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  1. Re:Tropical, as in Winnipeg on Titan's Tropical Weather · · Score: 1

    Hmm, LOX in the tank would be an interesting reversal.

    Basically, there is no shortage of rocket fuel in the solar system. The trouble is the lack of oxidizer. So any traveller to the our planets need not take fuel with, just siphon some off any of the gas giants, but without LOX, the rocket won`t get far.

  2. Tropical, as in Winnipeg on Titan's Tropical Weather · · Score: 1

    Cool - Minus 170 really is quite tropical - almost like Winnipeg in summer. I wonder whether Titan has mosquitoes too.

  3. Voyager satellites on '30 Year Laptop Battery' is Unscientific Myth · · Score: 1

    Those two have now been going for more than 30 years, but I don't want to put their batteries on my lap, or get millions of them in land fills around the world, leaching into the ground water.

  4. Re:XML document formats on Best Way to Build a Searchable Document Index? · · Score: 1

    "pull the meta tags from the files" You think so? Usually there is absolutely no relationship between meta data and the file contents. Just think of meta tags on web pages...

  5. Re:OpenChange is more than a client on A Case Study In GPLv2 / GPLv3 Compatibility · · Score: 1

    MS Exchange actually uses an open protocol licensed from The Open Group. MS made some changes to it, but the bulk of it is still the original DCE protocol: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6368

  6. Re:Most business notebooks use Windows XP on Processor Throttling In Windows XP · · Score: 1

    You forgot
    3) Third party tools that can disable the most annoying features of Vista.

    It is 3) that will eventually make Vista viable.

  7. Confucius says... on Quantum Cryptography Slowed by "Dead Times" · · Score: 1

    Quantum encryption is to be slowing unless some is to be speeding it up.

  8. Random 450s on Novel Method for Universal Email Authentication · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Instead of greylisting, I have experimented with a system where my SMTP receiver would send '450 try again later' messages randomly to incoming connection attempts. It actually works. Since the vast majority of incoming mail is spam, a 50% rejection rate reduces spam by almost 50% since most spammers will not retry, while legitimate mailers will.

    In the end, I settled for an even simpler approach, where I just throttle the receiver dramatically, so that it takes about 10 seconds to receive a message. Most spammers don't like slow receivers and go away. Real mailers don't have a problem with it. It reduces incoming spam by more than 90%. So this simple change keeps my mail server very well rested from the nice long sleeps...

  9. Simple solution on Novel Method for Universal Email Authentication · · Score: 1

    "Spammers will always look for a way to pump out their spam": So all one needs to do is prevent the pumping. I do that by slowing my SMTP receive process down deliberately. It sleeps 5 seconds before sending a banner in response to a new connection request, then it sleeps 1 second every step of the way through the SMTP protocol state machine. Most spammers give up in disgust and go away. The little bit that is left is easy to filter and legitimate mail is only delayed by about 10 seconds, which is really nothing.

  10. Orthogonal codes on LA Airport Uses Random Numbers To Catch Terrorists · · Score: 1

    Hmm, if the terrs can get the software and develop an orthogonal code, then they can move around unobserved...

  11. Your expectations are wrong on Why Is US Grad School Mainly Non-US Students? · · Score: 1

    The purpose of public education is to create good citizens. Good citizens are patriotic and believe that their country is the best country in the world and if anyone attacks them, then they are willing to join the army and defend their country. Good citizens think the same things other citizens think. Independent thought is discouraged. Good citizens can read well enough to follow the newspaper headlines and read a ballot paper.

    Consider that thinking the same things others think is simply parroting the headlines from the newspaper and 'independent thought' is simply thought and you will realize why what your professor wants children to learn and what the state wants the children to learn are incompatible.

  12. Re:Look for a price drop on Falling Hardware Prices Favor Linux · · Score: 1

    Yup, MS is already at around $7 in some other countries, which to my mind, is a fair price for Windows.

  13. Re:It's a numbers game on Why Is US Grad School Mainly Non-US Students? · · Score: 1

    Interesting that you mention Liberia, being an American colony founded with reverse immigration...

  14. Re:Clippy is not a very compelling argument on Michael Meeks On ODF and OOXML · · Score: 1

    "zero-day exploits, internationalization, and no per server (or VM!!!) costs are what will make people adopt OSS." You would think so, yet it doesn't. What makes people adopt something is marketing.

  15. 'Cause burger flipping doesn't pay well enough on Why Is US Grad School Mainly Non-US Students? · · Score: 1

    Clearly, most of the American students have already figured out that spending 4 years to get a degree in Engineering and then trying to pay down the study debt with a burger flipping job a McDonalds just doesn't work in practice.

  16. Re:H2 Panacea on Mutant Algae to Fuel Cars of Tomorrow? · · Score: 1

    Hmm, most people conveniently ignore the impracticalities of H2. It is far better to combine H2 with Carbon and turn it into a liquid, than to try and contain a gas with an incredibly small molecule size that can pass through steel.

  17. Too late - try on-shoring on IBM Seeks US Patents For Offshoring US Jobs · · Score: 1

    With the fall in the US Dollar, off-shoring is dead. They should try patenting on-shoring. That involves hiring Mexicans to do the work in San Diego...

  18. Re:Wait one minute... on Bird's-Eye View May Include Magnetic Fields · · Score: 1

    Hmm, got to put some bar magnets on the windmil blades...

  19. ET Phone Home... on Powerful Blast Confuses Astronomers · · Score: 0, Redundant

    What else - a god fart?

  20. Home based businesses on Half of IT Workers Sleep on the Job · · Score: 1

    Hmm, I guess there are a few people like me who kinda sleep inside their server room...

  21. Re:Not new on Copier Auto-Translates Japanese to English · · Score: 1

    What the hell do you do with an 'ether lord fucking net'?

  22. Re:Not new on Copier Auto-Translates Japanese to English · · Score: 4, Funny

    Japanese instruction is to be helping and not to be laughful at.

  23. Overtaken by virualization on When Not to Use chroot · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Basically chroot was an early attempt at virtualization. It allowed one to keep servers separated and contained, which improved reliability and availability. It has a minor positive effect on security, but not really all that much. There is a good argument to be made for not using chroot since it increases the maintenance effort, which frequently results in chrooted servers being neglected which reduces security. As for myself, I avoid using it, due to the maintenance issues.

  24. Schizophrenia and ticks on Chicago Developing 'Suspicious Behavior' Monitoring System · · Score: 2, Interesting

    So, what about the mentally ill and disabled people? Will they be harrassed till they leave town?

  25. Re:Obviously ... on Chicago Developing 'Suspicious Behavior' Monitoring System · · Score: 1

    Well, I think the real problem is that the operators are dense, not the cameras.