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  1. Re:The problem with power distribution on Power Electronics Help to Control Electrical Grids · · Score: 1

    A windmill is not just an eye-sore - they are noisy as hell. Those things are like having a helicopter running in your back yard. The Not-In-My-Backyard brigade have a valid point with these things.

  2. Re:fuel cell on Power Electronics Help to Control Electrical Grids · · Score: 1

    The biggest problem with fuel cells is that they don't last long enough to be economical. In a sense, fuel cell technology is where Otto engines were 100 years ago, so the Otto engine has a heck of a head start and won't die out anytime soon.

  3. Car rusting on Iron-eating Bug Found to Thrive in 121C Heat · · Score: 2, Funny
    So, now a rusting car can be cured with antibiotics?

    Car drive in clinics anybody?

  4. Pulse jets on Pulse Detonation Engines: The Future of Aviation · · Score: 1, Informative

    are old hat. There are even toys that work like that (Dynajet). Dynajets are so noisy that most towns and cities banned these toys, decades ago. The German buzz bombs used it in WW2.

  5. Bull on SCO Attorney Declares GPL Invalid · · Score: 1

    In general, a contract can override the provisions of a law, except when the law explicitly states that it cannot. The copyright act has no such provision.

  6. Murder on Stimulated Gamma Decay Weapons · · Score: 1

    Voltaire commented that if a person is murdered, we prosecute the guilty, unless a truly huge number of people are killed, accompanied by the sound of trumpets...

  7. Re:Uh huh. on Microsoft Code at Fault for Half of all Windows Crashes · · Score: 1
    There is no need to use SB's bad drivers anymore. The drivers that come with a modern distro don't crash.

    It appears to me that most Linux complaints are about things that were bad yeaaaaarrrrrssssss ago.

  8. The user on Microsoft Code at Fault for Half of all Windows Crashes · · Score: 2, Insightful

    still experiences 100% of all failures.

  9. Re:Body odor, blah! (and other "side effects") on Creatine Found to Boost Brainpower · · Score: 1
    Hmm, this makes sense, because I only use expensive creatine - it tastes better - companies that pay attention to the taste probably pays attention to other details too.

    What can I say? It works for me. If I use creatine, I build muscle and lose fat. If I don't use creatine, regular exercise makes me maintain my form, but the only way to improve is with the addition of creatine. So, I only use it when I have fallen off the training wagon...

    BTW, it also fixes my arthritis problems. So I take it for 6 weeks when I develop joint trouble.

    I suspect that it does more for Joe Average than for the naturally muscular crowd.

  10. Re:Creatine's side effects on Creatine Found to Boost Brainpower · · Score: 1
    Yup, I found that it works. At the age of 43, it is the only way I can make my beer gut go away. I can exercise for months on end and see no change in my body - gradual weight loss yes - some improvement yes - but to look 10 years younger in 6 weeks, I have to take creatin. Now, the moment I stop taking creatin, the damn boop creeps back again, despite continuing exercise.

    The main reason I take it from time to time though, is to repair my arthritis problems. If my joints get sore, creatin makes the problem go away within about 2 weeks and it will stay away for up to 6 months. Getting rid of the beer gut is a bonus!

  11. Re:Diamonds without guilt on The Diamond Age · · Score: 1
    Most gem diamonds still come from South Africa and most of them, from the Cullinan mine near Pretoria. Those mines are huge holes in the ground - basically, they excavate ancient volcanos. Nobody's hands get chopped off to mine those things...

    The so called 'blood diamands' are mined in other states and traded by rebel groups and are mostly industrial quality - not gems.

  12. Re:Thanks for nothing. on Windows Virus Takes Out Gov't Agencies in MD, PA · · Score: 1
    No, you can test Windows viruses using CxOffice, Wine or Win4Lin...

    Fortunately for me, Win4Lin only works with Win98/ME which doesn't have this RPC bug.

  13. Re:When are people going to wake up? on Windows Virus Takes Out Gov't Agencies in MD, PA · · Score: 1
    Oh, man. That is a common argument used by people who know *nothing* about Unix internals. To begin to explain to you why viruses will never be a big threat on a Unix system, would require you to go to university first.

    Sure, once in a while, somebody may come up with a virus that will self propagate, but they will be very few and far between.

  14. Send them a bill on Gentoo Package Accused of Violating DMCA · · Score: 2, Interesting
    for your investigation of their complaint. Then if they do not pay up, you sue for non-payment in small claims (Provincial) court.

    The next step would be to create a honeypot of files with Linux howto guides for instance, but with names of well known movies in the archive names.

    Profit...

  15. Re:MicroEMP? on Webcams Watching The Classrooms? · · Score: 1

    EMP is overkill. Hairspray on the lens will do nicely.

  16. Re:Damn on Webcams Watching The Classrooms? · · Score: 1

    Hmm, just smear some vaseline/labello on the lens...

  17. Re:this vunerability... on RPC DCOM Worm On The Loose · · Score: 1

    well, in general, you are allowed to defend your property.

  18. ThinkPad on Rio Announces Networked Ogg Vorbis Player · · Score: 2, Informative

    an old Thinkpad makes a great networked Ogg Vorbis player and second hand it costs less than this toy, but it is a wee lil'bit bigger...

  19. Re:Mozilla - filters on client not server on Comparison of Bayesian POP3 Spam Filters · · Score: 2, Informative

    I run SpamProbe on the server. For any given business, everybody will receive pretty much the same sort of mail. So a single database works like a charm, with atypically 99.5% accuracy and zero false positives. This works because Spamprobe also counts word pairs, something that no other word counting filter does. To compensate for the enormous increase in computational load, it uses BerkleyDB as a backend. For corrections, i create a user called spam. Corrections can then be forwarded to this user, to reverse the database entry for that message.

  20. Re:And the winner is... on Comparison of Bayesian POP3 Spam Filters · · Score: 1

    Yes, the Mozilla filter works, but SpamProbe is better - I tried both.

  21. Re:popfile accuracy on Comparison of Bayesian POP3 Spam Filters · · Score: 1

    That is terrible accuracy. I can get >90% with a handful of generic procmail recipes. What you need to do, is recreate your good and bad corpus and retrain the thing. You probably have good messages in your bad list and bad messages in your good list.

  22. Re:Spamprobe on Comparison of Bayesian POP3 Spam Filters · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yes, SpamProbe is the best one I tested and I tested most of them. The reason being that it not only counts single words, but also word pairs. It is about 99.5% accurate for me and never gives false positives. My wife uses it in her law office, where I run it on the server - one database for everybody. It works like a charm and doesn't get tripped up with matrimonial fighting mail, which can resemble sleaze mail in many respects...

  23. Re:Why so complicated on Virginia Begins to Worry About Voting Machines · · Score: 1

    Exactly. Also, the US population is ageing nicely, so there is no shortage of old geezers and grannies to do the counting. These old people have only a few years to live and absolutely no interest in committing fraud. This works everywhere else in the world, so what is wrong with the US? Their old people never learned to read/write/count at school?

  24. Re:Big Advantage on Virginia Begins to Worry About Voting Machines · · Score: 1

    Leading democracy??? India is the leading democracy, with about 4 times more voters than the US...

  25. Re:noooooooo - you did not read the article... on Paul Graham: Filters that Fight Back · · Score: 1
    since the main point is for the filter to follow the link, in order to analyze the text at the destination page and decide using that, whether the message is spam.

    This way, very short spams, that consists only of a link and little else, which currently slip through a Baysean filter, will also be detected as spam.

    It is easy to prevent the leaking of personal information, so a properly written antispam program will not cause you to receive more spam.