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  1. Re:Intels NIC quality is bad, bad, bad.... on OpenSUSE Beta Can Brick Intel e1000e Network Cards · · Score: 1

    Intel's e1000-series is really great. They perform wonderfully and they always work. It is unfortunate that they have been hit by this problem, but such is life. I have never seen a bad e1000.

  2. Re:Still RPM? on How the LSB Keeps Linux One Big Happy Family · · Score: 1

    Why does it matter which particular tar-like-format+header they use?

  3. Re:Binary compatibility? on How the LSB Keeps Linux One Big Happy Family · · Score: 1

    Or use Java :-)

    That way you at least put all distributions on equal footing: None of them will run your program.

    If only the "Write once, debug everywhere" joke was true. It would be a vast improvement on the current state of Java.

  4. Re:The first step would be dumping .rpm. on How the LSB Keeps Linux One Big Happy Family · · Score: 1

    And they would be completely platform NEUTRAL which SHOULD have been their first goal.

    RPM is a cpio-archive with a header. DEB is a tar-archive with a header. Why should LSB invent yet another tar-like format with a header?

  5. Re:call me when they have something on Japanese Begin Working On Space Elevator · · Score: 1

    I'm saying you should retake the class on special relativity. I can go to Alpha Centauri in an hour, and it's not my problem that 4 years passed back on Earth.

    Not that you're particularly worse than anyone else in this regard, lots of scifi writers invent FTL to solve a non-existing problem.

  6. Re:call me when they have something on Japanese Begin Working On Space Elevator · · Score: 1

    What the shipboard transit time would be is another question.

    And that is what I care about. As I said, nothing about relativity forbids me from travelling to Alpha Centaury in an hour.

  7. Re:Not so fast! on Feds Tighten DNS Security On .Gov · · Score: 1

    My understanding is that unless DNSSEC is implemented in the last mile resolvers (e.g. my ISP), it doesn't buy a whole lot, especially when it comes to preventing cache poisoning attacks.

    DNSSEC was written with the explicit goal of not having to trust or upgrade servers in the middle. Your machine needs to to the DNSSEC verification itself. Not the browser, or you would only have secured the browser. Not the last mile resolver, as you call it, because you can't trust that.

  8. Re:call me when they have something on Japanese Begin Working On Space Elevator · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And FTL drives are prohibited by currently accepted physical theory.

    They aren't needed either. Nothing about relativity forbids me from travelling to Alpha Centaury in an hour (ok, the acceleration would kill me, but other than that...)

  9. Re:I want real High Quality on SanDisk, Music Publishers Push DRM-free SlotMusic Format · · Score: 1

    I was talking about recording, not playback. I did not make that clear in my comment. Sorry.

  10. Re:No they dont on SanDisk, Music Publishers Push DRM-free SlotMusic Format · · Score: 1

    Melodyne does it for instruments, but they don't (at least on that page) say that they can distinguish between two sopranos.

  11. Re:I want real High Quality on SanDisk, Music Publishers Push DRM-free SlotMusic Format · · Score: 4, Interesting

    There's nothing a sampling frequency higher than 44.1 kHz will bring you since you cannot hear anything above 22 kHz.

    Using 96kHz allows you to use a rather stupid filter which starts at say 30kHz and does 100% filtering only at 45kHz. Such a filter is almost certain to not cause any distortion below 20kHz. In contrast, with CD you have to use a filter which only has the range 20kHz to 22KHz to play with, which means you have to use a rather sophisticated filter (or make the cut-off frequency lower).

    You can of course do the recording at 96kHz (or higher) and then downsample to 44.1kHz using a perfect digital filter.

  12. Re:No they dont on SanDisk, Music Publishers Push DRM-free SlotMusic Format · · Score: 1

    Again, it is physically impossible to take a recording that has two sopranoes on the same track, and seprarating that track into two individual voices.

    I think "physically impossible" is a bit too strong. I'll bet that before 2020 someone will write an algorithm (or a neural net or something) which can do it.

