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  1. Re:The finest operating system on earth on Top 25 Innovations of the Past 25 Years · · Score: 1

    well, that's really saying Unix is, and since the makers of the list stretched the 25 year limit a bit, we should be able to do so also. Maybe half the list could just be rolled in to category of "microcircuitry"

  2. Re:Here's a novel idea. on Mobile Users Plug-in Anywhere They Can · · Score: 1

    heh, maybe those outlets are for the same "maintenance people" who plug their vacuum cleaners into my orange computer-only outlets and UPS sockets. Anyway, I say airports need to build a huge infrastructure of recharging/mobile use outlets since we are making them rich.

  3. Re:Umm... on Business Under Fire · · Score: 1

    here's some interesting poop

  4. Re:Itaniums still have a place on Microsoft Drops Windows XP for Itanium · · Score: 1

    HP itself is pushing SMP x86 Linux servers - why buy the lower performance Itanium systems which doesn't have as wide an application base? HP sure needs to consolidate its product line, it has nonstop MIPS based servers, Itanium, pa-risc, x86, alpha....like, dang!

  5. Re:This is why I always use my own mail server on Conspiring Against Your Employer? Watch What You Email · · Score: 1

    hope you use ssh to get to that, so at least your employer doesn't know what the connection to yourdomain.com is doing

  6. Re:Yikes - analog recordings aren't live on Last Manufacturer of Pro Analog Audio Tape Closes · · Score: 1

    an analog recording is much inferior to a live performance, information is lost and/or distorted and I CAN tell the difference! Analog recordings are just a lower quality representation of reality in a more convenient format! Poo on both of you !

  7. Re:Red vs. Green lasers on Laser Painting Could Lead to 25-Year Prison Term · · Score: 1

    actually, the human eye is much more sensitive to light in about the greenish-yellow portion of the spectrum...the green laser pointers aren't stronger.

  8. Re:Ease Up on the Paranoia on Laser Painting Could Lead to 25-Year Prison Term · · Score: 1

    oh? seems by what you're saying the Patriot Act has no use in this situation, as existing law is just fine. In fact, I would say the same thing abuot ANY crime that truly needs federal law enforcement action.

  9. Re:The perfect solution... on Quest For "Unbreakable Java" Unites ABAP & Java · · Score: 1

    heheh, it seems wives are like gas stations, some are full service, some have partial service, and others make you self service.

  10. Re:Better Safe Cracking through Chemistry on Safecracking for the Computer Scientist · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That's iron oxide (rust), by the way. Anyway, was just making the point that to drill a safe or vault that actually held something of great value (not the $150 sheet-metal-coated-concrete type you get at Walmart or Office Depot) won't be like what you see in the movies: someone reaching into a pouch under their coat and pulling out a carpenter's cordless and making a half inch or bigger hole in a half foot or more of armoured steel. Now, if they have a Ford F-3 parked on the street, running a construction generator pumping out a few dozen amps at 240VAC, with a bundle of cables & hose coming into the door, and a drill motor with more power than a driving lawnmower, then yes, a man can "quickly" drill a hole in a half foot or more of armor.

  11. Re:Better Safe Cracking through Chemistry on Safecracking for the Computer Scientist · · Score: 4, Informative

    uh-huh, ever try to drill a *small* hole into armor plate with man-portable power tools? Please try that sometime, I would reccomend warming up by attempting said feat on an iron beam used to make the average american skyscraper. I actually tried that in my apartment in Chicago to mount something in the window; once through the drywall my eighth-inch titanium nitride bit powered by third horsepower motor did nothing more than polish the steel. embarrasing. Anyway, to put in water and explosive you'll need what, a one-inch hole? Maybe an oxygen lance would be better.

  12. Re:not that obscure on Safecracking for the Computer Scientist · · Score: 3, Insightful

    heheh, I think there's problem of a growing number of people who don't *bother* to read, though they have the gift of literacy. I don't think most computer geeks are guilty of that, however - everyone I know who's into IT in some also likes to read real live physical books.

  13. not that obscure on Safecracking for the Computer Scientist · · Score: 3, Informative

    The information for the way that locksmithing is done (including lock picking) is available in most libraries. Ditto for safe and vault construction methodologies for the past 120 years.

