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  1. Re:MS the scammer on Microsoft to sue Mike Rowe for Copyrights · · Score: 1

    Do you seriously think that people going to his website are going to be fooled into thinking it's Microsoft?

  2. Re:He doesn't get it... on Sun's new UltraSPARC workstation: the Blade 1500 · · Score: 1

    Here's a picture if anyone's wondering what I'm talking about. The pads had a strange reflective/black dot pattern on them.

  3. Re:He doesn't get it... on Sun's new UltraSPARC workstation: the Blade 1500 · · Score: 1

    That, and the old optical mice sucked. You needed a special (and expensive to replace) mousepad for them. The motion was really choppy too. I used one of these old mice on an early sun4 (possibly a SparcStation 2).

  4. [OT] Re:Say What? on One-Way Ticket to Mars? · · Score: 1

    Part of your dream involves ending the relationship. Here's an idea: break it off now, and at least have the decency to remain here on earth while she's getting over you. You'd have to have a pretty huge ego to leave while you're still married.

  5. Re:well it was on What Was the Very First MP3 You Downloaded? · · Score: 1
    Me too.
    This was back in 97. I think I found it using Scour (back when scour was just a list of spidered SMB shares) or some kind of web-based search (*). I used the Fraunhofer MP3 player because Winamp was too slow on my p-133 with Win95.

    (*) Anyone else remember ducttape.deeznuts.com?

  6. Re:What they don't say on HD DVD Coverage at CES 2004 · · Score: 1
    CSS won't do anything to stop video P2P. People are swapping re-encoded versions of movies (usually encoded with DivX). Even if we start to see full DVD images (like CDROM ISOs for warez) being shared, the CSS encoding won't stop people from burning the image to a DVD and enjoying it in their mass-marketed Toshiba player.

    CSS is about controlling the player, as you noted yourself.

  7. Re:sure, why not? on Can Manned Spaceflight Save the Economy? · · Score: 1

    Iran socialism? What have you been smoking?
    Maybe on paper that's the aim of its government, but if you are poor in Iran, there is no almost no help for you from the government. Iran also regulates private business less than California- housing standards, food inspection, etc. are about where they were in the California in the late 19th century. Public roads and infrastructure are poor in Iran.
    In California, you can probably live comfortably on welfare. Subsidized housing will withstand a quake, and your food from the food stamps/food bank will keep you nice and fat.
    Which place provides more welfare support again?

  8. Re:Is this technical or political? on MIT Technology Review Slams IPv6 · · Score: 1

    You still can't claim that NAT (NAT specifically) changes anything from a security standpoint. It's your firewall that's blocking packets.
    A NAT firewall is like a camouflaged door on the front of your house. I'm not going to try to get in if I don't know the door is there, but once I find out about it, the lock on the door is what's going to keep me out, not the camo.

  9. Re:Is this technical or political? on MIT Technology Review Slams IPv6 · · Score: 1

    NAT does not offer you any protection at all (If your NAT gateway is doing routing, I can make a static route to 192.168.0.x, or whatever your internal address range is, through your NAT gateway if I want to access your network).
    The protection you get from your NAT firewall is the *firewall*. It's not allowing packets inbound to your internal network. A firewall in front of a publically-addressable network is equivalent.

  10. Channel Range on Sony's PSX A Hit In Japan, PS2 Launches In China · · Score: 1
    From the pictures link:

    Receiving channel: Ground analog (VHF:1-12ch / UHF:13-62ch / CATV:C13-C35ch),

    Are there only 35 cable channels commonly available in Japan? They'd certainly have to bump that up for the North American market (VHF 2-13 and CATV 14-125 or whatever the upper channel is on TV tuners nowadays). Or am I misunderstanding this feature?

  11. Re:Best examples of heresy I can think of on What You Can't Say · · Score: 1
    If you're that pissed off about it, get out there and have your own "bra burning". Better yet, realize that advertising and TV shows don't affect your life.

    And why is EVERYONE Human Resources female????

    Same reason EVERYONE in Engineering and IT are male.

  12. Re:Pentium V on Will Intel Ship an x86-64bit Chip This Year? · · Score: 1

    And more instructions, and a different pinout. Some instructions also took less clock cycles.

    There was a version of the 486DX pin-compatible with the 386DX called the RapidCAD.

