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  1. Re:Use GnuPG on Seeking a Practical Guide to Digital Signatures? · · Score: 1

    It's a matter of being able to verify the signature. It doesn't have anything to do necessarily with encryption.

  2. Re:Here's how to do it on Genetically Engineered Malaria-Resistant Mosquito · · Score: 1

    Yeah, the HIV carrying mosquito would be great until it spreads into your neighborhood.

  3. Re:First question: on Seeking a Practical Guide to Digital Signatures? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    guest?

  4. First question: on Seeking a Practical Guide to Digital Signatures? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Are your customers willing to do this? While I'm sure there's a contingent out there that is willing to dive in and get rid of all the face to face visits and FedEx packages, I'm not so sure that they number past a few. Most companies that I have the pleasure of dealing with would much rather seal decisions with a pen than email.

    A Google search on this topic pops up quite a bit of broken links. :-(

  5. Re:Vote on Future Computers · · Score: 1

    I'd say Heisenberg. Actually I could go either way.

  6. Re:What I find truly amazing on Future Computers · · Score: 1

    You aren't saying that you think human brain activity is a function of (possibly) extra-dimensional interaction, are you?

  7. Re:Future Computer on Future Computers · · Score: 1

    their molecular structures perfectly alligned to carry out not only bodily functions but also for computational needs

    'Scuse me for a minute. I really gotta take a memory leak.

  8. Re:Sarah! on Future Computers · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    She looks like a sweet, gentle young golden retriever mix, a little on the small side. It also appears as though she was rescued in Pecos with a litter of 7 puppies who were only 10 days old. I bet they've all been adopted--so she's ready for a home of her own. She seems to have a calm temperament and is a very loving girl. She'd make a great family dog

  9. What I find truly amazing on Future Computers · · Score: 4, Interesting

    We have this 3-5 pound computer sitting in our heads that is so powerful that we can't emulate it with any success. To boot, it doesn't use hardware like we normally think about it.

    When the claim comes up that someday we will use biological computers, custom grown neurons that will do calculations for us and grow beyond our own puny brains, I can only nod my head in agreement. Our hardware can't be so difficult to figure out, we've got the raw components, we just need to know the schematics.

    It's only a matter of time.

  10. Re:Opera What? on A First Look at Netscape 7 · · Score: 1

    Now the circle is complete.

  11. Re:Men's bathroom on E3 Doom III Preview · · Score: 1

    Teacher: Class, what can we infer from Wumpus's post?

    Student 1: He wants to go to Mars?

    Teacher: No, but good guess. Anyone else?

    Student 2: He's never been a public men's bathroom?

    Teacher: Yes! Great job. You get a GOLD star!

  12. Re:mod that shitniz up on E3 Doom III Preview · · Score: 1

    Its spelling is shit, but it is pronounced shiznit.

    It has become acceptable to spell the word in the way it is pronounced, though, as demonstrated on Snoop Dogg's song Tha Shiznit.

  13. Re:So what? on Microsoft Battles Free Software at Pentagon · · Score: 1

    C'mon RM, you know that this wouldn't be news except that the real story is that Linux (aka "Free Software") is supplanting Windows in the Pentagon.

    Anyway, as for Mitre, they are a non-profit group with a pro-Linux stance. It's no surprise that their study came out in favor of Linux. It's like asking your local LUG to recommend an OS: it's just dumb to ask.

  14. Nothing like drumming up business for yourself on Microsoft Battles Free Software at Pentagon · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Mitre may have a reason they want to encourage Linux in the gov't.

  15. Re:Why can't they make mosquitos... on Genetically Engineered Malaria-Resistant Mosquito · · Score: 1

    Get mosquito-bitten enough times and you'll develop an immunity. Or an allergy...

  16. Re:Jeese on E3 Doom III Preview · · Score: 1

    Richard paints a picture of how it's gonna be.
    By now I should know better, software ain't never free.
    He tells me all about the little copyleft guarantee.
    Richard you won't never sell that dream to me.

  17. Re:originality on E3 Doom III Preview · · Score: 1

    Heh. Just like every other FPS.

  18. Re:Co-Op on E3 Doom III Preview · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yep. I heard that you'll be able to sell your own organic fruits and vegetables to unsuspecting yuppie zombies on level 6.

    Co-ops are great for fresh food, but are you going to be able to keep up with the demand for fresh brains?

  19. Scared to hell? on E3 Doom III Preview · · Score: -1, Troll

    Code for "Lots of monsters and worse lighting for effect".

    These are not the games we're hoping for.

    Move along. Move along.

  20. Re:Interesting possibilities on Genetically Engineered Malaria-Resistant Mosquito · · Score: 1

    Morphitoes?

  21. Don't need quinine anymore on Genetically Engineered Malaria-Resistant Mosquito · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Just make sure that you're only bitten by these malaria-resistant mosquitoes.

    Wonder if it's possible if they could introduce this new species in the old environment and have it wipe out the old kind. That's what they do with killer bees, they replace the killer queen with a homely queen and all the bees born thereafter and normal and well-adjusted.

  22. Re:Microsoft heavy handedness vs. Cost effectivene on Slashback: Moonbase, Schools, Entropia · · Score: 1

    Interesting. You feel that charging customers is wrong. Do you think Microsoft (or any manufacturer) should be required to furnish educational institutions their wares at no cost?

  23. Re:Heh on New Internet2 Land Speed Record · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hmm... Someone found a computer I logged into...

    Please mod down. (this one too)

  24. Heh on New Internet2 Land Speed Record · · Score: 0, Funny

    Shit, I passed for than that this morning.

    Damn Montezuma!

  25. Re:Another nail in the coffin? on Embedded Linux Journal Ceases Print Publication · · Score: 1

    If there's anything Microsoft has taught us, it's that badmouthing the next strongest competitor is good business.