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  1. Re:Support ISS with Russian crafts on Space Shuttle Columbia Breaks Up Over Texas · · Score: 1

    Right now Russia has only 3 Souyz in the works.
    A cycle of building a Souyz is 1.5 years.
    So... not so easy...

  2. Re:Painful? Yes. Helps long term? I don't see it. on Giant Sucking Noise · · Score: 1

    Are you sure you really need that ecology damaging
    factories?
    You are living in a great place, where resorts are just waiting to be built.
    But you even do not know what sanatorium is.
    A place where people can stay for 1-2 weeks with
    dietical food and health monitoring for not very expensive prices.
    You don't know how good is mineral water.
    When you realize that there is a market for THAT stuff,
    and not for factories, you'll probably change your mind.

  3. What's the question? on Grade Inflation in Higher Education · · Score: 1

    The normal grade should be C.
    You should get A only when you do something
    really outstanding.

  4. Re:Hmmm... on P2P File Sharing Could Cost You A Bundle · · Score: 1

    Looks like it's "Cruel and unusual punishment", eh?

  5. Re:How practical! on Buy a Moller SkyCar Prototype on eBay · · Score: 1

    See latest Star Wars episode - a good illustration to that nightmare...

  6. Re:security flaw? on IBM Trials TCPA Chip Under Linux · · Score: 1

    Ok, what about hardware that will FORCE home users to do backups?

  7. Re:security flaw? on IBM Trials TCPA Chip Under Linux · · Score: 1

    IT IS how the system should work.
    Imagine having all your home finances in Quicken
    (or GNU Cash) and some virus or troyan came in?
    What you prefer - to disable system from accessing
    your sensitive data (thus preventing from virus sending that data to offender) or to give the
    virus an opportunity to send your ssn and account numbers through Internet to some thug?
    If you do backups (that you should do at home),
    you'll be able at least retreave clean versions.
    Infected version is useless for you - it can contain the virus which... etc.

  8. corrosive hydrogen fluoride on The Costs of Making a DRAM Chip · · Score: 1

    Is good for the development of your teeth!

  9. Re:What a lying sack of SHIT! on SCO Group Hires Boies After All · · Score: 1

    [lain' skak of ...] :)

  10. Re:Don't we have it backwards? on Self-Regulating SSL Certificate Authority? · · Score: 2, Informative

    This would not work...
    Imagine a bad guy is your own network admin
    and you are in corporate LAN...
    He can spoof foo.com, so the configuration will be.
    You "-" [Bad Guy sniffer]translates "-" foo.com
    (posing as IP and foo.com for you)
    ||
    \/
    logs of your connections
    No security at all :(((

  11. Re:Self destruct methods? on Verizon Loses Suit Over Subpoena of Subscriber Info · · Score: 1

    A cool thing is a steganographic file system
    Unfortunately it's not working in modern Linux kernels - solution: install old Linux distributive for sensitive data
    and that patch...

  12. Re:Can't do that on Verizon Loses Suit Over Subpoena of Subscriber Info · · Score: 1

    And? So what?
    What happens? - really nothing.

  13. Re:Another Duplicate.... on Second Hand Hard Discs Reveal Secrets · · Score: 1

    Thank you, got ISA SCSI adaptor for $4!
    Good idea

  14. Good time for him... on "DVD-Jon" Faces Retrial · · Score: 1

    ... to leave that country... if he still can do it. ...sigh...

  15. Re:Another Duplicate.... on Second Hand Hard Discs Reveal Secrets · · Score: 1

    you didn't understood my problem. I cannot connect those drives to the computer - I now have no SCSI interface on any of the computers I have access to.
    The only thing I can do is connect this drive to power and experiment with its switches or scsi pins.

  16. Re:Another Duplicate.... on Second Hand Hard Discs Reveal Secrets · · Score: 1

    Even this dup could be tolerable if it was posted yesterday,
    when we have no news for some hours and were almost forced to discuss the stupid topic on XM and FM radio...
    Hard drives are more interesting.
    I have 2 SCSI Barracuda hard drives which hold some my internal information. The computer in which those drives were installed is already dead. Could you tell me any way to erase data without using SCSI controller?
    I am not planning to physically damage the drives.
    Is it possible?

  17. Re:the trick is in the X... on Why (FM, Not XM) Radio Sucks · · Score: 1

    X-wife?
    X-champion, X-president...

  18. Easy! on Why (FM, Not XM) Radio Sucks · · Score: 1

    Forbid ALL advertisements on FM - and FM will be much much better.
    A lot of FM stations die - but others will be public only.

  19. They should on A Community Takeover of Mandrake? · · Score: 1

    Make getting their ISOs harder.
    Somehow parolling them or putting to easily slashdotted servers or... ( a lot of options).
    I downloaded Mandrake ISOs most of the time, while in December I finally bought Mandrake 9
    Power Pack off the shelf. If it would be a little harder to get those ISOs - it would be more options for me to convince my management to buy packaged Mandrake.

  20. Re:Legal implications... on When Appliances Revolt · · Score: 1

    Easy....
    A lot of highways have a LOWER limit of 40MPH.
    Suppose you tow a trailer and do not want to force your engine, so you chose to drive at lower limit. If you drive 40 KPH - you'll end up with somebody in the rear end of your trailer...

  21. Re:Clips are in .wma on When Appliances Revolt · · Score: 1

    I am lazy... :)

  22. Clips are in .wma on When Appliances Revolt · · Score: 1

    Any good person please tell us, bad Linuxers, what is going on on those clips?

  23. Notice of breach and termination of license? on Apple Smacks Down iCommune · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Slightly offtopic but should I (if I am a writer of GNU software) send such notice to the
    commercial exploiters of my program/library
    that do it without giving out the source code?
    How should it look like?

  24. Re:What about the retailers of the Universal Devic on DMCA Invoked Against Garage Door Openers · · Score: 1

    About a car. Guess what happens next?
    Legislator put a legislation that effectively
    put the price of insurance of such old cars to
    be much more higher than the new ("Safe" and
    "trackable", thanks to GPS).

  25. Re:I just shoot mine. on Data Mining Used Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    This is one of the good uses of a gun!