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  1. Re:MOD PARENT UP! on Power Outages Strike East Coast · · Score: 1

    Sorry to get you interested but upon further check it could cause an Xclass, but so far there are no reports of a major flare from it. It is good to learn about how the solar system can effect power though :-) Tesla was right. Maybe there is a way to turn the existing grid into a generator Funny reading about what using power lines for data transmission can do to radio also! There is a theory somewhere that I read back in the 1970s that the difference in potential between the sea and the earth could be used in combination with the magnetic field of the earth to generate power only limited by the industrial capacity needed to produce the matterial necessary to create the infrastructure and metal alloys, and silicon tech. It would cost trillions but in theory is possible.

  2. Blaim Canada on Deregulation and Niagara Mohawk - Is There a Story? · · Score: 1

    We have been converting our system to run on wood with the surplus inventory we now enjoy. Its all our fault, the beavers went on strike.

  3. Re:Nice theory but... on Power Outages Strike East Coast · · Score: 1

    The proton stream events start within 15 minutes and can reach high intensity within an hour. So you see the light in 8 min, and you have about another 7 to expect ions to start hitting. This reacts with the Van Allen and thus the magnetic field of the Earth.
    So far it there are no reports of an xclass having occured but we do not know yet the data only says they could happen from this particular spot. So I was saying it could of happened, not that it did!
    Who knows could of been a hungry bear climbing a transmission tower to get at a honey bee nest because of the buzzing and some bees that had actually nested on a transmission tower. That is what was reported to have caused one of the largest forest fires in history!

  4. Re:Sun Spots could be partly to blame? on Power Outages Strike East Coast · · Score: 1

    I guess I read wrong, just posting a theory. Thanks for doing the rest of the work! Well there is something that caused one hell of a switching error on the Mohawk grid. A surge from somewhere is most likely the fault. The take out of high out put switching capacity is no little trick. Surges are the prime suspects. Or it could be software failure related during a brown out situation! Did not the year two thousand bugs have some very flakey quick fixes that were reported to have possible concequences in the near future, back when they were patched? If it is something related to recent software upgrades then I sure would not want to be the vender! If that is the case we can only hope the blackout started in Redmond.

  5. Sun Spots could be partly to blame? on Power Outages Strike East Coast · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Here is a link to the solar flare situation there is an X class happening right now! http://sunspotcycle.com/

  6. Proof at last! on SCO Attorney Declares GPL Invalid · · Score: 1

    That there are lawyers who smoke crack. That is the most rediculous statement I have every seen from a lawyer.

  7. Re:freebsd-security mailing list on FreeBSD security Advisories: FreeBSD-SA-03:09.sign · · Score: 1

    As to why, is obvious, and the fact that with MS you do not, will eventually kill most Win servers! MS knows this and is the reason why they are implimenting Paladium, or fritz chip solutions. Make everything that runs on windows servers have traceable and revokeable security certificates. The mother of all shoot yourself in the foot security measures. The next few years are going to be very interesting for free software as alot of important people, especially the big ISPs start to get really pissed at Microsoft! That is if some branch of MS doesn't devour them all first.

  8. Random does not exist except as a concept. on LavaRnd: A Open Source Project for Truly Random Numbers · · Score: 1
    There is no such thing as completely random generation algorythm. Irrational numbers are a generated infinite series of non repeating numbers. However this is not random, it is generated by a parent math formula. The only thing we can say about random generator math is that it might generate a very long repeatable sequence at a very long interval that we cannot define. Rather the same as uncertainty in quantum math. Much of this goes into an explination for the clumping of matter in the universe. Randomness is a human concept and does not exist in nature, or math. The same as concept of infinity.

    The answer to the universe and everything is 42

  9. Troll Alert! on Absolute OpenBSD · · Score: 1

    Troll alert I have seen your lame post before if you do not know how to process a dd then get another OS and shag your ass with lame windows buttons!

  10. Re:FDA? on iBot Self-Balancing Mobility Device FDA Approved · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Good question, if you build wheel chairs they need approval. Any device that the medical insurance industry might need to pay for has to be approved. It does not matter if it is a tech creation. The FDA is there to look after the well being of industry. "The business of Government is business" You will not be able to sue if you have an accident using this device, unless you can prove neglagence on the part of the maker. Same thing goes for the cost of practice insurance for doctors, it costs a fortune because Americans love litigation so much nowadays. There are hords Lawyers who do nothing but take cases against medical companies and doctors on spec because it has become so lucurative. I just hope this bullshit continues to stay south of the Canadian border where it belongs.

