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  1. Re:Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Short Story on Norway to Build Doomsday Seed Bank · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Or if you just need a few varieties because some local variety of a plant went extict due to local conditions, like the spill into the Harbin river. (not saying I know of a plant that went extict due to this... just some might have).

  2. Re:W00T for me! on The World's Tiniest Power Supply Unit · · Score: 1

    The epias (even the dual CPU ones) need considerably less than 120 watt when run without hard drives.

  3. W00T for me! on The World's Tiniest Power Supply Unit · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Now I can build a single box cluster without needing multiple AC-DC power supplies. They can all be run off HDD connectors from the main PSU.

  4. Re:while these veggie environmental cleanup storie on Algae That Cleans Emissions and Produces Fuel · · Score: 1

    This is a method of producing cost effective solar power; in a stored form with good energy density and handling characteristics, to boot!

  5. Re:OpenBSD on US Homeland Security to Support Open Source · · Score: 1
    5. Linux should not be used, as it is beyond economical repair.

    Care to back up that assertion?

    8. MySQL was a mistake and PostgreSQL should have been chosen.

    While I'd agree with you as far as database choice goes, they were not choosing a database to use, they were choosing a database for which a bug search would be most fruitful and benefit the most people. Given that most web hosting providers use MySQL, the bug search will impact a lot more people than a bug search of PostgreSQL.

  6. Re:It's no secret... on Microsoft vs. Computer Security · · Score: 1

    "Simply Accounting" too.

  7. Re:It's no secret... on Microsoft vs. Computer Security · · Score: 1

    2. Lack of user eucation.

    A prime example! oops!

  8. Re:It's no secret... on Microsoft vs. Computer Security · · Score: 1
    Yes, it seems that the biggest problems with desktop security seem to be:
    1. Defaulting to run as administrator, and the defective programs that require this behaviour.
    2. Lack of user eucation.
    3. Lack of testing of software to verify behaviour when passed unexpected input.
    4. The ability to include arbitrary code (not just sandboxed code) in file types that shouldn't.
  9. Re:Everybody knows that... on IP Attorney - Why SCO Has No Case · · Score: 4, Insightful

    To prevent a flood of appeals.

  10. Re:Durrh...? on Computers, Long Hours and Vision Problems? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yup, his main symptom is lack of concentration, and he thinks it's his eyes? It's cronic sleep deprivation. 10 hours a night for a week, then 8-9 hours a night from then on should do wonders. It'd probably make him more productive in an 8 hour day than he was in 15.

  11. Re:Use S/MIME / personal certificate on How To Enable Mom w/ Encrypted E-Mail? · · Score: 1

    Only with the development versions of GPG (1.9.x).

  12. No Hushmail! on How To Enable Mom w/ Encrypted E-Mail? · · Score: 1

    How do you know hushmail does not keep your passphrase? How do you know the Hushmail Applet is the same as their publicly released code generates?

  13. Some overviews of French military history on French Military Police Switches to Firefox · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Seriously kicked the Romans Butts many times as Galacia.

    Did so again under Charlemange.

    Kicked the English's butts under William the conqueror.

    Kicked the English's butts again several times during the 100 years war.

    Supported the rebels during the American Revolution.

    Nearly united europe during the napoleonic wars (then foolishly tried to invade Russia during the winter).

    Held off the german forces in WW I

    When invaded by germany in WW II, held out just long enough for the British Expiditionary force to sail from Dunkirk.

    After WW II the French failed to re-occupy Indochina due to resistance from the formerly US-backed Viet Minh. They pulled out of Indochina in 1954. The US also failed to gain power in Indochina.

    Seriously... It's only from 1940 to 1954 that France's military record is any worse than any other, and when you consider what they were up against (USSR was still operating under the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact when France was invaded, and on continental europe only France stood against the Axis), they really were no worse.

  14. Re:Easy solution on Ultrawide Zoom in a Compact Camera · · Score: 1
    Kodak has always made cheap (in both senses), low-quality consumer oriented cameras
    This is completely untrue.

    I did not state Kodak has always made only cheap, low-quality consumer oriented cameras. Their breif experiment with marketing dSLRs was an exception to their usual practice, and there was little kodak in the dSLRs besides the label (body design, lens mount and firmware by Canon, Lenses by Sigma, sensors by someone else, logic by someone else, probably assembled in taiwan).

  15. Re:My Humble Submissions on Share Your Most Dangerous Idea · · Score: 2, Interesting

    A few kilograms of aluminum powder and a small explosive charge. Underwater. (no, I have not tried this one).

  16. READ! on Security Holes Found In RIM BlackBerry Service · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It's a corrupt PNG (a common image file type), that may pass code to the server to be run there (as administrator), with complete access to the corporate network, including all the plain-text, non-passphrase-protected private keys of all blackberry users on the same corporate network.

    If true, this is a gaping hole, and a very big deal.

  17. Re:Easy solution on Ultrawide Zoom in a Compact Camera · · Score: 1
    Kodak has made cameras since the 1880's, so it's not about time in market. Kodak has always put cost and ease of use ahead of quality. From the
    • box camera (cheap and easy compared to a monorail view) to the
    • Brownie (cheap and easy compared to a press camera) to the
    • Instamatic (cheap and easy compared to a TLR or rangefinder), to
    • disk (cheap and easy compared to 35mm SLR), to
    • P&S digital (cheap and easy compared to dSLR),
    Kodak has always made low-cost mass-market cameras of low quality. That is their business decision, and it works well for them. I choose higher quality cameras from manufacturers who market to professionals as well as home users, but I still use Kodak Portra and High Definition film as it's very good. I like cameras that focus, not relying on a small aperature and/or short lens.
  18. Re:Easy solution on Ultrawide Zoom in a Compact Camera · · Score: 1

    Kodak does have a history of making cameras though. cheap, easy to use cameras. They are very good at what they do, which is selling film and cheap cameras, not making good cameras.

  19. Re:Image Stabilization is a MUST on Ultrawide Zoom in a Compact Camera · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Everyone should use cameras with fast lenses and fast shutters. It makes much nicer pictures. It irks me when I go to a camera shop and they describe the f3.5-4.5 kit zoom as a fast lens! argh! 1.4 is fast. 2.8 is fast for a 200mm lens. 3.5 is slow!

    People look at me funny when I use my TLR on a monopod.

  20. Re:Image Stabilization is a MUST on Ultrawide Zoom in a Compact Camera · · Score: 1

    Or just get one with a stop or two faster lens (smaller F number).

  21. Re:Too perfect... on Ultrawide Zoom in a Compact Camera · · Score: 1

    My camera corrects distortion by having good enough optics to not have significant distortion in the first place.

  22. Easy solution on Ultrawide Zoom in a Compact Camera · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Buy Kodak film, not Kodak cameras. Kodak has always made cheap (in both senses), low-quality consumer oriented cameras, good consumer film, and great professional film.

    If you want a good camera, get a Canon, Olympus, or Nikon, never Kodak, Sony, or HP.

  23. Or ... on Mount St. Helens Eruption Baffles Scientists · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Possibly slow resupply of (in geologic terms) small amounts of lava does not nescesarily cause detectable earthquakes and gas release.

  24. Re:Why do they need root? on Linux in a Business - Got Root? · · Score: 1

    Even many admin-only windows apps can be run as non-admin if you carefully track down and change the ACLs on the files it needs. Most commonly these are data files naively stored in the "PROGRAM FILES\programname" directory rather than "CURRENT USER\Documents and Settings\programname".

  25. Re:Big whoop on Britain to log all vehicle movement · · Score: 1

    OnStar is voluntary as in, if you don't like it, don't buy GM.