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  1. Re:Libertarian Newspeak Doesn't Negate Censorship on Osirusoft Blacklists The World · · Score: 1

    When people make that statement, they're referring to censorship in the legal sense, meaning that it's perfectly legal for a business to censor forms of speech that a government entity could not. It's not that the business isn't censoring, it's that they have every right to do so.

  2. Re:Blacklists and reality on Osirusoft Blacklists The World · · Score: 1

    SMTP is really what needs to go. But that will take years, perhaps a decade.

    I agree. However, the open source community and Internet standards bodies are moving too slowly to develop and approve alternatives. Yeah, there are a few possible replacements now, but none have enough support to be used on a widespread basis. I have this nagging feeling that this is a perfect opportunity for Microsoft to yet again "rescue" the day by coming up with their own solution to the problem. And we all know how well that works for everyone not running their OSes.

  3. Re:Time to shrink NASA on Columbia Accident Investigation Board: Final Report · · Score: 1

    Let's see, it costs NASA 500M and the Russians only 15M. Unless they have some kind of magic rocket technology that the USA doesn't know about, I'm going to assume that the Russian system probably lacks a number of "frills" from their American counterparts. And now the obligatory Simpson's quote:

    Crazy Vlaclav : She'll go 300 hectares on a single tank of kerosene.
    Homer : What country is this car from?
    Crazy Vlaclav : It no longer exists. But take her for a test drive, and you'll agree: (states their slogan)

  4. Re:Gee on Sci-Fi Movies and 'Bad Science' · · Score: 4, Funny

    My major complaint about Star Trek was that in all that time, they still can't come up with a uniform that has to be adjusted every fucking time Picard gets up from his chair.

  5. Re:wait a minute... on Sci-Fi Movies and 'Bad Science' · · Score: 4, Informative

    Try again. Flux is a property of inductors. The opposite of capacitors, which are measured in terms of capacitance.

  6. Re:Half the time, it would be easy to fix! on Sci-Fi Movies and 'Bad Science' · · Score: 4, Interesting

    There's another option: perhaps it was all a "dream". Part of his secret agent package. If you want to aregue that the illusion wasn't correct, take it up with the Recall company.

  7. Marvel comics on Sci-Fi Movies and 'Bad Science' · · Score: 3, Informative

    I love Stan Lee's work, but let's face it. Just about all of the characters' powers come from the mysterious force of radiation. Well, it's not that mysterious now. In the 50's and 60's, it was a dark power that caused all kinds of mutations. All the A-bomb testing would throughout the world would have strange side effects on humanity, etc. In modern times, people don't fall for this line so easily. that's why in Spiderman and The Hulk, the screenweiters shyed away from radiation. Of course, all they did was replace it with modern day boogymen like genetic engineering and nanotechnology.

  8. Re:Can anyone tell me... on Top University Rankings for 2004 Released · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't surprise me in the least...

    And I say that as an alumnus.

  9. Can anyone tell me... on Top University Rankings for 2004 Released · · Score: 1

    Where did Polytechnic University (Brooklyn, NY) end up in the fields of EE and CS?

  10. One question... on The Trilogy as One · · Score: 1

    When are they planning to show RotK in it's extended version?

  11. Re:Gaim? on MSN Messenger Access To Be Restricted · · Score: 1

    Oh, of course! MSN Messenger is one of Windows' main selling points... :rolleyes:

    Close. Messsenger is a big part of MS Office 2003. Their intention is to strongly link messenger email and the entire office suite to encourage colloboration.

  12. Re:University Lecturer? on Linux Guru Alan Cox Takes A Year Off · · Score: 3, Funny

    Maybe he want to be a PHB and give lectures to employees.

  13. Re:2 rules of backup on Reviving A Dead Hard Drive The Hard Way · · Score: 1

    WinRAR (if it's a windows machine) has that feature built into the 3.0 versions. Also, make sure NOT to use the solid file option.

  14. Re:Can anyone explain that? on Reviving A Dead Hard Drive The Hard Way · · Score: 1

    Don't know if it's the same thing, but MY ABIT KT7A-RAID (Highpoint RAID) couldn't detect the drives, nor could the $75 a piece SATA to ATA converters I bought for my P4PE motherboard.

  15. Why not just get a GP32? on Do-It-Yourself-Game-Console · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It's more powerful and there's lots of emulators already ported to it.

    Here's a link from Google to one reseller.

  16. Re:If you have the ROM ... on Will Classic Games Disappear Forever? · · Score: 1

    Why wouldn't the receipt of purchase be enough proof? Yes, there's nothing stopping you from reselling it, that would be illegal. It's like you buying a CD, copying it, then selling the original.

  17. Re:MAME? on Will Classic Games Disappear Forever? · · Score: 0, Redundant

    MAME is legal. Possessing copies of the ROMS is the sticky issue.

  18. Re:One word: on Will Classic Games Disappear Forever? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    How about if you have a dead board, but a good ROM. Is that legal? Or what if the good board had a dead rom chip and you burned an EPROM copy from a working chip. Is that board still legal? What if everything is busted, but you do own it. Do you have to keep that junk in your basement to play it legally with an emulator?

  19. Re:Check out Internet Mail 2000 on Replacing SMTP? · · Score: 1

    I wish people would stop inviting rate increases or new charges as an answer to spam.

    Then why do you advertize a spam-filtering pay service in your sig?

  20. Re:My problem with Snopes.com on snopes.com's David Mikkelson Interviewed · · Score: 1

    They have a hard time admitting when they're wrong. For years, the "Up the Butt, Bob" story about the Newlywed Game was listed as false. When someone found the episode, the Mikkelsons' response was to shrug it off since it wasn't an exact quote. Now, it's finally listed as true. I've seen other examples of Urban Legends being 99% right, but they'd call them false on a technicality.

  21. Re:I totally agree. on Is Louder Better? · · Score: 1

    In Flames' latest album entitled Reroute to Remain

    Finally! Another "In Flames" fan. Another album in the same style of music that was also engineered perfectly was Emperor's "Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire & Demise" CD. Simply brilliant work.

  22. Re:Racist Bias on Why Outsource When Workers are Willing to Telecommute? · · Score: 2, Informative

    English *is* the language of tech

    Okay...

    and *most * Indian developers speak it fluently.

    If by "Indian," you mean "Native Americans," then I suppose that might be accurate. If by "Indian" you mean individuals that live in India, then I can say with great certainty that your definition of "fluently" is much, much different than the rest of the populous.

  23. Re:Strong passwords? on Inkblot Passwords · · Score: 1

    And if they know it's an inkblot system, you just did.

  24. Re:Strong passwords? on Inkblot Passwords · · Score: 1

    Really? Tell that to the people who make Back Orifice. When trying a brute force attack, you have the option to limit your attack to just letters, letters and numbers, and every allowable character. If your password is twenty characters of letters only, it's only as strong as a shorter password with !@#$%^&*() characters in it.

  25. Strong passwords? on Inkblot Passwords · · Score: 2, Informative

    Take the first letter from the first word and the last letter from the last word in the first blot. That forms your first two password letters. If you described the first blob as a 'flying gardener,' your first two letters would be fr. Continue doing this with all of the inkblots. You'll end up with a strong twenty-letter password.

    Not quite. You password will be long, but still only consist of letters. A truly strong password includes non-alpha and non-numbers to increase the search space to help against brute force attacks.