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  1. Re:Passwords and memory on Giving Up Passwords For Chocolate · · Score: 1

    It all depends on the person

    I have 20 variations of 5 base "words" with numbers mixed into each on a random basis.

    I have them all memorized, using the same password only for forums.

    Now could just anybody use this method? well no it takes strong memory skills. I can read a book once, put the book on the shelf, pick it up again a year later, and write a book report on the whole thing after re-reading the first 10 pages.
    Warning trying the above while in school pisses off both, teachers and other students.

    The greater the randomness to outside people the better the password. It only needs make sense you.

  2. Re:FFII on EFF To Fight Dubious Patents · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I have said it before. There is nothing wrong with the patent policies. The officers granting the patent simply don't follow the rules. it goes something like this

    1) rich company applies for patent
    2) officer reads patent, thinks if he has ever seen it before.
    3) if he has he might look it up
    4) rubber stamp Patent granted move to next one.

    the new system should be.

    1) rich company applies for patent
    2) if it is based on software should be denied and told to copyrigh the software.
    3) if it is based on physical system then it most be carefuly looked over.

    My way a huge section of patents get thrown out, work in the patent office declines.

  3. Re:the preserving culture argument on Academics Take On Government Net Censorship · · Score: 1

    How is that In defense of Islam???

    All strong religous beliefs need something. Constant repeating of the beleifs. Doesn't matter if your a jew, Catholic, christian,or Muslim. Every preacher does one thing. Endless repeat the exact same thing over and over.

    If the Internet or any other media can cause someone to doubt their beliefs then those beliefs may have holes. If knowledge can cause beliefs to change then that can be a good thing.
    Remember it took catholics 400 years to apologize for killing Galielo. What did Galielo do? said the earth revolved around the sun. Just because a religion has spouted it for centries doesn't make it fact.

  4. Re:Why they'd be doing this now? on BayStar Cashes Out of SCO Stock · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the correction in Liens.

    But it is going to slow SCO down, you forget Monday is the day SCO has to sho proof of their claims. If they don't show anything, how many people are going to help them. After Monday the whole thing is gonna blow up. IBM, Red Hat, Novell, Baystar and RBC will be fighting over the remains unless SCO pulls out an amazing show stopper.

    My bet is that by monday, Darl and Crew are out of the country, but then again they don't have any brains anyway.

  5. Re:Why they'd be doing this now? on BayStar Cashes Out of SCO Stock · · Score: 5, Interesting

    And SCO is going to die by the sword. What is SCO going to do next take baystar to court?? The judge will put that money in a lien, and lock it down until the suit is over. Take away 2/3rd's of SCO cash and keep boise paid they will burn out of cash in 6 months. If they get a break in the court with IBM. If not the next few months will be fun.

    It's been a Good Day.

  6. Re:Why so desparate to have TV? on National TV Turn Off Week · · Score: 1

    Mythbusters, The Discovery channel, and the History Channel are 2 of the few worth watching. Mythbusters is just plain fun. they show you how to build a cannon out of a log. They show you what happens to rotting pigs in your car. They blow up toliets.

    All the fun things you could do if you weren't watching TV, and had money to burn. :>

  7. Re:Disc Burning on Sony Develops 25 GB Paper Disc · · Score: 2, Funny

    Actually Disc burning would be useful for those last minute FBI raids. Jus throw everything in the fireplace, Let the FBI look around out back, and dumb the data into the fireplace. Won't have to worry about possible recovery either.

    Then again if your place burns down you still won't be able to recover the data.

  8. Re:Commodore 1541 Disk Drive on Sony Develops 25 GB Paper Disc · · Score: 1

    As A. Coward asked It sounds funny, but possible give the nature of the old stuff. Can you elaborate a bit????

  9. Re:"Water"-cooling on Sapphire: A Liquid That Won't Get Things Wet · · Score: 1

    Well the trick there is to move the parts around such that it becomes fun to watch. the CPU, and powersupply would always give off bubbles, but when playing some good techno, your sound card would to, and let's not even think about how many bubbles you could generate playing UT2004. Sound card, network card, video card, motherboard. watch that sucer boil, ad then overheat and shut down.

  10. Re:Why not go all out? on iPod Mini Custom Installation In A Ford Explorer · · Score: 1

    let me guess. You are going to use the Ipod to transfer files over to your car right. or are you just gonna burn lots of dvd's whenever you want to add a single song to the list.

    If you are going to setup that system you want, don't forget either a firewire plug to upload files to the cars HD or add a wireless card in the mix, and telll your car to download the files while it sits in the driveway.

  11. Re:Butlerian Jihad in Dune on The 'Pervasive Computing' Community · · Score: 1

    The probelm in Dune is that they then were dependant on Spice, which gave some the ablitiy to see in the future. It was hat ablitiy that was used to control the popultion in the trillions. (with hundreds of worlds then yes it becomes possible)

    I will spoil the ending that I know of the Atriedes Line ultimate gift to humanity is that some people can't been seen in the future yet they can still affet events. Returning us to a better future. Also spice once again becomes unnessacary.

  12. Re:Patching is a faulty security paradigm on Security Tools More Harmful Than Helpful? · · Score: 1

    All systems are exploitable. It is just the ease of which it is done that is where the probelms lie.

