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  1. Anonymity is a great new feature. on OpenID Foundation Embraced by Big Players · · Score: 1

    [You authenicate with] https://me.yahoo.com/text-of-your-choosing. There's even a new feature in OpenID 2.0 that lets you just pick "Yahoo.com" so you don't have to enter anything at all relating to you on the other site.


    Yeah that's good, I didn't like that sites used my URL as a nick name for me when I logged with OpenID sometime ago. But it was really easy to set up and use, I mean just being able to log in with a small URL is a great thing.
  2. Re:Possible interim solution: on Danish ISP Tele2 Challenges Pirate Bay Blockade · · Score: 1

    Actually I would think that this is the next step for P2P using a botnet to spread their index.

  3. Re:It's just an attempt to get traffic on Fifth Cable Cut To Middle East · · Score: 1

    Yeah perhaps more so in the states, but on the web I've actually never seen it put into words like that before. It's done a lot like LWN.nets 5 part Memory articles but that really isn't as bad as this...

  4. Re:Give me better sekk times on Intel, Micron Boost Flash Memory Speed by Five Times · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the info, it was very helpfull. I have used CF cards on IDE, but never managed to have one that is fast enough to even get close to 10ms "seek" time, and recently I read some specs about a new 333x CF and it said quite clearly 8ms seek time...

    I do understand why there shouldn't be any seek times on random access memory, but really there is a big difference between RAM and Flash. I mean AFAIK most flash drives are made from blocks of memory and I can understand if you would have to make the controller read that whole block to get the info I want.. That's my thought, it might be wrong...

  5. It's just an attempt to get traffic on Fifth Cable Cut To Middle East · · Score: 4, Insightful

    He says he knows it all he will just wait until his next post to tell you all, so this is where "journalism" is heading. It's all about the money of course, but it's actually the first time it's been so clear.

    I don't think s/he has anything.

  6. AIBO on Richard Stallman on OLPC · · Score: 4, Funny

    Is RMS ever happy? I am going to start a project "One Puppy per child" and the first one goes to Stallman.


    The SONY dogbot isn't open sourced, but there is a german one you can use.
  7. Wireless on Richard Stallman on OLPC · · Score: 1

    is closed source, he isn't complaining about the technology... Good bad I'm not sure but maybe he could make a greater stance against how that is handled by Intel and all the other WLAN card designers.

  8. War is never straight on Fourth Undersea Cable Taken Offline In Less Than a Week · · Score: 2, Insightful

    he plan is to get in, blow stuff up, rebuild the critical infrastructure, then leave. It doesn't always work that way (e.g. Iraq)


    1. Vietnamn
    2. Korea
    3. Somalia
    4. Iraq
  9. Re:Give me better sekk times on Intel, Micron Boost Flash Memory Speed by Five Times · · Score: 1

    Try do random access on the next USB-flash stick you have access too.

  10. Give me better sekk times on Intel, Micron Boost Flash Memory Speed by Five Times · · Score: 0, Troll

    Most flash cards have a seek time of 10 ms.... It would be nice if you could get big flash cards with very low seek times..

  11. MAC buffers on LAN Turns 30, May Not See 40? · · Score: 1

    I woul love to see the MAC lookup tables on one of those world wide switches. it makes complaining about the unrelated jumbo frame buffers seem like small potato.

    But yes long live the World Wide LAN, and the new SAN Stelar area network.

  12. good 2 cents on Best Practices For Process Documentation? · · Score: 1

    External help is one of the better ideas, a friend told me about a company that did this. It ended up costing about 2 years of work time to get it in place, but apparently they have been running fine now updating their processes the last 4 years.

    They had the same situation, growing fast, getting very big. When their buying man left taking all his phone numbers and contact names with him, they started the documentation process.

  13. Sharepoint weakness on Best Practices For Process Documentation? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Sharepoint is a system to control flows of documents, like a web filesystem for Office documents. It's supposed to grow in a planned way, that means you can't grow new structures. And if you want a Wiki you will have to get another one because the one in Sharepoint is not usable, it doesn't help you write good structured documents just to get a web page going fast.

    Now... You aren't looking for tech solutions, but when it comes to that beware, that there is such a thing as adopting too early.

  14. I like steam on Introversion On Staying An Independent Games Studio · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It works for me on Windows and I can always play Darwinia and defcon were ever I am in the world, which is very good. I've always favoured net installs over physical media, though I wonder what will happen in 10 years from now, will I still be able to play Darwinia through steam?

    There really should be a non-steamed version for all the games, so you can run it without steam.

  15. In the same way a T-Rex is cool on We Know Who's Behind Storm Worm · · Score: 1

    It's very cool in a museum, but in real life it's not that fun to be stomped down by one. So yes worms and carnivores as massive as these are pretty cool, at a distance.

  16. yes on Engineers Have a Terrorist Mindset? · · Score: 1

    Access to guns is always bad.

  17. ESR on Engineers Have a Terrorist Mindset? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    http://catb.org/~esr/guns/

    I guess I'm an idiot for this

  18. Banish DVD on In-Depth Review of the MacBook Air With Photos · · Score: 1

    I hope DVDs will go the same way as floppies already have, they are cumbersome and just takes up space. Create more PCs without DVDs..

  19. newer version on Author of ATSC Capture and Edit Tool Tries to Revoke GPL · · Score: 1
  20. oo! oooh Touch walls! on Math on iPhones Just Doesn't Add Up? · · Score: 1

    Can you feel them?

  21. They said it themself on Big Delays, Small Laptops: OLPC XO Recipients Mad · · Score: 2, Insightful

    They don't want to do distribution, shipping tens of thousands of things all around a continent isn't that easy.. Just getting payments information from paypal can be a hard thing to do.

    Saying this will happen to governments orders as well is very strange, and uncalled for.

  22. more power save links on Linux Kernel 2.6.24 Released · · Score: 2, Informative

    I was going to post this on Thinkpad wiki on power consumpton, but sadly the page is not working atm..

  23. Yeah tick less is fine stuff on Linux Kernel 2.6.24 Released · · Score: 4, Informative

    Reducing wakups on laptops is very interesting suff, I've seen some post on how muche better the NO_HZ is making things, e.g. Ross went from 164w/s to 5w/s just waking up 5 times per second makes the CPU pretty cool...

  24. please don't on Mystery Malware Affecting Linux/Apache Web Servers · · Score: 1

    I have a pretty long password, and I'm pretty bad at remembering things.

    Besides hopefully you don't have 12345 as root password, because anything but that will be pretty hard to brute force. I'm fine with people trying to log on as root on my machine. They are going to need a lot of time to find my password that way.

  25. hair splitting on Fox News / EA Spar Over Mass Effect 'Controversy' · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Did Fox over sensationalize what was going on and mislead the public? Yes, of course, that's their job! It sells.


    No! You can't do that, I know all news shows in the US have to compete for profit, but there have to be a limit to what you can say and still call yourself a News show. If all you do is reporting one side of the story you are not a journalist, you are just a propaganda machine. It doesn't matter if you are called Socialist Weekly or Fox News there are still standards you need to uphold.