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  1. Re:kinda silly on High Speed Travelator · · Score: 1
    don't we already have these?

    The Fine Article

    Two TRRs in sequence could be used over a distance of one kilometre - on the Champs-Elysees or at Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport for example, Mr Cote says.

    "The real problem nowadays is how to move crowds; they can travel fast over long distances with the TGV (high-speed train) or airplanes, but not over short distances (under 1km)," he says.

    You can travel from Le Mans to Paris in 50 mins, he points out, but crossing Montparnasse Station may take you 20 minutes.

    Conclusion No, we do not have this. I fail to see the sillyness.

  2. Re:Ham Radio on 2003 Amateur Radio Field Day · · Score: 1
    Maybe I missed something but how did this rate interesting? That sound more like a good way of getting rf burns. Even the low power used in 27MHz cb can be enough to give a painfull burn.

    Maybe I missed something, but how on earth are you going to get a burn from a crystal radio set?

    I think the poster was making reference to an historical era, when transmission of signals via electromangetic spectrum was new, and amatures had to hack around marconi's patents.

  3. needs a private eye on Getting Law Enforcement Action for a Large-Scale Hack? · · Score: 1
    I have legal insurance form work, so if this happend to me (a computer crime was committeed against me and no one would respond) I would utilize my benifit and get some pre-paid legal advise...

    I would not want to deliberately let my password get stolen unless I consulted with a lawyer, if it were me.

    Depending on the extent of the victimization by the scam and one's financial resources, hiring a private detective or "computer security consultant" to help collect evidence and track the criminals down may be an option.

    If you could hand the FBI a package of evidence with provenance, maybe they could take action later... or maybe you could take civil action.

  4. Re:This is giving me the cold sweats on Getting Law Enforcement Action for a Large-Scale Hack? · · Score: 1
    Humm, that sounds broken, or, at least it is not consistent with my user experience.

    Also, what if they had a reverse proxy on the ssh that went to your real host... they could have passed along your password to the real server (keeping a copy).

    Better Advise is "never, never! ignore when your client for a secured connection complains about non-matching keys." Investigate first!!!

  5. Re:Yeah, what about ethanol? on Corn-Based Plastic · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Producing ethanol from corn requires burning double the amount of gasoline already used in cars, according to a study conducted by UC Berkeley professor Tad Patzek and his freshman seminar of nine students. Source Daily California 6/10/2003

  6. alanis morissette fan? on Corn-Based Plastic · · Score: 1
    Isn't it Ironic that this posting is ironic only in the same sense as the song "Isn't it Ironic?" by Alanis Morissette?

    It's kinda short sighted, and reflective of the fact that the market does not factor in the economic costs of petro chemicals -- but I fail to see the irony.

  7. Re:Or open old? on Help Write An Open Data Format Bill · · Score: 1
    but one would think that a future version of a product should always be able to open past versions of documents for that product at a minimum

    That's nice, until there is no longer support for the product. And they 50 years go buy.

  8. life of the republic on Help Write An Open Data Format Bill · · Score: 1

    Government archives are supposed to be preserved for the life of the republic.

  9. ISO subset of Adobe Portable Document Format on Help Write An Open Data Format Bill · · Score: 2, Informative
    At Breakout Session 8 of the Spring 2003 Digital Library Federation Forum I learned that a "committee of government, industry, and academic representatives has started work on an International Standards Organization (ISO) specification for a basic subset of the Adobe Portable Document Format. Known as PDF/A, this specification will govern creation of documents that are self-contained, technologically stable, and have the basic properties that users need."

    At the session, I got the impression that most government agencies are moving towards PDF for records than need electronic retention.

  10. Re:The English are so charmingly eccentric on Broadband Barrage Balloons · · Score: 1
    Somebody tell this to the good folks in San Francisco, whose streetcars still use a cable drive

    err, only the *cable cars* use cable drive. Have you seen the routes they take over hills? You could not have those routes with any other technology. But the *streetcars* muni subway and BART are all electric drive, along with most busses.

  11. Re:I like Tags on HTML Rendering Crashes IE · · Score: 1
    I think you are right, 3 tags of HTML; 5 elements of XML, and it would be silly to argue that just because a program is in a text file with no line feeds, even though it has thousands of instructions of code (delimited by `;' etc.); was only "one line of code."

    Calling them tags for HTML rather than elements emphasizes that some random bits getting sent to the browser over http probably are not proper XML elements. I also feel that in XML talking about the elements rather than the tags emphasizes the fact that they are well formed and balanced.

    besides, one OS's line feed is the other's carriage return, or something like that.

