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  1. Re:GPL on AOL Pulls Nullsoft's WASTE · · Score: 1
    So what else is new? The GPL doesn't give away anything. The GPL grants additional rights to the recipient of the software, such as the right to modify and redistribute.

    The author or their designee still retains all copyrights, and later software releases, by the author, can be done under different terms.

    If this wasn't /. I'd be surprised by the ignorance.

  2. Re:Good thing I use Windows on MIT Gnome Invasion · · Score: 1
    Sarcasm is rarely funny.

    Being anti-MS? Yep! Win95, after it was released, had six security patches in four weeks. It hasn't gotten any better since then.

    You could also say I'm anti-Oracle. They have eight security flaws which they haven't fixed.

    Oh my heck, you could say I'm anti-anything!

    You'll have excuse me, I have some flints to knap.

  3. Re:load size? on Russia to Offer Space Mail · · Score: 1
    Just finished reading the article (does anyone read before posting?)

    $10-20,000 for delivery to ISS.

    $60,000 for return to Earth.

    $18,000 min. for 1 hrs. work.

    So at least $88,000 for a key of DMT.

    Still, less than it costs now. Great sales pitch though.

    Now all I have to do is figure how to produce one key of DMT for less than $200k.

  4. Re:Great excuse... on Russia to Offer Space Mail · · Score: 1

    I think that would depend on whether it gets postmarked on the pad, or on the station.

  5. Re:load size? on Russia to Offer Space Mail · · Score: 1
    Probably an ounce. Or it's metric equivalent (28.35 grams). So, one first class stamp for the first 28.35 grams, $20,000. Whats it cost for each additional gram?

    For that cost, I think I'd go with DMT instead of THC.

  6. Good thing I use Windows on MIT Gnome Invasion · · Score: 1

    All I have to worry about is a few thousand bugs.

  7. Re:Public law 107-56 on EFF's Cindy Cohn Talks About Patriot Act II · · Score: 1

    If the USA PATRIOT Act is an acronym, is it proper to make another acronym from it, like Cindy Cohn does (USAPA or USAPA 2)?

  8. Re:Outdated Gamma-ray sky map on Hypernova Erupts as Global Telescopes Scramble · · Score: 1

    My bad. I thought it was the avian.

  9. Re:In the wild or not? on Exploit Found in Seti@Home · · Score: 1
    DUH!

    It's www.inthewild.com

    www.thewild.com

    www.wild.com

    is that so hard?

    And if you go to that last one, amke sure your dental insurance is paid up.

  10. Re:Outdated Gamma-ray sky map on Hypernova Erupts as Global Telescopes Scramble · · Score: 1

    BS. We still have EGRET running at the university I work at. You are talking about machine names, aren't you?

  11. Re:Ack! on Hypernova Erupts as Global Telescopes Scramble · · Score: 1
    Not much, unless you decided to drink a couple of hundred beers from green bottles* upon reading this article.

    *the green color in glass comes from chromium.

  12. 4 out 5 Climatologists agree on Still More on Global Warming · · Score: 1
    Global warming is happening. The two big questions are:

    1. How how is caused by human activity?

    and

    2. How will global warming affect weather patterns?

    Weather patterns are important because weather is a local phenomena. Will you get enough rain during the summer so your crops can grow? Or will you get so much that the Okeefenokee swamp is jealous? Or so little the an acre of land on Lake Bonneville costs more than yours does?

    All this meta-study does is point out things that a climatologist should already know.

  13. Re:Oh great on U.S. Army's Future Combat System Will Run Linux · · Score: 1

    it looks like "oh, Shit!'

  14. Re:What the hell? on Large File Problems in Modern Unices · · Score: 1

    I suppose I should have read the full article instead of just skimming over it.

  15. Re:What the hell? on Large File Problems in Modern Unices · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't that be a programmers error then? Either when writing the header file or using the wrong link library?

  16. What the hell? on Large File Problems in Modern Unices · · Score: 1

    Why'd they even mention DOS? All DOS programs are staticly linked. There are no dll's or anything like them (except overlays). The only thing close would be DOS Extenders. So, what does DOS have to do with it?

  17. Re:Turn your SQL server off? on MS SQL Server Worm Wreaking Havoc · · Score: 1
    Besides, who in their right mind (I know its redundant), would expose a database server to the Internet, whether that be Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MSSQL or anything of this nature.

