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  1. Funny units often originate in the Marketing Dep. on Ferroelectric Storage Density Tops 20KDVDs/Cubit^2 · · Score: 1

    In marketing, bigger is better. Any unit which produces higher numbers therefore is better.

    That's why we'll be using horsepowers and not kilowatts for car engines forever.

    This also explains the use of cubic inches in this text.

  2. Data size != value on A Viable System for Micropayments? · · Score: 2

    Sometimes 1kByte of data will save your life (e.g. weather forecast before going to sea)

    The author seems to miss this point. Data value has nothing to do with data size.

    Another example: A measurement of some sort may cost plenty of $$$'s to take and still be very useful (=valueable).

  3. +1 funny on Whisper Heard From Pioneer 10 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    too bad I used up my mod points...

  4. Wrong approach on Finding Decent Online HotSpot Maps for Europe? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The problem of the web today:

    Everyone starts a new page instead of helping out with one of the existing ones!

    Yes, it takes some effort to find the existing ones. But starting yet another small incomplete site is just plain wrong and unfriendly to new users.

  5. Re:Helping this idea grow takes... WORK on Finding Decent Online HotSpot Maps for Europe? · · Score: 2

    By the way, how
    about this site?

  6. Helping this idea grow takes... WORK on Finding Decent Online HotSpot Maps for Europe? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Well, why don't you join in and help the best one?

    You want it to be free (gratis) which is only possible if you help for free.

    You get what you work for.

    By the way, maps are useless. Ranges are around 25-100 meters which means that you'll need very detailed (that is very expensive) maps.

    Address/zip code searches would be much better and as a side-effect easy to implement.

  7. No encryption? No SSIDs to fiddle with? on Wi-Fi Spreading Fast But Lacks Profits · · Score: 2

    Are all your networks set up in Ad-Hoc mode without encryption?

    They all have the same SSID?

    Or do you have (that is maintain) a lot of profiles, you can switch between?

  8. In Denmark and Norway on Getting Started In Linux · · Score: 2

    you should try the site:

    http://www.sslug.dk

    which is a goldmine of nicely arranged information about Linux.

    Well, it't in Danish which is very similar to the "Bokmål" of Norway.

  9. Re:Bright future for Open Source E-mail clients on Jupiter Forecasts 50% Increase In Spam · · Score: 1

    Are you refering to the Outlook Rules-Wizard (Organize->Rules Wizard)?

    I find it to be less useful than Naive Bayes filtering.

    The "junk E-mail sender" list is useless since the spam has fake "from" adresses that change all the time.

    And the word-filters? I can't edit them myself! They should be downloaded from a website - a feature which is broken (at least here i Denmark) because the URL is a dead link.

    I have no other options for E-mail than Outlook at work, so I would really like to know what kind of clever filter you are talking about.

  10. Re:ISPs should fight back on Jupiter Forecasts 50% Increase In Spam · · Score: 1

    Well, they do. Some cut off large subnets in Brazil and asia, when the operators of those nets don't respond to abuse reports.

    Boring and labor-intensive method, but it works.

  11. Bright future for Open Source E-mail clients on Jupiter Forecasts 50% Increase In Spam · · Score: 5, Interesting

    'cause they include clever spam filters.

    I'm trying out POPfile (Naive Bayes text classifier and a POP3 proxy) these days, it's looking good so far.

  12. Cars or Monorail-trains? Why not combine? on Seattle Monorail & California High Speed Rail Move Forward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Well, this system combines the advantages of trains with the flexibility of cars.

    Seems to be a great idea to me - I'm not related to the inventor, "Jensen" is just a very common name in Denmark.

  13. RTFM - here it is. on Embedded Linux Wi-Fi Mesh Router On Sale · · Score: 2

    It is a MS Word document, but this answers my own questions

  14. Re:What's in it for me? on Embedded Linux Wi-Fi Mesh Router On Sale · · Score: 1

    Thank you - I've been looking for that info. Now, where did you find it?

