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  1. Like Ncirosoft excel basic // on Shouldn't Every Developer Understand English? · · Score: 1

    Like the script language in excel that happened to be localized (and as result is nog portable)

  2. Argument, if you have nothing to hide. on Pirate Bay To Offer VPN For $7 a Month · · Score: 1

    Nothing to hide? argument again.

    "Privacy is an inherent human right, and a requirement for maintaining the human condition with dignity and respect."

  3. Citaat recht. on Dealing With a Copyright Takedown Request? · · Score: 1

    In dutch law it is called "citaat recht", not fair use. Check out the limit that was recently in in a lawsuit against jaap.nl. The limit was set on 155 words in te jaap.nl case.

    IMHO (IANAL) your quote is beyond the point of citaat recht. The solution is simple: break up the large text and make several small quotes with relevant comments on each quote.

  4. Oracle RAC not in vm on Reasonable Hardware For Home VM Experimentation? · · Score: 1

    The only reason you want a oracle RAC at home is for experimentation and getting expierence with it. In that case you either run in on bare hardware and buy 3 cheap machines with lots of memory and dedicated gigabit (or higher) networking.

    Or you run in one machine where you run 3 virutal machines .Performance will be lower, but that is not the point. you want to learn oracle RAC.

    Note that this is only usefule for non commeercial LEARNING oracle RAC where you get some kind of free (OTN?) license.

    If you want to run oracle RAC in a business case take a good look at the oracle license in combination with virtualisation, because it might cost you (A LOT!!) more than you want. If you run RAC for the performance you might want to cut out virtualisation completely, because bare hardware is faster that virtulised hardware (!)

    Also take a good look at the cost of a oracle RAC license, because you might want to consider other options to get high availability.

  5. Flash. delay can be good as well. on Ext4 Data Losses Explained, Worked Around · · Score: 1

    You make the wrong assumption that writing on flash has the same speed as reading. This is the case for hard disks, but for flash writing takes 10 times longer than reading.

    you will not notice this until your write chache is full. Good controllers like intel will hide this slow writing for a long time.

    Also most benchmark programs are for disks, and writing is disabled. This does not matter a lot for disks since wringing is the same speed as reading. It matters a lot for flash.

    But any writing that is prevented, maybe becuase it delayed is a good thing for flash drives.

  6. Birthday. on It's Not the 15th Birthday of Linux · · Score: 1

    2 other points:
    -Celebrating a birthday dow not make it better software. So this is pointless anyway.

    -Linux was not born. In fact it is questionable if it was conceived 9 months earlier. You know, to write a OS is nerdy, and nerdy was not hot 15 years ago.

    And 15? you can watch porn now with linux, no reason to wait 3 more years.

  7. Catbert.. on Don't Like EULAs? Get Your Cat To Agree To Them · · Score: 2, Funny

    You don't want catbert, the evil HR cat from dilbert to agree anything for you on your behalf. NOT. EVER!

  8. Re:are you crazy? on Jet Pack Runs For Hours On Water · · Score: 2, Interesting

    YOu have no (big) problems diving deep down and rising quickly up as long as you are not using presusired breathing.

    Free diving with a jet-pack?

  9. Physics... on Jet Pack Runs For Hours On Water · · Score: 1

    Yup you are right. The lift is not from the water exiting the "jet pack", but from the hose getting stiff (excuse by enliglish).

    The force generated in the jetpack is negated by the force that is needed to turn the water IN the yetpack going down to getting up...

    It will look like the lift is coming form the water splattering arround, and you will have some control from this water spalshing arround.

    Still could be great fun!

    In reality you are pushed up by the tube getting ridginge by filling it with a powerful pump.

  10. Defender. defend who from what? on Draconian DRM Revealed In Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    To get more to the point, windows defender and other antivirus programs are starting to detect key generators and "hacked" programs. Maybe adobe has reported these modified dll's to the antivirus creators who made a signature for it.

    Once a program is marked by antivirus your only option is to disable the antivirus or to whitelist the directory.

    The poster fails to report what was actually the caae here so only speculation can happen. Hey this is slashdot! If there was a article....

    ANd you can say this is BETA, well forget about it, they are pushing very hard now for RC, so you can tell that only real chash/BSOD/dataloss bug are going to be solved soon.

    Don't automatically run antivirus on ALL of your PC, but based on a policy. The odds that all your pc's are disabled by a anti-virus mistake is equal to the change you get hit by virus that does the same thing.

  11. Re:This is your compiler speaking... on Reverse Engineering a Missile Launcher Toy's Interface · · Score: 0, Redundant

    your password is joshua.

  12. +15 to dexterity 150-180% Enhanced Defense(varies on IBM Files Patent For Bullet-Dodging Bionic Armor · · Score: 1

    Had this kind of armour a long time ago in diablo II. Dodging arrows, but that is not different. Crow Caw Tigulated Mail has +15 to dexterity, and a higher defense rating.

    But typically you woul add dexterity to a helmet, not to the body armour...

    (is this prior art?)

  13. Think "windows 7 capable" on MS To Offer Free Windows 7 Upgrade To Vista Users · · Score: 1

    Except that vista basic is not mentioned in the article, only htat the start edition is excluded.

    Oems will have the OPTION to give out certificates(/technical equivalence) for a free upgrade. Since it is an option they will have to pay a (relative small) amount for.

