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  1. Re:Invisible? on Massive Botnet "Indestructible," Say Researchers · · Score: 1

    The disk can be written to not only through BIOS.

  2. Re:IE10 Selling Point on Microsoft Releases IE10 Platform Preview 2 · · Score: 1

    Or firefox googol!

  3. Re:Who uses Thunderbird? on Mozilla Releases Thunderbird 5 · · Score: 1

    It's difficult to automate. Take a look at what The Bat! can do, you'll never want to use web-based browsing (unless mobile) or Thunderbird.

  4. Duct tape, obviously. on Can Ubuntu Linux Consume Less Power Than Windows? · · Score: 1

    ... it's so default, you don't have to list it.

  5. Re:House, MD. on LSD Alleviates 'Suicide Headaches' · · Score: 1

    He wasn't looking for an analgesic, but rather for something to start uterine contractions. As to the second part of your claim, can you provide a citation?

  6. Re:So on Rootkit Infection Requires Windows Reinstall · · Score: 1
    I fail to see how this invalidates the OP's point. Also, the link you provided states clearly:

    What it doesn't do: You cannot use the Windows 7 Recovery Disc to re-install Windows - it only fixes (not replaces!) Windows.

  7. Re:Boot Disc on Rootkit Infection Requires Windows Reinstall · · Score: 1

    My question was rhetorical -- I meant to point out that we need something that works, and not just something easy -- but thanks nevertheless.

  8. Re:Reinstall, but not Windows on Rootkit Infection Requires Windows Reinstall · · Score: 1

    :D == 0, that's what.

  9. Re:So on Rootkit Infection Requires Windows Reinstall · · Score: 1

    Sure it only lets you make the recovery disk once. But there is nothing keeping you from copying the recovery disk.

    What the poster meant, I think, was that if you're in a hurry and forego the prompt, you've forfeited your chance to make the recovery disk.

  10. Re:Boot Disc on Rootkit Infection Requires Windows Reinstall · · Score: 1

    sfc /scannow Was that so hard?

    It was easy. But did it work?

  11. Re:Why is a garbage collector even needed? on Biggest Changes In C++11 (and Why You Should Care) · · Score: 1

    Lemme guess, there are tons of programs using auto in the old syntax, right?

  12. Re:Design by Committee on Biggest Changes In C++11 (and Why You Should Care) · · Score: 1

    A doc that needs to be read by more people is the C++ Frequently Questioned Answers.

    Not really, that's just a lengthy rant by someone with a grudge, not much merit there.

  13. Re:Biggest Change? on Biggest Changes In C++11 (and Why You Should Care) · · Score: 1

    But then again, sequence points were removed in the new standard :). Of course it's still UB.

  14. Re:So... on Biggest Changes In C++11 (and Why You Should Care) · · Score: 1

    There's also no logical connection between underscores and hardware. I write Python all the time with lots of them.

    There's no logical connection in Python. In C++ there is, sorta, as everything that begins with "__" is implementation-specific (and often more tied to the hardware). Perhaps that's what the OP meant.

  15. Re:Imagine on Japan's 8-petaflop K Computer Is Fastest On Earth · · Score: 1

    It doesn't run linux, it's being run linux -- it's in soviet Russia.

  16. Re:A questionable business model, at best on Amazon Tests a Home-Delivery Service For Groceries · · Score: 1

    This doesn't save you the time of shopping, as you still have to select what you want.

    You've got to be kidding. Once I switched to online groceries, it takes me 15-25 minutes to do shopping for the next 10 days. Your shopping history is remembered, so it only takes longer the first time. I don't know where you live, but it'd take me 15-25 to get to and from a supermarket, never mind the time it actually takes to go through the place and then queue.

    It's not convenient, as you have to select a delivery time that you know you'll be home, or risk having your ice cream sit on the outside step melting.

    That's true, but I bet there's at least one 1-2h slot in any week you (or someone else) is there to pick it up.

    It can't be much cheaper, as most grocery stores already run incredibly thin margins.

    True. It's not cheaper.

    So explain to me why anyone would intentionally get into this business? Who is your target audience?

    Because it's profitable, thus there's enough audience?

  17. robowalkers on Political Robocallers Indicted In Maryland · · Score: 1

    Political Robocallers Indicted In Maryland

    Now for the robowalkers!

  18. Re:Dumb on Hackers Expose 26,000 Sex Website Passwords · · Score: 1

    an extra cat improves the flow

    This.

  19. Re:This is an extremely important accomplishment. on IBM Builds First Graphene Integrated Circuit · · Score: 1

    Within a generation, it'll be in the same class as FORTRAN - only used to support legacy apps.

    You're making a fool of yourself. New codes are still written in Fortran, just not in your niche. The Fortran standard is still evolving (we've had Fortran 2003, Fortran 2008 recently). Massively parallel (think thousands of cores) high-performance computing ("number crunching") scientific programs are often written in Fortran. This is because the language is rather simple and hence compilers can be heavily optimized -- often *beyond* what is possible in C (e.g. the compiler can use the fact that arguments to a function cannot alias to squeeze extra performance). Also it's easy to manipulate large data structures in Fortran (think array slices -- in Fortran you don't need loops to do that). Finally, GPUs have been embraced by the compiler vendors and CUDA-capable compilers for Fortran 95 are already available. So... no, it's not just the legacy apps.

  20. Re:What are your patent numbers? on The Science of Lightsabers · · Score: 1

    Close, but no cigar. The time dimension has a minus in front of it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timelike#Spacetime_intervals

  21. Re:...really? on Personal Electronics May Indeed Disrupt Avionics · · Score: 1

    Yes, because testing this in one case really proves it's busted for all combinations of {aircraft, PDE}, right?

  22. Re:...really? on Personal Electronics May Indeed Disrupt Avionics · · Score: 1

    If any joe shmoe can unwittingly disrupt plane electronics by forgetting to turn off his cell phone before takeoff, then anyone intent on actually doing harm could pretty easily do so.

    Maybe, maybe not. How many people intent on actually doing harm are there, compared to the number of hoe shmoe's unwittingly disrupting the electronics by forgetting to turn their cell phones off? If you get a 1 in 5000 chance of doing that, it's worthless for terrorists, but planes would still be falling from the sky everyday because of joe shmoes.

  23. Whoosh! on Massive Explosion On the Sun · · Score: 1

    n/t

  24. Syberia on Ask Slashdot: Best Adventure Game To Start With? · · Score: 1

    Syberia.

  25. Re:Ha Ha, mine goes to 11 on Cheap GPUs Rendering Strong Passwords Useless · · Score: 1

    Why not just stick 20 'F's in front of all of your passwords?

    Easy to remember, hard to brute force.

    That sucks when the system truncates passwords after the first, say, 16 chars.