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  1. Re:getting gouged by whom? on Getting Gouged by Geeks · · Score: 1

    People don't want to be told that the media lie. It shakes their whole world view. So the people who want to be told about the latest diet fad will keep watching ACA and TT, and the rest of us wouldn't have fallen for their rubbish news anyway.

  2. Re:Thank you on The Next Leap for Linux · · Score: 1

    20010: the year of the Linux desktop?

  3. Google? on PEBKAC Still Plagues PC Security · · Score: 1

    I don't know, I've never had a problem that wasn't solved with a simple application of Google. By the way, what would you suppose would be the most intuitive place to put appearance related options? Left clicking the desktop, picking the relevant option [don't recall what it is- only used KDE once or twice], and the option to have a mac-style menu bar up the top is on one of the first two tabs.

  4. Re:Why are you proud of not protecting yourselves? on PEBKAC Still Plagues PC Security · · Score: 1

    Because there are better options, like setting up lower privilege user accounts to run untrusted programs in, and jails? Straight and to the point. That way, we KNOW that that program can't touch us.

  5. Re:no math nazis? on PEBKAC Still Plagues PC Security · · Score: 1

    sqrt(378) is about 19.5, which gives a margin of error of just over 5% (to 95% confidence) each way. The only studies that use more than a few hundred people are large medical studies, which ask a different type of question- where the effect of a drug can be quite slight, so larger numbers are needed for statistical significance.

    A lot of people seem to be pushing the idea that you can't get reliable numbers with a small sample. It's just not true. Samples of 25, say, give answers within 20% to 95% confidence.

  6. Re:I Will Do It on OOXML Critic Fired From Finnish Standards Board · · Score: 1

    How else can you read 'trust issues' ? :)

  7. Re:Things that are not funny on Choice Overload In Parallel Programming · · Score: 1

    I thought the same thing on first read. Examine the spelling closer.

  8. bit rot on '30 Year Laptop Battery' is Unscientific Myth · · Score: 0

    something tells me we'll need more ECC gear once we switch to those batteries.

  9. Re:What pissed me off on that was this assumption: on '30 Year Laptop Battery' is Unscientific Myth · · Score: 5, Insightful

    On the other hand, the Lithium in your current battery will remain deadly forever.

  10. Re:Idea: on Intel To Rebrand Processors In 2008 · · Score: 1

    Not dead! *cry*

    I wish I knew what has been running through the heads of the top engineers at Intel. They have all that research from Alpha. They know how to design a REAL CPU. That the Itanium couldn't emulate x86 to save its life [literally] really says something.

  11. Idea: on Intel To Rebrand Processors In 2008 · · Score: 1

    New naming convention: 21x64 / EV-y. I bet that would turn heads.

  12. Coyotos + The Hurd on 640gb PCIe Solid-State Drive Demonstrated · · Score: 1

    Eros performed fantastic as a persistent system, and Coyotos is a big improvement. That way we will be starting with a secure, semi-persistent system and emulating *nix on top of it.

    /troll

  13. Re:Oblig. on 640gb PCIe Solid-State Drive Demonstrated · · Score: 1
    Because other operating systems:
    1. don't need to be rebooted as frequently, and
    2. don't take as long to boot anyway?
    :P
  14. Re:I'm just waiting for it. on First New Nuclear Plant in US in 30 years · · Score: 2, Funny

    There's a good chance the USA already have weapons of mass destruction!

  15. Re:Not Communism, It's called Populism on New Zealand Police Act Wiki Lets You Write the Law · · Score: 1

    Populism is a system of rule with a primary interest in the people, though it does not describe means. Arguably, this makes all democracies populist. It runs tangent to everyone being able to have influence on government, but they are not equivalent. For example, businesses could have input to open fora on public policy [populism does not contain common rule], or a government could push agenda that is popular on the surface, but people do not know about since there is no open forum [common rule does not contain populism].

  16. Re:Direct democracy via the web... on New Zealand Police Act Wiki Lets You Write the Law · · Score: 1

    As long as potential bills contain Cowboy Neil options.

