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  1. Re:legal system designed to control populace on UCSD Vs. Free Speech, Round 2 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Mod parrent up! In addition, we must realise that such laws will not be made by elites unless they have their lives or their wealth on the line. Its up to the rest of us to act. We need direct democracy that goes beyond voting. We need boycotts, strikes, protests, gurilla theater, piracy, and more. We must make our own media and our own economy outside of the realm of coporate America. A radical movement like that of the 30's or 60's would press the center to the left and make real progress finally happen.

  2. MIPS? on Via Will Join The 64-Bit Fray · · Score: 1

    What advantage will this have (besides perhaps higher raw clockspeed) over other embeddable 64 bit cpus? MIPS chips have been 64 bit and low power for over a decade.

  3. Re:Won't run for me either! on Linux Doom 3 Client Released · · Score: 1

    I don't have quite as good a system as you (and I run debian), but I got the same error. If I fix it, I'll try to contact you (kinda hard since you are an Anonymous Coward. If you find out whats up, you can contact me at the_one@ameritech.net

  4. NT on DefCon World Record Wi-Fi as Comic Strip · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    1337

  5. Re:claims ? on Patent Concerns Unlikely To Nix Munich Linux Plan · · Score: 1

    Reminds me of McGarthy and his list of communists in the state department.

  6. NSA on NASA Releases World Viewer · · Score: 2, Funny

    I wonder if NASA made a version of this for the NSA with ummmm a bit higher resolution.

  7. Re:My Question on Submit and Moderate Questions for Bush and Kerry · · Score: 1

    This has been an overemphasized issue for as long as I can remember. If society could care for the boomers when they were children and dependents (in the 1950s), and our ecomony is stronger now then it was then, we should have no problem caring for them now.

    One way we could insure our seniors are really being provided for would be to lift the cap (the social security tax is only taken out up to a certain income level) on social security. We should also make capital gains and other methods of earning money other than raw wages be taxed for social security, since the wealthy earn more money with these methods then the poor. The rich should pay their fare share. Univeral health care would also be a boon for seniors who need expensive drugs or surgeries. Of course my stance on healthcare and social security, although supported by the majority of americans, is miles to the left of Bush or Kerry.

  8. Re:For Both Parties on Submit and Moderate Questions for Bush and Kerry · · Score: 1

    Mod parent up. These questions may seem too controversial or too pointed, but they need to be asked! These are the issues that really impact every one of us.

  9. Re:Itanium will crush all... hardly on HP Terminates Itanium Workstations · · Score: 1
  10. except they are on Is Sun Turning against Linux and Red Hat? · · Score: 1

    blogs.sun.com They are posting their future strategies to an extent. I'm sure a sun employee would get fired for breaking an NDA but overall it seams like the blogs provide a good uncensored look at the people and ideas of sun.

  11. Why this is important on IBM Tech Detects & Changes Spin of Single Electron · · Score: 1

    Besides the intrinsic interest in spin-related phenomena, there are two main areas which hold promises for future applications: Spin-based devices in conventional [1] as well as in quantum computer hardware [7]. In conventional computers, the electron spin can be expected to enhance the performance of quantum electronic devices, examples being spin-transistors (based on spin-currents and spin injection), non-volatile memories, single spin as the ultimate limit of information storage etc. [1]. On the one hand, none of these devices exist yet, and experimental progress as well as theoretical investigations are needed to provide guidance and support in the search for realizable implementations. On the other hand, the emerging field of quantum computing [8,9] and quantum communication [9,10] requires a radically new approach to the design of the necessary hardware. As first pointed out in Ref. Loss97, the spin of the electron is a most natural candidate for the qubit--the fundamental unit of quantum information. We have shown [7] that these spin qubits, when located in quantum-confined structures such as semiconductor quantum dots or atoms or molecules, satisfy all requirements needed for a scalable quantum computer. Moreover, such spin-qubits--being attached to an electron with orbital degrees of freedom--can be transported along conducting wires between different subunits in a quantum network [9]. In particular, spin-entangled electrons can be created in coupled quantum dots and--as mobile Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) pairs [9]--provide then the necessary resources for quantum communication.

    For both spin-related areas--conventional computers and quantum computers--similar and sometimes identical physical concepts and tools are needed, the common short-term goal being to find ways to control the coherent dynamics of electron spins in quantum-confined nanostructures. It is this common goal that makes research on the electron spin in nanostructures--spintronics--a highly attractive area. While we advance our basic knowledge about spin physics in many-body systems, we gain insights that promise to be useful for future technologies.

    Stolen from: http://theorie5.physik.unibas.ch/qcomp/qcomp.html

  12. Re:crypto is still safe on IBM Tech Detects & Changes Spin of Single Electron · · Score: 1

    *IANAQP IANAEE

  13. Re:crypto is still safe on IBM Tech Detects & Changes Spin of Single Electron · · Score: 1

    I don't think you get it (although I might not either, IMNAQP && IMNAEE: I am not a quantum physicist and I am not an electrical engneer)...but I think:

    It's perfectly possable to tap an electrical communications (cat5, co-ax, whatever) cable without interfearing with the data being sent using low tech old school electronics. You just physically tap off the line in parallel, hook up some kind of low power operational amp and some recording || grepping device. You try to draw as little current as possable while doing this so you don't disrupt things (voltage will remain the same on the other end since you are in parallel with the line). The ability of a quantum computer to crack crypto rests on unproven assumptions from information theory regarding complexity classes and has nothing to do with measuring the electrical high/low pulses that make up ethernet frames and thus ip packets or whatever you meant by what you were saying.

