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  1. Re:"Everything in moderation" on Diet of Fast Food and Candy May Cause Alzheimer's · · Score: 1

    Type II diabetes can be hereditary in that one with a family history is more likely to be predisposed to acquiring the disease. Twin studies show a 95% link that if one twin has diabetes type II the other will as well.

  2. I was taught to be polite on Houston Police Chief Wants Cameras in Homes · · Score: 1

    I was taught to be polite and have respect towards others. In this, in what my estimation is a wholly ridiculous and terribly invasive idea to put into practice, I say let him be first with total information surveillance. If he believes that constant surveillance will afford the public with a level of safety that far exceeds the norm that should outweigh the loss of our bill of rights? On one hand having a transparent goverment with all of its interactions available for review, censure, and reform wouldn't be a bad idea. Why shouldn't we the people be the ones to surveil the police?

  3. Re:The Poor Man's RAID Array on Home Network Data Storage Device · · Score: 1

    Not that you could be bothered, but raid level 6 requires at least three disks. It is a raid 5 array with an extra set of parity bits. A huge penalty on raid size, but good for huge arrays. The likelihood of simultaneous multiple disk failure increases with the number of disks in raid. The extra parity set allows you to rebuild when two disks have failed or while rebuilding one disk another fails. The raid really isn't part of a backup solution to protect all of your data, just somewhere to store it when a single disk is not enough.

  4. Re:But... keep an eye on your contracts... on Equipment Suppliers You Can Trust? · · Score: 1

    Those big vendors have service contracts that are usually for big iron. We had 10 hp 9000 minis. They would phone home that something was wrong. We would get the part in the mail or a technician would show up and replace something.

  5. What about Finland and Norway? on Are Americans Addicted to Technology? · · Score: 1

    I recall being able to buy food and cigarettes with a cell phone years ago, nearly six years ago actually. Definitely a much greater dependence upon technology when nearly 60% (hxxp://www.businessweek.com/1999/99_18/b3627033.h tm) of the population carries a cell phone back in 1999.

  6. Re:So, to sum it up on The Truth About Suprnova Shutdown · · Score: 1

    Your idea of sanctions imposed by a ??AA groups on soverign countries really work. Just look at Indonesia, Malaysia, Hong Kong, China, and even Singapore. Those countries may have some copyright and trademark laws, but from the looks of the marketplaces they are rarely enforced consistently.

  7. Re:Darkness on The Truth About Suprnova Shutdown · · Score: 1

    He's in fucking Slovenia. They probably don't have the same laws.

  8. Ebay's fraud team is hardly professional. on Evolving Phishing Attacks Using Web Vulnerabilities? · · Score: 1

    From my own trying and, unfortunately, not limited experience with fraud and ebay, the fraud team is a joke. They sat on my complaints until the person(s) moved to another locale.

  9. Plausible deniability on Paramount Sues Ohio Man For $100,000 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Just another reason to have an open/unsecured wap on your network so you can have plausible deniability.

    dupe, dump, deny, and divide.

  10. Next time on Computer Jobs -- How to Resign Professionally? · · Score: 1

    give a month's notice.

  11. Another Slashvertisement on DIY Projector Plans Released · · Score: 1

    Why is this even news? Just use google and you come up with thousands of hits. Yes, some of those are even relevant. DIY+projector

  12. Re:Who ya gonna call? on Security Flaws Allow Wiretaps to be Evaded · · Score: 1

    If the people in communication are oraganized enough to use prepaid phones then they can meet to exchange the phones. One could send cell phones via mail services with the numbers preprogrammed. They will keep conversations short, coded, and only use them to call the preprogrammed numbers. You could even mix it up a bit and not use the prepaid all the time. You could find several pay phones that allow outgoing calls. In fact, albeit rare, there are still pay phones that accept incoming calls. You could also use GSM cards and just have (pseudo random no. ) of them and change them with each phone call.

    In short, the management of the constantly changing numbers is not an issue if you preprogram the numbers or meet to exchange the numbers. It would take all of 20 minutes to activate and then program half a dozen cell phones by hand. You wouldn't want to use a computer and link cable to do it since you'd have the data on your (ramdisk) drive.

  13. How small is small? on Solutions for Small Business VoIP? · · Score: 1

    Perhaps the submitter or the editor could do some work and tell us the needs of the company. How many people? How many phone lines in use now? How many more do you need? How many more do you think you'll need with expected growth? What the hell have you looked at already? have you tried google? What about the VOIP wiki?

  14. Just like a prison on Blizzard Made Me Change My Name · · Score: 1

    As far as having no recourse against GMs, Blizzard is just preparing you for the real world and the police state.

  15. Mosaic on NVIDIA's Lead Scientist Interviewed · · Score: 1

    I dont' remember netscapre being present when the web was born. I do remember mosaic, though.

  16. Canadian quarters on Best Buy Has Man Arrested for Using $2 Bills · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The bastards have no problem giving me Canadian quarters as part of my change. I haven't shopped at Worst Buy since they started "tracking" troublesome customers. You know the kind that returns defective merchandise or mails off for their rebates.

  17. The rural peoples may be poor .... on Low-Cost Simputer Fails to Win Indians' Interest · · Score: 1

    Nice thought to bridge the technical divide created by poverty and government policies that are just this side of malfeasance. Half the planet has yet to use a phone and they're trying to get rural peoples to spend 2/3 of their gross annual income on a device that will somehow make up for the shortfalls of their poverty and lack of access to education. They may be poor but they are not stupid.

  18. Tetris on 5.25" floppy!!! on The Solar Death Ray · · Score: 1

    I could have put that to some good use, damnit!

  19. What's next? on Verizon To Acquire MCI For $6.7 Billion · · Score: 1

    Only pain and suffering as these telecommunications providers eat up my bankaccount with numerous fees.

  20. Re:Old People on Cellphone Drivers Drive Like Drunks · · Score: 1

    BART and MUNI are only excellent for people that are visiting. You don't get beat down by the delays, the breakdowns, and the illnesses you contract because you are in enclosed spaces with people who cough in your face. (38 Geary or any BART train headed to Balboa.)

  21. Re:Old People on Cellphone Drivers Drive Like Drunks · · Score: 1

    You don't have to be old to do any of the items that you've mentioned as I have witnessed and been hit by younger drivers just flying through a parking lot.

  22. So is Google illegal in Norway? on Norwegian Student Ordered to Pay for Hyperlinks to Music · · Score: 1

    Basically, this makes all search engines illegal. Only when there is a completely open and transparent method of sharing information is a (global) society free.

    "index of /mp3"
    http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22ind ex+of+% 2Fmp3%22&btnG=Google+Search

    I swear some people in power act like they are idiots only to keep people from realizing their collective rights are being trammeled for the profits of a few.

  23. Re:FreeCycle on What Can You Do with Old Memory? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    thanks for ruining it.

  24. another useless filter requirement on Comcast Raises Bandwidth in Shot at DSL · · Score: 1

    56.99 per month for non-cable subscriber with installation charge of $99 in Sacramento, CA.

    I could get basic, basic cable $12.01 per month, add on the HSI from comcast for $38.99 per month plus any hidden fees and taxes that they pass on to the end user. I would still have to pay $50.00 for installation and rent a cable box and cable modem. I for one know I won't be switching over.

    I currently have 10Mb/s fibre to the home for $49.95 plus basic (read local channels) cable.

  25. Re:No Protection for the Clueless on Safecracking for the Computer Scientist · · Score: 1

    do you have a link to an article?