  17. Re:*cough* on New Zealand Police Act Wiki Lets You Write the Law · · Score: 1

    A word of advice first: being overbearing doesn't get you anywhere here, so please, examine your own argument before talking about facts.

    he way it's described to the citizens in the the propaganda communist governments spread out.

    See, there's your mistake. Should be:

    he way it's described to the citizens in the the propaganda fascist governments spread out.

    Because they are not communist, not the slightest.

    The problem is the American definition of "Communist countries". It tends to include places like China and Cuba. They are a better approximation than the USA, of course, but are still hardly communist. For example, the Chinese communist party was slaughtered after the revolution by the socialist party. Though they have a slight socialist edge where trade is concerned, the people do not own the means of production, the people do not run the government, and even on the economics side, it would be strange to call China communist. A better example economics-wise might be Singapore.

    The problem is, there has never been a communist country. The existence of one would require a government or millitia giving up their power. That just doesn't happen. People like Stalin or Castro or groups like the Chinese Socialist party will always manage to stop communism from becoming a reality.

    But that has nothing to do with what we are talking about here today, other than that Marx and Lenin mused on the idea of real democracy long before we had wiki.

  18. Re:*cough* on New Zealand Police Act Wiki Lets You Write the Law · · Score: 1

    Communism will be, the day fascism will be a "benevolent dictatorship".

    We have never and will never see it, so we know nothing. I didn't mean to come off as trolling, and I'm surprised I haven't been modded down for it yet. Because, just like the idealism that is communism, we will never see governments really listening. Much like we can complain about all the wonderfully simple things microsoft or intel could have done for us -their interest is not primarily to serve their customers, we are just lucky, or unlucky, to have their products- their interest is themselves, and all the wikis in the world won't change that.

  19. Re:*cough* on New Zealand Police Act Wiki Lets You Write the Law · · Score: 1

    Democracy corresponds to elected officials setting law. Communism is a great many things, it is a social and an economic model first and foremost, but communism, as opposed to social democracy, is the idea that the sum [or a random selection, similar to a jury] of the population set government policy.

  20. *cough* on New Zealand Police Act Wiki Lets You Write the Law · · Score: 0, Troll

    "People are calling it 'extreme democracy' and perhaps it is." Actually, we've had a word for it for a long time: Communism.

  21. Re:And Google does it again! on Firefox 3 Antiphishing Sends Your URLs To Google · · Score: 1

    That's easy enough to fix- block Google Analytics. I thought everyone did.

  22. Re:Faster, quieter, low-maintenance, uses less ene on Germany To Build New Maglev Railway · · Score: 1

    I think you'd have trouble paying for any high speed passenger line that only moves 7000 passengers a day.

  23. Re:Oh no! on Excel 2007 Multiplication Bug · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yes and no, the definition of a WORD has typically been hardware specific. For example, on a PDP, a word was 18 bits, IIRC. However, it has always meant a bit-field, which doesn't make any assumption about type.

  24. Re:The memory bug is also a CPU hogging bug. on Firefox Working to Fix Memory Leaks · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Maybe the chaining of the event handler code with numerous windows open is an issue. I think you've hit the nail on the head. Here's an experiment. Find a page with a heap of links on it. Make sure what they link to is not too huge, and doesn't open any plugins, or anything. Now, quickly, try to open the links by right clicking and choosing 'open in new tab'. You should be spending a while waiting for the menu to open. That the page you are viewing becomes unresponsive while a new tab is being created points at really horrible threading. It seems the browser is, to some degree, doing work the operating system should be doing- managing multiple [conceptual] threads.

    I guess that maybe this is a little off topic, but I think it shows that there are certainly resource problems in the tab implementation. Someone suggested separate processes for tabs with different SLDs, and complete JS & Plugin environment clean when changing SLDs, which could practically eliminate many XSS problems I assume [note: I haven't done my research on that one].
  25. Re:Just installed NoScript on GoogHOle Exploits GMail, Picasa and 200K Other Sites · · Score: 1

    "triggering" ?

    NS | Options | Notifications | uncheck "show message about blocked scripts".

    You really find it that intrusive? 640x480, eh?