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  1. Re:New /. icon for HP on Alpha's Going Going Gone · · Score: 1

    10? pretty big boobs for 10.

  2. Re:Lessig said it first on Trusted Computing · · Score: 1

    How long has one computer ever been useful for you? Five years? Ten? Good luck keeping that thing functional once everything from Intel/AMD is DRM-approved.

    Five or ten years is a long time. There might be some non-DRM competetion to Intel/AMD by then.

  3. How the press decides on what's legal on Universities Developing Internal, Controlled P2P System · · Score: 1
    Bridget Smith wrote:
    Vaught said the program is easily confused with similar ones like Kazaa and LimeWire, and is a completely different concept.

    LionShare will be a similar technology to those illegal peer-to-peer networks [...]
    Illegal P2P networks? What law is their against Gnutella? Bridget, you got some 'spaining to do...
  4. Re:Do universities actually need this? on Universities Developing Internal, Controlled P2P System · · Score: 1

    The problem with the question "do they need P2P" is that P2P is not one thing but many. There are P2P networks tailored for specfic requirements such as redundancy, anonymity, speed, etc.

    Why then need P2P would depend on what they are trying to do.

  5. Re:and for OSS software? on Lawsuit Against Microsoft Over Insecure Software · · Score: 1

    I go into the office and guess what's being forced down my throat?

    Yadda, yadda, I don't have to earn money, live, blah, blah. Only thing is the economy sucks now and I am running M$ crap at work because I'm too chickenshit to give up my stable, high-paying job.

  6. Re:JUST in the sake of fairness... on Microsoft Taking Over the BIOS · · Score: 1
    Well, actually, Micro$oft wouldn't exactly cure cancer, they'd put it into remission for two or three years. You'd have to purchase new and "improved" treatments each time it came out of remission, in order to live for a few more years.
    Truth is stranger than fiction. http://www.fda.gov/oashi/aids/expanded.html http://www.fda.gov/cder/rdmt/internetftap.htm
  7. Re:and for OSS software? on Lawsuit Against Microsoft Over Insecure Software · · Score: 1

    The restaurant analogy is weak because restaurants don't force the food down your throat the way MS forces 'doze onto almost all pre-assembled Pee Cees & laptops.

  8. OT: Online Poll about Dumping Microsoft on Microsoft Patents 'Phone-Home' Failure Reporting · · Score: 1
  9. ISC BIND 8 hack opens door to OpenNIC on Paul Vixie And David Maher On VeriSign Wildcarding · · Score: 1

    I just realized that if you can do

    zone "com" { type forward; forward first; forwarders { 204.152.184.76; }; };

    to make a BIND 8 server use the ISC public recursive servers for .com then you can use:

    zone "geek" { type forward; forward first; forwarders { 208.181.60.45; }; };

    to add the .geek zone

    http://www.opennic.geek/ now works for me while I'm using normal DNS for other TLDs.

  10. Re:Isabel Coverage Never Mentioned Global Warming on Ward Hunt Ice Shelf Breaks In Two · · Score: 1
  11. Isabel Coverage Never Mentioned Global Warming on Ward Hunt Ice Shelf Breaks In Two · · Score: 1
  12. Re:Unix client on Yahoo Shutting Out Third-Party IM Clients? · · Score: 2, Informative

    # pkg_add fbsd4.ymessenger.tgz
    pkg_add: could not find package gtk-1.2.3 !
    pkg_add: could not find package glib-1.2.3 !
    pkg_add: could not find package XFree86-3.3.6 !
    pkg_add: could not find package gdk-pixbuf-0.8.0 !
    pkg_add: could not find package gettext-0.11.1_1 !

    XFree86-3.3.6? Did Darell drop by to give them a hit before they rolled this package?

    The tarball has Sep 15 05:20 2003 datestamps in it.

  13. Re:The Abstract from PUBMED via the NLM gateway on Drowning in a Sea of Microwaves · · Score: 4, Informative

    The other abstract too.

    Permeability of the blood-brain barrier induced by 915 MHz electromagnetic radiation, continuous wave and modulated at 8, 16, 50, and 200 Hz.

    Salford LG, Brun A, Sturesson K, Eberhardt JL, Persson BR.
    Microsc Res Tech. 1994 Apr 15;27(6):535-42.

    Department of Neurosurgery, Lund University, Sweden.

    Biological effects of electromagnetic fields (EMF) on the blood-brain barrier (BBB) can be studied in sensitive and specific models. In a previous investigation of the permeability of the blood-brain barrier after exposure to the various EMF-components of proton magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), we found that the exposure to MRI induced leakage of Evans Blue labeled proteins normally not passing the BBB of rats [Salford et al. (1992), in: Resonance Phenomena in Biology, Oxford University Press, pp. 87-91]. In the present investigation we exposed male and female Fischer 344 rats in a transverse electromagnetic transmission line chamber to microwaves of 915 MHz as continuous wave (CW) and pulse-modulated with repetition rates of 8, 16, 50, and 200 s-1. The specific energy absorption rate (SAR) varied between 0.016 and 5 W/kg. The rats were not anesthetized during the 2-hour exposure. All animals were sacrificed by perfusion-fixation of the brains under chloral hydrate anesthesia about 1 hour after the exposure. The brains were perfused with saline for 3-4 minutes, and thereafter fixed in 4% formaldehyde for 5-6 minutes. Central coronal sections of the brains were dehydrated and embedded in paraffin and sectioned at 5 microns. Albumin and fibrinogen were demonstrated immunohistochemically. The results show albumin leakage in 5 of 62 of the controls and in 56 of 184 of the animals exposed to 915 MHz microwaves. Continuous wave resulted in 14 positive findings of 35, which differ significantly from the controls (P = 0.002).(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