  11. Is the Earth getting ready for a shift? on Global Warming To Leave North Pole Ice-Free · · Score: 3, Interesting
    If we examine the climate records we are due for another southern centered ice age. Perhaps the climate cycle of the Earth coincides with polar magnetic shifts at known intervals. We are at the end of such an interval. Will the spin alignment of the Earth change? Some scientists have speculated that the Earth could change its polarity very rapidly if the spin direction undergoes a radical change. This could be due to the change in relative position to ionic particle streams from the Sun. Give the Earth enough of a Sun spot burst and bingo it flips polarity and relative spin. This would explain the polarity differences in rocks.

    To understand that we do not yet understand climatic change and radical environmental change is key. Put all that aside and look for explinations of the geo-magnetic and climate record. It is possible that after a melting of the North pole might come the oceanic expansion of the south pole which would then assume the polarity of North. Not the Earth flipping on it's axis but a polarity change caused by the magnetic effects of increased ion streams on the Van Allen belt. Move the Van Allen belt around and you move the magnetic poles. This could be the start of a major 100,000 year cycle. If this is so then what is now the Sahara and all the deserts will bloom and become a watered land. Sorry Austrailia you will become a frozen desert again. Central North America, Europe, and North Central Asia will become deserts. This all could happen within 1000 years,if there are major Solar cycles that can effect the Earths polarity. This would also explain much about the geo-magnetic record and the climatic record. The now frozen North would then become a very attractive land again. As would the equatorial regions, and the southern temperate zones, Cape Town might become almost like Helsinki, and Southern Africa like Northern Europe. Time to write a Sci Fi novel.

  12. Re:Anonymous WHAT ?!?! on Disclosure of Major Software Exploits by Students? · · Score: 1

    monospace or the wall compiler will -wall = f-all no a.out.

  13. Re:Why don't Unix systems being hacked like Window on Microsoft Code at Fault for Half of all Windows Crashes · · Score: 1

    You mean MS is backing off its much touted trusted computing initiative or that Roman sounding catch word Palladium? I hardly think they can. Senator Fritz would have kittens. Intel backed off the extentions on the P111 but I think you will find that they are in the latest P4s. Why do you think there is no external access security code locks coming in Longhorn? MS is really big on real security now and will come to dictate how, and by who code is written. The MS part of the internet will be locked up. I just hope the rest of the real internet survives. If .NET code is only readable by MS software what does that mean? If only security stamped .NET code can be sent through MS servers then what does that mean. 1984 is happening and people do not even believe it, what a piece of handy work. Sen Fritz is on the same level of American politico as Joe McCarthy was, a real Nazi!

  14. Because it is not as easy as you think! on Computer Expectations of Today, and a Decade Hence? · · Score: 1
    It can if my little nephew gets his act together. The kid has writen a sound producing algorythm that could easily be used for type to speach synth. It parses the sound wave math input to digital wave out in less than .002seconds. What I have tried to contribute is a typed letter input function on a loop that then uses a sound wave math library we are creating to fork the math output to his math sound wave parser. Trouble is it is getting a little too processor intensive and has a tendancy to develope bad delays with two to three simultanious math functions. I think I can work around the delay with a more integrated approach than forking a math library out to his math sound parser, but it will take time. The fun I am having is making math input match things like dipthongs. Like with children finding the math to create ch is the biggest hurdle so far. The consonants are not too much trouble as their wave is fairly simple. Vowels are another question altogether. Inflection is achieved by using complex wave math. So we have a routine that will accept some inflection. I am even working on language using aeiou as they sound in latin base language, you know, aa i ee oo ou.

    He is really a pain to code with he just throws everything on one line and does not believe in nl characters or comments. Such is the problem of working with genius. I sure wish I could code as fast as him! Perhaps the answer will come from using math in combination with actual sound samples. Even a P4 with lots of ram does not seem to be up to the task. I cannot afford a real powerhouse smp box yet so thing are slow. When the Sledge Hammers come down in price I will think about it though. Access to a scookum multi 64 bit would be great! Even if some of his routines would need to have their math changed. It is not easy and I am suprised that it has not already been done by someone other than Sun. They built a java program that could be used as a type and say, what ever happened to it I do not know.

