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  1. Besides Spooner's article, any other source on Intel Plans CPU Naming Change · · Score: 0

    confirms Intel's intentions? All of google's news links to Intel's renumbering scheme aricles point to the same CNEt/Spooner source. I highly doubt it, but then again, I'm a skeptic by nature.

  2. MS (god forbid) solution... on Suggestions for a DVD Video on Demand System? · · Score: 0

    DVDShrink to copy DVD to hd, and "DVD Media Classic Player" to play movie from hd - recognizes menu, languages, etc. Both programs are more or less dummy proof, press one key solution.

  3. Perfect until it breakes down again! on Spirit 'Will Be Perfect Again' · · Score: 0
  4. Quantum computers could provide... on Maryland Electronic Voting Systems Found Vulnerable · · Score: 0

    if not the whole voting enchilada, at least a tamper-proof voting solution, which seems to be the the primary weakness of digital computers.

  5. To take care of Rover's heating problem... on What's Inside the Mars Rovers · · Score: 1, Funny

    they should have used an AMD processor. Heck, a couple of AMD processors would be more than enough to raise Mars' temperature to room temperature.

  6. Re:7.2.2 INCIDENT PREVENTION on NIST Releases Guide to Cyber Attacks · · Score: 1

    Original Post + Section 3.1.1 - Preparing to Handle Incidents
    "Contact information for team memebers and others within and outside the orgazination ... public encryption keys (in accordance with the encryption software described below), and instructions for verifying the contact's identity"... SSH = Shell + encryption, HTTPS = HTTP + encryption!

    The crap only gets crapier.

  7. 7.2.2 INCIDENT PREVENTION on NIST Releases Guide to Cyber Attacks · · Score: 1, Interesting

    "... Consider limiting outbound connections that use encrypted protocols, such as SSH, HTTPS, IPsec. Permitting unncessary encrypted connections may allow users to perform actions that security controls cannot monitor. For example, a user could establish a SSH connection to an external server and download illegal materials; because the connection is encrypted, network security controls would not determine the nature of the activity. Possible methods for limiting the traffic include firewall rulesets and URL filtering..."

    Who the hell wrote this crap?

  8. Is anybody going to review it? on NIST Releases Guide to Cyber Attacks · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ???

  9. Child-Robot 101 Required books - add to list on Japan's Proposed 30-Year Robot Program · · Score: 1

    How the mind works - S. Pinker
    The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics - by Roger Penrose, Martin Gardner

  10. "first understand the mechanism of how human... on Japan's Proposed 30-Year Robot Program · · Score: 1

    brain works... That will be equal to understanding human beings."

    Good luck!!!

    P.S. Do they use the metric system or the english system in Japan?

  11. Renesys Corporation... on Network Blackout · · Score: 1

    "Providing real-time internet connectivity monitoring and reporting worldwide"

    Wouldn't "real-time...monitoring" = DoS?

  12. One very late, and semi important step, on India Plans Moon Mission by 2008 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    for Indian-kind, while 80% of the population is starving. Also known as the world's greatest democratic, idiocracy.

  13. Re:Yeah there is... on Microsoft, OD2 Start European Music Service · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Aviation, maybe not, but he was definitely thinking of space:

    http://www.tml.hut.fi/Studies/Tik-110.350/1998/Ess ays/leos.html

    "Teledesic Craig McCaw, founder of McCaw Communications and Bill Gates of Microsoft, have teamed up to launch a broadband Mobile Satellite System (MSS) called Teledesic in 2002. The system will deploy LEO 288 satellites in low earth orbit and offer a range of multimedia services to briefcase-sized terminals.[3] "

  14. Re:Linux Ready For The Desktop ? on A Look at the Upcoming GNOME 2.4 · · Score: 1

    While I agree with you regarding the simplicity of installing gnome (especially for desktop use), I think RH9's gui package management approach is bad due to lack of granuality which leads to bloat - apt/synaptic, ximian's package manager, and even previous gui versions of RH package manager, are better alternatives to RH's current gui package management

  15. Metacity alternative... on A Look at the Upcoming GNOME 2.4 · · Score: 1

    The last time I checked (RH 9 installation), metacity was gnome's default window-whatchamacallit, which had the annoying animated minimization, lacked some of the fine-tuning sawfish has/had, and was not-so-actively maintained. Any other up-and-coming, actively maintained, gnome2-ready/complaiant, non-fluxbox/blackbox-type, worthy replacement for metacity. TIA

  16. Reverse Engineer(ing) on Renegade Reverse Engineering - John Woo Style · · Score: 1

    Any university offering a degree in this field?

