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  1. Re:hitting the moon? on 2004 MN4, Even Higher Probability · · Score: 1

    This is true. The safest place for the moon would be off to one side, not "downstream" of Earth.

  2. Re:Love Thy Neighbor on 2004 MN4, Even Higher Probability · · Score: 1

    Anything that will impart a small amount of the right sort of momemtum to it at just the right point in its orbit (which will be somewhere far from Earth). A bomb detonated the right distance a way, a chemical rocket shoving on it, an ion rocket shoving on it for months, even something exotic like painting one side of it white.

  3. Re:"Earth Impact Effects Program" Calculations on 2004 MN4, Even Higher Probability · · Score: 1

    This program tells me nothing about the tsunami resulting from an ocean strike. I would guess that the collapse of a 4 mile diameter "crater" in 1000' of ocean would do something unpleasant, but what?

    I suspect that a land strike would be preferable: much easier to evacuate a 200km circle than thousands of miles of coastline.

  4. Re:hitting the moon? on 2004 MN4, Even Higher Probability · · Score: 1

    Doesn't follow unless the moon is directly behind Earth and so shielded at "impact" time.

  5. Re:Err, umm, who cares? on Blu-Ray/Standard DVD Hybrids Planned · · Score: 2, Funny

    About movies? Not me. However, 33.5G is room enough for all of Debian on one disc.

  6. Re:And you're probably not interested ... on 3 New Windows Security Problems Found · · Score: 1

    The DBadmins already know about them, and they won't result in the creation of another 100,000 spamming zombies.

  7. Re:People could still use internet safety educatio on 3 New Windows Security Problems Found · · Score: 1

    > I hardly blame Microsoft for this with people
    > uneducated enough to open a .hlp file attachment,
    > or any random attachment that reaches their
    > inbox.

    Why can you not blame Microsoft for distributing an MUA that executes attachments when they are "clicked" on?

  8. "Issues"? on 3 New Windows Security Problems Found · · Score: 4, Insightful

    > Apparently there are issues...

    What has become of the word "problem"? "Issue" is marketdroid-speak.

  9. Re:You can hear this at Fireworks shows on Mystery of the Chirping Pyramid Solved · · Score: 3, Informative

    A corrugated-steel wall produces this effect quite distinctly.

  10. Competition on EU Presses Ahead With Galileo GPS System · · Score: 1

    > Is this just a pork-barrel project, or something
    > Europe really needs to break the reliance on U.S.
    > space technology?

    It's something the world needs. Choice is good.

  11. Re:The Law of Thermodynamics on New Advances Bring Fusion Closer to Reality · · Score: 1

    > Write back when you know what you're talking
    > about.

    He does. You don't.

  12. Re:Insinuation on New Advances Bring Fusion Closer to Reality · · Score: 1

    > Pu for example is not a natural element...

    Plutonium occurs naturally in uranium ore. It is generated when U238 atoms absorb neutrons emitted by fissioning U235 atoms.

    > ...and quite wasteful.

    Plutonium is quite useful as reactor fuel.

  13. Re:Yes, like greylisting. (ie, Postgrey for Postfi on De-spamming Your Inbox The Hard Way · · Score: 1

    > ...the grey period set to 24 hours!

    That is a ridiculously long delay. I'd dump an ISP that delayed my mailing-lists for a full day.

  14. Re:Sniff, our little browser's all grown up... on New Vulnerability Affects All Browsers · · Score: 1

    One place on the Secunia site claims Firefox 1.0 is vulnerable while in another it says it isn't. I'm running Firefox 1.0-3 on Debian/Unstable and I do not appear to be vulnerable. Perhaps it is because I am also running Privoxy?

  15. Re:It's old news... on A Strange Streak Imaged in Australia · · Score: 1

    > BTW did he even hear a sonic boom?

    Did you even read the article? The picture was taken by an automated camera. He wasn't there.

  16. Churchill Was A Politician on Sun's COO Pretends Linux Belongs To Red Hat · · Score: 2, Insightful

    > But Churchill would never have tried to pull a
    > fast one by disingenuously describing Linux as
    > "Red Hat's Linux"

    Of course he would have had he thought he could get away with it. A statesman is just a dead politician.

  17. Clever Users Switch First on Firefox Users Bad For Advertisers · · Score: 1

    > Speculation on reasons for the difference in
    > click rates range from Firefox's integrated
    > pop-up blocking to seeing the average Firefox
    > user as more tech-savvy the average Internet
    > Explorer user.

    But did it include the possibility that most of the intelligent ones have switched to Firefox?

    Of course, the really smart ones never used IE to begin with.

  18. Re:I read the headline as... on DaimlerChrysler/SCO Case Winds Down · · Score: 1

    Not so fast. First there is the matter of DC's legal expenses...

  19. Re:DaimlerChrysler's Certification on DaimlerChrysler/SCO Case Winds Down · · Score: 1

    Chrysler bought a UNIX license from AT&T many years ago.

  20. Television? Useful? on Broadband Usage Up, TV Usage Down · · Score: 1

    > Is it possible that the usefulness of TV has
    > decreased...

    I suppose that it may have gone even more negative.

  21. Computer Generated Ford on Harrison Ford Confirms Indiana Jones IV Production · · Score: 1

    > However, he admits that future sequels may
    > feature a younger actor....

    Why not use computer graphics to put Ford's face on a younger actor? (Eventually, of course, they won't need the actor at all).

    > ...similar to the James Bond series
    > post-Connery.

    There were no James Bond movies post-Connery. Just pitiful imitations.

  22. "What exactly does he want?" on Former CIA Head Calls for Limiting Access to the Internet · · Score: 1

    Federal licensing, of course. Only licensed ISPs using licensed software and employing licensed admins would be allowed to connect to the Net. Large companies would obtain licenses and be their own ISPs. The ISPs would be required to monitor and filter their customer's activities.

  23. No Such Thing Is "Apparent" on SCO Sells First Linux Licenses in UK · · Score: 2, Insightful

    > ..SCO's intellectual property that is apparently
    > present in Linux distributions...

    It most certainly is not. Despite two court orders requiring them to do so The SCO Group (which is _not_ the Santa Cruz Operation) has failed to produce a single line of infringing code.

  24. We Can Only Hope on Westerners Migrating to India for Jobs · · Score: 1

    > Is this the first wave of the much anticipated
    > reverse-migration which will be a hallmark of
    > the 21st century?

  25. Re:correction on Hacking Vodka · · Score: 1

    The BATF. The FDA has no jurisdiction over booze.

    The reason for denaturing industrial ethanol is to make it non-potable and therefor untaxed. The usual agent is something that makes you vomit but is not toxic. Adding benzene or methanol would be a bad idea as you know someone is going to try to drink it. There used to be a myth among winos that denatured alcohol could be made drinkable by filtering it through bread.