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  1. Re:Suit is going the wrong way on Using Your Own Name May Be Infringement, Part 2 · · Score: 2

    Yes, I think that was implied that it was only among the two respective union's memberships.

  2. Re:Suit is going the wrong way on Using Your Own Name May Be Infringement, Part 2 · · Score: 2

    One of them is 'offically' known as Vanessa L. Williams. She's the one who was Miss America.

  3. Re:Suit is going the wrong way on Using Your Own Name May Be Infringement, Part 2 · · Score: 2

    It's more than just the visability. Both the Screen Actors Guild (North America) and Equity (UK) require that names of performers are unique. That's one reason why many younger actors are known by 3 names, eg Sarah Jessica Parker, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Robert Duncan McNeill etc. The system isn't perfect, you will find duplicates occasionally, but it certainly has the vast majority of performers with unique names.

  4. Re:Hubble? on Incredible Images of the Sun · · Score: 2

    Also the sensors would be overloaded by the brightness of the sun. It can only just handle the brightness of the earth.

  5. Re:Arms Race on Mozilla Adding Spam Filters · · Score: 2

    Which assumes that you have HTML enabled and images enabled in your email. Obvious answer - don't.

  6. Re:timeout on The Law of Leaky Abstractions · · Score: 2

    I don't think I implied that each packet transmitted required a seperate ACK packet. It definatly doesn't. An ACK means that all data upto that sequence number has been received successfully.

  7. Re:The solution to problems like this... on HomeSec In the News · · Score: 2

    The better solution would be for the president to veto bills with pork. As pointed out below, a line item veto would result in just one set of pork being veto'd.

  8. Re:timeout on The Law of Leaky Abstractions · · Score: 2

    Neither TCP nor UDP has requested resent packets. If a TCP packet is lost, the sender will not receive an ACK for that packet, and the sender will resend it. This will happen even if the receiver has caught fire. If a UDP packet is lost, it's lost totally.

  9. Re:Not a nuclear engineer... on Run Your Laptop On Nuclear Energy · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Unfortunatly, there are idiots around who do cut corners. It's essential that whenever a dangerous substance is handled, it's almost impossible for it to be mishandled. Not just idiot proof, because idiots are so ingeious. This of course applies regardless if the dangerous substance is nuclear, or "just" chemically dangerous.

  10. Re:What do do with them... on Run Your Laptop On Nuclear Energy · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No, when the battery doesn't have enough radiation output to still function as a battery it will still have remaining undecayed isotopes. Exactly how much depends on what fraction of the original radiation output is required to produce enough energy. It should therefore be treated as hazardous material and disposed of in an appropriate way.

  11. Re:Nuclear powered cellphone on Run Your Laptop On Nuclear Energy · · Score: 2
    Gamma: OK, your cloud chamber won't work as well here, so drop $300 for a pocket geiger counter [scientificsonline.com] from a place like Edmund Scientific. (It slices, it dices, it's something no kid who grew up during the Cold War should be without! :-)

    Or $170 for a built it yourself kit. Does Alpha, Beta, Gamma, and X-Ray.

  12. Re:What A Mess... on Redirecting NASA · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The ultimate answer is that the Shuttle was a huge mistake. It put a break in the space program from 1973 to 1984, which caused the loss of Skylab, and it's still much more expensive & limited than conventional expandable rockets.

  13. Re:we need... on Have Fujitsu Harddrives Been Failing in Record Numbers? · · Score: 2

    It helps that us old farts have all seen a disk pack explode. Reliability might be down from it's peak a few years ago, but it's still a heck of a lot better than it was in say 1975.

  14. Re:Dresscode on Old Computers Exhibit · · Score: 2

    In businesses, it was with the general trend towards casual gear in the office, started with casual Friday. When everyone in the business is wearing a suit and tie, the people in the computer room did too.

  15. Re:as time goes by on NASA Cancels Moon Hoax Book · · Score: 3, Funny

    Because NASA hasn't got the budget to do anything other than a pityful small manned space program.

  16. Re:Why don't they... on NASA Cancels Moon Hoax Book · · Score: 2
  17. Re:Why don't they... on NASA Cancels Moon Hoax Book · · Score: 3, Informative
    The Hubble physically can't take pictures of the landing sites.

    1) They're too small. Even at the Hubble's resolution, all you'd see would be a blob.
    2) The moon is too bright. It would overload the optics.

  18. Re:Revolutionize? on IBM Wants CPU Time To Be A Metered Utility · · Score: 2

    A decent OS will allow an untrusted binary to run safely. You can see some this in the Unix world, with chroot() and jails. IBM has years of experience with this in their mainframe OS's.

  19. Re:Finally! A use for those silly, gold dollar coi on IBM Wants CPU Time To Be A Metered Utility · · Score: 2

    John Manley is hte Finance Minister. Paul Martin resigned in May 2002.

  20. Re:exportation issues? on Crypto and IPSec Merged into 2.5 · · Score: 2

    Not just 'in England', he was born there, and has always lived there.

  21. Re:What we want to know is, on ICANN Eliminates Karl Auerbach's Seat · · Score: 2
    the basics of running what amounts to a small business,

    It should be a small business. Unfortunatly, it's running with the budget of a big business.

  22. Re:Grass Roots Movement on ICANN Eliminates Karl Auerbach's Seat · · Score: 2

    I'm not a debian hacker, but I can't see any reason why it shouldn't. Overwrite your /etc/resolv.conf, and you're away.

  23. Re:Help me, Postel-Jon Kenobi! You're our only hop on ICANN Eliminates Karl Auerbach's Seat · · Score: 2
    bang paths and DNS names aren't incompatable, and DNS wasn't really implemented to replace them.

    In the days when the internet was expensive and not everyone was on it it probably wouldn't be possible to send stuff directly from server A to server B, you'd have to go through servers C-F to do it. As the internet became cheaper and more and more people got onto it, it became more and more common for stuff to go directly from A to B. A bang path encoded the route that would be taken to go from A to B via C-F. However, most of the time they wouldn't be calculated by the user, you'd send all your mail to a smart host, which would use a program like pathalias which would work out the best way to route stuff based upon a huge database of links.

    Because of this, it wasn't unusual to see bang paths with dotted names in them, and it wasn't ususual to use non-dotted names without bang paths.

  24. Re:Template Toolkit on Embed Perl With Mason -- Read All About It · · Score: 2

    In mason the exact same thing would work. Do all your perl code, and call $m->comp('component',%hash), and any <% $variable %> get subsituted.

  25. Re:Readability? on Embed Perl With Mason -- Read All About It · · Score: 2
    Mason allows very clean seperation of logic and HTML.

    If I know that someone else is going to maintain the HTML, then I have one template with all the perl code, which calls the template with all the HTML code. The only thing I have to tell the HTML designer is to put <% $variable %> in the HTML where variables should appear, and if there is to be a repeated second, then <%method top> should wrap the top section, <%method table> should wrap the repeated section, and <method bottom> should wrap the bottom section. I've never had a problem with an HTML designer who can't understand this in about 30 seconds.