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  1. They learned the communicty an important lesson on Homeland Security says 'Patch Windows Now' · · Score: 1

    and we have not seen virii on Unix boxes since then.

  2. Re:Um on Halving Half Lives · · Score: 1
    It is pretty easy to shield using water, since that's how spent fuel is stored after discharge from commercial plants until it's cool enough to move to dry storage (temperature cool, not radiation). Dry storage works just fine once the thermal loadings are low enough. Casks such as this are present at nearly every nuclear facility that hasn't moved fuel offsite.

    Dry storage "works" just fine?

    The current problem is not exactly storing a container, but keeping it safe for now and future inhibitants of the area.

  3. Univeristy ? on It's OK to keep AIMing · · Score: 1
    "According to the Univeristy of Toronto instant messaging does not hurt the grammar of the people who use ...


    Does nobody see the error or did I just kick in an open door?

  4. Re:Generic Graphical Network Overview on Latest Vista Build Making Real Progress · · Score: 1
    WinNT,2K,XP and ServerNT,2K,2003 handle these tasks quite easily and clearly. I have worked with plenty of such setups, you must be missing something.


    I am missing the reboots to make these change apply, since I switched to Linux :)

  5. Generic Graphical Network Overview on Latest Vista Build Making Real Progress · · Score: 1

    Guess they still did not prepair for my 2 networkcards with different IP-addresses and different firewall rules and forwarding.

    'Share on one, share on all with password protection (but we do not tell which share is password protected).'

  6. Don Perignon 1982 on Gangs on the Internet · · Score: 1
    Besides smoking most of their stash, they'd do stupid things like blow money on other drugs or buy Don Perignon, etc.

    A Don Perignon from 1982 isn't that bad.

  7. Re:Don't forget... on EFF Gets Animated About DRM with The Corruptibles · · Score: 1
    The bad guys can make cartoons too.

    Indeed 'bad guys', the movie is in favour of stopping net neutrality.
  8. class action suit on Microsoft Loses Appeal in Guatemalan Patent Claim · · Score: 1

    I see a class action suit from windows-users against MS, forcing MS to buy the license.

    The users bought the office suite which included a functionality which is now being removed. Moreover, MS had the opportunity and responsibility to keep the end-users out of (legal) problems. Also, the EULA stated MS has copyright of the delivered software (which turned out to be a lie).

  9. Windows Networking on Microsoft Calls for Truce With GPL and Linux? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Microsoft, show your intention by opening Windows Networking!

  10. Re:Arg! I am embarrassed by my countrymen. on French PM Unreceptive To RMS · · Score: 1
    YOU probably look like an hippy slob, troll.
    Might be and I don't care what you think of my appearance.

    As long as I respect people for what they say and not how they look, I am ok :)

  11. Re:Arg! I am embarrassed by my countrymen. on French PM Unreceptive To RMS · · Score: 0, Troll
    I am an American, and I have to say to mr. Stallman:

    Please wear a suit when trying to meet with foreign dignitaries.

    And at least wear your hair back and trim your beard a little. You look like a hippy slob, and that was how you were received.

    ...


    Said by a guy from the home of the free. As free as he tells you how to act.
  12. Re:Uh, no surprises here on French PM Unreceptive To RMS · · Score: 1

    You show up at a major countries statehouse and demand entry and some security guard tells you to get an appointment, no big surprises here.

    What if you never can get an appointment?

  13. peacetime on New Personal Mono-Wing · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    ... stay far away from enemy territory - or on secret peacetime missions could avoid detection or suspicion ...
    [sarcasm]
    Of course, since when did 'trust' did any good for peace-time.
    [/sarcasm]

    Now military scientists have realised ...
    Yeah right, scientists! Bunch of bums with brains I call them.
  14. Re:dvd software for copying on Death By DMCA · · Score: 1
    And those are illegal in the United States.
    --
    The difference between US and China.
    --
    So do not talk about freedom in your signature!
  15. dvd software for copying on Death By DMCA · · Score: 1, Insightful
    From the article:
    "You're likewise out of luck if you're looking to buy software that lets you copy a DVD onto your laptop's hard drive; it's no longer for sale, at least not in the United States."
    Yep, it has been free for a long time, it's called vobcopy and libcss.
  16. Re:protect yourself using SATAN on Stealing Data? A Sniffer Shows it's Easy · · Score: 1
    Interesting, but...

    I forgot to mention: your network cable is shielded (or at least multiple cable close to each other) which flattens the signal anyway (from the outside seen).

  17. Re:protect yourself using SATAN on Stealing Data? A Sniffer Shows it's Easy · · Score: 1
    You are right, what you say is indeed sci-fi.

    What you are suggesting depends highly on an environment which has no other network cards transmitting which is unlikely, let alone the power cables which have a HUGE influence on the EM-noise you are also receiving. Though the 1/f noise reduction can be applied to some extension, the latter is really high. A focussed antennae might help.

  18. zero-point energy no chance! on NASA to Research Antimatter Rocket · · Score: 1

    You can't use zero-point energy, because you cannot extract energy from a system when it is already in its lowest state!

  19. Time issues in quantum theory on Significant Advance in Quantum Computing · · Score: 2, Interesting
    From the article:
    ...demonstrates that it is possible to measure the quantum properties of two interconnected artificial atoms at virtually the same time.
    and the uncertainty in the energy of the quanta increases, due to the uncertainty relation!

    Also,

    ...virtually the same time.
    Time is relative to the observer, and quantum theory treats time linear but Einstein says otherwise. Take a look at an EPR situation in space-time (talk by Roger Penrose).
  20. who cares on Microsoft's 'IsNot' Patent Continued... · · Score: 1

    Some MS-crackhat files such patents and a bunch of open source developers try to figure out what it means and try to stop it. MS wins by having to compete with less open source development that way.

  21. project MiniGrail on New Distributed Project Seeks Gravity Waves · · Score: 3, Informative

    At Leiden University in The Netherlands a project called MiniGrail tries to detect gravitational wave produced by neutron stars.

  22. the load, oh the load on Nerdorama for All Your Geeky Needs · · Score: 1

    mmm... the load crushed them.
    slashdot did it again

  23. Re:back the truck up on Cheating Made Easy · · Score: 1

    You are missing my point: notes in music do not contain information by themselfs.

    The understanding part in music is not the organisation, but the type of organisation which is recognised and preferred by humans, especially types which give rise to suprise and other emotions...

    And creativity.... I do not know,... but just writings notes is far from it.

  24. information and understanding on Cheating Made Easy · · Score: 1

    This shows that a paper is not a hard 'proof' you master the subject.

    I allways felt that writing a paper is just reorganisation of known information, no understanding sometimes is required and is often far from creative.

  25. bad advocacy on HP Releases Linux-Based Notebook · · Score: 1
    ... as anyone who has ever tried to run Linux (or even Windows XP) on a laptop knows, laptops come with all kinds of funky hardware, and it's often a mess trying to find and configure the right kernel modules to make things like software suspend work correctly.
    I did not have any trouble installing FreeBSD 5.2 on a Dell Inspiron 1150, but intros like these make you think you are going to climb a huge mountain. It turned out to be a piece of cake.