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  1. Re:Upgrade on Hubble Repairs Hindered By Antiquated Computer Systems · · Score: 1

    they used 386's with the optional math coprocessor, EMF shielding, and POTS.

  2. Re:to defy the laws of tradition on DynDNS Drops Non-Delivery Reports · · Score: 1

    well, if it means anything at all, your comment made me lmao.

  3. to defy the laws of tradition on DynDNS Drops Non-Delivery Reports · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Should they have made efforts to have the standard changed instead of defying it?

    maybe by defying it, the standards will now be reviewed, and eventually changed.

  4. Re:Another nail in the server coffin for HP on IBM & Sun Agreement Puts Pressure on HP · · Score: 1

    wow. i hope hp is paying you for your plug.

    side note: having used hp as well, i know from using sun/ibm, they also make very decent x86 servers. or you can build your own with barebones tyan boxen. and you can fix it yourself in less than 2 hours (or atleast the team bitch can (teh n00b) ;)

  5. Re:Gore was obviously the better choice on Re-Vote Likely After E-Vote Data Mishandling · · Score: 1

    Worse than a guy who is trying to type so fast to reply to a post on slashdot, he makes a ton of errors?

    hehe
    just a joke. just laugh. made me chuckle ...

  6. Re:it really is time on Terabytes of Mars Pictures Released to Public · · Score: 1

    and it's only arrogance on your part that makes you think that by looking at a document or a photo you could spot a mistake that a team of engineers have been doing this for twenty years apiece have missed.

    rather arrogance on your part, to believe that only a 'trained/educated person' can figure out physics, or medicine, or any other discipline.
    let me bestow upon you an example of this. he probably comes from the same country you're from. imagine that.
    faraday

  7. Re:it really is time on Terabytes of Mars Pictures Released to Public · · Score: 1

    Pretty much everyone qualified in the fields involved in getting people to mars already works for or with Nasa or the ESA,

    because the wright brothers were the only qualified aeronautical engineers of their time. wtf.

    ever heard that expression of "another set of eyes can catch more mistakes"? if you have 100,000 to 1,000,000 people (although untrained) sifting through photos, and documents, don't you think that we'd start having a 'industrial revolution' all over again, for space? kind of like when we (the human race) started publishing books, and people started reading ... and all of a sudden, we started having invention after invention?

    i guess i need to spell shit out for people. and yes, 'open source' the information that we all collectively pay for already via taxes, makes perfect sense. or should the information only go to the next corporation who will rape you for your money because 'they discovered it'?

    make your choice.

  8. it really is time on Terabytes of Mars Pictures Released to Public · · Score: 1, Insightful

    if only nasa would follow an 'open source' attitude similar to FSF and GNU/Linux, we'd be on mars in a couple of years. The 'keep everyone in the dark' attitude may have served a purpose during the cold war ... but now seems a little dated. of course, releasing these photos is a start. however, they could have had that start long ago....

    just my two cents.

  9. Re:Putin... on Gary Kasparov Arrested Over Political Fight · · Score: 1

    get a clue. Putin strips all rights from all individuals in Russia. He controls the media, and therefore, all outcomes of elections. This means no democracy. No democracy means that everything soldiers from Western nations fought and died for, would be null and void. And in all honesty, if you think Putin is good for you -- pack your bags and move to Russia. When you haven't any food to eat, or you feel powerless because you can't climb the corporate ladder, make sure you keep your mouth shut -- cause you may end up dead.

    but then again, maybe you're just trolling, and i took the bait.

  10. Re:Internet access is integral to education... on Internet Curfew for College Students? · · Score: 1

    I suggest you think about it yourself. Quit bitching about the situation, get off of your ass, and go do your work OUTSIDE OF YOUR OWN FUCKING ROOM!

    and just how will i jerk off to some pr0n, during my 15 minute study break, if i'm in the library?

  11. Re:stop whinning and just.... on MS Security Guy Wants Vista Bugs Rated Down · · Score: 1

    We use peer reviews at my job all the time

    yes, typically all development shops do. the difference, i believe, is 20 eyes vs 20,000 eyes. which would you prefer to make sure your code is bug free?

  12. Re:Slasdotters Say Ballmer Is 'Insane' on Ballmer Says Google's Growth Is 'Insane' · · Score: 1

    as someone who spent time dealing with hyperlinking and google crawling for some time -- i'd have to say that googlites are definitely changing their 'search algorithms' on a monthly basis ...

  13. Re:go home... on U.S. Senators Pressure Canada on Canadian DMCA · · Score: 1

    hey, all i can say is, 'mod parent up' -- cause he's got it in a nutshell.

  14. Re:Is it really doubtless? on Sun Joins the Free Software Foundation · · Score: 1

    Or perhaps it was motivated by Sun's desire to buy their way into the "free" software community's good graces without fully embracing its approach

    possible. more likely because Sun has just opened up Solaris and Java, and are using the GPL. in being part of the corporate patron program, it is more likely their voice will be heard, so as to not be screwed by using the GPL.

  15. Re:Look how well that worked for Microsoft. on Apple's iTunes DRM Dilemma · · Score: 1

    hehe

    cept i was talking more about the compiled c code in the itunes application. unfortunately i'm only a shell programmer, and the easiest way for me to be funny, was to write it in pseudo shell ...

