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  1. Re:X is bloatware: on Firefox To Get a Nag Screen For Upgrades · · Score: 1

    yes but ASCII porn just isn't as realistic

  2. check your server on DNS Poisoning Hits One of China's Biggest ISPs · · Score: 4, Informative

    It may be a good idea to check your DNS server to see if it is vulnerable. Dan Kaminsky has a tool that shows vulnerability on his blog.

  3. Re:Not surprising.... on The Mainframe World Is Alive, Even For Those Under 40 · · Score: 1

    Isn't this the same COBOL that stopped California from implementing pay cuts because they didn't have anyone who could quickly make the changes? link

  4. Re:As a Chinese Internet user... on DNS Poisoning Hits One of China's Biggest ISPs · · Score: 2, Interesting

    the theory being that OpenDNS is more likely to keep their servers up to date then some of the ISP's name servers

  5. Re:Youtube links on Physics Nerds Rap About the LHC · · Score: 1

    They also have a web page with the mp3 of the rap and a link to vimeo that has a down loadable video
    https://www.msu.edu/~mcalpin9/lhc_rap/largehadron.html

  6. Re:Higgs Bussom? on One of the Coolest Places In the Universe · · Score: 1

    so it's just like the internet, all technology revolves around porn, right?

  7. Re:What I am waiting for on Gadgets for the Lazy · · Score: 1, Informative

    personaly I dump my logs to /dev/toilet

  8. Re:Question: on U.S. Government Moves To Dismiss EFF Case · · Score: 1

    I think the difference is that that is a criminal case and this one if a civil one...

  9. Re:I've only one word to say on SCO To Counter Groklaw With 'Fair' Coverage · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hey lets ask Al Gore, after all he is the one who invented it!

  10. Re:Free now, pay later? on Gmail Adds Features · · Score: 5, Informative
    they are still beta testing those features as they say here

    We're testing a new feature that lets you forward new incoming messages to any email account you want. It's free during the test and you can set it up in seconds. Even set up filters to forward only some of your messages. It's your mail. Get it the way you want it.

  11. Re:Will this be copyrighted or copylefted? on Real Presidential Debates · · Score: 1

    write in?

  12. Re:Cool stuff but.... on Nuclear Batteries · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Its gonna take a lot of batteries to grind down before you would have any usable material for a dirty bomb,

    Never doubt the steps some will go through to get radioactive stuff, I am reminded of David Han, "the radioactive boy scout" who tried to make a breader reactor with lantern mantels and smoke alarm parts (as well as many other things). While he didn't get his goal compleated, he got a heck of a lot closer then he should have.

  13. Re:Imagine... on Flash Mobs a Threat to Security? · · Score: 1

    isn't that what the slashdot effect?

  14. Re:Since someone has to say it.... on Overclockers Top 6GHz With A 3.6GHz-Rated P4 · · Score: 1

    Imagine a beow.... nah won't happen just quite yet sience it isn't stable enough to do much of any thing at 6ghz

  15. Re:Password protection? on More Diebold E-Voting Vulnerabilities · · Score: 1
    Why not just go back to pencil and scantron

    Scantron cards arn't exactly acurate either, When I have taken scantron tests in school (bolth hs and colledge) they have always come back with a few misreads. Heck even hand counting the pencil filled in ballots is subject to human error. With an evoteing system with paper backup it would hopefully be bolth acurate and acountable... good luck at doing that though!

  16. Re:Firefox vs. Windows update on 1 Million Firefoxes in 4 Days · · Score: 2, Insightful

    but you can't actualy uninstall it is a part of windows, every time you open up "explorer" to visit a file on your computer you are using IE.

  17. Re:And yet... on Beer Found to be as Healthy as Wine · · Score: 1

    what if you walk for 30 minutes right after drinking your beer, would you get double the benifits or just public intox?

  18. Re:Rain Fade on DirecTV Plans 1500 HiDef Channels by End of 2007 · · Score: 3, Interesting
    my understanding is that they will do it in the same way that they get away with using the little dishes, pumping a huge amount of power out.

    DIRECTV 10 and DIRECTV 11, to be built by Boeing, will be among the largest and most powerful Ka-band satellites ever launched.

  19. Re:FCC should allow it on Michael Moore Seeks TV Airing of Fahrenheit 9/11 · · Score: 1

    And Clearly not nutral is non biased twards both sides... yeh right. Bolth sides have their own media pets, give it a rest!

  20. I just can't help it... on Weta Digital Supercomputer For Hire · · Score: -1, Redundant

    imagine a beowulf cluster of these

  21. Re:Why cold fusion? on Cold Fusion Back From The Dead · · Score: 1
    IANANP either but from what I gleaned from the Wikipedia article

    "Unfortunately, there are still significant barriers standing between current scientific understanding and technological capabilities and the practical realization of fusion as an energy source, and it is far from clear that an economically viable fusion plant is even possible. It is an extremely difficult task to harness a 100 million degree plasma in an economically efficient way, so a working reactor is still many years down the road and is an active part of plasma physics research. Another barrier is materials to withstand the high neutron fluxes, which are speculated to be about 100 times those of existing PWRs."

    On your other point asking about control of fussion with control rods and such, sorry it dosen't work that way. As stated above the big issue is having something that can take the heat of fusion, so if they could do it at room tempature (or at least closer then 100 mil degrees) it would be a lot easyer.

    Of course with that said, my physics professor once said "20 years ago they said that fusion was 20 years out... now 20 years later it still is 20 years out." Us younings might just be luckey enough to see it in our life times, mabey.

  22. Re:Fireworks... let me think... on Disney Goes Boom! · · Score: 1

    and what would walt think of that?

  23. Why not get users to use what they have on Stronger Encryption for Wi-Fi · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Using 128 bit encription on most residental points will take several weeks of listening to break (correct me if I am wrong here) Shouldn't we concentrate on convinceing users on just doing something.

  24. Re:Sssssh! on Stronger Encryption for Wi-Fi · · Score: 0

    the ones I like the best are the "dlink" points
    where they haven't even set the admin password yet

  25. upgrades to old equipment on Stronger Encryption for Wi-Fi · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The real question is will the manufacturers come out with new drivers/firmware to take advantage of this new technology?