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  1. Re:Hot CheerLeaders on Tech Team Traditions? · · Score: 1

    I wish I hadn't used my last mod point this morning, this is one of the funniest things I have read on Slashdot in a while.

  2. Re:Reason #1 That I don't like SPF on IETF Decides On SPF / Sender-ID issue · · Score: 1

    No it doesn't, just import the forwarding providers Sender ID record into your own and authorize them to send email for your domain. If you mean that it breaks random on the road forwarding through any ISP's email gateway, then yes it does, because that kind of forwarding SHOULD be broken.

  3. Re:It's the Klingons! on Mysterious Force Affects Pioneer 10 & 11 Probes · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You say the writer screwed up the calculation, I say he conveniently forgot to do the math and worked in 4 days based on his storyboard timeline. Sure they could imply dead days but that makes the action seem much more spread out which can kill the pacing and energy of a show.

  4. Re:SPF is NOT about... on IETF Decides On SPF / Sender-ID issue · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yes, but this does change the method finding the origionator of spam and other annoying messages. It allows an ISP to lock down a compromised system after it sends a very large volume of emails through their gateway, it allows black holes to target ip's used by spammers more efficiently, and it allows email gateways to throw away virus emails which came directly from infected system which are obviously not authorized to send for the myriad of spoofed addresses they have classically used. It is just a tool in the fight against spam and viruses, but it is a fairly powerfull first step in patching SMTP into a more trustworthy system.

  5. Re: Well....From the TFA- on Mushroom Cloud Reported Over North Korea · · Score: 1

    Not bloody likely for WWII, check out this munitions ouput chart. The US dwarfs everyone else, and in fact outproduces everyone else combined during the last three years of the war! I can't find concrete numbers for WWI, but the US certainly outproduced the rest of the allies during the last two years of the war. It is precisely because of the US industrial machine that Germany developed the U-boats, they figured that could choak off the flow of material support from the US and thus insure that they were fighting only a single industrial power (Russia).

  6. Re: Well....From the TFA- on Mushroom Cloud Reported Over North Korea · · Score: 1

    Yes, 51% of the world's manufacturing capacity at the start of the war (much more after factories started getting destroyed or dismantled(Russian)) was just A factor. More like it was THE factor. The Russians payed with lives, but without the ability to outproduce the germans the Russians would have just been cannon fodder. Even China can't send men as bullet sponges for very long against modern arms.

  7. Re:Not Scrapped Yet... on New Overtime Rules Have Short Shelf Life · · Score: 1

    I've worked several hourly IT jobs. One paid over $50K/year in the midwest with some light overtime. Currently I work as a conslutant so overtime is nothing more than extra billable. Since I make 1/3rd of my billable in commision it doesn't make sense for me to kill myself in overtime unless I really need the $ for some reason. I have never worked salary for a company where I didn't have a stake and never will, it's just asking to get screwed over by a boss who sees your overtime as free labor.

  8. Re:Where's the problem here? on University Bans Wireless Access Points · · Score: 1

    I guess you missed the KA case involving the airport authority and the airlines? Well if you did the FCC ruled that a landlord can NOT force a tennant to use their wireless network nor prevent the tennant from setting up their own legal network, regardless of contract terms. Besides the university isn't even the freaking landlord here, they are a third party with an unlicensed wireless network installed on the premises, part of using unlicensed spectrum is the REQUIREMENT to accept incidental interference and live with it. The university is using a bogus contract (in this case the student code of conduct) term to lessen the burden placed upon them by their choice of spectrum in violation of federal law. They WILL lose if anyone cares to chanllenge them.

  9. Re:Where's the problem here? on University Bans Wireless Access Points · · Score: 1

    You miss the point, the university CAN'T legally regulate the use of these devices. The FCC has the sole right and responsibility to regulate wireless communications. The university can't regulate use of the 2.4GHz spectrum for the exact same reason that apartment owners and condo associations can't legally block you from installing a DBS dish smaller than 1m on a property which is for your exclusive use. Should this ever go to trial the university will be smacked down.

  10. Re:This is only the testing phase... on Lexmark Recalls 40,000 Laser Printers · · Score: 1

    Exactly. And since all origional works are defacto copyrighted in all Bern signitories this is a feature not a bug!

  11. Re:Motion on Linear Video Editing Software for Mac? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Nope, but it looks damn cool. Motion is basically a realtime effects plugin which means it shows changes to the effect in realtime instead of needing to render and blend it with the source on disk. What the poster is looking for is realtime keying as many people have pointed out.

  12. Re:How much? on Internet2 Speed Record Broken · · Score: 1

    Ah, but you have a flaw in your logic, you have assumed that one picture equals one orgasm. From my "research" that is almost never the case. In fact to get real numbers you would have to do a study to determine the average number of pictures and the average number of short movies it takes for the average consumer to view before achieving orgasm. Then you could calculate the orgasms per byte (and the relative densities thereof) and thus derive your orgasms per second given the network speed. The research is already being carried out all over the internet, we just need some way to record the data and tabulate the results, perhaps there is a use for spyware afterall =)

  13. Re:This sounds great! on Internet2 Speed Record Broken · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ERROR: Order of magnitude problem
    With a transfer rate of 60 MB/sec, the Ultrium 460 is the ideal choice for enterprise-class data protection needs. linky

    So, real numbers are max 1.2GB/s or 12Gb/s for the L700, not bad, but not that much faster than this transfer. And with the tapes you still have to transport them to the destination to make the comparison fair.

