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  1. Re:Even the submitter didn't read the article!! on Keylogging Used To Catch Bank Crackers · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    First it was RTFA, then RTFSummary, now RTFTitle? ;)

  2. What's the system called? on Sunlight in a Tube · · Score: 4, Funny

    Their new system. called hybrid solar lighting, would reduce this energy usage with fixtures that supplement or completely replace electric light with sunlight, at times when its available. The system is called hybrid solar lighting (Google)."

    I think it might be called hybrid solar lighting? Not sure though. Could anyone confirm?

  3. Re:Has existed for some time in TV applications on 1.4mm Thick Gigabit Ethernet Cable · · Score: 1

    I believe that just having extra sockets reduces the signal, and thus the run length.

  4. Re:It's Not About Your Rights on The Repercussions of Blogging · · Score: 1

    This must have changed now, given the "stop loss" orders, etc.

  5. Re:How much money for design? on Intel Flaunts Mac mini Knock-off · · Score: 1

    You can buy the 20 year old Mercedes because 20 years ago they were what you think they still are.

  6. Re:There *could* be a way around this. on Vonage's CEO Says VoIP Blocking Is 'Censorship' · · Score: 1

    And then all the provider would have to do is set up a transparent proxy for everything going out to port 80, and Vonage will break, since it doesn't talk HTTP.

  7. Re:Is it... on Spyware Critics Respond to iDownload/iSearch · · Score: 4, Insightful

    User stupidity does not make the actions of the company OK. It just means that both parties share some of the blame.

    The company gets the bulk of the blame, they're obviously intending to trick people.

  8. Re:MIDI on Intelligent MIDI Sequencing with Hamster Control · · Score: 1

    Not quite.

    Posting a .gif of rendered type lets you show an actual typeface (or font, can never remember which is more correct), rather than just the textual information. "Blah!" in Courier, rather than Times New Roman.

    By posting a MP3, he has control over the quality of the MIDI synth. Most sound cards can handle MIDI - sort of - but their voices are usually absolute garbage. This way, he knows you'll hear it the same way he heard it, not through some godawful $15 "cheap but it works" sound card.

  9. Re:Old-skool on The First Image Published on the Web · · Score: 1

    I also remember people telling me "Yeah, there's this program like pkzip, but for images... stores them in 'jaypegs'. Takes a bit to uncompress them though."

    It sure did - I remember that XT chugging away, running jpg2gif on a ton of files.

  10. Re:Yes on Solar Power Put to Good Use · · Score: 1

    How much did the comparable (IE: first) nuclear power plant cost per megawatt?

    You can't straight-out compare a mature technology's costs with an experimental prototype's cost.

  11. Re:Watching DVDs on Li-Ion With 300% More Power, Minutes to Recharge · · Score: 1

    Crap batteries.

    I had a Dell Inspiron at my last job, and it became an AC-only unit after about two years. The batteries were only rated for a useful life of 500 charge/discharge cycles... stated right on the spec sheet, in fact.

  12. Re:YASUOM on Wi-Fi VoIP At 80 mph · · Score: 1

    Shoot it down with a speeding bullet, and we should be able to tell upon closer inspection.

  13. Re:Parallel on SpeedStep On Your Desktop - Intel's Prescott-2M · · Score: 2, Informative

    Simply put, it's because effective parallel code isn't simple to produce.

  14. Re:Don't make the tail wag the dog on Always-On Internet For Cheapskates? · · Score: 1

    Hell, the cable at my place had a sufficient ground differential (somehow) that the installer could feel it, when he was trying to figure out why my system had such obscene packetloss.

    We plugged into a different three-hole outlet and the problem went away. Turns out the first outlet wasn't actually grounded - it just had a three-hole faceplate to let three-hole plugs be plugged in.

    I could have strangled my landlord right about then....

  15. Re: No supported upgrade path... on Red Hat Promises A More Vibrant Fedora · · Score: 1

    Great stuff, thanks!

  16. Re: No supported upgrade path... on Red Hat Promises A More Vibrant Fedora · · Score: 1

    Are there pointers to doing the full update via yum?

    I have a system that I have only remote access to (it's at a colo back east, and I'm on the west coast) that was installed with FC1, and I'd like to update it... but not if it means hosing the system an incurring a support ticket.

  17. Re:My Boss on United Kingdom Leads the World in TV Downloads · · Score: 1

    I watch when I want to.
    I watch without commercials.
    I watch on a higher quality display.
    I watch while I'm doing something else on the PC.
    I easily go back and watch again whenever I want.

    TiVo isn't an option in Canada, and even then I'd have to commercial skip, and I wouldn't be able to watch Battlestar Galactica in it's entirety before anyone else around me has seen even the first episode.

  18. Re:Seen it before? on Beware The Rotundus Rover · · Score: 1

    If you're the type who is considering somebody with a chronic speed problem as a candidate for an armed guard, then I think their legal right to carry a firearm is not even going to be on your radar.

  19. Re:Bittorrent? on Large-Format Printable Wardriving Maps of Seattle · · Score: 1

    It could be a case of too few seeds, and too many incompletes. BitTorrent starts to see some issues when the queries are hammering a very few seeds hard - they seem to spend so much time saying "sorry, busy" that they hardly can get the data out.

  20. Re:Allow me to rephrase the question. on 13 New Windows Security Vunerabilities · · Score: 1

    I believe the corporate users actually get the patches earlier than general release on Tuesday, so that they can evaluate them in testbed environments, so that they can roll them out without great concern that they may do unexpected things. Not 100% sure on that though.

  21. Re:It's the automated transactions I'm worried abo on Fingerprints Replace Credit Cards in Seattle · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I recall a review of some new biometric-enabled mice that came out, and the trivial way to trick them - cup your hand over the sensor, and breathe softly on it.

    The existing oils will pick up the water vapor to form the pattern of the last finger on it, and the heat of the breath triggered the sensor to read it.

    What amused me the most was I went to tell my boss at the time how these researchers had found such a simple way to break it, and he said "Oh... I just bought one of those yesterday." Heh.

  22. Re:violation of ISP contract? on New Spam Zombies Use ISPs' Mailservers · · Score: 1

    I was able to set up several "forbid" rules, including "No outbound from this system if it's not between 8AM and 6PM". He was more than a bit of a slacker, so there was no worry about him being in after hours. I also blocked access to the Zone sites for all the systems, since there was no business case for people going there. :)

  23. Re:violation of ISP contract? on New Spam Zombies Use ISPs' Mailservers · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Heck, we had our Telus business ADSL shut down because somebody bounced through a wireless card on an XP laptop that the dumb**** marketing director had enabled the "provide access to the internet" or whatever it is via.

    Our office was only on the 4th floor, and his system was right at the window, so somebody popped through and started doing crap on the Zone servers. Telus cut us off within a day, and I was damned impressed.

    I was angry too - but not at Telus. At the marketing guy and myself (for leaving open outbound access). I fixed his system, and instituted "via proxy only" outbound for port 80, and no more problems.

  24. Re:Ob. grammar nazi post on Sun's Patent and Licensing Practices Examined · · Score: 1

    I don't know, there's some appeal to dishing out justice against those who abuse IP portfolios.....

  25. Re:Does mysql on windows have root@%? on Worm Hits Windows Machines Running MySQL · · Score: 1

    To having the DLL loaded, true.

    However, if you're foolish/ignorant enough to have root@% with no password, then anyone can connect to your database remotely and browse your data to their hearts content.