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  1. /me too on HTTP: The Definitive Guide · · Score: 2, Insightful

    until divs will auto resize we'll be stuck with pages like this one (light orange on white for them menus ffs!) that only go 20% to the width of my browser window.

    & his menus don't resize to fit the text if you turn up the size

    still, never mind, im sure he makes $ from his book, but not from me

  2. Seduction on Blow the Whistle, Lose Your Job? · · Score: 1

    Serving hot dogs down at the youth club & babysitting does not a child psychologist or paediatrician make.

    It could be something as innocuous as sneaking the potential victim a piece of candy and asking the child not to tell Mom or Dad, she said, to "see if the child is amenable to manipulation."

    The abuser-in-waiting will start to spend more time with the child, and exhibit more outward -- and inappropriate -- signs of affection, such as giving back rubs or acting too playful.

  3. what would be bad? on Blow the Whistle, Lose Your Job? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    society has decided that somone under 16 can't consent therefore they can't "have no objection".

    Adult : "Can I tattoo your face?"
    Child : "Sure, go right ahead"

  4. Here's a though experiment on Blow the Whistle, Lose Your Job? · · Score: 1, Interesting

    what if ...

    I take pictures of myself when I'm 13 doing all sorts of sex acts.

    I'm now 21.

    1. Am I allowed to even keep the pictures I took of myself?
    2. Can I sell copies of them?
    3. What if I was making out with my twin. Could we have each other arrested for having a copy?

  5. Mandatory and available online. on Auto Black-Box Data Being Used In Court · · Score: 1

    And a copy of your driver's license.
    All searchable by number plate.

    Better to have no privacy than fool yourself into a false secruity.

  6. Google is a free service, isn't it? no on Compute Google's PageRank 5 Times Faster · · Score: 1

    Internet users doing searches may be free but google has plenty of paying customers.

    They provide an excellent service for their paid advetisements and represent great value for money.

  7. Wal-mart is world wide not just redneckvillie on Is Data Mining for Product Pricing, Illegal? · · Score: 1

    Wal-mart bought out one of the UK's biggest supermarket chains - Associated Dairies (ASDA)

    I read at the time of the merger that this made Wal-mart the worlds largest company by square footage of shop floor.

    m

  8. MMORG Bundles on EA's Sims Online Is A Flop And Other MMORPG Musings · · Score: 1

    quite a good idea

    I expect you'll see this as the MMORPG portfolios start to saturate.

    It'll take a few years.
    Easy to charge per game when you've only got 3 titles.

    The strive for customers brings innovation and then multiplication.

    We have to wait for the supply / demand curves to cross.

    Or maybe they'll die a death.

    so : catch the wave or wait for a bigger one

  9. you're joking yeah? on Modding The Barton XP To A Barton MP · · Score: 1

    cos my dual 1.2ghz PIII cost me £300 to build

    which is less than my gfx card cost!

  10. everything is a file is the best legacy on The Spirit Of Unix vs. The Unix Trademark · · Score: 1
  11. it's such a win on Microsoft Simplifies API for Longhorn · · Score: 1

    because once you've got your program working *any* other entity that knows about files can use your program.

    For instance, I wrote a google searching tool that presented itself as a file system. To do a google search now all any program has to do is to open a file, write to it, read it, change directory and read the files. It doesn't have to wait for someone to add support for it.

    Unix and it's POSIX progeny do the right thing but never quite cross the finish line. Corba, DCOM, XMLPRC, SOAP I mean, come on we're assaulted with so much change no wonder there's so many exploits.

  12. don't listen to dead cows on Software Tools for Nutritional Tracking? · · Score: 1

    CDC doing nutritional advice now, wow I guess we all change when we hit 30

  13. close - 48, but still on Microsoft Simplifies API for Longhorn · · Score: 1

    As Russ said :

    "Plan 9 has 48 system calls these days,
    10 of which are deprecated. So 38. That's still a lot."

  14. Just when you thought you'd learned it on Microsoft Simplifies API for Longhorn · · Score: 1

    As usual they come along and pull the rug from under you.

    Give me a 30 yo Api any day

    in fact just give me "everything is a file" and mean it

  15. maybe but DMCA is a US law on Ultima on Linux · · Score: 1

    couldn't this be considered illegal under the DMCA?

