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  1. Re:Baby, meet bathwater. on Microsoft States Full TCP/IP Too Dangerous · · Score: 1

    Oops, changed my mind. :-D

  2. Re:Baby, meet bathwater. on Microsoft States Full TCP/IP Too Dangerous · · Score: 1

    That's the sort of attack we could already prevent, to some extent, with smart ISP's. It doesn't help those protocols that embed the source IP inside some other data structure, but preventing the spoofing of IP addresses is something we've had a cure for since the mid 90's. Too bad it requires ISP's to intelligently protect their own networks.

  3. Re:Baby, meet bathwater. on Microsoft States Full TCP/IP Too Dangerous · · Score: 1

    Disabling raw sockets in non-admin processes or user space does nothing, repeat NOTHING, to prevent DDOSing and Trojans.

    It makes some things a little harder (ping of death, for example), but not impossible

  4. Re:The thing to do with Uranium on Update on Project Prometheus · · Score: 1

    Excellent! With your permission I'd like to post this @ ckaminski.com (I collect all sorts of esoteric knowledge). You can email me with proper attribution if you'd like.

    Lovely work. :-D

  5. Re:When will India/China/Brazil/Russia enter the r on Airbus A380 Completes Maiden Test Flight · · Score: 1

    I presume this is the non-commercial lines? Because cessna appears to still be making aircraft if cessna.com is anything to be believed...

  6. Re:What a surprise on Airbus A380 Completes Maiden Test Flight · · Score: 1

    I'll settle for a return to Mach 1.

  7. Re:Wite Star Airlines on Airbus A380 Completes Maiden Test Flight · · Score: 1

    There have been at least three jumbo jet water landings that I have read about over the years. All involved some loss of life, 1 involved total loss of life IIRC (flooded aircraft). Don't remember many details.

  8. Re:A380 is a gamble on Airbus A380 Completes Maiden Test Flight · · Score: 1

    No kidding, since the A380 is likely to be 100-150tons heavier than the 787 at takeoff...

  9. Re:Indeed it is on Airbus A380 Completes Maiden Test Flight · · Score: 1

    Turbofan engines were the first to achieve the 100hp/pound of engine mark, IIRC. Something that was thought to have been unachievable at one point.

    My question is this: I know turbofans function primarily on the expansion of exhaust gas. Could you make a purely electric turbofan? Say we achieved some unobtainum and could make car battery sized nuclear reactors? I'm curious... :-/ Somehow I don't think so...

  10. Re:When will India/China/Brazil/Russia enter the r on Airbus A380 Completes Maiden Test Flight · · Score: 1

    Which lawsuit is this?

    I too, have noticed similar traits over the past decade, but didn't know the driving factor.

  11. Re:When will India/China/Brazil/Russia enter the r on Airbus A380 Completes Maiden Test Flight · · Score: 1

    Insofar as fiber optics and glass blowing both involve glass and heat.

  12. Re:Cool on Airbus A380 Completes Maiden Test Flight · · Score: 1

    Thanks to it's recent acquisitions of other aerospace manufacturers, it's now #1, followed by either Lockheed, Electric Boat and Raytheon, I'd surmise.

  13. Re:Doing it right... on Microsoft to Introduce PDF competitor 'Metro' · · Score: 1

    You must be trolling... pdf, nightmare?

    Wow. Am I in the twilight zone or something? My acrobat 4.0 documents still work AS DESIGNED in Reader 7.0. Can't say that about my Word 95 documents in Word XP or Word 2003...

  14. Re:Interesting, but flawed [and flawed again] on Microsoft to Introduce PDF competitor 'Metro' · · Score: 1

    I wonder how many companies have firewalled off windowsupdate.microsoft.com to prevent XPSP2 updates?

  15. Re:The thing to do with Uranium on Update on Project Prometheus · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the link. I'd sure like to know what you did differently, because I never found it. :-D

  16. Re:Gotta document that code... on Comments are More Important than Code · · Score: 1

    Someone here on slashdot once posted:

    There's never enough time to do the job right in the first place, but there's always enough time to come back and do it right the second time. Which means there's always enough time to do the job right in the first place.

    He said it much better, and it's now a wall plaque hanging on my office wall.

  17. Re:The thing to do with Uranium on Update on Project Prometheus · · Score: 1

    Sorry that came off antagonistic... I typed faster than I thought.

    But still, where in those two links does it mention Uranium being the 8th most common metal? Other than being more plentiful than gold and silver.

    The only table *I* came across that purports to list this data http://gpc.edu/~pgore/Earth&Space/minerals-notes.h tml
    via google (most common elements in earth's crust) (no parens in search) doesn't list uranium at all.

    In fact, based on the process of nuclear fusion, I call bunk. Elements lighter than Iron will be much more plentiful than the higher elements simply because everything degrades to Iron.

    So I say: Prove your claim with a link. Price of a material has absolutely nothing to do with its abundance in nature. Witness diamonds. Nuff said.

  18. Re:WHERE THE HELL IS BOOK?! on Serenity Trailer Finally Released · · Score: 1

    I was under the impression they got the all of the major cast members back for the movie?

  19. Re:Uh ... on 64-Bit Windows Releases Now Available · · Score: 1

    When most computers run 64 bit CPU's, THEN you'll see Windows on the retail shelves. Or when they move to a DVD unified install that detects the proper version to install, Xp64 home, or xp32 home.

    Until then, to keep grandma from installing XP64 on her Pentium III/Celeron, no buying Xp64 in stores...

  20. Re:Again, the keywords are: IN ONE BLOCK on 64-Bit Windows Releases Now Available · · Score: 1

    Now throw in 100 layers and various effects. You could have 100 different copies of those billion pixels.

    I deal with small 8x10 printed materials at 300 dpi, and I routinely approach 1GB in memory from using layers and various other effects in Photoshop.

  21. Re:The thing to do with Uranium on Update on Project Prometheus · · Score: 1

    Which has fuck-all to do with whether Uranium is the 8th most plentiful metal on earth?

  22. Re:The thing to do with Uranium on Update on Project Prometheus · · Score: 1

    Care to post that paper?

  23. Re:This is not un-typical for Gummint projects on Update on Project Prometheus · · Score: 1

    How does one get this mysterious DVD?

  24. Re:Ummm... on Opera CEO Prepares to Swim across the Atlantic · · Score: 1

    Man cannot swim that long. Just sleeping proves to be nearly impossible without a semi-stable platform to rest in. Nobody bitches about the people who row across the ocean getting a boost from the gulf stream, why should they bitch about a guy who swims 4-8 hours a day, and rests and carries his food in a rowboat with a partner for safety?

    I'd argue the swimmer is indeed doing a hell of a lot more work than the rower. I know I can't swim at a decent speed for more than an hour at a time, but I could row almost all day if I had to.

    Otherwise, you're mostly correct. :-D

  25. Re:Something tells me.. on Opera CEO Prepares to Swim across the Atlantic · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If he swam 6-8 hours a day, and the rest of the day slept and rowed across the Atlantic, I personally would consider his bet fulfilled. Man's got to sleep sometime, and the Gulf Stream is going to lose him every mile he fights for.

    Hell, if he started from Cape Cod, he could FLOAT across in a couple months given enough food and hot water.