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  1. Re:I'll take the survey in a bit, but... on How Long Do You Want Digital Media To Last? · · Score: 1

    labels? file timestamps? scratches? dust? metainfo? c'mon!

  2. Re:I'll take the survey in a bit, but... on How Long Do You Want Digital Media To Last? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You can always upgrade/copy/replace your digital media as opposed to regular paper files. Say your DVD's have a life of 20years, well, in 15 years you can copy a bunch DVD's into the new media and keep upgrading constantly.

  3. Re:Just hardware, no apple OS. on Torvalds Switches to a Mac · · Score: 2, Informative

    FYI:
    $ man locate

    ...DESCRIPTION
    Secure Locate provides a secure way to index and quickly search for files on your system. It uses
    incremental encoding just like GNU locate to compress its database to make searching faster, but it will
    also store file permissions and ownership so that users will not see files they do not have access to.

    This manual page documents the GNU version of slocate. slocate Enables system users to search entire
    filesystems without displaying unauthorized files.

  4. Re:GUT on World's First Physics Processing Unit · · Score: 1

    FYI: It is called overrated.

  5. Re:DOJhood! on Bill Gates to Receive Honorary UK Knighthood · · Score: 1

    FYI: The British Empire is not the EU nor all of its countries are part of it.

  6. Re:Pointless policy at work? on Cell Phone On A Chip · · Score: 1

    Tin Whiskers have shut down many satellites.

    A failure mode is re-emerging that has been responsible for the loss of billions of dollars worth of satellites, missiles and other equipment - electrically conductive 'tin whiskers'. Tin whiskers can develop under typical operating conditions on any product type that uses lead-free pure tin coatings.

    http://www.calce.umd.edu/lead-free/tin-whiskers

  7. How much on Sleep Less, Eat More? · · Score: 1

    How many calories would be equivalent if you sleep one more hour every day?

  8. Re:without lawyers putting doctors out of business on Medical Care Gets Outsourced Too · · Score: 1

    Don't put the blame on the doctors but in the bad habits as a culture.

    A culture whereas the person prefers to ride the car to the grocery store two blocks from home and eat a 2,000 kcal dinner is likely to have a lower expectancy of life than those who follow a healthy style of living.

  9. Re:What about pollution? on Jet Engine on a Chip · · Score: 1

    Less pollution than that of a cigarrete for sure. Probably they should design a tobacco based jet engine, hehe.

  10. Re:Business Purposes on Hannu H. Kari Gives The Internet 2 More Years · · Score: 1

    I run a website that sells ~ $500k a month of airtime and cellphone accesories, and growing steadily. Internet is just fine for doing business. Maybe what you need is a good business plan and stop using the internet "doom" as a scape goat for any .com that goes bankrupt

  11. Re:What about pollution? on Jet Engine on a Chip · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'd bet it is neglectible compared to the pollution caused by regular alkaline batteries that end up in the dumpyard.

    At most the pollutants would be CO2 and some other carbon based compounds.

  12. Re:Asterisk? Linux? I'm so confused! on Asterisk Open Source PBX 1.0 Release · · Score: 1

    Asterisk != Astérix
    DUH!

  13. Re:Marketing hype? No, unfortunate reality. on Cringely: MS To Hurt Linux Via USB Enhancements · · Score: 1

    Wait for a chinese MOBO that will enable/disable the DRM feature.

    That's marketing, and that enable/disable feature is something A LOT of people would be willing to pay for.

  14. Here's the list on Top 25 Censored Media Stories of 2003-2004 · · Score: 5, Informative

    #1: Wealth Inequality in 21st Century Threatens Economy and Democracy
    #2: Ashcroft vs. the Human Rights Law that Hold Corporations Accountable
    #3: Bush Administration Censors Science
    #4: High Levels of Uranium Found in Troops and Civilians
    #5: The Wholesale Giveaway of Our Natural Resources
    #6: The Sale of Electoral Politics
    #7: Conservative Organization Drives Judicial Appointments
    #8: Cheney's Energy Task Force and The Energy Policy
    #9: Widow Brings RICO Case Against U.S. government for 9/11
    #10: New Nuke Plants: Taxpayers Support, Industry Profits
    #11: The Media Can Legally Lie
    #12: The Destabilization of Haiti
    #13: Schwarzenegger Met with Enron's Ken Lay Years Before the California Recall
    #14: New Bill Threatens Intellectual Freedom in Area Studies
    #15: U.S. Develops Lethal New Viruses
    #16: Law Enforcement Agencies Spy on Innocent Citizens
    #17: U.S. Government Represses Labor Unions in Iraq in Quest for Business Privatization
    #18: Media and Government Ignore Dwindling Oil Supplies
    #19: Global Food Cartel Fast Becoming hte World's Supermarket
    #20: Extreme Weather Prompts New Warning from UN
    #21: Forcing a World Market for GMOs
    #22: Censoring Iraq
    #23: Brazil Holds Back in FTAA Talks, But Provides Little Comfort for the Poor of South America
    #24: Reinstating the Draft
    #25: Wal-Mart Brings Inequality and Low Prices to the World

