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  1. Re:Another Law on Congress Sends Anti-Spam Bill To White House · · Score: 1

    Actually Arnold isn't doing too badly (perhaps its the lame duck effect, I don't know). He at least listen to his advisors, unlike some president... *cough* Bush *cough*

  2. Re:Another Law on Congress Sends Anti-Spam Bill To White House · · Score: 1

    Actually I heard another way to counter spam, maybe on slashdot but I honoestly forgot.

    Next time you receive a spam, reply ten times (or more if you want).

    Now, let's say someone spammed 100,000. And if ten percent replied ten times, he will get 100,000 e-mails in return. Hopefully, the spammer's e-mail inbox will explode, and he'll spend the next month reading all the e-mail, trying to get some sense out of them.

  3. Re:Finally a competitor for the 286 on Open Source Finally Hits Real Silicon · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Because a lot of stuff floating in space don't play game, hence no POWERFUL CPU needed. Plus, in space, radiation is a killer for CPU. Less sophisticated CPU (older ones) actually can survive much better than the newer ones.

  4. Re:One can always hope.. on Open Source Finally Hits Real Silicon · · Score: 2, Interesting

    They also trust the customers will be dumb enough to not being able to find out the convenience of digital media. And 2, music industry didn't start an awareness program in the first place to stop music piracy at its infancy. In the end, both sides (the uneducated users and the industry executive) are to blame. Which should take the most blame? I'll leave it up to you.

  5. Re:False claim on Biometrics: Prepare to be Scanned · · Score: 1

    You're missing the point of Coventry's reply. He's saying biometric merely helps pick up "POSSIBLE" suspects, he never say anything about using biometric to accuse people. It merely reduce police's workload by narrowing down the number of people they need to scrutinize.

  6. Re:Braincap or Braincop? on Arthur C. Clarke on Information Pollution · · Score: 1

    Hey, it's amazing he kept it up for that long. There's one common thing among writers, a writer block. And it gets bigger as the story gets longer.

  7. Re:Remember, guns don't kill people on Arthur C. Clarke on Information Pollution · · Score: 1

    Lack of information also kills people. So it goes both way.

  8. Re:From the article: on Arthur C. Clarke on Information Pollution · · Score: 3, Insightful

    He doesn't just write fiction well, his fiction conveys ideas and thoughts that motivates the world to achieve the technological wonders we're in, while warning us to be on guard of the dark-side of those wonders. Many author writes fictions well, but Arthur C. Clark writes fictions that changes the world.

  9. Re:From the article: on Arthur C. Clarke on Information Pollution · · Score: 1

    I watch mostly public broadcast, less trash, more goodies, but still got trash.

  10. Re:Interesting approach from Clancy on Computer Glitch Causes Havoc and Losses on Nasdaq · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yes, its the Debt of Honor. But another thing that work in their advantage is that NO record was kept due to the glitch, therfore they could reset the entire stock market and basically declare all tradings done during those days were void.

  11. Re:Merry Christmas, Darl! on SCO Ordered to Produce Evidence · · Score: 1

    I would have to say Microsoft do a better job in worming out of antitrust case than IBM.
    Then again, there's the diamond monopoly De Beer... now that's global monopoly...

  12. Re:Merry Christmas, Darl! on SCO Ordered to Produce Evidence · · Score: 1

    This is what's commonly called, in poker, "Calling the Bluff."

    SCO: I see your Linux code... and I raise you a lawsuit.
    IBM: I call your lawsuit... and raise another counter-lawsuit.
    SCO: (Oh... crap...)

  13. Death to Democracy on Gerrymandering by Computer · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Here we have seen another step towards the death of democracy. Where those incumbents, who got elected by the people, no longer need to respond to people. Where the big money businesses can pay their way to get laws favorable to them pass. It will be the society of the rich people, for the rich people, by the rich people.

  14. Re:They are nuts - what about regular POP clients? on Australia's Largest ISP Redefines Spam · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think they mean outbound mail. Not inbound. Inbound means you got spammed.

  15. Re:Again? on Intel Researchers See Moore's Law Becoming Obsolete · · Score: 1

    kallisti is right, even if the transisfor power cannot increase, one can still turn up the clock of the CPU. Of course, that would mean a change in material/packaging of the CPU to dissipate those heat.

  16. Re:Moore's law is NOT obsolete on Intel Researchers See Moore's Law Becoming Obsolete · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Another odd effect is the current erosion. Once the circuitry of a semiconductor got so small, there mere flow of electrons will actually erode the wirings away, causing breaks in the circuit after a period of time. In another word, CPU lifetime will be shorter and shorter.

  17. Re:This is certainly on Google AdWords And Ethics Issues · · Score: 1

    It's merely advertising, not on the search page that they're banning. Fine they banned some website from their search result, but would you want twenty plus website that are the same thing that are useless and only get top ranking because some "search" optimization?

  18. Re:You RTFA on Internationalized Domain Names Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    Perhaps they should start design keys with accentation on them?
    Example.
    type i with accent key held down.
    Get i with accent.
    Kinda like getting a cap letter with Shift.

  19. Re:ATM Horror on Diebold ATMs hit by Nachi Worm · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Isn't Yorktown the ship that got stranded in sea once and have to return with an ancient diesel engine because of a computer failure caused by a single zero in one of the input?

  20. Re:slavery and racism are not synonymous on L.A. County Bans Use Of "Master/Slave" Term · · Score: 1

    If you don't like it, mod him down. But I could bet someone will Meta-mod you down for modding him down. This is a public forum, it's a place for freedom of speech. So don't complain, just accept someone got a different religion view then you.

  21. Re:Technology on Son of Concorde · · Score: 1

    Computer failure will be the least of your problem. Almost all the plane that is computer controlled have three redundant system for each critical system. In another word, in one fails, the other two will correct it. And if all three failed, don't worry, your pilot isn't just some idiot who sit there, they actually have to know how to fly.

  22. Re:ughh.... on Son of Concorde · · Score: 1

    Granted that, but you're also talking about a plane that was designed to fly fast. Which means its landing and takeoff speed must be higher than like 747s, which means they need a more powerful engine. Since Concords used ramjet (a freakishly LOUD ENGINE!), I wouldn't blame the residents there for complaining about the noise.

  23. Re:Impressive on Son of Concorde · · Score: 1

    But faster plane = faster engine. And sometimes faster engines are actually more efficient since they have to burn fuel very hot and fast, which means less fuels are wasted. An example of this would be the currently in development PDE (pulse-detonation engine). Experimentally it could fly really fast while consuming only a fraction of fuel.

    http://www.popsci.com/popsci/aviation/article/0,12 543,473272,00.html&e=7418

  24. Re:Impressive on Son of Concorde · · Score: 1

    An orbiting craft flies in vaccum, no air resistance to worry about.

  25. Re:Soooo... on Glowing Fish are First Genetically Engineered Pets · · Score: 1

    Species are actually not a good way to determine whether they CAN breed or not. It just means that in the wild, different species would normally not breed with each other.