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  1. Holy Crap ... on MIT Fashion Show Online · · Score: 0, Troll

    they have managed to make fashion boring as fuck.

  2. What is Human anyway ... on The President, The State of the Union, and Genetics · · Score: 3, Insightful
    His statment suggest that science can clearly delinate between human and non-human DNA. For example suppose I want to use AGTTCCCAGGTTC from a human and stick it in a silkworm to make fake hair for a wig. Suppose that same DNA set is found in monkey's too. Is it a human/silkworm hybrid or a monkey/silkworm hybrid?

    Where human begins and ends is a fairly small subset of the genes which many animals share.

    this was just a silly example please don't parse the technical issues ... I put as much thought into this as Bush ... well maybe a little more.

  3. Re:Requires User to Authenticat on Ancient Flaws May Leave Mac OS X Vulnerable · · Score: 1

    thanks. you are the first. I could have gone with Gan ni niang but that would have just been over the top. I have been studying chinese for about a year and half. Still the only things that come to mind are just swearing. A sushi rest owner asked me if I had learned any new chinese. I said yes, "zuo tian wo cao le ni tai tai" he didn't realize I was joking at first. His jaw nearly hit the floor. He said that was the worst thing I could say and I should not say that to anyone.

  4. Re:Not very secure to tell all of us... on Ancient Flaws May Leave Mac OS X Vulnerable · · Score: 1

    Granted this is goof. But how do you decide on only three numbers to test out of 10^12 number of digits? Your formula wouldn't work. The answer would have the form 2^x-1 but there would be no way to narrow the search beyond selecting all numbers that are a trillion digits long which are solved by 2^x-1 and factoring. I have a number on my computer that is of that size. It is a 45 MB text file with nothing but digits.

  5. Re:Requires User to Authenticat on Ancient Flaws May Leave Mac OS X Vulnerable · · Score: 1

    If I could come up with a fast factor ... I would ... UH... hold the world banking system hostage for $1,000,000 (ONE MILLION DOLLARS). To be transfered to a Nigeran Bank Account held by General Ndugu AKA me.

  6. Re:Requires User to Authenticat on Ancient Flaws May Leave Mac OS X Vulnerable · · Score: 1

    Sorry ... It was a goof. Even if my admin key was that prime good luck at cracking it. Your desktop would take longer than a lifetime to factor possible candidates. I did try and factor a guess at a number that large. It was a palindrome of the largest prime found with a 0 inserted in the center to ensure odd length. After a month I installed something on my computer that required a restart -- I gave up. I still have the number if you want it. I think it is around 45MB. I could email it if you like. Could be worth a 100 grand; probably not though.

  7. Re:Requires User to Authenticat on Ancient Flaws May Leave Mac OS X Vulnerable · · Score: 4, Funny

    LOL. I had to run and find an extinguisher to quence that BURN.

  8. Requires User to Authenticat on Ancient Flaws May Leave Mac OS X Vulnerable · · Score: 5, Funny

    Considering the user must be priviliged is it safe to say that the user has already authenticated and in the system. I always use passwords like "asldkfje983r0u!56@#987$%^rnYA(*U()*U&0u" for standard users. If they can crack that they deserve to gain admin rights too. You should see my admin key: it is a 10^12 digit mersenne prime.

  9. Re:Compare on Google Agrees to Censor Results in China · · Score: 1

    I noticed that an article relating to the massacre was censored, however the cached version was not.

  10. Re:??? Explain to me please on Cringely on Domestic Eavesdropping · · Score: 1

    The breakin was very clear; better than the sprint pin-drop thing. The woman demanded that we cease our converstation and was pretty stern about it. She was an American and not Austrian. I don't know for a fact that it was the NSA, however the call was monitored by some third party. From the tone the woman took with us, I could only assume it was a government agency. I was only reporting what happened and my opinion as to who broke into my call. If you want to call it cross-talk that is your perogative. From my first-hand experience calls are monitored -- this is not paranoia -- I spoke to the agent.

  11. Re:I have had NSA break in on my calls on Cringely on Domestic Eavesdropping · · Score: 1

    I owned the company and therefore know that it was not monitoring phone calls. Duh!

  12. I have had NSA break in on my calls on Cringely on Domestic Eavesdropping · · Score: 2, Interesting
    It is no surprise to me that NSA is spying on americans. It has been going on for a long time. A co-worker's brother was living in vienna and he would often call to speak to him at work. sometimes I would talk to him. He knew I liked cuban cigars so we made an arrangement where he would send me cigars and I would credit his amex card ... with extra for his trouble. He was a little paranoid about discussing the import of contraband so we spoke in double entendre. This caught the attention of someone, I assume NSA, and a girl broke into our phone conversation and demanded that we cease our conversation. Thankfully they didn't stop the importation of my cuban cigar supply. But they do listen. This occured years before 9/11.

    sorry for the poor spelling/grammer ... I'm a little hung over.