  14. Out of context. on Author's Guild Says Kindle's Text-To-Speech Software Illegal · · Score: 1

    As stated in the acticle, Amazon sells audiobooks. Audiobooks are read out loud. distributing (NOT READING) a audiobook version requires a (seperate) licence from the copyright holder.

    The trouble is that the electronic version can be electronically read out loud. This will never(in the coming decades) reach the quality of a good audiobook. What the guild tries to prevent is that having the book automatically entitles you to have a audiobook version. And there they have a point.

    If you state that reading out loud is not allowed it sounds extreme, but if you state that distributing a audiobook version along a digital version requires an extra license, it sounds way less extreme.

  15. Re:The only real solution to the wiki-wars... on Tool Shows the Arguments Behind Wikipedia Entries · · Score: 1

    They all seem unimportant inthe grans schema of things, but if you think see that the current economic recession is partly caused by short selling and the wikipeida edit war about it, you get a different picture.

    Also people that get caught in a edit war get frustated by people wielding policy and not the facts as way to preserve (opposed to improve) articles.

    wikipedia is dead, the problem is that there is not a popular replacement yet.

  16. Re:This seems abrupt on Windows 7 To Skip Straight To a Release Candidate · · Score: 1

    Even as teh general reception of this beta is much more favorable, it is more favorable relative to how vista was received. vista lacked display drivers and had some mistakes. Those mistakes are not made now because windows 7 has better driver support due to compatibility with windows vista.

    HOWEVER, when i look at the forums there are still plenty of bugs in windows 7. Everyone believes they are solvable, but when they start freezing the bug fixing process now and do only show stoppers a lot of these minor (by microsoft classification) will be left in the rc & final.

    I myself have found a bug that really should be fixed in a release. (hibernation reboots instead of powerdown).

  17. netbook. on Windows 7 To Come In Multiple Versions · · Score: 1

    Why would anyone put up with a hopelessly-crippled-to-the-point-of-being-nearly-useless version of Windows when they could.....

    why would they use it on a netbook-crippeled-piece-of-hardware-that-barely-can-vista-and-for-that-reason-still sells-with-xp?

  18. ntfs vs ext2/3 Not.... on Four X25-E Extreme SSDs Combined In Hardware RAID · · Score: 1

    The original poster was correct. Ik you look at the report you will notice that with most test the adaptec card is the "bottleneck". The test is really a comparison of different ways to connect a storeage device to a underpowered cpu.

    using ntfs or a optimized raid FS will not change that bottleneck. Beside that, the raid optimizations you speak about are buffers and number of seeks, things where the ssd shines anyway.

    If you want a good test ot get the last byte out of a ssd you need a test that shows where the bottlenecks are on this relatively new media. Did you niotice test where write amplicication shows up? (SSD are bad when down muliple small writes), did you notice that the XM-25 performs worse just after it was completely full?

    I did not care to check, because these things are not in my personal budget.

  19. idols will pass that. on Bill Gates' Plan To Destroy Music, Note By Note · · Score: 1

    RIAA can use songsmith to give idols "decent" songs. hey, you can already find lots of songsmith examples where idols are subbed.

  20. You have no say.... on Edit-Approval System Proposed For English-Language Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    The alternative will be Britannica. YOu will find a lot less more article about your favourite sf series, but at least the discussion about how you need to discuss will silence.

    Let me gues teh subset of articles involved.
    A All articles that are locked now for anonymous editors.
    B Articles about living persons (since they sue, and there different rules for those anyway.)
    C Articles about beliefs.

    This a good method to smuther any non wikipeidans about those articles, and the expert wikipdeians will be the same incrowd, that causes to dimisihed the growth of wiki, prevent anything "original research", or people who do not have references on the internet dispite writing several books about a subject.

  21. one pc on Conficker Worm Could Create World's Biggest Botnet · · Score: 1

    Trouble is that police is not going to do international police work for one pc. solving 8 million crimes however should be good for their statistics however...

  22. Re:follow the money. on Conficker Worm Could Create World's Biggest Botnet · · Score: 1

    You are right. THis is complex international police work. Not something me and the average slashdotter should do. But somebody should do it.

    YOu are right that all we can do is put the lock on the door and help other people locking.

    But remember that a real crime is in progress and there police powers should/could do something about it.

    Now we can go back to make a fuss about thing we ca do something about.

  23. Re:follow the money. on Conficker Worm Could Create World's Biggest Botnet · · Score: 1

    You are missing the point. I never said to showdown that site. that is a technical solution. the real problem with it is that there are people lcraeting this bot for money. Follow the money generated by the bot and you know who is behind it.

    I never said, follow the traffic and ban that site. People get scammed out of money due to this trojan. real money, not internet bytes.

    Police/law enforcement forces are authorized to ask the banks for information about this. And this is a case with over 8 million victims.

  24. Re:follow the money. on Conficker Worm Could Create World's Biggest Botnet · · Score: 1

    You missed the point. Someone is earning money with it. Follow that money, not the money sped on the ip number/dns, but the receiving money.

    Forget tracking all those dns/ip's, that is no proof, only supporting evidence.

  25. follow the money. on Conficker Worm Could Create World's Biggest Botnet · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It should not be that hard to follow the money generates by this malware. Infecting 8 million PC should be a crime.

    from the write down, it downloads data from

    " hxxp://trafficconverter.biz/[Removed]antispyware/[Removed].exe"

    follow that money and the bad guys will be found quickly.