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  1. Re:Moo on The Drawbacks of Anonymous Surfing · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "Not if you erase history."

    you're kidding right?

    Even if you erase history your machine is littered with footprints of where you've been, nevermind un-erase utilities.
    -nB

  2. Re:It depends on The Drawbacks of Anonymous Surfing · · Score: 3, Interesting

    "expects to go into politics"
    or is already in politics for that matter.

    The value of annonymous surfing to be worth overcoming hasstles is directly proportional to the damage you habits would cause should they get out.
    Lost job? -> possibly
    Divorce? -> maybe
    Prison time? -> likely
    loss of big money? -> yes
    execution? -> Certainly.

    -nB

    That's about as I rank it.

  3. Re:It Seemed to Work for Bletchley Park on Will the Solve-the-Riddle Hiring Trend Affect IT? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You're making too much of it.

    The average network diagram is so convoluted that it can not be accurately put on paper. Having a mind that can actually grasp what's really going on is a rare thing. It's simply another puzzle to be solved.
    -nB

  4. Re:uberNetflix-data niche market on Broadband Over Gas Lines — a Pipe Dream? · · Score: 1

    I would think that you would use them as a proxy and their proxy server traps requests for files larger than nBytes. You get a prompt: Download now / store & ship / cancel. Once you have a full CD or full DVD (whichever you select, CD's would cost more as they would be more frequent) it ships, along with an index.html that shows WTF it came from since you likely forgot by then.
    I, however, think it would likely flop. I will not be starting this business.
    -nB

  5. Re:Gas tubes. on Broadband Over Gas Lines — a Pipe Dream? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I never thought of it that way (re: Netflix), but that is a good point.
    Back to the station wagon full of tapes eh?
    -nB

  6. Re:Amazing! on Toshiba Develops 3-Layer DVD and HD-DVD · · Score: 1

    no.
    The 1TB server is for storing the TC volumes that masquerade as big-ass zip files or movies.
    The TC continer files are for hiding the porn :-)
    -nB

  7. Re:Errata + Info + Opinion on New "PRAM" 30 Times Faster Than Flash · · Score: 1

    Reading produces almost no heat in the array (the stacked part) the perifery, where the heat is generated is flat, so still no issues.
    Writing would have to be limited, as heat is used to cause the phase change much like a CD-RW laser heats the media to effect the change in it. In fact IIRC the compound is the same CD-RW and PCMemory.
    -nB

  8. Re:Advantages on New "PRAM" 30 Times Faster Than Flash · · Score: 2, Informative

    In the case of flash, that speaker was not nearly powerful enough.
    Flash uses a floating gate, and the electron tunneling effect to program (charging the gate). This requires roughly 9-12 volts, so there is an internal charge pump. To disturb those electrons on the floating gate, while not actively programming, would take well over 10K Gauss, likely in the 100K Gauss range. Don't have a powerful enough magnet to prove anything with, but the 5K Gauss one didn't do squat to a part.
    -nB

  9. Re:Advantages on New "PRAM" 30 Times Faster Than Flash · · Score: 2, Informative

    Maybe, but thermal durability is not there.
    Phase Change Memory (PCM) is thermally unstable (double edged sword). Durring reflow the temp is high enough to blank the device, so no factory programming. Devices will have to be in-circuit programmed.

    Good side: increminating evidence? just place in toaster or other suitable device and set on high. problem solved.
    -nB

  10. Re:April 1st already? on P2P Hard Disk System Warns of Tsunamis · · Score: 1

    Dude, that was so beautiful it brought a tear to my eye.

    Does this mean that pirated full bandwith HD streams could also detect the gravity waves from our sun as it marches inexoriably towards sprnova (or whatever the hell the spelling of the week for that site is).

    -nB

  11. Re:That's sort of fast. on Supercomputer to Hit 1.6 Petaflops With 16,000 Cell Chips · · Score: 1

    Congrats.
    For the first time in ages that joke was funny. ;-)

  12. Re:PS3 delayed? on Supercomputer to Hit 1.6 Petaflops With 16,000 Cell Chips · · Score: 2, Informative

    Sony did say they were having trouble acquiring key components on the assembly line...
    Maybe not so much a joke after all?
    -nB

  13. Re:MIPS is going away? on SGI Announces MIPS and IRIX End of Production · · Score: 1

    excellent point about the multiplier effect.

