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  1. Re:What is truly amazing on How to Become A Spammer · · Score: 1

    If he feels that this stuff is so legitimate, why is he using software that abuses open relays and proxies, and forges mail headers, instead of publishing the real address he is sending his spew from? Hmmm?

    Hiding your identity has nothing to do with being right or wrong, it has to do with being threatened. If you don't belive me ask yourself why many police forces that fight organized krime, wear masks.

    I'm not saying that this guy is right, just that him hiding his identity does not indicate that he belives he is wrong.

  2. Re:Dude... on The War Between p2p and Record Companies Heating Up? · · Score: 1

    Ironic, isn't it, how quickly we forget about the First Amendment when it's somebody else's speech being protected instead of our own?

    Does freedom of speach imply the right to lie about the contents of your message?

    It has been discussed earlier here but the discussion was rather inconclusive.

  3. Re:iTunes- The illegial copying program? on Mac P2P Music Sharing with iTunes is Online · · Score: 2, Informative

    For those of you that don't have macs, the same thing can be achieved by googling for the specs for the daap protocol specs, looking for ip#'s on the macspy website and then using wget for the rest.
    for example:
    wget 10.0.0.1:3689/login
    The session id is coded into the four last bytes
    wget 10.0.0.1:3689/databases?session-id=1234
    The bd-id is encoded into the bytes after "miid"
    wget 10.0.0.1:3689/databases/32/items?session-id=1234
    Gives you a list of items, the item id(a number) is used to download the file
    wget 10.0.0.1:3689/databases/32/items/12.mp3?session-id =1234

  4. Re:I have a question! on Hydrogen Fuel Station in Iceland · · Score: 1
    It requires energy to collect and compress nitrogen. A *lot* more energy than will be released by popping the valve on the nitrogen tanks.



    No offence, but that is true for any system for storage of energy, you'll need more energy to charge the system than you can get out. For example a lead-acid battery needs 40% more energy to charge than you get out.



    And no, the idea is not entierly retarded:

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/2281011. st m

    http://auto.howstuffworks.com/air-car.htm

  5. Re:I wonder how much they charge per tank? on Hydrogen Fuel Station in Iceland · · Score: 1

    And will they let you fill your balloon or are they going to insist on wasting it on a car?

    Yeah, and can you get a pipeline to your home, to use it in liquid form to cool your CPU?

  6. Re:Hydrogen is not a source of energy on Hydrogen Fuel Station in Iceland · · Score: 1
    I vote for being blown to bits...



    Yeah, being buried in more than one casket is like... an achievment.

  7. Why does telephony even cost money anymore? on Phone Companies Bill Public for Nonexistent Equipment · · Score: 3, Insightful
    I have an internet connection for $27/month, it is 10Mbit. If we say that a telephone call is 128kbit(64kbit in each direction) then that is enough for 78 telephones in my appartement. If we used a speech codec that reduced the data to 1/5 of the original size, then i could have 390 telephones in my appartement.


    Now, if i, in theory can have 390 phones for $27/month how much is it really worth having one?

  8. A t-shirt is a useless projectile! on T-Shirt Cannon · · Score: 1

    Instead build discarding sabots and use the thing to launche darts!

  9. Re:Piracy on Corporations Suffer Microsoft Activation Bug · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You dont complain about security guards at banks, so dont complain about anti-piracy methods!

    I remember one day i was at the bank. The security guards there suddenly(due to an error in their training) forced all the ligitimate costomers out of the bank and in to the street, then they blocked the door so noone could get in. Stopped everyone from getting any business done that day. The security guard vendor had to come to the bank and replace the guard before the bank could open again.

  10. Re:This sums it up on Cryptographers Find Fault With Palladium · · Score: 1

    But if MSFT had WMD's they would get the pointy stick. That is for sure.

    They are already upto WMD9 and noone has done anything!

