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  1. Re:No, I MEANT 200 adware FILES, NOT cookies!! on Limewire Gets Ads, And Accusations of Spyware · · Score: 1

    Each cookie has its own file.

  2. Re:5x more secure? on Intel's 802.11A Wireless: 5x Faster · · Score: 1

    in my case my password is in cleartext when sent to my UW IMAP server, of course I'm moving to something else but in the meantime

    I use ssh forwarding to take care of this. My outlook express looks at localhost for the IMAP server. I then use TeraTerm SSH to ssh into my home system. TTSSH is set up to forward the local imap port to the imap port on my machine. SSH forwarding has done wonders for closing down ports on my firewall.

  3. Re:better solution: same hardware on Intel's 802.11A Wireless: 5x Faster · · Score: 2

    But each student gets their own 2Mbps, regardless of how many others are on the network. You's have to run a 100Mbps line to the server they are connecting to, but the alternative is running lines everywhere.

  4. Re:Affiliate program revenue and Slashdot posts on Ask Bruce Campbell Anything... · · Score: 2

    Would it be more appropriate for this site to choose a charity like the EFF and send affiliate commissions to them, when stories tied to products were run?

    No, it would be appropriate for the readers of this site to join or donate to the EFF, if they want to.

    /. is a commercial site and so I don't see anything wrong with it getting revenue.

  5. Re:It only confirms that the 1st amendment is uniq on Council of Europe Pushes Net Hate-Speech Ban · · Score: 1

    It comes down to the threat to society. If you kill me because you hate me, then you've killed the person you want to kill and should be punished. If you kill me because of some characteristic shared by many many other people, then you need to be punished and then kept in jail longer as a prevention.

    The thing I dislike about hate crime laws is that I feel they may be applied in some cases where there is no actual hate crime; e.g. they beat up the guy because he was a dick and talking shit, not because he was black/gay/muslim/whatever.

  6. Re:Just how much is 144 PB? Correction on Linux Breaks 100 Petabyte Ceiling · · Score: 1

    The fact is that I agreed with you two posts ago. That's because I looked up the definition of island and it said in two different sources (dictionary.com and m-w.com) that its a land mass surrounded by water that is smaller than a continent. But then you responded to me saying that australia, the country is made up of more than the mainland, and that continent contains the country. It's still very vague as to what the continent really contains. If it just contains the mainland, then the mainland isn't smaller than a continent (it IS a continent). But if it includes more than that is is smaller than a continent, and thus an island. Your Eurasia theory doesn't fit because it isn't smaller than a continent (indeed bigger than one). Besides, I never claimed that Australia was the biggest. I just claimed it was bigger than Greenland.

  7. Re:GPL and Napster-like things on Napster Alternatives Coming Strong · · Score: 2

    But my point still stands. Does it make sense to have two laws covering the case of robery? I just don't see what this prevents except lawful people carrying their firearms into a liquor store.

    Now for places where you can consume alcohol and become intoxicated, then I can see a need for the law. Theoretically, you could make one against carrying a firearm while intoxicated, but by that point your judgement is impaired so that you may not give it up and may react badly to it being taken.

    But carrying a holstered pistol into a liquor store? If you are going to rob the store, you are going to bring the pistol in regardsless. Just up the penalty for robbing the store armed.

  8. This article isn't about Internet 2 on Article In The Guardian On Internet2 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The title Article In The Guardian On Internet2 is erroneous. The article is actually about Geant, "the new pan-European network serving more than 3,000 of the continent's academic and research institutions". Basically, Europes version of I2.

  9. Re:Developers! on Ballmer, Gates on Microsoft's Future · · Score: 2

    For those who don't get it. (I'm gonna be /.'ed. Oh well.)

  10. Re:GPL and Napster-like things on Napster Alternatives Coming Strong · · Score: 2

    So are you saying that we should enact a law that says you can't bring a gun into a liquor store in addition to one that says you can't rob a liquor store with a gun? What does this prevent? If 99.99% of the people who enter a liquor store with a gun are there to rob it (a figure I doubt, living in the south while considering getting my concealed handguns license), then they will fall under the law saying you can't rob it.

    A better example may be laws peventing you from taking weapons on airplanes, but I feel that there is more than the fear that a terrorist will bring a gun on. But there is specious reasoning along the lines of "it's illegal to bring weapons on a plane and so only criminals do it". And we haven't even considered the massive difference between risking the lives of people and trading music.

  11. Re:This article is crap on Dump Broadband, Dig Out Your Modem! · · Score: 2

    1) They want to keep AOL

    More like they don't want to pay two ISPs. You can definitely use AOL over broadband. Our ex-roommate did all the time before she discovered Yahoo Messenger.

