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  1. Re:Halting problem? on Google NativeClient Security Contest · · Score: 1

    A program that doesn't halt is not considered hostile; it's just annoying.

  2. Re:Guarantee hostile code cannot execute on Google NativeClient Security Contest · · Score: 1

    That doesn't work either, because NaCl makes the code and data segments disjoint so that the code cannot modify itself or generate new code. Since the code never changes, it's sufficient to scan it once.

  3. Re:The proliferation of data... on Privacy In the Age of Persistence · · Score: 1

    When it comes to privacy, noise may be a solution rather than a problem. Vernor Vinge suggested that if the Net remembers everything about you, you should flood it with contradictory noise that provides plausible deniability about things that are actually true. Either that, or they'll have more evidence against you.

  4. Re:It's about time on VMware Demos Two Operating Systems On Mobile Phone · · Score: 2, Funny

    The real question is whether the hypervisor implements proper looback so that one VM can call the other one. :-)

  5. Re:Xen Cores=number of VMs still? on Citrix XenServer Virtualization Platform Now Free · · Score: 2, Informative

    This was never true; I'm not sure where you heard it.

  6. Re:ZFS L2ARC on Optimizing Linux Systems For Solid State Disks · · Score: 1

    L2ARC is interesting for servers, but on a desktop or laptop you can just put all your data on flash.

  7. Re:Carrier Status? on New Tool Promises To Passively ldentify BitTorrent Files · · Score: 4, Informative

    Usenet probably counts as a cache under section 512(b) of the DMCA; as long as ISPs process takedown notices correctly they have no liability. Also see ALS Scan v. Remarq. IANAL.

  8. Misleading summary on MS To Offer Free Windows 7 Upgrade To Vista Users · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you buy a PC with Vista pre-installed after July 2009, you'll get a free upgrade to 7. Everyone else will still have to buy the upgrade. This is a common practice for software (I think they did the same thing for XP -> Vista); there's really not much to see here.

  9. Re:Before you start screaming about this. on Torvalds Rejects One-Size-Fits-All Linux · · Score: 1

    If each app has a repository, apt or yum will notify the user of updates.

  10. Re:Must Be A Linux Guy.. on Torvalds Rejects One-Size-Fits-All Linux · · Score: 1

    Those other OSes can fend for themselves. Why should Linux, which has most of the users and developers in the Unix market, subsidize minority OSes? Making Linux work better is a net benefit, regardless of what happens to *BSD/Solaris.

  11. Re:Comcast on Google and Friends Release Net Neutrality Measuring Tools · · Score: 1

    When it comes to IPv6, Comcast appears to be ahead of other broadband ISPs; Comcast is leading development of Dual Stack Lite while other ISPs are basically saying nothing.

  12. It's a trap on Adobe To Open Real-Time Messaging Protocol · · Score: 1

    That's why "open Flash" is a scam. Adobe gives you the specs but not the patent licenses (since they don't own many of the patents anyway) and tells you that you're all set to write your own open source Flash player.

  13. Re:Not good enough... on Adobe To Open Real-Time Messaging Protocol · · Score: 2, Informative

    Spark is just another name for H.263; you can get the spec from ITU. The undocumented proprietary codec is VP6, but ffmpeg has a reverse-engineered decoder.

  14. Re:Or is it that there are not yet enough.... on Conflict of Interest May Taint DTV Delay Proposal · · Score: 1

    Most viewers are on cable/satellite and thus don't need to switch at all.

  15. Re:Who is paying for my electricity, anyways? on New Energy Efficiency Rules For TVs Sold In California · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The problem with electricity is that how much a device actually uses is pretty well hidden from the user, so most people just don't know it and don't factor it into their buying decisions, so good old free market can't really work.

    The solution to that is labeling (Energy Star), not outright bans.

  16. Re:Google was just trying to save money on Google Router Rumors · · Score: 3, Insightful

    When you buy thousands of routers you get them customized to your exact needs and you get whatever support arrangement you desire including complete drawings and source code.

    Evidence? I've never heard of Cisco/Juniper/etc. offering this.

  17. Re:Get IPv6 now, you might be sorry later on IPv4 Address Use In 2008 · · Score: 1

    And I suppose if everyone uses tunnel brokers instead of 6to4, it'll never be fixed.

  18. Re:Get IPv6 now, you might be sorry later on IPv4 Address Use In 2008 · · Score: 1

    You can also get 2^80 addresses from the 6to4 fairy with no tunnel broker required. And since the whole point of IPv6 is that it won't run out, there's really no need to stock up in advance.

  19. Re:Why are they still available? on IPv4 Address Use In 2008 · · Score: 4, Informative

    What's to prevent someone from buying them all and charging more later?

    You can only get addresses if you can demonstrate a legitimate use for them. To get millions of addresses, you'd have to show that you have millions of devices that need them. Also, technically you can't resell addresses.

  20. Re:At the Data Recovery Centre on Toshiba To Launch First 512GB Solid State Drive · · Score: 1

    Interesting. So it's in the regular flash storage and not in a separate special place?

    Yes. It's cheaper to use ~1% of the flash capacity for the FTL mapping table than to store it in a separate chip.

  21. I don't think the BBC is asking for more money on BBC's iPlayer Chief Pushes Tiered Charging For ISPs · · Score: 1

    I think the idea is that you'd pay your ISP more to cover their costs of carrying iPlayer traffic. Cue proxy servers in 3, 2, 1...

  22. Re:With a law suit on the way? on Cisco Launching Blade Servers in 2009 · · Score: 1

    None? Why would it have any impact?

  23. Re:Any role for Linux? on Cisco Launching Blade Servers in 2009 · · Score: 1

    This is the enterprise we're talking about. It'll be RHEL and SLES, preferably on ESX. Of course, you can install whatever you want.

  24. Re:At the Data Recovery Centre on Toshiba To Launch First 512GB Solid State Drive · · Score: 1

    so how do you know what order the wear levelling has put everything in?

    There is a mapping table stored in the flash; it's in a proprietary format so as I said you'd have to reverse-engineer it.

  25. Re:At the Data Recovery Centre on Toshiba To Launch First 512GB Solid State Drive · · Score: 1

    Yeah, if a flash chip goes bad you're going to lose data.