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  1. Re:How about a DNS for Phone Numbers? on 11 Digit Dialing Comes Home to New York · · Score: 1

    phone.myname.newyork.us
    myname.com (myna) is the owner of United States Federal Trademark Registration(s) No. 1234562 and numerous other trademark registrations pertaining to the mark.
    myname.com recently discovered that you have registered and is using phone.myname.newyork.us (collectively the "Domain Name") as a World Wide phone domain name in violation of the Anti-phone-squatting Consumer Protection Act of 1999, which is embodied in the Banham Act.
    It is clear that your use of the Domain Name is intended to (and actually does) confuse and misdirect customers seeking myname.com to , your phone while ensuring that your customers are not confused.
    myname.com prefers to resolve this matter without taking legal action, but it is prepared to file a lawsuit if necessary to protect its rights and business. You may avoid legal action by having an authorized representative for you sign this letter where indicated below and return the signed letter to me on or before this minute 2003.
    I hand over my phone, life and everything else
    Sign here......

  2. Re:5th! on Slackware Forums Alive Again! · · Score: 2, Funny

    Not true! I've seen you come first many times... You are anonymous coward arent you?
    and yours ws'nt a 5ht post ... more like 8 or 9

  3. Organic...... on MIT Develops Quantum-Dot OLEDs · · Score: -1, Funny

    Can you eat 'em?

  4. So it wont work for CDMA on Reflections · · Score: 1

    From what I gather, the technology improves bandwidth for transmissions on one frequency. CDMA uses multiple frequencies and has already twice the bandwidth capacity. Any ideas if CDMA can have an improvement? Since what we are getting to is the information theory maximum, CDMA should get there too., but the article is silent on that.
    Does this also mean I'll never get broadband on cellphones unless we use a different frequency :-( ?

  5. Funny he did not mention .NET on Programming Languages Will Become OSes · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If any programming language/framework has a chance it will become an OS it is .NET.
    And Java is half an OS already, it has its own threading moodel, has memory management etc. Though frankly I believe this paradigm of PLs becoming OSes will be first be seen on handhelds etc. Note that many Cellphones run Java etc. (though now sybian is more commoon).

  6. Re:When will they target *ME*? on Intel Delays Dual-Core Processor, Plans New Server Chip · · Score: 1

    The 6 MB cache is not aimed at you. They mainly go to The idea has its benefits in web servers etc. Where a lot of web content could be served from RAM/Cache. Also note that these machines can have a lot of RAM space which can be used in big servers which work almost entirely from RAM touching the harddisks only for explicit read/writes (any application server)
    Anyway a quad or dual p3 is not as good an idea as quad or dual p4 because p4s are designed to support these features much more than an p3 is.Though I wont mind having a quad p3 NOW.

  7. Is it good for the customer ? on Intel Delays Dual-Core Processor, Plans New Server Chip · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I think HP and Intel are putting all bets on their child Itanium.
    First HP holds back on their alpha line, then Intel does this....
    The important question is, Is it good for the consumer by letting others into the market (lesser competition, flatter market etc.) or does it harm him by slowing down technology?

  8. Thats great news on APC Recalls 2.1 Million UPS Units · · Score: 1

    8 cases of fire reported, 2.1 million UPSes being recalled, 1.2 million outside US. It is nice to see that they are recalling UPSes even outside the US where the chances of them getting sued are much lower.

  9. M$ shouldnt be really worried.... on MS Must Ship Java With Windows Within 120 Days · · Score: 1

    What with their new J# ide which can load a java app and in a single mouse click turn it into a .NET app.
    The ruling has come too late for sun methinks....

  10. Re:Funny it should synchronise with this ... on Decrypting the Secret to Strong Security · · Score: 1

    Sorry Wrong link... Correct link here

  11. Funny it should synchronise with this ... on Decrypting the Secret to Strong Security · · Score: 1

    Microsoft opens winows source to governments.... Link here

  12. Re:Not too comprehensive on The New Face of Global Competition · · Score: 2, Insightful

    They have quantity but no quality
    So they said when Jpaneese started importing cars , and then when samsung shipped hard disks and ....
    Essentially there is nothing stopping indians or anybody else from doing quality work.

  13. Asian banana or the western? on Banana to be Sequenced · · Score: 1

    They say they will sequence wild bananas first (rather than the kind we eat) so that the relevant choromosomes/genes/whatever else can be put in the edible varieties to make them resistant to disease etc.
    Now to put them in the edible varieties , shouldnt they also be sequenced?
    Also can't they put in the genes which make the Western bananas taste good into the wild ones? The fact that they grow in the wild should make it easier to grow, right?
    Is suppose the banana scientists have thought of all that ....
    Well,atleast the genes being open to all redefines the term banana re-public.....

  14. Opensourced banana on Banana to be Sequenced · · Score: 2, Funny

    'One rule of joining the consortium is that any invention developed through the project and protected [by patent] will be made available to smallholders through a royalty-free license,' says Emile Frison, director of the International Network for the Improvement of Banana and Plantain"
    Is that GPL or BSD ?

