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  1. Re:Fat bloated kernels on Rootkits: Subverting the Windows Kernel · · Score: 1
    I can run 10Ghz over a copper wire, WHOA that is fast.

    To the GP post, This is what you call an antenna. It radiates power all over the place. I have forgotten where the frequency is but some place up there the resistance becomes 'large' (in a relative sense) and Cu is not a real good metal for moving power. This is why most waveguide sections are Ag coated and not Cu. (I'll have to try to remember to get my UG students to do the calculations next time I teach the class.)

  2. Re:Fat bloated kernels on Rootkits: Subverting the Windows Kernel · · Score: 2, Interesting
    I'll take this one on. Let's start with minimal microkernel, then build ontop of that an OpenBSD like subsystem. (just because it has the resources that I'm aware of, and will be using.)

    Now, all the absolutely vital system components that could be used for the exploitation of the system for a rootkit. Mark those system immutable.

    Wouldn't this also stop auto updates and similar? Of course provided that your code is perfect the first time there would be no need - but as a previous post pointed out - we is human and we makes mistakes

  3. NOx and CO, CO2 / mile on Modded Hybrid Cars Get Up to 250 MPG · · Score: 2, Insightful
    The real question is how much pollution are you producing per mile of driving.

    I suspect - but have no proof - that the plug in option reduces some of the pollution per mile. The reason why I suspect this is that you have reduced the engine size and carry less of your fuel (part of which is at the power plant) Additionally the power plant should be able to run cleaner per Watt produced - they should have better polution reduction equipment.

  4. Re:Um, but we WANT an attack. on Google Urged to Drop Images · · Score: 1

    Very funny! It sounds like claims that they'll hit Memphis Tenn. next. (I would have picked my locale - Dallas TX - as the next spot - but that just caused me to laugh too much.)

  5. Re:In the words of the AU gov on Google Urged to Drop Images · · Score: 1
    Ok so this is really funny - It is the first post, it is about the article and it is marked as redundant ! I guess the moderation rules do not apply here?

    Oh and so this is about the article, I don't think the Austrialian Government has a leg to stand on. It is not as if I (or anyone else) couldn't just go take a few pictures with our camera phones.

  6. Re:NewEgg.com sells computer parts (they're good) on A Look Back At Ten Dot-Com Flops · · Score: 1
    FUD

    why is it FUD? Do you feel the need to insult someone. For your information, I did try to find the ad again by going back through a few pages but I did not see it. I really didn't care what new egg sells (but I did just look at newegg.com - it is computer parts - so what - Based on that I would think that it make sense for them to advertize on /. )

  7. Re:I got caught two ways on A Look Back At Ten Dot-Com Flops · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Just ask people in Texas who bought houses during the oil boom and then lost their shirt.

    I live in the Dallas area (since 1999) and you have reminded me of stories I heard when I moved here. It seems that houses would sit empty for months and then suddenly burn down one night. Apperently it happened to a lot of house here. Houston I guess was even worse. My wife has friends who moved there in the mid 90s and the houses were dirt cheap. 70-80 k for a house that had been listed for 300k a year or two yearlier. Same thing happened in the NJ area. We owned a house there that had been valued at ~300k. (No we did not pay that much!)

    The moral of the story 30 to 60% drops in house prices are not only possible they have happened in the recent past.

  8. Re:Real Estate Bubble on A Look Back At Ten Dot-Com Flops · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Does anyone know of a way to 'short' the housing market? Seems like a good thing to do - if it can be done...

  9. Re:Slashdot? on A Look Back At Ten Dot-Com Flops · · Score: 1
    into newegg.com

    I swear I just saw an ad for them on /. No clue as to what they sell.

  10. BELO! on A Look Back At Ten Dot-Com Flops · · Score: 2, Informative

    They spent something like $100 Million on those stupid 'cat' things. That has to be the biggest flop. The amazing thing is that Belo is still in business. (Papers and TV station)

  11. Re:"UNIX" title? on Novell Asks Court to Separate SCOsource Money · · Score: 1
    Its assets will be sold.

    Sooo with this latest piece of news, do you think I can get ALL of SCO's stock for less than $100? I've always wanted to own a company and I think that I might have $100.

  12. Re:If Novell has even the.. on Novell Asks Court to Separate SCOsource Money · · Score: 1
    They have amended the complaint and are now suing IBM for breach of contract instead, related to "project Monterey", a joint venture of SCO and IBM to develop an Intel-based unix port.

    Does anyone have any idea of how the number of law suits nSCO is currently pursuing? Is it a "sue anything that moves" company?

  13. Re:This goes much further back than the 90's on Skype's Sale As Media Feint · · Score: 1
    So is this why is his son 'running' away?

    http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=580&e=3& u=/nm/20050730/bs_nm/media_australia_newscorp_dc

    Is that a feint right?