  11. Two questions. on Fujitsu To Ship Linux Powered Robot in July · · Score: 1

    1. Can they operate laser rifles?

    2. Can they repair each other?

  12. Re:huh? on Significant Interactivity Boost in Linux Kernel · · Score: 1

    You can actually feel the bitch slapps hanging in the air :)

  13. Re:Oh boy, not this again.... on Engineer Loses SSL Patent Case against RSA and VeriSign · · Score: 1

    I hope you realize the practical difficulties of proving that something does not exist.

  14. Re:Online porn on Appeals Court Rejects Child Online Protection Act, Again · · Score: 1
    Allowing sites to show 'information inappropriate for minors' to minors is like selling kids top shelf mags



    Can you point me to the scientific studies actually proving that it is harmful?

    Sure pics of chainsaw-rape might cause a shock for the viewer, which may cause psychological harm. But that is true for viewers of all ages.
    Plain nudity or intercource? Well i have to ask you to prove it.

    And yes part of my point is that "inapropriate" is not a reason to restrict freedom of speach, while "harmful" might require a warning.

  15. Oh, thanks on Film Gimp Project Renamed to CinePaint · · Score: 1

    Here I thought that i was just being really paranoid.

  16. "Brain fingerprinting" on Going Cyberpunk · · Score: 1

    Is that where you take the brain out, dipp it in ink and then roll it across a piece of paper?

  17. Re:the las vegas effect on Sony to Stop Producing Smaller CRTs · · Score: 1

    You're on crack.

    Learn social courtesy fuckhead.

    Smearing will ALWAYS be in the direction of movement.

    Over several frames yes, but i was talking about smearing in a single frame.

    But it's true that if the obeject displacement is too large, it will look worse than on a CRT.

    Reread my post, I was saying that it looks worse than with proper motion blur.

  18. Re:the las vegas effect on Sony to Stop Producing Smaller CRTs · · Score: 1

    since there's just the slightest hint of motion blur :)

    I'm not sure it qualifies as motion blur, since the smearing is not in the direction of the movement.

    I you film something with a camera then the shutter is open a little time, causing objects to be smeared because they moved while each picture was taken. Naturally this smearing will be in the direction of the movement, that is motion blur.

    The smearing in LCDs might very well help, but it is not motion blur.

  19. Quote from the article on Recording Industry Extinction Predicted RSN · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "record companies are detested by politicians (for corrupting youth)"

    Isn't it more like:

    "record companies are detested by youth (for corrupting politicians)"

  20. something interesting on The Future of Java? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    When can we expect to see C# compile for JVM? And when can we expect to see Java compile for .NET?

  21. It has to be widely adopted first on Lucas Digital Releases OpenEXR Format · · Score: 1

    The Lucas will. :)

  22. Re:Yes... but on Cloned Cat Not a 'Carbon Copy' · · Score: 1

    Even if a man chops off your hand with a sword, you still have two nice, sharp bones to stick in his eyes.

    And now with cloning you can get a new arm too.

  23. Re:Speed - 5 megabytes a second? on Credit Card sized 5GB HD to arrive late this year · · Score: 1

    Does "scales" means what I think it does? It's surely too good to be true that, if the 100 meg card is 5 megabytes a second, that the 5 gig card is 250 meg a second. Yeah, that's too good to be true. Plus knowing me my math is probably off.

    If the data density increases, but not the rotational speed, then you should get the square root of the data capacity increase in read speed increase.

    100MB -> 5MB/s
    5000MB -> 35MB/s

    This is because the dat density on a surfase is the product of the data density in two directions, while only the density in one direction is relevant to the read speed.

  24. Some simple ideas. on Rolling Out Mozilla in an Organization? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    First install mozilla on one machine. Then obtain the source, find where the signal handler(i think that is what it is called) for the meny ithem edit->preferences is set and comment that out, compile. Now you should have a version of mozilla that the user cannot configure.

    Use the first installation(full version) to generate all the files that contain the settings you want for each machine. And copy them to each machine after installing the crippled mozilla on them.

    You should be able to achiave your goals like this, if each machine requires uniqe settings(email and such) then you have some work to do, but it should'nt be impossible.

  25. Re:Difference in salary on Maine School & Linux · · Score: 1

    ok you tell me what is missing