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  1. Re:Title wrong on Ethereum Exchange Reimburses Customer Losses After 'Flash Crash' (gdax.com) · · Score: 1

    Thanks. I don't seem able to edit or delete my comment?

  2. Title of article is wrong. No reimbursements were made. Read TFA

  3. Re: THIS is the danger. on Ethereum Exchange Reimburses Customer Losses After 'Flash Crash' (gdax.com) · · Score: 1

    TFA says :- White also noted that these trades are final and will not be reversed. The exchange temporarily halted trading of ethereum on Wednesday before restoring the system shortly after.

  4. Re:Never gonna happen on Illinois Declares Pluto a Planet · · Score: 1

    Pluto's orbit is highly inclined relative to the ecliptic (over 17 degrees). Wikipedia waves hands and says Illinois is 40N. You are right ?

  5. Re:Advice from an "expert". on Satellite Internet Providers · · Score: 1

    re 5) - I am having difficulty getting answers to what seems a simple question - can I get a satellite modem to do enough routing to run a firewall ? Surely this must be possible ?

  6. I was there, and blogged on Hawking Searching For Africa's Einsteins · · Score: 1

    I was there, it was great, I blogged about it.. I was very pleased to meet and listen to Michael Griffin - head of NASA. One doesn't often have all these important people milling around for two days - they are usually at the other end of a red carpet for 5 minutes.

  7. Parking scandal stings city administration on Mayor of Florence Sues Wikipedia · · Score: 1
    Accusations of fraud and deceit are flying around the construction project in Piazza Ghiberti. What was supposed to be a four-story underground parking lot will now be half the size, with just over half the capacity--for the same price, 10 million euro.

    To date, eight people have been indicted for abuse of office and fraud, including former director of Firenze Parcheggi, Luigi Di Renzo, several project technicians, managers, architects, entrepreneurs and a municipal employee. A trial is scheduled for February 3, 2009.

    Contractors halted the project after discovering massive underground rocks on the site. Too large to remove or destroy, the rocks were left, and the project was scaled back by two floors to yield 371 parking spots instead of the 624 originally planned.

    Public prosecutor Giulio Monferini launched an investigation after police intercepted telephone conversations among those involved in the project. http://www.theflorentine.net/articles/article-view.asp?issuetocId=2908

  8. Re:It Takes More Than Just Technology... on Note To Criminals — Don't Call Tech Support · · Score: 4, Funny

    I tell them Faeces. It takes them a little while to register ..

  9. Re:evesdropping requirements on Google Planning New Undersea Cable Across Pacific? · · Score: 1

    Repeaters these days use in-glass amplification so it is no easier to tap than the fibre.

  10. Re:Joel on BillG on Bill Gates' Management Style · · Score: 1

    Mod parent up.

  11. iPhone ? How can they compete with Nokia ? on Microsoft CEO Claims iPhone Will Be Bust · · Score: 1

    Nokia sells about half the GSM phones in the world, last time I looked. It is the bread and butter of a whole European country - Finland. I cannot see Apple making significant headway with their first product in that market - regardless of the price.

  12. Re:The New Minitel on Free PC With French Broadband Connection · · Score: 1
    you might realize that this is pretty much an updated version of the Minitel

    Minitel was introduced in 1982, to replace dead-tree phone books. Pre-internet, France had already converted their population to online lookups, chat rooms, soft pron, pay-as-you-use. The walled gardens of AOL, Compuserve, Prodigy left Minitel in the dust, and a year later there was Internet.

  13. Arctic melting on Scientists Shocked as Arctic Polar Route Revealed · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yes, you are right.

  14. Re:trade with russia on Scientists Shocked as Arctic Polar Route Revealed · · Score: 1
    By the way, I live in Manhattan, and I think it's about time to move...to some city somewhere that's 20 or 30 miles inland.

    Melting of the North polar ice cap makes no difference to sea levels.

  15. Tom Lord blogs on Esther Dyson's Flickr page on Trouble on the Debian Front? · · Score: 1
    Tom Lord, of Gnu Arch fame, feels he has been run roughshod over by Canonical. Blogging On Esther Dyson's flickr page, he also says:- It's all well and good for Mark to want to build a business leveraging open source but, where does he think the innovations come from? A hard but important problem for open source businesses, in my opinion, is to find out how to reinforce and create incentives for useful, upstream R&D yet, in this case, the exact opposite occurred.

    On the same blog, Alan Levin asks how such entrepreneurs can change the world. It is hard to give - sometimes harder than taking. In Africa, it is about transfer of ownership - can you persuade the recipient that you are not wasting their time ?

  16. Re:Don't forget human antigenes on Humanity Gene Found? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I heard that cancer was the oldest disease, and the careful countdown of cell generations from stem cells was precisely to keep the wart on the frogs bum from taking over the frog. Once you have licked cancer, the rest becomes manageable.

  17. Sneakernet on Solar Wi-Fi To Bring Net to Developing Countries · · Score: 1

    Wizzy Digital Courier is a system that allows internet (email, web scrapes, anything that will move via UUCP) to be delivered - from a place that has conventional access to an isolated system or network. Some pretty pictures for you. The price point moves down to zero, with someone helpful upstream. Bandwidth is not too bad either - a USB stick can hold a lot more than you can transfer using dialup.

  18. Re:Is is obsolete beacuse it is old? on The Life and Death of Microsoft Software · · Score: 1

    I had an interview at a radio station in Cape Town recently. The program cueing software there ran (on a huge 26 inch screen or something) Windows95. It wasn't network connected, the OS got fully out the way of the application - I couldn't fault them.

  19. Other ICANN business - funding on The .XXX Saga Continues in Wellington · · Score: 1

    I gather that only a few TLD registrars are contracted to pay ICANN - .jp and .au being among them. Most of the others also pay, but voluntarily. Recently, .ca (Canada) has decided to stop paying, and .jp and .au are wondering why they are the only ones actually contracted.

  20. Re:This will never work on HOWTO, Cook an Egg With Your Cell Phone · · Score: 1
    Microwave ovens use 2450 MHz because it's in the ISM band.

    Microwave ovens used 2.4Gig well before anyone had thought of an ISM band. The ISM band is there because nobody else wants to use a frequency occupied by microwave ovens.

  21. Wikipedia article on this topic on Chinese Ban on Wikipedia Prevents Research · · Score: 1
  22. MH format rocks on How Do You Store and Reconcile Email Archives? · · Score: 1
    I have all my mail for the last 10 years.

    I have never changed the basic underlying format - MH - Rand Mail Handler, one file per mail, in a directory, numbered.

    I used to use mh, then nmh, then xmh. Nowadays I use mutt. Evolution will handle mh format, but it is slow.

  23. Re:What about Wikipedia? on Linux Handhelds in African Schools · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Indeed.

    Shameless plug

    Wizzy Digital Courier puts down an affordable internet connection, with a complete remote installation of wikipedia (1Gig database, 14Gig pictures) in schools in South Africa.

    /Shameless plug

  24. Re:Who installed Kazza Media Desktop??? on Court Docs Reveal Kazaa Logging User Downloads · · Score: 5, Insightful
    only internet newbies, grandmas & grandpas installed the Kazza Media Desktop. All other installed Kazza Lite

    The server still tracks your downloads.

  25. Re:Picture This on Dual Core Intel Processors Sooner Than Expected · · Score: 1
    This chip could be used in clusters like nobody's business. An array of 128 of these processors could simultaneously handle 8,192 active threads.
    Sounds like the INMOS Transputer. Except that was a machine built to do what you suggest.