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  1. Re:Apple looking at other markets on Cook Your Breakfast With MacBook · · Score: 1

    Concerned? Apple could turn it into a marketing opportunity.

  2. Re:Good. on Phishers Defeat Citibank's 2-Factor Authentication · · Score: 1

    If the phishers can login and access your bank account to withdraw money, why can't they also read the last few transactions from the webpage as well?

  3. Re:Talk about an emo AC on Open Source About the People · · Score: 1

    I didn't get it either. Urban dictionary can help.

  4. Re:Wrong... on How Much Should Broadband Cost? · · Score: 1

    As I said, I include sewer charges. Water comprises more than half of the bill and it still costs more than DSL.

    Given that you can't separate water from the sewer charges (at least in Pittsburgh), reasoning about them separately makes little sense from a consumer's point of view. Even if your water predominantly goes in beer, you still pay for the sewer service.

  5. Re:Wrong... on How Much Should Broadband Cost? · · Score: 1

    I don't know where you live, but in Pittsburgh I pay more for water (including sewer service) for a house of 3 than I pay for DSL. Water is a municipal service and there is no competition.

  6. Re:Why should a bad driver crash an OS? on Microsoft to Turn to Driver Quality Ratings System · · Score: 1

    Microsoft is doing this. Or at least Microsoft Research is. Take a look at the Singularity project. However, it's a research prototype, so don't expect this in a product anytime soon.

  7. Re:What I want to know... on Huge Storms Converge on Jupiter · · Score: 1

    Reddie, you've done a heck of a job.

  8. Re:waiting on Vim 7 Released · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Are you kidding? Emacs IS its own operating system.

  9. Re:Duh Factor on 2.6 Linux Kernel in Need of an Overhaul? · · Score: 1

    You're still using the 2MB cache, regardless of what's printed on the screen. The kernel reads version and model bits from the processor on boot and tries to look up the cache size in a table. If the table isn't updated to include the magic numbers for your fancy new processor, you simply get an incorrect printout.

  10. Re:this page intentionally left blank on Human and Machine Readable Handwritten Language? · · Score: 1

    >> Imagine what would happen if people could manually make bar codes or checks easily....

    It's not hard to make bar codes and checks if you are the least bit enterprising.

  11. Re:UFOs, free energy, and anti-gravity? on NASA Hacker Gary McKinnon Interviewed · · Score: 1

    More likely the sci-fi writing of a NASA crackpot.

  12. Re:Wasting people's time on Google Propping Up Typosquatting Biz? · · Score: 3, Funny

    > It should be based on content. If all you see is a list of search categories and lots of ads, it's typo-squatting.

    Zonk would beg to differ with you.

  13. Re:Only lost 1 wheel? pfft on Mars Rover Spirit Down a Wheel · · Score: 1

    ... but engineers are still trying to get four legs to not look like a hysterical, deranged beast.

  14. Re:Biased headline on Aussie Techs Threaten Chaos · · Score: 1

    > The Home Secretary today stated that rising health care costs could be murderous to the nation's podiatrists.

    Why? Patients can no longer foot the bill?

  15. Re:Use VTune on Code Profiling on AMD Systems? · · Score: 1

    There's a very good technical reason for this: Intel and AMD have completely different performance counters on their processors. Each counter has its own microrachitectural- and implementation-specific bugs and quirks. As an example, the P6 performance counters look nothing like the P4's (both in the architectural interface and the implementation). The counters certainly aren't gospel and Intel is lucky when they can correctly use their own implementations (see the copious errata and footnotes on Intel's performance counter docs for details).

    Asking Intel to put its name on a product that supports the AMD counters, with their own undocumented bugs and quirks, is asking a lot. They didn't build the Opteron, they don't know how it really works, and AMD certainly isn't going to tell their arch competitor their trade secrets. If this weren't the case, there would be far better performance analysis tools than there are today.

  16. Re:Blown out of proportion... on Internet Suicide Pacts Surge in Japan · · Score: 4, Funny

    Not a problem. The trend will die out.

  17. Re:GNUCash Ported Elsewhere? on GnuCash 1.9.0 Released · · Score: 1

    From an average user's standpoint, it's a horrible choice for GNUCash IMHO. Scheme is certainly not (and was never intended to be) a scripting language.

  18. Re:GNUCash Ported Elsewhere? on GnuCash 1.9.0 Released · · Score: 4, Interesting

    >I'm not sure how many extraneous libraries GnuCash 1.9 relies on...

    If it's anything like the 1.8 version, it relies on at piles of esoteric packages. Why this program has significant portions written in scheme (of all things!), I will never understand.

    I use the program, but it requires extraordinary care and maintenance. There was an issue with debian package dependencies sometime last year which completely broke gnucash for weeks. It's simply poor software design. Now I run it within a vmware player image which never gets updated, so I can be sure that it'll start tomorrow.

  19. Re:not really on Mistakes Found in 98% of US Patents · · Score: 2, Funny

    >if you cant figure out how to write patnet your self,or are to lazy, u don't deserve it

    QED.

    There are at least nine spelling, grammar, and punctuation mistakes in the quoted sentence.

  20. Re:If you like this, try too AJAX Developer's Jour on Asynchronous Requests with JavaScript and Ajax · · Score: 1

    Suppose the ads were served with ajax. Then you could claim it as a (profitable) example.

  21. Re: $110 a month's worth of calls sounds expensive on Your Cell Records For Sale Online, Cheap · · Score: 1

    And he has Porter Goss read them outloud.

  22. Re:Dragons, et al on Technology Predictions for 2006? · · Score: 1

    >On the other hand, it might be a way to get kids to school.

    You've heard about that childhood obesity problem, right? Not going to happen.

  23. Re:Gotta jump through a few hoops first... on The FBI's IT Expansion Plans · · Score: 1

    You're in luck now: the FBI is thinking about lowering its standards for drug use. Figures.

  24. Re:In other words... on The FBI's IT Expansion Plans · · Score: 1

    A few that come to mind:

    Evaluation
    Extraction
    Examination
    Extermination

    Use your judgement.

  25. Re:who would seriously sign up for this? on You've Got Indictments · · Score: 2, Interesting

    In South Korea, this might just work. They're crazy about functional ringtones out there.