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  1. Re:Largest Fish on Grizzly-sized Catfish Caught in Thailand · · Score: 0

    Most Sturgeons aren't fresh water. They spend some time in salt water. There are some pure freshwater species but they don't get this big.

  2. Re:Block on Adopt a [Chinese] Blog · · Score: 0

    Rights violations? The right to free speech? They don't have it. There for it is not violated. Don't get me worng. I think they should have it. And I think thiw will draw attention to the fact that they don't have it.

  3. 200,000kph on Solar Sails And Space Propulsion · · Score: 0

    Am I missing something? Is that two hundred thousand thousand per hour? What are the units?

  4. jxProject works well... on Where is the Killer Calendar? · · Score: 0

    I too had this same question Friday. I was looking for something to keep up with multiple projects with a good gant chart interface. This works well for me but it does lack some advance features and interface objects. It is written in JAVA and is free!

    jxProject

  5. How big? on World's Biggest Hacker Held · · Score: 0

    Surly not much bigger than 15 stones I would say.

  6. Re:What is information? on Information Overload Overblown, Says Gates · · Score: 0

    From TFA2: Raikes noted studies that show that the average worker gets about 10 times as much e-mail now as in 1997. That's projected to increase another fivefold in the next four years, Raikes said.

    What is more distracting? Your boss sending you a nonsense email asking for the TPS report or you boss coming down to your cube and asking nonsense questions about why the TPS report is not out?

    I get and send roughly 100+ emails a day. I only get a handful of calls and rarely have to waste time in group meetings that discuss nothing.

  7. Please do not hate me... on Information Overload Overblown, Says Gates · · Score: 0

    But I agree with this. I think we do want more information, we just need it in managable chunks.

    Maybe MS is starting to think that Google will be a real threat soon?

  8. Re:why not on Chase Deploying "Touchless" Credit Cards · · Score: 0

    It wouldn't stop someone replaying the same signal which is why I was wondering if there were any kind of challenge / response where the result would differ each time.



    This is my concernt exactly. It does not matter if the info is encrypted. If only someone has to play the response back of a sniffed card.

    Since the response is RFID, I don't think that there is an existing way to have a challange/response.

    Am I wrong?

  9. Re:why not on Chase Deploying "Touchless" Credit Cards · · Score: 0

    It is my understanding that RFID tags are not capable to changing it's response. It simply accecpts a radio wave which powers a response.

    If the response is always the same what is the point of encryption?

    Am I missing something?

  10. Handicapp Accessable? on Give Your DVD Player The Finger · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Me not having hands, will I be able to buy DVDs in the future?

  11. Picking up signal != breaking in on Government Use of WiFi Not Secure · · Score: 0

    I pickup signals all the time, this does not mean that I am able to connect. If they jammed or otherwise prevented the signalls from being broadcasted, it would defeat the reason for having a wirless connection in the first place!

  12. Re:When did they die? on Invading Privacy for School Credit · · Score: 0

    If they died on election day, the absentee ballot is supposed to be removed.

  13. Re:Increased BAC levels on Kudzu Helps Curb Binge Drinking · · Score: 0

    The article does not say anything about the average mass of the individuals who where drinking. If the BAC levels were similar and one group drank less, I wonder if the kudzu group were on average smaller than the control group?

  14. Re:Well duh... on Kudzu Helps Curb Binge Drinking · · Score: 0

    How about an hour and a half?

  15. Re:Well duh... on Kudzu Helps Curb Binge Drinking · · Score: 0

    Is 3.5 beers is considered binge drinking?

  16. Do I need AV? on Microsoft Begins anti-virus Software Development · · Score: 0

    [Gates] says. His promise: Longhorn, the next version of the Windows operating system, will make malicious software (malware) that gets onto computers without the users' knowledge 'a thing of the past'."

    If this is true, why should I bother?

  17. Subscriptions... on Microsoft Begins anti-virus Software Development · · Score: 0

    The author sees MS moving in the direction of subscription based licensing. I hope not! This may be a good idea on the corporate scale but not for the home user. I am one of the three /. readers who actually enjoy using SQLServer 2003, Office 2000, ASP.NET, etc ... but when I have to start paying a monthly fee just to keep my computer booting, I may finally make the transition to open source.

  18. iPod Shuffle? on iPod Dangerous When Wet · · Score: 0

    Do you think he did the iPod shuffle?

  19. Re:Got my father switched today on Firefox Promo Videos · · Score: 0

    Firefox maybe try to get the attention of more casual, not-so-savvy PC users.

    You would have to make every thing easy. An end user does not want content to be blocked b/c of security issues. If FireFox takes this route, you will end up with just a slightly cooler version of IE!

  20. Blackberry is grabbing marketshare.... on Microsoft Under Attack - Part 2 · · Score: 0

    ...among business users that want a phone-cum-organiser.

    Now that I can watch movies on my phone, I need a phone-[edited for you protection]-cleaner!

  21. Re:I TOLD THEM! on Mars Express' 2nd Boom Deployment Postponed · · Score: 0

    Knowing how dangerous this mission is, you would have thought that they would have double-checked everything before releasing this.

  22. Re:Heh on Mars Express Begins Search for Water on Mars · · Score: 0

    ....a planetary geologist really? On a long trip like that, playing with his probe is about all he could do.

  23. Re:Previous 34 moons on Twelve New Moons Found for Saturn · · Score: 0

    I hear that there is tons of oil on the surface of Ijiraq. Let's see if it's people whant to be free!

  24. Re:Water vs. Metal -- Try Mineral Oil on Liquid Metal CPU Cooling · · Score: 0

    isn't also possible to make wather radio active?

  25. Re:Specific heat vs. heat capacity on Liquid Metal CPU Cooling · · Score: 0

    To get around the heat capacity, one could just pump at a higher rate. I think that the specific heat would be more important in this situation.