    Academic computing people? At the university I work at, all db servers, print servers and even the main frame are exposed to the internet.

    I guess people with degrees are not in their right mind.

    I've been trying my best to educate them, but since they have a degree, and I don't, they just won't listen.

  18. Re:OT: So, I'm not the only one? on Cross-Site-TRACE · · Score: 1

    Apparently, my ISP has gotten it resolved. The place I work at hasn't.

  19. Re:OT: So, I'm not the only one? on Cross-Site-TRACE · · Score: 1
    I feel so blind about this situation being behind a firewall I can't really control ;).

    Tell me about it. I'm a DSL subscriber, the DSL modem uses NAT, and it does not have any kind of reporting abilities. Port forwarding is turned off, so I have no idea if the problems I'm having are because of my ISP, or my DSL modem working so hard.

    How I wish everyone was still using BBS's. At least then, when you got a busy signal, you knew what the problem was.

  20. Re:OT: So, I'm not the only one? on Cross-Site-TRACE · · Score: 1
    If it's a MS exploit, then that doesn't explain why at least one website I tried to get to is down, but it explains the rest of them.

    Are you sure about that? I mean, any port that isn't accepting connections should send a "Connection refused by host" message, shouldn't it?

    So, if the server machine is getting hit hard on an inactive port, the machines tcp/ip stack, at least, would still have to respond to each and every connection attempt, wouldn't it?

    I guess I shouldn't have slept through class.

  21. Re:I disagree with the author on Why (FM, Not XM) Radio Sucks · · Score: 1
    Do you remember AMC before it had commercials?

    It used to be you paid for premium channels, without commercials. What's it like now? Analog cable (single coax) can carry 50 channels. It's been a year since I had cable. But my cable provider provided the Trinity Broadcast Network on 4 channels, Nebreska public tv on 2 channels, and Iowa public tv on 2 channels. So, there's 8 channels showing 3 different programs.

    It'll be a cold day in hell before I "buy" any broadcast again.

  22. Re:Ethanol is not good on Where are the 70% Efficient Solar Cells? · · Score: 3, Insightful
    That means _waste_ cellulose. Such as corn fibers, not the corn iteself, or it could be used as "green" fertilizer, and reduce the farmers dependence on chemical fertilizers.

    or pulp/wood chip byproducts from the milling/cardboard industries, If you have any furniture that was "put it together yourself", It's probably a pulpwood product. Does it have a laminated surface? Then it's definately a pulpwood product. The fiberboard (cardboard) industry? The first thing they do is turn their source material into cellulose. Then they make paper out of it. Then they make cardboard. Or did you really think cardboard was made from playing cards?

    and "waste" crops such as bagasse in Louisiana that grow in swamp land (i.e. land not arable for production of more valuable crops and that grow with very little external water and energy input and thus are very low in terms of actual feedstock cost including any energy input).

    Do you know what you're talking about here? Swamps are the most biodiverse regions in the world. Does that make them not valuable? Or are you just an MBA? Almost all domesticated crops require a huge amount of water to grow properly. That is why so many farmers irrigate their fields. They don't have enough water for their crops to grow! In the first three feet of soil, at least. And that is where soil moisture is important for commercial crops!

    My aunt's farm has a "swamp" on it. It supports deer, bear, raccons, squirrels, crawfish, several species of edible fish, snails and a shitload of migratory birds. As well as mice, rabbits, hawks and eagles. The stream feeding into her "swampland" supports turkeys.

    And you're saying that just because a two thousand pound tractor (and attachments) gets stuck, her "swampland" is not valuable?

    You must be an MBA.

  23. Re:What about Biodiesel? on Where are the 70% Efficient Solar Cells? · · Score: 1
    So? Unleaded gasoline isn't good for older engines.

    Your point is... what?

  24. Re:Great for stalkers... on The Growth of Picture Phones · · Score: 1
    too many steps in that dance...it is much easier than you surmise.

    Good phrase. I'll have to remember it. If we were talking about sane people, you would be correct.

    The rest of your statement begs the question, because we are able to, should we?

    Going by my girl-friends experiences, the answer is no.

  25. Great for stalkers... on The Growth of Picture Phones · · Score: 1
    They'll be able to search for you pic on the web, search for your work and home addresses on the web, and kill you, when they know ABSOLUTELY NO ONE is watching.

    Technology is great.