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  1. Re:This will be great! on Canadian Firm Plans 78-Satellite Net Service · · Score: 1

    Hilariously enough, carrier pigeons are not actually extinct either:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_pigeon
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racing_Homer

  2. Re:Hell has frozen over on California Spam Law Upheld By Appeals Court · · Score: 1

    "The wheels of justice grind slowly but exceedingly fine..."

  3. my favorite part on California Spam Law Upheld By Appeals Court · · Score: 1

    The ruling also made it clear that the advertiser is responsible for the acts of their agents, even if their agents promise not to spam.

    YES!

    Don't like it? Then don't get into email advertising. How's them apples?

  4. Re:Call the Fire Marshal on DSL Installation Fail · · Score: 1

    When did the USPS start hooking up telco equipment upon delivery!?

  5. Re:Change.... on Comcast-NBC Merger Approved By FCC · · Score: 1

    Well, I had THOUGHT it was in the judiciary. I was apparently wrong though. Either way, it's some good information regardless of my intent/motivation in posting the link.

  6. Re:Change.... on Comcast-NBC Merger Approved By FCC · · Score: 0

    US Government:

    Executive - President, federal law enforcement etc
    Legislative - Senate, congress etc
    Judicial - The Courts

    More info that would be better off as a link than posted here:
    Separation of powers under the United States Constitution

  7. Re:God forbid... on IT Management Always Blames the Worker Bees · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure that would fall under misuse (or personal use) of company assets...

  8. Re:Will it rust? on DoE Develops Flexible Glass Stronger Than Steel · · Score: 1

    Glass already is pretty heavy. Palladium has about twice the atomic weight of iron, and steel is already much lighter than raw iron.

    Glass is the variable in that though, especially given that it's the dominant component.

  9. Re:Dark matter vs black holes on Milky Way May Have Dark Matter Satellite Galaxies · · Score: 1

    Black holes aren't black spots in the star field. They lense light around them.

    Here's a good visual simulation of what this looks like:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Black_hole_lensing_web.gif

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_lens

  10. Re:It isnt that bad on Adding an Olfactory Dimension To Games · · Score: 1

    Especially when this particular scent bypasses much of our higher functions and is wired directly into our lower brain and memory centers. I don't think it would be an extra 'bit' in this case, it would be more powerful than you'd think.

  11. Re:It isnt that bad on Adding an Olfactory Dimension To Games · · Score: 1

    The chemicals could also be engineered to be quite volatile. There's no reason the scents need to hang around for hours...

  12. Re:Fiber is vulnerable on Military Aircraft To Get All-Fiber Network Gear · · Score: 1

    The next generation of aircraft need something called "sensor fusion" - and you end up with a whole shitload of data coming into the flight computers. I could certainly see why they would consider using fiber on the bus interconnects!

  13. Re:Hm... on Military Aircraft To Get All-Fiber Network Gear · · Score: 1

    The high bandwidth cables don't need to go everywhere. Only on the busses between the FADECs, FLCCs, radar systems, and perhaps any other sensors that would benefit from a high bandwidth low latency connection.

  14. Re:yes, my 1990 Acorn A3000... on Embedded Linux 1-Second Cold Boot To QT · · Score: 1

    The problem is - why? What are you doing that makes 10 seconds less on your boot such a big deal!?

    It works as-is now, and there's not a whole lot to be gained by "fixing" it - which is why it doesn't seem to be happening.

  15. Re:Wonder how safe longer keys are... on Amazon EC2 Enables Cheap Brute-Force Attacks · · Score: 1

    Oops. The article is about WPA, not WPA2.

    Upgrade already, you damn stupid crackheads!

    (random shit for /. filter: lksjdgkhjgjh)

  16. Re:Wonder how safe longer keys are... on Amazon EC2 Enables Cheap Brute-Force Attacks · · Score: 1

    Oops. The article is about WPA, not WPA2.

    Upgrade already, you damn stupid crackheads!

  17. Re:Wonder how safe longer keys are... on Amazon EC2 Enables Cheap Brute-Force Attacks · · Score: 1

    Just make sure you have a character outside of hexadecimal in your WPA2 key, and it gets hashed up to a full length key anyways.

  18. Re:Wonder how safe longer keys are... on Amazon EC2 Enables Cheap Brute-Force Attacks · · Score: 1

    Not that I've noticed.

    I use a passphrase on mine, which actually results in a full length hexadecimal key (ie, the largest you can use with WPA2-PSK). I've not noticed and significant overhead.

  19. Re:Put your money where your mouth is on AMD Puts Out Radeon HD 6000 Open-Source Driver · · Score: 1

    This is true, but when it comes to linux I try to keep as much in the distro as possible. Just cause Windows does it doesn't mean I want to :)

    It can be a pain for some things, but having a package manager keeping track of things makes it a lot easier to keep the system 'tidy' - and should files be damaged/lost somehow, it's also easier to replace said files without a full reinstall of the program or scouring the web for dodgy DLL downloads.

    It also helps stop you from falling into "Dependency Hell" that people regularly bitch about.

  20. Re:This one makes some sense on FBI Seeks Suspect's Web Game Records · · Score: 1

    It's also a much more severe drain on societies' resources... for what? Retribution? Whether he dies in a cell of old age or on a table from an injection, he's still dead.

    Dead is dead. Why consume all those resources in the process?

  21. Re:This one makes some sense on FBI Seeks Suspect's Web Game Records · · Score: 1

    Law is concerned about law. Whether or not it is morally wrong is not part of the problem. Figuring that part out is the supreme court's job, in a way (but not directly).

  22. Re:This one makes some sense on FBI Seeks Suspect's Web Game Records · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You don't just go crazy.

    You've not met many unstable people, have you?

  23. Re:Zero G on Scientist Says NASA Must Study Space Sex · · Score: 1

    Hell, just make the rotational section for specific uses, such as a nursery or medical. It's a lot simpler if only a small part of the system needs to be under rotation.

  24. Re:Darwin would shot himself dead if he read this on Scientist Says NASA Must Study Space Sex · · Score: 1

    You would have no new species in Mars at all, since evolution is based in competition for life and death of the less adapted ones, which does not happen with humans anymore. We make devices to adapt ourselves to diverse circumstances so humans don't die because of being not adapted to environments unless a mutation makes some specimens fit for such environments and survive, by consequence, we don't evolve into new species. Some people in the NASA obviously need to review the evolution theory.

    Evolution theory. There's also nothing that says that "natural selection" etc are the only processes that can or do take place.

  25. Re: Fathers as important as mothers on Scientist Says NASA Must Study Space Sex · · Score: 1

    1) Says you. Myself and several other single-parent friends have plenty of others that don't seem to be as prevalent with our two-parent friends.
    2) Hurray for genetic diversity :/