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  1. Re:Instead of likening things to rocket science on First Experimental Evidence That Time Is an Emergent Quantum Phenomenon · · Score: 5, Funny

    We need to start likening things to quantum physics. At this point rocket science is frikkin' easy compared to all this quantum stuff.

    Sheldon Cooper would agree:

    Missy: Yup, I’m always bragging to my friends about my brother the rocket scientist.
    Sheldon: You tell people I’m a rocket scientist?
    Missy: Well yeah.
    Sheldon: I’m a theoretical physicist.
    Missy: What’s the difference?
    Sheldon: What’s the difference?
    Missy: Goodbye Shelly.
    Sheldon: My God! Why don’t you just tell them I’m a toll taker at the Golden Gate Bridge? Rocket scientist, how humiliating.


    On a related note, maybe it's time for me to change my username...

  2. Re:The answer depends on the fine details. on Affordably Aggregating ISP Connections? · · Score: 1

    If you're going to recommend a pair of Cisco routers, then why not run GRE over IPSec? You can run EIGRP over the tunnel interfaces, and configure either equal-cost load sharing across the links, or use variance to proportionaltely allocate traffic over the links according to the expected bandwidth. If you want to keep some conversations pegged to a particular link, you can policy route those host/network pairs, while still maintaining failover if that link dies. You don't even need NAT/PAT in this scenario if the private address ranges don't overlap.

  3. Re:Bad subject, this is a GOOD thing... on Comcast's War On Infected PCs (Or All Customers) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I disagree. Using pop-ups as the notification method will likely trigger a new round of malware attacks that look like official Comcast notifications, complete with helpful links to download scanner and removal tools.

  4. Re:Yes, because we all know.... on NASA Engineers Work On Alternative Moon Rocket · · Score: 5, Funny

    Does the napkin drawing include a doodle of the engineer as a cowboy?

  5. Not the first portable gas devices! on Two Tiny Gas Turbines · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Refillable butane lighters have been around for quite a while, I'd imagine this technology would have a similar refueling mechanism.

  6. Re:To determine if this was appropriate. on CIA Blogger Fired for Criticizing Torture Policy · · Score: 1

    Well, from TFA, she also blogging on the cafeteria food (not something directly related to the job functions of a software tester). Her managers happily provided statistics on the visits to that particular blog, so it's obviously the content, not the relevance, that is the issue.

  7. Re:Yeah, you're awesome, I love you man... on Cell Users As Bad As Drunk Drivers · · Score: 1

    Coincidenally, TFA links to a phone for that, too.

  8. Finally... on Samsung Announces Solid State Laptop · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...I was getting tired of replacing the vacuum tubes in my old model.

  9. Re:Ignore these benchmarks on Athlon Socket AM2 Review · · Score: 3, Informative

    From TFA, Page 3: Memory: Two Corsair CM2X512-8500 modules with 512 MB each, installed on DDR2 Dual Channel configuration (using 4-4-4-12 timings) for socket AM2 CPUs.

  10. Google should counter-charge for page rankings on Small Cable Groups Seek To Break Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    After all, Google spent all that money developing their search engine technology & infrastructure.
    If "Cable provider x" has the highest rank in a search for "Cable provider x", then all those links to them are obviously using more of Google's resources, and they should pay Google accordingly, else they might drop a few pages in the search results.

  11. Re:If only their power could be used for good... on Return of the Web Mob · · Score: 1

    As if the problem isn't big enough now, your 25 bucks will probably give the worlds first verified intelligent extra-terrestrial signal to the mob, who will immediately infect it and gain control of a galactic-botnet. (everyone knows it's easy to infect alien systems using a Mac Book, right?)

  12. Re:How to enforce it on NJ Bill Would Prohibit Anonymous Posts on Forums · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Not exactly.
    Key points of the proposed bill:
    • You need to set up a registration system where users are required to use legitimate info. However, I don't see anything that states you have to verify the information provided
    • You must maintain a procedure to make this infomration available if a user posts false or defamatory information. You don't have to hand over the information if there's no proof of damages.

