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  1. Re:WARNING on The Very Worst Uses of Windows · · Score: 1

    65536 actually. (aka 2^16)

    So I guess that means the Office division finally ported their code to 32-bit. Windows has been 32 bit for . . . . . how many years now? With any luck it'll be ported to 64-bit no later than 10 years after we're all using 128-bit chips!

  2. Re:Funny . . . on RIAA's SafeNet Caught In a Lie · · Score: 1

    In Illinois (the only juridiction I've ever dealt with on this) it's more than pretty much. The first-tier license is "professional engineer intern." If you can't pass the exam for that they don't give you a degree. (The test is easy enough that if you can't pass it you don't deserve to.)

  3. Re:Why not go electric at this rate of fill? on Home-Based Hydrogen Refueling Station · · Score: 1

    Better: crack natural gas for the hydrogen in something like this. (Which is MUCH more efficient than electrolysis.) When we have better, renewable ways the cars will already be in place.

    Plus, fuel cells are a hell of a lot more efficient than otto cycle engines anyway.

  4. Re:Save for the fact... on Home-Based Hydrogen Refueling Station · · Score: 1

    You already pipe methane into your house and haul around ~100kg of gasoline everywhere you go. You're worried about . . . . what exactly?

  5. Funny . . . on RIAA's SafeNet Caught In a Lie · · Score: 3, Informative

    Those other professionals they're comparing themselves to need licenses to testify as expert witnesses. Engineers specifically need the second-tier "professional engineer" license.

  6. Re:Why a Windows PC? on What Happens When You Reply To ALL of Your Spam · · Score: 1

    The point of the excercise was to see how fucked-over you could get if you went out of your way to do so. Why not?

  7. Re:Workaround... on Encrypted Traffic No Longer Safe From Throttling · · Score: 1

    (Yes, I do remember the minimum size of a TCP packet. At least now. In the future. So, no then.)

  8. Re:Workaround... on Encrypted Traffic No Longer Safe From Throttling · · Score: 1

    Your router (or TCP stack) would get richly hammered if you tried to do any high-volume traffic, as would your destination and everything in between. Other than that, as long as all your packets were >= 73 bytes, it would work.

  9. Re:ECHELON/Warrantless Wiretapping on Senate Hearing On Laptop Seizures At US Border · · Score: 1

    You know about SSL right? Unless the feds are smarter than even the nuttiest nut could ever dare believe "Echelon" is hardly foolproof.

  10. Re:what if... on Senate Hearing On Laptop Seizures At US Border · · Score: 1

    Probably the same law that lets them take your laptop without warrant or probable cause and then mail it back with no hard drive six months later. Just a guess . . . .

  11. Re:Can we be a little more inclusive? on Senate Hearing On Laptop Seizures At US Border · · Score: 0

    That's something an idiot would say. If someone wants to get data into the US they could use, I don't know, the World Wide Tubes to do it. Searching laptops is already beyond pointless.

  12. Re:There is more on Denon's $499 Ethernet Cable · · Score: 1

    Better change that to "?E" or even "high school grad." The pure bullshit was overwhelming . . . . about from the first time they mentioned "theory."

  13. Re:Hmmmm. on RIAA Expert Witness Called "Borderline Incompetent" · · Score: 2, Funny

    So, 8:00 then?

  14. Re:ASCII and thou shalt receive on Realtime ASCII Goggles · · Score: 2, Funny

    Who gives a shit? The writers on those movies failed "thermodynamics for poets" like, four times and got switched to "termodynamics for housepets." Which they also failed.

  15. People are missing the point: on Bill Bans NSA Eavesdropping · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This bill, even if it became law, is quite redundant. Using FISA is already the only legal way to do domestic eavesdropping. This bill is a statement. It essentially says "we, the congress really do mean for what you're doing to be illegal. No, we will not cover your ass by legalizing it, retroactively or otherwise."

  16. Re:Encrypted ? on TSA Loses Hard Drive With Personnel Info · · Score: 1

    The US government uses AES. Nobody's brute-forcing AES any time before quantum computers mature.

  17. Re:Ah, no ... on Retroactive Immunity Proposed for Telcos Who Share Private Data · · Score: 1

    Shrubby can't pardon an impeachment, and thus give him his job back.

    He can, however, keep Gonzales out of jail so he can receive his $35M retirement job doing nothing on the board of a telco . . . . . .

  18. Um, too late? on AACS Vows to Fight Bloggers · · Score: 2, Funny

    The key is out there. It's too late to suppress it. Game over. The wombats have left the chicken coop!

    (Wait, that's not right. What's the real metaphor?)

  19. Re:Get 'em while you can on New AACS Crack Called "Undefeatable" · · Score: 1

    I've never seen anyone's life ruined by drug use.

    Then you have clearly lead a rather sheltered life - knowing, and knowing of not one person who struggled with alcoholism, or crack-cocaine, or any of a myriad of other "hard" drugs. Do you live in a monastery?

  20. Re:Understandable? on Student Arrested for Writing Essay · · Score: 1

    In elementary school a friend of mine got suspended for three days for putting staples in a pencil eraser. Because, y'know, a pencil eraser with staples in it is some sort of deadly, deadly weapon, even pre-Columbine. (The points were all into the eraser by the way.)

    School is stupid, and school administrators are about as stupid as what they oversee. (Even in the well-funded district that we grew up in.)

  21. Nothing like shadow copy? on OS Combat - Ubuntu Linux Versus Vista · · Score: 1

    "Ubuntu doesn't have anything like Vista's shadow copy system"

    xfsdump seems to be at least as good. Does Ubuntu officially support XFS?

  22. Re:Ouch on AACS Cracked Again · · Score: 1

    Yeah and you, party C, can pry party B open and dig the key out of its guts. (Either with a screwdriver and a logic analyzer, or, as has thus far been easier, by dumping its memory and finding the key that must be in there.)

    DRM will never be "unbreakable" as long as you have the player to break into, and it isn't fitted with some sort of bomb that goes off if you try. (Laws against breaking into it do not apply since a) most of the world understands the concept of "private property" and b) even in America law enforcement DOES have better things to do than arrest somebody for taking apart their DVD player.)

  23. Utah again. on Utah Bans Keyword Advertising · · Score: 1

    I love this game! Time to look like they care about shit or something.

    1) Make an idiotic law to solve a problem that doesn't exist that the feds will shoot down on free-speech/interstate-commerce/equal-protection/w hatever.
    2) ???
    3) Profit!

  24. Common carrier. on Congress to Fight Piracy with Education Funds · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "Whether schools would be interested in using a limited pool of federal money to police student file-swapping remains to be seen."

    Correct me if I'm wrong, but the school "is your ISP", and therefore has common-carrier status. Why would they want to go to the trouble of censoring you? They would become liable for mistakes in doing so.

  25. Terms on HP Dishonors Warranty If You Load Linux · · Score: 1

    if noLinuxRule not in warranty.Terms:
              lawsuit = sueSomebody(HP)
    else:
              companiesNotToBuyFrom.append('HP')

    #(No, I don't know why I did that.)