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  1. Re:Here's an idea... on Revamped Linux Kernel Numbering Concluded · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    They need a tag that tells the parser to ignore any other tags between them. Not touch the formatting or anything, just ignore ALL tags up till the closing tags.

    <ignore></ignore> would work nicely....

    BTW, why does "plain old text" parse HTML when there is the "html-formatted" selection?

  2. Re:MPAA is on its way on UK Record Industry Starts Suing Filesharers · · Score: 2, Informative
    Ever check the licensing?

    Even good licencers are prohibitively expensive.

    Project type: corporate use
    Artist: Electric Frankenstein
    Album: Conquers The World
    Song name: 01-It's All Moving Faster-Electric Frankenstein
    Audience type: general public
    Maximum audience size: unlimited
    License duration: unlimited
    Price: $2400


    I used corporate use because it's the only one that lets you do whatever you want. But that's the price for one track.
  3. Re:violent games on Views on Violence in Video Games · · Score: 1

    Well, personally I carried a knife (small folding one) just in case something happened*.

    I also carried a couple "weapons" like screwdrivers - but for the reasons that they were very useful when you need them (ei fixing someone's busted cd player during lunch)

    I play video games a lot. Too much. Mostly realistic and tactical stuff (like ghost recon). I know how to move, I know how to shoot, I know where to shoot. Do I want to shoot? Only at paper targets.

    Having played violent and realistic video games since their birth, and only posessing the desire to use firearms for the protection/defense of others and myself, leads me to think that these "conclusions" are complete bullshit. But I also realize that we are a violent species, and I am just on the other spectrum (ie want to hurt those hurting others).

    *Never got cought, because i never had to even take it out (and i didn't brag about it either). I should mention that I just graduated HS last year, so people had columbine fever(irrational freaking out) while I was there.

  4. Re:Does it fix the shyte rendering of slasdot? on Firefox-Based Netscape 8 Beta Goes Live · · Score: 1

    I've had the entire comments section crammed under the summary a couple times. They all drew at the same point (horrible mess)

  5. Re:Does it fix the shyte rendering of slasdot? on Firefox-Based Netscape 8 Beta Goes Live · · Score: 1

    The average user doesn't read slashdot, and I have never experienced the issue outside of slashdot.

  6. Re:Costa Rica has always had an army on Costa Rica May Criminalize VoIP · · Score: 1

    Militia?

  7. Re:Not the first Bill ... on Bill Gates to Receive Honorary UK Knighthood · · Score: 1

    I don't know... the image of Gates in the ending scene of Braveheart comes to mind (without the merciful beheading, of course)

  8. Re:Good on Japan Considering Moon Base, Shuttle Projects · · Score: 1

    Ever read Joe Haldeman's "The Forever War"?

  9. Re:Think bigger people on RFID + Dart gun = DartMail! · · Score: 1

    Can't stop laughing! ... I'm OK now.

    Yes, but then you have to worry about the messenger killing you.

  10. Re:You got mail, BIOTCH! on RFID + Dart gun = DartMail! · · Score: 1

    I did, but not for the thrill. My mousepad crapped out (OK, it was junk to begin with) and I needed a decent cloth-top.

    Hey, I don't feel bad. They fired the teacher who bought them because his eyesight was getting really bad (uncorrectable - I assume something wrong with cornea or retina)

  11. Re:Indeed, it's pretty far from advertised... on Engineers Devise Invisibility Shield · · Score: 2, Informative
    http://www.its.bldrdoc.gov/pub/oprad/main.pdf

    2.2 mb PDF


    Look on page 11 (numbered page, not the PDF's page) at the bottom, at TPS-43E.

    The placement of those diagrams is annoying, that sentence isn't finished untill page 16. Here's what it says:

    The TPS-43E is an Air Force 3-D, stacked-beam, surveillance radar and is air and ground transportable. The range of the TPS-43E is 481 kilometers (260 nmi), transmitting 4 MW using a linear beam twystron. The transmitter control can select any one of 16 frequencies in the range from 2900 to 3100 MHz. It can operate on six different PRR's; the average PRR is 250 Hz using a 6.5 uS pulse.


    I boldfaced the really important parts. That sounds like a LOT of energy. It all depends on the class of radar. When i said beam above, I meant that they narrow their sweep path and shorten the period.
  12. Re:Indeed, it's pretty far from advertised... on Engineers Devise Invisibility Shield · · Score: 1

    Well, the bird would die for the same reason the chocolate bar melted in the pocket of the microwave oven's discoverer!

    Well, I'm having trouble finding some numbers as well. For example: I can find a crapload of ships outfitted with the Lockheed-Martin AN/SPY-1F, but I can't seem to find any information about it whatsoever.

  13. Re:Indeed, it's pretty far from advertised... on Engineers Devise Invisibility Shield · · Score: 1

    True, but i wouldn't want to be in the plane if I was getting multiple search radars beamed in my direction.

    Usually, they have a wide arc. But let's say they detected my marginally, and are trying to find me.

    They focus the radar emmisions, and wave the "beam" around. Imagine the energy that 3+ search radars doing that would emit in your direction. It would get pretty warm.

    Those radars are VERY powerful. A bird unfortunate enough to encounter that beam would die in seconds (if that).

    If the plane warmed up enough compared to the sky around them, it MAY be enough for a stinger or any other thermally guided SAM to lock on.

