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  1. Re:Freedom of Speech, Freedom of the Press! on Indymedia Server Raided by FBI · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Did you read the web page? It starts out with this quote "The earth is not dying, it is being killed. And those that are killing it have names and addresses." One of the goals is "Supply anti-RNC groups with data on the delegates to use in whatever way they see fit." And ends with "Shut down the RNC!" Shutting down a parties convention is not voter intimidation? And since when is someone's email address and hotel they are staying in public information? If this is all public information why did they have to break into a server to get it?

  2. caffeine is not addictive on Coffee is Addictive · · Score: 1

    Joseph DeRupo, a spokesman for the National Coffee Association, said the average American coffee drinker consumes 3.4 cups a day. DeRupo said the scientific evidence is that caffeine is not an addictive substance, however. Altering the coffee-drinking routine is what produces problems, researchers found.

    It's nice to see the tobacco guys have found new jobs.

  3. Re:no performance hit? on Universal Emulators Return · · Score: 1

    I don't see a problem, they just need to put a sticker on the box with minimum system requirements in very small print. I think 30 ghz would be about right.

  4. Re:Is it that easy? on Andre Lamothe Launches XGameStation · · Score: 1

    It is pretty easy if you can read the mame source at all. I've written several games that run on pacman hardware. There's a couple of them here.

    http://d_widel.tripod.com/downloads.htm

    They'll also run on a Williams Make Trax arcade machine which can be had for less than $200.

    I don't really understand the point of this xgamestation when for half of the cost you could set yourself up to program nearly any of the old 8 bit consoles.

  5. Re:WTF?!? on Student Killed Driving Solar Car · · Score: 1

    No they can be safer than a hummer but not neccesarily. The extra DOT inspections don't make up for the extra miles they drive. It really all depends on the owner of the truck as to how safe they are. Same thing with drivers, it only takes 2 weeks of training to get a license, it took me less :) As for the low bumpers that's only in the front, and if you're getting hit by a fully loaded truck it probably doesn't matter how it hits you. If you've ever seen a truck get rear ended the car goes underneath everytime.

  6. Re:Not a new idea on Your Future Car's Hood Will Be Welded Shut · · Score: 1

    Well, actually before I became a programmer I was a mechanic at a dealership. I have 16 ase certs and am much more competent to do the work on a new car than the HS dropouts that work at my local dealership. I'm sure I'm not the only one in that situation. As long as you can get a book with trouble shooting charts and the local autoparts store can read the codes it's not that difficult.

  7. Re:Authentication of senders on Comparison of Bayesian POP3 Spam Filters · · Score: 1

    If I order something from a new online vendor and am expecting a shipping notice I simply look in the spam folder periodically to see if they sent one, then add the address to the whitelist. It doesn't happen that often for me to be a problem.

  8. Re:Performance increase on Swiss Researchers Exploit Windows Password Flaw · · Score: 1

    If your security depends on changing passwords more often than I can crack them you might as well give up now. I usually run my cracker on 4 pc's using 4 different ranges for a factor of 4 increase. If I was in a hurry and really needed it, it would not be a big deal to find 20 pc's around here that I could run a task in the background on and they wouldn't notice the difference.

  9. Re:Strong passwords? on Inkblot Passwords · · Score: 1

    A password of 100 characters would take an absolute maximum of 100 attempts. Weak would not be the word to describe it. That would be exactly the opposite result of the above post.

  10. Re:Strong passwords? on Inkblot Passwords · · Score: 1

    In order to make it easy to enter I'd have no enter key. It would validate every time it saw a new character. It would be so easy to enter I could train my dog to do it. And a 5000 character password would be unbreakable. Hopefully they use this sytem for our nuclear passcodes. Where did I go wrong? Was my post not mindnumbingly stupid enough or was it not obvious I used Mr +5,Inciteful's logic to make it?

  11. Re:Strong passwords? on Inkblot Passwords · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If my alphabet was only one character I could remember a password hundereds of characters long. It would be the strongest password ever.

  12. National do call list on National Do Not Call List Opens for Registrations · · Score: 1

    So if charities, surveys, and political groups are exempt have we now created a national database of valid phone numbers for them to call? I new a guy that was an encyclopedia salesman. He always looked for houses with no solicitor signs. He said that their husbands put the signs up because she'd buy anything.

  13. Re:MS announcement on Security Vulnerability in Microsoft .NET Passport · · Score: 1

    Of course, and a hotmail user discovering a security hole would find that where exactly on the hotmail site? After several minutes of looking around on Microsoft's security homepage I didn't see it there either. I'm sure it's hidden in there somewhere.

  14. Re:MS announcement on Security Vulnerability in Microsoft .NET Passport · · Score: 2

    Wrong. They only responded to him posting the exploit, not to the original emails.

  15. Re:Hardware emulation on Retro-Computing with FPGAs · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yes I have and in this case it's less than a computer with an interface to an arcade cabinet and about the same as a used 25 year old board from ebay. I'd much rather have a new board.

  16. Re:Jeez! on Retro-Computing with FPGAs · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The problems not the cpu, z80's are less than $2. Having a 12" x 18" circuit board made and populated with the other 150 chips on the board gets expensive.