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  1. What if you got to eat the results??? DELICIOUS! on Distributed Computing Economics · · Score: 0

    n/t

  2. Trolly trolly mctroll troll on Spamfighters Get A Hold Of Spammers' Incoming Mail · · Score: 1

    Jesus christ you people got taken in. I mean with a name like "Physics Genius"... and then the backhanded Fyodor reference.

    Someone mod the parent and all gag-reflex replies into the floor. Thanks. HAND

  3. Ahem... on Gator-style Overlay Ads Are Legal, Says Court · · Score: 1

    You think Linux users have this... where do you think Windows got that from? Same place we did...

    Berkeley (hee hee)

    I don't like that solution, however; the DNS error is quite annoying. Consider adding a small webserver that doesn't log 404s to increase browsing performance (and facilitate file sharing with friends).

    Finally, some ad software is getting smart and fetching IPs to contact manually or on the fly, sans host-based DNS resolution.

    Sigh.

  4. Clear to me... on Gator-style Overlay Ads Are Legal, Says Court · · Score: 1

    you did uninstall SaveNow, but you didn't uninstall the hidden installer. Find out what program installed SaveNow, then you will be able to determine how it keeps re-instating it on the system.

    Peruse you HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Current Version\Windows\Run and RunOnce registry entries and look for suspicious guys. Search the registry for anything to do with Savenow and see if it gets referenced from an unrelated place.

  5. I assume you use Windows XP... on Gator-style Overlay Ads Are Legal, Says Court · · Score: 1

    put your gaming user, guest, default user, whatever in the normal users group (it might be called Restricted or Unprivledged), or make your hard disk unwritable except for a special partition or folder where saved games go.

    Then they can't install spyware even if they wanted to, and if they did it'd be easy to find.

  6. Excuse me sir... on Laptops Outsell Desktops in Retail Stores · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I don't fucking care about your macs. Mac and cheese, on the other hand, is always a consistent shade of yellow if you buy it from Kraft.

    Clearly, mac 'n cheese is superior. QED

  7. Kupo. on U.S. DoD Commits To IPv6 · · Score: 1

    The point isn't to cut the board into thirds, the point is to cut the board so it fits whatever the carpenter is trying to build! THAT'S WHAT RULERS ARE FOR. The board could also be 100cm long and you'd still be limited to the markings on your ruler to get within a 1/6th of CM or whatever the fuck your sticking point is.

    Jesus fucking christ, I need aspirin.

  8. You are incorrect... on X-Box Hackers Trying to Blackmail Microsoft? · · Score: 1

    ...Fuckikoma-kun.

    No class, nothing to add, not insightful, no nothing.

    It's not an issue: writing 'XBOX'.

    You suck. Little cocks.

    suck-cocks.

    20-some-odd posts of yours on the XBOX and you have to post this shit.

  9. Oh, the Delta-44 is quite supported. on Ardour Digital Audio Workstation Now in Beta · · Score: 1

    I've used it over 2 years ago and it worked fine then. Not only did it work fine, it kicked ass up and down the block.

    1) Use alsa (free)
    -or-
    2) Use 4Front's $45 (total) driver.

    The great thing about #2 is that after paying you can call up this engineer guy to help you out with this and that. For a whole year. He's a nice fellow.

    The $45 is incl. in the price of the $300 card for Windows. So it's not much to ask for the Linux side.

    It doesn't come stock in RedHat because people don't just buy computers from Dell with an Envy24-based card in them. Let's be realistic.

  10. Yes, we will, if we want... on U.S. DoD Commits To IPv6 · · Score: 1

    to link meat and cyberspace in a manner more completely than geo-tags or any other such poppycock. Didn't you watch Serial Experiments Lain??? God, what is Slashdot coming to these days.
    Remember,
    IPv7, for a new wonderful experience.

  11. That was the worst fucking essay I ever read. on U.S. DoD Commits To IPv6 · · Score: 0, Troll

    That's it, bring on IPV6 right now, and stick me in a networking course until I can assemble the packets by hand. I'll draw up diagrams on metric graph paper too.

    120cm boards, holy shit what idiocy. If I have to explain why that's retarded I'm going to SHOOT EVERYONE ON THIS FUCKING WEBSITE.

  12. Except when the patent is retarded. on Transparent Web Caching Patented · · Score: 1

    Look, here's the litmus test.

    "I have a patent on a device that does XYZ"

    If I, the college undergrad, can think of in a few short minutes, a way of implementing XYZ with existing (and possibly old) technology and techniques, then it is too obvious for me to respect said patent.

    You say "Transparent Web Cache" and I can give you 5 different ways of accomplishing it by the end of the week, without even having to hear you explain exactly what it does.

    That, too me, is utter bullshit. And I've never looked at the content of the patent before filing so it's not like I'm claiming it after the fact.

    The patent system is broken and/or this patent is bung.

    Maybe if you invent the next LZW, then the more power to you.

  13. this is the fourth such A/C post in the thread on Transparent Web Caching Patented · · Score: 0

    Hello Paul???!?

