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  1. Re:Just when you thought.....(completely off-topic on OSI Approves Two New Licenses · · Score: 1
    Watch out... that would be still countable.
    You should find a contradictory licence, as, for example, being allowed to use the software for one day more than specified in licence i, with i taking values in N. If this new licence has index j, when i=j, the licence makes no sense and so the number of possible licences is not countable (btw, this method is called Cantor's diagonal argument, or something like that :-)

    Thinking about it again, this licence should probably be refined (perhaps with references to allowed use depending on the number of days since it starts to apply). And its being a paradox would probably invalidate it.

  2. Re:Have you tried the Google Cache? on Ed Felten in the Economist · · Score: 1

    Why not using the translator? It won't solve the problem with images, but
    http://translate.google.com/translate_c?hl=ID&u= UR

    (substitute ID for your destination preferred language (en if you want English) and UR for the desired URL).

    It certainly works for me (and if you want those images, you just can use the same trick, Translate will resend them with no change whatsoever)

  3. Re:Big consequences related to encryption on Turns out, Primes are in P · · Score: 1

    I thought the division problem was already an O(nlgn) problem, as product is.

  4. Re:Websense does ... on Interview with DMCA-challenger · · Score: 1
    Ok, so the tool is to blame. Never blame the tool, but the user. I don't like it a bit either, but there probably is some good us for it.

    Think about this: my company is about to get everything VLANed, so there goes interemployee exchange of data (it seems that sharing is such a baaad thing... as usual, trying to solve social problems with technological means will backfire... everybody is already angry about webmail being cut out -though they backpedaled- because we only have a 14Mbps Internet connection and we are handling 3TB of mails daily... yeah sure, so a company with over 7000 employees can afford ONLY 14Mbps to connect to Internet? Perhaps next time I need some data from the office and those shitty Exchange servers fall all down I will tell the customer sorry, I am not allowed by my company to solve your problem, please sit down and wait...)

    The real problem is our having some idiot as a CIO. Anyway Windows 1984 looks like a pretty good solution in the meantime :-)

  5. Re:Websense does ... on Interview with DMCA-challenger · · Score: 1

    Hold on, do not blame WebSense (which I currently suffer at work too) for what your admin is responsible of (or someone in upper management). I have just tested it and I get to www.aclu.org with no hassle whatsoever.

  6. Re:IE has the most uesrs on Web Designers Ignoring Standards and Support IE Only · · Score: 1
    Yes [s]he can :-)

    And you should take into account that the point isn't writing something so that every browser is used fully, but writing something all browsers can show. Note that it probably would force you to use plain text almost exclusively :-)

    And... by Jove, you made honour (if appliable) to your nick. Pity it drowns almost completely your arguing.

  7. Re:A couple Comdexs back... on Star Wars-like Holograms · · Score: 1
    That should be Comdeces then, as Comdices would be plural for Comdix :-)

    'til next post...

    Marcos (any likeness to chance is pure reality)

  8. Re:could help with last mile issues on Alternative Wireless Broadband for your Neighborhood · · Score: 1
    I think a 20 mile link should not be much too difficult to maintain. At half the frequency (the current 2.4GHz WiFi range) ranges from 10Km (of this I'm sure) up to 70 Km (somewhere at Chile) have been covered without much hassle. In fact, the 10Km link was established by chance when both teams were testing their directional antennas, and were starting to pack: the antennas weren't even adequately oriented.

    We all know that, the higher the frequency, the clearer the sightline must be, but that should be no real problem (use taller towers:-)

    'til next post...

    Marcos (any likeness to chance is pure reality)

  9. Re:Post Article? on 2600 Magazine Defeats Ford · · Score: 1
    May I suggest to you both using this workaround?

    http://translate.google.com/translate_c?hl=en& u=theURL

    It certainly jumps over WebSense(less) at my workplace (and it provides binary data with no hassles, too, so I can see the Dilbert strip quite painlessly.

    'til next post

    Marcos (any likeness to chance is pure reality)

  10. Re:you know what really bothers me? on Cable Firms Limit Users' Freedoms · · Score: 1
    Of course, but... why searching for such networks? There's a lot of xDSL/cable subscribers out there with their PCs open wide. It's not even worth the price of a wireless LAN card, methinks.

    By the way, I'm afraid DDoSing from a wireless LAN would still have a limit: the subscriber's net connection cap. So it would probably be useless.

    til next post...

    Marcos (any likeness to chance is pure reality)