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  1. Re:disappointed on OLPC Experiments With Cow-Powered Laptops · · Score: 1

    I was expecting something from Gateway Computers. moo.

  2. Re:Correct terminology on German Court Convicts Skype For Breaching GPL · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You said the GPL was violated in a post trying to explain why it's Copyright and not the GPL that was violated.

  3. Re:Firefox on Any "Pretty" Code Out There? · · Score: 1

    Not on my system (WinXP)

    >echo off & (for %q in (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10) do perl -le"print $$") & echo on
    2816
    3964
    2920
    1188
    2656
    2196
    2884
    3120
    2116
    3160
  4. SPF on PayPal Asks E-mail Services to Block Messages · · Score: 4, Informative

    This is the problem Sender Policy Framework (SPF) tries to address.

  5. Videos on YouTube on Simple Computation Using Dominos · · Score: 5, Informative

    The site might be down, but the videos are on YouTubte

    inputs = 0 & 1
    inputs = 1 & 0
    inputs = 1 & 1

  6. Re:Gah! on MIT's Millimeter Turbine to be Ready This Year · · Score: 1

    One of the definitions given by Merriam Webster for battery is "a single cell that furnishes electric current". Sorry, but the definition for "battery" includes the latter two of your "nots". I suspect this is a recent change to reflect the common usage of the word.

  7. Re:Freshmeat? on Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.4 Released · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry, I didn't see your previous reply since I was working from a stale copy of the thread. You have indeed already addressed my point.

  8. Re:Freshmeat? on Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.4 Released · · Score: 1

    IE can have multiple windows per process just like Firefox can have multiple windows and tabs per process.

    Try using "File | New Window" from within IE to open the second and third IE Windows instead of starting 3 IE process. Then you'll have a much more accurate comparison.

  9. Such an odd request! on Boycott the Gold Farmers? · · Score: 1

    Asking those who have no issues with paying for gold to boycott gold farmers seems... unpruductive to me.

  10. Hidden Passageways! on What Would Be Your Ideal Futuristic Home? · · Score: 1

    A company named Hidden Passageway recently came to my attention/

  11. Re:Extension on Firefox 's Ping Attribute: Useful or Spyware? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Extentions should add features, not remove them.

  12. Re:SHA-1??? on MD5 Collision Source Code Released · · Score: 1
    Whirlpool has the advantage that it uses AES as the basis, and AES is regarded as secure.

    Something everyone should know about cryptography is that "'A' is secure. 'B' is based on 'A', so 'B' must be secure." is a fallacy.

    Something else everyone should know about cryptography is that the performance of a crypto product at one task does not necessarily have any bearing on the performance of the same crypto product at another task. AES wasn't designed for hashing, so while it is regarded as secure for its task, that says nothing about its strength at hashing.

  13. Re:Oh Come on! make up your mind already. on Classic TV for Free Download · · Score: 2, Interesting

    MSN clients, ICQ clients, FTP clients (in active mode) and many more clients create server sockets. I'm not sure that makes them servers. The language of the TOS of these ISPs is outdated. If the problem is excessive use of upload bandwidth, the TOS should talk about this, not servers.

  14. Re:Is NAT Better? on The exhaustion of IPv4 address space · · Score: 1

    The goal of NAT is not to restrict connections, it's to allow them. As such, NAT boxes become weaker firewalls as they become better. The introduction of DMZ and UPnP illustrates this. When DMZ is used, the NAT box loses all firewall capabilities for one machine. When UPnP is used, the NAT box loses all firewall capabilities for all machines.

  15. Re:A solution can be... on Blackout Shows Net's Fragility · · Score: 0

    What's an "internet exchange point"? There are no points, just thousands of ISPs. Currently, most have direct connections to only one or two other ISPs. You are suggesting ISPs increase thousandfold the number of connections they have, which is not practical. The internet cannot be fully meshed, not even at the ISP and/or national level.

