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  1. Re:a hack on a hack on Solution Against Cold Boot Attack In the Making · · Score: 1

    So abacus + person is Turing complete. I tend to forget about the meat ware.

  2. Re:a hack on a hack on Solution Against Cold Boot Attack In the Making · · Score: 1

    If the laptop is unlocked you just copy the drive to some other device. That's been the gaping hole in every OS back to the abacus.

    If you want to fix that have some sort of longer range proximity card that locks or otherwise shuts off access when the user is not present.

    Considering that most /.ers mold their butts to a chair put a switch in it to detect said butt.

  3. Re:California Minnesota on A Step Toward an Invisibility Cloak · · Score: 1

    Yea but you can only shoot that thing hand held like that if you're a beefy guy in his prime and the gun is firing reduced power pyrotechnic blanks and you limit the belt to 100 rounds.

  4. The OB Me$$iah comes! on MS Silverlight To Stream Obama Inauguration Events · · Score: 0, Troll

    All hail the OB Me&$iah!

  5. Re:7lbs? on The Scope of US E-Waste · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The leaded part is the front. Manufacturers put metal shields made of iron either inside or outside to stop the soft xrays. To prevent hard xrays they instituted drastic safety features that monitor voltage, current, high voltage, and high voltage current. If a problem were to be detected the device would shut down. The manufacturers who did the monitoring most successfully could then make their CRT's less expensive. Once the patents ran out every manufacturer used this technology. Sony had an internal shield which I believe they patented, at some point all manufactures used internal soft xray shields.

    Eventually the manufacturers got the weight down substantially. I do not have figures on that but suspect the article is tainted by gross bias.

    It's moot since CRT's of any kind are DEAD. Long Live OLED!!! ... Please?

  6. Tests of rifle ranges show on The Scope of US E-Waste · · Score: 1

    lead does not migrate. All this does is make a future gold mine for whoever is smart enough to own the land and hold on to it till the metals are valuable enough.

  7. Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy on Chinese Version of Wikinews Blocked In China · · Score: 1

    "In any bureaucracy, the people devoted to the benefit of the bureaucracy itself always get in control and those dedicated to the goals the bureaucracy is supposed to accomplish have less and less influence, and sometimes are eliminated entirely."

    http://www.jerrypournelle.com/archives2/archives2mail/mail408.html#Iron

  8. Re:Poor productivity on Chinese Version of Wikinews Blocked In China · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I questioned that off the cuff comment because of your response and went looking. It really depends on how you define "works for the government" but most people view that as 'get a paycheck from government' and not a handout, slavery or forced labor.

    I don't have good figures so this is a guess based on light reading. China has a very large government structure. They have state owned banks and other state owned industries. Leaving out the forced labor and slavery I think I could reach 10 - 15 percent. If I add it in I'll exceed it.

    In my meandering I came across this small blarticle about the U.S. government's 'downsizing'. Enjoy.

    http://www.occams-razor.info/2003/01/the_true_size_o.html

  9. Re:Poor productivity on Chinese Version of Wikinews Blocked In China · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It's scary that their government probably has more people in it than the US has citizens.

  10. Glass action on Gaza Debate Goes Virtual · · Score: 1

    I'll coin the phrase. It's when you want to glass a 'country' that cannot leave well enough alone.

  11. Re:SKY TV set top box on Anyone Besides Zune Owners With New Year's Crashes? · · Score: 1

    I have one with a VFL clock. I got tired of it and stabbed the VFL tube with an ice pick. It still played movies. It's all it was for.

  12. Re:my ammo on Is the Yellowstone Supervolcano About To Blow? · · Score: 1

    I meant veggies but meat is good. It's easy to raise squirrels just slowly enrich any woods near you by hacking down dead wood and saturating it with nut trees. There are several woods like that around here if you can keep the trees from being stolen.

  13. Re:my ammo on Is the Yellowstone Supervolcano About To Blow? · · Score: 1

    Nope you will lose eventually that is why I consider myself as much of a community survivalist as I can be. I can't fight, grow food, heal myself or do the myriad other things you have to do in bad times.

  14. Re:Not just cost, but optics on Why LEDs Don't Beat CFLs Even Though They Should · · Score: 1

    That is easy to see just wave them around. The strobing is obvious. I agree it's probably AC rectified with a diode and no filtering and there is a lump that seems to be a resistor. The string I have seems to really depend on there being a certain number of LEDs. I've not broken out a meter yet...

  15. Re:my ammo on Is the Yellowstone Supervolcano About To Blow? · · Score: 1

    You can't eat ammo. You can't use ammo to take what is not in existence. Try survival blog sometime it has helpful hints on surviving disasters, out of control government, war and zombies. You know you can grow food? It's startling stuff and so tasty!

  16. Re:.. and .. on VirtualBox 2.1 Supports 64-Bit VM In 32-Bit Host · · Score: 1

    Much thanks! I'm so behind on learning Debian.

  17. Re:Cue - no, Clue... on Entire Transcript of RIAA's Only Trial Now Online · · Score: 1

    Fark the states can copy right such things that do not have the force of law for now.

  18. Re:Cue - no, Clue... on Entire Transcript of RIAA's Only Trial Now Online · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yes
    http://www.pawb.uscourts.gov/pdfs/transcripts.pdf

    While the states can not copyright some things
    http://www.wfsu.org/gavel2gavel/briefs/01-897_report.pdf

    They can allow turd parties to gouge like the RIAA.
    http://www.sbscpublicaccess.org/transcripts.php

  19. Re:.. and .. on VirtualBox 2.1 Supports 64-Bit VM In 32-Bit Host · · Score: 1

    Nope, not sure why either. I did an apt-cache search virtualbox and different keywords with no luck. It may be my Debian Etch is too generic? Thanks though.

  20. Re:It must be real on EEStor Issued a Patent For Its Supercapacitor · · Score: 1

    Thanks. I did finally find the wide range of densities. I suppose to be fair I should choose the one with the most energy.

  21. Re:Argh! on EEStor Issued a Patent For Its Supercapacitor · · Score: 1

    Try having mild aphasia and every damned speck of automation you can scrape up to compensate.

    Then add dyslexia to the mix and my world is a joy to behold.

    It's all melty.

  22. Re:.. and .. on VirtualBox 2.1 Supports 64-Bit VM In 32-Bit Host · · Score: 2, Informative

    Does not work in Debian Etch

  23. Re:It must be real on EEStor Issued a Patent For Its Supercapacitor · · Score: 1

    Isn't that about two gallons of gasoline? And two gallons of gasoline weights how much?

  24. Stollen is BETTER!!! Re:Whatever. on Thieves Take the Cake · · Score: 1

    It's far superior to 'fruit cake'. I get thanked for giving it. I don't ever give fruit cake, it's an insult.

    http://www.rejiquar.com/Food/stollen.html

  25. Re:Sounds exaggerated on Denver Couple Unveils Homemade Service Robot · · Score: 1

    Cool

    What do you think of this? I emailed the creator and he said they could pick out small boats with pretty junk computers.
    http://eddiem.com/projects/chirp/chirp.htm

    This seems to have some of what you mention.
    http://www.wa4dsy.net/robot/sonar/index.html

    I've seen a few very good robots with moving dual transducers, they seem good but I thought the computing power was high.