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  1. Re:Hardly Significant on Interop Returns 16 Million IPv4 Addresses · · Score: 1

    .4% And a several percent boost to the free amount.

  2. Re:Don't make them smaller on How Much Smaller Can Chips Go? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    DDR, along with almost all desktop memory, has a 64-bit interface. So DDR 400 is at 3200MB/s, and if you go dual-channel you get 6400MB/s. Still, having bulk storage only an order of magnitude below main memory is wonderful.

  3. Re:Final TeX on Knuth Plans 'Earthshaking Announcement' Wednesday · · Score: 1

    Equal probability, equal when rounded, sure. Having the exact same occurrence of each digit is not something you can presume without a strong reason.

  4. Re:And Chinese Internationalized Domain Names on ICANN Approves .xxx Suffix For Porn Websites · · Score: 1

    It's just translated TLDs as far as I can tell. Domain names can already be in Chinese; that's the important part. I think a controversial-content TLD is more news than that.

  5. Re:Virtual vs. Real on 3D Displays May Be Hazardous To Young Children · · Score: 2, Informative

    The problem is exactly that your eyes don't focus at different depths with virtual 3D.

  6. Re:Noscript on Google Shares Insights On Accelerating Web Sites · · Score: 1

    News links off of slashdot, forums, imageboards, wikis, none of these need javascript. I have it on for youtube, even if I don't understand why it's needed to load flash, mail, newegg, and gmane.org. Probably a couple more, but very few out of the total of sites I visit. Saves me a lot of memory, and there are a few sites where javascript actually hurts the experience to take into account.

  7. Re:Noscript on Google Shares Insights On Accelerating Web Sites · · Score: 5, Informative

    75%? When I turn off javascript it only seems to affect about a tenth of the sites I visit.

  8. Re:I do not have a problem with this ... on Gizmodo Not Welcome at 2010 WWDC · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's an informal discussion; opinions are often phrased that way.

  9. Re:There might be some method to the madness. on 'Month of PHP Security' Finds 60 Bugs · · Score: 1

    I think haystack first makes more sense as haystack is the subject you're working on, but if the needle is going to be first just make the first parameter optional, don't screw up the pattern.

  10. Re:float are over on What Every Programmer Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic · · Score: 1

    32bit integers have more precision than 32bit floats, too. You still can't represent 1/3.

  11. Re:Only scratching the surface on What Every Programmer Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic · · Score: 1

    Actually, since .5 only affects the exponent, not the mantissa, your example is probably fine.

  12. Re:How can he claim a right to privacy? on Court Allows Unmasking of P2P Downloaders · · Score: 1

    A fallacious argument DOES imply that the results are wrong. Suggesting otherwise is foolishness.

    No, a fallacious argument doesn't go for or against what it concludes, it is merely there. If I claim that 1 + 1 = 2 because fish, the failed argument does not imply it isn't 2.

  13. Re:easy solution on New Speed Cameras Catch You From Space · · Score: 1

    As far as I'm concerned, the safest and expected way of driving is slightly over the speed limit, matching the speed of most other drivers.

  14. Re:Interesting on Ubuntu Will Switch To Base-10 File Size Units In Future Release · · Score: 1

    Different namespaces, it's safe to use K for both.

  15. Re:Cannonical is just trolling us on Ubuntu Will Switch To Base-10 File Size Units In Future Release · · Score: 1

    'baud rate' could be parsed incorrectly as 'rate of bauds', or correctly as 'rate (type baud)' It's important to make sure it's understood correctly, but I wouldn't say that that wording is actually wrong.

  16. Re:they do have power. on EU Parliament Rejects ACTA In a 663 To 13 Vote · · Score: 1

    51/52, are you even trying?

  17. Re:Here's a patch on Passage of Time Solves PS3 Glitch · · Score: 1

    I like this. Because this is probably the code that caused the bug. year % 4 when year is actually BCD.

  18. Re:What's the problem? on Schooling Microsoft On Random Browser Selection · · Score: 1

    You did notice that this test case is only 5 items, right? Even bubble sort can escape this in ~16 cycles, let alone a proper sort. But you could have a fast sort that needs consistent data or it'll get stuck on a large data set.

  19. Re:damned faintly praising? on Schooling Microsoft On Random Browser Selection · · Score: 1

    On a list 5 long, sure. But a bubble sort could would need a nearly-impossible sequence of trues for a list of even 100 items, since it does a new loop if a single item is unsorted.

  20. Re:So what is this... on Using a Toy Train To Calibrate a Reactor · · Score: 1

    Interesting that the one that came first is 'Redundant' and the later, less nested one has a score of 2.

  21. Re:paper in your wallet on Best Tool For Remembering Passwords? · · Score: 1

    1500 characters, 1-20 per crack attempt, 30k to check. That's nothing. Any other trivial modifications you make, you end up just hoping your attacker doesn't try.

  22. Re:Yes but it is a valid concern on Rosetta Stone Sues Google For Trademark Violation · · Score: 2, Informative
    What makes you say it's redirecting rather than using it as a fair comparison? To quote google:

    Beware the Stone. $548?
    Don't Get Ripped Off By The Stone.
    Learn Spanish w/ Awesome 6 DVD Set
    easy.BuenoEntonces.com/Spanish

  23. Re: Skynet on Computer Chess Programs Vie "Live" For World Championship · · Score: 1

    Starting 1 instead of 0? Are you mad?