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  1. Re:Why? on Space Station To Be Deorbited After 2020 · · Score: 1

    the ISS is at the low end of Low Earth Orbits, (160 - 2000 km). To boost 400,000 kg to 36,000 km geosynchronous with delta-v of over 1.6 km/s, would take an obscene number of boosting vehicles, I've given you the numbers to do the math

  2. Re:Finally on MS-DOS Is 30 Years Old Today · · Score: 1

    screw that, go to OS/2 1.2, you'll be much happier and have much more functionality. The torrents are out there!

  3. Re:DOS is crap, but DosBox is awesome. on MS-DOS Is 30 Years Old Today · · Score: 1

    OS/2 was cool, and more than a loader

  4. Re:Isn't MS becoming irrelevant? on MS-DOS Is 30 Years Old Today · · Score: 1

    eh, there is and has been windows versions for mobile and embedded devices, with more being developed. Windows Mobile 7 will support ARMv7. In a not totally unrelated aside, notice how many IT wares are at version "7" to ape Microsoft?

  5. Re:Still in use on MS-DOS Is 30 Years Old Today · · Score: 1

    FreeDOS has an awesome use. BIOS updates often run only under windows or under DOS, and that can be a problem for a GNU/Linux or BSD box. Two days ago I updated my BIOS by putting the .EXE on a FreeDOS CD-R.

  6. Re:Cue a gazillion posts... on MS-DOS Is 30 Years Old Today · · Score: 1

    we'd be running on Alpha chips!

  7. Re:Cue a gazillion posts... on MS-DOS Is 30 Years Old Today · · Score: 1

    who's depressed? The PC under CP/M would have been a better thing, as zcpr and other goodies added.

  8. Re:Can I Help Countersue? on HP Sues Oracle For Dropping Itanium Support · · Score: 1

    HP didn't kill the Alpha, look it up. DEC failed, sold Alpha to compaq, who already were deciding to phase it out and sold the IP to Intel. that was the knife to the heart of Alpha. HP bought compaq after that, and only planned to continue to sell Alpha to existing customer base with death of it the goal. Blame DEC for failing, blame Compaq for killing. HP just inherited a walking dead zombie.

  9. Re:It's sad... on HP Sues Oracle For Dropping Itanium Support · · Score: 1

    Compaq began the killing of the Alpha, and sold the IP to Intel, before HP ever got its mitts on it. Blame DEC for not being able to stay in business.

  10. Re:Contract is a contract on HP Sues Oracle For Dropping Itanium Support · · Score: 1

    So you're accepting HP's word at face value that there *was* a contract? Oracle says their was not, but just "talk" last september. Since they are both run by greedy evil lying sacks of shit, I'm curious why you'd believe any particular one.

  11. Re:Linux vs Git? on Linus' Other Gift to the World · · Score: 1

    not special? getting so many companies and people to *contribute* is the outstanding thing about Linux compared to the others. Why do the open source alternatives lag in device support? (and yes, I prefer some of the alternatives to Linux but still that mindshare thing is formidable)

  12. Re:What could go wrong? on Integrating Capacitors Into Car Frames · · Score: 1

    hah, a typical 9mm or 10mm bullet isn't going to just stop inside the door of any modern car. You'll have bigger concerns such as the holes in you or your passengers.

  13. Re:If that's not playing God, on CERN Ups Antimatter Confinement Record to 15+ Minutes · · Score: 1, Redundant

    nope, they're getting better at *storing* it, but there's no changing the fearsome energies to make it. We could make antimatter until the Sun burns out, and the total wouldn't be enough to blow your nose, let alone blow up a building.

  14. Re:If that's not playing God, on CERN Ups Antimatter Confinement Record to 15+ Minutes · · Score: 4, Informative

    since they've to date confined less than 400 anti-atoms, there is no danger of any kind of weapon being built with this kind of technology in the next few decades. Antimatter is horribly energy-intensive to make, well known stat you can check at wikipedia is at the current production rate at CERN it would take 100 billion years to make a gram of the stuff. We're not going to get the hundreds of tons for a fast starship drive this way.

  15. Re:If someone gets your hashed password.. on Cheap GPUs Rendering Strong Passwords Useless · · Score: 1

    hashes don't normally "go over the wire". They don't for web logins, they don't for remote logins. They reside in a file on the host. If you copy that hash file from machine to machine by insecure means that's your problem, not something a good admin does. Encrypted file copy is a nice feature of the ssh/sftp/scp suite. E

  16. Re:Password Plus CAPTCHA helps on Cheap GPUs Rendering Strong Passwords Useless · · Score: 1

    no need to change, 8 character using say 100 possible character password that isn't word or same as account name still can't be cracked by brute force attempts. Besides the challenge / response lag, and systems not allowing login for certain time after say 4 unsuccessful attempts, look at the math. That's only five attempts every five minutes or one attempt per minute allowed. That's 100 ^ 8 minutes for all possible combinations, or 10^16 minutes, or 2 x 10 ^ 10 years. The Sun would burn out first.

  17. Re:AFP on US Citizen Visiting Thailand Arrested For Blog Posting · · Score: 1

    both of you turn in your geek card immediately for not recognizing the Appletalk Filing Protocol

  18. Re:Jesus Christ. on Amazon and Barnes & Noble Jostle Over Battery Life Figures for Nook, Kindle · · Score: 1

    and I can do that 15,000 lbs. with my penis (assuming twenty 1 oz. lifts daily over 33 years)

  19. Re:something missing between your ears on Red Hat Pushes Out Enterprise Linux 6.1 · · Score: 1

    the clients of my employer are huge operations with budgets in the tens of millions to over a billion; they all run Oracle DBMS and related products but I have yet to see anyone using Oracle Enterprise Linux. It's all RedHat for the choice of Linux, and Solaris, AIX, HP/UX, and even some Windows for the rest.

  20. false cheating wives conclusion on What Internet Searches Reveal About Human Desire · · Score: 4, Insightful

    well known men on dating sites like to seek cheating wives because they are more likely to be discrete, have same risks associated with discovery, than single women who might try to attract attention to disrupt marriage for their benefit.

  21. Re:That's funny on Red Hat Pushes Out Enterprise Linux 6.1 · · Score: 0

    After they shafted the desktop users who help make them successful, and get them into the enterprise in the first place; by relegating them to guinea pigs for the half baked trial balloons in Fedora, RedHat earned the right to reset the version numbering system.

  22. Re:Now where CentOS 6? on Red Hat Pushes Out Enterprise Linux 6.1 · · Score: 1

    ISOS of RHEL 6 are worthless at this point because major kinks and bugs in the new release will be worked out over the next 6 months. RHEL 6 has big issues. I can't see how anyone would commit to it at this point

  23. Re:Cent OS ... 6.0 yet! on Red Hat Pushes Out Enterprise Linux 6.1 · · Score: 1

    nope, there is no Scientific Linux 5.6 yet, but CentOS has it because they do things properly. Some people need 5.x

  24. something missing between your ears on Red Hat Pushes Out Enterprise Linux 6.1 · · Score: 0

    What do you imagine "debranding" is? they have to compile everything from source and test, not a trivial process.

    The distro is getting bigger, building and testing "debranded" version will take longer unless more volunteers, money and hardware are donated. they give the world their work free of charge, but turds like you sit on your ass helping no one but bitch.

  25. Re:other ways to avoid suck on 9 Features We May See In Ubuntu 11.10 · · Score: 1

    I only know they all work in vmware workstation 7 and vmware 3i and 4. VMware virtualization is part of my job. But oddly enough I've never used vmware player.