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  1. Re:Extremely preminary data on New MRI Technique Can Detect Diabetes · · Score: 1

    So, there may be two reasons why it runs in families: a. Genetics and b. The presence of the virus in the home/family group? If your sibling gets diabetes, is it already too late to run away to avoid exposure to the virus?

  2. Re:Extremely preminary data on New MRI Technique Can Detect Diabetes · · Score: 1

    So, is diabetes a viral disease that is just incredibly hard to catch and with a disastrous ending?

  3. Re:Hiding more than one message? on Steganography with Flickr · · Score: 2, Interesting

    BTW, it is possible to create a file consisting of two encrypted messages, with two keys, interleaved such that you can retrieve the one or the other. If the one message is innocent and the other not, then you can give the Police the innocent key and the other message remains deniable. This is described in Applied Cryptography.

  4. Re:hiding data in html! on Steganography with Flickr · · Score: 1

    Yeah, any MS Outlook user is used to hidden spam and viruses in their email...

  5. Re:Russians should start saving in case they lose. on Climatologists Wager on Global Warming · · Score: 1

    Maybe, but in ten years, they will likely be making $10,000 per day...

  6. Re:Instead of sound in the wings... on Musical Wings Reduce Aircraft Stall Risk · · Score: 1

    That is pretty much what a stall warning horn does...

  7. Re:Vortex Generators on Musical Wings Reduce Aircraft Stall Risk · · Score: 1

    Hmm, I remember that lots of expensive reasearch was done to Remove vortexes from the wing surface, by drilling little holes in the wings and sucking the unstable air away, in order to improve laminar flow. Obviously it didn't work so well, if people are now going the other way.

  8. Thought Police on Kutztown Students get Felony Charges · · Score: 1

    Monitoring communications, telephone voice, computer data or video, is really just a small step away from monitoring thought. Computers are used to 'edit' things. How often do you write a document or email and then edit it repeatedly before sending it off - or not sending it off at all? If your computer has a keystroke logger installed, then your initial copy and all modifications are logged. Effectively, your thoughts are being monitored...

  9. Re:Password security on Kutztown Students get Felony Charges · · Score: 1

    Easy: Change it twice, once to a new one, then to what it was before. Another way, is to memorize two or three passwords and always use one of them.

  10. Re:Password security on Kutztown Students get Felony Charges · · Score: 1

    Yup, when I work in a stupid place like that and I am forced to change my password, I change it twice: Once to something new, then back to the previous one... If they are really clueless, I use my own Linux notebook machine and ignore the company desktop machine.

  11. Re:"BLAIM CANADA! BLAIM CANADA!" on Bill Would Let Police Monitor Email · · Score: 2, Funny

    I suppose that is the American spelling... "Me fail English? That is unpossible!"

  12. Re:Not a chance. on Bill Would Let Police Monitor Email · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Well, it would also be in conflict with the Privacy Act, the PIPEDA and so on. They would first have to declare a state of emergency to get such a law to be effective.

  13. Anything with tits or wheels on Panel Challenges NASA Over Shuttle Safety · · Score: 3, Funny

    sooner or later gives you shit... ;-)

  14. Barbie Doll Swimming Pool on Oregon Government Supporting Open Source · · Score: 1

    and that may still be too much.

  15. No through traffic on The Milky Way is Not a Spiral? · · Score: 1

    Well, that explains why there are no alien through traffic in our galaxy. To get visitors from other galaxies, we'll have to work on the road signs.

  16. Re:In related news... on A New Look at Linux vs. Windows TCO · · Score: 1

    Well, Unix is a 35 year old OS, no versions are affected...

    So, your point was what exactly?

  17. Re:Religious Implications on Space Meat Coming to your Kitchen · · Score: 1

    Well, in Israel everybody eats artifical pork. Pork and bacon is made from turkey and looks and tastes pretty much like pork and bacon. You can get artificial shrimps made from some weird fish as well. (BTW, you can get real pork there too - seek out a Romanian butcher and ask for special meat).

  18. Re:Or not... on Top Level .xxx Domain Concept Under Scrutiny · · Score: 1

    It won't make any diff to all the bazillions of existing porn sites. Whitehouse.com isn't going to change to whitehouse.xxx

  19. White Maiden on U.S. Okays Virgin Galactic Plans · · Score: 1

    A White Knight called Eve??? Even Monty Python would not sink that low...

  20. Re:How about Kolab? on Exchange Alternatives Round-up · · Score: 0, Troll

    The problem is that nobody knows how to get it to work - and the few that do, consider it a closely guarded secret...

  21. Re:Does this still work? on Rootkits: Subverting the Windows Kernel · · Score: 1

    Of course! Maintenance of Windows machines would be impossible otherwise. When I'm called in to fix something, the owners of the machines never know what the admin passwords are, so the only way I can get the job done is by changing the password with a Linux tool.

  22. Re:Sources anyone? on IBM Donates Code to Firefox · · Score: 1

    Most countries have accessibility requirements, including the good old EU and US of A:
    http://www.w3.org/WAI/Policy/

    So, not bollocks at all.

  23. Re:Don't give it out... on Spammers on the Run · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yeah well, you are only considering your personal problem. If you own a domain, then that domain is subject to dictionery attacks. I receive hundreds of thousands of crap messages each day addressed to my domains. Only a handful of those have valid addresses. Also, if you run a business, then you have to have easily accessible addresses such as sales@, info@, hr@ and so on. Keeping crap out of those addresses is a huge problem. My mail server rejects up to 64000 crap messages per hour - probably because that is the limit - the max that the machine can handle...

  24. Re:Gotta Love the Russians! on Lord British on Personal Spaceflight · · Score: 1

    Well, of course Russia is more capitalistic than the socialist USA...

  25. Re:Off-topic question about FF on Firefox Hits 80,000,000 Downloads · · Score: 1

    Caffiene withdrawel symptoms?