  15. Re:Why does he stress himself? on Fabian Pascal Reacts · · Score: 5, Funny

    Can you mod troll/flamebait a whole article?

  16. Re:Damn! on Hurricane Threatens Shuttle Program · · Score: 1

    Government is only looking for an excuse to trash the space program, terrorist, program short of budget, maintenance coste.. all are excuses that would to, but a hurricane that "destroys" or renders the current infrastructure unuseable would do better.

  17. Re:The Chinese Already Dominate on Microsoft Codec Required For Blu-Ray Players · · Score: 1

    Yes, that's the reason why you can choose to purchase either a Sony player or a player with a brand you won't remember in your life, but kicks ass because has all the features of your sony player, plus all "illegal" unlocks such as region free, blue ray decoding without royalties, etc. The're built in the same factories by the same people. C'mon, just dare to dissasemble your equipment and you will realize that they're the same or pretty much alike.

  18. Re:MSFT media domination begins? on Microsoft Codec Required For Blu-Ray Players · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It'll be the same history of DVD's, at first you will need a highend expensive player, and later you'll be able to purchase a fully functional chinese player for a fraction of the price. A guy will hack the codec, you will see a perl perl script in a TShirt, M$ will complain, RIIA will complain. And at the end nobody would care in the rest of the world except in the US.

  19. Re:mmmm cores on Dual Caches for Dual-core Chips · · Score: 1

    What would be the difference between a 32bit vs a 64bit MS Windows OS??? I think it's all hype

    As end user I already have partitions as large as several TB's, files as big as DVD's, gigabytes of RAM, ultra fast internal buses, high speed network, high speed hard drives. All that to play DoomIII, type in Word, browse the internet, play music....

    I only see a 64bit windows based operating system being used as a server OS, and in that case, i certainly woudn't be using windows, i'd be using sparc/solaris or any other unix flavor.

    Maybe in 10 years when we get to play DoomIV and a holographic screen would be needed I could understand using 64bit operating systems for end users.

    IMHO.

  20. Re:Different From The Old Days on Classroom Bullies On The Internet · · Score: 5, Interesting

    While in highschool back in 1995 a kid was spoofing my account and abusing some root exploits, it was a VT100 console, by that time every computer at the lab had an static IP address that matched a number written on sticker in the screen. Got his IP address, took a look at who was at the computer, and literaly I walk towards him, grabbed him from the neck and kicked his ass out of the lab.

    I was prohibited to enter the lab for the rest of the term, but he was kicked out of school.

  21. Re:Misleading Graph on SCO Says 'Linux Doesn't Exist' · · Score: 1

    It's a log graph. See the linear and is not that big of a "dip"

  22. Re:Easy on Another Format War: DVD -R9 v. +R9 · · Score: 1

    You can get a liteon combo drive (DVD+-R,RW,+DVD9) for $80. Not that expensive anymore.

  23. Words from a programmer rather than a end user on Why is Java Considered Un-Cool? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This is why I really hate Java - Object casting and marshaling - Obnoxious try and catch structures for *EVERYTHING* - Int's can't evaluate to boolean - Native versus object typed numbers - Error, not warnings, on loss of precision - Lack of unsigned bytes - StackTrace mumbo jumbo - Compiler output is sometimes inacurate - CLASSPATH - Many others but these came top of my head

  24. Tattoo virus on Hydan: Steganography in Executables · · Score: 1

    How about a virus that does not harm to your exe files, but only signs them and counts how many times they have been signed.

  25. Oh really? on Hydan: Steganography in Executables · · Score: 1

    All stenographic methods that I've heard of leave some signs of tampering. For instance, the common method of hiding information in an image file by fiddling with the least signifigant bits in the RPG values is completely undetectable to the eye, however a statistical analysis of those low bits will reveal an unnatural amount of randomness. Really this is unavoidable since most any innocent looking data is going to have some natural order to it.