    The FAQ files didn't mention those facts (or I just could not find it).

  15. Re:Heh heh heh on Embedded Linux Wi-Fi Mesh Router On Sale · · Score: 2

    Mozilla users can turn those off. Neat!

  16. Re:What's in it for me? on Embedded Linux Wi-Fi Mesh Router On Sale · · Score: 2

    Yes, I've got a private IP space on my side of the ADSL router, I've got. And since the router has a public IP on the other side, it's useful.

    This new parallel Internet on the other hand, it's got no public routeable IP numbers, right? Hence it must forever stay a parallel network.

    Won't this new network stay pretty useless until content providers start making contents available on the new network?

    Btw, dont talk about drugs as if using them was normal. It's not.

  17. What's in it for me? on Embedded Linux Wi-Fi Mesh Router On Sale · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It seems to be a parallel Internet on the air.

    IP range 1.x.y.z and no routing to/from the "old" internet.

    Can any gurus out there tell me about possible uses for this?

    Can I E-mail anyone on the old Internet from this new user-driven, no-subnet, free net?

  18. Heard about the EU INFOSOC directive? on ffmpeg: Free Software's WMA decoder · · Score: 2

    The EU is in the process of giving in to the mega--multi-euro film&music industry as well.

    INFOSOC in English

    That'll be the end of legal reverse engineering in the EU as well.

  19. PHP safe mode is what we use on Sites Rejecting Apache 2? · · Score: 2

    And we have trouble: A php script creating a (temporary) file will not be able to use it, because it will be owned by the Apache server, not the owner of the PHP script.

    This is not fixed in Apache 2, AFAIK.

  20. One example of Open-Source hardware is here on The Need for Open Hardware · · Score: 2
    At least one company offering open-source hardware.


    No, I don't work for them or have any other connection to them.

  21. Did you forget the Linux Counter? on Where's GNU/Linux Usage Headed? · · Score: 2, Informative

    This site has much more reliable data

    Best regards from Linux user #127040...

  22. Re:Firewall = DMCA violation? on Sony Proudly Rolls Out Spyware/Restrictions System · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That's silly.

    The DRM will need the feedback to function.

    So... blocking the feedback in the firewall will just make it impossible for you to use the music/film/whatever you "own".

  23. Re:already a law in US, sort of on Hack Your Phone, Go to Jail · · Score: 1

    No it isn't.

    VIN's are not tranmitted to anyone all the time.

    IMEIs are - and so are the SIM card data. The SIM card is what you can use to track the user, not the IMEI. It's strictly for theft protection.

  24. Let's set it straight: SIM cards and IMEIs are ... on Hack Your Phone, Go to Jail · · Score: 1

    IMEI's identyfy the particular phone.

    SIM cards indentify the particular user.

    All the government-big-brother BS is just not valid. Tracking people is done by tracking SIM cards. No one cares what phone a terrorist is using, they care what SIM card he is using.

    IMEIs have one use: Preventing theft. The person in possession of a phone gains nothing, nada, zero (you get it) by changing the IMEI unless he is a phone thief.

  25. It's the other way around on Hack Your Phone, Go to Jail · · Score: 1

    It's not about potential bad uses! It's about one (1) very real bad use.

    Changing the IMEI number is bad. It is only useful for thieves. Period.

    The user gains NOTHING by changing the IMEI, since he is identifying himself by the SIM card mounted in the phone at the moment he is using it. All user access, the number the phone reacts to, network info etc. is loaded into the SIM card, not the IMEI number.

    The phone is identifying itself to the phone company and they check (they should!) in the register to see if the phone is stolen or not. They would rather not provide this service and some do not, mainly in poor countries where my stolen phone is most likely in use right now.

    This government big-brother thing you are trying to pull here is not valid. SIM card is what they track, not IMEI numbers.