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  1. Re:SlapShot? on Slashdot's Disagree Mail · · Score: 1

    Beat me to it. And I thought I was the only one to get the joke. ^^

  2. But wasn't GTalkService "better" than XMPP? on Google Drops Bluetooth API From Android 1.0 · · Score: 2

    When they dropped exposing XMPP service, they basically said that GTalkService was going to be better anyway. What now? IM as a transport is very important to 3d party apps.

  3. Polygons? on NVIDIA Shows Interactive Ray Tracing On GPUs · · Score: 1

    The whole point of ray tracing is to be able to model anything and how light interacts with it. Surely they mean the -equivalent- of that many polygons.

  4. Perfectly logical user on Slashdot's Disagree Mail · · Score: 1

    If you don't want to help, then why ARE you on Google? ^^ If you look at it from the correspondent's point of view and with their experience of the Net, that is a very logical and valid question to ask.

  5. Open by choice? on Defcon "Warballoon" Finds 1/3 of Wireless Networks Unsecured · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Don't assume people's motives for having an open AP. Rather than security ignorance, altruism is a perfectly good reason to turn off WEP and WPA.

  6. Bose Chaudhuri on Error-Proofing Data With Reed-Solomon Codes · · Score: 1, Informative

    These codes, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BCH_code , are far superior.. However, both Miller code and these pale in comparison to Low Density Parity Check codes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-density_parity-check_code

  7. Re:If like you like this sort of thing.. on Chinese Restaurant Suffers Large Translation Error · · Score: 1

    I've always loved that site. My favorite sign of all time there is "Bus Porking"

  8. They should Bite the Wax Tadpole... on Chinese Restaurant Suffers Large Translation Error · · Score: 1

    ...and get a Coca Cola sign.

  9. Inventory application on Is Anyone Using the Google Web Toolkit? · · Score: 1

    I made an inventory application with GWT. It is a simple catalog/SKU/invoice application for small businesses. However, I moved away from GWT for a couple of reasons. Their default serialization/rpc scheme did not work well with Hibernate (which has since been partly fixed), and drag and drop didn't make it into the standard toolkit for a very long time.

  10. My favorite space pic - Sunset on Mars on Earth and Moon From an Alien's Perspective · · Score: 1

    This is definitely my favorite JPL photo: http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/press/spirit/20050610a.html

  11. Please hold the milk on Dead At 92, Business Computing Pioneer David Caminer · · Score: 1

    I love English tea, but the standard milk-and-sugar serving is just too much. Black, please.

  12. Why fix it? on How To Clean Up Incorrect Geolocation Information? · · Score: 1

    Enjoy your relative privacy, and the fact that ads targeted at you are being routed elsewhere. I would love to have your predicament.

  13. Re:Phoronix will pay to fix X on The State of X.Org · · Score: 1

    I would estimate 10 full-time -qualified- programmers for at least a year, plus capital and overhead costs. Is Phoronix willing to pay $2M? And this isn't enough to fix it, only to assist those already working on it. I will never understand why people so undervalue the work that is contributed to free software projects, the difficulty of the work involved, and the skill required to accomplish it. Also, please never link to that over-loud and busy site again.

  14. A minor victory over objectivism on MySpace Wins $230 Million Judgment Against Sanford Wallace · · Score: 1

    Take that, Ayn Rand! Audacity is not always a virtue, but often a moral weakness.

  15. Gibraltar Bridge on DARPA Working On Arthur C. Clarke Weapon Idea · · Score: 1

    From Fountains of Paradise. It would be high enough in the center that people would feel like they are flying. As the story went, the bridge more than paid for itself from tourist fees alone, rather than needing tolls from commerce.

  16. Re:Fort Sam Houston on Google Pulls Map Images At Pentagon's Request · · Score: 1

    I was going to say the same thing. It's practically a city park with a hospital on it.

  17. Prior art at NASA on Blackboard Wins Patent Suit Against Desire2Learn · · Score: 1

    NASA had a project in the 90's that did the very same thing with user roles in a multiuser training session. It was called ICTT. If it's not too late, maybe D2L can save themselves. I'm sure at least one of the developers wouldn't mind giving his opinion.

  18. Distrust 'trust' on Hardware Based OpenID Service Available · · Score: 1

    I worry whenever I see the word 'trust' juxtaposed with OpenID. I worry that organizations will misuse OpenID, and ignore its purpose: only provide an identification for a person, nothing else. It doesn't certify the person's character, background, politics, or financial base. If I say that I am user@server, then OpenID is just a bit of evidence supporting that. That's all.

  19. Great. A house that nags on Disney Takes Another Stab at the House of the Future · · Score: 4, Insightful

    As if we didn't hear enough "suggestions" in our daily lives. Didn't Ray Bradbury kill his house for this very same reason?

  20. The 'X' means Extensible on Is XMPP the 'Next Big Thing' · · Score: 1

    For example: The protocol states that a chat client should ignore a packet without a subject or body. What this means is that you can extend the message packet with your own XML namespace, and add any tags and attributes you want. Then you can use the packet as your program's transport layer for moving anything you want. So while you are chatting to your buddy, there can be a lot of data transfer activity happening silently under the radar. Whiteboard, multiplayer game chatter, P2P transfers, etc.

    One thing in XMPP's design that I would like to see fixed is its current state of being client/server only. I would like to see a little bit of distribution in the network. For example, a MUC group sits entirely on one conference server. How is a server failure handled? And some routability would be good, like JXTA has.

  21. Backups on Charter Accidentally Wipes 14K Email Accounts · · Score: 1

    Sure, users should always back up their email. But so should the providers. It takes very little effort to schedule staggered daily/weekly/etc backups. Basically all you need is to have some flunky to carry tapes and disks around.

  22. Rather, take power away from WIPO on US Control of Internet Remains an Issue · · Score: 1

    That is the organization that is consciously manipulating the assignment of names, not the U.S. When an IP-enforcement organization has more power than individuals, then something is wrong with the system.

  23. It will most probably look like the emulator on Predicting The Google Phone · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you download the Android SDK, and run the emulator, you will see what the phone will almost certainly look like.

  24. Aliens from outer space on Whose Laws Apply On the ISS? · · Score: 4, Funny

    We used to joke that, technically, cosmonauts who launched from Baikonur and landed at Canaveral were exactly that.

  25. Hope there will be a Firebug-like dev tool on Mozilla to Develop Mobile Firefox · · Score: 1

    It would be really awesome if a mobile tool gets the same kind of debugging support that currently exists with Firefox and Firebug. Nothing comparable exists in the desktop browser world. What once involved writing for IE first, then adding W3 features later, now is developing on FF/FB, and then -porting- to IE. What a wonderful change has occurred in the dev landscape.