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  1. Re:guilty on The Unspoken Taboo - The Never Expiring Password · · Score: 1

    So someone hacks your server, gets all the encrypted passwords - then takes the code from your webpages to work out how they are encrypted and they have all the passwords anyway. Oh no - you've wasted an extra 10 minutes of their time.

    (I agree - I just felt the need to play devils advocate).

  2. Need a bigger quota... on Bandwidth Challenge Results · · Score: 1

    So how long would it take for me to use up my monthly quota of 10Gig with bandwidth like that... ;)

  3. Re:Yes, but what about the laser on First Silicon Laser · · Score: 1

    They say that about every laser - especially solid state ones. But if the laser is of a wavelength that is already in use, and isn't any smaller/cheaper etc. than the existing hardware then it's pointless. The only information (as you've quoted) is the standard "this could be useful" statement. It doesn't mention anything specific. Sure it might be useful for these things - but is the wavelength/strength/size/cost any better than existing technology?

  4. Yes, but what about the laser on First Silicon Laser · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Great, they've produced a laser from silicon - but what use is it? Anyone have a link to any info on the properties of the laser? Is it a blue laser, Infra red, a plain ol' red laser that everyone has in their DVD/CD player (or pocket)?

  5. Re:Nice... on First Silicon Laser · · Score: 1

    Sure, given how they "drill" the holes.

  6. Re:OMG on Space.com's Top 10 Space Movies of All Time · · Score: 1

    And it would seem you can vote for the same movie multiple times.

  7. OMG on Space.com's Top 10 Space Movies of All Time · · Score: 1

    Contact - #9 - for crying out loud. Does it even count as a "space" movie? (Oh right, the message comes from space - so we should include any movie that includes sunlight).

    For those who want a change in order, click the banner and you can vote for other movies...

  8. Re:Good old PCP on Scientists Produce Fearless Mice · · Score: 1, Interesting

    You'd end up with a Jacob's Ladder scenario where they become afraid of - and attack - friends and enemies at random

    I can remember at least one case where that happened during Gulf war II (Operation Iraqi Freedom). IIRC a Pommy Tornado was shot down (and I think there were other cases) by US AA. Guess we know why. ;)

  9. Ah conspiracy... on HAARP Amping It Up · · Score: 2, Funny

    "effort to develop ways to jam the electronics of incoming missiles from Russia and/or China"

    And Elvis is overseeing the project. I'm sure he hates those damn russian missiles... Oh wait, aren't they friendly now?

    (The russians, not the missiles).

  10. Re:Wanted: females on Man Cures Himself of HIV? · · Score: 1

    Willing females wanted to have unprotected sex with this man in order to increase human kernel stability and eventually preserve the human race. Only respond with picture, please.

    Good plan, but your problem is in the second word... For him anyway...

  11. Re:I thought... on Mom Makes Website, Gets Sued for $2 Million · · Score: 1

    Especially if you are running from police, dressed in a large trench coat and running onto a train...

  12. Re:US Government dependence - MOD Parent DOWN on Feds Enter Blackberry Fray · · Score: 1

    Dyslexia for cure found?

  13. Re:And even if I could...would I? on Apple Files Patent for "Tamper-Resistant Code" · · Score: 1

    Developers who wish to support cross platform development would benefit from being able to do this - especially if a PC running OSX is cheaper than a Mac running the same.

  14. Re:Ah, the tale of many an application... on Computer Associates Sells Ingres DB Tech · · Score: 1

    Who is selling what?

  15. Re:Teleportation... on A New Biopaper for Organ Printing · · Score: 1

    And why, when they are beaming a red shirt down, don't they keep a backup of the data so Kirk never loose a man.

    Because of data degradation in the buffer, silly. ;)

    <OT>One thing is apparent from watching Voyager - they don't have tape drives (or RAID) on Federation Star ships. The number of times they almost lost the doctor for one reason or another seems to indicate that backup was done away with at some point in Star Treks history... </OT>

  16. Re:Still Safe? on Safe Cigarettes? · · Score: 1

    No - a safe cigarette is one where you can only light the end you put in your mouth. Though there would be some that might repeatedly burn themselves (say for example - a smoker).

    The only real safe cigarette is a wet one.

  17. Re:Still Safe? on Safe Cigarettes? · · Score: 1

    You are correct. "Cars, Trucks and other Hydrocarbon-fuel based engines and generators" should be banned from restaurants, bars and other enclosed public spaces.

  18. Looping workplace conversation... on German IT Outfit Bans Whining · · Score: 1

    10: PRINT "Awwwwww"
    20: GET "Don't come in on Monday"
    30: PRINT "Woohoo! Three day weekend!"
    40: GET "See you on Monday"
    50: GOTO 10

  19. Re:Yawn... buy AMD. RAM access is everything. on Dual-Core Shoot Out - Intel vs. AMD · · Score: 1

    A friend of mine had a type 3 fastback with EFI. I can still remember the time we made a stop on a reasonable length trip and had to catch a train the rest of the way because the EFI decided it didn't want to work for the rest of the day. He spent a fortune on that car - and in the end the best thing he did was convert it to a carburetted engine.

    And yes everyone should buy AMD...

  20. Was it really continuous? on 5 Years of Habitation on the ISS · · Score: 1

    "five years of continuous human habitation"

    Is it really continuous if the occupants left the station? I guess hanging off the outside counts. ;)

  21. Oracles CFO on Oracle CFO Leaves after Four Months of Service · · Score: 2, Funny

    Maybe they couldn't stand the financial package... ;)

  22. Re:NFL or CFL on Canadians Plan to Build World's Biggest Telescope · · Score: 1

    We call them ovals - or grounds...

  23. Re:How is this a solution? on Disney Encrypting Screener DVDs to Prevent Piracy · · Score: 1

    Assuming it's done in video. It could be done on an audio sub-channel. Part of the DTS/Dobly encoding. You could have 7.1.1 Dolby, 7 speakers, 1 Sub woofer and 1 data stream for catching pirates.

    IIRC the "Forensic Data" was used on the screeners of Star Wars: Episode 3 and that enabled them to catch the people that leaked it prior to release.

  24. Re:Put this guy on TechTV! on Dvorak on 'Rinky-Dink' Software Rant · · Score: 1

    SIOX is nice but it looks like it would suffer from the same problems that the selection wizard does (look at the "Flowers" example and the extracted objects look a bit ordinary). I do think it's big advantage is that you don't have to click 43,000 times to select a single object.

  25. Put this guy on TechTV! on Dvorak on 'Rinky-Dink' Software Rant · · Score: 3, Informative

    Now with Photoshop, most photographers only want to do perhaps a dozen or so functions. You want to make the picture more vibrant, get rid of red-eye, remove an object from the scene, and maybe swap the heads of the people in the picture.

    This guys level of expertise is showing. Users just want to remove an object from the scene? One of the hardest things to do in ANY package - I suppose he expects to just click a button, then click the object and voila! It's gone! The closest thing to that function is the selection wizard - and those that use it know how prone to "error" it can be.

    Oh, yes, and you want to crop.

    What a numpty - it's right there on the toolbar in Photoshop, on the left, third one down. RTFM! And it's one of the easiest tools to use. What do you want? Auto crop? Click a button and the software crops the image for you. Exactly how you want it?

    Essentially, you want to optimize the photo.

    Start with Ctrl-Shift-L.

    Then you can try this.