    Thank you guys I did a double take with MS innovating, but I am glad that they are staying true to form.

  13. Re:Patching is a faulty security paradigm on Security Tools More Harmful Than Helpful? · · Score: 1

    Exactly. The Unix/Linux model of seperation of programs and data is done at the file system level. Which works good, not perfect but well. Linux systems need to be targetted specifically by a person, because each system is a little different, even from the same distrobution.

    If MS really is doing the same thing to memory managment(a set of permissions for code in memory)It will be one of the few things that MS actually innovated. It will also be a huge boon to security buffer overflows. Kill off Outlook and Internet Exloder and Windows will quickly become a very secure system. Scary thought.

  14. Re:Good... down with Real on Real Problems · · Score: 1

    I have found real is one of the few streaming videos that can be had across platforms.

    Then again I don't ever give anybody my real Info any way

    I usally use me@me.com with a zip code of 12345. since it is 5 digits and windows programers never actaully check data being entered it's all good.

    I make sure I end up being in the stats that get thrown out for being useless.

  15. Re:Open the bomb bay doors, Hal on Insider's Look at High-Tech High-Speed Navy Vessel · · Score: 1

    Not completely true, you can build underwater doors, for mini sub access. A pressursied hold will keep the ship afloat.

    It is just impractical, and we don't have enough mini subs to make it worthwhile(I Think)

  16. Re:I liked this one from B5. on Best Sci-Fi Space Battles? · · Score: 1

    That was also quick yet cool space battle. It was sad that ivanova gets thrown into a coma by debris. but then again 5 shadow enhanced crusiers get their ass kicked by 5 white stars.

    I always liked the white stars, they just look different.

  17. Re:You know what made this a great episode? on Best Sci-Fi Space Battles? · · Score: 1

    What's really bad is the Promethous could probally land inside the main battle ship.

    On the other hand Promethous's weapons weren't tested, but those sheilds could take one hell of a beating.

  18. Re:Interesting on Star Wars: Clone Wars Premieres Tonight · · Score: 1

    Why wait go online and watch the entire thing should only take you an hour and change with broadband.

    overall not terrible impressed

  19. Re:Great. stupid trekkies on Testing Relativity · · Score: 2, Informative

    TOS: the warp scale was in multiples of the speed of light. Warp 1 speed of light, warp 2 twice the speed of light.(Enterprise should follow this scale though I haven't paid that close of attention.)
    NG: Warp scale got rewritten. warp 8 is roughly warp 14 on the old scale. warp 5 is warp 8 on the old scale. So when the NCC-1701-D hit warp 8 in episode 1, they traveled the same speed that ncc-1701 hit in the TOS.

    Warp 10 in NG is equal to being all places in the universe at the same instance.

    Now what kind of geeks are you.

  20. Re:switch( DRM ) on BusinessWeek on Opening Apple's iTunes DRM · · Score: 1

    Slightly misunderstood.

    you are right DRM is not totally evil, I wish we didn't need it but people do pirate music. In your world if MS added a feature that metallica wanted that automatically deducted a $1 from your bank account every time you listened to the music it would be acceptable? That is what the RIAA and a number of musicians want. They want to charge you to listening to a song you already listen to for free. If they could charge you to listen to radio do you think they would? MS is an enabler in this case.

    Fairplay is just that, the customer gets to choose how and when the music plays, with wma and MS the artists does. Which one do you go for.

  21. Re:Would'nt opening the ipod be THE way to go on BusinessWeek on Opening Apple's iTunes DRM · · Score: 1

    Apple tightly controls the hardware and software to prevent things like blue screen of death. Apple should instead open up the DRM fairplay. Apple states the only reason why iTunes exsits is to promote the iPod.

    Besides what can you put on an ipod's display??? there aren't enough buttons to play games, All you can do is view info, like contacts. No input method.

  22. Re:switch( DRM ) on BusinessWeek on Opening Apple's iTunes DRM · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's a pain in the ass, let's the RIAA and it's member dictate what you can and can't do on a per song basis. Fairplay gives every song the same Rights. Metallica doesn't want their latest album burnable to cd, no probelm MS will stop you cold. Fairplay is Fairplay for theend users. MS doesn't know what fairplay means.

  23. Re:Space flight? on Second Test of X-43A Scramjet Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    Well the Scram jet and regular jet should be using the same fuel source. At least I think they are?

    If you can take a DC-10 style plane, remove the rear engine and replace it with a rocket, tack on a pair of scramjets next to the regular turbo props. It would look a bit ugly, but it would cost considerbly less than the Shuttle to launch, and carry as much.

    Only little probelms like re-entry heat on the wings would need to be solved, but those are easier to deal with than getting up there to begin with.

  24. Re:slashbot on New Documents Shed Light on Microsoft's Tactics · · Score: 1

    Tablet PC's have been an idea of Computer Scienctist's for longer than MS has been a company. They have been less than ideal, it's taken time to get it right. apple's Newton is over ten years old and had hand writting recognition. Yes that's right MS is still ten years behind real Computer Scienctist's.

    The one and Only good thing MS has done for computer's is popularize the PC for indiviual's.
    That may of come out anyway.

  25. Re:Rules to live by on From School to Work to Working at School? · · Score: 1

    Missed one

    6) If they say it they need it tomorrow, they really need it that afternoon.