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  1. Re:That might be considered to be ... on OSCON Panel: SCO Lawsuit About the Money · · Score: 1

    It's in her nature, she's American. The American Dream, you know.

    Don't be sad, be angry! Blame your parents. Then move.

  2. Yeah sure on Sony Recalls 18,000 VAIO Laptops · · Score: 1

    "Small electrical shock" for sure.

    Given Sonys track record, this probably is one of those laptops that enable you to see people in the nude. Don't ship them back.

  3. Um on VIA Introduces A New Laptop Motherboard · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Run BSD, Linux, XP or whatever floats your boat, on it. But don't bother us with it.

  4. Re:Who needs hardware DivX... on VIA Introduces A New Laptop Motherboard · · Score: 0

    Ah.. the new elite. I bet you need vertical refreshrates of 120hz plus, too. Your eyes are too delicate to use a screen that costs less than $2000.

    Don't say it.. you're an audiophile too, your ears start bleeding if that one record of yours is played on a setup that costs less than $4000.

  5. Fat chance on Webcaster Alliance Threatens To Sue RIAA · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm studying business law, and stuff like this is what I know best. These guys have as much chance as a snowball in hell.

    I wish it were otherwise, but the odds are against them.

  6. Re:SCO Matrix... on Linux vs. SCO: The Decision Matrix · · Score: 1

    Oh my fucking god. I just realised that I won't be able to do linear algebra ever again. That stupid pathetic action movie has ruined a part of math for ever, and it's not even remotely connected to maths.

    Grow the fuck up. Take some hard core hallucinogens. Understand it all. Forget the fucking "Matrix" kang foo films.

  7. Re:In other news on Public Confused by Tech Lingo · · Score: 1

    My hard disk is measured in nigga bites.

  8. Re:Longer Article on NASA Test Shows Foam Could Be Culprit · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    It's more detailed, I'll give you that, but the BBC at least doesn't bring up sabotage and sand niggers in their article.

  9. Hab on The New Yorker on Business Process Patents · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Thank god it's a non technical article, since you're posting it to Slashdot.

  10. Bah on JSP and Tag Libraries for Web Development · · Score: 1

    Don't waste your time on Tag libs. The whole point of templating and abstraction is to remove the logic from the presentation. Tag libs is going the other way.

  11. Re:Must ask on Star Wars Galaxies Reviewed · · Score: 1

    I have no idea who Kirsten Dunst is, but she seems to be a tacky American whore, like so many other.

  12. No such luck on Linksys Releases GPLed Code for WRT54G · · Score: 3, Funny

    with the Barricade I've got from SMC (it's got Linksys firmware).

    The firmware .bin is an arj'ed file, but the only thing of interest in the unpacked file is this string:

    Hey Moe, it dont woik. NYUK NYUK NYUK NYUK *bop* Owww!

    In the WRT54G, one of the first strings is:

    piggy

    Hm

  13. ooh on Estonia: Where the Internet is a Human Right · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Religiously fanatic moderators.

    Christianity is Americas biggest problem.

  14. What do you expect on Estonia: Where the Internet is a Human Right · · Score: -1, Troll

    from a publication calling itself Christian Science Monitor?

  15. Um.. on Motherboard Audio Comes Of Age · · Score: 1

    Onboard audio chips have been good from day one for what they're supposed to do.

    Only stupid nvidia fan boys think that their nforce2 onboard sound have got "professional quality" asio drivers. (And why on earth do they care? It's not like Quake is any better with a professional audio card)

  16. Re:Covert Channel on Messaging Over IPv6 Headers · · Score: 1

    Security risk, not security.

  17. The reason that IPv6 isn't catching on on Deep Space 6 Publishes New IPv6 Status Pages · · Score: 0, Interesting

    enumeration addressing and routing

    1) Contemplation about p+ and e- and enumeration of bits.

    Lets assume you could enumarate most subatomic particles with 173 bits. I guess you are opposed to nuclear power by your shunning of neutrons, but
    thats off topic, even for this post.

    Thats about 10^52 or so particles. I will assume the average atom, crystal, etc, will contain 10 addresses or 10 routable subnets, in a generally star shaped network. Obviously atoms with an atomic weight greater than boron or so will need IBGP sessions between their multiple subnets to connect internally and EBGP for interatomic communications, etc.

    Longest traceroute would have 104 hops.

    Anyway at any temperature above absolute zero the BGP sessions would quickly go nuts trying to maintain an coherent routing picture. Major route
    flapping, I expect.

    2) How to exhaust the 128 bit IPv6 routing space, very easily

    Assign addresses geographically.

    International tier networks for international routing will be 48 bits. To the nearest byte level boundary we need 16 bits for countries and
    16 bits for providers and 16 bits for the providers international routers. If you have massively parallel routers a provider could have move than 60000 or so routers, plus you have to allow for internal subneting.

