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  1. Re:It begs the question on Exploit Based On Leaked Windows Code Released · · Score: 1

    Or a much lower number of users means it not worth the time.

  2. Re:Don't do it! on ESR's Open Letter to McNealy: Set Java Free! · · Score: 1

    But Java is not a monopoly, there is a masive diffrence between a monopoly and a branchs of one product.

  3. Re:Don't double click on XML attachments! on Microsoft Receives XML Patent · · Score: 1

    They are already. .WSH files are XML based, and hold scripts.
    As are XHTML files.

  4. Re:Nifty Idea Nonetheless on Microsoft Receives XML Patent · · Score: 1

    So, it is fat binnarys (Like macs had not so long ago) but in XML.

    Err, not seeing the patent-ness of this idea.

  5. Re:This patent is not JUST for XML... on Microsoft Receives XML Patent · · Score: 1

    XHTML is XML. It also has the script stuff.

    How is the patent diffrent to it?

  6. Re:Get Real! on Microsoft Receives XML Patent · · Score: 1

    Wow, so it reall is the ant script tag.
    Which is just like the HTML script tag.

  7. Re:Prior art? on Microsoft Receives XML Patent · · Score: 1

    Why tar 'em,
    #!/bin/sh

    awk 'BEGIN { print "Hello" } '
    perl -e ' print "World"'

    does just that, and it executable.

    But not in XML, which flicking over the Bollocks Sometimes Known As A Patent is required.
    No VBScript and JavaScript embeded in a XHTML document are now 0wnd by MS.

  8. Re:Executable XML... Dangerous? on Microsoft Receives XML Patent · · Score: 1

    This already exists. Both as .wsh (I think), and as (your'll never guess this one) .html!

  9. Re:Macs are feeling it, too on MyDoom.C Making Its Way Across The Net · · Score: 1

    Nah, stupidity tax will fix this problem.

    One computer for each virus you help spread.

  10. Re:Too specialized on Lego to Stop Producing Mindstorms · · Score: 1

    Crappy slashdot, removing my pound symbols. Bad slashdot.

  11. Re:Too specialized on Lego to Stop Producing Mindstorms · · Score: 1

    > the 70's-era motor modules
    The 12volt, round ones. They did rock.

    > The big generic kits aren't even sold any more

    The mindstorms is almost completly gerneric (with the exception of one bit :)

    As is the Technic car, also a nice big box. Not as big as the one I had as a kid, but hey.

    Looking through Argos, they still do gerneric kits (19 for the Lego Creator, just a class big box, Castles and police stations are ~40).
    Wow, they do a RC car now as well. I'm guessing this will go soon. Hmm, how to convence my g/f I need it...

    The small boxes have always been a rip of, and yes they have got worse. But Lego do still to "classic" sets.

  12. Re:showing their age on Lego to Stop Producing Mindstorms · · Score: 1

    > a camera?
    They have

    > a ultrasonic/sonar range finder
    You can use the IR & the light sensor for the same effect.

  13. Re:my question on Still No Contact from Beagle 2 · · Score: 1

    Shit, I was looking forward to funky 3D pics.

  14. Re:Unforgiving planet? on Still No Contact from Beagle 2 · · Score: 1

    Grand idea.

  15. Re:someone will stumble over Beagle2 on Still No Contact from Beagle 2 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Why, when we have all new races out there to kill off?

  16. Re:Search For Beagle on Spirit Rover Lands Successfully · · Score: 2, Informative

    Beagle 2 is ~1/2 a planet away.

  17. Re:HOORAY!!! on Spirit Rover Lands Successfully · · Score: 1

    Beagle 2 killed itself rather than play a Blur song, you just could not risk it.

  18. Re:Two Questions on Spirit Rover Lands Successfully · · Score: 1

    A few mins ago.

    To look at rocks, and work out if Mars could of once supported life (not "is it currently supporting life).

  19. Re:Help out Beagle on Spirit Rover Lands Successfully · · Score: 1

    Its landed 1/2 a planet away, so alas no.

  20. Re:GPL notice included in KISS DP-508 Media Player on MPlayer Alleges KISS Technology Violating GPL · · Score: 1

    Whats wrong with digital cams and gOCR.

  21. Re:What about... on New Worm Spreads Via MSN Messenger · · Score: 1

    What would happen if you click on a link to an exe, at a guess you would get a dialog like (in both Trillian and MSN):

    [ ] Run the application like the prat I am.
    [ ] Save The File

    Now, if you click the first, then yes, you would be affected. But then if you click yes, you are a prat.

  22. Re:When did this author climb out of diapers? on Eight Biggest Tech Flops Ever · · Score: 2, Funny
    How about the Space Shuttle? Or the Mars Observer? How about the billions in miltary flops, like the Cheyenne helicopter or the A-12 attack jet?

    Wow, Space shuttles and attack jets are home computing in your world.
    I want entry...
  23. Re:Normal Thread Priority on Finding MD5 Collisions With Chinese Lottery · · Score: 1

    sorry, missread some of that.
    Moz uses the libarays, rather than starting an external application, but it still runs as a diffrent thread, with a low priority.

  24. Re:Normal Thread Priority on Finding MD5 Collisions With Chinese Lottery · · Score: 1

    o/c it is using 100%.

    I get video skipping if I leave UD running, you should disable any idle cpu eater when doing anything that actually needs the cpu.

  25. Re:Normal Thread Priority on Finding MD5 Collisions With Chinese Lottery · · Score: 5, Informative

    Java applets run as a different process to the browser, and it can (and very likely does) create a new thread, and set its priority to low.