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  1. Tempest on Declassified Tempest Material Comes Online · · Score: 1

    FYI: Some guy at MIT did some work on this on his own a couple of years ago. I bet you can get more info at the MIT site

  2. Numbers on MS Attempt to Find Pirated Software Fails Miserably · · Score: 1

    Piracy numbers are always to be suspect, but lets say for now that they have a magic way of knowing how many copies have been made.
    18000 jobs? I didn't know there was a team of M$ employees in California that just copied CD's, one at a time, for them.

    Is antone alse getting sick of there twisted version of piracy laws? I is LEGAL to make copies of software, It's is illegal for you to have two copies of the same license running at the SAME time. You can install as many copies of The same liscence on as many computers as you want, just don't have the software running at the same time.

    Just for the record I am running Win98 for person reasons, yes, yes I know Linux is more stable.I have moral reasons not to run pirated software so I have a license.

  3. Re:i wont on Donate Spare Cycles for Climate Prediction · · Score: 1

    SETI has know govermant ties. Thanks to that SOB senator from Nevada.

  4. Re:Sounds neat, but I dunno on Donate Spare Cycles for Climate Prediction · · Score: 1

    Yes, but then you add the new Lung fish data for a higher degree of accuracy, then add the next component and so on.. EVENTUALLY you will increase you're accuracy. It is still a probabilty of what the wheather will be, but with a higher degree of outcome.
    Thats one reason we only try to predict the wheather for a few days right now.

  5. Re:That is the only competition that will work on FCC Leaves Broadband Alone · · Score: 1

    I mean that we should be allowed to choose who our cable company is as induhviduals not on where we live, if they did that then I would bet that cable modem access price would be cut in half. Something like basic cable and cable modems for 30.00 total.

  6. Not so bad on Trademark Cyberpiracy Prevention Act · · Score: 1

    As much as I hate the goverment getting involved
    in this the bill not that bad.
    You have to have intentions of bad faith. meaning
    you can have any available domain name as long as you don't try to make money off the trademarked company. i.e John Mcdonald could have McDonald.com
    but if he uses it to sell a product people may think come from the McDonald corp. he could be sued.
    At least thats how I read it.

  7. Re::) on MTV's Hacker Portrayal · · Score: 1

    Jeez, a little touchy, aren't we? It was funny.

  8. Cable on FCC Leaves Broadband Alone · · Score: 2

    If they want whats best for the consumer, shouldn't they allow multiple cable companies to serve's our homes?

    oh FP

  9. argh on Major Star Wars Character To Die in Next Books · · Score: 1

    aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrgg gggggggggggggggggggggggggggg.
    Great. Just freakin' Great. One of the few characters they could explore, they kill. I don't know what's going on in Lucas's mind, but I suspect it's Parkinson's disease.
    First, he sells out by making a 2-hour commercial, then the one opportunity he has to make Jar-Jar worth while character, or at least tolerable, he blows.
    (Haveing Jar-Jar intentionally release the exploding globes on the persuing forces would have gone a long way towards making Har-Har worthwhile).
    Now this!! Intolerable!
    After nearly a quarter of a century of devoted SW following, I am done. No more movies, I'm not going to update my SW videos to dvd. not one penny will he get from me ever again.
    oh yeah, salvators writing style is juvenile, at best. Thats not FB, just my opinion, and yes I've read some of his books.

    Why are all the great SF authors dead?

  10. Re:This could be where it starts on $200 Linux PCs · · Score: 1

    OS fee's for even small computer shops is not even close to retail price. When NT 3.5 came out it cost the shop I was working at 25 dollars.

  11. Games on $200 Linux PCs · · Score: 1

    Windose is only considered a gaming platform because games are written for it.
    That is based on marketability not platform quality. Since Linux will become more marketable, games will be written on and for Linux. This means you will get the same perfomance from a game on a P2 200 running Linux then you would get from a P3 500 running windose. (It will also mean that software will become less of a driving force behind hardware)
    Now Clustering and parrell processing will become the next big "Thing" for the home users allowing for more resources to be put into it. This will lead to huge technical leaps in compilers that can take advantage of compiling for parrell processing.

    SO whats this mean?
    for the same money as a top of the line machines you can have 10 machines each with half the processor speed, but with more processing power.

  12. Informix on Linux Databases with Huge Tables? · · Score: 1

    Don't over look Informix. I was with a company that had over a terra-byte of data, mostly large BLOB files. When we tried to convert, Oracle simply couldn't handle it.

  13. Solar furnace on Solar Powered Chemical Processing · · Score: 1

    If you want to get more output, look into solar furnaces as a way of charging you home batterys, you can get alot of power this way.

  14. NOT a geek on No More Suits; IT Worker Shortage Will End Soon · · Score: 1

    the title geek is not something you give yourself, but something you get labeled as.

  15. Don't trust non-wrinkels on No More Suits; IT Worker Shortage Will End Soon · · Score: 1

    I noticed this for some tim now, here in CA.
    If I'm talking to someone who claims to be a "techie" but has no wrinkles in there cloths, I'm out of there.
    A bunch of us actually put this to the test for a couple of weeks, sure enough, the more wrinkled/ugly the outfit the more they knew.
    Of course this will only last until someone who thinks there a geek finds out about it, then they won't iron there cloths so they can be a geek to..


  16. Back ground radiation on The End of Moore's Law? · · Score: 1

    Current transistors need a minimum number of electrons to operate, other wise the gates can get flip by background "radiation".
    How ever IBM, conextant, and others are developing transistor that in the simpleist of terms are two "back to back" transistors. this will help minimise "leakage" and they will be able to use fewer electrons to flip the gates. about 10 electrons or so. Yes thats right 10.

  17. Re:Hold pots up on Victorinox Announces Cybertool · · Score: 1

    Boy, Anonymous Coward , sure knows alot of usefull
    stuf... ;)

  18. Re:What's the hook for? on Victorinox Announces Cybertool · · Score: 1

    Good question. Why don't you call them then post the answer?

  19. Light on Victorinox Announces Cybertool · · Score: 1

    I wish they ditched a couple of the tools for a light. I don't know how many times I've had my hands in a box i need just a little more light.
    Of course if they choose to remove the bottle opener they would never sell one..

  20. Its about time on Victorinox Announces Cybertool · · Score: 1

    Its about time this happened

  21. FYI on Rambus Production Capacity Switched to Make SDRAM · · Score: 1

    FYI
    Beta is still in use in the "Industry"

  22. DREAMS on The Cat Cam · · Score: 1

    I can't wait to record my dreams!
    And to display memories, or store them to my HD.

  23. DOG on "Pez" Forbidden in Meta Tags · · Score: 1

    Do I have to change my dogs name?

  24. Re:Oh no on Dvorak Takes On The Crackers · · Score: 1

    IN the most recent vs. of 2600 he made good points on why we should NOT use the term "cracker" at all. If you want an interesting and insightfull reaad, give it a read.

  25. Re:Yep.... on Henley.com, Reznor.com. Is Your Name Next? · · Score: 1

    My First MI AND Last are all taken.
    Personaly i think whom ever registers a domain name forst gets it .
    Just like owning any other resource a company may want.
    If you thought some big company is going to want something and you could sell it to them for a profit, you probably would.