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  1. Re:Stack exchange launch... another subsite on Network Engineering Q&A Site Launched · · Score: 2

    only slightly different CSS

    Not only. If you take the math.stackexchange.com you see that they put an extra effort to have mathematical equations displayed properly on the site.

  2. Re:Start covering the number line . . . on Microsoft Files Dispute Against Current Owner of XboxOne.com · · Score: 1

    Indeed
    Domain Name: XBOXMINUSONE.COM
    Registrar: ENOM, INC.
    Status: clientTransferProhibited
    Updated Date: 21-may-2013
    Creation Date: 21-may-2013
    Expiration Date: 21-may-2014

    but that was a week ago...

  3. Re:So is it good? on Java Developer Says He Built, Launched Basic Open Source Office Suite In 30 Days · · Score: 1

    better... and compatible! Because are usually writing docs to be shared with other people. I doubt in 30 days he was able to make that possible, especially when you look at openoffice and how much it took them to make something really useable.

  4. Re:Built with Netbeans on Java Developer Says He Built, Launched Basic Open Source Office Suite In 30 Days · · Score: 5, Funny

    No, he says he used Netbeans to justify the 30 days. Otherwise the whole development process would have taken only 15.

  5. Balance convergence on Possible Collision Between Cube-satellite and Old Space Junk · · Score: 1

    Good. As always in our Universe, things tend to converge to a certain equilibrium. There are more and more satellites in the upper sky, thus the probability of a collision increases exponentially. Collision => less satellites.

  6. Re:Seems legit. . . on Meet the 23-Ton X-Wing, the World's Largest Lego Model · · Score: 1

    Yes but the picture is what pros would call a bad picture: to give a relative idea of the height / width of the thing, they should have included a man for instance into he picture..

  7. Re:Got it backwards on One-Time Pad From Caltech Offers Uncrackable Cryptography · · Score: 1

    This remind me of an old Office file where the MS copyright text was encrypted thanks to a simple XOR value (a few bytes). (There is also that funny story at the time of a Linux tool that only needed the `-d` option to decipher a whole XLS, without providing any password...). Anyway, what was said at the time: while XOR encryption seems very week, if the key itself is as long as the text to be encrypted, and if the key is based on reliable random values (and the key is kept secret), it is indeed a very strong encrytion.

  8. Re:Bad news... on German Researchers Hit 40 Gbps On Wireless Link · · Score: 1

    Offtopic? This is not a secret that RIAA and the like are not investing any effort in building faster infrastructures ( quite the opposite ). If history was made based on their whims, we'd still be using vinyl records, without even a cassette to make a copy... At 40Gbps, a HD movie is copied within a second...

  9. Bad news... on German Researchers Hit 40 Gbps On Wireless Link · · Score: 0

    ...for RIAA, SACEM and the like...

  10. 100 hours of video / minute on Over 100 Hours of Video Uploaded To YouTube Every Minute · · Score: 1

    In a way Youtube beats time... but that gives an idea of the bandwidth available upstream (downstream being even more monstrous)

  11. Re:Oh dear on Interviews: McAfee Says House Fire Was No Accident · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It seems /. has a particular relationship with mr MacAfee, that allows /. to get some kind of confessions directly from him, that you won't see anywhere else. Well, Torvald, Ballmer or Steve Jobs (from the Dead) would be better, but that's a start.

  12. Re:It's my party and no one else is invited on Open Source Projects For Beginners · · Score: 2

    the Linux Kernel development team in particular is known for its savagery

    Considering the 1. high level of complexity and 2. high quality level of the Linux kernel, please keep him out of the regular OSS projects.
    When the GIMP or LibreOffice bug (they do that often), I'm just annoyed. The Linux kernel OTOH cannot afford to bear a botched or newbie-made module.

  13. Re:Yeah, its not a coincidence on John McAfee's Belize Home Burns To Ground · · Score: 1

    He's certainly not likely to go back to Belize soon anyway...

