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  1. Re:attorney generals? on US ISPs Announce Anti-Child-Porn Agreement · · Score: 1

    Its not about child porn. Its about control of information and with USENET there is no control of content.

  2. Re:Oh cool! on Massive, Coordinated Patch To the DNS Released · · Score: 1

    http://michael.toren.net/code/noclicky/ Its a perl script that checks a name server. BTW powerdns (http://www.powerdns.com) is not vulnerable to this attack and doesn't need to be patched.

  3. Re:Well... on Einstein Letter Goes on Sale · · Score: 5, Informative

    Religion is a leap of faith. I'm a Christian and I don't believe that the Bible is the infallible word of God. It was written by men before there was much of an understanding of science. It was written by men who were subject to the prejudices of the time. The Bible that we know of today was translated from Hebrew and Greek. Jesus spoke Aramaic, probably closer to Hebrew than Greek. Aramaik doesn't translate well to Greek, Hebrew doesn't translate well to either English or Greek and Greek doesn't translate that well to English. The Hebrew Bible refers to Moses parting the sea of reeds, not the red sea. The Hebrew Bible starts with "When God began creating..." not "In the beginning..." I could go on, but you get my drift. Look up a couple of books by Bishop (Episcopal) Shelby Spong. You'd all be very impressed. You're right the Bible is full of inconsistencies because its not a historically accurate book. Its poorly translated and it is a collection from a lot of different authors that were chosen by committee.

  4. Re:Eh? on SCO's McBride Testifies "Linux Is a copy of UNIX" · · Score: 1

    http://www.amazon.com/s/103-0810819-1417433?ie=UTF8&tag=mozilla-20&index=blended&link_code=qs&field-keywords=linux%20programming&sourceid=Mozilla-search brings up a list of 16 books from likes of Wrox, Prentice Hall, O'Reilly and even a "For Dummies" book.

  5. Re:not exactly on 'Friendly' Worms Could Spread Software Fixes · · Score: 1

    The EULA says Microsoft owns the software and you've purchased a license to use it and you can't modify it or reverse engineer it. And it makes perfect sense. Written from a machine running Linux.

  6. Re:What about pollution? on Jet Engine on a Chip · · Score: 1

    Never mind the pollution. What about the noise? We're talking about exhaust under pressure. Gas turbines are very noisy. Diesel fuel is about the dirtiest fuel known to man (any number heating oil is worse) and is listed as a carcinogen by the epa/cdc. Diesel/turbine output is very high in carbon monoxide and ozone. My laptop is going to need a tail pipe, catalytic converter and muffler. A turbine at a million rpm has gotta make mechanical noise, too.

  7. Re:Privacy Issues on States Link Databases to Find Tax Cheats · · Score: 1

    Closed loopholes? You're kidding, right? There has never been a serious attempt to close loopholes. Worse, the last round of "tax cuts" opened up a couple more. Curtis

  8. Re:Privacy Issues on States Link Databases to Find Tax Cheats · · Score: 1

    They wouldn't go down in either case.

  9. Re:Privacy Issues on States Link Databases to Find Tax Cheats · · Score: 1

    You're not worried about privacy? You should be. This is very Orwellian. The Patriot Act will allow them to do wierd things with that data. You can bet that our governments will find a way to abuse this power. Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Do you really want the government poking around in all of your personal, financial and medical data? Benjamin Franklin once said, "He who trades liberty for security, deserves neither." Curtis