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  1. Re:Not just Gentoo. on SquirrelMail Repository Poisoned · · Score: 1

    rpm --checksig <package_file>

                        This checks the PGP signature of package to
                        ensure its integrity and origin.
  2. Re:natural language is an oxymoron on The Future of Google Search and Natural Language Queries · · Score: 2, Funny

    You: What larks, eh, Pip?
    Dishwasher: CHANGE TO MODE POTS_AND_PANS
    You: I ent dun nuffink!
    Dishwasher: CANCEL RINSE CYCLE

  3. Re:natural language is an oxymoron on The Future of Google Search and Natural Language Queries · · Score: 1

    I think your post explains the difficulties of natural language processing very well.

  4. Re:Dude, you are so ignorant on The Future of Google Search and Natural Language Queries · · Score: 1

    Actually, SHRDLU in 1970 was the peak. Eliza had no internal world model. SHRDLU could answer questions that started "Why did you..". It's pretty much gone downhill since then.

  5. Re:Is this ALL companies on Businesses Generally Ignoring E-Discovery Rules · · Score: 1

    The problem is that the law also applies to anyone who might be sued, which is everybody. A shareholder sues you because their stock lost $1 based on some bad decision that you made (like buying an email backup system). When their lawyer asks you for the data that you have already wiped, it's too late to say "I didn't think that anyone would ask about that."

  6. Re:I'm more interested in AoE on Intel Announces Open Fibre Channel Over Ethernet · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How is ATA over ethernet offtopic in a discussion about a way of migrating SAN technology to ethernet?

    ATA, SATA and SAS all have severe connectivity limits. They don't have a way of addressing a large number of devices, running long distances or supporting multiple initiators. While they might be fine for your home they are worthless for the SAN/LAN environment where fibre channel and FCoE are targeted.
  7. Re:who paid for this ad? on Intel Announces Open Fibre Channel Over Ethernet · · Score: 1

    Is somebody running SAS more than 8 meters?

  8. Re:Speed? on Intel Announces Open Fibre Channel Over Ethernet · · Score: 3, Informative

    Umm. The paper says that the test load was sequential reads entirely cached in memory, so not exactly an unbiased test.

  9. Re:Speed? on Intel Announces Open Fibre Channel Over Ethernet · · Score: 1

    No big company wants to maintain two separate optical fiber networks, so you either get ethernet or fibre channel for your long runs. Since it's inception, you have been able to run ethernet over fibre channel, but almost nobody uses expensive (FC) technology when they can use cheap technology (ethernet). Alternatively, you can run iSCSI which is serial SCSI over ethernet. FCoE lets you bridge two remote fibre channel SANs or connect to remote fibre channel storage using ethernet without having to convert to iSCSI in between.

  10. Re:having trouble with the conversion on Light-based Quantum Circuit Does Basic Maths · · Score: 4, Funny

    -- Wanted --
    Schrödinger's Cat
      Dead or Alive

  11. Re:This is so unlike Wikipedia on Google's "Knol" Reinvents Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    Google still has to solve the central problem. More and more people are changing their search engine from google to wikipedia. Who needs to get back a page full of SEO links from google, when wikipedia has the starting point for solid information on the topic that you're interested in, and links to the best sites where more info can be found?

  12. Re:Malware and ex-emailer on The 'Malware Economy' Evolves · · Score: 1

    Lies. That was Mister E.

  13. Re:Malware and ex-emailer on The 'Malware Economy' Evolves · · Score: 3, Funny

    I dated Miss Information for a while. The problem was her sister, Miss Conduct.

  14. Re:Privacy is why I dropped Facebook. on Can Blockbuster be Sued Over Facebook/Beacon? · · Score: 1

    I believe there is work underway to advertise to you by your location, determined from your cell phone. I'm sure Verizon would sell me out in an instant if there was a buck to be made.

  15. Re:Privacy is why I dropped Facebook. on Can Blockbuster be Sued Over Facebook/Beacon? · · Score: 1

    Yes. But it isn't the stuff people put on Facebook that is being published, is it? It's messages like "Rucs_hack just rented Gigli from Blockbuster!" posted on your Facebook site. To use a typical /. (strained) metaphor, if I let you drive my car, can't I complain when you start sleeping in my house?

  16. Re:I like it on CSS Pocket Reference · · Score: 5, Funny

    "It has some typos. And unfortunately the binding broke"

    So the book is just like CSS in general.

  17. Re:They're not that stupid on US Government Caught Manipulating Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    "Nor was he convicted of sexual harassment." - Neither was Clinton, but both were accused of it by more than one person.

  18. Re:They're not that stupid on US Government Caught Manipulating Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    I don't think rape was ever charged, just sexual harassment. Something called "eschewal" according to Wikipedia, tho I don't know what that means.

    There's no question that in the business world, sexual harassment of an employee will get you fired. I've seen it happen. The US Government seems to lack a good HR Department. Based on your strong beliefs I'm sure you would agree that Clarence Thomas should not be serving on the Supreme Court, right?

  19. Re:They're not that stupid on US Government Caught Manipulating Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    I know "US Government Caught Manipulating Wikipedia" is a cool title, but seriously, does anyone think the US government, the CIA or the Vatican would be stupid enough to get caught if they actually wanted to influence a wikipedia article?

    No. But the CIA might do the edit from a House of Reps IP address.
  20. Re:I live in the UK on UPS Using Software To Eliminate Left Turns · · Score: 1

    In Massachusetts, the road system was originally laid out by cows, as is evidenced by the number of intersections where three roads come together in a triangle. The three roads may be either "delta" or "wye" connected. The rules for right-of-way at a triangle are incompletely specified in drivers manuals that I've seen.

  21. Re:I live in the UK on UPS Using Software To Eliminate Left Turns · · Score: 1

    Of course. There are 60,000,000 people in the UK.

  22. Re:missing matter != dark matter? on Computer Model Points To the Missing Matter · · Score: 2, Funny

    I explained to my bank that my computer model showed 40% more money in my account than they listed. For some reason they refused to listen to me.

  23. Re:And there is still the unsolved issue of... on Former Anti-Nuclear Activist Does A 180 · · Score: 1

    You make it sound like the plant created all of the waste out of nothing. In fact, uranium ore is dug up out of the ground. So take the spent fuel, dilute it to a level less than the original ore, and bury it in the same place you got it from. Since you have used some of the energy for power, you end up with less net radioactivity. This would be far cheaper than building the high-level containment systems and a lot less dangerous. The reason that they don't do this is more legal than technological.

  24. Re:surprise on Corporations Face Problems with Employee Emails · · Score: 1

    Suppose a typical situation comes up at work, you want to fire seven US Attorneys for example. Easy solution - don't discuss it on the work email! That should be obvious. Just use a separate external email address that is on a server where you can easily delete the contents. C'mon. Security 101.

  25. Re:Something to note about other people's opinions on Are You Proud of Your Code? · · Score: 1

    You forget Err(), the routine that traps all error conditions so you only need one dialog box which says:
    "You must have done something wrong since my code is pfect".