  14. Re:So what are the reasons? Cost? Customization? on Disney, DreamWorks, Pixar Go Linux · · Score: 1
    Not sure that its entirely true that Pixar is going to Linux, I imagine maybe they are for rendering but I'm pretty sure they going Mac's and OSX for artists desktops.

    if people actually read the article (ad!) they would see:

    Who Should Attend

    Motion picture technologists

    Linux and Macintosh enthusiasts (My bolding)

    Enterprise IT specialists

    Filmmakers

    SO It is not just Linux as the original article would like to suggest.

  15. Re:Apple isn't stupid on Apple's Colossal Disappointment? · · Score: 1
    Apple hardware is no longer expensive.

    With the coralary - it is no longer as good as it used to be. OLD Apple products (hardware) were dam near bullet proof. In my experience, not nearly as many (as percent) hardware problems/deaths as in the Windos PC market. (Have both.) I have an old Apple that I bought in 95 - still running just fine. (Two more bought in 1999) My PCs are about dead after 3 years. Not true with the new Apple stuff. I buy the Apple extended care on the new stuff.

  16. Re:MS laughs last... on Multi-booting Mac Intel Developer Machines · · Score: 1
    If MS is lucky, not only will each Mac owner buy Mac Office, Windows, but they may also buy a copy of Offic for Windows--so the Mac owner can be fully compatible with Office. Great news for MS-- nearly tripple the revenue from each Mac.

    I doubt it. Apple already has a Power Point type of application and a Word type of App. I think that Apple will try to challenge MS Office in the next few years - not so much as to attack MS but rather to defend their OS

  17. Re:I showed 'em on Disney World Collecting Fingerprints · · Score: 1
    Well I did my part: I clicked the "No, I don't like it" button on their survey. Twice!

    what survey? (a Link perhaps?)

  18. Re:Abuse on Disney World Collecting Fingerprints · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Or what about Boston and the thousands of cameras they put up? Then Chicago and the 3,000 cameras they put up? When will everyone admit this is a police state?

    Has it occurred to you how much computer processing time is needed to do what you are implying? Think about the disk space to store it..... yippie I am buying IBM/HP/Sun stock - they'll never finish building all those mainframe computers

  19. Re:Indeed, First Hand Account on Disney World Collecting Fingerprints · · Score: 1
    I don't appreciate that you knowingly "oversimplified" my comment in that way.

    Sorry but that was more or less the logical conclusion of your comment.... Now that you have changed your wording

    I was suggesting that if something happened, e.g. a mundane crime, a lost kid, a kidnapped kid, etc. they'd be able to have a better idea who was in which park.

    This means that you need to know who is leaving as well as who is coming in. You also have to look at the number of people in the park at any given time - my guess 5,000 to 20,000. How do you know who is who? Couldn't I pay cash and give a fake name and kidnap a kid? (- Not that I would do that... I already have 4 and I would like to lower the number not increase it.) Frankly I don't see a way to have that data in a useful format if something bad does happen. Besides there are many simpler ways to find lost kids. An "Amber" Alert type of thing is a good example - It works well for the whole state of Texas and there is no hand scan to get in. This all harkens back to 10 to 12 years ago when the cops where fingerprinting all of the little kids - 'for safety'. Then it became - they make fingerprints for the parents. For all of the kids fingerprinted (including my now teenage sons) I don't think there was ever anyone found that way.

    It's voluntary, btw, period. If you don't research your trip, it's your own damn fault.

    except this is NOT normal behavior by a company and so most people would not know to look for this issue

  20. Re:Indeed, First Hand Account on Disney World Collecting Fingerprints · · Score: 1
    I believe the point is that - if something happens - they have a better record of who came in, etc.

    So you are 'claiming' that Disney is doing this for the next 9/11? I know that is an over simplification of your comment but that is the logical conclusion...

    I'm not saying it's worth what some people would call an "invasion of privacy" (since it's voluntary, I refuse to call it that), but I believe that's the point

    It is only entirely voluntary IF you are warned well before hand that this is the policy.... After you have paid for the trip ~$500/person and the one day pass ~$50/person you are sort of stuck.

    I do want to thank the person that sent in the original post. Now I know to never go to Disney

  21. So who cares? on Sci-Fi on the Cheap · · Score: 1
    ... the Sci-Fi channel's huge investment (28 films for $21 million) for original B movies

    Wait I just forgot - this is /. SO everyone cares!

    Actually I don't care - the films sound fun but I am too cheap to get cable...

  22. Re:How funny on Non-Technical Users Talk Malware · · Score: 1
    article at the Tribune

    ==> article at the Sun Times

    I never can remember the difference in the two main Chicago papers.

  23. How funny on Non-Technical Users Talk Malware · · Score: 1

    I just went to read the article at the Tribune and what did I get a pop under ad!

  24. Re:Not sure about this. on Real Wood iPod · · Score: 1
    But it still look like something the for the 60+ segment.

    Why only over 60? I am 45 and I'd love to have one. I could care less about the iPOD part. It is beautiful and the workmanship is wonderful. (Ok I admit I like fine wood work and I replaced my kitchen with custom cabinets etc so I have some clue as to how hard it was to build that gem.)

  25. Re:Not sure about this. on Real Wood iPod · · Score: 1

    I can see the ads now for Tigger's iWood