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  1. Re:Can a layman get an explanation in English? on New Binary Diffing Algorithm Announced By Google · · Score: 1

    It makes patches smaller by doing a few extra voodoo pre and post processing steps. Many changes in the binary can be tracked back to only 1 change in the original source code, the voodoo knows how to do this and stores just that one master change instead all of the resulting changes. Car analogy: instead of storing the activity of each piston in a car engine it just stores the fact if the engine is running or not.

  2. Re:SLOW FUCKING JAVASCRIPT on Swearing Provides Pain Relief, Say Scientists · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Maybe it's to prevent idiots from posting too many comments.

  3. Re:No mention of X-platform on Mono Outpaces Java In Linux Desktop Development · · Score: 1

    try intelliJ

  4. Re:It needs some method of data entry on CrunchPad Will Be a 'Dead Simple Web Tablet' · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Put a keyboard on the back which can be folded to the front, depending on the position you can use it as a pad or a netbook.

  5. Re:...someone page kurzweil... on Hawking Says Humans Have Entered a New Stage of Evolution · · Score: 1

    full-immersion leaves room for interpretation, but personally I wouldn't call current games full-immersion.

  6. Re:...someone page kurzweil... on Hawking Says Humans Have Entered a New Stage of Evolution · · Score: 1

    According to that we'll have full-immersion audio-visual virtual reality next year. lol

  7. Re:No need on Lenovo Tinkers With Larger Delete and Escape Keys · · Score: 1

    Or you could just learn to type and not hammer the keyboard like a drunk monkey.

  8. Re:Chrome stats probably erroneous on Memory Usage of Chrome, Firefox 3.5, et al. · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Well I had 7 tabs open in chrome (youtube, gmail, gamespot, slashdot, wonderhowto, and a few lightweight sites) I duplicated these to firefox.

    The about:memory in chrome gave me this:

    Browser             Private     Shared     Total     Private     Mapped
    Chromium 2.0.172.31 168,244k    4,472k    172,716k    190,248k    42,868k
    Firefox 3.0.11      151,384k    5,332k    156,716k    142,432k    3,968k

    FF plugins are disabled.

    According to chrome, 'private' is the best indicator.

  9. Re:It's the humans, stupid on Carnegie Researchers Say Geotech Can't Cure Ocean Acidification · · Score: 1

    AC is right. We're trying to fix the problem by throwing ice in a boiling pot while simultaneous heating it.
    If humans are the cause of global warming then reducing population size is the most logical and long lasting fix.
    You don't have to kill anyone, just stop them from reproducing. If selective breeding is applied then there may be additional benefits for everyone.

  10. five fingers on Scientists Wonder What Fingerprints Are For · · Score: 1

    Isn't this the same question as why we have 5 fingers on each hand instead of 4 or 6?
    Evolution won't remove/change features if it isn't a disadvantage for the survival.
    So perhaps you have to look at species way before humans and monkeys.

  11. banning pistols from bedrooms on German Gov To Ban Paintballing After Shooting · · Score: 1

    wouldn't it make more sense to ban pistols from bedrooms?

    From the article:
    The teenager shot many of his victims in the head with his father's legally registered pistol. His father, a member of a shooting club, had 15 guns at home â" fourteen were locked in a gun closet as required by law but the pistol was in the bedroom.

    This is just as insane as the dutch ban on magic mushrooms.

  12. Re:At last Spyware for everyone ! on Google To Air Chrome Ads On TV · · Score: 3, Informative

    I forgot: memory usage. As a java developer I have to run a few memory sucking applications such as an IDE. The main thing that made me switch to chrome was that I got tired of restarting ff because after a while it would have eaten a significant amount of memory.

  13. Re:At last Spyware for everyone ! on Google To Air Chrome Ads On TV · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Fact remains that Chrome gives you a very smooth experience. It's quick (major concern for me), very handy start page (there's probably a ff plugin that does that too), download manager is an improvement; tab dragging to open a new window is very useful. The only thing that sucks is the bookmark manager.

    If you don't like the usage tracking then there's always the opensource clone SRWare Iron.

  14. Re:Lol. on Mininova Starts Filtering Torrents · · Score: 1

    1. no one said 'always'
    2. method of delivery has nothing to do with content. I presume you also think http is evil because there are sites that use http to serve copyrighted files.

  15. Re:netbooks reverting to Windows on Linux Reaches 1% Usage Share · · Score: 1

    I have one of those Acers. With a lot of stumbling around with configuration files and yum I got ff3 installed and a normal desktop menu (xfce) and some other stuff. However it still sucked, for example it wouldn't remember the wifi password and alt-F2 (run) also didn't remember what was typed/checkmarked before. Frankly the whole user experience sucked.

    After a few months I decided to install another distro but couldn't get it on a usb stick without going through all sorts of hoops. A few googles later I found an easy way to make xp installable from a usb stick. So I said fuck linux and installed windows. Everything went easy and smooooooth after that.

  16. Re:If there is genuine life extension... on "Miraculous" Stem Cell Progress Reported In China · · Score: 1
  17. Re:But will the Entertainment Industry use it? on GE Introduces 500GB Holographic Disks · · Score: 1

    40 minutes? What weird ass music do you buy?

  18. wireless antennas on Researchers Sniff Keystrokes From Thin Air, Wires · · Score: 1

    aren't they great? i hate antennas with wires.

  19. Re:Casimir Force on Scale Models Can "Compute" Casimir Forces · · Score: 1

    then=than

  20. Re:Casimir Force on Scale Models Can "Compute" Casimir Forces · · Score: 1

    I think pushing is more appropriate then blowing. My guess is that suction and blowing should be used to describe the effects of the under/over pressure on other objects.

  21. Re:Great on Robotic Prostheses For Human Faces · · Score: 1

    Moderation affects karma, not the other way around.
    Read the faq: moderate posts, not users.
    Your way of thinking would mean that karma never decreases, which only leads to snobs.

  22. Re:Amiga 1000... on Red Hat Enlists Community Help To Fight Patent Trolls · · Score: 1

    Ironically everyone used the hotkeys to flip through the screens. However, that same trick (changing modes and colors at arbitrary vertical position) was very useful for games and demos.

  23. Re:why? And, did anyone else notice what the kid d on Demo of Spatially Aware Blocks · · Score: 1

    More likely the reactable: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0h-RhyopUmc

  24. Re:Real sustainable power available since decades on Why Sustainable Power Is Unsustainable · · Score: 1

    houses with hookers and beer!
    Those energy people have their priorities wrong.

  25. Re:Antec is the worst on Brand Names Take On Generics In PSU Showdown · · Score: 1

    I did a lot of research before buying my PSU and I can confirm your statement. I have a truepower and the only thing that slightly worries me is the low air flow. I assume that they know what they're doing and that there is enough flow for the psu but be prepared to install a casefan if you don't have one already.