    So you're covered as long as you have a "registration required to post" setting. As resources are not readily available to give board operators the ability to validate any information submitted, this will be effectively unenforcable.
  13. 2 wrongs don't make a right! on New York Times sues DoD over Domestic Spying · · Score: 1

    I wonder if the NYT will publish a front-page story when the vigilante assaults start against the people on the list after they make it public...and of course they will publish it, why else would they be asking for it? Unless perhaps they plan to set up their own illegal surveill---er, "investigative journalism", hoping for a scoop.

  14. Re:Our Past It Out There on NASA Detects Nearby Mystery Explosion · · Score: 1

    First intelligent signal from space:

    "Hello, I am sending you this request hoping it reaches you by yesterday. Please point your telescopes toward my homeworld at {coordinates supplied}. Then zoom in Here {link to otherplanets.maps.google.com}. Watch the house behind the Starbuck's and tell me where I left my car keys. Thank you!"

  15. Re:What about citizens enjoying the public domain? on RIAA: Ripping CDs to iPod not 'Fair Use' · · Score: 1

    Everyone should read the whole text of the filing. It's both side-splittingly hilarious and quite scary if you consider that some of this might make be boug^H^Hvoted into legislation.

    The filing has this to say about a non-infringing exemption to copying DRM-protected content in the public domain:

    "If there are other examples of collective works containing public domain materials which are protected by copy controls, it should be recalled that both of the referenced collections are examples of materials that never would have been available if not for the advent of DVDs, and thus the net impact of technological protection measures on their availability is positive."

  16. Re:Technology advances on Libraries Say DRM May Harm Their Services · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't that violate the DMCA, regardless of whether the content is "free" or not?

  17. Re:expansion of pet market on Taiwan Breeds Transgenic, Fluorescent Green Pigs · · Score: 1

    Imagine the special fish that glow...

    You mean these previously covered fish?

  18. Re:Wow. on Scientists Spot Rare 'In Between' Black Hole · · Score: 2, Informative

    A particle accelerator capable of producing even a tiny black hole would have to be as big as the solar system

    Or it might be slightly smaller than that, perhaps the size of RHIC, according to an earlier story?

  19. Re:Copyright infringement? on California Class Action Suit Sony Over Rootkit DRM · · Score: 1

    I read the article (or the translation, at least), and don't see how they came to the conclusion that there is LAME code in Sony's DRM software.
    The /. story about hiding rippers from the rootkit mentioned the kit's ability to scan running processes and windows and compare them to a list. It is likely that the LAME refrences are merely part of that list, as you'd expect the kit would be looking for well-known ripping/encoding programs.

    As for the array, coincidences do happen, and I suspect a table named "largetbl" might be a common choice for a programmer making a large table...

  20. Re:Don't Do It! Think Of The Fscking Children! on Generic Passwords Expose Student Data · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So then I suppose you'd have no problem sending a thank-you card if you came home and found a post-it note on your TV saying, "you should really remember to lock your front door next time you leave the house"?

  21. Re:New Car? on Star Wars Props Up For Auction · · Score: 1

    I don't know how accurate these estimates are, but here's what the auction's catalog expects the lightsaber to go for (the flight suit has the same price tag):

    A wonderful piece of film history used for the very first appearance of the spectacular "lightsaber", which thrilled audiences the world over. $60,000 - $80,000

  22. Re:Article is missing an important detail on New Way To Crack Secure Bluetooth Devices · · Score: 5, Informative

    Digging up their paper, it seems that it is not automatic:

    If the attack is successful, the Bluetooth user will need to enter the PIN again - so a suspicious user may realize that his Bluetooth device is under attack and refuse to enter the PIN.

  23. DRMNA? on Photoshop for DNA · · Score: 1

    I own the rights to the "forever-perky breasts" gene sequence. In lieu of a cash royalties, I am willing to negotiate other forms of payment from all persons posessing this gene.

  24. Re:What's the point of not updating anyway... on Providers Ignoring DNS TTL? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Has anyone done any measurement stats on DNS queries

    According to my DNS hosting company's FAQ:

    "...or 200MB of usage is used (1 million DNS queries)"

  25. Re:Can you say "invented"? on HP's Crossbar Latch... Next-Gen Transistor? · · Score: 1

    (just ignore those MIB agents standing right behind you)
    I'm not worried about them, they don't have the correct community strings.