  14. Re:Noam Chomsky on Your Favorite Political Weblogs? · · Score: 1

    Noam Chomsky is ethnically jewish and a traditional zionist (meaning he wants a peaceful socialist secular state in isreal/palistine). Chomsky believes the holocost did occur but has defended holocost deniers like Serge Thion because he holds free speech to be important and recognises that the Establishment is censoring those with unpopular view points.

  15. Noam Chomsky on Your Favorite Political Weblogs? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    http://blog.zmag.org/ttt/ Love Chomksy or hate him, you have to admit he incluences political thought in the US and the world and is therefor worth paying attention to.

  16. SGI indy on Energy Efficient and Cheap Servers for Home Use? · · Score: 1
    How about an old SGI indy?

    -They are cheap (they often sell for less than $15.00 each on ebay, I even bought a fully functional complete one for $1.00).

    -They have a small footprint in terms of space and power consumption.

    -They have 64-bit RISC (mips) processors and lots of slots for cheap and easily upgradable RAM.

    -Debian is easy to install if you don't wanna fool with IRIX

    -They were made to be desktop graphics workstations, so they were built to physically withstand an old large heavy monitor being placed on top of them, thus they are stackable with all kinds of crap on top of them, and no rack mounts are necessary.

    -When they were new, they cost tens of thousands of bucks each, so the physical quality and duribility exceeds that of any x86 system.

    -Its |337 to turn 15 year old technology into something powerfull enough to compete with a modern system, and do it for less money than a new machine.

  17. Re:CIPA a joke anyway... on Pennsylvania Child Porn Act Overturned · · Score: 1
  18. My experience supports this on The Underground History of American Education · · Score: 1

    http://bigfiber.net/~the1/incident.txt http://bigfiber.net/~the1/report.jpg

  19. print vs virtual on Top Banned Books of 2003 · · Score: 1

    Being critical of censorship of print media is prudent, but what about online censorship (particularly in high schools)? Many districts still use CIPA as an excuse for excessive filtering. My personal experiences are told here: http://igloo.bigfiber.net/~the1/incident.txt

  20. Dinosaurs Will Die on RIAA Continues Distributing Dud CDs to Satisfy Settlement · · Score: 1

    The RIAA should be forced to buy librarys non-riaa music. The indys make a better product so us library goers would benifit, and such a ruling would help competition in the industry. Kick back watch it crumble See the drowning, watch the fall I feel just terrible about it That's sarcasm, let it burn I'm gonna make a toast when it falls apart I'm gonna raise my glass above my heart Then someone shouts "That's what they get!" For all the years of hit and run For all the piss broke bands on VH1 Where did all, their money go? Don't we all know Parasitic music industry As it destroys itself We'll show them how it's supposed to be Music written from devotion Not ambition, not for fame Zero people are exploited There are no tricks, up our sleeve Gonna fight against the mass appeal We're gonna kill the 7 record deal Make records that have more than one good song The dinosaurs will slowly die And I do believe no one will cry I'm just fucking glad I'm gonna be There to watch the fall Prehistoric music industry Three feet in la brea tar Extinction never felt so good If you think anyone would feel badly You are sadly, mistaken The time has come for evolution Fuck collusion, kill the five Whatever happened to the handshake? Whatever happened to deals no-one would break? What happened to integrity? It's still there it always was For playing music just because A million reason why All dinosaurs will die All dinosaurs will die All dinosaurs will die --NOFX (Fat Wreck Cords)

  21. worm? on WebTV 911 Hacker... Cyber Terrorist? · · Score: 1

    I wonder what the feds would think of this little bit of immaturity? http://cia.zemos.net/~the1/friend.bat Yes I coded it (several years ago). No I don't really want/expect to infect anyone.

  22. The ancient art of phreaking on What (non-PC) Hardware Do You Hack? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    phones: see the above webpage.

  23. Portability on Specialized Knoppixes for Fun and Profit · · Score: 3, Interesting

    What I would really like to see (and possibly create) would be a portable Knoppix distribution. Since Debian runs on more architecture than any other major distro, and Knoppix is Debian based, it should be fairly simple port Knoppix. How cool would to be to be able to run Linux on any mac, RISC workstation, or server with no installation?

  24. Re:How about /. in China? on Chinese Internet Censorship Proves Difficult · · Score: 1

    I donno about china, but my school's filter did. Check out http://igloo.bigfiber.net/~the1/incident.txt and http://igloo.bigfiber.net/~the1/report.jpg to hear about what happened when I tryed to fight censorship.

  25. Re:Pssst, look here!!! on Chinese Internet Censorship Proves Difficult · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Ya...my school filters because the school board decided censorship was worth funding. check out http://igloo.bigfiber.net/~the1/report.jpg and http://igloo.bigfiber.net/~the1/incident.txt for my dealings with this policy.