  14. Re:Science over everything on One Year on Mars · · Score: 1

    I don't see much difference between science and religion: they both have many competing alternate views & explanations for the same thing, they both have fundamentalists who will reject out of hand anything that conflicts with their world view, they both have politics and politicians, treachery, liars who distort truth, prophets, they both have had governments adopt them as a foundation and then gone on to do great crimes against humanity.....in short, science can be a great thing, but is subject to the same problems as any other human endeavor

  15. Re:Microsoft Cluster Server (MSCS) on Microsoft Finally up for Distributed Computing? · · Score: 1

    it seems this article is talking about a more loosely distributed computing model than clustering, but then I'd say Windows has been capable of many types of distributed and parallel architectures for years too - with middleware, with various rpc, with many tools that are used in the Linux/Unix world to build both distributed and parallel systems also ported to windows (such as many flavors of MPI. Just another way to do the same stuff that's already been possible for at least 5 years...

  16. Re:Where does this leave us? on Samsung Announces Zero Dead Pixel Policy · · Score: 1

    the best cell phones? The Asian ones have more kid's toy type of features, but for reception & sensitivity Motorola easily beats any of the asian ones I've oned.

  17. Re:Not dumb as a sack of hammers ... on $1.5 Million Bar-code Scheme Bilks Wal-Mart Stores · · Score: 1

    Unlikely a person who knowingly has a counterfeit $100 and the willingness to spend it is going to waste it on 50 cents of gum when Walmart has those nifty microwave ovens & TV's & such? And travelers carry large bills because small ones are too bulky.

    My boss/company owner just gave me and everone else in his company an envelope of two $50 bills for the new year, maybe I should buy a candy bar.....

  18. Re:Homeowners be very careful with this on Wireless Security By The Gallon · · Score: 1

    There's plenty of deoderants that use zinc based compounds, if it makes you feel better. Also, you can get rock salt deoderants that keep bacteria from growing - sweat but don't stink

    There's many different compounds of aluminum and copper (and a couple of those copper ones are good for you and needed by the body), and also don't confuse elemental forms with all the salts, ceramics, oxides, etc. A blanket statement that any and all compounds based on element x are bad and need to be abated is too broad, the whole crust of the earth has loads of aluminum silicates in it - one would have a hard time avoiding or abating dirt & clay & bedrock.

  19. Re:Not dumb as a sack of hammers ... on $1.5 Million Bar-code Scheme Bilks Wal-Mart Stores · · Score: 1

    I've used $100 bills at Walmart; why do you assume the bill was fake? - there's alot of very obvious anti-counterfeiting measures in the new bills that just need a glance and a touch to verify. If a fake bill $100 does get passed, the secret service gets interested quickly, and Walmart will have video of the person, transaction and vehicle in which they drove away.

  20. Re:Redmond's finest on IBM Grid Near 50,000 machines - Slashdot Users #13 · · Score: 1

    only if it loads Quarterdeck Office System's QEMM386.SYS!

  21. Re:Don't forget Poincaré on 100 Years of Einstein · · Score: 1

    and you can derive at least 2 of maxwell's equations from S.R./L.R./P if you're clever (which I'm not but I have textbooks that do so)

  22. Re:Don't forget Poincaré on 100 Years of Einstein · · Score: 1

    And Poincare's discovery and Einstein's special theory of relativity really just rehash the Lorentz-Fitzgerald transformation to more properties than just an object's length. While General Relativity is an open question, Special relativity is useful in everything from nuclear power to CRT/vacuum tube/X-ray machine design

  23. Re:Sorry so late... on 2004 MN4 Probably Won't Kill Us · · Score: 1

    I seem to remember a routine where the soldiers were confused: "let's see, is it pillage the women, rape the cattle, loot the forest & burn the money ....?"

  24. fire hazard on Wireless Security By The Gallon · · Score: 1, Insightful

    metallic paint might do the "Hindenburg thing" and quickly engulf the room. Also, metal fires are hard to put out.

  25. Re:Well... on Wireless Security By The Gallon · · Score: 1

    of course, twisted pair leaks a little as well, maybe coax would be better for the truly paranoid, or fibre with shielded transceivers?