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  1. Re:Game-sensei, please teach me on Education Arcade Brings Learning Experience, Will Wright To E3 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Most important thing I've learned from playing video games: When the ghosts come after you, eat the pills so that you can eat the ghosts instead of them eating you.

  2. Re:I doubt it on Vatican Astronomer Comments On Extraterrestrials · · Score: 1

    Buddhism really doesn't make Earth any more special than any other locality.

  3. Re:Or how about on Vatican Astronomer Comments On Extraterrestrials · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That's funny, I have, several times.

    Then again, if you go looking for them you'll find someone who believes anything you can come up with.

  4. Re:He who protects everything... on Rand Report Says Geospatial Data Not Big Threat · · Score: 1

    True, money would help, but I'm convinced it could be done on zero budget, assuming you already have a computer (laptop with wifi for free/semi untracable net connection). What it comes down to is skill and determination, and terrorists are not lacking the latter.

  5. Re:He who protects everything... on Rand Report Says Geospatial Data Not Big Threat · · Score: 1

    How much money do you need to bring the Internet to it's knees? Hint: Zero.

  6. Re:Meet the new boss on Corporate Work in the US vs. Canada? · · Score: 1

    I've always thought about this, but what about work visas, immigration etc? I've always fancied England myself, at least to start off with. Any information would be greatly appreciated.

  7. Re:CueCat on Semacode - Hyperlinks For The Real World · · Score: 3, Funny

    You think it's cool now, wait till you scan something and Goatse.cx pops up.

  8. google translation - have fun. on "Decryption" of Bush Memo · · Score: 4, Informative



    Cryptologists decipher a term censured in a "memo" addressed by the CIA to Geoges Bush
    THE WORLD|07.05.04| 12h58 UPDATED 07.05.04|16h13
    Les annales et corrig÷Ydu baccalaurïE depuis 1995.
    Abonnez-vous au Monde.fr, 5? par mois

    A passage covered with black ink in a document recently diffused by the White House was reconstituted. The method could be applied to considerable d¦classifi¦es files.
    It "was bored" in front of television, the weekend of Easter, "when the memo of the CIA with George Bush was diffused" , remembers David Naccache, specialist in the coding of the data of the French company Gemplus. "I telephoned at once Claire Whelan, a coed of Dublin City University, from which I direct the thesis, to propose to him to attack the caviard¦s passages" , it tells. Mission accomplished, or almost.

    The "memo" in question, addressed on August 6, 2001 by the CIA to president Bush and entitled "Ben Laden determined to strike in the USA", had been just d¦classifi¦ by the White House. This one wanted to prove that the precision of the warnings of the services of information was not sufficient to make it possible to the president to prevent the attacks of September 11. But five passages specifying the sources of the collected information had been covered with black ink.

    For the cryptologist David Naccache, these illegible fragments were as many red rags. The result of its efforts - "conduits on a purely deprived basis" , specifies it, concerned not to imply its employer in his initiative - was presented Tuesday May 4 at the time of the conference Eurocrypt 2004 which joined together until May 6 with Interlaken, in Switzerland, the gratin of world cryptography. "the demonstration was extremely impressive" , judge Jean-Jacques Quisquater (university of Leuwen-the-New), specialist in the field, which greets this company of " reverse engineering of censured document" .

    David Naccache and his pupil indeed succeeded in discovering one of the censured words. The term "Egyptian" seems the only possible one to them. They want to polish their method before returning their verdict on a longer passage, in order not to discredit it. And they straightforwardly threw sponge for a completely isolated word, for lack of sufficient indices.

    Technology employed does not have, at first sight, anything revolutionist. The two researchers initially "rectified" the text, deformed at the time of its digitalization - the slope was only of 0,52ã. They then used a software of character recognition to determine the police force of the text which fixes the number of signs per unit of length. The simple recourse to an English dictionary then makes it possible to draw up a list of possible words. "1 530 corresponded" , indicates David Naccache.

    But the article "year" preceding the word mystery implied that this one necessarily started with a vowel, which made it possible to bring back the list to 346 words. In French, an index provided by articles like "one" or "one", in the same way, would have made it possible to tighten research. The selection was also facilitated by the fact that the bill of character, Arial, is "proportional", i.e. the "hunting" of the letters varies. The space occupied by an I differs from that taken by W, which can give additional indices, compared to the police forces known as "monospace", like the Mail, often used, where all the letters are worth.

