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  1. Re:Its China. on Turning Chinese Piracy Into Revenue · · Score: 1

    why worry about the person uninterested in paying anything? If you are going to worry on Microsoft's behalf, be thankful for the billions Microsoft has and will continue to get from the majority of companies who want paid support and a corporate neck to choke when things go wrong, rather than squeezing the last $80 from a starving student.

  2. Re:Its China. on Turning Chinese Piracy Into Revenue · · Score: 3, Insightful

    we're not talking of stealing, merely making copies of information. That's "copyright infringement", if you happen to live in a place that believes in it. Historically, the notion would be considered absurd until very recently in history.

  3. Re:Its China. on Turning Chinese Piracy Into Revenue · · Score: 1

    they would charge for maintenance and support. that is why companies pay microsoft now.

  4. Re:Gibson Forums on Environmental Enforcement Agents Targeting Guitars · · Score: 1

    come on, I've seen affidavit that says there are millions of infringing lines of SCO owned code in Linux.

  5. word of a jackbooted feltch wad on Environmental Enforcement Agents Targeting Guitars · · Score: 1

    And we're supposed to believe this, and say it's ok for the goverment to embark on a program of harassing and destroying a domestic business without a trial, without proof, because of words some gun toting fishy birds and the bees police? How about this alternative explanation, the government is in the hands of elite with our lawmakers in their pockets, and to create and help certain global markets certain U.S. ones have been targeted for destruction over the past four decades?

  6. Re:Absolutely was a hurricane... on When Did Irene Stop Being a Hurricane? · · Score: 1

    nope, when the hurricane force winds are over water, we call those "fish storms" and don't give a shit

  7. Re:not satisfied with black holing one planet on Developing Nuclear Power Plant Tech For the Moon and Mars · · Score: 1

    Interesting stuff, it supposedly boosts the immune system (mainly by making white blood cells and platlets) after damage by gamma rays. However, won't help a person receiving hundreds or thousands of whole body REM exposure, as too many cell deaths make entire systems fail. Old joke at the nuke plant, if you're going to get a thousand REM go for ten thousand because nervous system shuts down and you won't suffer.

  8. Re:simulating zero gravity on Ugandan Seeks To Build Backyard Space Shuttle · · Score: 1

    sure, they can do all that...and make a wonderful rocket that goes to a few miles altitude. It takes the resources of a nation or billionaire or equivalent corporate wealth to go beyond that.

  9. Re:have basic calculus and vectors? on Ask Slashdot: Math Curriculum To Understand General Relativity? · · Score: 1

    "just the math"? that's 99% of physics, making useful (even if not absolutely true) mathematical models of reality that are "good enough"

  10. Re:...or that hate default ports... on New Worm Morto Using RDP To Infect Windows PCs · · Score: 1

    false, a SYN or FIN scan done slowly will successfully probe almost 100% of firewalls out there. my employer often does that as part of work for clients in security assessment.

  11. Re:not satisfied with black holing one planet on Developing Nuclear Power Plant Tech For the Moon and Mars · · Score: 1

    you're silly, a reactor could melt into slag on the moon and it would make no difference, the rad levels on the moon can reach tens of severts. That's thousands of REM for us old-schoolers, lethal dose. same as standing on refueling deck of a running reactor, you'd be dead in minutes

  12. Re:Nuclear on the moon? on Developing Nuclear Power Plant Tech For the Moon and Mars · · Score: 1

    there is a "dark side", and it's everywhere......you do realize that the length of the average "day" and "night" on the moon is two weeks? the batteries needed will be bigger than a nice little nuclear reactor

  13. Re:When Mandriva was Mandrake... on Mandriva 2011 Out · · Score: 1

    Unity: the touch interface no one would with a seven foot pole.

    Stosh the 3.5 meter Pole: "I no toucha dat junity jakksy"

  14. Re:...or that hate default ports... on New Worm Morto Using RDP To Infect Windows PCs · · Score: 1

    so what, the firewall is port scanned and the party starts from there.

  15. Re:Dates get confusing on Ask Slashdot: Could We Deal With the End of Time Zones? · · Score: 1

    that's silly, when sun goes down has absolutely nothing to do with man's declared times or dates.

    meanwhile, our stupid time zone system has political rather than logical boundaries, and moreover has the idiocy known as "daylight saving time" which doesn't save energy and is proven to cause increase in deaths.

  16. Re:have basic calculus and vectors? on Ask Slashdot: Math Curriculum To Understand General Relativity? · · Score: 3, Informative

    hey, that mit web directory of Dr, Edmund Bertschinger's has a series of nice papers for getting into GR in that directory, all in order for you

  17. have basic calculus and vectors? on Ask Slashdot: Math Curriculum To Understand General Relativity? · · Score: 4, Informative

    start with this pdf and then slog through the wikipedia articles on GR http://web.mit.edu/edbert/GR/gr1.pdf

  18. Re:Require a VPN connection on New Worm Morto Using RDP To Infect Windows PCs · · Score: 1

    what if admin dumb enough to choose 1234546 also gives everyone and their aunt tilly the certificates and keyfile for the vpn by plain email?

  19. Re:PC is dead on New Worm Morto Using RDP To Infect Windows PCs · · Score: 1

    exactly the opposite, admins with a PC desktop mentality too clumsy and vulnerable to be useful to the enterprise. The root cause of this infection would make any OS vulnerable, from mainframe z to openbsd server

  20. Re:...or that hate default ports... on New Worm Morto Using RDP To Infect Windows PCs · · Score: 1

    nonsense, RDP (and most other tcp services) can be quickly scanned and identified on ANY port

  21. Re:Leads to some interesting questions, then. on LHC Data Continues To Disagree With Supersymmetry · · Score: 1

    you do realize the many supersymmetric models aren't necessary for the Standard Model? this result proves nothing about anything but that a particular subset of ss is not born out by experiment

  22. not Higgs Boson related on LHC Data Continues To Disagree With Supersymmetry · · Score: 1

    The Higgs is part of the standard model, while various supersymmetry models exist. This is not a blow to any mainstream model

  23. mostly no rethinking on LHC Data Continues To Disagree With Supersymmetry · · Score: 1

    There are a few supersymmetry models, many pop up in string theory. No rethinking of mainstream theories necessary from these results.

  24. Re:Been done again and again over the decades on Theoretical Shoe Inserts Could Power Your Gadgets · · Score: 1

    I did read the article, sorry but there is no such level of waste heat in human motor actions. normal human does not have that kind of effort to spare. athletic work out, sure, have at it.

  25. Re:simulating zero gravity on Ugandan Seeks To Build Backyard Space Shuttle · · Score: 1

    the temperature rise of the fan air is typically 80 to 100 degrees, hot enough to cook your meat. these africans scare me with their talk of "throwing in a guy", and they are NOT going to be able to make anything with the precision needed to reach space. will not have the aerodymanics to not be ripped apart, will not have precise dynamic control of engine thrust direction, or even control of center-of-mass. different league than model rocketry! heck even a medium range missile is an extraordinarily demanding scientific and engineering achievement.