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  1. Re:It took this long? on Stieg Larsson Is First Author To Sell 1M E-Books · · Score: 1

    You don't want random downloaded crap clogging up the Kindle interface. It doesn't scale well.

  2. Re:And still no users on Opera 10.60 Released, With Faster JS, WebM Video Support · · Score: 3, Informative

    Opera usage is calculated on usage, not downloads. For the desktop browser it's based on the number of users querying for an upgrade. So if you have turned off "automatically check for updates" you won't even be counted.

    120M is under-reporting, not over-reporting.

  3. Re:Very telling post on Adobe Flash CS5 Exports Animations To HTML5 Canvas · · Score: 1

    Animated GIFs where introduced in Netscape 2.0, which didn't appear until late 1995. So '93 and '94 was animation free. I believe <blink> was available from '94 though.

  4. Re:No problems here on EA Editor Criticizes Command & Conquer 4 DRM · · Score: 1

    Possibly, but he isn't playing them, and no there isn't. There are however people that will sell you a solution for pirating PS3 games. They usually stand next to the guy that sells you bridges.

  5. Re:...what? on Lord British's Lost Lunar Rover Found, After 37 Years · · Score: 3, Funny

    And we travel in packs.

  6. Re:Down or DDoS? on Ubisoft's Authentication Servers Go Down · · Score: 1

    There is one (and only one) way to secure against DDoS: Ridiculous over-capacity. All other fixes are attack specific. In this case Ubi should have made sure they had that. Not because they care about the customer but because the reputation of the system is likely to influence sales.

  7. Re:Go the whole hog... on OpenSolaris Or FreeBSD? · · Score: 3, Informative

    The question was about OpenSolaris which is much - but not quite - like Solaris.

    Although I suspect you meant your question to be rhetorical it's a good question. HPUX and AIX has never meant to be run on consumer hardware. They are/where tailored to the hardware they where sold for. Solaris and MacOS aren't much different here.

    OpenSolaris on the other hand is an open project with ongoing efforts to make it run on thing not sold by Sun or Fujitsu. It has nowhere near the peripheral device support Linux has, but as with other open source OSs that is an ongoing effort. I haven't found a PC I couldn't install OpenSolaris on for a few years now.

  8. Well worth it on 2D Boy Posts "Pay-What-You-Want" Final Wrap-up · · Score: 1

    Good for them. It's a really well designed and fun game well worth the original price.

  9. Re:Actually, I think this guy is legally in the wr on Swedish ISP Deletes Customer ID Info · · Score: 1

    It's not a law in Sweden yet. That is beeing worked on as we speak though.

  10. Re:Finally! A privacy solution! on Ma.gnolia User Data Is Gone For Good · · Score: 1

    Lies.

  11. Ignoramus invents singularities on LHC Repair To Cost At Least $21 Million · · Score: 1

    The time when the black hole jokes was funny has passed. Please move on.

  12. Re:Excellent book on The IDA Pro Book · · Score: 1

    Yes, I would make this recommendation _especially_ if you are interested in other things than x86. None of the other books goes in to details on how to make processor modules.

    The examples in all parts of the book where assembler examples are used are x86, but in contrast to other RE books it doesn't try to learn you to dissasemble x86. It shows how to use the tool in a general manner.

  13. Excellent book on The IDA Pro Book · · Score: 4, Informative

    This is the only good book on IDA there is. There are several other books on RE that bring up IDA, but never dives in to any interesting details. That includes the book "Reverse Engineering Code with IDA Pro" which does a passable job of introducing you to RE, but doesn't tell you much about IDA that you couldn't get from spending an evening with it just experimenting.

    So, to anyone interested in IDA: This is the book you should buy. Now. With express delivery.

  14. Re:Working Holiday Visa on Programming Jobs Abroad For a US Citizen? · · Score: 1

    Actually, learning Norwegian will make you understand Swedish, Danish and some Icelandic.

    Learning Swedish will for some reason only make you understand Norwegian and some Icelandic. You will understand what the Danes _write_, but not what they say.

    That said, citizens of the Nordic countries will just as gladly speak English with you if they are schooled after WW2. For some reason German dropped from secondary to third language after that.

  15. Re:Copper, plumbing, thefts on Supplies of Rare Earth Elements Exhausted By 2017 · · Score: 1

    Sweden has been using plastic plumbing for quite some time now, and it does occasionally get cold over here. It's a matter of adjusting to another process when building.

  16. Re:Atheism. on Einstein Letter Goes on Sale · · Score: 1

    Disbelife in Santa Claus, trolls under bridges and the Tooth Fairy is not generally considered religions.

  17. Inspirational on Arthur C. Clarke Is Dead At 90 · · Score: 1

    You where always a source of inspiration Mr Clarke. I will honor your memory.

    --
    "The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible. " /Arthur C. Clarke

  18. Re:Ask Slashdot? on Pirate Bay Gets a 4,000-Page Complaint · · Score: 1

    Don't go there...

  19. Re:This is cool on Sony Announces Skype For PSP, Homebrewers Respond · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://ps2dev.org/ is useful if you are at all interested in development. The PS2, PS3 and PSP open source devkits are developed and discussed there.

  20. Re:What the Hell? on Alex the African Grey Parrot Dies · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's not a duplicate. It's something other than the usual "someone got agitated over a misunderstanding on a *BSD/Linux mailing list and we misinterpreted it even further for you". It is news from one of the "soft" sciences that are nice to read for a change now and then.

    I'd actually like to nominate this a one of kdawsons best use of editorial control for a long while.

  21. Re:The Dreamcast is a geek's dream come true :) on Dreamcast Homebrew Website Relaunched · · Score: 1
    Hell, you can even use Windows APIs for the built in Windows CE ROM
    The Dreamcast does not have a Windows CE ROM. Windows CE - if you choose to use it - is totally loaded from disc and kept in RAM.