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  1. Re:Amazing on The Hardware Behind Echelon Revealed · · Score: 1
    Amazing indeed... Since when do you need floating point operations for text matching?!

    Not for text matching, but for numbercrunching.
    Numbercrunching as in RC5-72. I think you get the idea...

  2. Re:Just a couple points that struck me on Bush, Kerry, and Nader Respond to Youth Voter Questions · · Score: 1
    How does his plan cut the cost of coverage???

    As you wrote, by spreading out the cost to a larger group of people. This will cut the costs for families with low income.

    That isn't cutting the cost, that is tranferring the cost.

    That's called solidarity.

  3. Re:What about this? on Unexplained Leap In CO2 Levels · · Score: 1

    A thinner ozon layer let more solar energy get through and more CO2 in the atmosphere keeps more energy stuck to the earth. So, if we're talking about the greenhouse effect here, this seems like a relation, doesn't it?

  4. Another one... on Database File System · · Score: 1
  5. doodle on A Grep-like Utility That Works on More than Text? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Get doodle
    or simply do a
    #apt-get install doodle

  6. Re:Why is there a purple octopus on your couch? on Making Stuff Out Of Broken Computer Equipment? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Try french? You should ask Mark Twain about german!

  7. Re:Exploding shoe bombs? on Defending The Skies Against Congress And The Elderly · · Score: 1
    We can get around this by having police search people on the street for forbidden items, instead of waiting until they choose to fly.

    That's what i wrote: you have to set up a real police state.

  8. Exploding shoe bombs? on Defending The Skies Against Congress And The Elderly · · Score: 1

    Come on! If you want to successfully search for that little amount of explosives that fit into a shoe, you have to set up a real police-state. In this scenario every passenger should attempt to check in 2 days before his/her airplane takes off (because of the long waiting line)...

  9. Visit the U.S. on Defending The Skies Against Congress And The Elderly · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Things like this (also: need for biometric data in passports, gathering passengers-data from airlines) prevent that i even consider a visit to the U.S. in this times.

  10. Re:Debian on KDE 3.3 Officially Released · · Score: 1
    [...] but when Sarge releases [...] So I hope it will release with 3.3.

    Optimist. :-) Full freeze of Sarge is supposed to be around the 24th of august, according to this release update

  11. ....Because the ads are relevant on Not Enough Ads? Install Adbar. · · Score: 1

    ***parse error***

  12. Re:Most important question on Inside Al-Qaeda's Hard Drive · · Score: 1
    The most important follow-up question, of course, is this: do the computers run Linux?

    Depends. Whom would you ask? Darl McBride?

  13. Security by obscurity on Inside Al-Qaeda's Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    ...isn't a good idea. Even in this "special" case.

  14. Re:Insights on Inside Al-Qaeda's Hard Drive · · Score: 1
    [...]written by Bin Laden himself: "Our current battle is against the Jews.[...]"[...] But it is rational in its twisted way. There are specific and clear[sic!] reasons for why these people commit acts of terrorism.[...]

    I don't think that antisemitism is rational, even in a twisted way. Neither is it a clear reason. Antisemitism is just shortened anticapitalism. It divides the capital in "piling" and "creating" and thinks that the problem is solved by erasing the "piling" part (the jews). But thats another story...

  15. Re:Download Size on Linux Kernel 2.6.8 Released · · Score: 1
    I think Linux is a great kernel, but a 42 MB download is really a bit too much for my liking.

    You should get bzip2. Cuts down the filesize to about 34 MB...

  16. some book hints... on Attracting Women Into Computer Science · · Score: 1
    ..for german-speaking /.-readers:

    "Wir werden nicht als Mädchen geboren, wir werden dazu gemacht" (Ursula Schen, 1977)

    "Geschlechtsspezifische Sozialisation" (Helga Bilden)

  17. Re:The top five ideas on Incorporating Machine Learning into Firefox 2.0? · · Score: 1
    5. Allow the user to browse their own hard drive, and categorize content automatically ("this is a document about lambs" ... "this is a picture of a sunflower") and let them group and search for items. Eg. "Pictures like this" or "Documents about cats."

    It's not automagically, but worth a try: doXfs.

  18. Re:nm? on Photos Of Rutan's X-Prize Entry · · Score: 1
    Did they screw up there or am I deeply confused about some weird measurement scanle than just happens to look like nanometers but like, isnt?

    s/nanometers/nautical miles/

  19. Re:The usual convenient mistake, eh? on Microsoft Patents Grouped Taskbar Buttons · · Score: 1
    In practice what virtually every "smart" programmer comes up with is some snake oil idea, like xoring the output of the random number generator to the input stream.

    Would be interesting. Stream Ciphers (with an endless stream) like this "snake oil idea" are the only provable secure ciphers currently know[0], aren't they?

    [0] if "random" means "true random"

  20. Re:Perfect Setup on Microsoft Patents The Task List · · Score: 3, Informative
    In accordance with Godwins Law, i hereby declare this thread over.

    I don't think so:
    Meme, Counter-meme

  21. Re:Old school on Generating Revenue with On-Line Ads? · · Score: 1
    to find out that the average internet user doesn't even notice when a site does not have ads.

    ..or he/she has an adblocker.

  22. Re:mod parent up on Flash 7 for Linux Released · · Score: 1
    The parent poster has an excellent point. If these developers write quality code, and I have no reason to suspect that they do not, why not drop a few hundred bucks on a single PPC box that you can start a GCC make on, and let it run for a week if need be?

    Why not just release the source code?

  23. Re:Correct. on VIA Announces Lead-Free Motherboard · · Score: 1

    nope. that has nothing to do with the press. nuclear power is alot more dangerous. Just think about this four (two of them are obvious) facts:

    1) the half-life period of uranium is ~4000 years.
    2) the nuclear fuel elements must be replaced when they're empty (but even then, they still radiate)
    3) there is not only 1 (one) dump, safe enough for this radiating shit, on this planet.
    4) when you use the nuclear fuel elements with fast breeder reactors, you get plutonium (capable of being used in nuclear weapons) as a "by-product".