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  1. Re:Where is my tinfoil hat? on More Voting Shenanigans in Florida · · Score: 1

    This is hardly a tinfoil hat issue. I don't know about this particular incident, but there is an enormous amount of evidence that fraud can be and has been committed. Here is a link to a relevant wikipedia entry. Before anybody complains about the reliability of wikipedia, read all TFAs that are linked from that article.

  2. Re:no good solution for now on Will Solve Captcha for Money? · · Score: 2, Informative

    The spammers already figured out the solution to every kind of captcha. They set up a free porn website where you have to solve captchas to get the hawt pr0n. Since there are people in every culture that want porn, you'll have trouble making a cultural captcha to fight this.

  3. Re:Beyond Compare replacement? on Best Developer Tools for OS X · · Score: 2, Informative

    The OS X developer tools include a visual diff program called FileMerge. You can open it from the command line with 'opendiff file1 file2', or if you prefer to use the gui to open the files/directories just spotlight for FileMerge.

  4. Re:Better than Brittanica? on Interview Looks at How and Why Wikipedia Works · · Score: 1

    I don't think that your professors frown on using wikipedia as a primary source because it is somehow worse than Brittanica. Those same professors would penalize you for citing Brittanica. The point is that any encyclopedia article is just supposed to be a very high-level overview of the topic. Such an article is supposed to introduce the topic to an interested layman. That said, a Wikipedia article is a great place to start your research if you are an interested layman (or student). It will give you a nice overview, and, more importantly, a list of references on the topic.

  5. Re:Wikipedia already updated on MIT Hackers Appropriate Caltech Cannon · · Score: 2, Informative

    The warning was added on March 8, by 131.215.118.207...a caltech ip address. Either it was legit, or the MIT people had an inside man.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=House_Sy stem_at_the_California_Institute_of_Technology&dif f=prev&oldid=42804898

    $> whois 131.215.118.207
    [Querying whois.arin.net]
    [whois.arin.net]

    OrgName: California Institute of Technology
    OrgID: CIT-4
    Address: 1200 East California Boulevard
    Address: Information Technology Services
    Address: Mail Code 214-81
    City: Pasadena
    StateProv: CA
    PostalCode: 91125
    Country: US

    NetRange: 131.215.0.0 - 131.215.255.255
    CIDR: 131.215.0.0/16
    NetName: CALTECH-NET
    NetHandle: NET-131-215-0-0-1
    Parent: NET-131-0-0-0-0
    NetType: Direct Assignment
    NameServer: MERCUTIO.NI.CALTECH.EDU
    NameServer: TYBALT.CALTECH.EDU
    NameServer: NSX.LBL.GOV
    NameServer: TEPID.NI.CALTECH.EDU
    Comment:
    RegDate: 1989-01-19
    Updated: 1998-07-29

    RTechHandle: CI2-ORG-ARIN
    RTechName: Caltech Network Operations Center
    RTechPhone: +1-626-395-4602
    RTechEmail: noc@caltech.edu

    OrgTechHandle: CI2-ORG-ARIN
    OrgTechName: Caltech Network Operations Center
    OrgTechPhone: +1-626-395-4602
    OrgTechEmail: noc@caltech.edu

    # ARIN WHOIS database, last updated 2006-04-06 19:10
    # Enter ? for additional hints on searching ARIN's WHOIS database.

  6. Evolvable Hardware Not New on Evolutionary Computing Via FPGAs · · Score: 2, Informative

    Several people, including James Foster at the University of Idaho have been doing this kind of thing for a while. He got some really interesting results, including circuits evolved to take advantage of quantum effects and highly temperature dependant circuits. Actually, the gist of his work is that there are some severe limitations to this approach. There are references for papers on his web page.

  7. Giant Red Tomatoes on Slashback: Mods, Books, Checkmate · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm sorry but did you see that last movie. Giant Red Tomatoes would be a huge improvement. I think the petetion should be to replace Jar Jar with a Giant Red Tomato.

  8. Re:What about Vol. 5 / 6? on Knuth's Volume IV Preview Available Online · · Score: 2, Informative

    All of Knuth's future plans for the series are spelled out on his webpage.

  9. Galleries good enough? on RoboCup 2001 Underway · · Score: 2, Informative

    Don't know about video feeds, but the UW team has a page linking a few galleries and such.