    "Among" the surviving "words, five or six could make direction, but only Egyptian corresponded to the context" , indicates the cryptologist. This last stage raises more human intelligence than of the geometry of the text. To choose among Ukrainian, univited, unofficial, incursive, Egyptian, indebted and Ugandan, the two researchers were based on their good direction, Uganda and the Ukraine seeming too far away from the theatre of the operations to be retained, for example.

    No doubt the analysis of the "memo" of the CIA reveals only one "an open secre

  9. Re:I need more info! on On the Trail to Atlantis · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Perhaps not a scuba diver, but a submersible would. Deepest dive is at just over 4 miles.

  10. Re:My question on NASA - Robotic Repair Of Hubble 'Promising' · · Score: 1

    Simple solution: Telepresence.

  11. Re:"Sub-$150 color handheld" on palmOne Releases Two New Zire Handhelds · · Score: 4, Informative

    If you look at the product page for the 31 on palm's site, you'll notice that you need an expansion card for mp3 playback.

  12. Re:Zelda is the best game of all time! on Legend Of Zelda - Evolution Of A Franchise · · Score: 1

    Never played one Zelda game in my life. I've got some time to waste at night, so perhaps I should look into it.

  13. Re:Downhill from here? on For Sale: Lycos.com · · Score: 1

    Although you can check yourself in to a mental institution, at least some people check their selves into treatment.

  14. Re:Super Conduction on High-Temp Superconducting Tape · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yes, like making it easier for people to never have to walk again because the tech will exist for them to have floating body suits like that Baron guy.

  15. Re:$149 per copy on Turbolinux Licenses Windows Media 9 · · Score: 1

    Yes, but under the logic of poster, if WMP is not free because Microsoft is not free, then the same applies for OSes which are also not free but WMP runs on.

    The fact that Microsoft doesn't profit from MacOS is irrelevent.

  16. Re:$149 per copy on Turbolinux Licenses Windows Media 9 · · Score: 1

    Mac OS is not free either.

  17. Re:Why can't windows have decent package managemen on WiX Project Lead Interviewed On CPL Licensing · · Score: 1

    Making your own MSI for apps you want deployed via policy on a business network is the one of the only ways you are going to get them installed, short of going to each machine with a cd and installing manually. That works just fine with about 10 machines, mabey 1,000 if you are a university with access to interns who will work cheap... but when you push higher than that in the private sector you are wasting a LOT of time an money.

  18. Re:Whoops? on MMOG Subscription Winners, Losers Analyzed · · Score: 1

    They are _UNDER_ the bed.

  19. Re:What a non-issue on Videogame Reviews - Playing With Numbers? · · Score: 1

    Zero.

  20. Re:What the hell is "on the spoke"? on 419er Lost in Space · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It's slang. You know, what the kids speak?

  21. Re:Marvel!!!! on Hubble Photo of Sedna Suprises Astronomers · · Score: 2, Funny

    Brilliant! You figured it out when all others could not. It's so simple in retorspect: Superman ran backwards around Sedna, causing it to both go back in time and slow down it's rotation!

  22. Re:There are much worse ideas from the Snyder camp on Inside The Worst Videogame Arcade In The World? · · Score: 1

    They have these in the vending machines where I work. Honestly, I don't think they are that bad. Then again when I'm in the break room I smoke three 100 cigarettes in about ten mins, so my tastes might not be spot on, y'know?

  23. Annoying on EverQuest Sequel Gives Voice To NPCs, Original Turns Five · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Is it just me, or does this sound like on of the most annoying ideas put forth in a while? Maybe I'm too slep dep'd, but the idea of hearing some annoying NPC saying "Maybe you can help me!?" over and over again would make me want to shoot my machine after a while...

  24. Yes.... on How Much was a CDC 1604 in the 60's? · · Score: 2, Informative

    One Miiiiiillion dollars!

  25. Re:Oh bloody hell on Political Pop-ups, and Follow the Money · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Would you like to know more?