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  1. Re:Huh wot ? on YouTube To Block Music Videos In the UK · · Score: 1
    What ho.

    And who finished off Hitler anyway:-)

  2. Re:Prediction.. on Nvidia Mulls Cheap, Integrated x86 Chip · · Score: 1

    Nvdia would might have to buy VIA, as the only way to get a x86 license, which Intel hardly likes to give away. I don't know how else Nvida will get one. Nvdia is probably worried about AMD's Fusion, with a ATI graphics chip and Phenom on the same bit of silicon. Fusion might well come to rule the low end system, and Nvida wants a peace of the action.

  3. Re:oh god, please no. on Nvidia Mulls Cheap, Integrated x86 Chip · · Score: 1

    True, but only for Intels integrated graphics. Nvdia, and ATIs are a lot better. They won't play new games at best resolution and 16 time antialiases, but they probably would play a newish game at medium resolution.

  4. Plus and Minuses on Dell's First XPS System With AMD Phenom II Tested · · Score: 1
    Plus its AMD, (have to love AMD, if it was only Intelm chips would cost thousands). Phenom II is an OK processor competitive, but not a outright winner. Its a pity that AMD gets starts catching up, just as the economy goes to crap, and no ones buying.

    Minus its a Dell. Incredible boring machines, Dells. Has Dell, ever done anything innovative?

  5. Like Linked-In a lot on Linked In Or Out? · · Score: 1

    Not because its a must have service, but i signed up to promote my business. And found, real old colleagues. When you all alone in business, that matters. When you've got no job, and previous experience is all that matter to employers, and perphaps you lie, thats matters. Shall i contact them, some, a cheery reply from that graphic designer girl, i never got to date. A fellow ex-director who lost his job to the big bosses fickle decision. Another guy, didn't know well, One my hardiest working colleagues whos at Google now. Google could buy me out, or crush me like a insect, want a friend there? Identity theft thats the worry. I'd be flattered if someone would want to be me, but the police better be good on it. But my banks, and suppliers have pretty good security checks. But i like it recorded in the world, that i was around, doing my bit.

  6. The End of TV, (unlikely) on Cory Doctorow Calls Death To Music, Movies, Print · · Score: 1
    I tried giving up Television in a bid to get more work done, living entirely with computers and the real world for entertainment. What happened, instead I played World of war craft, and spent more time drinking in the pub. Not at all sure if I would have got less work done otherwise. But as a work livestyle balance goes, giving up TV didn't work. The difference is TV is a passive medium you don't need to react to if you don't want to, and people need there passive entertainment time, just like they need there sleep. World of Warcraft a even less pointful activity than TV took over. And that productivity experiment (no TV), (which you need to do if your self employed) failed. I need TV in my life, just in limited quantities. Frankly the British generally score couch potato on this, (and seem to have a taste for high pressure drama, that doesn't match with me one bit). The British like it bleak, go figure, the economy news is probably cheering us up. The internet may be big, but googles entire advertising revenue for a year, 20 billion is the size of just two British channels. The internet world wide, is smaller than TV in one middle rank country. The internet can and will grow bigger, but it might never take over TV for leisure. And here by internet I mean the web. The means of transmission don't really matter.

    Internet Advertising blog feeds. The blog feed I source that I'm least proud of of. Skim to see what i mean. I want the internet to be a mass of SEO reciprocal links with no care for the readers, slightly less than another war. Yet it somehow needs to exist to run and fund the internet. I think I managed to promote my company without going off topic there. At least that's my hope.

  7. Java came from the browser on Sun Slips Firefox Extension Into Java Update · · Score: 0

    Its not surprising java installs itself to firefox, java started as a language to run applets in the browser and still needs to be there. These days its nearly all cross-scripting prone javascript widgets instead of applets. I can program either, but frankly i'd rather have robust standardised java to program in, then different DOM from every browser javascript. Can someone get bring the applet back, maybe java-fx (actually the library with it, not the new scripting language, will help.