    Even then, just a spotty contact may be enough for them to scramble some interceptors to investigate, and Fire Control radars use a different wavelength then Search Radars, and are NOT something a pilot in a stealth bomber wants to hear over the Threat Detector.

  14. Re:first on Is Your OS Tough Enough? · · Score: 1

    It's so funny to see something like Post is first bitches when it is nowhere near being first.

    OK, to be on topic now. Notice how the article mentions that you need to pay to get Linux from a vendor. Now notice that what they say seems to say that the only way to get security updates is through a vendor.
    Apparently the reporter and/or testers have never heard of Debian (ever notice the http://security.debian.org in your apt list?) or any other distro that has frequent updates.

    I find it funny how they test Suse, RedHat (they must mean RedHat Enterprise), and Fedora - and then act like they just tested LINUX itself.

    To be fair, if they want to test linux they need to go through Linux From Scratch and stop as soon as they get a bootable system - then test that. More than likely secure, as there is nothing besides the Kernel and a couple core utilities (maybe) to attack!

  15. Re:Of course on Is Your OS Tough Enough? · · Score: 1

    Some telcos (like mine) require you to use their leased modem. If you try any other modem (well, at least any other MAC. If you can alter your modem's MAC and find a way to sneak the modems software past those anti-anti-cap scans/updates, it would work) you don't get access to the world.

  16. Re:Indeed, it's pretty far from advertised... on Engineers Devise Invisibility Shield · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This wouldn't work. The radar would pass through the molecules, only to reflect off of the aircraft skin, and pass back though the molecules.

    Now, if it could be set up so that the radar would pass through once, and bounce around between the skin and the coating before finding the right angle to escape, it would probably make the radar bounce off the plane at all kinds of weird angles (making the radar useless).

    The problem I'm wondering about is: What happens if the radar can't find a way out? Will it keep bouncing around, loosing energy all the while, heating up both the skin and the coating (this may become an issue)? Or would the time and energy it spent bouncing around untill it escaped be so trivial so as to not matter?

  17. Re:Me, too! on AOL Opening Up AIM Community to Third Parties · · Score: 1

    like CTFL+ALT+DEL...ENTER is really hard to do.

  18. Re:A shorter history of ringtones on Short History of Cellphone Ringtones · · Score: 1

    Some of the interface sounds from either of the Homeworlds or from O.R.B. (http://www.strategyfirst.com/scripts/Redir.asp?sL anguageCode=EN&iGameID=4) would completely kick ass.

  19. Re:You can't eliminate companies on Stallman Calls For Action on Free BIOS · · Score: 1

    I don't understand why every GPL detracting post gets mod-bombed.

    GPL has its place, BSD has its place. Hell, even the MS licences have theirs.

    Surely this Zesiger licence (which i never heard of) has its. And, from the sound of things, why not make a crossbreed licence?

    IE, BSD-style for the first N years, after which the code becomes GPL like. Derivitives follow suit, being BSD-style for N' years (may be shorter) after which they become GPL like. Note that I keep saying like. It doesn't have to be pure GPL.

    Progress with such a licence would be slower, yes, but it WILL give companies/venders more incentive to help out. You can't easily have it both ways, you have to compromise at some point.

    I guess what I am saying is don't take the extreme left or right, meeting in the middle is fine.

    [disclaimer]I haven't examined either the MS, BSD, or GPL licences in depth, and I have never heard of this Zesiger license. I actually suggested making a NEW licence for this purpose. Maybe one such as this already exists. Please realize that I am talking out of my ass.[/disclaimer]

  20. Re:Is this the end of the ride? on Mozilla 1.8b1 Released, Firefox Growth Slowing · · Score: 1

    I'm far too spoiled by GUI tools. I am migrating from windows, and my first experiences with *Nix was Gnome and KDE (both have graphical means of adjusting colors, ect).

    I have modified existing fluxbox themes to set a particular background, but I would love to be able to make something like that used on the FreesBIE FreeBSD-based liveCD.

  21. Re:Is this the end of the ride? on Mozilla 1.8b1 Released, Firefox Growth Slowing · · Score: 1

    Will gnome programs run under fluxbox as well?

    All fluxbox needs is a quick and easy way to make/modify themes and it's perfect (maybe i just don't know the proper way).

  22. Re:Corporate Lobbies vs. Public Interest on Senators Clinton and Kerry Submit Open Voting Bill · · Score: 2, Interesting

    True communism has yet to be tried.

    Those (soviet russia, cuba, ect) are all basically dictatorships behind the facade of socialism.

    True communism would have no "elite", no leaders of any kind.

    Unfortunatly, due to human nature, that will never happen.

  23. Re:Corporate Lobbies vs. Public Interest on Senators Clinton and Kerry Submit Open Voting Bill · · Score: 1

    I, for one, welcome our socialist equalords, comrade!

  24. Re:Now how long on UK to Build Network of 150 Digital Cinemas · · Score: 1

    Well, in the USA, it is now a Federal Offense to bring in and record during a show.

    It's out of control.

    I can understand making it illegal, but a FEDERAL offense?

  25. Re:Now how long on UK to Build Network of 150 Digital Cinemas · · Score: 1

    Not to mention, if the watermark was so undetectable, it would be fragile. Encoding to XVID would probably destroy the watermark.