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  1. Secure? on Vanu Replacing Cell Tower Equipment With PCs · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Hardware is generally far more difficult to compromise than software, esp' a known operating system (regardless of how much more secure it may be than other cough, doze, boxes) You'd want some very secure remote access if at all. Otherwise you could find yourself with a whole bunch of phones ringing a la lawn-mower man style in a country town near you.

  2. Re:My views on mono on Mono 2.8 Released · · Score: 2, Insightful

    .NET, [sarcasm] It's so cool how it's totally, fully interoperable with ALL windows XP AND windows 2003 server [/sarcasm] Microsoft again, trying to wedge proprietary into what shouldn't be to leverage market share.

  3. could just be for testing on What's Wacky with Google? · · Score: 1

    As said obviously nobody searches for candle trucks or speaker bracelets. It could just be some whacky combinations engineers used for testing and debugging. More likely just an odd combination of algorithm action, because they are so dissimilar the intersection of the two search fields comes out as 1 or if there's semantic analysis it's just falling over.

  4. Saving our freedom!!? on JetBlue Gives Away Passenger Info To TSA? · · Score: 1

    Keep pushing people to jump through more and more hoops, literally terrorize your own population. Can you smell the *cough* freedom. Somehow I don't feel like these kind of actions make us the winners... Definitely moving to a guilty until proven innocent paradigm, great job.

  5. Seems funny only on planes on Electronics & Planes Don't Mix? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I've always wondered why electronic equipment on planes was so much more sensitive then the regular stuff we have down on earth. I mean I can use my mobile phone near my computer and it doesn't lock up and vice versa, turning on my computer doesn't exactly make my mobile phone calls drop out. Electronic devices are specifically designed to withstand a certain amount of interferance, did somebody just forget to do that for plane electronics?

    Just a note, airlines make money from people using in-flight phones, it's not in their economic interest to have people using their mobile phones.

  6. Re:What sort of computations will this be good at? on Grid Processing · · Score: 1

    Be very good at searching large key spaces, ie brute forcing encrypted material by testing every possible key.

    If they're cheap and you can get the density up high enough maybe AES won't last as long as we thought.

  7. who needs top/taskmgr on Memory Activity LEDs · · Score: 1

    Just open your box (although if you're the type of person buying this stuff it's probably already in a fish bowl flashing like a deranged disco ball on your desk) and impress your friends as you start up your favourite raytracer with an obscene polygon count as you take the memory into the "red zone", wow! Cool man, so interactive and all I need to do is take of the thumb screws and crawl under my desk to check out the light show.

  8. Re:Maybe 50% of the light that it absorbs on Solar Window Panes · · Score: 1

    If the conversion rate is 100% this means 100% of the energy is converted to electricity, meaning that no energy comes through, this means no light. In other words complete darkness.

    As soon as people start talking about 50-100% energy conversion it's time to get very suspicious indeed.

    Hopefully this has some promise in it, not unachievable hyperbole, goodness knows we need to seriously start thinking about getting far less destructive ways of generating power.

  9. Re:coffee machine on Wired Case Mod Roundup · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Doesn't anybody else think that the idea of a hot liquid co-habiting with expensive electronic equipment is mildly misguided.
    And the modder's wondering why whenever he brews a cup of the good stuff his machine locks up...

  10. Re:This is an idea, albeit not perfect on CDs, DVDs Eyed For Long-Term Archival Use · · Score: 2, Informative

    I remember reading about guy who's profession was accessing legacy media. He had all this old legacy equipment which he had accumulated over the years. Companies deciding to move data over to newer media often had to contact him waving their 12" disks and tape cartridges asking for access as the old computers along with the readers had long been discarded.

  11. Re:the real name of this book. on Java Web Services in a Nutshell · · Score: 1

    There is also secure SOAP, so things can continue to run on whatever protocol they were designed for.

  12. Execs getting better on 2002 SAGE Salary Survey Finally Released · · Score: 3, Informative

    Just read in Tuesday's Australian Financial Review that Executive salaries were still high (and growing) in the IT sector, comparable to other industry sectors, but the rest of the IT workforce was not enjoying the same percentage increase and ridiculous high salaries.

  13. Re:driving test. on Self-Parking Car Available In Japan · · Score: 1

    Florida: 1 full 7 year driving license (in auto or manual) aquiring: 1) multiple choice test with q's like: At a rail road crossing the boom is coming down and the lights flashing do you: a)drive faster and hope to get underneath in time b)slam on your breaks as hard as you can c)come to a stop and wait until the train goes past. (Admittidly I was thinking about b for a while) 2)back out of car park 3)drive around block and observe stop sign 4)come to a stop within 30m at 30mph 5)reverse in a straight line for 30m 6)complete a straight in park (straight in I kid you not) Your done certified imbicile driver allowed to drive any land yacht of your choice across the vast freeway system of Florida. So now I wait for 5 more years until I have to mail in and get my new license. Quality.