  13. Re:Pentium V on Will Intel Ship an x86-64bit Chip This Year? · · Score: 1

    No. A 486SX was a 486DX without the math coprocessor. The 487SX add-on was actually a full 486DX. If you added a 487SX, your 486SX would be disabled.
    Basically, you could have known this for sure after 5 minutes of web surfing.

  14. Re:I inquired with my county about testing my wate on Measuring Pollution In Humans · · Score: 1
    Wrong. Most urban centres in Canada do fluoridate.

    http://www.crha-health.ab.ca/pophlth/hp/fluoride/h pcityca.htm

  15. Re:Question... on Microsoft Researching Anti-Spam Technique · · Score: 1

    Think of the process as a Question/Answer. The mailserver only picks from a pool of, say, 1000 Questions it precalculates itself. It already knows the answer when it asks the client the Question. The client does not the Answer and must spend a few seconds computing it.
    The client could cache Questions and Answers, but it's unlikely that sever will ask it the same Question twice, and near impossible that two servers would ask the same Question.

  16. Re:More Info On The Frivolity on DeCSS: Jon Johansen Acquitted In Retrial · · Score: 1
    Quoting http://www.sallys-place.com/travel/san_francisco/p t_lombard.htm:

    Just in case you're wondering: the steepest street in the city (no curves) is Filbert Street between Hyde and Leavenworth. Its 31.5 percent grade makes even native San Franciscans gasp.

    31.5% is 28.35 degrees.

  17. Re:surprise surprise on SCO UnixWare 7.1.3 Review · · Score: 1

    That's one reason, among others. Since SCO and Linux are both unixes (all other things more-or-less equal), with all the advantages of a unix, it's an appropriate point of comparison.

  18. Re:Not patching this month...... on New IE Bug Hides Real Site Address · · Score: 1
    No, what he means is that Mozilla will not show anything after the %00 on the status bar. Hover over this and then click it:

    Click me!

    In Mozilla, you'll see http://slashdot.org/ on the status bar, but when you click the link you'll be directed to http://slashdot.org/%00users.pl. Of course, this is a useless demonstration, but I can't show you an example with a username because slashcode filters those out of URLs.

  19. Yes, Mozilla is vulnerable. on New IE Bug Hides Real Site Address · · Score: 1
    Sort of. Hover over this and then click it:

    Click me!

    You'll probably see http://slashdot.org/ on the status bar, but when you click the link you'll be directed to http://slashdot.org/%00users.pl

  20. Re:broadband ? on Australian Researchers Push Near-Broadband IP Over VHF · · Score: 2, Insightful

    6 Mbps is just over half of 10 Mbps. Am I missing something?

  21. Re:It all comes back to the number 5 on SETI Project Scientist Discusses Prospects · · Score: 1

    That's from "Waiting for Guffman". The guy from Mr. Show says it in a short role as a UFO crackpot.

    And yes, there are 5 letters in Blaine. But did you know that the circle left by the UFO has a constant radius and circumference, but increases in diameter every year?

  22. Re:Although it is in 0.4 on Mozilla Thunderbird 0.4 Released · · Score: 1

    4-byte integers would let you index about 4000000000 (2^32-1) messages. You're thinking of 2-byte integers, which can store up to 65535 (2^16-1).

  23. Re:$100,000.... on After The GNOME Bounties, It's Mozilla's Turn · · Score: 1

    No, DNS is an internet protocol. It usually goes over UDP port 53 (some servers also support TCP port 53. I think the nslookup client defaults to using a TCP connection). Geez, it would've taken you about 10 seconds to find that with a search engine. Are you trolling?

    If you only see UDP traffic with IE, you probably have both of your browsers set up to use an HTTP proxy. That way the DNS lookups are done by the proxy server. The extra IE-specific UDP traffic could be something like an attempt at a NetBIOS host lookup... like I said, run Windump!

  24. Nice English on Mame on the Nokia N-Gage · · Score: 1, Insightful
    "The Nokia N-Gage has now joined the club of consoles for whom the excellent MAME (Multi Arcade Machine Emulator) was ported to."

    What the fuck is that all about? Seems like the poster tried real hard to avoid ending the system in a preposition, and then did anyway. Also, since when is a game console a 'who'?

    Bah.

  25. Re:$100,000.... on After The GNOME Bounties, It's Mozilla's Turn · · Score: 1

    What, like a DNS request? Run WinDump and post the logs.