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  1. What about Lem? on Robotics Researcher Starts Campaign To Ban Development of Sexbots · · Score: 1

    Stanislaw Lem already predicted quite a few things here... read the Star Diaries, although I believe that the matching story "Die Waschmaschinentragödie") isn't included in the English versions. http://derdeutsche.twoday.net/...

  2. Re:For those who are interested on Software Patent Reform Stalls Thanks To IBM and Microsoft Lobbying · · Score: 1

    No thanks, I'll wait for the iCBM.

  3. heise.de article on German Foreign Office Going Back To Windows · · Score: 2

    The article on heise.de has a link to internal documents of the Foreign Office, which shed a little bit different light on the whole thing.

  4. Train table murder sketch on UK's National Rail Shuts Down Free Timetable App · · Score: 1

    Reminds me of Monty Python's train table murder sketch

  5. Re:Obligatory on Ant Mega-Colony Covers the World · · Score: 2, Insightful

    We had a problem with earth wasps, which were settled below some bush.

    I finally cut a 10cm hole in a piece of wood, put thin wires in two (perpendicular) layers over it, and then with two elkos and two diodes got about 600V with 1Ws on them ...

    The first few wasps got lighted in the middle, and when the others tried to help they got roasted, too.
    After a few minutes I turned the power off, shook the board over a bucket until it's clean again, and put it back.

    Two hours later the wasps used another hole to take their eggs somewhere else.

  6. Might be a good application for patents! on IBM Files DVD Spam Patent Application · · Score: 1

    Well, as long as someone holds a patent to something we don't like, it should be sufficient to tell this single group of people that they shouldn't let it out.

    Previously that's what governments were for ... We had something called elections, whose outcome could really make a difference. As governments are more and more shifted away from people, we might need other people fulfulling our wishes ...

    There are some sayings that apply - "vote with your money" is the first that comes to my mind.

  7. Re:CVS/Subversion replacement ? on Ext3cow Versioning File System Released For 2.6 · · Score: 1

    Did you look at FSVS http://freshmeat.net/projects/fsvs? Might do what you need - snapshots your system using a subversion repository. And allows for multiple users - like every subversion repository.

  8. Re:Read Only Drives on Detecting Rootkits In GNU/Linux · · Score: 1

    How often do you reboot? Once a year? Than a rootkit will be active for half a year on average - because even if it doesn't get to disk, you'll have it in RAM.

    You'd need read-only RAM - and this is what the OS is supposed to provide (process separation).
    If it fails, you've lost.

    And furthermore there are some things on startup that write temporary data to /tmp - possibly in a fixed path.
    So you create this file, make it unchangeable (eg. ext2/3 attribute, or simply 0555), and write malicious data there - maybe it'll still be active after reboot.
    To get that working it's better to have *only* read-only disks, and do the rest with shmfs or similar - but then you'll get no logfiles.

  9. Re:Treat IE 7 as IE 6? on IE7 Bug Reports Flooding In · · Score: 1

    > I really don't see what Microsoft can do against this.
    > They can't expect millions of web sites to be updated
    > overnight just to support IE 7.
    How about just changing the browser identification to something other?

    Then it should no longer be mistaken for IE6.

    Hey, they could even include something like
        User-Agent: Mozilla/x.x (compatible)
    if they like :-)

  10. Welcome overclockers! on Games That Shoot Back · · Score: 1

    I can't wait for the stupid people telling one another "I've upgraded mine to 100V" "And mine is at 400V!".

    Wait a bit, then read the newspapers for further information ...

  11. Re:Actually, it's an ARM7 on A .Net CPU · · Score: 1
    On the website is also written

    The .netcpu CPU Module does not include a development board, a power regulator, or a serial interface. For a full development kit, check out the .netcpu development kits.

    Preorders for the .netcpu CPU Module will begin shipping on 12/31/2004.

    $199.99

    two hundred DOLLARS! two HUNDRED dollars! TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS!
    I know cheaper CPU's ...
    (eg http://www.atmel.com/dyn/products/product_card.asp ?part_id=2983 - 200MHz, USB, Ethernet, ...)

    (Yes, "Music with Rocks in" :-)
  12. Re:oldschool on Virus Writers Look Ahead: Target 64-bit Windows · · Score: 5, Informative

    > I propose that all software should be distributed
    > as .MSI files instead of .exe installers. (They
    > work the same, double click the .MSI and it runs
    > MS's Installer, but the MSI can't run arbitrary
    > code.. it works like an RPM in this regard).
    Sorry, doesn't work.

    MSI files can embed DLL's, and these can be called during setup.
    http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/ms i/setup/ adding_launch_to_the_customaction_and_binary_table s.asp

    Like the post-conf scripts in RPM and DEB :-)

  13. Now it's official on Subversion 1.0 Released · · Score: 1

    From the mailing list:

    Subversion 1.0.0 is ready! Grab it from:
    http://subversion.tigris.org/tarballs/subversion-1 .0.0.tar.gz
    http://subversion.tigris.org/tarballs/subversion-1 .0.0.tar.bz2

    The MD5 checksums are:
    32f2c6e8c7f97587f19275c4e3219363 subversion-1.0.0.tar.gz
    ee14f19960c7fa9f2640ff04acdce804 subversion-1.0.0.tar.bz2

    Subversion is the work of many volunteers from around the world. It would be impossible to thank them all by name here, though they certainly deserve it. If you see a Subversion developer, documenter, or tester in the street, buy 'em a beer -- they've earned it.

    Thanks also to CollabNet, which started the Subversion project and continues to pay for three (and sometimes four) full time developers.

    Praise, blame, questions, and bug reports are all cheerfully accepted at
    users@subversion.tigris.org.

    Enjoy,
    -Karl Fogel

    Sorry about the formatting.

  14. Re:Is the story the organ, or the OS? on Linux PCs Drive 74-Channel Pipe Organ · · Score: 1

    Well, we all know that linux has the fastest/biggest pipes ...

  15. Re:Actual application... on Powered by Blood · · Score: 1

    Your pacemaker should better have some energy stored in itself ... Imagine having a heart attack, so no blood gets pumped, so your pacemaker has no more energy, so it can't revitalize you ...

  16. Re:Ridiculous... on Contract Case Could Hurt Reverse Engineering · · Score: 1

    But to be honest ... If it's not a simple "look and feel similar" thingy but more a "use the resource editor and deassembler to cut out the pieces we want" ... then Ford has to raid some buildings to achieve a similar effect. To get a neat UI to the user is ok - to just rip out code not. Think about the storms raising every not and then "xyz - GPL violation"!!