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  1. Re:Elsewhere in the news: on 19 million Amps · · Score: 2, Funny

    LOL, tested and tried many times before, but you are the first one to decribe in details what really happens at such a moment.

    Time for a noble price nomination I would say.

  2. The big question is on 19 million Amps · · Score: 0

    Does it hurt when you hold the other end of the tuna can shaped wire?

    Ok, last night Braniac rerun had an electric fence test, you have got to get your inspiration from somewhere :-(

  3. Re:From the article: on An Inside Look at eBay Security · · Score: 1

    You are correct, however they do educate their users a bit though.

  4. Re:From the article: on An Inside Look at eBay Security · · Score: 1

    That is why I mentioned: A browser with some anti-phishing technique in it, not a name of a browser. For myself, kmail is anti-phishing enough, sometimes I do not even understand the problem with the phishing mail since it just does not work (wrong e-mail layout) to even get the idea of phishing acros. Anyway, they do educate their users as they mention, and also learn from their users, so they at least do something to stop it. 1/100th of 1% for fraud is not bad, certainly not by something so "vague" as an online marketplace.

  5. Re:The death of land lines? on 125-Mile WiFi Connection · · Score: 1

    It requires some timing, but in theory it should work (-:

  6. From the article: on An Inside Look at eBay Security · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There's been numerous stories about the security aspects of browsers. Would you recommend Internet Explorer or other browsers such as Firefox and Opera for eBay members?
    MacGibbon: eBay does not endorse any particular browser.

    Is Linux really more secure than Windows?
    MacGibbon: eBay does not endorse any particular platform.

    Then he really will not be able to get sleep, promoting a browser with some anti phishing techniques in it would help his job, and people listen to him based on his role.

    On the other hand, I understand his reasoning behind the remarks: If you promote something, and it still goes wrong, people will try to blame it on you.

  7. Re:The death of land lines? on 125-Mile WiFi Connection · · Score: 1

    This is not going to work, it is a directed signal, not omnidirectional, so you could provide any single point with a line of sight with a connection, but not all points at once.

  8. Now try it with wimax on 125-Mile WiFi Connection · · Score: 1

    Are there any hacks yet for wimax, that should even be better.

  9. Re:Damn Microsoft! on Mac OS X Intel Kernel Uses DRM · · Score: 1

    Then again, I do not need shiny great looking hardware, I just need a good OS to run on my blend as cheap as possible it is fast enough anyway hardware. If they just release OS X for the generic hardware, maybe with a limitted driver set so they do not have that pitfall, I am willing to try it out. I think that goes for a lot of people.

  10. Re:Our bodies, our signal on Wireless Hijacker Dealt First UK Punishment · · Score: 1

    I thought the question of being able to feel radio waves was still not answered?

  11. Re:Thankfully we're not as unlucky in the EU. on Why Bill Gates Wants 3,000 New Patents · · Score: 1

    Europe virtually has no "inventing" software industry (Only SAP & MySQL come to my mind). There is hardware reasearch & development (Philips, Siemens, some military). I hope the politicians keep that in mind with the next lobby attempt, because patents could kill of the small companies who are trying to be inventive here.

    Thanx for the clarification though, the press in the Netherlands pretty much mixed them up, so I got my info the wrong way around.

  12. Re:Screwed both ways on Opera to Stop Spoofing User Agent as IE · · Score: 1

    Yes, just a stupid test without any base for it. I see that more often. Sometimes they listen to remove it, and just accept the displaying problems (if any!!), and sometimes they even update their site (even when they respond with: We only support IE, but still they do something). I think there should be some addition to the disability law saying that browserchecks should be forbidden. You can not expect everything to work in all browsers I guess since there are some basic browsers which make such an expectation impossible (think lynx).

  13. Re:Misleading Summary on Software Agents Can Help Time-Stressed Teams · · Score: 1

    I don't know if that is better or worse. Anyway: Clearly a place for improvement with increasing airtraffic

  14. Re:Misleading Summary on Software Agents Can Help Time-Stressed Teams · · Score: 1

    Weird enough that is news.
    If you go into an airtraffic control centre, and see how they pass information, little strips of paper attached to wooden blocks, or rudimentary digital systems, progress in this area is needed very much.

