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  1. Re:Defense on University of Pittsburgh Deluged With Internet Bomb Threats · · Score: 1

    If they aren't clever enough to build one large bomb and do significant damage to the building, its occupants and the general morale of the community; they surely aren't clever enough to build a whole bunch of smaller bombs, wire them up and bury them in an open area with near constant traffic without getting caught.

  2. Re:offensive, isn't it? on Ranking Soccer Players By Following the Bouncing Ball · · Score: 1

    This problem could be offset somewhat by assigning a player points for taking control of the ball from the other team. It wouldn't be perfect, but it's an improvement.

    You could also scale the points you award to the defensive player based on the number of points awarded in the current 'play' as well as the points of the passing player and potential receiving players. The idea being that the more touches on the ball one team has, the more progress the ball has made towards the goal and the skill level of the last opponent on the ball, the skill of the players who may have received the pass; all contribute to the importance of taking control of the ball.

  3. Re:outrageous! on Novell Changes Enterprise Linux Kernel Mid-Stream · · Score: 1

    Most of the distro's I have used include a file in /etc which tells you what version you have installed. I also use a distro that thinks it's cute to name their releases after animals. On that machine I can run the following to get the info I need.

    > cat /etc/lsb-release
    DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
    DISTRIB_RELEASE=9.10
    DISTRIB_CODENAME=karmic
    DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 9.10"

    On another system based on some hatted fellow's distro I can run the following to get the info I need.

    $ cat /etc/redhat-release
    CentOS release 5.4 (Final)

    On other systems you could start with `cat /etc/*-release` and see where that gets you.

  4. Re:For a start fine, but then - solar! on NASA Developing Nuclear Reactor For Moon and Mars · · Score: 1

    You can compress gas to store energy, but where are you going to find that on the moon?

    Maybe the next mission to the moon could take a really long hose. Just before they break atmo an astronaut could start reeling the hose out. Then the moon people could just pump some of earths atmo.

    Easy.

  5. Re:Reactors a better solution than solar panels? on NASA Developing Nuclear Reactor For Moon and Mars · · Score: 1

    A solar system on the moon gets no light for 14 days at a stretch.

    Perhaps if that solar array is only on one face of the moon.

    If you doubled (well tripled, to account for losses) the amount of panels and took enough cable (and transformers) to transfer the power ~5KM (half the circumference at the equator) you could have power stations on both sides and wouldn't need to store more power than would be used to smooth out the feed.

    Clearly I have no idea about the maths involved in this but it solves the storage problem, I'm sure it adds many more problems though.

  6. Re:Limitations of Dead Tree on xkcd To Be Released In Book Form · · Score: 1

    The book will have 150 to 200 of strips out of more than 500 so far published online and is expected to sell for $19. The selection was made by a fan who is also doing the layout for breadpig. âoeI took a few off and added a few others,â he said.

    Two things from this.

    a) It removes the possibility of page-number<=>comic-number relation. Which means we miss the 404 joke.

    b) The list is being selected by _one_ fan. There's no consensus there! I demand a vote! Pit comic against comic! First 200 in the ranked pairs result make the cut!

  7. Re:Should be obvious why FF devs use to flame peop on Firefox 3.1 Beta 3 Released · · Score: 2, Informative

    * No multiple profiles

    --user-data-dir='path/to/profile'

    You can even simultaneously run two instances using different profiles. My partner and I use this on our shared desktop so we can stay logged in to all those sites we don't care if the other person sees.

    http://www.chromeplugins.org/tips-tricks/how-to-create-profiles-in-google-chrome/

  8. Re:Probably Not on Linguistic Problems of GPL Advocacy · · Score: 1

    In the case of the GPL, the 'end user' is the recipient. Anyone that gets the binary built from GPL derived code must also (be able to) get the full source under the GPL. The *recipient* of the GPL derived work gets the freedoms provided by the GPL.

    In the case of the BSD license, the end user of derived code may or may not get the source from the third party. The *producer* of the BSD derived work has the freedom to decide if the end user gets the source.

  9. Re:All I know on Will the Earth's Tail Fry Moon Visitors? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Anonymous Coward is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.

  10. Re:Slashdot ID... on Dealing With an IT Bully · · Score: 2, Funny

    You could, of course, have reminded him that he's a drummer.

  11. Re:Ummm, I don't get it. on Psychologists Don't Know Math · · Score: 1

    When I explained this to my partner I used a table to show the possible combinations.

    Assume doors are labelled A, B, C. Let 1 represent the door with the car and 0 represent a `not car` door. There are three possible combinations:

    A B C
    -----
    1 0 0
    0 1 0
    0 0 1

    If your first choice is always A and you never switch you win 1 in 3 times.

