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  1. Re:Plea bargaining is not a good deal. on Life-Ruining Browser Hijackers · · Score: 0
    That's 100-240 years in prison without possibility of parole.

    So, 100-240 years without parole is... next tuesday?

  2. Re:It's all about the phbs on Cisco Applies For Patents To Secured TCP · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The DARPA is actually working on something like this. It's supposed to automatically identify a virus or worm within seconds and with no human intervention. It's then supposed to disconnect the entire network from the segment that that virus was discovered on. Sorry I don't have the link.

  3. Paul Dirac on More On The BBC's Codec 'Dirac' · · Score: 0
    Is it a coincidence that the codec is named after the quantum physicist Paul Dirac?

    wavelet= =waves= =quantum mechanics(sorta)= =Paul Dirac?

  4. Re:The SegWay never lived up on Megway - New Competition For The Segway · · Score: 0

    No it didn't, especially when PopSci had a blurb on the inventor, before the segway was released, about how he was working on this revolutionary engine that would improve the world (Stirling engine), or a new personal mobility device. He *had* to make the Segway!

  5. Re:And that will be the standard computer on Projected 'Average' Longhorn System Is A Whopper · · Score: 0
    4-6GHz requires a 33%-100% increase from current speeds. That's 18 months away at the most, according to Moore's Law.

    Uh, that's not what Moore's law is about. Sure, the media hypes it up as such, but it's really the doubling of transisters every however long (2 years?). Anyway, I've just beaten the dead horse into a pulp. :-(

    Anyway, my $343597383.68 (Moore's law applied to $.02 over 70 years, which is a guesstimate at when it became a cliche :-) ): The only thing I find hard to believe is the 1TB hdd, like the parent. Mainly, it could be used up by games, because they *do* keep getting bigger, but it's still a stretch. Of course, with the DRM and streaming media, who needs hard drives anymore, like, *duh*!

  6. Re:Am I missing something? on NetBSD Sets Internet2 Land Speed World Record · · Score: 0

    I wasn't complaining. It's just funny, how M$ complains and complains about OSS, and then just copies what it wants. That's what I really meant. Anyway, they copied it into Win 3.1 or NT 3 right?

  7. Re:Am I missing something? on NetBSD Sets Internet2 Land Speed World Record · · Score: 0
    If the BSD stack is so secure then why isnt everyone using it?

    Didn't M$ at one time just rampantly copy the BSD stack for Windows? Eh, too tired to care. :-)

  8. Re:Predicted on On the Trail to Atlantis · · Score: 0

    Well, if they do a Fox special on it, you *know* it's a hoax...

  9. Re:For the minions on Google Files for IPO · · Score: 0

    Well, when everyone can buy, sell short! I don't know if you can do that, *that* early, but, hey, it's worth a try. Well, if I can do that, I'll try. ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H ^H^H^H^H^H Whatever you do, don't sell short! That's the worst possible thing you could do!

  10. Pop Sci on Thermoacoustic Cooler Means Green-Friendly Icecream · · Score: 1, Informative

    Pop Sci had a small bit of coverage on this about half a year ago. Not very informative, but, it can't hurt. Anyway, I'm wondering how feasible putting this in a house is, since the padding required to block the noise would be so bulky (IANAAE) that to make it fit in a standard refrigerator cabinet, you'd have 3 ft^3 of space. :-) Of course, they could just make a small compartment for freezing the foods quickly, and then move them into normal storage. Well, I'll go off to read the article so I have a clue now. :-)

  11. Re:Ethics of TurboLinux on Turbolinux Licenses Windows Media 9 · · Score: -1
    Umm, Wasn't TurboLinux bought by SCO? A quick Google search brings up the snip- SCO has announced a number of professional services offerings around TurboLinux's TurboLinux and SuSE's Linux

    Unless SCO now bought Suse, which is owned by Novell, and is being sued by SCO (or is it the other way around?), and we never heard about this, that sentence doesn't imply that Turbolinux is owned by SCO.

    I'm pretty sure it's just that SCO is trying to finagle more money out of Linux than the $3bn they know they won't get!

  12. Uh-oh on High-Altitude 'Security Blimps' Coming Soon · · Score: -1

    Lets just hope they don't paint it in rocketfuel again.... "Terrorists take down Freedom Blimp with Zippo lighter bazooka"-AP

  13. Re:Any More Information? on Stretch Announces Chip That Rewires Itself On The Fly · · Score: -1
    I don't see it being a significant threat to the current Xeon, Opteron or Itanium processored systems.

    Hey, if they sell only three, they will have beaten the Itanic!

  14. Re:Convince your parents!!! on TI-84 Plus Released · · Score: 0, Interesting

    I've had some funny experiences with calculators in high school. Even *WITH* them, some kids are incapable of getting the right answer. Like 80*5=200 (I don't know how that person got that). Mainly, calculators can be useful for some things in high school, but personally, the only times I brought them to class were when we were inverting 3x3 matrices. That, while useful to know, I'm gonna do on the calculator. It's just not fun. :-) Therefore, I agree that calculators are tools, but I do think people should know what they're learning. But, hey, everyone learning only how to use calculators is only *one* screwed up thing in education today.

  15. Re:IBM in action on IBM Subpoenas Several Companies in SCO Case · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Did you read the article? Or who they subpoenaed? Or what they subpoenaed about? Did you do anything? Do you do anything? Anyway, they sued some odd companies in there, so *read* it first.

  16. Re:IBM in action on IBM Subpoenas Several Companies in SCO Case · · Score: 2, Funny

    True, but, they're asking several of the companies about communications with Microsoft about UNIX, Linux, and SCO. Now, that could be useful if the want to take on Microsoft. The other stuff makes sense though, except for Oracle, as said in the article.

  17. IBM in action on IBM Subpoenas Several Companies in SCO Case · · Score: 0, Interesting

    Great! It's fun seeing IBM in action, but, why are they doing this?