  12. re: What a poorly written article on Charlie Northrup's One-Man Patent Grab Continues · · Score: 1

    I have to agree that the article read like a flame bait USENET post; but if DASCOA is an "acronym" ... for Discovery and Connectivity Oriented Architecture .. shouldn't that be DCOA or DACOA. Where is the "S" from?? I think "code word" has a higher degree of technical accuracy in this case. And yes, patents have minds :)

  13. Re:Why, oh why, don't they think long-term on Charlie Northrup's One-Man Patent Grab Continues · · Score: 1
    humm, are you sure its not:
    1. Patent something.
    2. Go after big corporations.
    3. ???
    4. profit!
  14. Re:No need to point out the obvious, changes neede on Charlie Northrup's One-Man Patent Grab Continues · · Score: 1
    I don't think mom and pop shops are using too much "web services" in the http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/ sense of the word.

    But this has such a buzz in the corporate world, I have to belive that he could get better leverage on corporate IT managers than mom and pop shops -- assuming that he wants to be a racketeer and shake people down with his patent lawyers.

  15. Re:Does IBM care about stupid patents anyway? on Charlie Northrup's One-Man Patent Grab Continues · · Score: 1

    you are probably right about portfolio size as a practical matter, but being first has got to have some weight? (If his are prior.)

  16. Re:Just do one thing for me on Why XML Doesn't Suck · · Score: 1
    Augh, no. You can't make a change to XML and just say "you don't have use it." Everybody who wrote a parser then needs to rewrite thier parser. Everywhere I read XML I have to check for you f-ed up end tags.

    I think XML has only changed once since it came out; mostly b/c of a change in Unicode, which it references. That is the best thing about it -- the format does not change.

  17. Re:Some people just don't "get" XML on Why XML Doesn't Suck · · Score: 1

    I don't think language means what you think it means, or maybe we are just not speaking the same one...

  18. Re:I DO hate XML on Why XML Doesn't Suck · · Score: 1
    the tags are all in lower case,

    no...but they are case sensitive.

  19. Re:SSN security at my old school on Slashback: Texasocial, Networking, Attacks · · Score: 1

    I was able to gain access without much work (and I suspect I could still do so). In fact, I have a file on my computer right now (encrypted of course) containing the names and SSNs of every faculty member of the entire district as of when I left. This includes janitors, teachers, principals, district administrators - anyone with an account on their system.

    Oh my god, where are your professional ethics?

  20. bite me steve: Safari requires the $129 Jaguar on All-New PowerBooks, Web Browser Featured at Macworld · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    From http://www.apple.com/safari/download/
    • Before you download
      Check the system requirements:
      • Mac OS X version 10.2 "Jaguar" or later
      • Any Macintosh computer

      Mac OS X 10.2 "Jaguar"
      $129.00
      [Buy Now]

    Jobs is more sinister than Gates! :) I wonder if there is any way I can go on the iSafari without taking a $69* chunk out of my wallet. (* $69 is the educational price of Jaguar)

  21. Re:Somebody explain this on The Case of the Missing Rocket Belt · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Just because a patent has expired, how does that invalidate a past-tense statement that he acquired a patent? If I buy a house, and then I lose the house because it burns down, its still valid to say that I bought a house, even though I don't have it anymore. I don't see where it says he still has patent rights today.

  22. Us/them on CA Court Favors Employees in Trade Secret Decision · · Score: 1

    individuals

    we are all individuals,

    at least I think that is a good ideal.

    I think that "much of the world would like America's prosperity and much of the world envies it. Well, these are the sorts of things you have to do if you want that prosperity. " -- could rightly be classified "flamebait"

    But, anonymous non-USA poster rightly call "crap" as you see it, where in the world do you get off speaking for the rest of the world. pashaw.

    no we
    no them
    only individuals

  23. Re:won't work for sex changes on Rabbits' Male Members Grown In Labs · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Women can get erect clits...

  24. My grandpa had two on The Bulova Accutron · · Score: 3, Interesting

    When he first heard of them, he ordered one in the mail. Before it was shipped, he found one in a store. My gandpa loved these watches. He said that they were the first rail-road approved wrist watch. Before the accutron, rail road conductors needed pocket watches to keep time well enough to run a rail way. He made a watch band that would let him wear both at once; so no matter what side of his arm he looked at he could see the time. He would set one to local time and the other to Pacific time when traveled to a different time zone. He was a real watch and radio nerd. He listened to WWV "at 10, 15, and 20 Mgz" (the exact time for navagation at sea) all the time so he would know how fast or slow all his watches and clocks were. He loved fixing and adjusting clocks. The accutron work by counting the number of times the tunning fork vibrates. He loved to put his ear to the watch and hear the little tunning fork keep time. He told me quartz clocks work the same way; only the frequency of quartz is way higher than the frequency of the tunning fork. Both are faster than the frequency of a pendulum.