    If you answer A and wait for Monty to open a 'not car' door the table ends up like this. Where x is a `not car` door that has been opened.

    A B C
    -----
    1 x 0
    0 1 x
    0 x 1

    In this case swapping from A to the only other available door means you win in 2 in 3 cases.

  12. Re:And, in this case, the attacker deliberately ch on MacBook Air First To Be Compromised In Hacking Contest · · Score: 1

    the sandbox user doesn't have access to any files that aren't needed to run the browser. It can't access any files in your home dir for example.

  13. Re:And, in this case, the attacker deliberately ch on MacBook Air First To Be Compromised In Hacking Contest · · Score: 5, Informative

    Sudo runs things as the super user, hence the name Wrong. sudo, an extension of the idea behind su, allows you to switch user and do something, hence the name. Yes, the default is to switch to the super user. It also allows you to switch to any another user (which it has been configured to allow you to access) using the '-u username' command line parameter and do things under their account.

    What the parent was suggesting is to create an account with very limited access and to run the browser as that account using something like: `sudo -u sandboxaccount browserbin`.
  14. Re:What about non-RIAA music? on $5 Per Month Fee Proposed For Legal Music P2P · · Score: 1

    The RIAA will get the money to the non-member bands the same way they get the money to the member bands. None of the the bands will get any of it so there is no problem.

  15. Re:Get 'em while they're hot on Wikileaks Airs Scientology Black Ops · · Score: 1

    Hoover's church sucks.

  16. Re:The Video That Started It & A Few Notes on "Anonymous" Takes Scientology Protest to the Streets · · Score: 2

    why are there so few publications attacking Scientology?

    This is one of the motivators for Project Chantology. The CoS attempts to silence critics through law suits and other scare tactics has pissed off a lot of young people. This includes the DMCA take down notice sent to youtube in response to the Tom Cruise video, which started this movement. These are same kind of people that got upset when Digg removed the AACS key, we all know how well that went for the MPAA.

    People who speak out against the CoS are harrassed and attacked, which is why Anonymous has been urging people to hide their identity while protesting for fear of retaliation from the CoS.
  17. Re:My guess it that it's legit on Intel Sued Over Core 2 Duo Patent Infringement · · Score: 1

    So you might say "they are trying to milk their patents for all they're worth".

  18. Re:Darwinian M&M duels on First Amendment Ruling Protects Internet Trolls · · Score: 1

    adopting a single elimination method would be the obvious choice. That way, going in to each round, the M&Ms have had an equal number of battles with their opponent.

  19. Re:Wonderful on Scientists Build Possibly The First Man-Made Genome · · Score: 1

    Geez. The LAST thing society needs is a bunch of synthesized clones running around with hacked up spaghetti code for genes. Yes, Comment your genes for god sake!!! Good genes comment themselves!
  20. Re:Oblig on Sharp's Tiny LCD Doubles As Scanner · · Score: 1

    The business could ban proprietary personal electronics, but allow open hardware platforms which they had vetted. Take for instance the OpenMoko project, this could be a viable option for businesses worried about hardware they don't control. With enough backing FIC should be able to custom build the camera and other features out.

  21. Re:not buzz-rific enough on Tim Berners-Lee Discusses the Future of the Web · · Score: 1

    That's okay, just fire up WorldWideWeb and fix it for him.

  22. Re:Good for the judge on Judge Doesn't Know What a Web Site is · · Score: 1

    "the sun's surface temperature is thousands of degrees"

    "I would happily have her defend me in a trial."

    Would that include a trial by fire?

  23. Re:This is news? on Fedora Welcomes Women to FOSS · · Score: 1

    It took me a week but I finaly worked out my retort.

    There are cases where the end does justify the means. Medication is a means to an end. Some medication has aweful side effects but the good they do is enough that people will suffer the side effects. Radiation treatment, for example, is horrible but Cancer is worse.

  24. Re:This is news? on Fedora Welcomes Women to FOSS · · Score: 1

    It's a means to an end. Right now there isn't equality between men and women in this feild. Some people are trying to skew the inequality towards the women so they can catch up. Which they hope will put enough women in the field so that leaders can't get brownie points for chosing a women over a man for any given task. Once some kind of balance is restored the programs that sway the inequility NEED to be removed but we are no where near that point right now.

    I don't know if this is the morally right way or even the best way but it's one that happens all the time.

  25. Re:These are the cheesy RAID cards, right? on RAID Problems With Intel Core 2? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    "If your RAID-controller fails, you have to get another controller exactly the same"

    This is why we always by a spare card whenever we get a new RAID controller. That way we know that there will be something that will read the disks and know how the data is setup. Next time you by a RAID controller remember to get another one just like it. Otherwise you might be stuck with disks that will only be read by a card that is out of production.