  13. In Soviet Russia ... on Digital Music Sales Skyrocket in 2005 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    RIAA legally swaps you.

  14. Re:Wow. on Scientists Spot Rare 'In Between' Black Hole · · Score: 4, Informative

    I have had a martini made with Old Raj so bare with me and my grammer, please. A black hole is an object whose mass vs radius is smaller than the shwartz (somehting or another) radius, meaning that a black hole need not be made of a lot of material. You could theoretically make a black hole with only a few atoms, provided their shwartz(and some stuff) raduis was suffiecently small. The shwartz* radius is related to the inverse square law of gravity. In otherwords blackholes need not be menacing and made of a lot of matter. One of the accelerators someplace was making very small blackholes to study them. Their gravity wasn't particularly scary, they just had a radius small enough that light could not escape the miniscule gravitational feild. This concludes your episode of poor spelling and grammar, thanks for reading.

  15. and on that note ... on Your Cell Records For Sale Online, Cheap · · Score: 1

    I'm immediately going to purchase Paris Hilton's phone records ... be back soon ... got stuff to do now.

  16. Re:Really on Behind a Steve Jobs Keynote · · Score: 1
    Are you new to /. or have been reading it lately? Though a similar posting was made a day or so ago ... you should be aware of some of the basic rules.

    1) Microsoft Sucks ass -- everything and anything is better.
    2) *ix is the bomb, not matter what flavor. Especially when used in Beowulf clusters.
    3) Everyone wants Linux to have the polish of the OS X interface.
    4) We like Apple and Google is godlike.
    5) In Soviet Russia things are in reverse.

  17. Ron Popeil is to Ronco ... on Behind a Steve Jobs Keynote · · Score: 1

    as Steve is to Apple. They have similar pitches ... and, you just can't stop watching. Both focus on simplicity ... Just set and forget it ... Only six buttons. To match the same functionality with a Dell, feature for feature, you would have to spend a fazillion dollars. But, with a Mac you get all of this, and more. You get iLife with Garage Band, iPhoto, iTunes, and iMovie -- in HD. It only costs $1299 ... and, its available right now!

  18. Re:Those pesky kanji... on Journey Towards The Center of the Earth · · Score: 1

    in Mandarin the first character is pronounced "di4." Same meaning earth/ground/land. The second is pronounced "qiu2" and stands for sphere or ball/sphere, like you said.

  19. Re:Another Glomar Explorer? on Journey Towards The Center of the Earth · · Score: 1

    LOL. They probably found an alien spaceship buried or something and want to raise it. Probably is a cover for something else.

  20. Re:Detecting quakes? What about causing them? on Journey Towards The Center of the Earth · · Score: 1
    The magnetic pole has been moving these days. maybe they are trying to get a measure of the rotation of the earth's interior. Allthough I don't know why this couldn't be related to the change in magnetic feild.

    the field shift is kind interesting considering it is accelerating. And acceleration can't occur without an outside force acting on it.

  21. Re:That drill bit better ... on Journey Towards The Center of the Earth · · Score: 1

    My bad. I'm sure the enegineers or at least the bond company stooge has this all worked out. Well maybe not the stooge.

  22. Re:Detecting quakes? What about causing them? on Journey Towards The Center of the Earth · · Score: 1
    LOL. Lets see, physics .... yeah sum of the forces thing. Potential energy due to gravity = mgh.

    weight of ocean + weight of crust + weight of atmosphere = Normal force on mantle from magma = Holy shit it is gonna blow!

    Japanese create new island due to man-made volcano. Boat and crew enjoying their new view from orbit.

  23. I'm glad ... on Journey Towards The Center of the Earth · · Score: 2, Funny

    That the japanese have decided to put team Zissuo on this. The Belefonte was the perfect choice for a drilling platform. Hopefully no harm will come to the recon dolphins.

  24. That drill bit better ... on Journey Towards The Center of the Earth · · Score: 1
    be made from unobtainium like that movie, what was it called, "restart the core spinning." No that wasn't it. Fuck. Oh yeah, "Core" that's it. right?

    BTW once that bit hits magma that is spining at a different rate from the platform, it will shear.

  25. Soviet's Know that it is .... on Algorithms Determine Mona Lisa's True Emotions · · Score: 1

    just a gender-bending self portrait.