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  1. Nice and simple on Newb-Friendly Linux Flavor For LAMP Server? · · Score: 1

    I'd go with Linux From Scratch, and the TUX web server for a little speed boost.

  2. TFS is not quite correct on No P = NP Proof After All · · Score: 1

    3-SAT is in NP, so it's solvable by definition in polynomial time – on a non-deterministic turing machine. It's whether it's solvable in polynomial time specifically on a deterministic turing machine that defines whether it's in P.

  3. Correctness on Geocentrists Convene To Discuss How Galileo Was Wrong · · Score: 1

    Strictly speaking, the Geocentrists are correct that the Earth IS the centre of the universe, just like everywhere else in the universe.

  4. For quick reference, here's the page on the repeal of the Digital Economy Act:
    http://yourfreedom.hmg.gov.uk/repealing-unnecessary-laws/digital-economy-act

    Please add your votes/comments.

  5. I for one welcome this on Video Games Linked To Reckless Driving · · Score: 5, Funny

    Frankly, there are too many of these damn kids around anyway.

  6. One solution... on Largest Sodium Sulfur Battery Powers a Texas Town · · Score: 1

    is to use, of all things, water. One keeps two reservoirs, one higher than the other. While one has power, one pumps water from the lower to the higher. When the power cuts out, one generates hydroelectric power by allowing water through from the higher to the lower.

  7. Keystrokes as a biometric on Tracking Pedophiles By Their Typing Habits · · Score: 2, Informative

    Here's the paper which may have started this research: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/66795/01/thesis.pdf

  8. It sounds bad, but... on EA To Charge For Game Demos · · Score: 1

    We're talking about demos which are longer than Portal here.

  9. Re:Didn't see that one coming.... on Disney Releases 3D Texture Mapper Source Code · · Score: 1

    They're both LGPL.

  10. Re:So , , , on How To Build a Quantum Propulsion Machine · · Score: 1

    That got modded 'Informative'?

  11. Nifty on BBC Planning To Launch Global iPlayer VoD Service · · Score: 1

    Well, it is!

  12. Re:What I'm not clear about on Deadline Scheduling Proposed For the Linux Kernel · · Score: 1

    Just real-time systems - ones where you have set deadlines :)

  13. Re:Anybody notice the clock on the stove on Mainstream Press "Cringes" At Win7 Launch Parties · · Score: 1

    3 hours for a 6 minute bit of video is not at all unusual.

  14. Re:Great... on Pirate Party Unites In Australia · · Score: 1

    My mind, it is blown.

  15. Great... on Pirate Party Unites In Australia · · Score: 0, Troll

    I want a British pirate party now. We need one :/

  16. Re:Seems odd... on Russia's New Official Holiday — Programmer's Day · · Score: 1

    Not in Russia, you insensitive clod.

  17. Seems odd... on Russia's New Official Holiday — Programmer's Day · · Score: 2, Interesting

    As much as programmers do often work hard and produce nifty things, why this rather than, say, surgeons' day, or police officers' day?

  18. Internals on Apple Open Sources Grand Central Dispatch · · Score: 1

    Basically, libdispatch just creates a thread pool for each separate task, then uses some clever magic involving an inter-process semaphore to keep them blocking so that no more than enough threads (ie: the number of CPUs) are running at any given time. Nifty, because it means little change needed to be made to xnu. libdispatch is also, theoretically, portable to other platforms, as long as one can provide a blocks runtime and a compiler capable of handling blocks. I noticed a patch on LLVM's mailing list today providing a Linux port of the blocks runtime, and llvm-gcc and clang both are capable of handling blocks and running on Linux.

  19. Dead People on Google Labs Offers Table-Based Search Results · · Score: 1

    I asked Google Squared for a list of dead people. One of the first to appear was 'God,' whose date of death was apparently September 2006.

  20. The dangers of strlen on Microsoft To Banish Memcpy() · · Score: 1

    I note they've also banned such wildly dangerous functions as strlen. What's even more interesting to me is that _INLINE ASM_ is perfectly acceptable under their guidelines, but not memcpy.

  21. Name on H1N1 Appears To Be Transmittable From Human To Pig · · Score: 5, Funny

    I *still* think that Bacon Fever is a superior name. Just sayin'.

  22. LLVM on Google Native Client Puts x86 On the Web · · Score: 1

    I personally think that a sending out LLVM IR bytecode to be run sandboxed is a much better idea, since that can be JIT'd to the native platform on which the browser is running, or interpreted if JIT is unavailable; almost as fast on x86, much faster on other architectures, and very portable.

  23. Re:Safe... until on Apple Says Macs Are Safe, No Antivirus Needed · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually, if you are talking about latin it is

    Vira

    'Virus' in latin means venom. Since this is something uncountable, latin has no plural for it. The 'correct' way to pluralise it has to come from English, since we're using a transliteration.