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  1. Re:Can't lose! on Sony Sued Over PS3 "Other OS" Removal · · Score: 1

    Unless, as in the case of my car, its fitted with run flat tyres and the car does not have space in the boot for a spare.

  2. Re:Four megawatts of power for up to eight hours? on Largest Sodium Sulfur Battery Powers a Texas Town · · Score: 2, Funny

    No good, A Hogshead is already defined as 54 imperial gallons

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hogshead

  3. Re:Everything? on New USPTO Test Could Limit Software-Based Patents · · Score: 1

    And could you be so kind as to provide the "definition of a mathematical formula" which makes your statement true please?

  4. Re:Everything? on New USPTO Test Could Limit Software-Based Patents · · Score: 1

    Well, ignoring the fact that it can be proved through the normal Turing machine proof. It can be also be shown in practice that it can be reduced to a set of logic equations. Use VHDL to describe a processor and memory and any i/o required. Add the VHDL to describe the stored program containing the instructions to run on the processor to implement the algorithm. Then synthesise the resultant VHDL to a FPGA target, and you have reduced the algorithm and the machine to implement it to a set of pure matematical equations of the sort that even a lawyer could recognise as mathematics.

  5. Re:Cute, but how about this. on Open Source Russian Vacuum Fluorescent Tube Clock · · Score: 1

    May be a age thing, it reminded me of the Tek vector graphics terminal I used to use. (and of course asteroids)

  6. Re:Cute, but how about this. on Open Source Russian Vacuum Fluorescent Tube Clock · · Score: 1

    The place I use to buy parts for tube amps sells a kit of parts. (google Ask Jan First)

  7. Cute, but how about this. on Open Source Russian Vacuum Fluorescent Tube Clock · · Score: 5, Interesting

    IMHO this has more geek points.

  8. Re:PCI DSS on Breach Exposes 19,000 Active US, UK Credit Cards · · Score: 1

    Well, YMMV, but from what I can read, it breaks validation types 1 to 4 at least on the no CHD storage rquirement. And the information I supplied is enough to auth a CHNP transaction.

    But I think you get my point.

    It seems to me that PCI DSS is this generations version of BS5750, just another excuse to create a market for over paid consultants who claim to understand the requirements.

  9. Re:PCI DSS on Breach Exposes 19,000 Active US, UK Credit Cards · · Score: 1

    Cheers for the Phenom 2 :)

    Happy to help, if I every find who the card belons to I will say thanks from you.

  10. Re:PCI DSS on Breach Exposes 19,000 Active US, UK Credit Cards · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Ok, by your logic all I have to do to make slashdot fail compliance is post my credit card details.

    No: 5434 6625 8876 1272
    CVV: 854
    Exp 09/12

    So how would slashdot know if that post contains valid card info or not?

    Or even better, I could email this information to my competetor, then ring them and point out that they have failed compliance, as they have unsecured card information stored on their systems.

  11. Re:It's pretty standard these days on Detecting Click Tracks · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yep, I was going to say the same thing, the parent said "In order to do all of this, you have to have all musicians performing to an absolutely constant tempo."

    And its not true, all you need is to have all musicians performing to the _same_ tempo

  12. Re:I thought on The Scream Aliens Hear From the Earth · · Score: 1

    Ahh, but, if you take two seperate masses in a vacuum, and cause one to vibrate, then the other will also, because the gravitational interaction between the two will couple the vibration from one to the other. So that seems to fit your definition of sound.

    Yes, I know its nothing to do with the OP, but does that matter?

  13. Re:Set in their ways on Late Adopters Prefer the Tried and True · · Score: 1

    In my line of work, doing tech support, I run into this every single day. The older generations, 40+ have no concept of technology and most of them don't want to.

    Ignoring the fact that much of the basic technology you speak of was invented by folk who are now over 40, how many time a day do you run into people who think they know what they are doing and install a beta of something which bites back and screws them over?

