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  1. Re:Electric universe on Eric Lerner's Focus Fusion Device Gets Funded · · Score: 1

    Personally, I'm interested in eka-heavy elements and their natures in macro sized quantities. I'd bet that one of those elements, combined with other materials and handling, could produce cold fusion.

    Good luck transmuting Uranium or such to those though.. You'd probably lose more energy transmuting than benefit.

  2. Re:New page 1 on Eric Lerner's Focus Fusion Device Gets Funded · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That tells me his web presence isnt up to snuff.

    Is he being paid to design a hip-hop web presence, or a fusion design type?

  3. Re:Intellectual property compromises physical on What's the Solution To Intellectual Property? · · Score: 1

    So, you would advocate a law "banning any action or inaction that would cause detriment to others" ?

    That's kind of a wide brush.. or a way for a government to find you guilty of something.

  4. Re:Abolish copyright, limit patent, trademark okay on What's the Solution To Intellectual Property? · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you should reconsider the targets of your rants.

    In general, his assessment on copyright is right. The exception IS the GPL, which uses copyright to exit copyright.

    If copyright was abolished right now, the GPL is null and void.
    Copyright DOES exist, so the GPL is valid, requiring free use for everybody and limited restrictions on derivative works.

    In the end, the GPL shows that there are other systems that can be used instead of current USA copyright law. It does so by requiring adherence to a foreign idea: communistic.

  5. Re:We need IP on What's the Solution To Intellectual Property? · · Score: 1

    You seem to think that opportunists are somehow bad.

    In the New Orleans flood, people gathered millions of dollars of goods on box truks and trucked them down there for people to buy... at inflated prices.

    Are these prices inflated? First, these people were buying retail. Next, gas to go from the mid-west to New Orleans is expensive. Third, we heard confirmed stories of roving gangs. That's what we call risk.

    What really happened is when those people got there, they were told they could not sell stuff at those prices. These people wernt holding customers up at gunpoint, but were offering a service that wasnt being offered.

  6. Re:it's getting them that's the problem... on Cognition Enhancer Research · · Score: 1

    I bout 10 oz of caffeine from unitednuclear.com

    I can take about 1g hit in the morning and not need any for the rest of the day. I just mix it with cold distilled H2O.And, it feels nice... Not as nice as the percocet I was taking for my shoulder though ;D

  7. Re:Time for Tea? on US Plots "Pirate Bay Killer" Trade Agreement · · Score: 1

    Yeah. On A few Tuesdays ago (when Indiana voted), the day after I was in Jury Duty. Its a rare time when one can use 2 boxes consecutively.

    The case: DUI case in which prosecution couldnt prove the guy was actually driving. Cop lied on stand and we couldnt prove it (we wanted to get the cop). We acquitted him after 5 minutes of "deliberation"... well, it was signing the not-guilty that took time, as I was the foreman and had recent shoulder surgery ;D

    The case should have never lasted that long, and was a travesty that he didnt get his freedom sooner.

  8. Re:I wanted to be shown the door... on Getting Rid of Staff With High Access? · · Score: 1

    A monetary bonus is a real "outstanding achievement".

    Some worthless award means they refuse to pay better for better people. That tells me to jump ship.

  9. Re:Meh... on Dragon Quest IV Coming to the DS · · Score: 1

    Yea, I know the ways around the AI..

    If you train the AI well (die to bosses with AI using failed strategies), it does learn. I use a party of Hero, Ragnar, Alena, Cristo for all my gaming.

    However, if you use the GG code to disable the AI, a mage strike force of Hero, Cristo, Mara, Brey kicks ass. However, the AI screws this up severely..

  10. Re:Meh... on Dragon Quest IV Coming to the DS · · Score: 1

    If you play via an emulator, or have a Game Genie, the following will DISABLE the AI on the 5'th quest.

    YYEXVTGE

    I have the cartridge (yeah, the real one) with lv99 on every character, and the ai gave me fits to no end. That code solves any stupidness ai issues once and for all (except people like hector and panon and likes).

  11. Re:That was silly.. on Feds Now Allowed To Use Internet · · Score: 2, Informative

    Its easy to screw around with any network...

    Wow, it uses sat uplinks. Lets find out where and what frequency...

    Ok, lets aim our 10KW tight beam parabola at it and screw over communication. Simple and efective, but it does let them know where you are. In fact, many commercial comsats didnt, prior to 2000, use encryption.

    IIRC, NBC's master feed was hacked in this precise way.

    The only way to create uber-secure networks is to not have one.

  12. Re:That was silly.. on Feds Now Allowed To Use Internet · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Who said I want an efficient government???

    I want a slow-as-molasses-in-antartica government that will make as few laws as possible. If Congress knows they will only pass 100 bills per year, you'd hope they would check them better.

    Now, we have a somewhat eficent government that can and will make laws based on "save the children", "kill pedophiles" or "teh evul terrorists" without any thoughts on how those laws can be used in other, unforeseen ways.

  13. That was silly.. on Feds Now Allowed To Use Internet · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Well, a judge should not be making smart calls what governmental policy should be. Silly laws will be paid for by Congress, but I digress.

    Is it smart that the US governmental departments can now get online? Not in my opinion. These networks should be segregated from the unwashed internet as there is no data security or guarantees of anything except being hacked. Even the most "uber secure" area can be hacked with varying degrees of effort, either externally or internally. This just opens a vector that was once unopened.

