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  1. Re:Done to death. on Best Backup Server Option For University TV Station? · · Score: 1

    Now I feel young...

  2. Sounds like a movie on How To Send Email When You're Dead · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sounds just like a movie... Strange, I have a craving for Jameson Irish Whiskey.

  3. Re:Ray's busy - cut him some slack on Court Finds Part of Copyright Act Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    In this case what you would do is contact a Pennsylvania lawyer and have him sue PSU in Pennsylvania court. That's the process. Or you could contact a local lawyer, and he would contact a Penn lawyer, etc....

  4. Re:Actually, it's a good point. on Japan's Cyborg Research Enters the Skull · · Score: 1

    Despite those chemicals, I tend to twitch: if I dream of running, my legs twitch; if I do something with my arms, my arms twitch — I start the movement, but then stop it.

    I only noticed it a few times when half asleep, but my gf says it happens quite a lot when I sleep.

    night movements in relation to your dreams can be really scary. What if you have a 'great' dream that involves her?
  5. Re:Fark the police on Software to Randomize Police Operations at LAX · · Score: 1

    Even in these cases where it's the officers that need to be randomized to prevent some corruption. You still have to tell the officer where he's going to go. Even a moment before he is to patrol an area. The officer still has time to alert the BG's and they can plan their transports around the 'random' system. Sheesh, the BG's can even have a dozen routes and use which ever one the officer is assigned to.

  6. Re:It's working so well on Software to Randomize Police Operations at LAX · · Score: 1

    Beating this system would still be easy. Just target a lower end medium value target. Then when this system tells the officers to start patrolling that target more, the patrols on the higher value target will be lighter. Thus making it easier to attack the main value target...

  7. First post on Self-Heating Coffee Hacking · · Score: -1, Troll

    Practically first post.

  8. Isn't it scary? on Forget Phishing Just Buy Personal Info · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Doesn't it scare all of you that this has been happening for so long already? I'm not saying there is much we can do about it, but it's still scary.

    Now think about the databases the FBI and the airport security are keeping about you. Not only that but also the ones K-Mart, Wal-Mart, Target, Giant(foods), and other stores. It shouldn't be too hard to be you. Just find out your address, and jump on Google maps. Find the nearest stores to you. With your name and address find out your shopping history. And expand from there.

    And you thought with all the political speech out there that you might actually be safe in the USA. I'll be happy being Anonymous, until I choose to be known.

  9. Windows and ParallelKnoppix on Harvesting & Reusing Idle Computer Cycles · · Score: 1

    I would like to see a windows based program that gave MPI-like access to idle processor cycles. This way you could boot a program like ParallelKnoppix somewhere on the network and either run C, Fortran, Lisp based computational applications. This would be very useful for most IT staff.

  10. For Some, it just isn't worth it. on Anatomy of a Hack · · Score: 5, Insightful

    For all too many business owners and managers out there it just isn't worth it for them to learn to secure computers. They have enough trouble learning and keeping up with the business they have. Normally it isn't until they are breached that they realize that security is a need.

    But that's what America is for. They need something, but don't have the time to do it. So you learn how to provide for their need, and sell it to them.

  11. In this Country, In this Era on CNN Interviews with Harlan Ellison, Bruce Sterling · · Score: 2, Insightful

    In this mostly planned economy, that too often verges on and grows ever closer to a socialism, why would the public school system teach anything about SF? They are already bogged down trying to teach multi-ethnic understanding, the extremes of bipolar(atleast politically) secularism, not equal opportunity but equal reality, social irresponsibility and trust in federal courts for all matters moral and ethical, and the many other view "new" initiatives in place today.

    Can you really blame any graduate from the US Public School System for not knowing the 4 names?

  12. Who are they on CNN Interviews with Harlan Ellison, Bruce Sterling · · Score: 1

    Would anyone be so nice as to briefly, or not, explain who these four people are? What they have done that people would recognize? etc? I surely don't recognize their name.

    Are these people worth reading about, other than the fact that they got slashdotted?

  13. Serious topic on Glass In Spaaaaace · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Only a few serious answers so far, but do you realize how important this kind of work could be? He has proven a concept. Now it is much more likely for a corperation to invest in space stations to build their products. I'm not saying it'll happen within the next year, but that is it closer. Now corperations will feel the investment is less risky with much more payoff. Can you imagine having your CPU made with the parts so much more pure then they are now? Engineers could build smaller chips because they wouldn't have to account for the impurities that naturally come in the materials.

  14. Thomas Jefferson had it right on Most Americans Want Gov't To Make Internet Safer · · Score: 1

    After all this talk about how our society doesn't want the responsibility that our freedoms require. And all this talk about how atleast a very sizable portion of our citizens want to trade their freedoms for a sense of security. Don't you think that Thomas Jefferson was right when he said that the common man should not have the right to vote. This isn't flame bait. Just stop and think for a moment. A very large and vocal portion of US citizens spoke out against the Electoral College. But can you honestly say that ALL, or even a Majority of voters actually took the time to 'get to know' the people they voted for? How many voted with 'the party' making this country even more unnecessarily polarized. How many people voted agaist a candidate? How many people voted with someone, or some group say family, relatives, friends; not as in went to the polls with them but voted the same because that's what their 'insert title here' was voting for? I'm not saying that only land owners should have the right to vote. I'm not saying that only the intellectuals should have the right to vote. I'm saying that there should be some system instituted that would better suit the needs of this country and our hard earned, and often taken for granted freedoms. He was a founding father, an intelligent man, and a man who understood how a democratic government should work. (p.s. Yes this is very similiar to another post. I posted accidentally as anonymous. I've fixed it the best that I could.)

  15. Re:Thomas Jefferson on Most Americans Want Gov't To Make Internet Safer · · Score: 1

    This was my post. If needed confirm with ip. I mistyped the password when I was sending.

  16. Re:cmp [Intel+AMD],[Microsoft+Linux] on Intel in Antitrust Trouble in Japan · · Score: 1

    No, you either format the whole hard drive and install Microsoft first then linux. Or you just save the first partition for microsoft, install linux, install microsoft. then boot up in knoppix and repair the boot sector. I have done both methods successfully on my home test networks.

  17. cmp [Intel+AMD],[Microsoft+Linux] on Intel in Antitrust Trouble in Japan · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Intel's actions would be like Microsoft selling you the install CD's which scan you computer for linux. If it finds Linux you would have to enter a 'special' serial number that would of course cost you more than the 'standard' serial you purchased with the install disks.