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  1. Re:speculating about the real purpose on 5 Years In Prison For Selling Fake Cisco Gear · · Score: 0

    there's no point continuing to argue based on assumptions.

    You must be new here.

  2. Re:What OS? on New Video of Apple's Enormous iDataCenter · · Score: 1

    The kernel is a Mach-BSD hybrid, and the userland is based on BSD.

  3. Re:Go Texas! on Mixed Outcome of Texas Textbook Vote · · Score: 4, Funny

    I don't think you understand the gravity of the situation.

  4. Plato's reponse on SCO's Lawsuit Gets Even Crazier · · Score: 5, Insightful

    In response, Plato said: "Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns."

  5. Re:The ACCC is going to put on a show on eBay Australia Delays PayPal Change Indefinitely · · Score: 3, Informative

    Cardboard box cartel?

    Yep!

    Crazy Aussies ;)

    That we are.

  6. Re:Of course its not generating enthusiasm on NASA Vets & Administration Clash Over Moon Plans · · Score: 4, Funny

    Bush and his administration has been working for middle east peace since the start of his first term.

    Ah, so that's why he started a war there.

  7. Re:Wow... FOSS looks pretty pathetic on US DHS Testing FOSS Security · · Score: 4, Informative

    So with Linux (0.127), glibc (0.000), Apache (0.140), PostgresSQL (0.041), Perl (0.024), PHP (0.000), and Python (0.000) powering a web server (numbers according to Coverity), you have 0.0474 defects per thousand lines of code across the server. I'd say that's pretty good.

    I'd say your statistic is wrong. You need to multiply each average by the number of kloc per project (being careful to count those for the project version for which the averages were given), and then divide by the total kloc across all projects.

  8. NCW on China's President Hu Talks IT Warfare · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Anyone else read this as talking about NCW (net centric warfare) and not cyberattacks?

  9. Re:This Just In on The Gradual Public Awareness of the Might of Algorithms · · Score: 1

    If you identify one "Math" for me, then I'll identify one snow for you. If you explain to me why you think "maths" derives from "math" and not "mathematics".

  10. Re:This Just In on The Gradual Public Awareness of the Might of Algorithms · · Score: 1

    Maths are a really really powerful tool. Maths is not a plural of math, it's a different contraction of mathematics, which is a singular noun, so "is" is correct.

  11. Re:Counter example on Australian Extradited For Breaking US Law At Home · · Score: 1

    By managing your email you are now helping to admin a server in the states.

    Managing email is not the same as administrating a server, if you think so then you shouldn't be on /. Secondly you would have to prove that I knew I was doing something in the US, and that I did something illegal, neither of which is the (pretend) case here, but both of those two points were freely admitted by Hews.

  12. Re:Looks like he violated... on Australian Extradited For Breaking US Law At Home · · Score: 1

    The guy is australian, broke australian law whilst in australia - why the F**K is he being tried in America again?

    The guy is British, broke American law while in Australia (it wasn't like he was merely copying, where he would have been prosecuted in Australia, he was also helping to run a server in America), and why the F**K do you capitalize America but not "australia" (sic)?

  13. Re:Why is this news? on Australian Extradited For Breaking US Law At Home · · Score: 1

    A sovereign country's citizens should be tried under that country's law, unless the US fancies an international court to handle international crimes.

    He's not an Australian citizen. He's British.

  14. Re:The Elevator Effect? on The Elevator Effect In Second Life · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Maybe you should get a first life?

  15. Re:I was just about to post this story.... on Debugging the FreeBSD Kernel Transparently · · Score: 1

    What does that mean?

    You were going to submit the article without RTFA? From the article, comes this link, which explains things rather well (IMHO).

    Do I have to solder something?

    No, you should be able to buy a null modem cable.

  16. Re:It's neat, but it's not Maxwell's Demon on Maxwell's Demon Soon A Reality? · · Score: 1

    ... and the original though experiment said nothing about nanotechnology, either (maybe only in implication).