  8. Not much money for a space plane. But good luck Al on Spaceplane Concept Receives Euro Funding · · Score: 5, Informative
    Alan Bond has been trying to fund an air breathing space plane since the mid 80s and the HOTOL project. This grant he's just got will allow the research to go on and a few rocket engineering PhD at a couple of UK universities, but its nowhere near the funding needed to build a real space plane. With luck though the technology might grow on, and end up in some space plane for the 2020s.

    Space Craft Blog feeds

  9. Enough with the doom saying, i want my cures. on Hacking With Synthetic Biology · · Score: 2, Interesting
    With all the doom saying here anything would think nature designed prefect disease free humans, and genetics could only worsen things. Fact is human are not built to last, and have million of seperate dieaases all needing cures.

    Rapid prototyping of biological systems, if it could be done as easier as a prototyping plastic, would be wonderful. Imagine a new disease discovered and resistant human cell/DNA, being manufactured within a couple of weeks. Doubt we'll get that though. What we might get at best is a new economy segment based on brewing, with genetically engineered yeasts be produce pharmaceuticals and other chemicals cheaply. Yeast is the ideal for the purpose because is grows so quickly, and is used in enclosed environments.

  10. Re:It will be intresting for sure on The Herschel Telescope Close To Blast Off · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Being infrared means it will much better good chance to find exo-planet and asteroid belts. Wonder which of the Herschel or Kepler missions will find more planets.

    Extra Solar Planets Feed, Astronomy Feed

  11. For Gods sake escape those quotes on Kaspersky Customer Database Exposed · · Score: 1
    Just escape any quotes in the input and your DBs will be safe from injection. In Java:

    String escapeQuotes(String s){
    if (s==null){ s=""; }
    StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
    char ch[] = new char[1];
    char con[] = new char[3];
    con[0] = '%';
    for(int i=0;i<s.length();i++){
    char c = ch[0] = s.charAt(i);
    if (c==0x27 || c==0x60 || c==22 || c=='%'){
    int a = c/16;
    int b = c-a*16;
    con[1] = Character.forDigit(a,16);
    con[2] = Character.forDigit(b,16);
    sb.append(con);
    } else {
    sb.append(ch);
    }
    }
    return sb.toString();
    }

    That wasn't difficult, was it now. Did i miss any characters?

    Java Programming FEED

  12. Re:arXiv leads the way on Web of Trust For Scientific Publications · · Score: 1

    ArXiv endorsement, indeed prevent outsides getting posting, when i wrote my paper on neutrino based dark energy, i couldn't get anyone to endorse me, dispite being on the builtin boards, and posting out to scientist in the field. I guess there were to busy to take a look at my work.

  13. Can a single developer still make money for games? on Independent Games Festival Announces Student Showcase Winners · · Score: 1
    From link, "The color of doom, was created by a team of 16 students over 6 months"

    Is it still possible for a single developer to make anything near decent in computer games? Back in the 8-bit days, teenagers could build a game in there room, now its big business.

    What about flash games, there much easier right. Flash games feed

  14. Re:Obligatory. on Ricardo Montalban Dead At 88 · · Score: 2, Informative
    The plane, the plane.

    Fantasy Island is what non trekkies remember Ricardo for.

  15. Reads like 25 top web applications mistakes on More Than Coding Errors Behind Bad Software · · Score: 0
    SQL Injection, HTML Injection, Path name injection. This are all coding insecurities that allow your web site to be hacked.

    '; DELETE FROM *; Scary

    S I'm glad i read it is raised my paranoia about my web apps and cgi. But these are very different from the errors in applications, and are security problems, not bugs per se.

    Anyone got good links for the best wrappers or subroutines to check SQL inputs, etc. They belong in this thread, but i didn't see any. If you rembemer to write your code with checked inputs first time, your save yourself a lot of trouble.

  16. Re:Quantum Choas on Using Lasers To Generate Random Numbers Faster · · Score: 0

    It certainly does interfere with itself. Light doesn't interact (in the sense of particles hitting each other) with itself. In fact the only time interference occurs is when indistinguishable particles (photons) interfere with the 2 or more different routes they COULD HAVE TAKEN. All particles can interfere, and they all can interfere only with themselves.