  15. Re:Why don't Unix systems being hacked like Window on Microsoft Code at Fault for Half of all Windows Crashes · · Score: 1

    Problem is it still can catch a cold from VB scripts, you can bet that some script kiddie will find it's Achilles heal soon enough. Longhorn btw is just a code name for the security features that are going to be added at the processor level. Certificates are the big MS buzz word check it out, they really are out to lock down everyones ability to write code! First you will need to be circumcised and get a compiler that can mark your code with your security permission, which you can have revoked by MS of course. Have you really studied the method that Trusted Computing is employing. In reality it will kill innovation and independant software! If MS had taken the security route a long time ago we would not have the problems we are having today. They could have but they cheaped out! They deserve what is coming when Joe User just snub Longhorn like some kind of disease. Which it is. There is no excuse for computer viruses and blaming the user is going to backfire, people are slow to react but when small business gets together and gets pissed enough MS will get one hell of a big come-upance.

  16. Have your really learned Open Office? on Microsoft Stops Development Of Outlook Express · · Score: 1

    Open Office has an e-mail full featured client ware if you spend the time learning it. Open Office mail does just about everything you need. It has spell check, integrates with writer, takes any kind of attachment, uses a good address book, (that is not available to VB scripts, thank God) and can sync with a palm. How it integrates with the pocket PC is not something I know about but OO does everything you need very well in one place. It is getting better and better all the time and the best thing is you do not even have to use Windows! Trouble comes when you expect it to run all the stupid .NET functions MS adds to simple e-mail.Things like running flash in your e-mail is just plain stupid. The video candy of MS is the problem, learn to live without it and you will soon find peace on the net. For that matter with the Mozilla client I filter out to trash anything with flash or any animation in it. You can bet the great filters that you can set in Mozilla will soon be available in Open Office! That is the power of OS software it cannot keep how the best features work a secret.

  17. Re:Why don't Unix systems being hacked like Window on Microsoft Code at Fault for Half of all Windows Crashes · · Score: 1

    Sorry about the flame it is just that the fact that your MS password hash can be visable is a huge piss off and one hell of a potential hole. Obviously you know how to keep the whole closed. Sometimes I wonder about pining ports wonderland and how many of the non-malicious script kiddies do get in to MS servers. If you watch what they throw at you if you leave a port open deliberately it is always some password hash hack tool that only works on Windows. The occasional VB trojan or if they are the really creative ones a keystroke logger. It is just amazing that the default install security settings in MS servers is to none! As far as security goes Gates is just blowin' smoke out his ass, all these issues could have been resolved years ago. However what they really want is not to resolve them so that the totally secure Fritz chip Longhorn will take over. The problem with MS is that it cannot support any of its NT and Dos derived software much longer and expect to grow its business. Their sales become stagnent in 5 year cycles so it is time at the end of next year to bilk the users again. This time it is with software that will be secure for the first time, the longhorn .NET drama continues.

  18. Re:Why don't Unix systems being hacked like Window on Microsoft Code at Fault for Half of all Windows Crashes · · Score: 1

    Java is not the problem I run it in Linux and have no trouble.The problem is the MS stupid .NET framework, or whatever they are calling their com system nowadays. If you can get your user and root, (administrator) password hash checked and hacked by script kiddies in windows ware thats your problem not mine. Just keep remote log in turned off, oh sorry you do not know how you are a Windows user, and besides there are trojans to get around even that! Just let MS dictate to you what you can run on your computer and everything will be fine, patch your server and call me in the morning.

  19. Finally, a solution..for coders who use cat?. on Aquarium Modcase · · Score: 1

    Hey this might be the answer to how to keep me from trying to code. All I have to do is type things like itsString = which I do quit often and bingo PawSense will guess the string is a cat request and won't know the diff!
    Of course I might have a problem when I cat | diff myself!
    But that has always been problematic anyway.

  20. Just wait Long and horny is coming! on Microsoft Stops Development Of Outlook Express · · Score: 2, Insightful

    When Longhorn comes out we are looking at a different ball game. No more security problems no more stupid users not patching no more need to worry if the Inet content is not certified, it just will not run. Good old Bill will make sure everything that ever gets on your computer is safe for you. After all that is what the trusted computing initiative is all about. Take back all control of the computer from the user. Hot Mail for all running on trusted BSD servers, the RIAA happy that you cannot get around security, and a nice big hole there for the government and their trusted computing partner MS to keep tabs on you, and your dangerous communication device sucker!

