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  1. Re:I would rather have DOS on New Denial-of-Service Attacks Threaten Wireless Data Networks · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Keeping your analogy, a DoS or DDoS is IMO like keeping you and me from entering (or exiting) my house through doors or windows. It will not cost me a lot, unless I am a company, depending on a lot of traffic through the door.
    Your truck would be an ICE breaker that opens my house for all. Not the same, since I would notice a locked down house, but not necessarily someone who crept through my window.

  2. I would rather have DOS on New Denial-of-Service Attacks Threaten Wireless Data Networks · · Score: 3, Interesting

    than viruses, worms and malware. DOS can't harm me and my PC(as a private person), only inconvenience. The things are not even comparable. Just another article written by a a journalist who fails to understand basic IT.
    And no, I am not talking about the operating system DOS.

  3. Re:wood for the trees on Hackers Breached US Army Servers · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You are wrong on so many levels. If you can't even bother to protect against simple things as SQL injection, I have a nasty feeling about the overall security.
    Why aren't classified information on a separate network, not connected to the Net? Please: this is not 1980 anymore - protect critical information seriously.

  4. Re:Google Beta on Google Considers Taking Beta Tag Off Gmail · · Score: 2, Funny

    Besides this new "Wolfram" search thing is still in Alpha!

  5. Re:24 hour charge?? on Green GT's All-Electric Supercar Unveiled · · Score: 4, Informative

    20-30 seconds for tire change. About a minute if the car needs refueling as well. They are not allowed to change the tires while fuel is being pumped.

  6. Time goes on on Klingons Cut From Final Star Trek XI Movie · · Score: 5, Funny
    No need to kling on to old plot devices.

    Argh - can't believe I just wrote that.

  7. Re:IBM is adopting on Enterprise FOSS Adoption Beyond Linux Servers? · · Score: 1

    I tend to agree. As P stated, this is not popular to say :-P
    MS office is faster launching (by several factors on my PC), the UI is more polished. But the 80/20 rule states (as you say) that OO would be enough for the vast majority.
    It will be interesting to see how IBM will handle this internal change, while the customers keep using MS Office, and sending MSO documents.

  8. IBM is adopting on Enterprise FOSS Adoption Beyond Linux Servers? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    their own version of Open Office (Lotus Symphony) as the official internal standard this year (I work for them). MS Office will not normally be approved for internal use.
    Maybe not true FOSS, but close.

  9. Re:Mynock on Did Bat Hitch a Ride To Space On Discovery? · · Score: 1, Funny

    I have heard from a reliable source (a photographer I know, named Peter) that the black creature really is a symbiote, that Spiderman placed on the rocket, in order to return it to space.

  10. Re:Honor on Gravitational Waves May Have Been Detected In 1987 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No. This is the way science is supposed to work. If something doesn't fit existing theories, it will (and should) be subject to skepticism, until new scientific theories are produced, that may support your observation.

  11. Re:Honor on Gravitational Waves May Have Been Detected In 1987 · · Score: 0

    True. But we don't need to. Just insta-travel(R) 23 LY in the direction away from the Supernova. Wait there for less than a year and repeat the experiment. The waves will be a little weaker, but that would be negligible.

  12. Re:Honor on Gravitational Waves May Have Been Detected In 1987 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is not great news. This is (great) speculative news. It is interesting and inspires hope, but I seriously doubt that the scientific community will accept this as proof.
    We are talking '87 and there are too many unknowns in the experimental setup, that no-one can clarify now. Did a truck drive by here in '87?

  13. Ahh, the stupidity on Court Rules Autism Not Caused By Childhood Vaccine · · Score: 4, Informative

    or nativity of some people. Contrary to evidence (e.g. a Danish study showing no adverse effects of the vaccinations, and possibly a reduction of asthma due to them http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/dec/06/bad-science-mmr-vaccine), some folks still prefer urban legends over real science.

  14. Re:Not in the UK on HP Releases New Netbook GUI For Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    I meant: So it is not GPL?

  15. Re:Not in the UK on HP Releases New Netbook GUI For Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    So it is not GNU code? If it were, anybody would be able to download, compile and install it.

  16. Always testdrive displays (and TVs) on Input Lag, Or Why Faster Isn't Always Better · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You really should test drive ANY display before you buy it. Or at least read a lot of reviews from reliable sources.

  17. Re:Next Plan on NASA Fashions Mountain-Climbing Robot · · Score: 1

    No ambition here. Get it to mars and let it tackle Olympus Mons.

  18. Re:Clench your toes and hold your breath. on Lie Detector Company Threatens Critical Scientists With Suit · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You are thinking about the normal sweat and heart rate measuring detectors. The article is about voice stress analysis detectors.
    Insurance companies are using your voice over the phone, to test if your are lying. Strangely the companies claim that most of their customers are.
    Go figure...

  19. Re:I user IE exactly once on a new computer on Windows 7 To Be "Thoroughly" Tested For Antitrust Compliance · · Score: 1
  20. Re:Does the OS still use the BIOS? on CoreBoot (LinuxBIOS) Can Boot Windows 7 Beta · · Score: 1
    True, some of what a BIOS does (e.g. initializing the display, sending reset to printers etc) is not really needed. Including the POST. But much of it makes diagnostics easier, in case of an OS boot failure.

    You can follow the early boot process if the graphics is initialized - if it fails, control is never returned to the BIOS, so you would end up with a black screen and a dead computer without graphics.

  21. Re:This is awesome on CoreBoot (LinuxBIOS) Can Boot Windows 7 Beta · · Score: 2, Interesting
    So with windows support, CoreBoot can be accepted? Leads to the question: Is anyone here using it now?

    What is your experience.

    I would be terrified by the risk of harming my MOBO, but I may be the only one so timid.

  22. Re:Does the OS still use the BIOS? on CoreBoot (LinuxBIOS) Can Boot Windows 7 Beta · · Score: 1

    But the code is in the BIOS is needed in order to initialize they memory, display (basic), CPU, HDD etc in order for the OS to boot.

  23. Re:Think of the children on 6 Pennsylvania Teens Face Child Porn Charges For Pics of Selves · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The girls can get even by messaging the pictures to prosecutors and the ratting teacher. Pedophile teachers have a hard time getting another teaching job.

  24. Re:She's awesome on Star Wars, Retold by Someone Who Hasn't Seen It · · Score: 1

    And the graphics were great. Hans Solo did played very well.

  25. Re:uh, no? on Campaign to Open Source IBM's Notes/Domino · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Don't worry. IBM will not allow Notes to come out and play freely with other kids. Others have worked on open sourcing OS/2 for years, but all have failed.

    The patents linked to the products, makes it a no-go. Besides, IBM still makes a lot of money from Notes/Domino.