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  1. Re:Why did they have to crypto'ally crack the code on Sober Code Cracked · · Score: 1

    And the point is that they could already do that, with this simple algorithm:

    get url (date):
            set computer date (date)
            run Sober worm
            see what URL it uses
            return that URL

    Of course you could probably extract the portion of the code that does the generation and just jump to it.

  2. Re:Posting from an "Exploited" FF 1.5 on Unpatched Firefox 1.5 Exploit Made Public · · Score: 2, Funny

    Very dangerous. It should just dump that raw HTML to the screen, along with the HTTP headers rather than trying to process the text from an outside user who wrote whatever web page you happen to be looking at.

  3. Re:It's all about "cute" data structures on Why Can't Microsoft Just Patch Everything? · · Score: 1
  4. Re:It's all about "cute" data structures on Why Can't Microsoft Just Patch Everything? · · Score: 1

    You can be pretty certain that isn't what he meant, since that's completely different.

    An insized array at the end of a struct is a microsoft extension to C (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url =/library/en-us/vccelng/htm/decla_16.asp). And since we are on the topic of code by Microsoft that makes it legal syntax.

    It's an idiom that was used a lot in unix software too, though there [0] or [1] (depending on how paranoid the programmer was) was used in the declaration. Saves one level of indirection, hip hip hooray.

  5. Re:Why is it so difficult... on The ESRB Gets An 'F' · · Score: 1

    When your 15 year old girl slips out of your grasp and runs into the girls changerooms at the swimming pool, I suspect the law is going to put up some barriers to you observing her every waking moment. And the other fathers beating the crap out of you for perving on their 15 year old daughters getting changed might make it physically impossible as well, from the hospital bed while in a coma and all...

  6. Re:Hmm... on Diebold Threatens to Pull Out of North Carolina · · Score: 1

    Because there aren't any root kits for any other operating systems.

    They're called "root" kits for no reason at all.

  7. Re:That explains their lack of focus on The Google Caste System · · Score: 1

    Because Google isn't a viable company.

  8. Re:It doesn't matter how much evidence is found. on Humanity Responsible For Current Climate Change · · Score: 1

    I really don't give a stuff what the "normal" conditions for the planet over those timescales are.

    I care about what conditions let me live in my apartment in a city, browsing the internet, taking the kid to the park and so on. I'd prefer more stable weather to more extreme weather, but I also think that Kyoto had next to nothing to do with combating global warming.

    The "planet" doesn't care much if a rather large rock smacks into it. Sure it probably wipes out most of the existing life, but things recover soon enough and a different fork of evolution gets a go. However, I care - I suspect it would disrupt my internet...

  9. Re:I don't want tailored ads on Google's Smart Advertising Leads to More Clicks · · Score: 1

    So why is it funny?

    Some people don't mind graphical, musical, animated ads.

    Some people don't mind text ads that are on-topic.

    Some people hate all ads.

    People only complain when they aren't getting what they want, once they have something they find OK they don't bother mentioning it. So things work exacty as expected, I really can't see why that's funny.

    Same with the music/movie downloaders:

    Some people think the ISPs and software creators should be punished.

    Some people think the downloaders should be punished.

    Some people think no one should be punished...

    Hence the complaints change as the situation changes.

  10. Re:The heart of the problem. on Using Copyrights To Fight Intelligent Design · · Score: 1

    Postulates for natural numbers:
    1. 1 is in N.
    2. If x is in N, then its "successor" x' is in N.
    3. There is no x such that x' = 1.
    4. For all x!=1, there exists a y in N such that y' = x.
    5. If S is a subset of N, 1 is in S, and (x in S => x' in S), then S = N.

    Definitions needed for + and 2.
    For +:
                  Let a and b be in N.
                        If b = 1, then define a + b = a' (1 and 2 above)
                        If b isn't 1, then let c' = b, with c in N (4 above), and define a + b = (a + c)'.

    For 2:
                  2 = 1' (1 and 2 show that it's in N)

    Proof:
                  By the definition of +, with a=1 and b=1: 1+1=1'
                  By the defintion of 2: 1+1=2.

  11. Re:Your tax dollars at work ladies and gentlemen on Ma Bell is Back · · Score: 1

    What NEEDED to be done is one company handles all the infrastructure. They wouldn't be allowed to do ANYTHING other than maintain the lines...that's it....nothing more....ever....period. With an oversight commitee or something to keep them from price gouging or taking advantage of that situation. Then they sell access to those lines to anyone who wanted it. You would then have your choice of phone carriers anywhere in the US as well as internet providers over DSL without having to STILL pay SBC/Verizon/whoever for use of their phone line, plus transport of the DSL.