  14. Re:IP Telephony Confuses Me on Open Source Telephony Gives Customers Control · · Score: 1

    I am in exactly the same situation, setting up a IP based system for a small company.

    I would start by reading this http://www.asteriskdocs.org/ it helped a lot, its biased towards asterisk, but also explains a lot of the terminology

  15. Re:FireBottles rule... on Happy 100th To The Vacuum Tube · · Score: 1

    Have a look at

    C. Blue Glow -- what causes it?

    From http://www.mosweb.com/tp4.htm

  16. Re:ODBC is not "circumvention" on Is MySQL Planning a Change of Tune? · · Score: 1

    As the "unixODBC guy" can I point out I did make that point, but I can't control what part of my comments were quoted in the article.

    My point was if you are using software via TCP/IP, ODBC or poking it with a stick, you are still using it, and if that use is for commercial purpose, I don't see how the "usage" matters.

  17. Re:Damnit on Win a Part in the Hitchhiker's Guide · · Score: 1

    And what the hell is wrong with bubble and squeak ?

    (Football, bugger, mumble, mutter).

  18. Re:Cisco are heartless when it comes to this on Hardware Manufacturers Gouging Customers · · Score: 2, Informative

    Keep trying on this, I had the same deal on a bunch of 837'a and 831's, contact TAC. They will help you. To be fair, I was stunned how helpful the support people were. I don't have a contract, they phoned me twice from the US to the UK, and someone there sorted out how I could get a 3DES image. Meanwhile the UK suppliers of the kit, were just getting pissed, because I had the gaul to ask for support.

    You have to give Cisco some slack, ok, they expect to be paid for software, but come a security problem, they throw that away and go out of their way to get you the fix.

  19. Re:No DB2? on Mono Ships ASP.NET server · · Score: 1

    Well given that the interface to DB2 is CLI, which to all intents is ODBC 3.5, what would be gained by a separate DB2 interface ?

    IBM are going to rename their lib libodbc.so in some cases, to back up the point.

  20. Re:What the heck?! on Novell Releases PostgreSQL for NetWare · · Score: 1

    "storing all their field names in upper case by default".

    Err, AFAIK that is what the default for unquoted identifier names should be, at least that what FIPS specify, and most other RDBMS conform to, other than PostgreSQL and some of the java databases.

  21. Re:Great testing method on Restricted CDs Quietly Distributed · · Score: 1

    Never a problem with a properly setup and supported LP12, or I suspect many other turntables.

  22. Re:Great testing method on Restricted CDs Quietly Distributed · · Score: 1
    Hmm, maybe, but it was the same group of people who told us that CD audio was perfect and better than vinyl, until (that is) SACD and DVD-A came along. I would be more assured if it was double blind test, maybe organised by a third party, and we were told what equipment was used.

    There have been some interesting tests where the watermarks on SACD's have been made audible by subtracting the original signal, and this results in a buzzing type sound, that apparently (this is second hand info) once heard, can be detected on marked recordings.

  23. Great testing method on Restricted CDs Quietly Distributed · · Score: 4

    What astounds me is the method they seem to be using to check if it affects the sound quality. There are no increase in returns therefore they seem to be inferring that the change is inaudable. It would be great if the drug companies tried this, "This drug is 100% safe, not one person who disn't know they were taking it, told us they died". Have they considered that maybe the sound quality is reduced, but the effect of this is to make people assume its just the way the band should sound, and resolve never to buy the next release (and tell their frends, etc)

  24. Re:We'll probably buy it... on Borland Kylix Released - Kinda · · Score: 1

    Its a quick plug, but until someone writes a PostgreSQL dbExpress driver (not hard), http://www.easysoft.com/products/kylix will work to the Postgres ODBC driver.

  25. Re:Similarly on Finding the Right Online Credit Card Merchant? · · Score: 2

    Well we use datacash, http://www.datacash.com works great for us, just a couple of perl scripts to talk to their server, the rest runs on our server. They work with any number of different currency's but we use sterling, usd and euro.