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  1. Re:what's the big deal? on Forbes '30 Under 30' Conference Website Exposed Attendees' Personal Information (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes give me Karlie Kloss's details !

  2. telnet client is fine to test SMTP, HTTP or any clear text protocol.
    What is bad is "telnetd", the remote access service allowing remote administration, with everything in cleartext, usually listening on port 23.

  3. Re:High court of Paris? on Google and Bing Have No Obligation To Censor Searches For Torrents (betanews.com) · · Score: 2

    What is this "high court of Paris"? There is no court named like that in France. Is it Tribunal de Grande Instance de Paris? or Cour d'Appel de Paris? Or even Cour de Cassation, which is french supreme court?

    See the NextImpact article (French) : it is the "tribunal de grande instance de Paris".

    As it lost, the SNEP has to pay €10,000 to Microsoft and as much to Google.

  4. Re:Future? on Mathematician: Is Our Universe a Simulation? · · Score: 1

    According to this theory, some highly advanced computer programmer of the future has devised this simulation, and we are unknowingly part of it.

    Wouldn't he have to be a computer programmer of the present, if he wrote this simulation and we're in it RIGHT NOW?

    -jcr

    It is a computer programmer of the future, but his software licence expired, so he had to change backwards the date of his computer to continue using it.

  5. that's nothing ! on UK Government To Monitor All Internet Use · · Score: 1

    As would say Topper in a Dilbert strip : "That's nothing".

    Here in France, to protect the Artists, with the HADOPI law, some people like mediasentry will give IP addresses of people suspected to have done P2P to the HADOPI (Haute Autorité pour la diffusion des oeuvres et la protection des droits sur Internet).
    Then the HADOPI will ask ISPs to send you an email, it happends again, a "real" mail, and if it happens again your connection will be suspended (but it you have an 12 month contract with your ISP, you'll continue to pay).

    You will be guilty by default.

    The only way out is to put a spying software that forbids you some sites (list not published) that has to be continuously running and communicating with the HADOPI servers to prove it's running.

    Software editors will publish these programs that will have an HADOPI agreement, but will not be forced to be open source, or even be interoperating. We won't know what they'll do...

    With theses programs, there will be no need to ask the ISPs which website we have visited.

  6. Re:I miss my graphing calculator on Flash Drives On a Calculator · · Score: 1
    Real nerds use HPs!
    I no longer use my real HP49GX, but I use an emulator on Windows (Emu48) and on my Palm TX (Power48). Both are way better than the integrated ones, even for simple calculations.
  7. Re:I suggest on Experts Suggest Replacing Definition of Kilogram · · Score: 1
    I live in a part of the world where meat and cheese is often priced per 100/grams (but nobody says decagram here).

    If you meant per hundred grams, you should have used the hectogram (1 hg = 100g) instead of the decagram. (1 dag = 10g)

  8. Re:International? on Anti-P2P Law Looms over the Horizon · · Score: 1, Troll

    We're all living in Amerika
    Amerika ist wunderbar.

  9. Re:Will they actually activate it? on Verizon Crippled Bluetooth Features in Motorola V710 · · Score: 1
    So go buy the phone from somebody else and pay full retail price for it and then have it activated for your Verizon account.
    Have you tried this? Which major carriers do and do not support activating a phone not purchased from the carrier?

    Here (in France), we only have 3 real mobile carriers : Orange, SFR, Bouygues Telecom (some virtual - using one of the 3's infrastructure- are coming soon), but you can use any "not declared stolen" phone on those networks : a sold unlocked Nokia, or an originally locked one (bought from a carrier, but after 6 month of subscription you can ask them to unlock it for free) ...

    You have nothing to do/ask to activate your phone, just put your SIM card in it and switch it on.

  10. Re:PostgreSQL? on HP Announces Support For MySQL, JBoss · · Score: 1
    where i live there come only two of them at your door


    You're right : Always 2 they are : a master and an apprentice !
  11. Re:Money for who to the what? on Apple Sued in France for iPod Music Royalties · · Score: 1
    Sacem and some of its foreign counterparts collects money from radios (and every public places which plays some music : restaurants, shops) and gives the majority of it to the authors and composers (sorry I'm not sure for this last word : the people who write the music).

    They give it back according to statistics : the people who composed a song you hear 30times/day on the radio gets more than the underground ones.