    So essentially nationalise the infrastructure. A little to much like socialism for the US, I think, and the complete opposite direction than things have been and are going.

  12. Re:Turnabout is FairPlay? on Microsoft Chided Over Exclusive Music Idea · · Score: 1

    Because Apple didn't get found guilty of illegally using anticompetitive means to keep an existing monopoly and obtain monopoly power in a second market.

  13. Re:constructed.... on The Los Alamos Bug · · Score: 2, Informative

    I suggest you learn English.

    Create has a significantly broader definition than you claim.

    Try doing a google search for "created" and be amazed at the "not from nothing" usage, for example http://www.udm4.com/demos/other-dynamic.php and it's created menus.

  14. Let out late... on Minor Computer Flaw Frees State Prisoners · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'd be more worried about those that got let out late. Surely that's ground for a lawsuit and some damages. Not to mention ciminal charges against those that illegally kept people in prison.

  15. Re:Videogames reflect life on ESA to Sue California Over Violent Game Law · · Score: 1

    From that article:

    There is also little research on the impact of violent video games. We do know, however, that they are extensive and have a role-modeling capacity. The fact that the child gets to act out the violence, rather than to be a passive observer, as when viewing television or movies, is especially concerning to experts.

    Or to paraphrase:

    Research has shown that kids who passively watch violent TV also display more aggression. We haven't actually bothered to study active video games, but we'll just make stuff up anyway. Yeah, it's active and hence must be worse, we have no data but that won't stop us jumping to conclusions. After all if the kid gets to be active in the game it must make them even more aggressive in real life - the idea that when you passively watch something acting it out is pretty normal behaviour for children but that when you are actively doing something there's no need to act it out as it's already done will just be ignored completely. We'll just make out assumptions and not bother doing any research. Have a nice day.

  16. Re:As usual... on Good bye Dark Matter, Hello General Relativity · · Score: 1

    The one that describes the most observations, and whose predictions have been verified.

    Ties are broken with simplicity - so Relativity trumps my "fairies push things around" theory even though they equally fit the observations due to it being simpler.

    Simple means requiring less made up stuff - like fairies and dark matter and electrons.

  17. Re:Dagobah on Episode III Deleted Scenes Leaked Online · · Score: 3, Funny

    Frankly, the big studios tend to under-estimate the intelligence of the audience sometimes.

    I don't think that's possible.

  18. Re:Well... on Apple to Replace Faulty Nano Screen · · Score: 1

    Mobile phones aren't as small (at least mine isn't...) And the small ones are usually clam-shells.

    But the comparison was between the nano and the other ipods which seem to scratch less and yet Apple says they are made of the same stuff... The size difference explains the problem, at least in my uninformed opinion (I've never actually touched an ipod of any flavour).

  19. Re:Well... on Apple to Replace Faulty Nano Screen · · Score: 1

    They're smaller.

    They hence move around more rubbing against the keys/coins/whatever that are also in your pocket.

  20. Re:Is this symbolic? on Eight Charged in Episode III Early Release · · Score: 3, Funny

    If all movies were being killed by piracy, all movies would have below average ticket sales.

    That would be a little difficult, with the definition of average and all...

  21. Re:bought a $39 card reader at a local retail stor on What's On Your Hotel Keycard · · Score: 1

    Your local retail store, obviously.

    Or use a damn search engine: http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=magnetic+strip e+card+reader&scoring=p

  22. Re:Methane on Toshiba to Demo New Fuel Cell MP3 Players · · Score: 1

    Only for those who can't read.

  23. Re:Ice caps on Global Warming Past The Point of No Return · · Score: 1

    1 is irrelevant, Archimedes worked this out a bloody long time ago, and I'm amazed people still manage to get it wrong. Though fresh water is less dense than salt water and hence floating ice melting will cause sea levels to rise a little...

    2 of course if perfectly true, and what everyone is talking about when they talk about "the ice melting and sea levels rising".

  24. CS or Programming? on Computer Science Curriculum in College · · Score: 1

    If you are doing a CS degree why would you expect the courses to relate to programming as done in industry???

    Surely you should expect a bunch of theory, a bunch of math, and maybe to use a computer in second year...

  25. Re:methane? on Titan Occupies A Solar System Sweet Spot · · Score: 1

    The english language uses words differently than science jargon defines them.

    But anyway, the theory is that polylipids might be able replace proteins, but yes it's speculation based upon basic chemical properties.