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  1. Re:Speaking as a user on "Side By Side Assemblies" Bring DLL Hell 2.0 · · Score: 1

    self-contained applications

    TFA problem is easily resolved by statically linking the stuff. And the thing you pointed up is the Achiles heel of pretty much any *NIX system where the app dependencies are often much more widespread and the app itself is not self-contained, but rather disseminated over the whole system.

  2. Re:The small format hurts because you can't on PSP Go Debuts, Disappoints · · Score: 1

    Physical media? Forget it.

    Old PSP owners ? They are flying bi-planes, do you want Sony to allow them to attach the second wing on the jet the PSP Go is ? Forget it.

    For people with to much money ? Downloads were, are and always will be cheaper. AppStore clearly shows the competition drops prices to sane levels pretty quick. Do you somehow in your mind believe that the physical media allow price competition ? How ? Forget it.

  3. Re:Non-human model systems on Common Diabetic Drug Fights Cancer Stem Cells · · Score: 1

    Sorry, had to troll a bit about this, seen too many deaths (by cancer) around me.

  4. Re:Non-human model systems on Common Diabetic Drug Fights Cancer Stem Cells · · Score: 0, Troll

    Ok, bear with me, I am only an upset observer here, I know nothing about their methods, biology etc. But isn't prudent to get the cancer cells into some ecosystem or bioreactor, apply various factors and study them there instead of this Nazi like trial and error research involving those animals ? With the current state of technology one could imagine we should be able understand and see into these things well enough. They claim to be able to sequence much smaller DNA so why not 'sequence' or look into the cancer here. Also inside organisms they are able to highlight and target cancer with some agent and see exactly where the cancer cells are using that PET scanner technique, but unable to use the same path to deliver treatment to those areas. It seams to me that this cancer 'industry' is trying to do prolonged and expensive healing, but not to cure.

  5. Re:Non-human model systems on Common Diabetic Drug Fights Cancer Stem Cells · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This drug regimen is $4/months cheap -- this might threaten the whole cancer industry. I bet results of this trial will disappear quickly or some 'sponsored' research will soon came with a counter claim.

  6. Re:Non-human model systems on Common Diabetic Drug Fights Cancer Stem Cells · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    How metformin affects cancer isn't certain

    In addition to these results being only in vitro, here comes a sad reminder of the state of this ehm 'research', it looks like they know little about the mechanisms of cancer, this is the cave man trial and error approach still, lots of animals have to die horrible death for them to dig something up, but fingers crossed they finally drawn the winning ticket in this cancer beating lottery.

  7. Re:Is he selling these on eBay afterward? on Ben Heck's PS3 Slim Laptop · · Score: 1

    Ben's mods and the "mod" thing you are pointing out are two distinctive things.

  8. Is he selling these on eBay afterward? on Ben Heck's PS3 Slim Laptop · · Score: 1

    He could make some good money selling his 'pieces' -- making console mods might even become a decent first job for him.

  9. Re:I know I'm not alone in this... on OpenSSH Going Strong After 10 Years With Release of v5.3 · · Score: 1

    Having a normal PayPal donation button would be much more convenient for me.

  10. Much bigger problem is the optical mechinery of these discs, those might be readable after 10 years, but the drives with ton of moving parts might not even last that long, at that time we would have solid state discs much more capable, anything mechanical is just a dead-end research here. More like somebody tricked GE capital investors to buy this expensive "holography" technology, I can't see anything really groundbreaking stemming from this.

  11. Re:Mental illness is no laughing matter on Jack Thompson Sues Facebook For $40M · · Score: 1

    He is a professional troll waiting for a $40 million paycheck. All his maverick ideas made him celebrity already.

  12. Re:Why/how is a non-admin allowed to do this? on Dam Burst Tool Disables China's Green Dam Censorware · · Score: 1

    If you remove local firewall you raise flags on the outer "Great firewall", so this will be seen as a breach anyway, seams to me that local filtering software is only the first stopper layer to reduce number of outer hammerers -- having a local firewall reduces the number of breakers of the main China filtering layer at any given time, so the Chinese internet gestapo can better focus on the particular violators.

  13. Re:Please stop... on Amazon's Cloud May Provision 50,000 VMs a Day · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Managers love this kind of terminology, because from their point of view Internet just 'happens' somehow, they do not have a real clue how, but the cloud fits perfectly into this kind of thinking. That is why cloud hosting is so popular, they just order 4GB/100Mbit/s cloud and the hosting company creates one for them. They do not have to worry about setting up DNS, SQLs, multiple servers, domains, SMTPs and get schooled by some lowlife nerdy IT guys, they understand the dumbed down cloud interface well enough themselves, they just interact with the web interface and are happy it is all working for them.. somehow, somewhere, in the cloud.