    They also collect the money for the international songwriters (like the great american ones). :
    La Sacem protege toutes les oeuvres musicales, qu'elles soient francaises ou etrangeres, a l'exception des oeuvres tombees dans le domaine public (70 ans apres le deces de l'auteur et du compositeur).

    approximative translation:
    The SACEM protects all musical works, be they French or foreign, except for the works fallen into the public domain (70 years after the death of the author and the composer).
    From their website (in French)
    The SACEM not being a commercial company, it does not make a benefit. After deduction of the cost of management, 84,9 % of the perceived sums are redistributed with the authors, composers and editors of French and foreign music.

    By the way it's not a tax, it's a "redevance" (royalty ?), a friend of mine told me, whose wife works for the ministry of "economy", the one in charge of taxes, customs ..., which is different here in France, when I buy the DVD+/-R(W) or CDR in UK, or Germany :
    * a tax (taxe in French) when they are delivered, the customs (douanes) can ask me to pay it, it's the same when I buy a camera in Asia ...)
    * a royalty (redevance in French) they can't.
  12. Re:Salute! on Ctrl-Alt-Del Inventor To Retire From IBM · · Score: 2, Informative
    in case noone already wrote it :

    in /etc/inittab
    # Trap CTRL-ALT-DELETE
    # ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t3 -r now
    ca::ctrlaltdel:/bin/echo "reboot only from a shell"
  13. Re:Nifty on Free, Open Source OS For TI Calculators · · Score: 1
    $150 for a calculator? I wish they would port something like Mathcad or Mathematica to Pocket PC. I'm sick of seeing these ugly low resolution screens on calculators with slow CPU's, limited memory, etc. It's time to move beyond 1990's technology for calculators
    I thought it wasn't expensive enough so I I now use an HP48s/g(x) emulator on my Zire 71 ;-)
  14. Re:Developers on The Rise and Rise of IT Administrators · · Score: 1
    In this case, as I recall, they were just sized wrongly for the size of the database because no-one bothered to do a proper analysis.

    So the developper, the users and the DBA+SA should have worked together since the beginning to define the volume needed depending on the number of transactions done every hour/minute.

    Just asking for more disk space is not a good solution, because when the next peek comes, the applications will get stuck, some new disks will be required ...

  15. Re:Developers on The Rise and Rise of IT Administrators · · Score: 1
    Like when the production database running your call-centre stops because it has run out of log space. I tell the SA that we need more disk space immediately. He says he has to look into it, blah blah blah.

    Either you need logrotate (to keep some old logs,while having them compressed) or you need to look at it to view if something caused some excess logging (something that could be written or found by reading the logs).

    If you never look into your logs, maybe you don't need them, so you don't need disks ...

  16. Re:France on Dilbert Readers Rat Out Some Weasels · · Score: 1
    I didn't vote, but even through I don't like the french because they are weasels too (Nuclear testing in the sea)

    Before Algeria's independance, the French made their firtst tests in the Algerian desert (some in the air, some underground).

    Then they started in the Pacific as the American did (remember Bikini ?). The last tests (and at least all all made in the 80's) you heard about 1995-1996 were made underground (though some experts found some leaks), not DIRECTLY IN the sea.

    On this page (greenpeace archive), you'll see it :
    1960 - 1966 17 tests conducted in Algeria, including 4 atmospheric and 13 underground. ...
    1966 - 1992 175 tests detected at the Pacific test site, including 44 atmospheric tests (39 at Moruroa, 5 over Fangataufa) and 131 underground (123 at Moruroa, 8 at Fangataufa). Some low- yield tests may not have been detected by seismic monitoring however; unconfirmed military sources have put the total at more than 200.
    The last ones (1995-1996) were made unbderground .
  17. Re:Not a good way to educate on Apple's School Days are Numbered · · Score: 1
    If they achieve this, they will be teaching kids to conform more, and don't exercise individual choice so much.
    Come on!
    Yes I know my enemies
    They're the teachers who taught me to fight me
    Compromise, conformity, assimilation, submission
    Ignorance, hypocrisy, brutality, the elite
    All of which are American dreams (8 times) .

    The whole (RATM) song here
  18. Re:7-zip on PKWare Files a Patent Application for Secure .zip · · Score: 1

    Can you explain why it's been 2.30 beta since 2001-10-01 17:00 ? look at Sourceforge Download list ("Below is a list of all files of the project") .

