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  1. Re:Driver issue on Rootkit Could Hide In PCI Cards · · Score: 1

    Not a bad idea... unfortunately I've already made the PCBs :(

    I'll keep that in mind for the next release :)

  2. Re:Driver issue on Rootkit Could Hide In PCI Cards · · Score: 2, Informative

    Useless... if you own the box, you can bypass the driver and program the card's firmware by yourself. It's the card the should do some kind of check on the code which gets uploaded. Been there, done that.

  3. Re:Method of keeping altitude on Astronauts Throw Trash Into Space · · Score: 1
    What about installing a device to eject garbage in the direction of the earth, so that they will be burned in the atmosphere as this would also help the ISS to maintain altitude. I realize that the effect would be minimal, but yet all small things might help. Anyway ejecting materials towards is always better than just let them float away.

    If you throw thrash in the direction of the earth, it will come back and hit at the very same speed it was ejected and you will not gain altitude, you will just make your orbit more elliptical :)

  4. Re:Randomly dump their trash would be stupid on Astronauts Throw Trash Into Space · · Score: 1
    They could pack their trash and, with minimal thrust, send it on a quick reentry path

    Can you quantify this "minimal thrust" ?

  5. Re:I'd want money from Universal then... on Zune Profits Go To Record Label · · Score: 1
    Practically every bricks and mortar store presumes customers are crooks. That's why they have doors, locks, chains, guards, security tags, scanners, scales, cameras, price tags, anti-theft packaging, managers, inventory controls, and more.

    What's different is that I don't pay for that, not as a direct percentage of my buys.

  6. Re:I'm not really holding my breath on this... on An Open Letter To Diebold · · Score: 1

    And... who can VERIFY that the code running on the machine is the right one? And... suppose a bug is found later, a bug that might have been used to change votes. What do you do? Invalidate a whole election?

  7. Re:2 MEGAwatts?!?! on Generator Delays May Slow Data Center Projects · · Score: 1
    Why do they need just one generator? If you're having difficulties obtaining a 2Mw unit, wouldn't it make sense to get two smaller units?
    No, you would need at least 3, 1 MW units, otherwise you would double your probability of failure.
  8. Re:IMEI, Re:Who cares if the phone becomes unusabl on UK Firm To Release 'Screaming' Cell Phone · · Score: 1

    The police will NOT track down stolen IMEIs. This is the problem. Even if it would be quite easy: look who the SIM owner is, look who is he calling, go there and put him in jail.

    What happens now? The IMEI (hopefully) is put in the blacklist, the thief changes the IMEI (yes, it is feasible on most phones), the phone works again.

  9. Re:Who cares if the phone becomes unusable on UK Firm To Release 'Screaming' Cell Phone · · Score: 1

    Will the thief ever call a number published on the phone directory? There you will find a physical address where to go and ask... who is him?

  10. Who cares if the phone becomes unusable on UK Firm To Release 'Screaming' Cell Phone · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I would prefer if the phone could silently send me a usage report so that I could track who stole it and kick him in the a....

  11. Re:Isn't that the point? on SIP vs. Skype, Making the "Open" Choice · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No, it isn't. No wonder there is no "SIP" server, managed by a "SIP" company.

    SIP is a technology while Skype is a service, provided by a single company with a proprietary technology.

    The difference is absolute.

    You could provide the same exact service Skype is providing with SIP. Did you ask to yourself why there is no such service? Because it would be much harder to lock your customers in with SIP. SIP is already peer-to-peer for what concerns audio streams.

  12. Re:Microsoft is doing the right thing on Software Makers Lobby EU Against Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Ok, so, why don't Microsoft bundle Firefox with Windows and let the user decide which one is the best for him?

  13. Re:laptop use on Ionic Cooling For Your Computer · · Score: 1

    Neither. In first approximation it's the current by time with a lower limit on the current (30 mA).

    When you feel a static discharge, you are actually feeling a lot more current than the one needed to kill, just for not enough time.

  14. Re:Big words make BadAnalogyGuy crosseyed on Digital Identities Now Available · · Score: 1

    email address and password do not work, unless you want everyone to know (and, why not, use) your password.

    email address and a digital certificate are fine, thought. The critical point becomes the CA, but there are good solutions to that.

  15. Re:Yes. on Network Card for Gamers - Uses Linux to Reduce Lag · · Score: 1

    You are simply confusing a stream-based protocol (TCP) with a protocol suitable for streaming (which would not be TCP).

    ...and you are wrong. Most real-time games use UDP over which they stream time sensitive data.

  16. Re:Meh. on DARPA Awards $53 Million for Solar Power Research · · Score: 1

    Yes. And because the grid is not a storage battery, the local utility takes that excess and dumps it.

    Dumps it WHERE?

    Don't you think that reducing the power production of other, conventional, plants, would be enough to accept the solar power?

  17. Re:Lets hear it for scalability on Elect NoSoftwarePatents as European Of The Year · · Score: 1


    This means that al this stuff has been programmed by clueless people:

    Microsoft Cursor Engine error '80040e38'
    Row cannot be located for updating. Some values may have been changed since it was last read.
    E:\WWWROOT\WWW.EV50.COM\HTML\POLL\../include/dbhea der.asp, line 77

  18. Re:Uh oh.. on Deadly Version of Bird Flu Found in Romania · · Score: 1

    ...and God! ...but...where is God?

  19. Re:Strange specification? on Top Mice Compared · · Score: 1

    5.8 megapixels (let's suppose with just one bit per pixel) multiplied by 6400 fps means 4.6 GB/s of raw data to be processed, more than what a current PC can handle with a P4 CPU.

  20. Re:Intel-Rating? on AMD's New Venice Core Shows Overclocking Potential · · Score: 1

    Because the question is MWIPS?

    Millions of Which Instrucrions per Second?

  21. Re:In other news... on Some Linux Distros Found Vulnerable By Default · · Score: 1

    plugin which runs in kernel mode and is part of the kernel as much as any linux's kernel moduele is part of the kernel.

  22. Re:Wrong attitude. on Some Linux Distros Found Vulnerable By Default · · Score: 1
    Reasonable limits should be in place by default

    For most machines I administer, reasonable limits coincide with default limits and I don't think my machines are so special...

  23. Re:In other news... on Some Linux Distros Found Vulnerable By Default · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The TCP/IP stack, recently vulnerable again to the LAND attack is not part of the kernel?

  24. Re:Oh The Irony on CSS Support Could Be IE7's Weakest Link · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Designers may spend hours on a single page (someone with photoshop), geeks may spend hours on a CSS and use it for hundreds of pages.

  25. Re:rejects on Samsung Unveils 82 Inch LCD · · Score: 3, Informative

    Probably it's the opposite; when the surface gets bigger, the probability of finding impurites (and thus bad pixels) gets higher.