  14. Re the alternative x86 OS-s on Apple's G5 Speeds Challenged · · Score: 1

    They need advocacy so that hardware vendors are more receptive to writing drivers or releasing info (to sell it). ^_^

  15. You are incorrect. on Apple's G5 Speeds Challenged · · Score: 1

    The hyperthreading is truely concurrent and it looks like 2 CPUs, but it does not give you MORE than a single CPU's maximum throughput. It does NOT make task switches perform faster or any such tripe.

    Sometimes it works to your advantage (in I/O bound situations), but sometimes the extra overhead makes it slower than if it was disabled (as in the case of some intense computational benchmarks)

    So if they disabled it in SPEC_int (single thread), that was the RIGHT thing to do.

  16. Linux is also 3:1 in bigmem mode. on Apple's G5 Speeds Challenged · · Score: 1

    [n/t]

  17. Then don't use a gamma chunk on GIF Patent Prepares to Expire · · Score: 1

    Then the colors will be in the standard RGB (matching the page) just like you would expect.

    I recommend deleting all gamma chunks in PNG files for the web because web browsers generally don't support gamma correction via CSS.

  18. LOL on GIF Patent Prepares to Expire · · Score: 1

    So true... mod up.

  19. Re:Actually, it is pronounced with a J... on GIF Patent Prepares to Expire · · Score: 1

    No, that's JFIF:

    JPEG File Interchange Format.

    It's the old container for a single-image JPEG streams. There's also the newer SPIFF (which is backwards compatible with JFIF), and M-JPEG (which is used for JPEG-based movies). There's also TIFF, EPS and PDF which can contain JPEG streams too.

  20. Uhhh UUHHH YOU'RE AN IDIOT on GIF Patent Prepares to Expire · · Score: 1

    There's no reason why linking against zlib would cause a product to become GPL'd, seeing as they use their own license anyway.

    Linking != derivative product, so the GPL wouldn't get you there, TRY AGAIN ASSWIPE.

  21. No... on GIF Patent Prepares to Expire · · Score: 3, Funny

    then they got a job and bought Quake || and ]|[ so they could continue playing RocketArena with their friends.

  22. More thoughts on Genetically Engineered Pets Hit the Market · · Score: 1

    1) It doesn't take genetic engineering to "eradicate" black skin. People can do that with selective breeding or genocide; both of which require less resources and planning. ...Straw man (though you may not realize it)

    2) My point: we ARE nature. We are now the primary force of evolution on this planet, as nature gave us the ability to guide our own evolution beyond just picking "healthy" looking mates, as other species do.

    3) Genetic engineering will lead to a scary, but wonderful new world, I am sure. No one will pay for genetic endeavors that end up with less than idyllic consequences, as the technology is expensive. Hence we will probably keep messing around till we our children don't have ADHD or allergies, and culminating with lovely cat-girls.
    Neko-neko, indeed! ^_^

    4) ???

    5) Profit!!! (and I checks your website now)

  23. Re:Earth to OrangeTide... on UK Govt Warned: Don't Buy GPL · · Score: 1

    If the government DEVELOPS software, they can release under any license they want, which is fine.

    But the GPL is not really viral at all.

    If you use GPL software in a product that you distribute, you are only required to disclose the source of the that particular component. That's only fair. If you create a binding API between the GPL software and your software, you only have to release the API code (like the Nvidia kernel driver)
    If you decide that you want to base your software through extensive modifications to such software, you are better off getting permission from the authors to release it under a different license anyway.

    So what's the issue? It's not like people put software under the GPL because they're communists. They just want a little assurance that their work is properly respected. It's a good viral, as it were, it does not intend to "take over" all your IP.
    That's complete bullshit.
    Try and give me an example of that.

  24. Re:Mog? on Genetically Engineered Pets Hit the Market · · Score: 1

    I love moogles. If you do manage to create a moogle, I agree, it's not a pet. I'm thinking more like partner in crime. ;-P
    This is because moogles kick ass. I mean, you've got Ren (Ian's chara from Morrowwind on Mac Hall). And then Mike Poe of Exploitation Now had to make a character who fit me to a T, and had the audacity to make him a moogle to boot. You might as well call me Ralph...

    BTW, those "dookie flinging apes" as so you aptly put it, did not slither out of the forest, and are not seperate from nature.

    Human directed modifications are just a very advanced extent of what nature produced, and nature never "screws up", because nature has no standard to uphold.

    So don't try to call it "unnatural" or unnecessary. I think it's a better alternative than tattooing the fish with toxic dyes. This kind of technology is exciting and has so many potential applications. But you have to start small; so what if this first application is a bit silly? If that Taiwanese company was publically traded, I would be investing.

    Humans are a lot less destructive than you might believe. We won't go away easily. I don't really feel like going on one of these tirades, but consider what the plague, smallpox, AIDS, ice ages, nuclear arms races and religious crusades have failed to accomplish...

  25. I'm confused. on UK Govt Warned: Don't Buy GPL · · Score: 1

    How does the GPL prevent the corporation from getting R&D improvements?

    If you (being a goverenment entity) just "distribute" the changes back to the corporation, that's all that's required of you.

    BSD doesn't require you to do anything, period. How is that better?