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  1. Re:THIS IS NOT RFID on Chase Deploying "Touchless" Credit Cards · · Score: 1

    ...have a range of a few centimeters at most...
    only if you use a standard reader.
    If you have a modified reader, which has enhanced, more powerful transmitter and more sensitive receiver, you can have larger distance...

  2. Re:THIS IS NOT RFID on Chase Deploying "Touchless" Credit Cards · · Score: 1

    It's actually not an encryption issue.
    An example of bad usage.
    B is a bad person
    A is a victim.
    B created an offshore company with ability to accept cards and named it a "food warehouse co"
    Then
    B get a (slightly modified for portabilty and with enhanced range) standard issue contactless reader and start walking near Dillons, Kroger, etc.
    When the reader get card info, the card is being charged for $5-15 from "food warehouse co".
    That's it.
    How a customer can prove he didn't bring this card to a reader? No easy way...

    When using contact card, a person can give or not give a card to a seller. In this case a person has no control to this card...

  3. Re:Flaming Foobar on Shorewall Developer Tom Eastep Quits · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Guess what?
    I am a bad coder and the only thing I can do is to write docs and translations. This is the only way (besides donations) I can help F/OSS...

  4. IRM on Software for Technical Support Tracking? · · Score: 4, Informative
  5. One word: CoLINUX on Roadblocks to Linux in Education · · Score: 1

    http://www.colinux.org/
    Installed properly, it can be used inside Windows.

  6. Sir, it's one line of code on Firefox Growth Slowing? · · Score: 1

    (in TCL)

    proc sortit {list} { return [lsort -integer $list] }

  7. Hate malware? on Stopping Unstoppable Malware? · · Score: 1, Informative

    Ditch M$ and install Linux!

  8. A disassemble of this virus on Trend Micro Bug Hits Several Important Computers · · Score: 2, Funny

    0x100000 hlt

  9. Re:..and fonts are programs. on Unintended Consequences of Using GPL Fonts · · Score: 1

    But it's actually a good idea to separate fonts into being an "other content" from the point of Free Software licensing policy. People aren't really expect fonts to be programs, even it's so in the internal side of things.
    May be GPFL?

  10. The price of evacuation from MKS on Sojuz on Crack Found in Shuttle Tank · · Score: 1

    ... is about 43 mln $
    according to
    http://www.lenta.ru/news/2005/04/07/mks/
    for 3 people.

  11. Re:Because... on True Visual Programming · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... by Anonymous Coward ... Trust me,

    Why should I trust the Anonymous Coward?

  12. I like it! on True Visual Programming · · Score: 2, Informative

    Also for control process applications an interesting thing is
    http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_pag econtent?lp=ru_en&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ipu.rssi.ru %2FLABS%2FLAB49%2Flab49rad.html
    made by Russian Institute or Control Sciences.

  13. What happens if... on Tracking GPL Violators · · Score: 1

    ... A company named A developed a software product and
    SELLS it under license of GPL. It offers source code on CD ONLY to registered customers of its product.
    AFAIK, this situation is OK and fine with GPL (RedHat, etc).
    But imagine: a person STEAL the CD with program codes from company A. Can he put the codes into internet? Will it be a legal GPL-d code?
    I think no.

  14. Re:coLinux and live CDs on Knoppix 3.8 at CeBIT w/ Kernel 2.6, FF, and More · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Why not run TightVNC session against coLinux running in Windows?
    I use it that way and it works very good.

  15. Obvious on Preparing for the Broadcast Flag? · · Score: 1

    I, for one, welcome our broadcast flag-waving overlords!

  16. Hostile Takeover of Software development company? on Infogrames Could Help Ubisoft vs. EA · · Score: 1

    Step 1: Takeover of company
    Step 2: Every developer leave
    Step 3: Developers incorporate under new company.
    Step 4: New company starts another product with help
    of the old customer base.

  17. Re:There is no such thing as "compatible with oper on Opera Facing Losses While Firefox Usage Grows · · Score: 3, Informative

    Actually, XSLT is a hidden, disguised Prolog. It is a declarative type language.
    You have to have a lot of expertise and/or great brains to code XSLT really good.

  18. FP on Microsoft Banning Modded Xboxen · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    First post!
    Actually, it's a Bad Thing!

  19. In Soviet Russia... on NASA Retires Vomit Comet · · Score: 0

    ... there are still some IL-76MDK with the same purpose present. NASA can simply rent those planes.

  20. Re:Shuttle Visit on ISS Expedition 9 Crew Finally Returns to Earth · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Although it's really good news that shuttle fleet will fly again, it's actually not for long...
    A pity, shuttles are very old now and none are in production to replace them.

  21. Now a Rubick's cube for military! on Rubik's Famous Magic Cube in Lego Form · · Score: 2, Funny

    Just use only green lego blocks for it!

  22. Re:I hate lawnmovers on Build Your Own Flying Lawn Mower · · Score: 1

    Ok, I can explain, why.
    The primary purpose of a lawnmower is to cut
    grass to create a lawn. For creating "best looking"
    lawns a lot of chemistry and genetically engineered plants are used. Runoff from that lawns goes strait into rivers, produing a lot of pollution.
    Also, it's plain annoying.

  23. I hate lawnmovers on Build Your Own Flying Lawn Mower · · Score: 1

    they are ecological nightmare and a public nuisance
    especially if you want to sleep in the morning.
    What can I say about flying lawnmovers?
    I hate them too...

  24. Re:Privacy concerns on Digital Cameras Help Alert Sleepy Drivers · · Score: 1

    Guess what? If you are driving near me, you are violating my right to walk free and safe, without any intervention from my side.
    Driving has no relation to freedom, it's all about safety.

  25. Re:Display really shines on Review Of Linux-based Motorola A768i · · Score: 1

    One of the worst experiences I have had with SonyEricsson T630 was that you cannot adjust brightness at all at its "shining" 65536 color TFT..