  13. Re:Just what every American high-school student ne on America's Army As a High School Education Platform? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Not even the UN has challenged the legality of the US presence in Iraq.

    The US has veto rights in the security council. What exactly do you expect the UN to do? The UN has the same problem with Russia in Chechnya.

  14. Re:Which is why p2p should move to UDP on Comcast Discloses Throttling Practices · · Score: 1

    And move the TCP part into the application. You can't break a session where there is none to break.

    There's still a session. The fact that you have moved the session-state bits into a different part of the packet won't stop them for long. You can add encryption, but then key distribution becomes a problem -- without that, Comcast can just MITM everything.

    It's an arms race, and Comcast will win it, simply because they can cancel the account whenever it discovers that it is losing to someone. There are two solutions: Real competition and government intervention. You probably don't get the first solution without some kind of government involvement, though.

  15. Re:Isn't Exchange the last big reason on Drop-In Replacement For Exchange Now Open Source · · Score: 1

    I won't pretend that it wasn't overly complicated and non-intuitive. Give me a CLI any day.

    Something like Visio for Linux would be nice, except it should be possible to do much better. I was so shocked the first time I used Visio, realising how many hours and days have been wasted making drawings that way. Inkscape is nice, but even slower to work with.

  16. Re:What about Outlook itself? on Drop-In Replacement For Exchange Now Open Source · · Score: 1

    Evolution is trying to be a copy of Outlook. I have no idea about the two features you depend on; they sound quite obscure to me.

  17. Re:Isn't Exchange the last big reason on Drop-In Replacement For Exchange Now Open Source · · Score: 1

    I don't get it. I've done mail labels from spreadsheets in OpenOffice. What is impossible about the task you mention?

  18. Re:How about reducing the need for AC POWER as wel on Intel Shows Data Centers Can Get By (Mostly) With Little AC · · Score: 1

    That, and they become a single point of failure.

    You should design your system with dual power supplies anyway, unless you're doing some kind of clustering.

  19. Re:I believe it. on Plane Simple Truth · · Score: 1

    Right, I forgot something very important. When you use air conditioning, waste heat costs money instead of saving you money, and therefore you want as little waste heat as possible. Inductive wins in the (rather large, I must admit) area of the world which uses air conditioning.

    Sorry.

  20. Re:I believe it. on Plane Simple Truth · · Score: 1

    If I'd known more about inductive when I redid the kitchen I might have chosen differently.

    Gas is generally the most environmentally sound way to cook. This is not true in areas which have lots of hydroelectric or nuclear power plants, not enough industry to use the power and not enough power lines to export the power. It's getting hard to find such areas though.

  21. Re:the truth is on Plane Simple Truth · · Score: 2, Informative

    Looking at the tails of the curve, you're always going to have more people at the low end whom are randomly physically screwed up (due to accidents or whatever) and a smaller tail at the high end of superior intellects.

    IQ has a normal distribution because IQ is defined to have a normal distribution. If the tail at the high end is too small, then the tests will be adjusted.

  22. Re:Publishing just drivers should not violate pate on Answers from Harald Welte, "VIA's Open Source Representative" · · Score: 1

    any hardware capable of breaking the patent should always be considered capable of doing so.

    Sucks to be Intel, then.

  23. Re:Making Ubuntu Accessible? on Mozilla Demanding Firefox Display EULA In Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    Well then, I guess the Windows libraries/API is possibly the most cross-platform solution right now for some companies.

    If cross-platform means Windows+Linux+Mac on little-endian 32-bit, then yes.

  24. Re:Innovation on McCain Answers Science Policy Questionnaire · · Score: 1

    McCain's Paris Hilton comparison summarizes exactly how Europeans see him.

    I believe you are completely wrong about that. However, most Europeans view McCain as a religious nutcase stuck in the middle ages, and the world seems to have too many of them as leaders already.

  25. Re:Modding system on Hubble Finds Unidentified Object In Space · · Score: 1

    There's nothing nearby. Random stars away from galaxies happen, but they're exceedingly rare. Two wandering stars colliding?