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  1. For a determined person not too hard on NXP RFID Cracked · · Score: 1

    Put your antenna in a van, with your power hungry amplifier, then put a hole in the van before the antenna, and put some material which is transparent to that frequency, but opaque to normal sight. Park your van in LOS of what you want to check out. Naturally works only in the street, but that should open you some nice application.

  2. Really ? on ISO Approves OOXML · · Score: 1

    I am an old PC gamer. Started with CGA... Remember defender of the crown ? Winter sport ? Well I do. And up to last week MS would have won my business just because of directx. Last week end I just went so sick of the crap shoveled to me that I bought a game console. I am NOW seriously thinking that PC gaming won't be worth the hassle except for a few big games which don't come to console. And for my oldies, I installed recently ubuntu with dosbox. After a lot of pain to start, works like a charm by the way. Thanks to all the /. which answered & helped me.

  3. Patch on Creative Goes After Driver Modder · · Score: 1

    And this is why you create a program which patch the driver. That way, nobody can accuse you of copyright infringement (you aren't distributing the driver or a derivative thereof, you are only making a program which add a few byte there and then for a specific driver version. I recall something similar for a network driver on W98), or stop distributing your program. After all if people want to take risk with this feature , that is their problem.

  4. Illogic if you think mroe than 10 seconds on Report Suggests That Nanny State Might Actually Not Be For the Best · · Score: 1

    "Intelligent" people breed far less then "unintelligent" people do

    This is NOTHING new. This has always been so. But still , I certainly see a progress from the societies of the 15 centuries, compared to the societies of today. Would you care to explain WHY such a dumbing down would start to happen now ? And HOW could a better society comes up with such a dumbing down would always happen due to non-intelligent [sic] people procreating ?

    If you have a monotonous decreasing quantity (as you seem to imply with your dumbing down and non-intelligent people procreating more) then there is no way you can have at any point of your function a global maximum.

  5. There is one DRM on South Park To Be Available Online Free and Legal · · Score: 1

    Region coding :). You can only watch legally from the US. The rest of the world has still to contend to illegal emthod (look at my SP torrent season 1-11, 25% only....Drat....).

  6. For one generation on What Will Life Be Like In 2008? · · Score: 1

    Afterward they would only know by hearsay. After 2 generation there would not be any difference at all with the 3rd world or middle age.

  7. A good prediction on all BUT one point on What Will Life Be Like In 2008? · · Score: 1

    QUOTE : There is a general malaise, a depression of opportunities lost. Most do not want to bring children into this world.

    Change that to :

    "Women place in society devolved to be a baby machine/kitchen/bed warmer, many dies in childbirth, or post-partum infection, and men now live longer than women. Since a lot of children dies before growing up, family do try to get a lot of children in the hope to have one survive".

    Looking at some of the third world countries today, and remembering some of our history, it is more logical within your scenario, than people stopping getting children. On the contrary, if society goes down the drain, then so will too contraception methods, and most probably, unless this goes toward a matriarchal society (doubtful) then women place in society will also goes down the drain.

  8. To the mods on FBI Looks Into Chinese Role in Darfur Site Hack · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You might feel it as a flamebait... But sadly this is the feeling which is most probably shared by a lot of people right now. In the last 10 years the US has waged more war than China did (zero for China as far as I can tell). As such the US has earned a reputation of warmonger, whereas China, however how bad at human right is, has made no war in the last 10 years, and thus is not a warmonger.

  9. Not to do a flamebait... on FBI Looks Into Chinese Role in Darfur Site Hack · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ...but in the last 10 years I can hardly think of a war started by china. So maybe the US reputation of warmonger isn't so overrated.

  10. answers on The Death of Windows XP · · Score: 1

    I have multiple PC at home (3 from various ages), one being an Windows-XP PC, I use that to post and download the TAR/DEB files. The laptop I am trying to install all the stuff with, has got gutsy gibbon installed on it, and is a gericom silvershadow 2. The provider is T-Online, but I have no router, I directly connect to T-DSL (T-Online DSL) with the windows program.

    Right now if dosbox could function with midi sound I would be a very happy man.

    What forum would you recommend for ubuntu ? Also , more importantly, I used to program in the last 15 years in assembly (386) and pascal and fortran (f77 and hpfs on mainframe mostly). What book would you recommend me to start up on programming in c++ under linux ?

