NASA projects (and NASA funding) to the interests of Dubya's cronies seems disingenuous, especially from an administration that has been stripping the governments ability to do anything "governmental" (outside of waging personal wars, of course).

  11. Re:MOD PARENT UP! on 'Bagle' Worm Heading For A Windows PC Near You · · Score: 1

    wasn't that an incident of DNA-cache poisoning?

    [no flames please, I'm posting from GNU]

  12. Re:Hmm.... on Bell Labs Demos Cell Phone Location Software · · Score: 1

    Hey can I "pop" a rock through the window of any fscker that tries to text-message me an ad about his lunch-meat? I think that's fair

  13. Re:Math Geeks on The Future of NASA · · Score: 1

    No it's from The Leiter Reports

  14. Re:Pure nonsense on Nokia to Port Perl to Mobiles · · Score: 1

    chips that support S-curve and velocity contouring motion profiles

    Where'd you google that from, troll? HAHA.

    An encoder on my stepper? An optical encoder? Why would I need that? Unless I needed it, of course.

    You don't even know what you are posting. And you waited so long...

    You're pretty funny, though. You'd make a good pet.

  15. Re:Pure nonsense on Nokia to Port Perl to Mobiles · · Score: 1

    Where did he say anything about Linux?

    You sir, are right. I miss-spelled "The Perl Journal".

  16. Re:Pure nonsense on Nokia to Port Perl to Mobiles · · Score: 1

    I think I cleaned up the mess you left behind, think what you want.

    I just got a bunch of stepper motor driver chips in the mail. So piss off troll, I'm havin' fun.

  17. Re:Pure nonsense on Nokia to Port Perl to Mobiles · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry I simply don't believe you. You offer me only assertions.

    It's irrelevant though, my intent was to refute your initial claim regarding his statement of cost. I've done that, I think, and I'm leaving this thread.

  18. Re:Pure nonsense on Nokia to Port Perl to Mobiles · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I smell a Linux Magazine article, here.

    Have you given it some thought?

  19. Re:Pure nonsense on Nokia to Port Perl to Mobiles · · Score: 1

    Even when the system is not running? That is non-obvious to me.

    I don't understand. Are you still arguing he referred to maintenance cost? Because he also denied that in a response to my post.

    Look, a researcher gets a limited time frame within which to do the work, and any time the system isn't responsive during that period is going to cost money even though they can't do anything.

    I am very familiar with how much telescope time costs, being in the astro-science field myself.

    A minute ago you said you worked on the Pathfinder mission, too. You seem to be a Jack-of-All-Trades, although I guess there is some overlap in some areas of the Pathfinder mission. I don't really know what that would be, though. Perhaps you could enlighten me.

    You could probably also give me the rate to do experiments using the HST as well, huh?

    Their systems average $300,000 worth of transactions PER SECOND.

    Forgetting for a minute that isn't operating costs, there is a factor of 4 difference between these, with telescope experiments on the low end.

    Also, I used the telescope system as an example to demonstrate how he was not referring to maintenance costs, without implying any certainty that's what was at stake.

    You twist everything. Are you sure you didn't work on one of the failed mars missions?

  20. Re:Pure nonsense on Nokia to Port Perl to Mobiles · · Score: 1

    I don't need to do the math. You don't seem to understand that the math will give you to cost to USE the telescope system (or whatever it is) that he runs using his code. That's pretty mission critical if you ask me. And he didn't argue with your numbers because he assumed you had the intelligence of a bat and could see that was the usage cost, not maintenance cost.

  21. Re:Pure nonsense on Nokia to Port Perl to Mobiles · · Score: 1

    ...40,000 lines of mission critical Perl running hardware that costs $10 a second...

    ...spends $315 million a year on maintaining a computer system?

    He didn't say that and I can't believe you worked on anything more complicated than SCO's business model if you think he did say that.

  22. Re:BSD? on BSD For Linux Users · · Score: 1

    It's been my impression that the BSD communit{y,ies}, in general, understand Linux far better than the Linux communit{y,ies} understand Linux.

    well for one thing, the Linux users don't confuse their editor for the bourne{, again} shell.

    But I don't think that supports the author's argument.

  23. Re:Politics on One-Way Ticket to Mars? · · Score: 1

    have you even stopped to consider that Bush just might actually, really, desire for mankind to explore other planets?

    Doubt is raised when he says "we'll do that 15 years from now when I'm just a bad memory but for now let's tie it to the dismantling of large sections of NASA."

  24. Re:intrigue on Mars Rover Sniffs First Hint of Water? · · Score: 1

    This was insightful? Do any of the moderators consider what environmental conditions are like?

    Liquid water (a prerequisite for mud, kids!) cannot exist on mars. This says nothing about the PRESENCE of water (there are at least two other forms in which water can be found.)

  25. Re:intrigue on Mars Rover Sniffs First Hint of Water? · · Score: 1, Funny

    Just squint when reading the Bible, it'll all fit.