  16. Funniest Part on Apple's iTunes DRM Dilemma · · Score: 1

    Offering DRM-free tracks next to protected songs in the iTunes Store would require significant changes to how iTunes works, and could inadvertently open up new exploits to the remaining DRM system, complicating the system further....Apple would have to update the iTunes software so it could download songs and skip encryption and key storage for non-DRM tracks.

    if [ "${DRM}" = "yes" ] ; then
        Load_Keys
        Run_Encryption
    fi

    hey look!! i just solved their problem!!! i wonder what its worth ....

  17. Re:Not the primary goal, yes :) on Can You Be Sued for Quitting? · · Score: 1

    They're only required to pay you for the time you actually work.
    if a company escorts you out, after giving them 2 weeks notice -- they are obligated to pay you for those two weeks. You have given formal notice that you will leave in two weeks. If they don't pay you, they are essentially firing you ... which in this case they cannot do.

    of course, this is Ontario Canada I am referring to, but I'm sure it is the same legally, all over the US. Definitely there is *no* requirement to give two weeks notice here -- its more of a courteous gesture. However, if the job offer which you signed at the onset of your career with said company, states specifically that the company requires 2 weeks notice (and many companies do this) -- by law, you are required to give such notice. And in such a case, make sure you have all your vacation days available to take once you've given notice ;)

  18. Re:Um, come again? on The Great Firewall of Canada · · Score: 1

    We Canadians don't tend to get so worked up about individual freedoms when the common good is at stake.

    speak for yourself bub, individual freedoms are the cornerstone of our democracy. I get worked up when someone starts stripping my freedoms in name of security. (i'm Canadian)

    please read, and digest :
    Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order. - John V. Lindsay
    or this one
    "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

    this is a post about liberties, not about CP. I am very much against such travesties.

  19. Re:FUD and Fear-mongering... on Every Time You Vote Against Net Neutrality, Your ISP Kills a Night Elf · · Score: 1

    aol may have a smart host option/configuration ... however, the isp in question did not. i need/desire to send and receive mail using many domain names as well...so, i simply switched providers, to a company that had no caps, no blocks or filters, and provided me with a small subnet. so all is good.

    love your photos -- i use an Eos 1D mark2, with a 35-350mm L series lens ... although i haven't beautiful lit up bay bridges for nice shots ... kudos.

  20. Re:FUD and Fear-mongering... on Every Time You Vote Against Net Neutrality, Your ISP Kills a Night Elf · · Score: 4, Interesting

    outgoing port 25 (for good reasons)

    are you mad? i switched away from a provider simply because they decided that outbound traffic on 25 was not allowed. i asked, simply "please disconnect my service." i got the "why sir?", to that i responded about 25 being closed, needing a mail server, etc etc. bastard company kept on insisting that I could not have a server on their network, but wouldn't close my account. after some freaking, and raised voices, they heard.

    now, i understand that some clowns haven't any idea what 25 is, or how smtp works. people like that should have everything disabled by default at the isp, but the option to open the port should also exist. whatever happened to making your customer happy? somewhere along the way, money and greed removed any politeness between lowly customer and huge corporation.

  21. how does that go again? on Has 3D Video Finally Arrived? · · Score: 1

    hmmm. i think it goes something like: smoke and mirrors.
    i have to invest in some of them. everyone's buying it!

  22. Re:Inserting first post! on Physicist Trying To Send a Signal Back In Time · · Score: 1

    although this story may be a dupe, 3 years ago, physicists from Europe accomplished a very similar feat. interesting stuff -- here . it has many implications into our currently security model, as in private/public keys. quantum cryptography, really cool stuff.

  23. the way i see it ... on Cybercrime — an Epidemic? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    what truly constitutes cybercrime? really?
      - defacing webpages?
      - password sniffing?
      - phishing?

    From my perspective, and my opinion may not always be correct -- the flood of 'cybercrime' by 'criminals' is a step in the right direction. They are forcing everyone to rethink our security models, and our plaintext connections. Far too often we neglect and abuse the passing of cleartext information ... a few will have to pay, for the rest of us to move up a few notches in security. Will you continue to use pop3 and imap over the internet? Will you continue to log into Slashdot without ssl?

    for far too long, we have been using these insecure protocols -- its time to step up and improve our security. How hard is it to use TLS, SASL and SSL? how about setting up our webservers to have a plain text portion, and a security based portion, using SSL? When will we finally learn to look at the URL when we are providing banking information to some seemingly safe site?

    I'll tell you, we will finally have learned, once people have been driven to the point where insecure is no longer acceptable as status quo. Just like Video Card manufacturers that sell their products with 'hdcp compliant' all over the packaging -- so will ISP's, banks, and whomever, about SSL TLS, and secured authentication, etc, on the internet.

  24. Re:wtf? on Computer Date Glitch May Limit Next Shuttle Launch · · Score: 1

    oh come on -- he just made himself an SPF (single point of failure).
    Can't blame him for that ;)

  25. He's Smoking a Holocaust on EMI Exec Says 'The Music CD is Dead' · · Score: 1

    Holy Dude, are you expecting a nuclear holocaust soon? Probably the only way you'd not find a cd player/dvd player....or get the one you found, to work.
    Good luck with the Vinyl.