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  1. Re:It's for the children! on U.S. House Votes to Extend Patriot Act · · Score: 4, Informative

    Yup, we also had a Canadian Citizen(!) being deported from the USA to Syria, where he could be tortured until he confessed to whatever-the-fuck the US wanted him to confess to: http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2002/10/16/arar021016

  2. Re:Peltiers on Utah Teens Invent Better Air Conditioner · · Score: 1

    No, it is always true. It doesn't matter which direction the heat pump is running. It cools at the one end and heats at the other end and if you reverse the valves, it goes the other way - in a car, there are no valves, so it only works one way, since it is more efficient to use engine heat for heating. Efficiencies range between 2.5 to 6 times the input energy - average about 400% efficiency.

  3. Re:The other side of things. on Net Marketers Worried as Cookies Lose Effectiveness · · Score: 1

    Exactly - and why don't they track things in a server side data base? I know Dynamic IPs change from time to time, but that should not affect the aggregate.

  4. Neither better nor new on Utah Teens Invent Better Air Conditioner · · Score: 1

    Peltiers are not new and are less efficient than a vapour change heat pump. It sounds like a Microsoft innovation... (I should get an award for dragging Microsoft into a discussion on airconditioners!).

  5. Re:Peltiers on Utah Teens Invent Better Air Conditioner · · Score: 4, Informative

    An aircon using vapour change effects is a heat pump. Therefore, it can move more heat, than the amount of energy consumed to move the heat.

  6. Re:USB on the Go on PC Keyboard Connected to PSP · · Score: 1

    I have designed equipment with USB so I have a fair idea how it works at both the hardware and software level. However, I have not opened up a USB keyboard, so it would be interesting to know what is typically in there. The guy that hooked this lot up may not be as clueless as some people make him out to be. I think there is a real possibility to make this work.

  7. Drive carefully on ESRB Revokes San Andreas Rating · · Score: 1

    90% of children are caused by accident.

  8. Nuderaider on ESRB Revokes San Andreas Rating · · Score: 1

    Tombraider had a skin patch like that - it was quite funny to see Lara Croft run around starkers...

  9. Re:nice publicity on ESRB Revokes San Andreas Rating · · Score: 1

    Well, I was once paid $20,000 to comment out one line. It did take a long time to figure that out, but still.

  10. was he beamed up on Star Trek's Scotty Dies at 85 · · Score: 1

    or beamed down? I wonder...

  11. Re:I know it's illegal, but on Network Intrusion Detection and Prevention? · · Score: 1

    Portsentry has a hook for running any script when it triggers. This can be as simple as a ping flood, if you have a wide pipe...

    and BTW, it isn't illegal. You are allowed to protect your property, but the problem is collateral damage, which may be illegal.

  12. Festival text to speech on Network Intrusion Detection and Prevention? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well, you can always pipe your firewall log into Festival and make it talk to you...

    tail -f /var/log/messages |festival --tts

  13. Sentrytools on Network Intrusion Detection and Prevention? · · Score: 1
  14. Grammer (sic) on PC Keyboard Connected to PSP · · Score: 1

    I guess you are a highly specialized Grammar Nazi only and not a Spelling Nazi...

  15. USB on the Go on PC Keyboard Connected to PSP · · Score: 1

    The USB on the go standard allows device ports to become somewhat limited masters. If the PSP has an on the go capable chip (most likely) then it would be possible to drive a keyboard, but some SW work would be required.

  16. USB == 4 wires on PC Keyboard Connected to PSP · · Score: 1

    Considering that there are all of 4 wires to contend with, the hardware side of the problem is practically a non-issue. The real problem is making a keyboard driver.

  17. Obsolete 19th Century Rail Transport on Bob Metcalfe on Open Source, IPv6, IETF · · Score: 1

    is better how? ;-)

  18. Forced into a galaxy on Revamping The Periodic Table? · · Score: 1

    The problem is, that it is forced into a spiral, while the tabular layout is a natural form that doesn't require force to make it fit.

    The forced layout is especially evident in this original: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:ChemicalGalaxy_ Longman_1951.jpg

    If you use enough force, you can make anything fit...

  19. ~1000 Programming jobs open at MS on Gates On Future of CS Education · · Score: 1

    I just had a look at the MS careers site. They have about 1000 software job openings. If they can't find people, despite the high jobless rate in the SW field, they have to consider that maybe people don't want to work for them. Clearly, if programmers will work for free on other projects, yet don't want to be PAID to work for MS, then it must eventually give them some pause...

  20. Competitor??? on Microsoft Sues Google For Hiring MS Exec · · Score: 1

    So, if Google is a MS competitor, where is G Windows, G Office...? Stupid idiots.

  21. 20% unemployment rate in CS on Gates On Future of CS Education · · Score: 2, Insightful

    With the current unemployment rate in CS, the US can limp along for a few years with zero new admissions to CS schools...

  22. Re:Who listens to doctors? on Meet Web Hypochondriacs · · Score: 1

    You forgot: wash your hands and clean your nails... I still remember Ms Annie: "Good morning boys, are you neat?"

  23. Re:The Line up is not complete! on Tom's Looks at Two DARPA Grand Challengers · · Score: 1

    Not many camels, but they may end up with a few flat armadillos...

  24. Re:a few observations on What is Mainframe Culture? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hmm, we were doing Spice simulations on a Sperry-Univac - friend of mine forgot to add a maximum pages command to limit the printouts in case of an error and read his stack of punch cards, then waited and waited and waited.

    Eventually, he ran it again and was just about to run for the third time, when the elevator door opened and in rolled a trolley full of paper from the high speed printer in the basement...

  25. Don't reboot on What is Mainframe Culture? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Mainframers know that you cannot reboot a machine willy nilly, since someone may be running a simulation that takes 6 months to complete, he may be in month 5.5 now and on first name basis with the guy that normally signs your pay cheque...