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  1. Re:It boggles my mind, it shouldn't on HBO's Hacking Democracy Available Online · · Score: 1

    ATM machines work for the same reason that none of the banks had any Y2K problems. Because once they have your money it is their money to make more money with and If they, those that run the banks, don't make money their sharholders will fire them.

  2. Re:Ice Caps - Wrong on Melting Arctic Ice Has Consequences · · Score: 1

    Typo, not meters but feet. Forgot to transpose for US audience. http://www.usatoday.com/weather/resources/askjack/ 2004-11-21-melting-polar-ice_x.htm

  3. Re:Ice Caps - Wrong on Melting Arctic Ice Has Consequences · · Score: 1

    OK now put a sieve on top of the class and put a couple of ice cubes in it to simulate the ice caps on Greenland, the Artic Islands and Antartica. Now watch what happens when that ice melts. See the level in the glass rises. InfacT this is wat will cause the oceans to rise about 200 meters. The melting "Ice Caps" that are sitting on the land not the sea ice.

  4. Fine but it is not important. on Melting Arctic Ice Has Consequences · · Score: 1

    Who has time to worry about it when we have Presidental elections in the next two years. This of course the reason why no one in the industralized democratic world will ever do anything abut it because it will take a long term commitment. Which as you know modern democratic states cannot impliment because they only last a few years and spend most of their time in power pandering to the electorat to get re elected rather than actualy govern.

  5. Re:UV90P / Linux ??? on Gadgets From the Future · · Score: 1

    But can it run Linux???

  6. Re:Inheritable diseases and legacy code. on Viral Fossil Brought Back To Life · · Score: 1

    So the body is full of undocumented system calls that are no longer used. OK, so now lets all try to find the hack to grow wings or maybe x-ray vision.

  7. Jurassic Test Tube. on Viral Fossil Brought Back To Life · · Score: 1

    Do these people not read any books or watch any movies.

  8. Death Eaters on The Internet Now has Over 100 Million Web Sites · · Score: 1

    3.388579132890506E-4 % of the people on Myspace put down their occupation as 'Death Eater'.

  9. Re:empty article on Google and the CIA? · · Score: 1

    Of course it is an empty article. The CIA will not allow anyone to print the truth about their relationship with Google and when the govenment is asked they reply with "it does not exist" and when you put in the fredome of information request it always comes back , No data found. Obviously they, the CIA and the government, is hiding something.

  10. Microsoft has the ability to stop spam bots. on Bot Nets Behind Recent Spam Surge · · Score: 1

    All they have to do is to 'throttle' accesing port 25 restricting it to 1 connection every say 5 seconds. I mean who can manually send emails faster than that and if you really need it compleatly open have a setting in a dialog that cannot be set purly via software.

  11. Nuclear threat Exagerated? on North Korea Returns To The Table · · Score: 1

    So the North Korean have a few bombs. What can they do with it? Threaten or actually use it against the South, Japan, the United States maybe or sell them to terrorists. Does any one really think that the Chineese government would allow North Korea to exist in its present form it did any of that. Any war with the South, Japan or the United States will creat a major refugee problem for China. They do not want that. They will stop it from happening. Sell it to a terrorist organisations. Just consider for a moment the number of anti China groups that there are. Tibetan independance for example. Does any one really think that China would for one moment allow North Korea to put nuclear weapons into the hands of terrorist when they might be used against them. After all China is a closer and a much easier target and terrorist don't use or abide by "End User Certificates".

  12. Re:Taken from the book of Iran on North Korea Returns To The Table · · Score: 1

    Excuse me but making nuclear weapons is not illegal. If it was then the US would be a rogue state.

  13. Re:Only on Slashdot... on Antarctic Microbes Could Live on Mars · · Score: 1

    Soylent green is the best, much better than yellow or red.

  14. Re:I have an idea! on Antarctic Microbes Could Live on Mars · · Score: 1

    The environmentalist lobby won't let you do that.

  15. Re:Thank God for GWB! on North Korea Returns To The Table · · Score: 1

    And true to form the US will promot the revolution and then do nothing to aid it as the participants are killed. Remembering the revolt in southern Iraq after the first Gulf War.

  16. Re:Little Rockets? on Antarctic Microbes Could Live on Mars · · Score: 1

    Actually rocks get passed back and forth between the planets quite regularly, well regularly in the planitary time scale that is, as a result of major meteor hits and the bactreia would just hitch a ride.

  17. That sucks. on North Korea Returns To The Table · · Score: 1

    Now the price of oil will fall and with it my oil stocks.

  18. Re:Am I the only one... on MySpace to Use Audio Fingerprinting · · Score: 1

    If you don't want to listen to music don't visit the persons page. When you go into someones office do you turn off their tunes?

  19. Re:Simple MP3 player needed... on Windows Media Player 11 Released · · Score: 1

    MP3 Juke Box (Old but good/Windows Vb4) http://www.crbn.com/toys/

  20. Re:So my question is.. on How MythTV Detects and Flags Commercials · · Score: 1

    And this is bad because......

  21. Re:Number of compromised accounts on MySpace Accounts Compromised By Phishers · · Score: 1

    Yes. I did it originally to see the age distribution of the users to see if it really was populated by teenagers who identify themselves as 12-15 year old girls and therefore be an easy hunting ground for the dreaded pedophiles. Well this is what I found:

    MySpace Age Ranges By Gender As Indicated By Users
    Age Range % Male % Female % Total

    12 to 15 0.0007 0.0012 0.0019
    16 to 18 9.25 12.39 21.64
    19 to 21 11.64 12.29 23.93
    22 to 35 22.90 18.00 40.90
    36 to 55 3.48 2.66 6.14
    56 to 99 1.58* 1.53* 3.11

    Totals 48.85 46.87 95.72**

    Based on sample size of about 4 million active users.
    An active user visits their page at least once every 2 weeks.
    Only about 1/3 of all MySpace users are active.

    * Most likely users in the lower age groups lying.
            A further analysis of their page data would determine
            a truer age for each user.
    ** The balance did not give any age or are a Band (age 100).

    I have gathered more information than just ages from each page and will be using the data to write a paper/article on the subject.

  22. Re:Number of compromised accounts on MySpace Accounts Compromised By Phishers · · Score: 1

    Using a sample size of 14 Million accounts only about 4 Million were accessed within 14 days of the page being sampled and contained more that the default information. Of those the vast majority were access within 3 days of the sample date. This rate remains fairly constant throughtout the the user space starting with the first users.

  23. IEs not done Till Google won't run. on IE7 Blocking Google Image Search? · · Score: 1

    Someone had to say it.

  24. Re:Number of compromised accounts on MySpace Accounts Compromised By Phishers · · Score: 1

    Possible not many since less than one third of all my space accounts are active.

  25. and if tampering is detected. on Quebec Bans Electronic Voting · · Score: 2, Funny

    Simple, they blame the federalists for vote rigging.