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  1. Re: your signature on Real ID: You Can Still Fight It · · Score: 1

    Right, but he also pronounced Linux as the Lee-nucks Oh-perating See-stim

  2. Re:Constitutionality: Post roads on U.S. National Identity Cards All But Law · · Score: 1

    Except that the president is not actually granted the power to issue executive orders in the first place.

  3. Re:Reproducibility on Copy-and-Paste Reveals Classified U.S. Documents · · Score: 1

    Actually, this kind of thing has happened before, which makes it even more stupid that it happened.

  4. Passphrases on Enforcing Crytographically Strong Passwords · · Score: 1

    What bothers me these days is that people do not realize that passphrases are indeed simply easier to memorize and more secure. Why is everyone using a mnemonic sentence to remember some cryptic string of characters? This is not more secure than the mnemonic itself! And don't go arguing that you could easily make a dictionary program to try and crack it either. There are easily more than 500,000 words in the English dictionary. This makes any particular word more time consuming to guess than any of the 100 some characters you can choose from on a keyboard. Unless your system has a relatively short password length, and I know for some of you it does, there is no reason to be doing it the other way.

    obligatory google link: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=passphras es+password+%2Bsecure&btnG=Search

  5. Re:baby bootstrap on The Baby Bootstrap? · · Score: 1

    Its not just that, its the 1000 to 10000 dendrites coming off of the axon.

  6. Significant Progress on The Baby Bootstrap? · · Score: 1
    ....yet there has been no significant progress in over 30 years.


    Speak for yourself human!
  7. Try this: on BitTorrent Inherently Illegal? · · Score: 1

    Dear IT Departmint,

    It has come to our atenshun that youse has been leanin too hard on some of our more
    favorbul akwaintances. Me and Jimmy the Fish knows where you live. That and your
    famlee too. We think that youse has never seen what a .44 magnum holow point does
    to a guy's body niether.
    We would appreshiate that youse would over look our akwaintences P2P trafiking
    no mater what it is and in turn we will provide you with our graditude.

    Sincerely,
    Frends
    --

  8. So.. on Peeking at Netscape 8 · · Score: 1

    I'm getting just about fed up with Microsoft's practice of standards breaking. Its getting to be so much of a pain in the ass to get everything the same across platforms that I'm seriously considering forcing users to upgrade to another browser before ever giving access to content. Besides, its less work for me, and safer for them.

  9. Who would have thought? on 4-Way Sun Fire V40z Reviewed · · Score: 1

    "Who would have thought only a few years ago that Sun would be the new champion of Linux and AMD?" I don't know. I certainly don't think they really want to be Linux's champion. They have repeatedly demonstrated behavior implying that they intend to pull the carpet out from under our feet sometime in the future after they gain our trust. Look carefully at their patent offerings and license agreements before jumping into the fire.

  10. Reality Distortion on Bill Gates Interview w/ Spiegel · · Score: 1
    SPIEGEL: But your small competitor Apple, for example, is much less frequently a victim of virus attacks ... Gates: ... put so sweepingly, that is not correct. Of course we are the largest target, simply because we have the most widely disseminated system. But it affects others in exactly the same way. Linux is, in many respects, even more significantly affected.
    Wow, Bill has a reality distortion field too! You know, after over a decade of unix based operating systems. I still would like to actually see a virus (other than sitting dormant in my inbox)... you know, just so I don't feel so left out.
  11. mplayer and mencoder on Video Formats for non-Windows Users? · · Score: 1

    If you want things that run everywhere, end especially on mplayer, why don't you just encode it with mencoder?

  12. Re:Nothing to see here really on IBM Ordered to Show More Code to SCO · · Score: 1

    Correct, PJ goes on to say that "...so IBM will have to go to the expense and take the time to sort through everything and comply. They can go back and explain why they can't do X or Y and ask her to revise her Order, and they could appeal"
    So really, where we are is, IBM can just go to Judge Well's office and say how impossible or impractical the order is, which is what they have been doing all along, or they can comply in a humorous manner and bury sco's lawyers in truckloads of documentation (~5-10,000 reams of paper!), and both don't matter anyway because Judge Kimball understands what is going on.

  13. Re:Free? on The Semantics of Free Software vs. Open Source · · Score: 1

    Mmmm.... Open Source Beer.
    Someone write a recipe for brewing beer
    and then GPL it so beer can be free as in
    speech as well. Unfortunately I could see
    a downside of SCO trying to take our beer...

  14. Re:RTFA/RTFWS/RTFE! on Open Source Graphic Card Project Seeks Experts · · Score: 1

    Writing all of the missing components, and throwing them on the spartan III is not a problem. However, it does raise the question, how many of these components are they going to use and how many do they need for their design in all? Guessing around 5k gates per 32x32 dividing unit, it might very well take up a fairly large chunk if they want to implement several. Same problem with the other math units. A simple 16 bit stack processor can easily fit within 200k gates, so, we can assume a 32 bit is going to be somewhere on the order of two to four times that, depending on complexity. Of course, they could always use a larger fpga chip, but it increases the overall price.

