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  1. Re:Lifespan on Trying to Save Iridium · · Score: 1

    At one point Motorola was projecting that a replacement satallite would need to be sent up every 18 months, statistically speaking. So even if they aquire the system as it sits now it will start to degrade badly as satallites fail, with no way to replace them. Those low orbits are a pretty harsh environment for electronics. They may not fall out of the sky but they will become useless.
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  2. Is it just me... on UPDATED: Transmeta's Crusoe Unveiled · · Score: 1

    This thing is going to eat memory for breakfast, lunch, and dinner? Those translated caches have got to take a lot of memory. Its going to make NTs' memory requirements look trivial.
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  3. Re:Table, again on The Feds' Ramsey Electronics Raid Blow by Blow · · Score: 1
    try looking at the ratios for with guns and you see less of a difference. I think all your data really shows is that some societies are less violent not that fewer guns==less violence.

    %Households | Homicides...........| Suicides ............| Country
    owning guns |overall|withGun|ratio|overall|withGun|ratio |
    ......48.00 |...75.9|...44.6|0.59 |..124.0|...72.8| 0.59 |USA
    ......32.00 |...12.1|....3.6|0.30 |..142.7|...38.7| 0.27 |Norway
    ......29.10 |...26.0|....8.4|0.32 |..139.4|...44.4| 0.32 |Canada
    ......27.20 |...11.7|....4.6|0.39 |..244.5|...57.4| 0.23 |Switzerland
    ......22.60 |...12.5|....5.5|0.44 |..223.0|...49.3| 0.22 |France
    .......4.70 |....6.7|....0.8|0.12 |...86.1|....3.8| 0.04 |England and Whales

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  4. complient RT-linux on Realtime Linux Workshop in Vienna · · Score: 1

    is the linux patches at here complient with this API spec?
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  5. Re:Upgrade? on Zilog (re-)introduces the Z80 · · Score: 1

    Sorry the TRS-80 used 6805[i think] and 6809 processors from Motorola
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  6. Re:it's a great idea on NASA show off new 'Star Wars' type PDA · · Score: 1

    wasnt the cyc project expecting to get a thinking program out by now?
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  7. Re:Propulsion on NASA show off new 'Star Wars' type PDA · · Score: 1

    I wonder how they plan to balance the torque of the fan. Otherwise this WILL start to spin(opposite the direction of the fan rotation)
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  8. Re:Slirp and soju.. on SLiRP Project Needs Maintainer · · Score: 1

    OK how does one tell if kimchi IS spoiled?
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  9. Alarmed on Anakin Actor to Star in Ender's Game · · Score: 1

    are there any other fans of this book alarmed after reading that article. cutting out the "suprise" ending, the fantasy game, and the emotional tension between the students and letting all the adults be emotional. I mean thats not the story i remember reading. I fear this will become another starship troopers (which IMHO was not heinleins starship troopers, and just stole the title).
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  10. Re:Nice idea on Iridium Files for Bankruptcy · · Score: 1

    i believe your thinking of teledesic(sp?) [big bills entry]. Iridium intially was slated to have like 80 some and then reduced it to 77. And if i remeber correctly Iridium went "live" a few months ago. I dont think LEO satalite fones are ever going to be big, land based cellular is just too pervasive. Hell some place (SE asia) have better cellular coverage than wire based phones! The /only/ place satallite coverage has an advantage is at sea, and i just dont see that much demand. Not to mention that those phones are just about pushing the safe limits on transmitting power (before they start to produce REAL health problems)
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  11. kinda OT but funny on Audiohighway awarded patent on digital audio players · · Score: 1

    this kinda fits nicely
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  12. AHRA... on Audiohighway awarded patent on digital audio players · · Score: 1

    wasnt the audio home recording act passed into law by 1995. it would seem hard to defend a patented idea that could easily have be forseen by this law
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  13. Re:What was Packet Storm? on Packet Storm Security site closed down · · Score: 1

    www.google.com still has the text in there cache
    so try and do a google search on packet storm
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  14. Re:Crypto is defferent from doors, locks, and safe on FBI Reports on Encryption · · Score: 1
    No matter what idea you think of, in the linux community it always seems someone beats you to the punch try

    http://zaphod.ethz.ch/linux/tcfs/tcfs-faq.html
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  15. Perhaps d.net and SETI@Home will work together on SETI@Home For Linux · · Score: 1

    If they do find something you dont think that they would but the name of the owner of the machine that found it. That would a heck of a press release to be associated with!
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  16. Ok does anyone SEE the win32 client? on SETI@Home For Linux · · Score: 1
    cause on the stats page i saw this

    Windows NT: 4.0:
    Work units sent: 86
    Results received: 47
    CPU time: 548 hr 33 min 42.3 sec
    Average CPU time per work unit: 11 hr 40 min 17.5 sec
    Windows 95: 4.10:
    Work units sent: 123
    Results received: 47
    CPU time: 340 hr 34 min 44.3 sec
    Average CPU time per work unit: 7 hr 14 min 46.9 sec
    Windows 95: 4.0:
    Work units sent: 90
    Results received: 30
    CPU time: 177 hr 08 min 55.2 sec
    Average CPU time per work unit: 5 hr 54 min 17.8 sec

    whats up with that?
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  17. license should not be OS specific on Blender Going Shareware · · Score: 1

    hey give him a break. Its basicly one person that is writing blender, and the initial development was done on SGI's. The linux port was probably a lot less work than the windows port. I figure he's had to essentially fork his own code tree in order to do this. Which means he has to debug 2 versions now, since blenders interface doesnt use anything like a standard UI.
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  18. Too modest on Beware of the Slashdot Effect · · Score: 1
    ``We have a noticable effect on unprepared servers, but we probably knock a server down most every day,'' Malda said.
    seems like more than that to me
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  19. As Europe prepares... on Euro-Parliament Trying to Ban Caching? · · Score: 1

    to fall of the face of the earth, its interesting to see democracy at work. I mean when was the last you heard of an American politician swayed by a leaflet. Unless your leaflets are printed on $100 bills :)
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  20. To bad... on Rykodisc signs deal with GoodNoise · · Score: 1

    /. doesnt have an ad banner for goodnoise right now. I know i would have just given you a click-thru
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  21. GNU/Linux -> MacOSX/Linux? on After Linux-Apple? · · Score: 1

    I implied nothing of the sort...
    i was wondering if the linux kernel could be swaped out, so to speak, with the MacOS kernel...
    not one-to-one im sure, but...

    i mean look at the title, the word GNU was replaced with MacOS(in the title)
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  22. GNU/Linux -> MacOSX/Linux? on After Linux-Apple? · · Score: 1

    Don't tell me Apple was so foolish as to imbed the UI into kernel?
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  23. GNU/Linux -> MacOSX/Linux? on After Linux-Apple? · · Score: 1

    would it be possable to weld MacOS X UI onto the Linux kernal? A unified UI on on the hardware
    Linux supports would suddenly give them the appearance of being very popular.
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  24. Island of stability on New element produced Z=114 · · Score: 1

    Does anyone know were I could find more info about this theoretical new stable area?
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  25. Not a believer... on MP3 coalition wants to watermark MP3's · · Score: 1
    "Most people, when given the opportunity to do so, won't take pirated things."
    if they really believed this were true then signing would be unnecessary...
    my dad has a saying "Locks only keep honest people from taking your stuff".

    and secondly will I be able to sign the tracks that i rip off my own CD?
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