    Not smart.

  14. Re:Huzzah! Dragon Quest! on Dragon Quest IV Coming to the DS · · Score: 1

    5 is completely translated, and 6 is "99%" translated. Both are very playable.

    I've beat 1-7, and the only tie between 4-6 is there's a Castle in the Sky. There's no epic like the first 3 had..

  15. Re:Finally, recourse for no US PSX version... on Dragon Quest IV Coming to the DS · · Score: 1

    Do you know the plot of the remake?

    There's a 6th chapter in which Necrosaro joins your party. Turns out, he wants revenge on Radimvice for killing his beloved Rosa.

  16. Re:Huzzah! Dragon Quest! on Dragon Quest IV Coming to the DS · · Score: 1

    I personally thought the chapter based setup was awesome, as it reminds me of a Chaucer story. However, where the series fails is where the first 3 were the Roto(Erdrick) trilogy, after that, was the Castle in the Sky. There was no real trilogy going on there, sadfully.

    I want a multi-game story, either in sequential or "jumping around in time".

    When I beat DW3, I found that I was the Erdrick. Just that alone finished both 1 and 2.

  17. Re:1812 Overture... on UK Teen Cited For Calling Scientology a "Cult" · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yep. The only man to enter parliament with honest intentions.

  18. Re:Hamas does not get 1st amendment protection on YouTube Refuses To Remove Terrorist Videos · · Score: 1

    If what you say is correct, I can use your doorstep for Skinhead anti-semetic, anti-black hate speech that does not advocate a direct call to violence.

    Oh, that's right. There's those pesky private property laws... But 1st Amendment! 1st Amendment!!! halp?

    As long as Google/Youtube maintains legal status, they can keep any material they see fit on there, along with purging any they dont like. You use 14.99FPS? They can erase it. You show beheadings? They can dismiss it. The limit is copyrighted material (which the DMCA provides for these mass-collector sites) which is erased, provided proper channels.

    The Constitution only LIMITS government, not corporations. (Though, a case could be made if the government required that stipulation in corporate charter.)

  19. Re:did anyone mention on The Most Annoying Software Out There · · Score: 1

    That "button change" was because of me.

    I STILL havent changed my signature. Nothin better to put, and the backwards unicode char doesnt work here.

  20. Re:I had no clue people still upgraded firmwares. on New 'Phlashing' Attack Sabotages Hardware · · Score: 1

    I thought about the same thing (rolling my own) but I was looking at too much hardware cost compared to what cheap "circuit city" gear goes for.

    I was honestly looking at these:

    micro-atx or laptop motherboard with accompanying ram (512MB)
    some sort of case, or I could make it myself
    cf card reader and card (I use majority sd cards)
    power supply to provide proper voltages
    4+port switch with uplink sense (there was one that auto-sensed any port. that was cool.)

    I just didnt have that kind of equipment on me at that time. Also, looking for a mainboard/PSU/memory that are all compatible stink. In the end, I went with the linksys WRT54g for one other very special reason: 12VDC

    12 volts? Why? I'm a ham operator and have live, marine-gel-cell batteries live and trickle charging. I also have a car battery at full power I use when I need "remote power". I literally can interface my linksys to a home-made serial to my 2 meter radio (or 70 cm, or other freq's) to either give position information or packet. I think gumstix were the only other 12VDC machines, and I consider them truly underpowered, but they are good for sensor nets.

  21. Re:I had no clue people still upgraded firmwares. on New 'Phlashing' Attack Sabotages Hardware · · Score: 1

    I dont know as much about DD-WRT... I've only had experience with OpenWRT as it uses a modular architecture (like apt).

    Uptime ~= 500 days (its one of 2 on UPS, server is other)

    I just treat it like any other linux machine and all my tunneling needs are set. IIRC, I dont believe Cisco supports sshv2 tunneling :(

  22. Re:I had no clue people still upgraded firmwares. on New 'Phlashing' Attack Sabotages Hardware · · Score: 1

    I'm thinking in terms of the following. Im unsure what exactly the feature set of that Cisco is.

    1. SIP gateway
    2. Kismet node
    3. SSH tunnel/TOR tunnel
    4. Linux firewall (i'd rather have freebsd firewall, but oh well)
    5. IPv4-IPv6 tunnel

    more here. I doubt your cisco has that feature set.

  23. Re:I had no clue people still upgraded firmwares. on New 'Phlashing' Attack Sabotages Hardware · · Score: 1

    Nope. Mine's WRT54G v.3

    I got it before they started using that non-linux OS on it.

  24. Re:I had no clue people still upgraded firmwares. on New 'Phlashing' Attack Sabotages Hardware · · Score: 4, Interesting

    That's the key: Reliable Enough. We dont need 100% availability, as it requires many redundant units (akin DRBD). I just have another WRT54G if this one burns out.

    Business wise: I would go higher end as time==money. Better reliability can be afforded.

    It does what I want it to do, and it does it well. And cheap.

  25. Re:I had no clue people still upgraded firmwares. on New 'Phlashing' Attack Sabotages Hardware · · Score: 2

    And Im running a WRT54G with OpenWRT on it. Supports sshv2 and all the mods I wish to load on it. You paid 300$ (?) for something that does a small subset what mine does, for 1/10 the price. Sweet.