  15. Re:Much misunderstanding about .NET on Microsoft Drops .NET Name For Next Windows Server · · Score: 1

    I was getting into it, then you have confused me again. I would use C when I wanted something that involved system level stuff, use fortran when I used arrays etc. I dont choose languages based on how easy it is to code etc. except in the case of python. Now if fortran.NET is as slow as python.NET why would I choose fortran.NET ?
    Also what are they going to do about languages like prolog and lisp which are altogether different in the way they work?

    I agree with the poster in saying that MS is ditching Win32 API . In this way they could make windows machine independant. ie after a few years release an OS which does not run byte code at all and call it " Win2007 home edition " . You want to run it, you run it on the VM. For real work you use the server edition which will let you run bytecode.
    The plus side is that hardware prices might come down due to competition. ie now if powerPC chip actually runs faster than Intel, users wont switch because thay cant run windows. It takes a long time for users to switch OSes by which time intel has a faster version out and user has no reason to switch. If we all ran on .NET VM or any other VM the PowerPC/Intel fight might actually be similar to todays Intel/AMD fight ( opteron and itanium run win32 code on emulation). Also remember that the framwork is open so it is possible that the software prices might comedown too.

  16. Any physicists out there? on The Speed Of Gravity Revealed · · Score: 1

    From the article , a way of measuring speed of gravity is to measure the gravitational ripples caused by accelerating bodies, but no-one has managed to do this.
    Shouldnt this be an easier thing to do? I suppose all bodies going round in circles have centrifugal/petal acceleration? There are huge galaxies spinning all the time, so they all are causing ripples all the time? Cant we just measure it? Can some body explain why it is so difficult? Sorry Im not too good with relativity and cant figure it out myself.

  17. But I thought.... on Nature's Timepiece Identified · · Score: 2, Funny

    From the article Heavy water - water made of two atoms of deuterium, the isotope of hydrogen with an extra neutron in its nucleus - could alter the clock to run on a 27-hour day.

    Heavy drinking causes sleepiness.... So

  18. A perfect 10? on Hacking Linux Exposed, Second Edition · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I have a copy of the book, and the way the book is written it seems it is more useful for the sysadmin types.
    But the problem is that any good sysadmin would know atleast half of this stuff already, making the reading kind of boring. Now what I want is a good way of finding how to secure "my" system. When I read about how to set up NFS securely I really don't want to know that sun solaris had a vulnerability in their OS a few years ago which allowed elevation of privileges etc., what I want to know is how to do it now, with the right packages on Linux.
    But as a general read the book is full of anecdotes and examples and makes a good reading.

  19. Too bad the article doesnt give any solutions.... on What Should I Do With My Life? · · Score: 1

    How I wish I were born in the middle ages, Then you did not wait to answer such questions, you were busy finding food to keep u alive rather than worrying what to do with life . You still have too much time on your hands ? The bible tells you exactly what to do with that time, praise the lord , of course.
    I suppose that with the end of religion and the end of the race to survive, it is inevitable that people start asking questions about what to do with life. Does life essentially have a purpose other than those defined by the evolution? (Have food, get a good looking mate and most importantly PROCREATE and pass on your genes?)
    Ever notice that in struggling economies (usually third world) intellectual achievement is a usual measure of success (culturally). While in countries that have made it, sports ("I only date jock types") , physical appearance etc. are seen as measures achievement ? Is that a going back to the evolutionary basics?

  20. Re:What? on High-Tech Foosball Mod Project · · Score: 1

    Of course all the software cost >$50 ,not to mention the cost of the machine that runs it.

  21. The question is of course ... on Machines That Emulate The Human Brain · · Score: 3, Interesting

    What would the machine do if it were intelligent enough? Men/women atleast would do things that make 'em happy. What can a machine be happy about?
    Also if this rewiring theory is true, we could just put in nano-radios into the head of a zillion bees and put in a nice enough routing algorithm then the bee colony would be an intelligent being ,right? ( assuming that a bee's brains are equivalent to a small cluster of human brain ?) . Now would the bees still look for honey more itelligently? or would they find the grand unified theory?

  22. It seems... on High-Tech Microsatellite · · Score: 1

    It runs on NT here is a link .Microsoft joke here...
    Remove the last abs52.html from the address and you get the directory listings, just in case any one is interested in reading up.

  23. I don't get it on High-Tech Microsatellite · · Score: 3, Interesting

    How can a single satellite in Low earth orbit of period 100 minutes, that too a Polar orbit (So i gather from the pictures of its tracks) , provide internet?
    it would bew sweeping the earth north south every 100 minutes and earth is rotating every 24 hrs , how long is your connection going to be up? Why not put up one of these in Geo-stat orbits (or is it too high up) ?
    I would assume you would have to have a bunch of these sweeping hte earth and talking to each other all the time to get any sort of permanent link.
    Or maybe I don't know enough?

  24. Re:Can the web become conscious? on The Collective Voice of the Internet · · Score: 1

    Well now there is the idea that it is an ant colony that is a living being and not an individual ant etc. etc.
    I really have'nt read up enough to authoritatively comment on it, but IF that is the case there is nothing stopping the net from getting a consciousness (dont know no spelling) , maybe?

  25. More info needed... on The Collective Voice of the Internet · · Score: 1

    Hey, the page gives no info on how the whole thing was done... and the more info link to bell labs is down (when i tried) .Did anyone at /. get enough info out before it went down?