    I know I know, "skyralov" but most of them team aren't US based (with 3 whereabouts undisclosed ):

    Jeff S. Freedman, working in the EDA industry in Oregon
    Dancer Vesperman is an Australian
    Willem Jan Palenstijn in the Netherlands
    Tristan Tarrant aka "Nadir", resides in Italy
    Luke Dunstan, student in W. Australia
    Max Horn, a math student from Darmstadt, Germany
    Simon Quinn in England
    Travis Howell in Australia
    Aurelien Marchand in Canada

  16. the AWE 3332 will be worse on Texas SB 1116 (Super DMCA) Hearing On 6 May 2003 · · Score: 1

    but hey, that's progress

  17. CVSUP even my applications get patched on The Costs of Patching · · Score: 2, Informative

    you can't beat a bit of daily patching
    I've got "cvsup ports-supfile" on a cronjob
    Every day I get emailed a list of the applications that have been updated and I can choose when it's worth patching them (they might not be installed - for instance)

    to upgrade my *whole* set of port installed software :

    #portupgrade -ra

    & everything stays in regular updated form

    I magically keep in step with the mozilla builds

    it's great

    that's why FreeBSD ain't dying

  18. 1 CPU - I want 8-way !! on Opteron Gaming Benchmarks · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You know, it's always saddened me that there aren't more multi-cpu motherboards for general consumption.

    There's plenty of us that would stick another £200 CPU in the box every now and then as the cash came in.

    I mean, I've already got more memory than I ever use and too much HD storage, I want CPUs I never use either.

    I like my DUAL 1.2 Ghz p3 mb. I put it together for £300 or so and it's done sterling service, surpassing my normal 18 month upgrade timetable and not looking like it's about to be retired any time soon. (until DoomIII & HL2 I guess 8).

    I'll be looking to buy a nice 4-8 way Opteron system and populate it as I go along.

    I think Intel missed an opportunity crippling their processors to be non SMP. I hope there's an engineering reason why. I can't really think of a good reason why otherwise, surely they don't make *that much* on gambling that I'll buy a expensive Pentium if I can't have a 4 way Celeron set-up.

  19. slaps Sierra round the face with a large trout on Half-Life 2 Coverage Appearing · · Score: 1

    We have detected that you do not have a recent version of Flash.
    To view this site you must have Flash 5 or newer.

    To download the latest version of Flash, click here

    oh, that's that sketch knackered then

  20. 330ml, 350ml or 500 ml? on Micro-Helicopter Fun · · Score: 1

    that's the beauty of standards

  21. plan9's had this since it started on Remote Direct Memory Access Over IP · · Score: 4, Informative

    The proc device serves a two-level directory structure. The first level contains numbered directories corresponding to pids of live processes; each such directory contains a set of files representing the corresponding process.

    The mem file contains the current memory image of the process. A read or write at offset o, which must be a valid virtual address, accesses bytes from address o up to the end of the memory segment containing o. Kernel virtual memory, including the kernel stack for the process and saved user registers (whose addresses are machine-dependent), can be accessed through mem. Writes are permitted only while the process is in the Stopped state and only to user addresses or registers.

    The read-only proc file contains the kernel per-process structure. Its main use is to recover the kernel stack and program counter for kernel debugging.

    The files regs, fpregs, and kregs hold representations of the user-level registers, floating-point registers, and kernel registers in machine-dependent form. The kregs file is read-only.

    The read-only fd file lists the open file descriptors of the process. The first line of the file is its current directory; subsequent lines list, one per line, the open files, giving the decimal file descriptor number; whether the file is open for read (r), write, (w), or both (rw); the type, device number, and qid of the file; its I/O unit (the amount of data that may be transferred on the file as a contiguous piece; see iounit(2)), its I/O offset; and its name at the time it was opened.

  22. Dennis put up on Unix-Haters Handbook Available Online · · Score: 1
  23. 4. ???? on Intel Celeron 2.2GHz Reviewed · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    5. Profit

    hehe

  24. Quantum leap - sigh on Using the DMCA Against License Violations? · · Score: 1

    The quantum part means that the subject moves from one value to another with no intervening stages, it says nothing about the size of the move.

    It's the difference between digital and analogue.

    Imagine a digitised sinewave. In the digital representation the sample rate defines the size of the quantum leaps whereas there are no such leaps in the analogue signal.

    So, to use Gimp as another example :

    Changing "Save As ..." to "Save as ..." would be a quantum leap.

  25. you could always mod_proxy to 1.13.x on Is Apache 2.x Ready for General Use? · · Score: 2, Informative

    I run 1.13.x on port 8081 and mod_proxy requests for the virtual domains on it from 2 to 1.13

    That way I knew my old setup would still work while I get the chance to use Apache2 to experiment.

    Any new stuff could then be tested on both