    AFAIK, however, the 8 bit install base is bigger than everything else and has been for quite some time. I'm really curious where 4 bit was more widely used than 8 anywhere in recent history (since say about 1995)

  14. Re:MIPS is going away? on SGI Announces MIPS and IRIX End of Production · · Score: 1

    "Hardly a reason to use up a 32-bit chip running on 40,000 transistors and a quartz crystal."

    FYI, quartz is expensive. usually they use a LC or RC oscillator or a resonator as those are far cheaper.
    Also, my toaster is 16bit (I think) with an 8 bit I/O path. Don't think that 32bit is really required.
    All those settings to operate.

    I didn't know all this till it broke and I figured "how hard can it be, it's a toaster"... teach me eh?
    -nB

  15. Re:+"new" would be really nice... on Firefly Marathon on SciFi, September 18th · · Score: 1

    "Eurika! (not to be confused by the other SciFi program with same name). SciFi decides to create new Firefly seasons to fill SG-1 gap."

    You know? That is just mean to say. That gets so many hopes up it's not even funny.
    FF is my single favorite series, followed closely by DS9 and DrWho.
    -nB

  16. Re:Nice try, but... on Wi-Fi Fingerprints -- the End of MAC Spoofing? · · Score: 1

    A couple of trim caps and a variable inductor or two and there is no issue anymore. ;-)
    -nB

  17. Re:yep on Radio Shack E-Fires 400 Workers · · Score: 2, Informative

    "A job should be nothing more than a means to supporting your lifestyle. Sure...hopefully you can enjoy your work, but, really...does it matter who you do it for? Your job should not be YOU."

    You don't have kids eh?
    The moment you have a family depending on you the "just a job" bit takes on a whole new meaning. We're a family of 4 on a single income in north/central california. I barely make enough with the cost of living. If I lost my job then I would be hard pressed to continue to put my spouse through school, she would likely have to drop out and enter the workforce early.
    -nB

  18. Re:yep on Radio Shack E-Fires 400 Workers · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Because if I got laid off in person I would be escorted off site and handed my keys in. With an e-mail like that I'd likely take the inventory with me. Seing that the whole store was likely closed no-one else is being paid to care.

    (while I kid I do know someone who was fired over the phone because the DM was a chicken shit. $10-15K in high end camera gear dissapeared overnight).

    -nB

  19. Mod parent underrated!!! on Microsoft leaks Zune Details in FCC filing · · Score: 1

    Flamebait, yes. Worthy of a few +1's? yes.
    -nB

  20. Re:I Remember Orkut on Google Brazil Pressured to Give Up Names · · Score: 1

    Notice to the joke impaired, us humor impared folks didn't think that was too funny.

    Carry on
    -nB

  21. Re:Waste of good oil. (snake) on Irish Company Claims Free Energy · · Score: 1

    I don't post on /. for the money.
    so there.
    -nB

  22. Re:That's a good thing on Are Plasma TVs the Next BetaMax? · · Score: 1

    My personal example: {s/Colorado/Ecco/} shoes

    Similar story. There are three shops in my town that carry them. Used to be four, but the fourth quit carrying Eccos. I had them ship all their company's size 45's to that store and I bought them out at $75/pair for 5 pairs. normal retail is quite a bit higher at $100/shoe. FF almost 10 years and I'm now back in the market for a new pair...

    Ox Hide, natural rubber and gore tex combine to the pefect hiking shoe.
    -nB

  23. Re:Terrorist true mission? on Are Liquid Explosives on a Plane Feasible? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Bras you idiot, exploding bras!
    -nB

  24. Re:Question? on Pirate Party Launches Commercial Darknet · · Score: 1

    I understand your admiration of the two, but I would propose that Tesla is easily in the same eschelon when it comes to electro-magnetic forces. Mind the world said AC was useless prior to Tesla's investigations.
    -nB

  25. Re:Legality of anonymous communication on Pirate Party Launches Commercial Darknet · · Score: 1

    -1 pedantic I know but:

    "the U. S. Mail is a service to deliver atoms of matter to a recipient without painting the sender's address all over the place."

    A return address may be required on certain parcels.
    -nB