  15. Re:Too human? on Scientists Give Human Organs to Lamb · · Score: 1

    Pigs *already* taste like people. What we would
    be getting would be New Improved Pigs with More
    Human Flavor.

  16. Re:Most likely on Titanic Director to Make Battle Angel Movie · · Score: 2, Informative

    For those who might not know, Gunnm is still running in Japan. That is, Yukito didn't like how it originally ended, so he picked up the series again one issue from the end and it is now running as Gunnm: Last Order. The Manga is somewhere around issue 6-7 now I think. Kind of like, Gally in space.

  17. Re:Who listens to Sun any more? on Linux 'Awfully Cathedral-Like' - Java's a Bazaar · · Score: 1

    Is it just me, or has the Sun FUD machine picked up the pace since the Microsoft settlement? Seems to me that Schwartz and friends hardly said anything bad about linux before that. What are the odds that he becomes the next Darl?

  18. Re:Optimal temperature range on Do Honeybees Defy Dinosaur Extinction Theories? · · Score: 1

    I can concur with your observations, my father also used to keep bees. However there are also a couple other things being overlooked in the article, since Kozisek is studying to be a paleontologist and *not* an apiologist.

    Honeybees normally have trouble keeping their metabolic rate in the right place, making them spend time keeping cool or keeping warm. If they get too cold they get sluggish and crawl around slowly (or not at all). If they get too warm they spend time trying to cool down.

    The physical size of the hive would also contribute, scaling along with quantity of available honey and empty air pockets within the hive. A large hive could be considered to be well insulated from temperature change, assuming a large number of empty cells acting as air pockets. Surviving hives likely would also have been located in such a way as to avoid wind chill.

    Finally, bees tend to cluster together to preserve warmth, further mitigating heat loss and changing their energy requirements as well. This is a well studied area as well,
    take a look at this for more information on clustering.

    http://www.beesource.com/pov/usda/thermology/tec hb ulletin1429.htm

  19. Wha? on KDE: Breaking the Network Barrier · · Score: 2, Informative
    The entire KDE desktop environment is decked out like this, and as George puts it, 'Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X have a long way to go to catch up with the robust, transparent functionality that KDE has provided since version 2.0.


    Like what kind of catching up? Like this?
    KDE on Mac OS X
  20. Article Censored?! on Press freedom · · Score: 1

    The article seems to have been changed since it was originally posted, It originally listed United States of America in 3 separate places, i.e, one for Iraq, one for American territories, and one for mainland. It now only lists the American Territories and America in Iraq. The mainland ranked somewhere very close to Turkey. Does someone have a mirror of this to confirm?

  21. Campaign advisor responses? on Bush, Kerry, and Nader Respond to Youth Voter Questions · · Score: 1

    Does anybody else get the feeling that the Bush and Nader responses were written by a campaign advisor rather than the actual person? And if not that, they appear at least to have been prepared responses pulled out of a filing cabinet somewhere.

  22. Re:Mental disorders are classifications on Coffee is Addictive · · Score: 1

    IANANeurologist, but on a related note, caffeine addiction could be considered a symptom or indicator of a brain disorder. One of its lesser known effects is that it slows flow of blood to the pre-frontal cortex, which could contribute a headache when it wears off and the blood flows more freely. The prefrontal cortex is what is responsible for things like motivation and your internal monologue. Which is quite interesting in that while caffeine is a good stimulant, it also makes us lazy and impairs our thinking at some level.

  23. Sun an Java on Why is Java Considered Un-Cool? · · Score: 1

    I don't know if I could say Java is uncool. The debugger is
    a pain in the ass sometimes, not letting you do something
    perfectly sensible in other languages, but I can usually get around them.

    The company itself perhaps...

    Didn't Sun recently settle with Microsoft and now they
    are doing road shows together?
    Didn't Sun buy a SCO license for Solaris?
    Have you read the licensing agreement for the Java desktop 2?

  24. Re:Just do what I do on Passwords - 64 Characters, Changed Daily? · · Score: 1

    A friend of mine (and linux security nut) just introduced me to you pass-phrase method. People might not realize this, but an 12 word pass-phrase is much much more difficult to crack than a 12 letter password. Random or odd punctuation might not be a good idea over the long term though, as its pretty easy to forget, and not much more secure than making your pass-phrase one word longer.

  25. Newton was an INTP on The Unknown Newton · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The fact that Newton worked with dozens of subjects outside of math and science is not surprising, since he was an INTP. Quite simply put. Once an INTP personality type masters a subject, it very likely they will move on to something else out of boredom.