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  1. Re:woo on 12M Digit Prime Number Sets Record, Nets $100,000 · · Score: 5, Informative

    The money does not come from regular donations.

    http://www.eff.org/awards/coop

    (Prize money comes from a special donation provided by an individual EFF supporter, earmarked specifically for this project. Prize money does NOT come from EFF membership dues, corporate or foundation grants, or other general EFF funds.)

  2. Re:Question on Legal Group Releases Guide To GPL Compliance · · Score: 3, Informative

    No, since you are not distributing the software.

  3. Re:Technology? on Warning Future Generations About Nuclear Waste · · Score: 0

    I thought you were just happy to see me.

  4. Re:Too much to keep track of on The Web Development Skills Crisis · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I disagree. With PHP you are exposed to HTTP headers, cookies, linux and apache (via cheap shared hosting providers), relational databases, shell commands, sockets, concurrency and potential client base of billions. It's the gateway drug of programming.

  5. Re:I gave up on The Web Development Skills Crisis · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sadist.

  6. Re:Unexplained Crashes on KDE 4.1 Beta 2 – Two Steps Forward, One Step Back? · · Score: 5, Funny

    What about his right?

  7. Re:Don't crash their party on Cell Phones Tracking Nightlife Activity · · Score: 1

    On a side note, you could always lend your cell phone to a girl when she goes to a Chip and Dale club and let the hilarity ensue when your friends show up there.

    I assume you mean Chippendales not Chip and Dale.

  8. Re:Server first on Spit Will Be Worse Than Spam · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The point is that the contents of the communication cannot be analysed in advance. The system doesn't know what the caller will say until the conversation has started and you have already been disturbed.

  9. Re:Brain drain, ver 0.1 on Hawking Searching For Africa's Einsteins · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Maybe in western countries, but in less advantaged places people have the opinion that their country has not done anything to help them so they owe it nothing.

  10. Re:Inkjet shminkjet... on How Aftermarket Inkjet Ink Holds Up After a Year · · Score: 4, Funny

    Do you really expect us to take laser printer advice from someone who is apparently still using a typewriter?

  11. Re:toss one packet?! on ARPANET Co-Founder Calls for Flow Management · · Score: 1

    It will get resent via a different path, hopefully one that it is less congested.

  12. Re:Caffeine or coffee? on Daily Caffeine Protects Your Brain · · Score: 3, Informative

    The study was with caffeine supplements, not coffee.

  13. Re:Fun on the Sun on Tsunami Spotted on the Surface of the Sun · · Score: 2, Funny

    Try a corona.

  14. Re:video wont play in firefox... on A Super-Efficient Light Bulb · · Score: 1

    Make sure you have a flash plugin installed.

  15. Re:Who won Alaska on Google a "Happy Loser" In Spectrum Auction · · Score: 4, Informative

    "Triad 700, LLC" - whoever they are. The full results are on the FCC auction site.

    https://auctionsignon.fcc.gov/signon/index.htm

    Login to Auction 73 and click 'results'.

  16. Re:Apple = Lying about Safari? on Firefox 3 May Be More Memory Efficient Than Either IE or Opera · · Score: 1

    Take these numbers from the page:

    <strong class="bar1" style="width:13%;"><span>1.37</span> Safari 3.1</strong>
    <strong class="bar2" style="width:45%;"><span>4.57</span> Firefox 2</strong>
    <strong class="bar4" style="width:90%;"><span>8.19</span> Opera 9</strong>

    8.19 seconds corresponds to 90% bar width (Opera)
    So 1 second corresponds to nearly 11% width

    Apply this scale to

    Safari: 1.37 should be 15%
    Firefox: 4.57 should be 50%

    It's not consistent.

  17. Re:Apple = Lying about Safari? on Firefox 3 May Be More Memory Efficient Than Either IE or Opera · · Score: 1

    The page linked to shows different sets of graphs depending on what platform you are on. Apparently you only see the IE graph if you are detected to be running windows. I can confirm the graphs are not consistent though; just compare the raw numbers to the relative percentage widths of the bars in the code. I doubt it's intentional, they probably just guessed the widths to look right instead of actually calculating them.

  18. Re:Beta Version on Firefox 3 May Be More Memory Efficient Than Either IE or Opera · · Score: 1
    From the article:

    Safari 3 and Internet Explorer 8 could not be benchmarked because they crashed during the test.
  19. Re:Remember when people coded for small memory use on Firefox 3 May Be More Memory Efficient Than Either IE or Opera · · Score: 3, Informative

    That graph is based on 30 open windows at a time, not 'basic web browsing'.

  20. Re:What is IO? on Cyberwarfare in International Law · · Score: 5, Informative

    IO = information operations in this context.

  21. Re:I don't get it... on Boeing 787 May Be Vulnerable to Hacker Attack · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Probably to save weight on cabling/hardware.

  22. Re:I have it! on NIST Opens Competition for a New Hash Algorithm · · Score: 1

    Mod parent -1 Erqhaqnagn.

  23. Re:Finegrained security on Fedora 8 Released · · Score: 3, Informative

    The new system is replacing userhelper, so there will be the same number of (or likely fewer) password popup prompts - not more. See the wiki (google cache) for details.

  24. Re:One question: on Red Hat Releases RHEL 5.1, Includes Virtualization · · Score: 2, Informative

    They would be aiming get that out within 2 weeks.

  25. Re:Interesting on $200 Linux PCs On Sale At Wal-Mart · · Score: 3, Informative

    There's a powerpoint equivalent (Presentation) in Open Office.