  17. Re:Keeping hope alive is good but... on OpEd Piece on Extended Life Expectancy · · Score: 1

    I'm also assuming that regardless of the solutions anybody finds, the solution will require matter, matter composed of protons, and unless there is a way to make protons "immortal", that which is made of protons will die after 10^33 years. The question is then, is my "all solutions require matter" assumption wrong? Is there a solution that does not require matter?
    Haven't read Fredrick Pohl's, but unless the "shelter" and "oneself" is not made out of matter, it will also have the same faith of that which is made of.
    The local loto slogan is "You got to be in it, to win it". In this case, you have no choice, but to be in it, and the consequence will follow.

  18. Keeping hope alive is good but... on OpEd Piece on Extended Life Expectancy · · Score: 1

    If protons have a life time (10^33 years) then good bye "immortality", and all other religious mombo-jombo/manifestation of it - re-incarnation, life-after-death, etc. Besides, if there is a sucker born every minute (or so), imagine a universe full of suckers, imagine the suicide rate, and imagine living in such universe. Thank god for death.

    Is science the new opium of the people?

  19. Efficeon : eff - ice - on : oxymoronic deviance :) on New Transmeta Chip: "Efficeon" · · Score: 2, Interesting

    From dictionary.com
    eff: v : have sexual intercourse with; "This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm"; "Adam knew Eve" (know is archaic); "Were you ever intimate with this man?" [syn: love, make out, make love, sleep with, get laid, have sex, know, do it, be intimate, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, screw, fuck, jazz, hump, lie with, bed, have a go at it, bang, get it on, bonk]

    So all this time, "Take a cold shower" actually meant..... Nevermind!

  20. msblast and Task Manager not opening on Win32 Blaster Worm is on the Rise · · Score: 1

    My friend got hit by one of these guys last night, and I tried (long distance) to fix over the phone for a few hours but there is still a problem. Norton detected two viri: msblast and tftp3088 (I) deleted msblast from the HD, and removed all msblast registries. Updated XP with the latest patches. Stopped start-up processes. The problem is that while in regular mode, when trying to start task manager it starts minimized (iconified) and it allow you to maximize it. When trying to start regedit or msconfig, the program appears for a second and then dissappears. Tried a maximized-task-manager registry patch, but when trying to install it the same dissapearing act happens. Everything starts o.k. and maximizes in safe mode. Anyway, anybody knows anything about the tftp3088 problem? Google/yahoo returns nothing. Any ideas?

  21. Perfect excuse for corporate Amercia... on Consumer Reports Discovers Tech Support Sucks · · Score: 1

    And while most (with some exceptions) tech support sucks, most people can't follow simple instructions how to program the time on their VCR. It gets much worst when tech support is not even aware of the problem.

  22. Comon Sense Rule No. #1 on The Introvert Advantage · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Based on: "Dealing with Extroverts The second part of the book is about dealing with significant others, children, and co-workers. The first chapter has sections on different relationship pairings (introvert male with extrovert female, introvert female with extrovert male, introvert with introvert)."


    If you are an opinionated introvert try to CHOOSE a significant other WHO IS also an introvert or at least have a backbone.

  23. One more idea... Flunk the whole school! on Disclosure of Major Software Exploits by Students? · · Score: 1

    (but keep a backup of the original) That should get their attention.

  24. Show them that it works but... on Disclosure of Major Software Exploits by Students? · · Score: 1

    don't show them how you do it. If your "...-selftested proof-of-concept exploit code..." actually works, proving to them that there is an exploit shouldn't be too dificult - tell them (software company and the Dean) what grades you are going to change, and then run the program and change some grades - but make sure you keep all your source cod encrypted.

  25. Re:Let me guess: it has a ball instead of a wheel! on New Microsoft Mouse Scrolls Both Ways · · Score: 1

    Female... the light comes through a hole! How true!