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  1. Shame about the Memory Stick on New Clie Handhelds from Sony · · Score: 1

    I really dislike it - it's just too damn expensive. And only Sony support it (AFAIK).

  2. Re:7 cents on Where Can You Buy Jumpers? · · Score: 2

    That returns:
    Oops.
    Internal error. Please contact allcorp@allcorp.com

  3. Re:PGP attacks on Why 'rm -R star' Isn't Enough · · Score: 1
    The problem is, a dumb keylogger will catch the alt-tab you use to switch windows.
    So use the mouse.
  4. Re:It's you that controls distribution... on Why 'rm -R star' Isn't Enough · · Score: 1

    That was a joke! I hope no-one was offended.

  5. Re:PGP attacks on Why 'rm -R star' Isn't Enough · · Score: 2
    After that, you have to worry about things like "Magic Lantern" and black bag jobs
    "Magic Lantern" style keyloggers may be avoidably by opening notepad along side PGP, and switching across and typing in some gibberish or other words, sometimes using a word that contains a letter that is in the password. For instance, if the password contains 'ge', then switch to notepad, type in 'be', then switch back to the password input and type 'g', then switch to notepad, type 'on', then switch back and type the 'e'. Looks like "begone", or "beg one". Try to get the timing right, in case it logs timing as well. Or you could pretend to be typing in some inocuous sentence, occasionally switching across to the password input and typing a letter of the password, then switch back, press backspace, and carry on as if you had just corrected a mis-type. Throw a few in that you don't correct, and a few other corrected typos as well. Dilligent analysis of these 'corrections' may reveal the password if it is a couple of words, though. I suppose this is a form of steg.
  6. Re:It's you that controls distribution... on Why 'rm -R star' Isn't Enough · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    You forgot to shoot yourself, dumbass.

  7. Re:Isn't it obvious, really? on Universe Pale Turquoise, On Average · · Score: 2

    I think I know what you mean... that's one thing that really annoys me about what I was taught at school in physics. They said that light is a combination of red, green, and blue. Bullshit. I now know that that's only an accident of the placement of the human eye's receptors in the spectrum. Some people have sensors that are closer together, giving colour blindness, and a few rare women have four different receptors (tetrachromats, I think the word is - /. story here). Thanks for pointing that out, though, sometimes those lies that I was told confuse me.

  8. Isn't it obvious, really? on Universe Pale Turquoise, On Average · · Score: 3, Interesting

    They're talking about the visible spectrum, which is a slice out of a much broader range of frequencies. If you take an arbitrary slice out of an evenly distributed set of data, you would expect the average to be right in the middle, which is roughly where turquoise lies, so surely this is statistical nonsense.

  9. Why don't Sun rig more polls? on Talk to Sun's 'Open Source Diva' · · Score: 2

    As we heard today, Microsoft rigged a ZDNet poll to make .Net look more popular than Java. What do you think of this as a tactic, and why aren't Sun keeping up with industry practices? :-)

  10. Re:It's called Ad Hominem on Monsanto and PCBs · · Score: 2

    Okay, let's allow Monsanto to produce and patent whatever GM lifeforms they want! The market will provide adequate pressure for them to behave in a safe and ethical manner.

    Wake up and smell the PCB fumes.

  11. Re:Hmmm... on Why Free Software is a Hard Sell · · Score: 1
    I suppose you'd be terrified of riding a bicyle with training wheels too?
    I definitely wouldn't enjoy the experience, and would want to get rid of them. I don't understand, what's your point?
  12. Re:Hmmm... on Why Free Software is a Hard Sell · · Score: 1

    I have never druven an automatic. I'd be terrified if I were given one to drive, without instruction from someone I know and trust.

  13. Re: Nazgul / Nazi on Tolkien's sources: Icelandic Sagas and Beowulf · · Score: 1

    Tolkien's denials aside, I always thought it painfully obvious that the dark riders were called "Nazghuls"... "Nazi Ghouls?"I don't think the Nazis were in the same league. The Nazis were just basic Human wickedness, the kind of which we have seen several instances just this century. The Nazgul and Sauron are supposed to be a whole order of magnitude worse.

  14. Re:Christianity... on Tolkien's sources: Icelandic Sagas and Beowulf · · Score: 1

    The ME timeline includes Creation, so it must be a sort of "alternate beginning" to the universe. So, it wasn't God that slipped off for a quick one, but Eru that retired and handed over the ropes to God.

  15. Re:Christianity... on Tolkien's sources: Icelandic Sagas and Beowulf · · Score: 2
    Anyways most scholars disagree and state that Tolkien completely separated Christianity from Middle Earth.
    While not agreeing or disagreeing, Tolkien said in a letter that Middle Earth is an imaginary time in the real world's history. You could infer from this that if Tolkien believed in The One God, then Eru must be that God.
  16. Re:Fits Are Not Unique on Evidence of Bacterial Life on Europa · · Score: 2
    the conditions are hard to reproduce. Temperatures of around 100 K, almost no surface pressure and a harsh radiation environment.
    So if we send a probe there, it'll come back covered in superbacteria that will wipe us all out, is that what you are saying? Disband NASA now, it's too dangerous! :-)
  17. Bill for Bill on Bush Administration Loosens Computer Export Laws · · Score: 1

    So, Microsoft want to sell the XBox in more countries, do they?

  18. Re:Surrender of useful rights on Digital Rights Management Operating System · · Score: 1
    "with digital media, copyright actually incoveniences me, so I'm against it"
    And what's wrong with that? As RMS put it, the rights that the public gave up over a hundred years ago were rights that they could not effectively make use of. Now that we can, it's time to reconsider whether we want to give them up.
  19. Re:Microsoft settlements? on Ask Lawrence Lessig About Life And Law Online · · Score: 1

    AIUI, the M$ settlement money can be spent on whatever the school wants, whether that's Windows, Mac, or Linux.

  20. Re:The tattoos on The Hype of the Rings · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It sounds much better in Black Speech:

    Ash nazg durbatulûk
    Ash nazg gimbatul
    Ash nazg thrakatulûk
    Agh burzum-ishi krimpatul

  21. Re:Real advance is the refresh rate. on Electronic Paper · · Score: 2

    Don't forget the animated adverts in the margin.

  22. Commie! on Gifts and Toys You Should Pass on This Season? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Isn't this entire question anti-consumerist, and therefore Un-American? Report for termination, troubleshooter.

  23. Re:"TROLL A MINUTE"??? on Tuxracer 1.0 Retail Version Finished · · Score: 1

    Maybe, but I've seen this myth so often that I was just a little peeved. The FUD coming from Microsoft that the GPL is viral or restrictive needs to be countered loudly.

  24. Re:Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream on Lightweight Languages · · Score: 2, Funny
    Of course once you put it in water, it is no longer good ice cream, right?
    You could wrap it in clingfilm and fish it out again.
  25. I heard different sounds on Listening to Leonids · · Score: 2

    I watching a meteor shower in October 1981, maybe the Perseids, and 8 seconds after each one we heard a distinct 'pop' as of a distant gunshot. My father (a physics teacher) wrote to Patrick Moore, who hosts the BBC's The Sky at Night programme, and he replied saying that this was impossible. Maybe we were hearing a reflection of this fizzing sound, but it doesn't seem loud enough to carry over 3 kilometers.