  17. Quantum Choas on Using Lasers To Generate Random Numbers Faster · · Score: 3, Interesting
    I'm busy trying to get my head around, why partially reflecting laser light back into the laser, induces a chaotic signal. It doesn't seem right, there's a laser frequency and two reflection distances, (remember lasers have a mirror at each end). It doesn't seem complex enough to be chaotic.

    If it is chaotic and you believe in the Everett Interpretation, they've just produced the worlds fastest world splitter.

  18. Second Sci-fi favourite planet on Hubble's Exoplanet Pics Outshined by Keck's · · Score: 0
    Thats the second sci-fi favourtie star, to be found, to actually have a planet in real life. Slashdot post about Epsilon Erdani less than a month ago.

    Its less than fifteen years ago we first found an Extra Solar Planet. But there starting to turn up regularly now. Can't be long before we find our 1st earth like planet. Maybe will build a colony ship before the end of the century.

  19. The politics of Vampires, Zombies and Werewolfs on Obama's Election Means a Return of Vampire Flicks · · Score: 0
    Vampires always traditionally been aristocrats, politically living of the blood of the working man toil (perhaps, sounds a bit to much like Marxist theory to me).

    I can't see Zombies representing much politically except the a mass of unthinking people, unconcerned with whats going on around them. If a zombie votes, someone's made them do it (surely?). I wouldn't myself give a Zombie movie a political leaning. If you see a Zombie movie like George Remiro's "Days of the Dead", with supermarkets full of Zombie Shoppers, then you might consider the emptiness of the consumer economy, maybe, but did you also consider that next time you go shopping you're less likely to think about other Shoppers a people with lives, and more like to shoot them a "get out of my way, idiot" insult.

    If Vampires are aristocrats, then I guess the working class would be werewolf's, certainly true of say "Underworld" (on TV tonight in the UK, with Kate Berkensale looking good in a leather catsuit). Of course need group really has much control over there Dark Appetites, but somehow the Vampires style, makes then Cool, while a werewolf is just a big angry dog, that was once human.

  20. Retro games, and the web on Are Neo-Retro Game Releases a Fad? · · Score: 0

    I've played retro games quite a bit every now and then going back to old spectrum games, and its fun and nostalgia for me. But it seems that neo-retro games are indeed a fad, a passing phase set by the level of games technologies, that can be presented by a web browser. For instead Flash Games made with adobe flash have a level of graphics and video, very much like the games of 10 or more years ago. Its this technology lag in browsers that leads to the Neo retro feel of the games. And it will change as browser technology approaches the level of GPU power of a model computer.

  21. Re:Finances & Conflict on Blizzard Awarded $6M Damages From MMOGlider · · Score: 0

    Except, that is manages to sucker otherwise intelligent people, with sparking intellect and inquiring minds (like me for instance), into hours at a time of mindless repeative actions. Its not that badly designed at all. Those who used MMO Glider, had the brains to realise the waste of time, but not the will not to care about there level in the game.

  22. Re:Takes all kinds on Genetic Glitch May Prevent Kids From Learning From Their Mistakes · · Score: 0

    I thinks its humanity's insurance against bullying. These Kids will take much more punishment before complying with the punisher. Bullying tends to be effective in most animals, at getting what the bullier wants. By evolving people who won't be changed by it, might be natures comeback.

  23. Re:Impressive on Virgin Galactic Shows the Finished WhiteKnight Two · · Score: 0

    I wondering if how reusable 'Eve' is for useful space jobs, other than the worlds biggest roller-coaster. If the Eve plane, can carry without modification, a satellite launch rocket, for LEO of even better GEO. Virgin Galactic should have a real money-spinner. Otherwise i fear for the companies running out of cash.

  24. Re:Odd on Google URL Index Hits 1 Trillion · · Score: 1, Funny

    "woosh" Funny? It went straight over my head.

  25. From the paper eta_b is at 9389 MeV/c^2 on New Particle Found, the Bottom-Most Bottomonium · · Score: 0

    The article, didn't give the mass of the state. Its 9389 MeV/c^2 about 73 MeV/c^2 below the U(1s) state. Its about as heavy as an atom of Boron, 10 times heavy than a proton.