Comment Don't forget (Score 4, Funny) 267
to surround it all by a blink tag
Comment Re:In my case (Score 1) 357
Just don't crank it up to 11
Comment Re:The simple answer (Score 1) 118
"Have you ever subscribed to even one high-traffic mailing list?"
Actually I do, more than a few. And no I don't do it because it's my job. My email client sorts them into mail boxes and I read them when I have time. I do get behind, but I can run thru a couple of hundred postings looking for the interesting ones and catch up quickly.
"Yahoo Groups sucks"
There, fixed that for you
Comment The simple answer (Score 0) 118
Remove the web interface and create a mailing list instead.
Online web forums are a pain in the butt, deliver it to my mailbox and I'll probably read it. Put it on a website somewhere with a klunky interface and I'll seldom bother.
Comment Moments ago (Score 1) 855
While I sympathize with all those who do real tech support (both for pay and for family) the tech support side isn't without it's clueless support people.
Take the responce I got moments ago from a Clearwire support person in response to a question about blocking of inbound ports 80 and 25. "Oh we don't block port 80, after all it's the 'Internet'"
After explaining the problem once again I get the "I can't answer that, you will have to call tech support" reply.
Comment Re:if your product is so useful (Score 1) 208
"whilst"?
Seriously?
Srsly
Submission + - Sequestering carbon as a soil fertilizer
One Salient Oversight writes: "I'll let the article speak for itself:
The first meeting of the International Agrichar Initiative convened about 100 scientists, policymakers, farmers and investors with the goal of birthing an entire new industry to produce a biofuel that goes beyond carbon neutral and is actually carbon negative. The industry could provide a "wedge" of carbon reduction amounting to a minimum of ten percent of world emissions and possibly much more.
Agrichar is the term not for the biomass fuel, but for what is left over after the energy is removed: a charcoal-based soil amendment. In simple terms, the agrichar process takes dry biomass of any kind and bakes it in a kiln to produce charcoal. The process is called pyrolysis. Various gases and bio-oils are driven off the material and collected to use in heat or power generation. The charcoal is buried in the ground, sequestering the carbon that the growing plants had pulled out of the atmosphere. The end result is increased soil fertility and an energy source with negative carbon emissions.
Birth of a New Wedge (By Kelpie Wilson)"
The first meeting of the International Agrichar Initiative convened about 100 scientists, policymakers, farmers and investors with the goal of birthing an entire new industry to produce a biofuel that goes beyond carbon neutral and is actually carbon negative. The industry could provide a "wedge" of carbon reduction amounting to a minimum of ten percent of world emissions and possibly much more.
Agrichar is the term not for the biomass fuel, but for what is left over after the energy is removed: a charcoal-based soil amendment. In simple terms, the agrichar process takes dry biomass of any kind and bakes it in a kiln to produce charcoal. The process is called pyrolysis. Various gases and bio-oils are driven off the material and collected to use in heat or power generation. The charcoal is buried in the ground, sequestering the carbon that the growing plants had pulled out of the atmosphere. The end result is increased soil fertility and an energy source with negative carbon emissions.
Birth of a New Wedge (By Kelpie Wilson)"
Submission + - An open letter to the Internet regarding the 2008
safrus writes: Daily KOS has an interesting article about how to get an independent into the white house. after the HD-DVD Revolt and the Ron Paul ABC revolt it makes you wonder just how much the internet community will be able to influence the 2008 elections.
Can you digg it?
Submission + - Wikipedia as a political battleground
Denis Troller writes: "During the French debate between the two presidential contestants on TV thursday 04/03, among other discussions, Segolene Royal asked her rival if he new what generation the EPR (Europeean Pressurized Reactor). "Fourth", was Nicolas Sarkozy's answer, which Segolene Royal corrected saying "you're wrong, it's third".
The issue at hand is not the trivia exchanged by the condidates, but the fact reported by the French journal "Liberation" [liberation, in french].
Under a few hours, the french EPR page on wikipedia underwent a succession of changes (about 50), Sarkozy's supporters trying to mask their candidate's mistake, and Segolene's trying to maintain the correct information. An interesting twist on wikipedia's open modification scheme and the growing usage of "online medium" for political campaigning, be it in France or in the US (see Obama's MySpace "scandal" on that matter)."
