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  1. Re:Why the Army? on Army Contractor To Build A 1566 Xserve Cluster · · Score: 0

    Now, now. Make sure your read the whole post before you reply. Orbit is nothing more than a constant state of falling. When "pushed from orbit" it will come down somewhere. As for why:

    A) Who could stop a super sonic shell from orbit? No real defense at this point.

    B) Time from decision to strike to killing the target. Cruisers or loitering aircraft still take time to get in place. With enough birds in low earth orbit. There wouldn't be a spot on earth that you couldn't hit in an hour.

  2. Re:Why the Army? on Army Contractor To Build A 1566 Xserve Cluster · · Score: 0

    You might have it with the spaceshipone idea. Imagine dropping guided bombs from orbit. Devastating supersonic bombs anywhere on earth in the time it takes to be pushed from orbit.

  3. Re:Yeah right. on Illinois Considers Taxing Custom Software · · Score: 0

    So we will replace a broken tax system with another system that, in the context of a single slashdot post, we have already defined an exemption for? Wouldn't take too long before the whole thing was as screwed up as the income tax. The taxes we pay, at all levels of government, in the United States will always be too high and too unfair for someone. Instead of wishing for a new system to fool around with, learn to use the system we have. Buy a house, give to charity, do all those things that exemptions are trying to get you to do.

  4. Re:True. That's why there already using it for tha on Self-Assembling Networks · · Score: 0

    Wouldn't this also be very similar to Sun's JINI technology?

  5. That explains.... on Is Comcast Intercepting Packets? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ...my 50% drop in bandwidth when Comcast switched off the @Home network.

  6. Re:AP mirror on Lawsuit Alleges That Palms Damage Motherboards · · Score: 1

    Urban legend.

  7. Re:It doesn't cost a dime to pay attention... on Fight Virus With Virus? · · Score: 1

    It's not the "good" admins causing the problem, it's all the "default" IIS installs at peoples' houses with no firewall between them and their cable modem.

    (By the use of "good" in describing a MS admin I only intend it as releative to other MS admins)

  8. Re:This has already happened on Fight Virus With Virus? · · Score: 1

    If you want to warn me of security holes in my system, send me an e-mail that doesn't contain a virus.

    Being windows servers, most of the addresses that are attacking me do not respond to root@[ip] or webmaster@\[ip]

    So what now?

  9. Re:Closing the Backdoor on Fight Virus With Virus? · · Score: 1
    Does anyone have any ideas in light of these problems?

    It seems to me that everyone has a problem with distributing another "worm" and damaging the infected system. Why not take this approch: First, write an apache module that would use the original exploit the gain access to any system that attacks the "defending server". Second, once the attacking system has been accessed simply disable the TCP/IP stack (no permanent damage). This would result in the attacking system being shut down until an administrator could repair the system (or even be made aware of the problem for that matter). And because the module would have to be installed on a server you would not have to deal with another worm running around unchecked.

  10. Re:the steady shift to "pay as you go" tv on HDTV Over IP · · Score: 1

    50 channels of TV & 1 x 512k data.

    You get cable on a copper pair? or DSL on coax?

  11. Re:nth digit of pi on Are The Digits of Pi Random? · · Score: 1

    I stand corrected. (But wasn't that fun to talk about?)

    Now just for fun, why would:
    11001 / 1111101000
    ...not be considered a valid conversion?

  12. Re:nth digit of pi on Are The Digits of Pi Random? · · Score: 1

    I do blieve one could convert any base to any other base... so you can't really say an algorithm only works for a particular base.