  14. Re:PR on Scientists Decry "Horrifying" UK Border Test Plan · · Score: 1

    It is emigration from his POV, he is emigrating to UK, for you it is immigration. But important thing is that you both understand the problem and preparing to face off.

  15. Re:So... on Judge Rules Games Are "Expressive Works" · · Score: 1

    Are you sure ? I've thought that some player just confused some random similarities with him and wants EA to pay. I've played FIFA Football some time ago so bear with me. I doubt we can recognize hairstyle or face here, but we surely can assign pretty much anybody to bunch of pixels on screen with similar dress number and skin tone.

  16. Re:Not really... on Apple Pushes Unwanted Software To PCs, Again · · Score: 1

    Sorry for confusion, but where did I call those binaries directly "rootkit" ? Nowhere, I've just stated that these run behind normal applications as services, those service applications are normally associated with the system and the kernel. For humble user anything that didn't run under icon and is not the operating system raises questions as malware uses these tricks also.

    Most people blindly trust Apple, but learning from that Sony rootkit incident we ought to be careful. Apple should be more transparent here and enable user to choose to avoid these services.

  17. Re:Not really... on Apple Pushes Unwanted Software To PCs, Again · · Score: 1

    What is there to figure? The "DNSResponder" -- as the name suggest is pretty self explanatory, why such a simple thing as "DNS responder" has to run as a service and why on earth is this even required for some simple audio player (iTunes) functionality is beyond my comprehention. WinAmp for example doesn't need any such services to function nor Napster or Spotify for example. So why is Apple polluting Windows with these services ? I would expect Apple to run in userland and transparently, otherwise it raises all kinds of suspicions.

  18. Re:So... on Judge Rules Games Are "Expressive Works" · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Do not confuse this, you do need license for real world persons and teams. This is not the case, they created characters that might look similar to some players (more likely by accident), some confused and greedy players think they really are depicted, but really they aren't. This is typical little troll extort seeker case.

  19. Re:And What About... on Melting Memory Chips In Mass Production · · Score: 1

    Crystal memory doesn't have these weird Flash disk related problems. Per byte writes are the norm. Intel and other memory makers should take a hard look at this crystal memory chips, because this is the newgen memory technology.

  20. Re:Not really... on Apple Pushes Unwanted Software To PCs, Again · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ORLY? Apple installs lots of interesting 'additional' software on Windows, there are at least 3 system level programs running in the background that 99% users are not even aware of. These are running hidden (no tray bar indication icon or similar hint).

    mDNSResponder.exe
    AppleMobileDeviceService.exe
    iPodService.exe

    These programs are running 24/7 in the background eating process time and resources. The question is why does Apple need these kernel services (read rootkit like services) running in the system space ? To pool the iPod you surely do not need to run at this level or stay hidden to the users. I mean normal users that know shit about 'services'.

  21. Re:Benchmarks... on FreeBSD 8.0 vs. Ubuntu 9.10 Benchmarks · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Speed is the most important factor for web-server scenarios, if FreeBSD can handle 10x more inserts into SQL-Lite then Ubuntu in the same benchmark, on the same hardware then Ubuntu is KO'ed by BSD in the server arena, no offense.

  22. Re:no peeking on A "Photon Machine Gun" For Quantum Computers · · Score: 1

    Entanglement switches are rated 10000x speed of light (physics experiment performed in Geneva, Switzerland -- this is from Wikipedia) and upper limit is not even estimated.

  23. Re:What every player is missing on Theora 1.1 (Thusnelda) Is Released · · Score: 1

    This is not a very bright idea due to the fact that it severely limits the seeking and rewind abilities of video stored this way, rar/zip archives are not designed to be seekable.

  24. Re:For the purpose of restoring vision. on MIT Microchip Could Someday Restore Vision · · Score: 2, Insightful

    We all have grown our eyes once, stem cells from our bodies can arrange and grow another eye again. We have already grown beating rat hearts in the lab, so to grow human organs and tissue is the next step. What they need to do is to assemble basic protein scaffolding and then arrange and activate the stem cells to move to right places and build the organ. This happens in bio-reactors, hell it is not that other worldly tech, some labs do similar things already, but mostly in obscurity. What amazes me that this inferior electronic implants got a green light and much superior regenerative medicine is not even on the support list.

  25. Re:Meanwhile ... at Demon Internet Corporate Offic on ISP Emails Customer Database To Thousands · · Score: 3, Funny

    If they follow evil corporation best practices manual -- they obviously do so, then I doubt that.