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  1. Re:Always. on When Is a Self-Signed SSL Certificate Acceptable? · · Score: 1

    I thought that a couple years [okay, more than a couple] ago, Microsoft had someone [disgruntled employee] register a certificate under their name. Can't find a link, but maybe my memory is faulty.

  2. Re:One does not follow the other... on Japan Imposes "Fine On Fat" · · Score: 1

    The cheap WonderBread breads have the enriched white flour [overly processed and useless] AND the high fructose corn syrup.

    Two strikes against them.

  3. Re:One does not follow the other... on Japan Imposes "Fine On Fat" · · Score: 1

    Perhaps by the number of ingredients on the label. Once you exceed X number of ingredients, tax it or if any of the ingredients is high fructose corn syrup, hydrogenated oil or enriched flour [or any other known bad ingredient...nitrites etc], tax it.

    This way, fruits and veggies are untaxed. Meats may be a different story [saturated fat content]. Uh oh...looks like cheap breads will be taxed.

    Just a suggestion.

  4. Re:1984 on GoDaddy Silences RateMyCop.com · · Score: 1

    I don't know if 1.4 is incredibly low. All depends on the size of the town. We're a city of 100,000+ and I'm having a hard time remembering when the last time a person was killed by a cop. We did get the most violent city in Canada award a few years back though.

  5. Where there is smoke.... on "DonorGate" Is Latest Scandal To Hit Wikipedia · · Score: 3, Interesting

    there is fire. It seems that Mr. Jimmy Wales is the subject of a lot of news articles that don't paint him in a positive light.

  6. Re:Paint it green! on Building a Green PC · · Score: 1

    http://www.koolu.com/ has a green computer....and a black...and a silver and a pink. And it uses < 10W. Check it out.

  7. Re:Missing tag. on Birds Give a Lesson to Plane Designers · · Score: 2, Informative

    As you get bigger, the cross sectional area of your muscles and bones increases at the rate of L^2 [where L is the length], but your mass increases at a rate of L^3.

    As your size increases, your mass quickly outstrips the ability of your muscles and bones to sustain it.

    Interestingly, as your size decreases, it works the other way. Mass decreases at a cubic rate and strength [muscles/bones] decreases at a square rate. You become relatively much stronger.

    Gerbils can survive falls from any height, elephants break at 5-6 foot drops.

  8. Re:But will it... on One Computer to Rule Them All · · Score: 1

    He didn't blend....he rose from the rubble that was formerly his enemies.

  9. I don't like the acronym on Technical Risks of the US Protect America Act · · Score: 3, Funny

    RIAA, MPAA, and now USPAA....tell me you don't notice a problem here.

  10. Re:Technic's! on LEGO Brick 50th Anniversary · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The local toy store carries several sets worth > $100 from the 2007 lineup...all Technic. Heck, I purchased the big yellow mobile crane myself. I do not believe Technic is discontinued.

  11. Re:Looks like it has stopped, for now on NSI Registers Every Domain Checked · · Score: 1

    I wasn't able to reproduce it on a domain I tried either. Strange. Maybe they have given up already.

  12. Re:This is great. on Online Sex Offender Database Leads To Murder? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Not to defend anyone, but just to pose a question.

    If you are 18 and are going out with a 17 year old and you're a monster, what are you if you are 17 and going out with a 16 year old? What are you if you are 18 1/2 and dating someone who is 17 3/4? In three months, you'll both be "18". I guess we could ask if you are 18, just about to turn 19 and you are going out with someone who just turned 18, what are you then. And then why is it okay for a 45 year old man to marry a 35 year old woman? What is this thing that happens to a person's mind during that day just before his/her 18th birthday through the day of his/her birthday? And what if you're just going out for ice-cream?

    I'm just trying to figure out what "The Right Way" is. It is my understanding that 18 is a rather arbitrary age since voting, consuming alcohol (legally), and driving (legally) all have different ages associated with be able to perform said actions.

  13. Why $40 US, $60 Canadian? on Christmas Shopping For Your Nephew · · Score: 1

    The Canadian dollar hasn't had that kind of disparity for years and for the last month, the Canadian dollar has been at par with or higher than the American dollar!

    The American price should be the same as the Canadian price. I suppose the price should be a little higher than the $40, but $60 Canadian is equivalent to paying about $63 American. I wonder which site I will order from.

  14. Re:NetApp is hella expensive on NetApp Hits Sun With Patent Infringement Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    I don't believe I've heard of a NetApp 2050. I've heard of their 200 series, 800, 900, 3000 and 6000, but not 2000.

    In looking at the following link to speed, it appears that Sun's ops/sec rating is a little bit behind the NetApp units. And they don't mention the Sun 6140, so I don't know if it hasn't been tested yet or it is a typo.