    2.30 Beta 5 on 2001-10-01 17:00 and 2.30 Beta 32 on 2003-05-14 17:00 !

    Couldn't have they released a 2.2x stable in 19 months ?

    Their "last stable" seems to be 2.24 (released on 2001-03-21, at the bottom of the page), Previous version of 7-Zip (it doesn't support 7z format).

  19. Re:A ride on the cluetrain. on Cheap PPC Linux Machines From IBM · · Score: 1
    *laughs* I love all you people that haven't dealt with IBM before. Let me translate: "A base configuration of the 4U is expected to cost less than $3,500, sources said." That means the case, a power supply, and one CPU with maybe a 128MB stick of RAM. Each additional CPU module will add to the price. And did you want a hard drive in that?...

    The little parapragh said :
    The ULE models, which will run Linux and IBM's AIX OS, will ship in 2U two-way and 4U four-way configurations. A base configuration of the 4U is expected to cost less than $3,500, sources said.

    If "four-way" doesn't mean 4 processors, that's another story ...
  20. Re:You are an American patriot... on Don't Worry, We're Not From The Government · · Score: 3, Informative
    ... as Evian is actually owned by Coca-Cola...
    Hum, it's false : There you can see that Coca-Cola is the licensed importer and distributor of Danone's Evian mineral water in North America ...
  21. Re:Don't Help Him, Carmack is a Menace to Society on Carmack Needs Rocket Fuel · · Score: 1
    Lets talk about Jon Carmack. Jon is the legendary programmer of such classic PC games as Wolfenstein, Doom, Duke nukem 3d, Quake 1, 2, and 3, unreal, and the upcoming doom3. [...] Now stop for a moment and think, What would have happened if Albert Einstein had worked creating amazing pinball games instead of creating the theory of relativity? Humanity would suffer! Jon carmack is unfortunately doing JUST THIS, using his gifts at computer coding to create games instead of furthering the knowledge of humanity. Carmack could have been working for NASA or the US military, but instead he simply sits around coding violent computer games. Is this a waste of a special and rare talent? Sadly, the answer is yes.

    Yes it's a waste of talent : he should be working on Doom III instead of playing with rockets !

    Or is he working on a new rocket launcher for D3 ?
  22. Re:You call that translation? on How To Stop Piracy: Raid CD-R Moguls · · Score: 1

    (A little offtopic)

    In in a novel written in 1969, Galactic Pot-healer, by Philip K Dick, the author had imagined a game which consisted in finding the original quote/title after 2 translations made by computer systems:

    original language -> foreign language then foreign language -> original language.

    by the way, this man had also foreseen "The lord of the rings" on a video disc, in A maze of death, 1970.

  23. Re:TVs not made in the U.S.? / higher price, why ? on Predicting The End Of Digital Copying · · Score: 1
    So what's stopping companies from countries other than the US from making a copy-protected version of their hardware for the US market, and a non-copy-protected version (possibly at a higher price) for the non-US market?
    Do you really think the people of the US-market are the majority of the "TV-buyers" of the world ?
    Why the people who are not yet concerned by these regulations should pay more for a "feature" (or a part of the device) they don't have ?
    They don't have to pay for the R&D of this feature.

    As always different countries use different standards (in the US and Japan, possibly Canada, I don't know, it's NTSC, in most of Europe, it's PAL, in France and some African countries SECAM ...).
    We can be sure there will be different High Definition standards, let's just apply this feature in the TVs impletenting the "US-chosen" high definition standard ... >:)
  24. then we'll need a music license ? on Unique ID Codes for CD / DVD Manufacturers · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You'll just need a music license that you'll show when you want to buy some cd/dvd.

    There may be several types :

    • electronic : forbidden to chemists, police come every now and then to check if you don't use extasy
    • reggae : the police check what you seed in your garden
    • punk : regular checks to see what you do against the government
    • ...

    Then you'll also need to register your cd/dvd burner at the nearest police station so they know the special id written on each cd you burn.

    They'll be able to track you if they find a cd you burnt and gave to a friend : you'll get 99 years in jail.
  25. Re:For a little more confusion on The Matrix is Reloading · · Score: 2, Informative

    You can also try Avalon