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  1. Re:Welcome to the New World Order on DirecTV Sues Anyone Who Bought Smartcard Reader? · · Score: 1

    We have those on cassete tapes in the US, and on AUDIO CD-R's. (cd-rxg discs retail for up to $12.99 each! cheapest on froogle is $3.99 each!)
    Of course most people aren't stupid enough to buy an Audio CD-Recorder when a computer works fine.

  2. Re:Great! on DirecTV Sues Anyone Who Bought Smartcard Reader? · · Score: 1

    Your tax dollars at work...

  3. Re:Whatever you beam into my house and body is MIN on DirecTV Sues Anyone Who Bought Smartcard Reader? · · Score: 1

    Actually this would be legal.

    (Unfortunately) there are laws prohibiting cracking sat signals, but not for eavesdropping.

  4. Re:BARRATRY! on DirecTV Sues Anyone Who Bought Smartcard Reader? · · Score: 1

    FWIW, $100,000 was the amount awarded to DTV for THEIR legal fees, not how much the class action lawyer would charge his clients.

  5. Re:Huzzah! on Freenet 0.5.2 Released · · Score: 1

    So, why don't you set the datastore size to 0?

  6. Re:pfft.. on Freenet 0.5.2 Released · · Score: 1


    As mentioned in other threads, try Frost .

  7. Re:Thermodynamics on Ten Lies About Microprocessors · · Score: 1
    Now, a significant percent of the consumed energy will be dissipated as heat.

    Sorry, all consumed energy will become heat (and will be radiated as heat).

    The wattage consumption of a solid-state device is equal to its heat output (or heat+light output, in the case of an LED or lightbulb or CRT, but light becomes heat too).

    Of course, you may have some of the electricity going to memory writes or something, but eventually, it all becomes heat.

    10 150W lightbulbs (in a closed room with no windows for the light to escape) will heat the room exactly the same as a 1500W space heater or a 1500W electric stove or a 1500W microwave, or 10 computers which each draw 150W (as measured at the A/C socket, not the computer power supplys output rating or whatever).

    Even if you were to talk about electric cars or whatever, after internal friction + road friction + air resistance (air friction) it all becomes heat.

    This is all basic thermodynamics. Where do you think the electricity goes? Look up the definitions of friction and electrical resistance, etc.; they are essentially the same.

    I understand what he thought he was saying.
    I also understand that power consumption = heat output. That's why the statement was redundant.
    If you look at it the way it was meant, it doesn't make sense as it would contradict thermodynamics, as do you.

  8. Up to you on Is Latex Still Worth Learning? · · Score: 1

    I got through my CS undergrad program using other programs (AmiPro or Word for papers, CorelDraw for crude flowcharts (Visio or something else would be better if you're doing a lot of charting)).

    Most of the CS professors used tex, and one or two advocated it, but we turned in most stuff on paper, and ascii if electronic, so it didn't matter what you used, and I never had any problem for not using tex.
    However, I wasn't doing much with formulae.

    If you're not planning on going to grad school or publishing, you'll probably never _really_ need it, but if you want to learn it, why not?

  9. Re:Free registration..some implications on Web Caching: Google vs. The New York Times · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yeah, I always like to try abuse@domain for sites that require registration. Kinda mean to the postmaster, but if I "opt-out" and they still send something then they're spammers anyways.

  10. Re:Another reason to avoid CA on How to Legally Infuriate the RIAA? · · Score: 1
    My understanding is they belonged to William Hurstes' private zoo untill they escaped and started living well in our relitivly lion free enviroment

    I don't know if they were in a zoo at one time, but they didn't "escape", they are presently "free-range" zebras, wandering around on fenced Hearst property, some of which borders US Highway 1 (aka Pacific Coast Highway).
    The ones I've seen were a ways north of Hearst Castle on US 1.

  11. Re:Liars!! on Top Five Reliable Providers · · Score: 1

    1. Learn how to read nmaps output.

    nmap -O -p80 -v www.interland.net

    Starting nmap V. 2.54BETA31 ( www.insecure.org/nmap/ )
    No tcp,udp, or ICMP scantype specified, assuming vanilla tcp connect() scan. Use -sP if you really don't want to portscan (and just want to see what hosts are up).
    Host (64.226.3.126) appears to be up ... good.
    Initiating Connect() Scan against (64.226.3.126)
    Adding open port 80/tcp
    The Connect() Scan took 1 second to scan 1 ports.
    Warning: OS detection will be MUCH less reliable because we did not find at least 1 open and 1 closed TCP port
    Interesting ports on (64.226.3.126):
    Port State Service
    80/tcp open http

    No OS matches for host (test conditions non-ideal).
    ...
    then it shows YOUR OS version.

