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  1. Re:But what if I'm a repetitive compulsive buyer? on Swiss Researchers Find A Hole In SSL · · Score: 1

    No need to worry about this attack.

    You will self-destruct without assistance.

    Cyber-darwinism at its best.

  2. Re:RTFP people on Sun Releases Open Source XACML Language · · Score: 1
    One standard access control policy language can replace dozens of application-specific languages...

    One XACML policy can cover many resources...

    One language to rule them all...

  3. Re:Data from the government on Power Laws, Weblogs, and Your Given Name · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Also note that the name Richard drops out of the top ten in 1971 following Watergate (and still declining).

  4. Re:Sounds Familiar on First Cosmological Results From MAP · · Score: 1

    That should be barfly, not baryon.

  5. Re:Just a question on Demand More From Your Copper · · Score: 1

    I have been told that already phone transmissions are so clear that the telcos must add high-frequency noise to the line to give customers an audible clue that the connection is not dead.

    Now, clearly this is somewhat different than audio bandwidth, but the high-frequency bandwidth is wasted if it will be masked by artificial noise.

    Can anyone confirm whether this rumor is factual?

  6. My dust is more powerful than your dust! on SmartDust Sensorwebs 'Real Soon Now' · · Score: 1

    ...feed false data into the network

    That's it exactly. All you'd need as a countermeasure is to sprinkle your own dust over the same area programmed with some variant of an "internet worm", and (presto change-o) the original dust will get real confused.

    Gives a new meaning to the phrase "OS wars".

  7. Is it too late? on World's Most Accurate Lie Detector · · Score: 2, Funny
    Since this works with just a video of the face, is it too late to hook it up to the State of the Union broadcast?

    Or maybe they could just apply it during a replay.

  8. Re:BUSINESS breakthroughs on 85 Big Ideas that Changed the World · · Score: 1
    ...theory of relativity...didn't lead to jack shit.

    Except for maybe nuclear power (E=mc^2).

    Of course the special theory was complete long before 1917.

  9. Since we (men) are brain impaired... on Size Does Matter... But Only in Women · · Score: 1

    That's why we often have to think with our other organs.

  10. Imagine... on New Tadpole SPARCbook RSN · · Score: 1
    But, couldn't one set up a Beowolf Cluster of 20 used laptops running Debian for that much? :-)

    Imagine...lugging around a Beowolf Cluster in your brief case.

  11. Cost? on Hip Science: Better Bone Implants · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Clearly the cost of producing a ceramic hip in space would be prohibitive (ballpark: ~$1 million). Then what technology could possibly produce such a micro-gravity environment at sufficient scale on earth to effect manufacture cost-effectively? I suspect it's not as easy as floating a frog.

  12. Phooey! on Microsoft: You Need Permission to Sell Our Software · · Score: 1
    Yo, Bro!

    I don't want your steenking old weenndoze box. Mom's getting me a Dell (and a Slackware CD).

  13. Really? on Humans Use 83 Percent of Earth's Surface · · Score: 1
    Humans Use 83 Percent of Earth's Surface


    Neat trick since 2/3 of earth's surface is water.

  14. Cost... on Using Microwaves to Drill Through Glass · · Score: 1

    Forget the cost of the 500W laser. Have you priced a live shark lately?

  15. Imagine... on 10Gbps Wireless Transfers · · Score: 1
    Not sure what this would be usefull for..

    How cool would it be to use this to replace IDE/SCSI cabling?

  16. Re:What joke? on Microsoft Judge Takes His Case to the Public · · Score: 1
    The joke takes various forms. The punchline is that the trainer can get the mule to do anything, so long as he first whacks the mule over the head with a two-by-four (huge stick) to get its attention.

    I realize you were probably trolling for a goatse reference, but I thought some of the ESL readers might appreciate the explanation.

  17. Re:77 Million Years? on Dinosaur Mummy Found · · Score: 5, Funny
    What I'm asking all the geeks here...

    Don't you realize that (we) geeks are largely unsuccessful at dating.

  18. I hope on Cringley Asking for 12 Month Predictions · · Score: 1

    Ubiquitous Ogg-players.

  19. RIAA may be right on Report From RIAA v. Verizon Case · · Score: 1

    ...unless, of course, DMCA is found unconstitutional,
    but that would have to be determined by a court...go figure.

  20. Help me out here... on Turn-key Mesh Routing Access Point · · Score: 1
    So postulating an existing clump of machines composing a mesh network, is it possible that it could divide down the middle creating two independent yet functional networks?

    Then perhaps it might recombine once communication between the independent networks was re-established (here assuming that neither mutates during isolation to be incompatible with the other).

    This starts sounding like an organism.

  21. Cold Laser??? on Cold Laser Advanced As Carpal Tunnel Treatment · · Score: 1

    Better keep that cold laser out of the wrong hands.

  22. It's working... on Ballmer Wants to "Stomp Linux" Using MS community · · Score: 1
    Now Balmer is saying:

    "...our job is to provide a better product in the marketplace."

    Ain't competition grand!

  23. Mod me paranoid on Review: Spirited Away · · Score: 1
    Saw it Saturday at the Neptune in Seattle, and was impressed with the art and adaptation into English. I was disturbed by some of the irrationality of the story.

    Saturday night I had nightmares of being brainnwashed by a malevolent government agency, and when I woke up, I couldn't convince myself that the movie wasn't part of that conspiracy.

    Watch it with one eye half closed, or someone might steal your name.

  24. And what about thought experiments? on Most Beautiful Experiment in Physics · · Score: 1

    Schroedinger's cat will live forever.

  25. What about bus/network? on Seagate Overcomes Superparamagnetic Limit · · Score: 1

    Supposing one had a gigabit bus/network, it still will require around 8000 seconds (2-1/4 hrs) to tranmit a terabyte of data. So if there is a thousand fold increase in disk size and my 80 gig drive changes to an 80 tera drive, backups would take weeks.