  21. Re:Can't seem to find it Here maybe? on SCO Announces Final Termination of IBM's Licence · · Score: 1

    Well I just looked at the Alpha smp.c and found that it is dependant on linux/smp.h which is just a switch, and not very complicated to boot! Here is the alpha smp.c origin linux/arch/alpha/kernel/smp.c
    *
    * 2001-07-09 Phil Ezolt (Phillip.Ezolt@compaq.com)
    * Renamed modified smp_call_function to smp_call_function_on_cpu()
    * Created an function that conforms to the old calling convention
    * of smp_call_function().
    *
    * This is helpful for DCPI.

    Since this is saying that it is reliant upon an old smp_call_function() then maybe that is what SCO is bitching about. However looking at the rest of the smp.c's for all the other arch they seem to be independant of smp_call_function(). Very interesting. So there might be a bunch of old Compacts out there that are not in compliance?

  22. Re:Stock Statistics Like who bought! on SCO Announces Final Termination of IBM's Licence · · Score: 1

    It would help if the actual SCO purchasers were named. I think you would quickly find some slush funds doing the SCO buying. I just wonder who owns the funds. A few MS dot com instant millionaires per chance? Someone is buying up SCO and it is not small time speculators or mutuals it is people who do not care about margins, thats for sure. Just wish some jounalist could find out and let the cat out of the bag. Might even prove to be a little interesting as to how the SCO exes are getting big money out of the law suit, and who put them up to it. I hope the AG in New York is looking into this right now. These dot com morons might get their ass kicked, would you hire an ex-SCO exec? I still think they shot all their accounts before doing this number, something Martha Stewart most likely did also.

  23. Re:Why don't Unix systems being hacked like Window on Microsoft Code at Fault for Half of all Windows Crashes · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Wrong, the .NET framework of MS is the primary cause of this problem. Remote sys exes are one heck of a stupid thing to alow. The next phase in .NET is the scary part, the final solution so to speak. It will only alow .NET certified inet code to execute on your windows computer, this will effectively replace java server applets which is what MS has been trying to do for about 8 years. Just to eat Sun Java's lunch. You can bet longhorn will break Java again, until the courts again force them to alow java apps.

    With the help of Intel and the "trusted computing initiative" only MS certified objects will be alowed to run on your computer. The fritz chip extentions are already in place for this in the p4 and up, so when you install Longhorn you will effectively surrender control of your computer to MS, the RIAA, Hollywood and the Government. But don't worry the trade off is you will not have to worry about worms and viruses anymore sucker! Unix systems are not attacked because to install an executable you need to be root, and any user that knows squat uses a decent pass word mine was dos_booty until just a few minuites from now when I will change it again.

  24. Re:Windows Support on FSF, GCC, and SCO Compiler Support · · Score: 1

    Gcc in windows is not exactly that much of a problem. Cgwyn is and always has been a joke at MS.
    What scares MS the most is the fact that there are free software alternatives to MS Word and Office that are getting really good! It will not be very long until Evolution gets a resonable windows port either! There is also very good early windowing support for mysql interfaces that will give Access a run for it's money. Not to mention the fact that the developers are working on a common interface framework. Very soon good free software will be availble that will effectively alow Windows users to bypass MS office all together. Linux is not the only real threat to MS free excellent secure software is also getting on their nerves. That is why SCO is being used as a shell to target GNU. This whole scheme is being financed by MS stock holders they are the ones pushing up SCO stock as the SCO execs rake in the cash payoffs. Even if the MS stock holders lose alot of money the work they are doing for uncle Bill and Steve will reap them big rewards in future if GNU software is discredited. SCO is going to be chapter 11 this winter at the end of quarter three anyway. So if the fud does its work then MS will only profit, as Unix IP gets held in trust. The law suit will continue on behest of the stock holders, and creditor, just guess who they are!

  25. Re:fscking stallman on FSF, GCC, and SCO Compiler Support · · Score: 1

    I hope you start emacs and get your ass kicked because you cannot exit! That is the Stallman monster and what a work of wonder it is. Just try to compile linux without gcc you moron! Stick with Microsoft you ignorant ass.