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  1. Re:Missing episodes on The Doctor's Every Journey · · Score: 1

    And of course you let him know about the missing items........

  2. Learn to use a camera on Introducing JITB — a Flash Player Built On the JVM · · Score: 1

    Man, those types of videos give me a headache. Use a tripod, pop the camera again something. JUST STOP THE SHAKING! Please?

  3. Slippery Slope on Indian Police Using Facebook to Catch Scofflaw Drivers · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That sounds like a very slippery slope.

  4. OpenCL on Why 'Gaming' Chips Are Moving Into the Server Room · · Score: 2, Informative

    Sounds like a perfect job for OpenCL. When a program is rewritten for OpenCL, you can just drop in CPU's or GPU's and they get used.

  5. self signed, public access on 22 Million SSL Certificates In Use Are Invalid · · Score: 1

    I suspect that most of those are for 'private' use. I personally have a self signed certificate so that I can do secure webmail from anywhere. Webmail is at a public address where anyone can see it, so a check would show an invalid cert. But in reality, it doesn't matter at all.

    The number are skewed and probably meaningless because I strongly suspect I am not the only one doing this.

  6. Re:Unfortunately on iOS 4 Releases Today · · Score: 0

    There is no such thing as iOS3, so I suspect that nobody is running it.

    It was called iPhone OS 3

  7. Public information on FBI's Facebook Monitoring Leads To Arrest In England · · Score: 1

    This is not a comment on whether Facebook makes too much information public. This is a comment on the whether public data can be scanned:

    If the data was available on the public site then there is no privacy concern. If they 'hacked' facebook to get private data, then there is a privacy concern.

    Public data is public data and anybody can 'scan' it if they like.

  8. Unintentional, I think not on Google's Streetview Privacy Snafu Prompts Lawsuit · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I am a programmer. I can honestly say that I have never saved data, via code, that I did know I was saving. There is no such thing as unintentional data.

  9. " Steve Jobs still rejected its proposal" on iPhone SDK Agreement Shuts Out HyperCard Clone · · Score: 1

    Do you actually believe that Steve Jobs personally does all rejection......really?

  10. that explains the heat sink with the new i7 on MIT Scientists Make a Polyethylene Heatsink · · Score: 3, Funny

    Everybody thought it was plastic, but it was just new technology. Now we just have to wait for an announcement on how to mount those crazy i7's

  11. Use IPFW, its built in on Throttle Shared Users With OS X — Is It Possible? · · Score: 5, Informative

    OS X uses ipfw as its firewall. Look up 'ipfw throttling' in google. If you don't want to edit ipfw files by hand, hunt out WaterRoof as well.

  12. Use Doxygen on Learning and Maintaining a Large Inherited Codebase? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Doxygen is your friend. run it over the source code and keep the HTML handy for searches and cross references.

  13. Re:grad vs masters vs phd the myth. on Is Programming a Lucrative Profession? · · Score: 1

    It depends on what you want. Higher levels of academia do not necessarily produce good programmers, but it does typically produce good researchers. Hire the individual, not the education, is my experience.

  14. Re:List his peace initiatives... on Linus Torvalds For Nobel Peace Prize? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    In what way is this a ZING. You are suggesting because a mistake was made once it should be made again?

    Gregor

  15. List his peace initiatives... on Linus Torvalds For Nobel Peace Prize? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Perhaps we could better decide if we saw a list of Linus' global peace initiatives...

    Gregor

  16. try serverfault on Large-Scale Mac Deployment? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Try asking this on serverfault.com. Lots of advice can be found there.

  17. Re:Let's not let facts get in our way on Snow Leopard Missed a Security Opportunity · · Score: 0, Troll

    Calling Mac users stupid is not 'informative', the parent must be modded down.

  18. its not the pain on Pain-Free Animals Could Take Suffering Out of Farming · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Feeling no pain is different from experiencing distress. Its not the pain that most activists are worried about, its the living conditions, the over crowding, the bad feed.

    Get a grip.

    Gregor

  19. Other Studies on Violent Video Games Can Improve Vision · · Score: 3, Insightful

    According to other studies, violent games make people violent.

    Why believe this study and not the others?

  20. Re:Fixy Linky Please? :) on Sun Puts Data Center Through 6.7 Earthquake · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Most nerds would call it recursive, not circular reference.

    Besides, I prefer techno-weenie.

  21. Re:Genuine Windows on Testing Lenovo's ThinkPad W700ds Dual-Screen Notebook · · Score: 3, Informative

    Lenovo is not IBM

  22. Re:Antivirus on How To Argue That Open Source Software Is Secure? · · Score: 1

    2 points.

    1. The fact that an antivirus program combined with a firewall is mandatory for any windows box (closed source) to remain virus free for longer than 20 seconds connected to the internet, whereas linux (open source) requires no such antivirus program, is experiential proof that linux is more secure.
    2. Many firewall/routers run linux. If linux is good enough to protect your windows machines from intrusion, then a logical person would conclude an open source operating system such as linux is more secure.

    I agree linux is more secure, but item one is not proof of that. There are more exploits for Windows because there are more windows boxes out there. And the exploiters go where the biggest market is.

    Gregor

  23. Re:The 80s called on Where Have All the Pagers Gone? · · Score: 1

    What is an iTouch? Do you mean an iPhone?

    Gregor

  24. Old news on Coating a Motherboard In Thermal Resin? · · Score: 1

    Power supplies for the C-64 were 'potted' as were many power supplies of the day. Can't see why it would not work.

    Gregor

  25. Re:same move 3 months ago on Moving Between Countries? · · Score: 1

    I moved from Victoria ...
    5. Check out the work laws, as mentioned. You don't get public holidays in your first 30 days with an employer (I didn't work Good Friday, fortunately my overtime I'd been working covered it), you only get 2 weeks annual leave, 5 days sick leave, etc, etc. Thats a new one on me. As an employer in Canada, my employees, regardless of how new they are, get federal holidays off and paid for.

    Gregor