  12. Helms-Buton Law on Yahoo! Not Bound by French Court Ruling · · Score: 2

    The French ruling is similar to Helms-Burton Act where companies or individuals who trade in Cuban expropriated property outside of the United States are not allowed into the United States. Similarly, the French government is saying that a company that facilitates the trading of nazi memorabilia outside of it's country cannot exist in it's own country.

    The judgement from the U.S. judge means nothing. If France wants to throw the French division of Yahoo out of the country, there is little it can do. If the french government fines Yahoo, then they either have to pay or pull out of France. All the U.S. ruling said is that if they pull out, France can't get them to legally pay the fines.

  13. Re:Just how much is 144 PB? Correction on Linux Breaks 100 Petabyte Ceiling · · Score: 1

    I see. Being that by your research mainland Australia is actually smaller than the continent (as it includes the offshore island state of Tasmania), the mainland is an island. Thanks for pointing that out.

  14. Re:My solution... on Is Storage Capacity Outstriping Backup Capability? · · Score: 1

    G I don't worry about
    But what about your Diablo save game files. I'd hate to lose mine...

  15. Re:Surprising. :) on EFF To Defend Music Swapping Service MusicCity · · Score: 2

    How are they going to stop these services? Especially open source ones?

    If they can make it illegal to peer to peer, then they just have to make a few high profile cases against individuals in order to make people afraid to use it.

  16. Re:Just how much is 144 PB? Correction on Linux Breaks 100 Petabyte Ceiling · · Score: 1

    I'll buy this. I was erroneously under the belief that New Zealand was part of the Australian continent, but not the Australian country. Plus I bought the marketing stating that Australia is the island continent.

    I find it kind of odd that New Zealand isn't part of a continent.

  17. Re:Inherent flaws on NASA Considers Privatizing Space Shuttles · · Score: 3, Insightful

    In case you "could care less" about this, I would be quick to remind you that its your tax money (if you're indeed a US citizen) and this could potentially save quite a bit of it.

    I thought the point is that it isn't our tax money. Instead, the launches will be privatized and the companies who use the services to lauch satellites etc will have to pay the full price. They will then take the risks involved in choosing one bidder over another, and the private organizations will come up with novel ways of increasing their payload/cost efficiency in oreder to maximize their profits or compete effectivly.

    I'm not 100% certain that this is a good approach, however.It very difficult for me to understand the economic game plan of the current executive in this country. Subsidizing launches is good for the economy in the way that lower interest rates and tax cuts are good for the economy. It seems like they are pulling with one hand while pushing with the other. Then there is just the factor that spinning off a new industry while the economy is receeding just doesn't seem smart to me. If these were boom times, then I'd be all for it.

  18. Re:49 years to read the file on Linux Breaks 100 Petabyte Ceiling · · Score: 2

    And yet, if each byte were indexed in a balanced binary tree, it would take 57 operations to find it.

    Of course the index would be too large for the filesystem if literally each byte were to be indexed. At the very least, each byte would need a 7.125 byte pointer to it.

  19. Re:144 or 128 petabytes? on Linux Breaks 100 Petabyte Ceiling · · Score: 2

    The number is derived from the addressibility which is binary based. Specifically, it's talking about 2^48*512, so in this case, it's using the base-2 interpretation. See this thread for a more humourous discussion about this.

  20. Re:Just how much is 144 PB? Correction on Linux Breaks 100 Petabyte Ceiling · · Score: 1

    /. ate my <

    It should have been:

    7,686,810 km^2 < 2,175,600 km^2?

  21. Re:Just how much is 144 PB? on Linux Breaks 100 Petabyte Ceiling · · Score: 2

    Australia is 7,686,810 km^2

    Greenland (the largest island in the world) is 2,175,600 km^2


    7,686,810 km^2 2,175,600 km^2? Is this the new math?

  22. Re:OK this is great... on Linux Breaks 100 Petabyte Ceiling · · Score: 2

    Maybe this guy would need it.

  23. Yet another use on One-Machine Linux Cluster · · Score: 2

    Another use that hasn't been mentioned here is testing your failover systems. Now, instead of buying two machines, you can buy one and simulate crashes to test the failover. Very useful stuff.

    Note: for most packages there are ways to do this anyway, but they can become a PITA.

  24. Re:Notice Opera? on Sharp Readies SL-5000D · · Score: 2

    the number of Linux based handhelds seems to be pushing towarsd linux, i think it has something to do with the cost

    I should hope Linux based handhelds are pushing towards linux.

    did anyone else pick up opera in the screenshot

    The write up claimed they have Opera 5.0

  25. Re:hey what ever happened to ginger?? on The (Possible) Future of Alternative Energy · · Score: 1

    I always preferred Mary Anne. Now that was an energy source.