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  1. Re:Are there any known MD5 collisions today? on Finding MD5 Collisions With Chinese Lottery · · Score: 1

    All MD5 hashes are 128 bits, or it's not an MD5 hash. The SHA-1 algorithm, which is similar, produces 160 bits.

  2. Re:Short answer: yes on Finding MD5 Collisions With Chinese Lottery · · Score: 1

    Really? Was it a reduced-round variant? If it's real MD5 I'd be very interested to see the paper.

  3. Guess What? on 101 Ways To Save The Internet · · Score: 3, Funny

    #0. The internet works great! Don't touch it!

  4. Re:Interesting on Razer Develops 1000 DPI Optical Gaming Mouse · · Score: 2, Informative


    However does the higher DPI mean that one needs more mouse mat "real estate" to use it effectively?

    On the contrary; you need much less mat real estate, unless you turn down the mouse "sensitivity" in your games.

    Could a similar effect be achieved by simply turning down the mouse sensitivity in the game for a "regular" mouse?

    As long as you don't mind moving your mouse really far in order to turn around. The point of a high res mouse is that you get precision without having to move very far, which makes for quite quick, accurate sniping.

  5. Boomslang is awesome on Razer Develops 1000 DPI Optical Gaming Mouse · · Score: 1

    I have a Boomslang and I don't intend to switch. I hardly have to move my hand at all to use it! What is the point of optical mice?

  6. Re:LaTeX? on Is Self Publishing Worth the Price? · · Score: 1


    Latex is actually an excellent way to get high quality PDFs with proper typesetting (spacing, hyphenation, ligatures) and fancy stuff like drop caps, even if you never enter math mode once. I used it for the novel I wrote for this year's Nanowrimo, and I'd definitely recommend it!

  7. lulu on Is Self Publishing Worth the Price? · · Score: 1

    No, they're not worth hundreds of dollars, because lulu will do it for free. There are still some kinks in their process, but they have pretty good customer support and a great attitude.

  8. Re:Fine With Me on Californians To Vote On Largest DNA Database · · Score: 1

    I guess this is probably a troll (the spelling errors are irresistible!), but, it is still important to note that this database would include anyone who is arrested. They can arrest you at any time, even if you've done nothing wrong. Also, "felony" doesn't actually mean anything, so such a database might include people convicted of various crimes less serious (or relevant) than murder.

  9. Re:I don't think there are 31-bit architectures on Time's Up: 2^30 Seconds Since 1970 · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's not uncommon to use some extra bits for tags in implementations of some high-level languages. For instance, in SML/NJ the 'int' type is 31-bits long and signed; all integers are represented shifted up one bit and with a 1 in the new ones place. This is to distinguish them from pointers, which (since they are aligned) always end in two 0 bits. The arithmetic primops account for this extra bit, usually with very little overhead since the instructions are simple and can be paired. (Other SML compilers do it in different, sometimes better ways.) Anyway, fortunately they are not dumb enough to use 'int' to represent time, so there's no problem there! I expect there are lisp implementations that do similar things.

  10. Re:Totally unrelated... on Sports Videogames And Sports - Symbiotic Or Parasitic? · · Score: 1

    "Nah, lemme play Track & Field on the NES instead and hit the 'a' button as hard as I can instead of a 3-mile run."

    Hoo, you didn't get the power pad?

    For my part, playing a hockey video games actually got me interested enough to sign up for a class, and now I actually understand and care (a little) when I see games on TV.

  11. Exploitable! on Mac OS X Buffer Overflow Found · · Score: 1

    Right on. This is a classic overflow, and there is nothing magic about OS X that will make it hard to exploit.

  12. Re:Telepathy! on Getting Power to a Rack Enclosure? · · Score: 1

    Well, if they bolted them to the middle of the floor and then realized that there's nowhere to plug in the equipment, they might consider unbolting and rebolting somewhere else.

  13. Re:Telepathy! on Getting Power to a Rack Enclosure? · · Score: 2, Funny

    You forgot moving the object closer to the power outlet!

  14. 8 bit days on On The Quality Of Licensed Game Soundtracks · · Score: 3, Interesting


    Personally, I still mourn for the 8 bit days of epic tunes composed under byzantine constraints.

  15. Why? on In Search of the Digital Uberdevice · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why do they only want to sell me one device?

  16. Inaccurate on EA Uses ASCII Billboard To Woo Rivals · · Score: 4, Funny

    But seriously, who programs in a proportional font?

  17. Re:Use an LCD for crisp 2D. on 2D vs 3D Performance in Today's Video Cards? · · Score: 1

    ...but passes through the DVI signal unadultered.

    Well, that's kind of the point, right? ;)

    Anyway, correctly working DVI-D should always look better than analog. It might be broken, yeah. It may be as another poster suggested: DVI cables can also carry analog signals, and it's possible that your video card fell back to analog because it couldn't support digital DVI at that resolution.

  18. Re:Use an LCD for crisp 2D. on 2D vs 3D Performance in Today's Video Cards? · · Score: 1

    Don't forget that a DVI-I connector can piggyback a DVI-A, you know, analog signal that used to be a VGA.

    Okay, I meant DVI-D. Using DVI for analog is pretty sad. ;)

  19. Re:Use an LCD for crisp 2D. on 2D vs 3D Performance in Today's Video Cards? · · Score: 1


    Really? I don't understand how this is possible. With DVI, the graphics card should not affect the picture quality.

    Also, I can't imagine anyone prefering analog video to digital, since you start with a digital signal (the pixels on the screen) and the conversion to analog and then back to digital is always lossy.

  20. Use an LCD for crisp 2D. on 2D vs 3D Performance in Today's Video Cards? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Switch to LCD and DVI. The monitor cable you use to connect to your card, if analog, can also make quite a big difference.

    Also, "definite" is not spelled with an 'a.' Think, "finite."

  21. Re:Why not just make it optional? on Microsoft: Patches, Patches Everywhere! · · Score: 1


    And the last time you actually conversed with another human was? :)

    Are you human? ;)

  22. Why not just make it optional? on Microsoft: Patches, Patches Everywhere! · · Score: 1


    Seriously, why not just have an option in the update tool that allows me to patch ASAP or in monthly intervals?
    Personally, I would choose ASAP. Patching is pretty fun.

  23. VirtualDub on Dealing w/ Codec Hell Under Multiple OSes? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Nobody here has mentioned it yet, so I'll remark that VirtualDub is the best at opening and reconstructing broken AVI files.

  24. Re:Programming languages on Funny Things You've Seen on Resumes? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You may know the basic syntax for ten different languages, but that doesn't mean you're an expert programmer in all.

    On the other hand, if you have a good general education in programming with a lot of hacking experience in a few languages, then you sure won't find it very difficult to pick up C#, even if you only have passing familiarity with its syntax.

  25. Re:6 Megabytes?????? on 40th Mersenne Prime Found · · Score: 1

    While we're doing decompression, I offer the following 12-byte version:

    2^20996011-1

    Seriously, though, where did you get the factor of 300 difference? You think it takes less than a 37th of a bit to represent each digit?