    This allows nice easy access lists to ban specific providers and countries from your internet space.

    Then figure maybe 32 bits for regional ISPs to divide up their routers. Maybe 16 bits for different providers, maybe 16 bits for the routers themselves, probably subnetted.

    Then figure maybe 32 bits for end user modem bank type things. Get rid of this dynamic PPP ip address garbage. With all the appliances and stuff having internet connectivity, you got at least one class C in every room of the house. Americans are ignorant tools. Figure your average house would need one big (sparse) class B. Ease configuration, try "upper 112 bits".X.Y.10 (=kitchen).1 (=sink)

    So our full IPV6 address map could be

    Country (16) - 2^8 is too low, 2^24 is too high
    International Provider ID (AS number?) (16) AS # = 16 bits Subnetted international gateway routers (16) 254 gateway class Cs Regional provider ID (16) AS # = 16 bits Subnetted regional gateway routers (16) 254 class C's Enduser provider ID (16) AS # = 16 bits Enduser modem bank / whatever (16) Easily have 65000 lines in a central
    office. Enduser (16) just to have a class B house with class C rooms.

    Adds up to 128 bits.

    I would argue you need class C gateways, because
    1) 99.9999% of the population can't figure out what a /30 address means 2) Facist countries like North Korea and the USA will need all kinds of
    montioring and proxying stuff to "save the children" and "protect software jobs from piracy" "stop criminals". All those monitoring devices will use up IP space, and I assume they'd have to be installed at each gateway.

    And you need at least a class C worth of gateways at each level, because I'm sure the entire USA has more than 256 under ocean fibers plus microwave uplink stations, at least. I suppose New York, NY has more than 250 optical interstate fibers, or will soon enough.

    Not hard at all to fill up a 128 bit address space, and we haven't even tried autoconfiguration based upon MAC addresses and stuff. You could literally build a world wide autoconfigured plug and play internet, if you
    had maybe 512 bits or so of addressing.

    If massively parallel router architecture replaces the current "one big central router" concept, then all bets are off as to how many ip addresses would be required.

    In other words, in an ideal world, 128 bits still won't cut it, but maybe 512 bits would be sufficient for a plug and play world wide internet.

  18. The successor of the PATRIOT ACT on Anti-Patriot Act Movement Expands · · Score: 4, Funny

    Is not PATRIOT II, as many here seem to think.

    It's actually the JINGOISM ACT, proposed as a secret law by Ashcroft. Since secret laws are a provision of the PATRIOT act, you will never hear of the JINGOSIM ACT until after you're arrested.

  19. Wake up on Anti-Patriot Act Movement Expands · · Score: 4, Funny

    Doesn't the words Anti-Patriot scare the shit out of you?

  20. Indeed on Twist on DNA Privacy · · Score: 1

    When the National Research Council were asked to give a report on the accuracy of DNA profiling, The New York Times got hold of the report two days before it were supposed to be published.

    The conclusion from the DNA Technology in forensic science comittee was a reccomendation that DNA evidence should be barred from courts.

    Of course, this caused various law enforcement agencies, which had uses these techniques for a long time, to protest. What would happen if an official report stated that DNA evidence was faulty? They would get hundreds or thousands convicted felons who would want a retrial on these grounds. Many of whom were judged entirely on DNA evidence.

    Naturally, the NRC had to revise their report. So while still remaining critical to the conclusions from DNA evidence, they should be admittable if the profiling process was under strict quality control. Still there is no such common quality assurance, only for each lab individually.

    I reccomend the book "The Doctrine of DNA" by R.C. Lewontin, for an interesting read about this topic, and other controversial DNA cases.

  21. Gnumeric and Open Office on Gnumeric Turns 5 · · Score: 1

    The right direction for Gumeric, would be to merge it in as the spreadsheet in Open Office.

  22. Because on Study: Wi-Fi users Still Don't Encrypt · · Score: 2, Informative

    802.11b is slow enough already.

    Try streaming a DivX over wireless with encryption, it doesn't work. It barely works when you turn it off.

  23. rejoice on Xbox Linux Made Possible Without a Modchip · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Happy world terror day!

  24. Re:5Ghz.. it is the future! on World Radiocommunications Group OKs New WLAN Spectrum · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Yes, there are many technical advantages of 5Ghz compared to 2.4Ghz.

    The problem is the health risk associated with these frequencies. When you reach these kind of frequencies, the wavelength is so low that organic tissue will be affected.

    Here is a report from Motorola outlining the problems.

  25. Re:Bizarre on Ink More Expensive Than Champagne · · Score: 3, Informative

    Overrated? I think not. This is the only sane comment to this bizarre article. I'll never drink ink, no matter how expensive it is.