  15. Re:What's the speed of force? on Matter Discovered Traveling at Near Light Speed · · Score: 1

    I have often had the same thought, except in my mental experiment, there is a rope instead of a pole.

  16. Re:Police are stunned! on Major UK Child Porn Investigation Flawed · · Score: 1

    "Why should I believe you? You're a criminal! Criminals lie all the time."

    Something like that was quoted from the 15 year old that was jailed for 12 days due to the DST change this year.

  17. Re:Perl versus Python on What is the Best Bug-as-a-Feature? · · Score: 1

    Are you saying that the set of integers is not a subset of the reals?

  18. Re:Just like the average ask slashdot.. on Managing Lots of IP Addresses? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What an annoying comment....perhaps a troll.

    Asking slashdot is informative for everyone. Sure, google may turn up a few thousand hits, but there may still be some gems hidden in there that slashdot can provide links to.

    Maybe people will find a new version/product that they didn't know they wanted/needed.

  19. Happened recently with a snowboard on Been Robbed Recently? Check Ebay · · Score: 1

    ...here in Ontario. A person [girl I think] had a snowboard stolen from the hill. Went on ebay to find a replacement and found her own, just like the GPS story.

  20. Re:We should be watching the enviromentalist money on How ExxonMobil Funded Global Warming Skeptics · · Score: 1

    slightly warmer temperatures.

    North Western Ontario in Canada. Temperatures are normally -15 to -20 degrees Celsius in January [4 to -5 degrees fahrenheit].

    For the last two weeks we have been bombarded with rain showers and temperatures ranging from 0 to +6 Celsius [32 to 42 Fahrenheit]. Prior to that we have had maybe 1 or two weeks where the weather has been close to seasonal norms. We have barely any snow since its all been washed away. We're a national cross country ski training centre and there is nothing to train on. In the last several years, local ski shops have gone out of business due to change of climate. I even remember seeing trees sprouting leaves in early December a couple years ago when the normal temperature was supposed to be -5 to -10 Celsius.

    Global warming. If anyone doesn't think its happening, they need to give their head a shake.

  21. Re:Don't teach the language on Resources for Teaching C to High School Students? · · Score: 1

    I too remember that book. Lots of interesting chapters at a level you never hear about these days [outside university]. Lists, line intersection, string searching, random numbers etc. Everything you see in a book store [normal book store, not post-secondary education book store] is all about teaching yourself something in 24 hours or something like that. That book provides a lot of meat and potatoes....gravy comes later.

  22. Re:transport losses? on Solar Cell Achieves 40% Efficiency · · Score: 1

    Wow, if I could reduce my monthly electricity bill by $150US, I'd be laughing. As it is, I'm about $135 Canadian every TWO months. Although, I believe in Ontario right now, residents get their electricity rate capped at $0.06/Kwh or something like that. Basically, as it is now, my bill is almost 50% delivery charges to the home. Solar Panels might take out that delivery charge.

  23. Re:Domain owners: Set up SPF NOW!!! on What's With All This Spam? · · Score: 1

    Sender Policy Framework. Almost like a reverse MX record that states what servers/IP addresses mail for a specific domain can come from.

    One of the most interesting parts about it is the availability of the 'exists' function. By placing an 'exists' statement in your spf record and using some of its variables, you can actually record in your DNS logs what IP addresses are sending email from your domain. You can also see what users are sending from what IP addresses [and what accounts are bogus]. This only works when some mail server receives a mail from your domain and they ARE checking SPF records though. Mail servers that are not using SPF will not generate these specially formed DNS queries.

    Interesting information. It will allow you to study email regarding your domain allowing you to enforce SPF [instead of just using the ~all suggestion] when it will least affect your customers.

  24. CommuniGate Pro on Which Asterisk Or Other VoIP System To Deploy? · · Score: 1

    Why not give the personal version of CommuniGate Pro a try for testing? Its a enterprise level mail server that for the last two years has been promoting SIP capabilities.

    CommuniGate Pro operates on dozens of platforms [Linux, UNix, Windows, VMS, OS/2...check out their website]. The same binary that runs a free 5 user license is the same one that operates clusters of millions of users.

    Technically, it could replace all computer communications with email/SIP/video/VoIP. Here is an article [pdf] outlining their attempt to expand to home users: HERE

  25. Re:lack of excercise and obesity AND PLASTICS on Testosterone Tumbling in American Males · · Score: 1

    So, everyone enjoy your Nalgene bottles. Polycarbonate...nalgene and all the knockoffs. It is funny that Brita water is supposed to filter your tap water, but the container it is stored in is polycarbonate.

    Also, beware of plastic baby bottles. Some of them are also polybarbonate. And what do you usually put in a baby bottle? Warm milk. Give the baby's an extra dose of hormone before they're a year old.