  14. Re:Charges? on Cellphones Usable on Airplanes in 2006? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    2. I would think that it would.

    This will be a tough technical requirement, the hardware will have to be quad band, tri standard (GSM, CDMA, UMTS) and capable of talking to the ground stations of all of the providers. All of that and fit into probably no more than one airplane rack (about 28U I believe). That's a tall order!

  15. Re:Verizon is developer-unfriendly on Verizon Crippled Bluetooth Features in Motorola V710 · · Score: 1

    I got my T720 cable for $5, and with the Motorolla depot software being available online I can do ANYTHING with my phone. I can replace the startup and shutdown graphics, upload J2ME games, unlock security codes, etc. Very cool stuff. I imagine that this phone can be loaded with new firmware through PST Phone programmer if someone gets a non-crippled version and uploads a firmware dump.

  16. Re:Experienced advice on UPS Hacking in Hurricane Season? · · Score: 1

    Diesel is more stable than gasoline so long term storage is a lot less of a problem (especially special grades of offroad diesel).

  17. Re:Experienced advice on UPS Hacking in Hurricane Season? · · Score: 1

    Many places use natural gas because it is zero maintenance. Natural gas doesn't need to be checked every couple years like offroad diesel, it doesn't need to be trucked in during an extended power outage, etc. And unless you live in an earthquake zone the chances of it being disrupted are nill. Another cool generator type I saw at a large financial institution in California was a natural gas powered turbine, basically it was a smaller version of a natural gas power plant.

  18. Re:How, indeed! on A Grep-like Utility That Works on More than Text? · · Score: 1

    Yeah except MS has had this in FindFast from Office 97 on and the Microsoft Indexing Service since Windows 2000 came out. It doesn't work terribly well out of the box (idle detection sucks) but if you put a little effort into it Indexing Service really rocks, especially in an AD environment where you can perform a search across servers.

  19. Re:Nuclear energy works! on China Goes Nuclear · · Score: 2, Informative

    Old school plants were built NEAR rivers because the river provided a thermal sink. Environmentalists (correctly) complained that much damage was being done to aquatic life by in influx of 80+ degree water into cool rivers. So all American plants (and most plants worldwide) were converted to continuous loop designs where an isolated, snaking series of pipes was used to cool the water, kind of a reverse heat pump. France on the otherhand built the reactor spanning the river, so the support columns could be undercut by the river and a structural collapse would place the plant and contents into the river.

  20. Re:Nuclear energy works! on China Goes Nuclear · · Score: 1, Insightful

    France is NOT a shining example of how to do nuclear power. They freaking built a plant OVER a river for christs sake, talk about stupidity! Canada on the other hand has a damn good record and until the pebble bed came about the CANDU design was by far the safest in the world.

  21. Re:Flaw fixed? on Stronger Encryption for Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    Cisco LEAP fixed that flaw a long time ago by using per user dynamic WEP keys, so does WPA 1 and 802.1x. Hell WPA provides for per packet keys if the hardware can do it, so cracking the WEP is basically impossible and superfelous. Btw 802.1x is not specific to the 802.11 suite, it can be used on 802.3 wired ethernet as well (hell it can be applied to just about any medium).

  22. Re:Hmm on Stronger Encryption for Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    Yes, Yes I do. I WANT the default to be secure. I want them to block outgoing port 25 traffic except when asked by a customer with a listed SMTP server. I WANT them to setup WEP at a minimum, and preferably WPA by default. People who know well enough to turn off the security features will do so when they feal it is apropriate and the great unwashed masses will be protected from their ignorance. It's the same reason I applaud Microsoft for turning off almost all services by default in Server 2003, and turning on the firewall by default in XP SP2. If there are stupid technical glitches with an implementation then fix it and support your clients, that is afterall what you are paid to do. The spam problem is one rooted in default permissiveness and trust, we don't need more similar problems.

  23. Re:upgrades to old equipment on Stronger Encryption for Wi-Fi · · Score: 2, Insightful

    uh, is the hardware capable of doing multiple AES-128 conversations in real time with changing keys all without an ASIC? I doubt it. So new hardware will almost assuradly be needed.

  24. Re:Nothing wrong with this... on Searching For Trouble With Google · · Score: 1

    It involves a hell of a lot more than just reproduction and surviving to achieve it. Long term survival rates and population densities among primitive hominids particularly and long maturing species in general often corelates strongly with survival of grandparents. This makes sense because a lot of information necessary for survival is carried by the older more experienced members of the species. For instance herd survival of African elephants where the matriarch is killed is reduced significantly. This is because the Matriarch will remember the wattering hole that the herd used 30+ years ago when the last great drought came. Without access to that information some or all of the herd dies during a particularly bad drought year. This shows where basic biology as taught in high school falls far short of modeling reality, just as high school economics does.

  25. Re:Educate me. on NX - A Revolution In Network Computing? · · Score: 1

    They generally have a small wall wart that plugs into the card on the outside.