  11. I am trying Ubuntu right now. on The Death of Windows XP · · Score: 3, Interesting

    PITA. PAIN in THE ASS. You read me. First I wanted to install an application. I tryed to fudge with the network things to get it work with my german t-online dsl. Did not work. After roughly 10-12 hours of googling, trying, rebooting, I gave up. So I used my XP PC tzo download .tar and / or .deb files. Then with an USB transmit it to the Ubuntu PC. First application was cdemu. I tryed the .deb did not work. Googled. Oh so the vhsa whatever is not working has to enter cryptic command to restart it, then restart a daemon. Did nbot work. Then somebody commented in a CDEMU forum to just do a freaking mount -o whatever with the ISO. THAT did work. Then I tryed to install the application on the ISO. Spent hours. Did not work. Then finally found some post hinting that the app is not supported in any new kernel stuff (I guess I can give that in being my fault for not googling first to see if the app I got was supported or not). So I started installing an alternative instead. Have to compile it... Right now I am trying to find out why there seems to be some problem with it, some dependency with libgcc whatever. I left it for next week end. I thought, of playing a few of my oldies. I have on my XP box DOSBOX. Installed it worked like a charm without fudging anything. But with ubuntu .... Could not get-apt (remember : no network, meaning I am screwed). Turn out after installing a few app, that i have NO FREAKING MIDI SOUND! WTF ! I am now in the process of downloading timidity and some freepats.

    I might be a rare bird to install some of those app, but plain freaking dosbox was runnning out of the box in windows, and I have to install and download third party stuff in ubuntu. Argue as much as you wish, but I am nowhere to recommend ubuntu to anybody without a lot of time and knowledge.

  12. Because you had a good life on Mars Rovers Facing Budget Cuts [Updated] · · Score: 1

    But if things gets to be worst and worst, your willingness to trust other to change things and make a revolution would be higher and higher. Up to the point that if the state is really shitty down the drain, then you would probably trust quickly a stranger, take arms, and march onto the capitol (i.e. : a mob).

  13. 3 words on Network Solutions Suspends Site of Anti-Islam Film · · Score: 1

    Abortion clinic bombing. Abortion doctor killing. True those are not suicide bombing. They are even more coward, they pose their bomb and then go away.

  14. It is not faith on Astronomers Find Oldest Known Asteroids · · Score: 1

    It is an "physical" axiom. You just happen to TRUST that the axiom is true. But if you are a true scientist, if you happen to stumble on evidence that the universe is irrational, then as a true scientist you will be the first on a rush to publish it. A true dogmatic / faithful person would sweep it under the carpet and try to forget it. And this is why I used the word trust instead of faith. A true scientific would not have faith in anything, at best he would only trust a few axiom which were never disproved, and for which he does not see falsification possible.

  15. Insightful !? on Astronomers Find Oldest Known Asteroids · · Score: 2, Insightful

    There is no faith going on in the scientific community. At worst the is only trust. Those assumption on strata deposition are not religious-like any ANY way whatsoever. Firstly , if I recall correctly they were corroborated by other measurement (like radio emission measurement) secondly, if anybody came up with EVIDENCE contradicting the current supposition and theory, then stratta aging would be dropped out. Up to now , it was never the case.

    You wanna religion ? Religion is trusting a little book (be it black and named bible, or be it red, or blue and speaking of thetan) and assuming this book contain the ABSOLUTE and unchanging truth, and that without evidence whatsoever. And if something contradict your religion, then that something must be wrong, not your religion. THAT , mister, is religious dogma. On the other hand scientist aren't, as a whole/at large, not dogmatic. If they were, science would still be stuck in the 18th century. You say scientific are not ready to accept change and whisper it ? Are you for real ? On the top of my head I can think of two MAJOR change which were certainly not whispered : quantum mechanic and relativity. Should i mention evolution ? That made a BIG BIG splash at the epoch. Wanna something more recent ? Look at the headlines of science.slashdot.org. You will find a plenty of those minor revision and maybe a major one.

    You want us to flamebait us ? I am sorry, you don#t know what you are speaking about (science and dogma). you WERE the flamebait/troll. The worst is that at least 4 people modded you up. Now I know that a lot of people have a mindset anti science, but at least I would have hoped that geek visiting this site would be a notch above.

  16. And where DRm fit in ? on Game Developers Should Ignore Software Pirates · · Score: 1

    Please explain us carefully where DRM will stop any pirate bootlegging 1/2 million CD/DVD copy of a game. Especially that most crack appear within hours of the game being released. So a good bootlegger would break in/pay somebody inside to give an iso at the same time as the gold master is pressed. And the bootlegger would still have a leg on you, because frankly they probably have the same equipement as you do to press their bootleg, or can pay professional hacker to remove the freaking DRM. DRM was NEVER EVER against the bootlegger, it has always been against CASUAL copying !!!. And that is where the article shine : who cares about casual copying ! Only an extreme minority would buy the game instead of casually copying it. And that minority is MOST PROBABLY offset by people having problem with the DRM, be it software problem (freaking DRM don't always work) or philosophical problem (why should I root my PC for your piece of crapware ?). You are NOT increasing your market share by ANY means, you are lowering it !!