    2. use an http viewer:
    $ client http://www.interland.net
    HTTP/1.0 200 OK
    Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0
    Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 20:58:05 GMT
    Content-Length: 12191
    Content-Type: text/html
    Set-Cookie: ASPSESSIONIDQQQGQARU=AIPJFMLAECDCGHADGJHGNICE; path=/
    Cache-Control: private

  12. Re:I'd agree, but on Top Five Reliable Providers · · Score: 1

    Your point about backups is valid, but I don't see what uptime length has to do with the probability of the disks not spinning back up.

  13. Thermodynamics on Ten Lies About Microprocessors · · Score: 2, Insightful
    From the article:
    the wee ARM6 consumed less total energy than the others gave off as heat.

    -1 Redundant

  14. Re:Cell Phones on GPS Slowly Changing How Things Are Done · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Sure, as long as my wife can't use it to hunt me down. :)

  15. Re:Plan B? on GPS Slowly Changing How Things Are Done · · Score: 1
    What do you do when the GPS unit breaks or the batteries crap out? Become buzzard food?

    Gee, I suppose you could follow your tire tracks?

  16. Re:Love My GPS! on GPS Slowly Changing How Things Are Done · · Score: 1

    Handheld garmins can probably do this. However, 2 years ago, we were shopping for a car for my wife, who is a realtor. The factory-installed BMW GPS could do turn-by-turn directions, but only for 1 address at a time, and entering addresses was tedious.

  17. Re:Already been done here... on How to Jam a Worldwide Satellite TV Broadcast · · Score: 1

    Like a goatse image?

  18. Re:My brain hurts! on Gridwars Parallel Programming Challenge · · Score: 1

    Umm... babelfish says:
    If the Nunstruck is git and Slotermeyer? ... Beiherhund the or the Flipperwaldt gersput

    WHUT?

  19. Re:Gridwars, the next Rogue-alike on Gridwars Parallel Programming Challenge · · Score: 1

    AS IF!

  20. Re:I might be good at this on Gridwars Parallel Programming Challenge · · Score: 2, Funny

    So quit using VB!

  21. Re:Actualy they would on Russians Order Mobile Phone Encryption Removed · · Score: 1
    Actually, it was cracked by the EFF in 22 hours in 1999. Ignore the part about 100,000 PC's, they were part of Distributed.net, and were not able to crack it before Deep Crack did. I think I read that Deep Crack can exhaust 100% of a 56-bit search in less than 40hours. Also, I recall that one of the motherboards wouldn't boot, so they weren't running at optimal capacity in one of the later contests.

    Also, Moore's Law suggests that it should be several times faster today.
    4 years at 50% compound growth = 500% or 5 times faster today.
    so that means they could crack a key in less than 8hours using a similar design today. If it's really 55bits because of a parity bit, then that takes it down by a factor of 2, so 4 hours!

    A government agency could probably build something much larger and faster too.

  22. AT&T doesn't support encryption on Russians Order Mobile Phone Encryption Removed · · Score: 1

    I'm in southern California, and I have a cellphone with AT&T. Everytime I try turning on the encryption option on my phone, I can't get service anymore.

    Regardless, at least in the U.S., law enforcement can bypass any encryption (with a warrant) by tapping at the phonce company's office downstream (or is it upstream?) from the encryption.

  23. Re:Try a DA Form-6 on In Search of the "Perfect" Pager Rotation? · · Score: 1

    OMG You Slashdotted the army!
    And killed it!

  24. Re:Ask, but have a backup plan on On Obtaining Appropriate Compensation... · · Score: 2, Interesting
    I agree, one should ask for a raise before deciding to leave...

    In my company, it's been directly stated that if anyone has an offer from another company, let your manager know, and "they'll try to match it".

    So..., ask nicely for a raise now, and if you don't get it, or it's not enough, start searching & applying & interviewing (in your spare time, or use some vacation or sick time :P), and if you get an offer you like, ask for a raise again, telling them you have an offer, and then decide what to do.

    I'm currently at step 1 (asking for a raise), and I filled out an app for a very nice-sounding position with the county in case I need leverage.

  25. Re:Other ways to do this on Europeans Exploit PS2 Web Browser · · Score: 1

    DNS: no, not if they're using an IP instead of a Domain Name.

    Other possibilities:
    1. some form of NAT or DNAT (easy to do with a linux router or firewall)

    2. a transparent proxy that re-writes/redirects the url.