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  1. Re:Their reputation preceeds them on D-Link Settles Danish Time Dispute · · Score: 1

    Did you check what time server it is using? Firmware updates to fix this problem are on the DLink website.

  2. Re:MOD PARENT DOWN! on Sun Says Java Source Already Available · · Score: 1

    2) SWT should be included in JDK, thus polluting the standard. The standard got polluted with the muddled mess between AWT and Swing long ago. Throwing SWT in won't make it any worse. For all its strengths, nobody can say Java has a clean graphics library model.

  3. Re:Oversight Agency? on ICANN Finally Rejects .xxx Domain · · Score: 1

    About ICANN

    ICANN is an internationally organised, non-profit corporation that has responsibility for Internet Protocol (IP) address space allocation, protocol identifier assignment, generic (gTLD) and country code (ccTLD) Top-Level Domain name system management, and root server system management functions. As a private-public partnership, ICANN is dedicated to preserving the operational stability of the Internet; to promoting competition; to achieving broad representation of global Internet communities; and to developing policy appropriate to its mission through bottom-up, consensus-based processes.

    For some reason they don't mention the secret, backroom deals.

  4. Re:Multiple-processes: micro vs monolithic on Torvalds on the Microkernel Debate · · Score: 5, Funny

    I see you are also a fan of monolithic posts.

    This micro-post shows a division into seperable units.

    Using message passing, I can efficiently communicate this to you.

    Note that other readers may be reading different sections of my post while you read this one.

    This section of my post never has to access internal structures of the other sections. In fact, I could have written each section in any order. Feel free to reorder them yourself.

  5. Re:Just leave it alone on Mapping a Path For the 3D Web · · Score: 1

    The first thing I though of when I read the article is why did these people travel to Palo Alto? Why not meet in a virtual 3D space? Its like Bell sending a letter saying "Watson, come here, I want you".

  6. Re:How hard... on Microkernel: The Comeback? · · Score: 1

    So that if the filesystemn crashes you can keep right on, er... what now?

  7. Re:Hillary and Tipper Gore give Dems a bad name on Jack Thompson Weighs in on Oblivion · · Score: 1

    Yeah. Who would want to live in a country where politicians just do what voters tell them to? What would you call that anyway, a representative democracy? Give me oligarchy any day.

  8. Re:Hmmm.... on Web 2.0 Recipes With PHP + DHTML · · Score: 4, Funny

    Us begrizzled hippies used the tag for this stuff.

  9. Re:Please no more cartoon news on 10 Years of Neon Genesis Evangelion · · Score: 1

    "Some of the mind-bending laughter i had over my whole life were from animes."

    You've seen Excel Saga.

  10. Re:Seriously... on 10 Years of Neon Genesis Evangelion · · Score: 1

    Especially when there are no pictures of Misato.

  11. Re:No Shit, Sherlock! on Electric Car Faster Than A Ferrari or Porsche · · Score: 1

    In USA (ca. 2000):

    coal 56%
    petroleum 3%
    natural gas 10%
    nuclear 14%
    hydro 10%
    other 7%

    Hydro is unlikely to increase much, since they aren't making new rivers very quickly. Nuclear, of course, is being discussed as taking an increasing share.

  12. Re:300 miles per charge on Electric Car Faster Than A Ferrari or Porsche · · Score: 1

    If your relatives live too far away the car needs to be able to fly, too. Seriously, you take flying and renting a car for granted, why not just rent a different car when you go on a long trip?

  13. Re:Interesting, but not new on Electric Car Faster Than A Ferrari or Porsche · · Score: 2, Funny

    "infrastructure still sucks"

    Are you kidding? All you need is an office by a window and a long extension cord. Just like free gas!

  14. Re:Selling private information? on PIs Selling Phone Records Sued By The FTC · · Score: 1
    Interesting - I tried this just now online.
    • Experian provided all the information with minimal confirmation of who I was.
    • Equifax refused to provide the information online and wanted me to fill out a form and mail it to them.
    • Transunion wanted me to enter the account numbers for some expired credit cards in order to authenticate me. Evidently their info is outdated.
  15. Re:Kill the spammers on Spam War Takes Out Blog Services · · Score: 1

    Suppose it takes one second for every spam email that you delete. There are 2.2 billion seconds in 70 years. That's how many spam emails it takes to use up one average human life. Personally, every second I spend deleting spam is a second stolen from my life.

  16. Re:Net Neutrality Legislation on The Future of the Internet · · Score: 1

    Markey's amendment was voted down last week in committee. I submitted the story then, but...

  17. This arguement... on FOSS Is Not Free if It's Not Free From Complexity · · Score: 1

    ...seems misspelled.

  18. Re:not only the web on More Than 20 Years of the Web on the Big Screen · · Score: 1

    At least that scene showed actual software used correctly.

  19. Next step in preventing piracy on Faking a Company · · Score: 2, Funny

    Use javascript to prevent copy/pasting your article to /.

  20. The only perfect firewall on Vista Firewall to be Crippled · · Score: 1

    tool for perfect firewall

    Now if there was only a firewall plugin to block outbound apostrophes in "it's".

  21. How many lookups to get to the center? on Perils of DNS at RIPE-52 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    To look up www.futurequest.net (for example) requires:

    Ask one of the 13 root servers who is nameserver for .net
    Get back (A-M).GTLD-SERVERS.NET, they thoughtfully include IPs
    Now ask a GTLD who has futurequest.net
    Get back (ns1-ns3).futurequest.net, includes IPs
    Now ask ns1 who www is
    It provides IP for www is 69.5.6.116

    So I guess there were 30 IP addresses involved, but I don't see the arcane resolution problems that this paper talked about. Maybe .edu domains are a little more haphazard?

  22. Re:Best Buy Experience on Computer Buying Experiences at B&M Stores · · Score: 1

    Manager of the store where my son works complained to him that he wasn't selling enough Warranties. Its pure profit, and yes, he has since sold many.

  23. Re:Understandable on The Continuing American Decline in CS · · Score: 1
  24. Re:Not really security on N.Y. County Mandates Wireless Security · · Score: 2, Funny

    I just changed my SSID to "MBNA_Client_Accounts". Now my wireless domain is safer from hackers!

  25. Re:'Intellectual property' concept is going too fa on Google Violates Miro's Copyright? · · Score: 4, Funny

    To whom it may concern,

    Your use of colored rectanglular windows violates the copyrights of the Mondrian estate. Please refrain from any use of colored rectangles on your site in the future. If you wish to consider licensing the use of these images, the per-rectangle license is quite reasonable. Please contact us at the address listed.

    Thank you