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  1. Re:I'm sure... on GIMP Resynth vs. Photoshop Content Aware · · Score: 1
    i have been doing this manually for years with great results. didn't know plugins like this existed (shame). ill probably try out the gimp plugin and see how it compares to manual work for larger stuff.. in terms of rebuilding/ creating background objects.

    here is one i did a couple years ago. http://niaz.phuph.org/images/misc/cricket2.jpg

  2. Re:A reasonable outcome on Sony Sued Over PS3 "Other OS" Removal · · Score: 1

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  3. Re:Journalist? on Police Seize Computers From Gizmodo Editor · · Score: 1

    here's a "trade secret": Apple are developing an Iphone 4g AND they already have a prototype...

  4. Arrest all content producers on ACTA Treaty Released · · Score: 1, Informative

    Content producers will then be arrested for their own good work. If they create good enough content then they cause (imminent) copyright infringement.

  5. Re:"Source Code [...] Stolen" on Source Code To Google Authentication System Stolen · · Score: 1

    Being positive today I'm going to go with maybe English isn't your first language. Here is a definition..

    steal - take without the owner's consent; "Someone stole my wallet on the train"; "This author stole entire paragraphs from my dissertation"

    They took the code without Google's consent, hence they stole it.

    hmmm. actually it sounds like you're the one with a poor grasp of what's going on here. Definition of 'take' - "to remove, capture, consume, or dispossess from someone else."

    the sourcecode was not stolen. a the sourcecode was copied and this is a crucial distinction since "steal" means to deprive from another. and while google has been violated, they most absolutely have not been deprived of any code.

    a common sense analogy for you: say i break into your house and photocopy all of your books. no one would suggest that i've stolen your books. for me to have stolen you books, i would have to take then and leave you with nothing. in the google case that did not happen. hence OP's quite proper correction.

    fixed that for u

  6. Re:Simpler explanation on Maybe the Aliens Are Addicted To Computer Games · · Score: 1

    on the other hand, a 1 MW maser or laser pointed at our system.....

    by marvin the martian trying to zap daffy duck.

  7. Re:Passwords were hashed on Apache Foundation Attacked, Passwords Stolen · · Score: 1

    but if done properly the salt can be in plaintext and not even recognized by an attacker. for e.g. 1/ use random salts ( each account would have a different salt and attackers would have to compute rainbow tables for each account assuming they know the salt) 2/ append/prepend the salt on to the hash. ( they have to guess if its at the front or back of the hash) 3/ you can control the length of the salt. ( they have to guess how many chars to use as the salt) 4/ you can also truncate the hash to some length you choose ( they attackers would have to guess the length and if they dont no hash would match because their salt offset would be wrong.) so with even relativley weak passwords it would still take a great deal of effort/ almost infeasible to crack ONE account unless they have other access to your code that computes the hashes or validates user entered passwords against the hashes.

  8. Re:So Many Questions on Gaming in the 4th Dimension · · Score: 1

    Actually the 4th dimension could be time however it might have to be a subset of time as i will try to explain now. If you have two rings one wooden and one metal. If you move the metal ring forward in time past the point the wood has decayed and change its spatial position then move back in time, the rings will be interlocked. However, i say it should be a subset of time or more like a property time because if you go forward in world time and move the metl ring and then go back in world time the metal ring would still be in its original position. So the fourth dimension would be just the timeline for the woodden ring and would be a property (possibly unique) of an object in that world much like an object's x,y,and z. However there is the possibility of a 5th dimension where this only makes sense to me.

  9. Re:C++ is worse on Simpler "Hello World" Demonstrated In C · · Score: 1

    As far as i know the linker wouldn't (but i dont follow "compiler" advancements so I could be wrong). That's why u can do 'using namespace std;' or 'using std::cout' to only include those "functions".