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  1. Re:Matter People, Matter!!! on German Physicists Claim Speed of Light Broken · · Score: 1

    Photons have no REST mass, but they do have mass. Rest mass is the important one for these equations, so people say that they have no mas, but that isn't strictly true.

  2. Re:nic can take down a segment on One Failed NIC Strands 20,000 At LAX · · Score: 1

    Actually, you should flip the switch in back, then remove the ATX cord from the motherboard. OR you should separately ground the case (the better option). The case should be grounded for all work done.

  3. Re:No surprise, but it won't work on Microsoft Fracturing the Open-Source Community · · Score: 2, Informative

    The only way they can combat people switching Linux to other hardware is to be better supported than any other hardware.

  4. Re:Nevada is a One-party Consent to Tape State on Dateline NBC Mole Outed At DefCon · · Score: 1

    He's right. The sky I'm looking at is a greyish-blue. Mostly grey.

  5. Re:Moving Target - ntfs-3g on Cross-OS File System That Sucks Less? · · Score: 1

    Wubi is an .exe installer for Ubuntu. It doesn't repartition the drive, it runs off of NTFS.

  6. Re:So what happens now on Cisco to Kill Linksys Brand Name · · Score: 4, Informative

    This is true. But they still sell one with the extra memory as the WRT54GL. (L for Linux.)

  7. Re:Another possibility.... on Five Finger Keyboards · · Score: 1

    It exists, it's called MessageEase. Exideas makes it, it's a very nice, fast way to type, much better than the crappy miniature qwerty keyboards.

  8. Re:AKA chording keyboard on Five Finger Keyboards · · Score: 1

    I also experienced a decrease in pain from sustained typing by switching to DSK. But the typing speed IS there, I went from 97 WPM sustained to 120 wpm sustained, without increasing the number of errors. I can still type quite fast on qwerty, and I have memorized the key-sequences to switch a windows XP computer to DSK (and back) for when I have to use someone else's.

  9. Re:But what if youv got the AIDS? on HIV Vaccine Ready For Clinical Trials · · Score: 2, Informative

    I recall an article recently that showed that nearly 80% of the "junk" DNA is actually involved in feedback loops controlling the activation of other DNA and such. There's probably very little junk, we just don't see what everything does yet.

  10. Re:Defending stupidity... on Holes Remain Open in Firefox Password Manager · · Score: 1

    Diceware. Kee-Pass Password safe. etc. There are ways to either remember relatively secure passwords (diceware) or store & use random passwords in a secure manner (kee-pass).

  11. Re:The evil CDT on Senate Committee Passes FCC Indecency Bill · · Score: 1

    Some days I REALLY hate having a photographic memory.

  12. Re:Another Use for VMWare on Vista Makes Forensic PC Exam Easier for Lawyers · · Score: 1

    True. Instead of using Truecrypt, have the Truecrypt file BE an alternate data stream, with a hidden partition inside. Not secure against a forensics expert, but ever so slightly better against an initial search.

  13. Re:Two options on Scanner Spots Open Source Installations · · Score: 1

    Or, you could buy support from Canonical. There ARE vendors for quite a lot of FOSS software, and most of those vendors make their money off of selling support.

  14. Re:That must be how... on Consumerist Catches Geek Squad Stealing Porn · · Score: 1

    If the computer was windows, he may have had no choice but to peek! He said he was prepping the drive for a re-format, that generally indicates backing up all private data, however well-hidden it may be (programs aren't always nice, they don't all store everything in the Documents and Settings folder, so you have a responsibility to go looking for any data the customer may want saved. And plenty of people would be rather annoyed if you deleted their porn folders.) Now, since he was looking for customer data to backup, he was probably using windows explorer. It displays thumbnails (or a slideshow) of folders containing only images by default. Porn folders are rarely named "Porn" (Mine is, but it's on a truecrypt volume...) They are normally named things like "Taxes" or "aoeu786893th". So when you open the folder to see if there is anything inside, you get thumbnails/slideshow of the porn folder. And if those thumbnails show kiddie porn, well, you're in the situation of the GP.

  15. Re:Then there is "entrapment". on Consumerist Catches Geek Squad Stealing Porn · · Score: 1

    I do support/repair/recovery, and I often see media like this. I don't copy it for personal use, but I do copy it to a backup if I need to re-install/upgrade the OS, etc, along with all other important data on the computer. Making a backup of a customer's data is responsible. Looking through the backup and taking data for personal use is irresponsible and unethical.

  16. Re:OBLIG: Imagine a beowolf... on Linux Computer in USB Key Form-Factor · · Score: 1

    Or, you know, you could use USB extension cables.

  17. Re:I'm confused on Black Hole Information Loss Paradox Solution Proposed · · Score: 1

    It won't be big enough to avoid evaporating.

  18. Re:Dumb question... on Will AT&T Start Filtering Your Connection? · · Score: 1

    They are liable EXCEPT when such liability is prevented by the DMCA Safe Harbor provision, which is a bit like common carrier status for ISPs. This would void that.

  19. Re:Who? on Shuttleworth Says No Patent Deals With Microsoft · · Score: 1

    They're killer robotic hounds with nerotoxin-emitting fangs.

  20. Re:It will come up sooner or later... on What's the Worst Technical Feature You've Used? · · Score: 1

    No, the BIOS runs on the CPU. That function is normally just turns all the overclock settings off completely and lets you reconfigure.

  21. Re:Here's how it works from another perspective on How Image Spam Works · · Score: 1

    No, it's funny. IQ ALWAYS has the average at 100. If you increase the average intelligence you simply move where people are in the curve.

  22. Re:what *I* want to know more than any of this.. on Hubble Space Telescope Detects Ring of Dark Matter · · Score: 1

    An anti-proton is a particle with the mass of a proton but negative charge. A positron is a particle with the mass of an electron but positive charge. Photons have on charge. So there is anti-electricity (positron flow) but no anti-lasers. There may in fact be anti-dark matter. There is certainly anti-dark matter that is baryonic, non-baryonic matter may not have charge and thus not have anti-particles. And the anti-dark energy thing uses the same reasoning. The above is rather simplified and therefore wrong, but right enough that it should be understandable.

  23. Re:Dear God. on Human Blood May Contain A Cure For AIDS · · Score: 1

    Oh, if you are God, why did you misspell the tetragrammaton: YHVH? ChaoticcCCCCcaally, Pope SoAnIs Peregrinus the First, Deathbird of the Outlands, Guardian of the Great Wheel, Head Knight of the Order Of The Five Sided Temple, Priest of Loki, KSC, POEE.

  24. Re:honest reform = kill all patents on Legislation To Overhaul US Patent System · · Score: 1

    The point of patents is NOT to provide an incentive to invent. The point of patents is to provide an incentive to share inventions and the processes used to make them work. This is why all patents are public and have limited terms: so that the patent becomes public property after the term is up, and anyone can use it. Patents could be implemented as a pure incentive to invent, with the actual methods the patent uses kept secret by the patent office, but they were designed specifically not to do this.

  25. Re:Nickelback? on Faster P2P By Matching Similiar Files? · · Score: 1

    It doesn't care about the filename of the output file, but does it care about the filename of the input file (IE the remote file)?