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  1. Re:wait a sec... on U.S. Students Struggle With Reasoning Skills · · Score: 1

    Easy. Use fertilizers 2, 4, 6, and 8. Find the one that performed best, and put the two fertilizers on either side of it on the next to trays. Either that one, of one of the last two will be the best.

    This only works if the performance is convex.

    If the test creators didn't specify that in some way, then there's a problem with the test.

    The report does not contain the string "fertilizer" so it's a bit hard to tell what the question said.

  2. Re:I wonder what level they are blocking? on Ohio University Blocks P2P File Sharing · · Score: 1

    Oops, I guess the bad spelling is evidence that I shouldn't reply passed my bedtime.

    Ohio University's network staff have had the ability to turn off the Ethernet ports to individual computers for some time. They have been using this to disable all Internet access for computers that have been infected by malicious software.

    It sounds to me like they will use the same method to stop file sharing. So internal file sharing will not work. When a computer is blocked it is completely removed from the Ethernet or wireless network.

  3. Re:I wonder what level they are blocking? on Ohio University Blocks P2P File Sharing · · Score: 1

    I work at Ouio University.

    Yes it is "at the wall" but not the firewall. It sounds to me like the blocking is at the wall outlet level. CNS will, appon detecting file shareing, disable the network port on building router and that wall outlet will have no internet access of any kind until the user calls CNS. It does not sound like any IP ports will be blocked.

    They have been doing this for years to stop the spread of viruses.

  4. Re:Sounds Reasonable on Diebold Threatens Wary Voting Clerk · · Score: 1

    Based on the blackbox article http://www.bbvforums.org/cgi-bin/forums/board-auth .cgi?file=/1954/19743.html it looks like they just booted the thing and saw that they were out of meemory.

  5. Re:Stupid on Diebold Threatens Wary Voting Clerk · · Score: 1

    The article on the blackbox site says that an independant audit WAS in the contract.

  6. Re:Not gonna change a goddamned thing. on PCs Posted No Trespass · · Score: 1

    Here here! There is nothing new about the internet. It is the same world we have always lived in, only biger and faster.

  7. Re:Always at Neuroscience on Animal Robots · · Score: 1

    Usually the presentations are good, I'm not enough of a robot guy to look up the papers whenever they come out. One poaster at Neuroscience, I think two years ago, had a cockroach robot that was particularly memorable. They basically had no controler. The legs just took steps, flailing away as if in forward walking. The thing seemed to do 'behave' in the same way as a real cockroach over scaled obsticles. The point being perhapse the CNS or even the walking CPG was only concerned with direction and not the details.

  8. Always at Neuroscience on Animal Robots · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Every neuroscience conference I go to has at least one or two animal like robots.

  9. Re:I call BS on that "test" on Phish Scams Fooling 28% of Users · · Score: 1

    Oh, and I had to block way too mane cookies from third parties just to load the site.

  10. Re:I call BS on that "test" on Phish Scams Fooling 28% of Users · · Score: 1

    I agree, just doing the " Do I do buisnes with them test?" Would have caused me to mark all of them frauds.

  11. Good Idea Even without the law on Sweden Crunches Cookies · · Score: 1

    I have Mozilla ask me if I want to accept cookies, and blocking them usually dosn't cause a problem. I really apreciate it when a web site dosn't even try to set a cookie till I click something that might need to be saved like a "buy it" link. That way I know they have a reason other than snooping for the cookie.

  12. Re:Tech. education is not the point of PCs in skew on An Informal Study Of K12 Classroom Software Costs · · Score: 1

    Keep in mind, the teachers and particularly the staff use computers as well. Keeping student records for a whole district could be very expensive with a comercial database.

  13. Re:All your DNA are belonging to AOL. on Who Owns Your DNA? · · Score: 1

    Too late they are already open. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov But there are other databases that require a subscription.

  14. Who Owns Your DNA? on Who Owns Your DNA? · · Score: 1

    When they pey you $50 for a blood sample use it to buy a few shares of their company.