  14. Strange... on John McAfee's Belize Home Burns To Ground · · Score: 3, Funny

    Checked again: though my system says Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS, I still see "McAfee" everywhere...

  15. Charge in 5 seconds on Charge Your Cellphone In 20 Seconds (Eventually) · · Score: 1

    ...change the battery with a freshly charged one (if you're not a lucky iPhone owner).

  16. Re:Yahoo has 22 million .jp users? on Yahoo! Japan May Have Had 22 Million User IDs Stolen · · Score: 4, Informative

    Yahoo! Japan (and its fellow Softbank) is incredibly popular in Japan, and plays a top role re Internet: ISP, search, mail, cell phones (SB)...
    Question is "why?" Why Yahoo! (mail, search, ...) are still that popular? Why the Japanese didn't follow the Google trend (as much as the Western countries) during the mid 2000, where Yahoo! had (and still has) those very busy pages and (for a long time) the search was of a much lower quality compared to Google, having a lot of results being sponsored by 3rd parties displayed on top without further indications about that sponsoring.
    There is a technical answer: most PCs come with Yahoo! stuff, the search is set to Y! and nobody changes that. The thing is, compared to the West, the Japanese do not have that "pursuit of genuineness" reaction - they trust what is popular and Y! is very popular...
    Furthermore, there is no strong consumer association in Japan, and abuses (in any field) may remain undisclosed for a long time (yes, there is a connection between Y! and abuses).

  17. Re:Unfortunately on Canadian Cellphone Users May Get Justice Over Phantom Charges · · Score: 1

    Indeed. 30,000 persons will pay a small amount from a carrier POV. This is a problem with that kind of justice: when someone steals or kill, he has to pay a heavy dissuasive "price", also intended to be understood by other people: "look, this is the 'price' you pay if you steal/kill".
    Instead, being rather lenient, the court doesn't discourage that kind of behavior in companies.

  18. Re:The solar system is busier than we thought on NASA Meteoroid-Spotting Program Captures Brightest-Yet Moon Impact · · Score: 1

    The good news is there are less and less...

  19. Re:C'mon NASA, get your act together on units on NASA Meteoroid-Spotting Program Captures Brightest-Yet Moon Impact · · Score: 1

    "size of a small boulder"? This has to be one of the most useless size descriptions

    NASA message is intended to be delivered to anybody, not only the /. geeks. While we (/. geeks) are used to numbers and proportions, a "small boulder" - while less accurate - is represented better by most people than 0.634124 meter.

  20. Re:Yeah... on 97% of Climate Science Papers Agree Global Warming Is Man-made · · Score: 1

    Most countries would agree on the human responsibility in the global warming. The problem is 'agreeing this' means agreeing that the country has its share of responsibility and should do something about it. We are in a world where everyone (besides maybe Africa and a few others) wants to "enjoy" the economic developments as much as possible, and 'doing something about global warming' goes against that.

  21. Bill Gates Regains the Position of World's Richest on Bill Gates Regains the Position of World's Richest Person · · Score: 0

    I was worried...

  22. Re:Marketing on Apache OpenOffice Downloaded 50 Million Times In a Year · · Score: 1

    only the geeks have figured out that LibreOffice exists

    And only the French geeks... should have called it "FreeOffice"

  23. Re:Matter of time on Canada Courts, Patent Office Warns Against Trying To Patent Mathematics · · Score: 2

    physicists have figured out the laws of the universe, everything might be mathematics

    I'm afraid everywhere is already mathematics... This is the difference between physics and mathematics: change the way our Universe works and physics vanish, mathematics (on which physics formula are based on) remain.

  24. Re:this is why mathematicians are poor on Canada Courts, Patent Office Warns Against Trying To Patent Mathematics · · Score: 2

    Indeed, Google is gonna win because it was built by mathematicians. Like Stephen King said "Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process.".

  25. Re:Cool! All we have to do is create code to math. on Canada Courts, Patent Office Warns Against Trying To Patent Mathematics · · Score: 1

    Just have a look at the printf source code (actually vfprintf). If you don't understand it, that'll remind you your old maths classes ..