  16. Re:Windows.... on Microsoft Windows Media Player Encryption Hacked · · Score: 1
    If DVD John can crack it, then it wasn't secure in the first place.

    He didn't actually break any security. Even if MS has used the best encryption in the world and had implemented it perfectly, DVD John could have created this tool.

    For Media Player to read the file, it needs to decrypt it. By necessity, that means both the decryption algorithm and the key with the decryption algorithm are located in Media Player. It's just a question of finding the algorith and where the key is stored. There are no secrets, so the algorithm does not need to be broken, and the key does not need to be brute-forced.

    That's where "Secure Computing" comes into play. It tries to prevent you from seeing the files containing the algorithm and/or the key. Fortunately, this does not exist yet.

  17. Re:As a Google fan on Google Loses AdWords Case · · Score: 1
    Do you violate the ruling or does Google for accepting your business?

    According to the article, the court hasn't decided this yet.

    Personally, I think it would be the advertisers fault, not Google's. Do you sue the domain registrar when someone registers a trademarked domain? no. Do you sue the government when someone registers a trademarked company name? no. Do you sue the web host when someone post a page with a trademark violation? no.

  18. GPL is Copyrighted too on HP Calls For Sun and IBM to Remove OS Licenses · · Score: 5, Informative
    In contrast [to GPL], an open-source license, like IBM's, is copyrighted.

    In contrast? The GPL and works released undef GPL are Copyrighted too. GPL doesn't work without Copyright.

  19. Re:it makes sense really on Moody Non-Photo-Realistic Driving · · Score: 1

    I like driving on the right side of the road because it places my stick-shift is in my right hand.

  20. A buried detail on Japanese Develop 'Female' Android · · Score: 4, Informative

    I saw a mini-documentary on this robot last month on Discovery Planet (during their "Japan Week").

    This robot is not self-sufficient. It's power supply (in the form of compressed air) is external to its body. The article mentioned this, but the comment ("powered by a nearby air compressor") was easy to miss.

    I also found her movements to be a bit rough. It's been a while, so I don't remember exactly what I found wrong with them, but it might be related to her limited range of movement. They were talking about the need to increase (double??) the number of "motors" (or whatever you call what she uses).

    They were examining her motion by having someone wear motion detectors on a person and having the robot mimic the person's movements. They probably had motio detectors on her too -- I don't remember -- to compare the difference.

  21. Re:Tempting - but no on New PSP Firmware with Built-In Web Browser · · Score: 1

    If the program need to be provided free of charge, no GPL'ed software could be used on the PSP, since it allows people to charge distribution fees. That means pretty much everything for the PSP would have to be written from scratch. And if Sony needs to be given the right to publish anything written for the PSP, not many rights are left for the author. That's not very enticing.

  22. Re:Of course it's a slap on the wrist! on Sony Agrees to Stop Payola · · Score: 1

    The government doesn't pay taxes, so I'm not sure what kind of tax write off they could get.

    Remember, Sony is paying the gov. What the government does with the money afterwards has no bearing on Sony or its tax forms.

  23. Re:Before you defend them on Canadian Telco Admits to Blocking Union's Website · · Score: 1

    That's a poor example because those are trademarked brands, and rerouting the requests as you described is likely forbidden by trademark law.

  24. Internet -vs- IP network on U.N. To Govern Internet? · · Score: 1

    The US manages their own IP network, the Internet.
    My employer manages their own IP network.
    I manage my own IP network.
    What's stopping the UN from starting their own IP network instead of taking over US's?

  25. Re:How is this not considered "Dumping" on PlayStation 3 to Sell For $399, Going Underground · · Score: 1

    Say I open up a chocloate bar manufacturing plant. Do you think the $1 I get from my first sale will cover all my R&D, equipment, personel, power and other costs? No. While I'm not selling the bar at a loss, my company will have lost money until I reach my break even point. Sony and every single company out there is doing the same thing.