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  1. Re:Breaking WINE on Jeremy White's Wine Answers · · Score: 1
    FreeBSD: Open Source without that fishy smell
    No need to put OpenBSD down like that in your sig... :-P
  2. Re:Mmmm sulfur on Lithium-Sulfur Batteries Unveiled · · Score: 1
    And what will they think?
    Fuel!
  3. Re:Interesting Observation on Microsoft Releases WTL To SourceForge · · Score: 1

    Yes, they should stop doing ANYTHING. :-D

  4. Re:Who invented FTP? on Winny P2P Software Creator Arrested · · Score: 1

    Sell your soul.

  5. Re:What, no windows? on European Space Shuttle Prototype Lands Safely In Sweden · · Score: 1

    Must... Not... Make... BSOD... Joke... XP... Users... Will... Flame...

  6. Re:Where have you been? on Royal Bank of Canada Cashes Out of SCO; SCO Begins Layoffs · · Score: 1

    In the meantime The Open Group still have their heads in the sand and are pretending that it has nothing to do with them...

  7. Re:What's UT Watch? on FBI Investigates Open Records Request · · Score: 1

    Underground Terrorists? :-D

  8. Re:[OT] Hmm... on Microsoft Patents Timed Button Presses · · Score: 1
    I tend to side 'against' slashthink
    Like most people who comment. :-D
  9. Re:Why is PJ commenting in the first place? on Criticizing Sun's Java Desktop System · · Score: 1
    I don't see why her comments are newsworthy to begin with.
    She has a good deal of whuffie.
  10. Re:Sigh... on Smart Breeding to Beat Biotechnology? · · Score: 1

    I'm not a GM fan of any sort, but mutations do happen and may be desireable for breeding. So while breeding does not always modify genes it does happen.

  11. Re:GM food on Smart Breeding to Beat Biotechnology? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The obvious answer is: genes should not be patentable.

  12. Re:PNG on 31 Lawsuits Filed Over Alleged JPEG Patent · · Score: 1

    At least replace the GIFs with indexed PNGs, IE shouldn't fsck with those, and they should generaly be smaller than their GIF counterparts.

  13. Re:PNG on 31 Lawsuits Filed Over Alleged JPEG Patent · · Score: 1

    Where is the "Worng" moderation option when you need it?

  14. Re:Interface Is Everything on Groklaw Tries Their Own Linux Usability Study · · Score: 1

    "crunch numbers" :-D

  15. Re:I disagree on Groklaw Tries Their Own Linux Usability Study · · Score: 1
    These all come with .exe files that just work.
    Yeah, sure they all do... The only .exe files that ALWAYS do work are trojans and spyware.
  16. Re:Nope - doesn't answer the question on Groklaw Tries Their Own Linux Usability Study · · Score: 1

    Exactly, someone commented that "you can install anything on windows" (which of course isn't as easy as it might sound...), but only what the distro & friends provides you on GNU/Linux. Think that's a bad thing? Imagine all the spyware your distro won't package for you...

  17. Re:Emacs is a web browser! on Amazon's Search Engine Goes Live · · Score: 1
  18. Re:er ... on Five Fundamental Problems with Open Source? · · Score: 1
    I do, however, wonder what the menuing system will be like for the next version of the Gimp, and when it will hit the fink. (I haven't yet told my wife to brace herself for a change.)
    The right click menu in Gimp 2.0 is almost the same. It's just that image windows now have a manubar, that dubplicates the functions of the right click menu.
  19. Re:Command Lines Different kind of Learning on When Does Usability Become a Liability? · · Score: 1

    A good tutorial will teach you basic CLI usage in a few hours. If you don't know how to use a mouse, the CLI might be a better starting point. But I really don't understand why people seem to think that GUI and CLI are exclusive. Some seem to think GUIs are the root of all evil, others want to hide the CLI away in a dark corner.

  20. Re:Command lines aren't *learner* friendly on When Does Usability Become a Liability? · · Score: 1

    When you visit country, you can use the pointing method, but you also should learn a few common phrases. If you intend to live somewhere you should learn the language ASAP. Of course even when you know a language body language remains a useful communication method.

  21. Re:Vulcan science on Chess Improves Machines and Humans Alike · · Score: 1
    As a Zen Buddhist I "know" that the world we percieve with our senses is one of illusion
    But world as we percieve it IS an illusion. It's just that the illusion is mostly build on facts perceived through our senses.
  22. Re:Yeah right... on Passive E-Mail Monitoring Leads To Arrest · · Score: 1

    The idea is to try decrypting the "where to start" portion of the message with every key starting from the last synchronized position. When the resulting cleartext corresponds to the position at which the key for its decrytion is located you have the starting position.

  23. Re:Yeah right... on Passive E-Mail Monitoring Leads To Arrest · · Score: 1
    I completely disagree, that is flat wrong. Overkill is one of the fundamentals of cryptography.
    The majority of people seems to take a "good enough" aproach.
    The problem is that protion of the message would have to remain unencrypted.
    Why? Encrypt it, and let the receiver decrypt ahead until a string, that matches the position of the key that decyphered it.
    At which time whoever is trying to listen in can instead choose to disrupt.
    Direct communications like email are too easy to trace. Post the messages on Slashdot, receive answers on USENET, move on to different forums. It's not an PGP plugin for your favorite email client, but good luck tracing it down.
    But images, audio data, computer information, all these things need often need to be sent in addition to text. A few GB can quickly disapear.
    So trade a stack of magnetic tapes :-D.
  24. Re:Yeah right... on Passive E-Mail Monitoring Leads To Arrest · · Score: 1
    At which time whoever is trying to listen in can instead choose to disrupt. Just send a couple bs messages, it would be easy to come up with an excuse why the resultant plaintext was garbage.
    Isn't that the case with any method?
  25. Re:Yeah right... on Passive E-Mail Monitoring Leads To Arrest · · Score: 1
    Your confusing efficient with effective.
    Not really, I mean efficient as in 'everyone can understand and implent it'. IMHO, the reason why one time pads aro so rarely used (even with today's storage devices) is that it just seems an overkill, when math gods have developed such nifty public key algorithms for us mortals.
    It has an upper limit on it which is why it's not preferred for constant long distance communication.
    If it's text communication (which is sufficient for most purpouses) a few GBs can go a long way.
    if you were to miss a message [..] you would loose the sync between your pad and theirs.
    A message could tell at which position it's key begins.