    MeSH Terms:

    * Albumins/metabolism
    * Animal
    * Blood-Brain Barrier/*radiation effects
    * Brain/metabolism/radiation effects
    * Capillary Permeability/*radiation effects
    * *Electromagnetic Fields
    * Female
    * Fibrinogen/metabolism
    * Immunoenzyme Techniques
    * Male
    * Rats
    * Rats, Inbred F344
    * Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

    Substances:

    * 0 (Albumins)
    * 9001-32-5 (Fibrinogen)

    PMID: 8012056 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

    From PubMed

  14. The Abstract from PUBMED via the NLM gateway on Drowning in a Sea of Microwaves · · Score: 4, Informative

    Nerve cell damage in mammalian brain after exposure to microwaves from GSM mobile phones.

    Salford LG, Brun AE, Eberhardt JL, Malmgren L, Persson BR.
    Environ Health Perspect. 2003 Jun;111(7):881-3; discussion A408.

    Department of Neurosurgery, Lund University, The Rausing Laboratory and Lund University Hospital, Lund, Sweden. Leif.Salford@neurokir.lu.se

    The possible risks of radio-frequency electromagnetic fields for the human body is a growing concern for our society. We have previously shown that weak pulsed microwaves give rise to a significant leakage of albumin through the blood-brain barrier. In this study we investigated whether a pathologic leakage across the blood-brain barrier might be combined with damage to the neurons. Three groups each of eight rats were exposed for 2 hr to Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) mobile phone electromagnetic fields of different strengths. We found highly significant (p 0.002) evidence for neuronal damage in the cortex, hippocampus, and basal ganglia in the brains of exposed rats.
    PMID: 12782486 [PubMed - in process]

    From PubMed

  15. What about F5 BigIP and 3DNS? on Wind River To Stop Selling BSD/OS · · Score: 4, Interesting

    What about F5 BigIP? It used to run on NetBSD but they needed a commerical OS so they moved on. F5's 3DNS version 3.x ran on FreeBSD, but they migrated it to BSDi in version 4.0.

    I wonder if they will try to maintain BSD/OS themselves or migrate back?

  16. Re:d00d FreeDOS! on Woz OK's Apple I Resurrection · · Score: 1

    I guess you are right. They must have really hated MS-DOS. They had to force themselves to write every line of code. There was absolutely no choice. They could not have gone on living without those old DOS programs.

  17. and ReactOS too on Woz OK's Apple I Resurrection · · Score: 1

    http://www.reactos.com/

    And WINE and this list goes on...

  18. d00d FreeDOS! on Woz OK's Apple I Resurrection · · Score: 1
    Apple, whose following is so devoted that they would actually resurrect one of their old products out of sheer love for it. I don't see any followers of Microsoft doing the same
    If I close my eyes I don't see anything like that either.
  19. Re:Sic Transit Gloria Kazaa on Google Removes Kazaa Links, Keeps Sponsored Links · · Score: 1
    is the only reason that Slashers seem to have no problem with walking all over someone elses copyright because it's a BIG corporation?
    Actually it's a cartel of big corporations who fail to deliver a quality product at a reasonable price.
  20. Consider The NY Time's Liability on Adrian Lamo Charged With Hacking · · Score: 1

    What about the NY Time's liability? They can't just let people access their system against their will knowingly without doing damage to themselves.

    Suppose another hacker came along and was not a white hat and there was damage? The NY Times would be asked if they defend their site against known intruders.

  21. Is Mandrake Light a GPL Violation? on Finally A Major-Brand Desktop With Linux, Not Windows · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Article says:
    I believe that Mandrake Light got its name from the fact that the source code and certain commercial binaries which are normally part of a retail Mandrake installation are not included
    According to the GPL:

    3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it, under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following:
    a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,

    b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,

    Seems that a) was not done. Can anyone confirm if b) is?
  22. God Does Not Play Nice With The Universe on Current Thoughts in String Theory · · Score: 1

    God Does Not Play The Trombone Either.

    Because I said so.

  23. Marshall Forgot the Prison-Industrial Factor on Distribution of Wealth in a Robot-Driven World · · Score: 1

    So in the future almost everyone will be in a robot-controlled prison.

    Google search for 'prison industrial'

  24. Where there really no warnings about this? on Osirusoft Blacklists The World · · Score: 1

    I'm trying to find out if any warnings were sent out. I look though the google USENET archive and only see some indications that there we techinical problems with osirusoft.

    If anyone can offer a pointer to a warning message about the impending doom of osirusoft I would appreciate seeing it.

  25. Re:Question for BSD folks on Native Java JDK 1.3.1 Support For FreeBSD · · Score: 2, Informative