  17. Gaza Band ? on China Blocks YouTube Over Tibet Videos · · Score: 1

    /TROLLish comment

    One could argue that this is something which was done 50 years ago, just like with Israel and Palestine. So now we should either tell tibet to consider themselves part of China, or have the same negative reaction to new Israeli settlement in the gaza band.

    /END OF TROLL

  18. Are you a scientologist troll ? on Scientology Injunction Denied Against "Anonymous" · · Score: 1

    Because if you were a bit more "neutral" and at least had a look at the web sites of anonymous (enturbulation.org i think) you would have read that on their FAQ they EXPLICITLY require all protest to be peaceful and all remain on the legal side. If there is any death threat that can only be from idiot. Or maybe from the scientology itself , as they are known in the past to have sent THEMSELVES bomb threat, and PLANTED evidence at the home of an author (see paulette cooper WIKI operation freakout). Did I mention operation snowwhite (see wiki) ? I can only think of one things : you are a scientologist troll...

  19. Corn from ethanol is msotly fantasy on US Plans "Disposable" Nuclear Batteries · · Score: 1

    But other country successfully use ethanol as a positive energy source, from for example sugar cane. And there are research to produce it from algae with an efficiency as good.

    Don't take your own local bungangle or shenanigan corruption on corn industry to be the general rule.

  20. Subvocalization does that too on Nerve-tapping Neckband Allows 'Telepathic' Chat · · Score: 1

    Did you read the wiki ? You don#t move or your jaw or anything, you don#t even move your vocal cord enough to emit a sound. Due to the fact they are speaking of taping the nerve impulse to the vocal cord, I am pretty sure that is exactly the same things as described here, and the position of the electrode quite clearly also confirm it : subvocal recognition

    QUOTE "Subvocal recognition (SVR) is the art of taking subvocalization and converting the detected results to a digital text-based output. It is similar to voice recognition except it is silent subvocalization being detected. It is a new technology being researched and developed at NASA's Ames Research Laboratory in Mountain View, California under the supervision of Charles Jorgensen. A set of electrodes are attached to the skin of the throat and, without opening the mouth or uttering a sound, the words are recognized by a computer."

    If you can recognize word, then you can as well transmit what the myogram of the vocal cord does and this would amount exactly to that claim : "With careful training a person can send nerve signals to their vocal cords without making a sound. These signals are picked up by the neckband and relayed wirelessly to a computer that converts them into words spoken by a computerised voice"

    I am terribly sorry, but this is EXACTLY what sub-vocalization and sub-vocal recognition does !

  21. Subvocalization on Nerve-tapping Neckband Allows 'Telepathic' Chat · · Score: 1

    Probably using subvocalization

    quote: "Subvocalization involves actual movements of the tongue and vocal cords that can be interpreted by electromagnetic sensors. Since 1999 NASA, as part of its Extension of the Human Senses program, has been working on a system that can interpret a limited number of English words using nervous signals gathered from sensors placed on the throat's exterior. "

  22. Difference : on Blu-ray Player Prices Hit 2008 Highs · · Score: 1

    There won't be tawainese/chinese knock off at wall mart under 100$, because now they have a very tight hand on the spec and won't let it escape. And IMHO, that make a big deal, because if I recall correctly price on DVD player only really dropped like a stone when the chinese knock off appeared.

  23. Not even western centric on Reading Comics · · Score: 1

    US centric only. I am not saying this is a bad things. But in such a case it would have been nice to say it so either in the summary, or in the title of the book. Like "Reading US graphic novel and....". But then again I somehow understand why he did not bother. His target audience KNEW what it would be about, and the rest of the world not being his target audience would not be interested in his book. So from that point of view the "US" would have been redundant.

  24. From reading the summary.... on Reading Comics · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It does look likes an US-centric point of view on comic. It does not seem to touch the european comic industry (where do you place something like Gaston Lagaffe in what he says ? Or L'incal Noir ? The market of the gods ?) or even the booming eastern/japanese comic industry (manga and such). If I am not misled by the summary, then he missed much, MUCH of the comic history, world.

  25. Alternate belief KILLS on Should Scientists Date People Who Believe Astrology? · · Score: 1

    If you wanna, I can dig up article on how some exorcism killed a boy/girl ? Or how some parents refused cancer treatment on their kids but wanted homeopathy / naturopathy ? If belief did not kill or influence negatively the live of those which are not protected against it (aka:kids), then I would not care shit. But as it is now people should fight against those belief when kids are involved. And parents which favorize non-evidence based quackery instead of real medicine should have their parental right removed. No appeal.