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  1. "intentially"? on Microsoft Sues Google For Hiring MS Exec · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I guess this means "intentionally," but it's hard to be sure...

  2. Preamble on FCC Chair Says Broadband Top Goal · · Score: 1
    You seem to be assigning legal force to the Preamble. How can it override the document it introduces?

    Read the 9th and 10th amendments for more info.

  3. Wrong, wrong, wrong on FCC Chair Says Broadband Top Goal · · Score: 4, Insightful
    The goal of government is to prevent people from interfering with each other's rights. Not to form society according to the vision of master planners.

    The FCC should exist to enforce private property rights on pieces of spectrum, and stay the hell out of the business of engineering society.

  4. Re:DenyHosts on Rundown on SSH Brute Force Attacks · · Score: 1

    Cool, thanks for the info. I'll email him.

  5. Re:DenyHosts on Rundown on SSH Brute Force Attacks · · Score: 1

    The Denyhosts web site says it needs Python 2.1 or later, and I've got Woody's standard 2.1.3. But it's possible he's not testing against such an ancient version.

  6. Re:DenyHosts on Rundown on SSH Brute Force Attacks · · Score: 1
    You have the option of blocking IPs only for SSH or for everything. Pretty nice.

    However, I'm trying to run it on Debian Woody and I'm getting this:

    # ./denyhosts.py
    Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "./denyhosts.py", line 102, in ?
    class Counter(dict):
    NameError: name 'dict' is not defined

    So maybe it's not so great. :-)

  7. iptables "recent" rule on Rundown on SSH Brute Force Attacks · · Score: 1
  8. Re:Lets ask Beethoven on BBC In Trouble Over Free Music · · Score: 5, Interesting

    "There ought to be but one large art warehouse in the world, to which the artist could carry his art-works, and from which he could carry away whatever he needed. As it is, one must be half a tradesman." -- Ludwig van Beethoven, January, 1801

  9. The same BBC... on BBC Open Source launched · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    That won't refer to the London train bombers as "terrorists"? It might offend someone?

    link

  10. Work on GCC! on AMD Alleges Intel Compilers Create Slower AMD Code · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Maybe they will have to use their own [compiler] (after they make it).

    Come on, AMD... If you do need to do your own compiler work, optimize GCC! The whole idea is to make code run fast on your chips, right? And think of the tremendous goodwill you'd build up, especially around here.

  11. Nitpick on Why Doesn't the Itanium Get the Respect It's Due? · · Score: 1

    The 286 was the last 16-bit processor; 386 and 486 were both 32-bit. The crippled 386SX had a 16-bit interface, though it was internally 32-bit.

  12. Don't get no respect! on Why Doesn't the Itanium Get the Respect It's Due? · · Score: 5, Funny

    They should have called it the "Dangerfield".

  13. Not available in NEBRASKA! (n/t) on Microsoft's 'Hands-On' Linux Lab · · Score: 0

    n/t

  14. Already happened... on NASA to Research Antimatter Rocket · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    When he sold out his impeachment vote for another ride in space.

  15. Not the same. on Google Wins 'Typosquatting' Dispute · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Nobody looking for Microsoft on the Internet is going to type "mikerowesoft.com". Just isn't going to happen.

  16. 2x3 on Hackers, Spelling, and Grammar? · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't that be "sextuple u"?

  17. from the oxymoron dept... on Effective C# · · Score: 0, Troll

    Effective C#!

  18. Re:DVD Compression? on Knoppix 4.0 DVD - Like a Kid in a Candy Store · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Along the lines of what our friend at -1 said, having uncompressed data on the DVD isn't an automatic win.

    Suppose you can read 10M/s from the disc. If it's uncompressed, that's exactly what your throughput is. What if you get 2:1 compression (at least for that piece of data)? Suddenly your effective throughput is 20M/s.

    Obviously this is a tradeoff between media speed and CPU/memory. But it's very likely that the Knoppix DVD contains a compressed filesystem to increase performance.

  19. Re:University of Texas. on AI Researchers Produce New Kind of PC Game · · Score: 1

    It's in San Marcos, a little bit south of Austin.

  20. Re:University of Texas. on AI Researchers Produce New Kind of PC Game · · Score: 1
    Actually it's called Texas State. Shortened from Southwest Texas State University.

    The name makes it sound a lot more presigious than it really is, I think...

  21. Never mind! on AI Researchers Produce New Kind of PC Game · · Score: 2, Informative
    I got to wondering if the correct usage was codified anywhere, and found this style guide.

    The correct reference is to use "The University of Texas at Austin" the first time you refer to the title of the university in text. Upon second reference and thereafter, use "university." When writing for internal audiences familiar with the university, it is acceptable to refer to the university as UT Austin.

    Apologies to the submitter!

  22. University of Texas. on AI Researchers Produce New Kind of PC Game · · Score: 2, Funny

    If it's UT anywhere but Austin, you say where.

  23. Worked in Curse of Monkey Island! on U.S. Scientists Create Zombie Dogs · · Score: 1

    Stan the insurance man had to pay out because Guybrush presented his own death certificate.

  24. Interesting Pic Collection on Google Adds Satellite Imagery for the World · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Make sure to submit the kewl links you find to:

    http://perljam.net/notes/interesting-google-satell ite-maps/

  25. RAID on Flash Drives in Future Apple Laptops? · · Score: 1
    With 64 elements in RAID 1 (mirroring), reads would be plenty fast, but writes would be even slower than if there were just one.

    If you don't care about redundancy, RAID 0 is probably the way to go here. Just strip the data across all the elements.