  17. Re:Licensing, licensing, licensing on The Insanely Great Songs Apple Won't Let You Hear · · Score: 1

    Yep same in New Zealand, region coding breaks our parallel import laws. So players need to be able to play DVD from other regions.

    Well I don't know about NZ, but in Australia the parallel import laws simply mean that it's legal to switch a DVD player to region free mode, not that DVD players have to be region free.

  18. Re:Patented Breast Cancer Genes? on Nobel Laureate Attacks Medical Intellectual Property · · Score: 3, Informative

    How can you patent something that is a 'naturally' (using that term loosely) occurring genetic abnormality?

    click

  19. Re:Mod parent flamebait on Inhabited Island Vanishes Forever Underwater · · Score: 1

    the Antarctic ice sheet - by far the biggest in the word is actually growing larger

    Any one of a number of scientific reports show that the ice is melting. All the web site you linked gives is a few photos showing only that snow still falls in the Antarctica, and some unsupported statements twisting that fact into "evidence" against global warming. The person who makes that site is so confident of their claims, that they have hidden their ownership of the site by registering through a third party.

    Not so - the Sahara desert, the largest desert in the world, is actually shrinking,

    Well yes, but that doesn't mean "cooling", it means that the oceans around the Southern part of the desert are getting warmer and thus more evaporation is occurring. If it makes it easier for your mind to grasp, there are plenty of other deserts around the world that are increasing in size.
    Trying to claim that parts of the world of the world cooling means that "global warming" doesn't exist is completely ignorant of the meaning of the word "global", the concept of average, and the data showing that the world is, on average, getting a lot warmer. All your post shows is that "climate change" is a better term, because people can't grasp the concept of averages and twist "evidence" to fit their own unscientific theories.

  20. Re:backups on Backup Solutions for Mac OS X? · · Score: 1

    10.4 rsync has
    -E --extended-attributes copy extended attributes, resource forks

  21. Re:If this keeps up... on Melting Coins Now Illegal In the U.S. · · Score: 2, Informative

    Say you're buying a $5.23 lunch, five days a week. You're actually paying $5.25 a day.Sure, but your morning coffee costs $1.82. You're actually paying $5.25+$1.80=$5.23+$1.82 a day.

  22. Re:*yawn* on Computer Simulation of Cancer Growth · · Score: 0

    "There model"-->"Their model"

  23. Re:a sea change in how biology is being done... on Computer Simulation of Cancer Growth · · Score: 1

    hey haven't even done IN VITRO modeling yet.

    It's easy to pin models down with in vitro modelling in simple systems, harder to do with cancer, except in a largely qualitative way.

  24. *yawn* on Computer Simulation of Cancer Growth · · Score: 3, Insightful

    For a long time now, researchers and scientists have used computer simulations in the physical sciences: physics, chemistry, and engineering. But what about biology?
    But the scientists see their effort as the beginning of a new era in cancer research -- 'a sea change in how biology is being done,' as the lead researcher described it.

    I've read papers on maths models of tumours that are decades old. Even more sophisticated models like the one the scientists have done, have been done to death in recent years, on everything from angiogenesis to metastasis (I should know, I wrote one). There's also a wealth of work done tying down theory and experiments with gene circuits in phages. So what is new about this work? Their results that Roland (who wouldn't know how to do a literature review if it bit him on the proverbial) lists:
    The findings suggest that current chemotherapy approaches which create a harsh microenvironment in the tumor may leave behind the most aggressive and invasive tumor cells.
    certainly aren't new. A model of invasiveness with different levels of agressiveness isn't new either. There model does give nice results on the phenotypes of cells that are selected for, and the ways it allows them to control the microenvironment are certainly cute.

  25. Re:Yes, but... on Google Relents, Publishes Belgian Ruling · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yes, I just checked.