  15. Re:Thankfully we're not as unlucky in the EU. on Why Bill Gates Wants 3,000 New Patents · · Score: 1

    And it bounced since the patents had to be done in only one language (english) and the french wanted them in french too. Somehow I think there will be a retry of a new proposal anyway.

  16. Re:Screwed both ways on Opera to Stop Spoofing User Agent as IE · · Score: 1

    Try this one with mozilla: http://www.casinocity.nl/ (casino site, you have to be 18+, the insurance company I used to use as an bad example fixed their site)

    Anyway, that kind of stupid test is why the pretending to be IE is there. When they just redirect, you do not know if it is acting correct or not.

    Anyway: Trying to convince companies & developers to develop good compatible sites is always good!

  17. Thankfully we're not as unlucky in the EU. on Why Bill Gates Wants 3,000 New Patents · · Score: 1

    Yet...

  18. I think the walloutlet is nice on Mac mini Built Into Wall · · Score: 1

    Ethernet, usb, firewire & vga. The ethernet I do not understand though, wireless would have saved the ethernet link.

  19. I would like to place a bid on that on Governmental Servers Wiped? Never! · · Score: 1

    $14 for an AIX server, shipping and handling costs more, carrying them to the trashbin costs more. This is really a good deal, even for really old machines.

    Anyway, if you do not want anybody to get the data, format the disks, low level if possible, remove the disks, open them up and use sanding paper on the platters before destroying them by bending or cutting them in two. Should do the trick.

  20. Pretty useless petition on Shareholders Squeeze Cisco on Human Rights · · Score: 0

    Did the people writing the petition not follow the latest news??? Cisco is using even in the US every means possible to deny people rights, see http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/07/29/185 0234&tid=99&tid=172&tid=123&tid=218

    Somebody finds something bad about your product, and you sue him, try to stop him from talking?
    Ok, maybe Lynn did not use the handiest way to present it, but still, I think it is just freedom of speech.
    If this would have been about a building where you work or live in, and the builder keeps information under wraps about a possible danger (think for example asbestos), the builder gets sued and convicted in the end. The whistle blower will be heralded (Ok, recognized at least).

    And they expect this company to respect human rights? Good joke, they will open a lab in China and help them, that is closer to the possibilities.

  21. Re:Apparently not... on U.S. Moves to Kill Leap Seconds · · Score: 1

    Well, clocktime synchronized for to be seen by humans, and the leap second is for humans so that we do not wake up 1 hour earlier over 600 years than what we do now.

    The time system for synchonization in GPS systems can be seen independent of this, however I think that the fractions of seconds they think to need to talk about are ridiculously small. 10e-12 difference from geostationary orbit (for GPS) for an airplane moving at 900km per hour is 9*10e-7 (estimate) meters deviation between two GPS readings. Considering the current GPS resolution of 10 meters (consumer equipment with multiple readings in a moving vehicle), I consider the clock problem as not really important.

  22. Re:Apparently not... on U.S. Moves to Kill Leap Seconds · · Score: 1, Redundant

    You do not even have to add seconds, just stretch the last few seconds on those computers. That is done all the time by programs as ntp, and it affects nobody. That in reality there has been a leap second, and the real clock has a slight programming problem, is not a big deal to anybody. That clock is an independent object which does not control any other real objects (except ntp, which will just ignore second 61 as an error, and wait for a correct time to come by, which will come a few seconds later).

    The US is looking for problems where there are none.

  23. Hire me on Google and Yahoo Creating Brain Drain? · · Score: 0

    I still have a brain

  24. Strangely reflectant surface??? on Planet X Larger Than Pluto? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Discovered by an amateur, not seen before with all hightech equipment, strangely reflectant surface almost rendering it invisible?? Round (asuming it is a ballshaped object): It is a super borg sphere!! Run to the closet and get your bathlets! They can not fight against that!

    Ok, the other possibility: Independence day...

    And the last option: It is a cloacked deathstar!

  25. Re:Review of the review on IE7 Bugs and Reviews · · Score: 1

    So even that is copied. Then there is really no news left.