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  1. a PDA that runs linux on Linksys Debuts Cordless Skype Handset · · Score: 1

    If, and only if, that PDA runs on an x86 chip. Skype is closed source, so you can't just recompile for, say, the Zaurus.

  2. glaring gramatical error on Creators of Massive Botnet Arrested · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I suspect that the submitter is Dutch, which indicates that English isn't his first language.

  3. Damn. on Creators of Massive Botnet Arrested · · Score: 2, Informative

    I saw that as 1000,000 machines, but it's only 100,000 machines. So it's a 0.1 megabot botnet, not a full megabot botnet.

  4. a botnet of over 100000 machines on Creators of Massive Botnet Arrested · · Score: 4, Funny

    I hereby declare a new metric for measuring the size of botnets: The MegaBot. 1 MegaBot==10E6 Bots.

  5. Re:Please god not the UN on EU, UN to Wrestle Internet Control From US · · Score: 2, Interesting

    IETF?

  6. If you work with Linux on Top 5 Software Development Magazines? · · Score: 1

    Linux Journal and Linux Magazine.

  7. a little lean a few years ago on Top 5 Software Development Magazines? · · Score: 1

    They all did that. It was a side-effect of the dot bomb.

  8. You promised us a Drug Free America on Ray Kurzweil's "The Singularity is Near" · · Score: 1

    and I want my free drugsa now!

  9. Teach a man to fish on MIT Unveils Prototype for $100 Linux Laptop · · Score: 0, Redundant

    and all that.

  10. you know where they are on Armed Dolphins Released Into Gulf of Mexico · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Don't count on it.

  11. based on Space Shuttle technology on NASA's New Shuttle · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So NASA's going to be using the latest in 1970's tech? Woo Hoo!

  12. It's Debian on Debian Core Consortium Releases First Code · · Score: 1

    What else do you need to know?

  13. no longer need hard drives on Samsung Develops 16Gb Flash Memory · · Score: 1
    Getting closer. You can get flash drives that plug into a ATA connector (and maybe SATA). Some BIOS's support booting from USB/Firewire devices. You can fit everything needed to boot a Linux box, plus (probably) /bin, /lib, /usr/bin, ./usr/lib, and /etc on there.

    Probably a slower boot than off of the HD, but runs much quieter.

  14. reasonably secure encryption on eBay To Buy Skype For $2.6 Billion · · Score: 1
    How do we know? Has anyone done a serious test of it? They claim AES-256, but how do we know?

    As to the decentralization, if that one sever in Denmark goes down, so does the entire network (since no one will be able to log on.)

    It is the best solution if you have to be able to get through firewalls and NAT.

  15. news items on Creative MP3 Players Ship With Virus · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but they'll probably be aimed at nerds.

  16. Network is a definate no, on Building Secure Computers? · · Score: 1

    Unless the entire network is classified, and unconnected to the world at large. Assuming you're in a SCIF. Otherwise, the AC reply to your post is good guidance.

  17. Greenrd's Law on RSS Wins, Signals Atom's Death Toll? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    From K5

    "Evey post disparaging someone else's spelling or grammar, or lauding one's own spelling or grammar, will inevitably contain a spelling or grammatical error."

  18. Specific? on Tim Berners-Lee on Blogging And The Web · · Score: 1

    How? What you think of as 'bad' may be different from what I think of as 'bad'. Sounds like he wants smarter search filtering.

  19. We already have them on Do We Really Need Space Weapons? · · Score: 1
    ICBMs fly through space.

    Recon satellites (imaging and communications) provide vital intel to the military, and are thus (in a sense) weapons. They are certainly things you might want to negate.

    Comsats are also vital to military operations.

    Negating the above, and making the above resistant to negation, are certainly aspects of weaponization, and are just as certainly important.

  20. Damn! That pig's flyin' low! on Apple Releases Multi-Button "Mighty Mouse" · · Score: 0

    Blizzards in hell, Dubya announces Iraq War A Mistake and apologies, etc. etc. etc.

  21. At the fractal level on Planet X Larger Than Pluto? · · Score: 4, Funny

    it is.

  22. In order to eat? on Ex-Microsoft Exec Barred From Google Job · · Score: 1

    I don't think the non-compete keeps him from taking that job at Wal-Mart...

  23. Zaurus SL-c3000,3100, or 1000 on Sharp Zaurus SL-5500 Today? · · Score: 1
    Depending on whether or not you want a hard drive.

    We've been playing with them here at $BigDefenseCorp for a few months and they are very powerful, stable, and easy to work with.

  24. What does the OS have to do with it? on Sharp Zaurus SL-5500 Today? · · Score: 1

    OpenSSH (the app) runs fine on Linux, and the Zaurus. There's even a .ipk available.

  25. It's amazing how many electrical problems on Space Shuttle Discovery to Launch July 26 · · Score: 2, Interesting
    are caused by bad grounds. Always the first thing I check.

    With a DMM, since 480VAC mains power with a bad ground can get your attention.