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  1. Re:Don't blow. Use rubbing alcohol. on $12 MIT Computer Based On NES, Not Apple II · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yes, it does. Especially if there is any sort of current to flow through any two bridged-by-non-evaporated-conductive-material contacts. The copper turns green, puffs up and turns black, severing the trace. At least w/ the alcohol you reduce oxidation and it dries much faster

  2. Re:JAR = ZIP, and GIF+ZIP = old news on A Photo That Can Steal Your Online Credentials? · · Score: 1

    Sorry, no. Most ZIP programs simply search for the PK header and use that offset as the header. Try it.
    in windows you can do..
    COPY /b infile1.gif + infile2.zip outfile.gif

    the resulting file can be opened as a graphic, yet an archive program will see the contents of the ZIP

  3. Re:A strange one for Objective-C on Best and Worst Coding Standards? · · Score: 1

    No, I know what you're talking about, I was meaning in the cases when you are unsure if something is initialized or not.

  4. My style, as if it matters on Best and Worst Coding Standards? · · Score: 1

    I don't use curly braces unless I'm performing multiple lines of code for a condition or loop

    bool myfunction(int a,float b,char *c) {
      if (true) something;
      else something;

      if (true) something;
      else {
        multisomething;
      }

      if (true) {
        multisomething;
      } else something;

      if (true) {
        multisomething;
      } else {
        multisomething;
      }

      a+=5; //None of this a=a+5 stuff
      a<<=1; //I shift integers when multiplying/dividing in powers of 2 (in this case a/=2 or a=a/2)
      b++; //I use ++ and -- when simply incrementng/decrementing.  None of this b+=1 or b=b+1 stuff

    //I like my goto loops only when there is no condition immediately testable at the top or bottom.  a "while (1) {}" would suffice, but feels wasteful (an always true condition test)
    //I reverse indent my labels, and indent the code further than the previous-to indent
    loopTop:
        stuff;
        stuff;
        if (condition) {
      badCondition:
          stuff;
          stuff;
          goto loopTop;  //a "continue" would replace this in a "while (1)"
        }
        stuff;
        stuff;
        stuff;
        if (condition) goto badCondition;  //jump to my condition code, as its a waste to repeat same functionality, or the overhead of passing variables and pointers to a subroutine
        stuff;
        stuff;
        stuff;
        if (condition) goto badCondition;
        stuff;
        stuff;
        goto loopTop;
    loopEnd:
      return true;
    }

  5. Re:A strange one for Objective-C on Best and Worst Coding Standards? · · Score: 1

    In these cases, in C, I just to a memset

  6. Re:Some of those examples on Best and Worst Coding Standards? · · Score: 1

    Umm... what?

  7. Eew on Company Makes Fake Cigarette Smells for Smokeless Bars · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I avoid smokers because of the smell, not the carcinogens! Honestly I don't care about the 'side effects', its just that godawful smell.

  8. Re:A dumb question: on Fallout From the Fall of CAPTCHAs · · Score: 5, Informative

    a combo if requiring an account, and having to wait at least 30 seconds before writing a reply, plus moderation. However, the firehose is littered with spam ads...

  9. Re:Core pron on IBM's Eight-Core, 4-GHz Power7 Chip · · Score: 1

    Err, I conquered.

  10. Re:Core pron on IBM's Eight-Core, 4-GHz Power7 Chip · · Score: 0

    That's dirty.

  11. Release set for 2010 on IBM's Eight-Core, 4-GHz Power7 Chip · · Score: 1

    WTF? By that date, using the planned arch, it will be obsolete if not already scrapped before then.

  12. Re:To burn some karma on Simple Mod Turns Diodes Into Photon Counters · · Score: 1

    I was thinking so, too, but the comment i was expanding was being scrolled-to-top sometimes. So now I know where to look when that happens.

  13. Re:The language of engineers on Learn a Foreign Language As an Engineer? · · Score: 1

    I can relate, coming from a German family my mother refused to speak it at home. Every time I go back over thattaway, they are always, ALWAYS speaking English to me even if I;m speaking German to them.
    If you want to lean the language like that you have to scold the peoples to remain native, or stick to the TV/radio/papers and a dictionary.

  14. Use a modded flatbed on Digitizing Old Magazines? · · Score: 1

    Get a cheapie flat bed off of ebay, one where the scanning window has a very thin border in respect to the dimensions of the scanner itself.
    I had a Canon somethingordother USB scanner where I could remove one of the edge bezels and slide the binding of a book right up against it flat on the glass without having that ugly fade-and-blur effect where the pages curl into the binding.
    Of course, you would not get that section of the book/magazine in the scan where the bezel was

  15. Re:I don't think the report is accurate on PC Repair In Texas Now Requires a PI License · · Score: 1

    So when I glance at my monitor to see the progress of the file backup, and I'm seeing a huge block of filenames like "lolita 13yo makes daddy cum" or "10yo brittany takes it up the ass" I will be fined and sent to prison for reporting it??? (This did happen, sans the fines and imprisonment of myself)

  16. This is nothing new on A 3-D Holographic Display · · Score: 1

    I remember seeing something like this on the discovery channel in the early/mid 90's. It was a helical white corkscrew that spun really fast and had lasers/projector light up a spot on the corkscrew when it reached the appropriate Y-position at constant X/Z positions to make a 3D image.

  17. Re:Always. on When Is a Self-Signed SSL Certificate Acceptable? · · Score: 1

    Not a problem no, but I can see if they become common place in the general arena it would cause that kind of desensitization. People are stupid, they don't realize they have a problem until all the adware/spyware that they've accumulated adds so many toolbars they can no longer see the page they want, or when their OS starts crashing "too much". A lot of these get installed by the user's own clicks because a phony alert came up telling them "ALERT! You're not protected! click here!", etc

  18. Re:Always. on When Is a Self-Signed SSL Certificate Acceptable? · · Score: 1

    They don't/can't protect from man-in-the-middle, they simply provide an accepted known signature that tells the browser that the site('s cert) is verified authentic, vs, say, a DNS hijack with a X-signed (self or otherwise) cert that, unless alerted about funny goings-on, a user would see that security blanket of a lock icon and submit personal info.

    Ex: www.ebay.com gets hijacked, the jackers don't have the true private cert, so they create their own. The browser doesn't recognize the granter as a CA it alerts and warns, etc. A small fraction of personal data gets protected - i say small because i think most of the idiots in the inter tubes would just continue on their merry way "Goddamnit, get me to ebay already" *OK* *Yes* *Accept*

  19. Java? on Cool/Weird Stuff To Do On a Cluster? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Doesn't using Java nullify/negate the power/usefulness of the cluster?

  20. Re:I... on Machine Prints 3D Copies Of Itself · · Score: 1

    As ./ has done the last 3 times this "new" thing was announced

  21. Intel already did this, on Microchips With Multiple "Selves" · · Score: 1

    Remember the Pentium III?
    Yeah, there was already an outcry about that and Intel has since not done it again. - at least, no tin the same manner.

  22. Repost on Machine Prints 3D Copies Of Itself · · Score: 1
  23. Re:FP on Pringles Can Designer Dies, Buried In a Pringles Can · · Score: 1

    Something long and cylindrical, but under 12 inches. hmmm...

  24. Re:Why, why, why on Google Earth, Now With Browser Goodness · · Score: 1

    Or just provide a KML to launch the standalone GE

  25. Maybe on New 4GB Flash Drive Packs Quite a Punch · · Score: 1

    Maybe they left off a 0 on 40?