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  1. Make A Wish Fondation on Leukaemia Patient Helps Create Chemotherapy Game · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is just one more example of the amazing work of the Make A Wish Foundation. These people, who obviously have a worthwhile cause, are amazing at their jobs. In my opinion, the most effective way to help fight cancer (for future victims) is to fund research. But given where we're at now, the only way to help current patients to make them happy. And happiness is the entire point of Make A Wish.

    I've personally done fundraising for my local chapter (which is on the opposite coast), and I was inspired to do so after actually being a part of a wish. I'd suggest doing the same to anyone.

    While you're not off donating to eff, be sure to donate to Make A Wish. You're literally giving happiness.

  2. Re:Still safe for a while on RSA-576 Factorization Officially Announced · · Score: 5, Informative

    Bear in mind, using bits to exponentially increase cryptographic strength only works until you reach the Berenstein factor, which is a practical limit on the number of S-boxes that can be stacked in any particular corner of the cryptographic chamber. After a certain point, which varies according to the chamber ceiling, it is possible albiet less space efficient to take advantage of parallel stacking to some extent.

    Mods -- how could you let this get modded up? First, S-boxes are in DES, not RSA. Next, even if the random reference was to the correct cryptographic algorithm, the rest of the comment still makes no sense at all.

    C'mon people, post if you have a clue, and only if you have a clue.

  3. As the customer, demand service on Do Working Cell Phone Demos Exist Anymore? · · Score: 3, Informative

    I just bought a phone at Radio Shack. They have what looked like actual phones in the display case, but it was locked. I just had the salesperson bring out two actual phones, open the boxes, and let me use them until I decided which one I wanted. I bet most places with salespeople on comission would gladly give you the same service.

  4. Laptop Backpack on What Extras Should I Buy When Buying a Laptop? · · Score: 1

    My suggestion: This backpack. The thing has tons of padding on the back. It's clearly rainproof, and accessing your gear is extremely fast due to the zip-down pocket for non-laptop stuff instead of the standard zip-across-the-top pockets.

  5. A College Course You can follow along with on Building Your Own Operating System? · · Score: 4, Informative

    I'm taking an Operating Systems course right now. You could follow along with it (or a similar course at any university.) Obviously you'll miss the lectures, but read along in the book and you'll get the same content. (BTW, the book for this class is by Silberschatz; ISBN 0471250600. I only gave Tanenbaum's OS book a quick look over, but so far I like the style of this book more than Tanenbaum's writing that I saw in his Computer Organization book.)

    The course starts you off with a very basic skeleton. From there, we'll add most of the parts of a basic OS in several individual programming projects. The class website is at http://www.cs.umd.edu/class/spring2004/cmsc412/ (won't work in IE) It has everything on it you should need to follow along.

  6. Re:Threatening? on Scientology Critic Flees U.S. Over Usenet Posts, Pickets · · Score: 1

    . and a woman who was driving a carload of kids to soccre practice got handcuffed and hauled off to jail for not wearing her seatbelt. the kids were left on the side of the road.

    You forgot the best part. The supreme court (US) ruled on this: It is legal to arrest people for crimes that have no jail time associated with them. I wish one of the justices had forgotten to buckle up on the way home that day. They exempted speeding from the arrestible crimes. Maybe one of the justices has a lead foot...

  7. Looks like school is covering its own butt on 13-Year-Old Suspended For Hacking Commits Suicide · · Score: 3

    Anybody else notice that the school was very careful NOT to say what he supposedly did. If he had done something serious, the school would have plastered that everywhere in its own defense. If his "crime" comes out I bet it will be very minor.