The issue at hand is not the trivia exchanged by the condidates, but the fact reported by the French journal "Liberation" [liberation, in french].
Under a few hours, the french EPR page on wikipedia underwent a succession of changes (about 50), Sarkozy's supporters trying to mask their candidate's mistake, and Segolene's trying to maintain the correct information. An interesting twist on wikipedia's open modification scheme and the growing usage of "online medium" for political campaigning, be it in France or in the US (see Obama's MySpace "scandal" on that matter)."
Submission + - Wind farms might not reduce pollution
catbutt writes: "According to a NYTimes article, which references a National Academy of Sciences study, wind farms may not be effective at reducing polution. The logic seems a bit odd, though, because it says that the reason it won't reduce certain types of pollutants is that there "was already a cap on sulfur emissions and one on nitrogen oxides was likely to follow. Is is possible such caps are a bad idea, then, if they cause people to not bother reducing their output of pollutants, since all it would end up doing is allowing someone else to pollute more?"
Submission + - Norton Sales : Space Age Rocket Salvage Yard : HDR
eecue writes: "This weekend I shot this photo essay covering an amazing salvage yard for rockets and rocket parts. Not model rockets, real rockets!"
Submission + - No-blood method for adding magnetic sense
Bill Bumgarner writes: "You can feel magnetic fields and the like without taking a knife to a finger.
Just rip apart a hard drive and grab the head park magnet (if there is one — might have to rip apart more than one drive! Fun!). Tape it to your finger. Very faint, but works. You can also use a "magnetic wedding band", which some companies sell, to detect fields off of transformers quite easily.
Write up with pictures here: http://www.friday.com/bbum/2007/03/27/magnetic-fin ger-a-sixth-sense/"
Just rip apart a hard drive and grab the head park magnet (if there is one — might have to rip apart more than one drive! Fun!). Tape it to your finger. Very faint, but works. You can also use a "magnetic wedding band", which some companies sell, to detect fields off of transformers quite easily.
Write up with pictures here: http://www.friday.com/bbum/2007/03/27/magnetic-fi
Submission + - Engineers reveal nuclear-powered lunar rover!
ranga_the_don writes: "Chinese scientists have shown off a prototype Moon rover that could lead to the country's first unmanned mission to the lunar surface in 2012. Read more here."
Feed Flexible Electronics Could Find Applications As Sensors, Artificial Muscles (sciencedaily.com)
Flexible electronic structures with the potential to bend, expand and manipulate electronic devices are currently being developed by researchers. These flexible structures could find useful applications as sensors and as electronic devices that can be integrated into artificial muscles or biological tissues.
Submission + - Breaking 104 bit WEP in less then 60 Seconds
collin.m writes: "Erik Tews with the help of two others published a new attack on WEP called: Breaking 104 bit WEP in less then 60 Seconds.
Like the older attacks on WEP this attack uses sniffed IVs in order to break/compute/crack the WEP key. The nice thing about this attack is that it only needs between 40.000 and 85.000 unique IVs (older attacks needed between 250.000 and 1.000.000 in order to succeed). This all ready reduces the overall attack time since one needs to capture less packages. But the attack also uses a new/other attack on RC4 that further improves the speed. The paper gives an average of 3 seconds (crack time) on 1.7Ghz Pentium-M. The attack even works with 5000 keys so it should be usable on a PDA or SmartPhone.
Paper
The Tool and more Information"
Like the older attacks on WEP this attack uses sniffed IVs in order to break/compute/crack the WEP key. The nice thing about this attack is that it only needs between 40.000 and 85.000 unique IVs (older attacks needed between 250.000 and 1.000.000 in order to succeed). This all ready reduces the overall attack time since one needs to capture less packages. But the attack also uses a new/other attack on RC4 that further improves the speed. The paper gives an average of 3 seconds (crack time) on 1.7Ghz Pentium-M. The attack even works with 5000 keys so it should be usable on a PDA or SmartPhone.
Paper
The Tool and more Information"
