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  1. What special character sets? on Why Haven't Special Character Sets Caught On? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    There's one character set, it's called Unicode and we're using it everywhere. If two-bit Pearle code running braindead websites like Slashdot can't handle the entirety of it, then someone (hint: not me) might have a problem.

  2. Re:pretty broad: all media on The Argument for Crackable Media · · Score: 1

    Can a DVD-ROM drive even physically read SACDs?

  3. Bue-bue. Palm. on Palm Teams With Microsoft for Smart Phone · · Score: 1

    You will be missed.

  4. Re:Majority of end-user features not included... on Windows Vista & IE7 Beta 1 Released · · Score: 1

    What about CSS compliance?

  5. Re:Can I use it with Linux? on Update on the Optimus Keyboard · · Score: 1

    RTFA, willja?

  6. Fine details. on Trojan Built for Industrial Espionage · · Score: 1

    It is alleged that the trojans were implanted by giving the victims CDROMs with labels of well known software companies on them. So take care people!

  7. Just google for jitter. on Is All SPDIF Audio Output the Same? · · Score: 5, Funny

    It will occupy you for years to come.

  8. Meh. on MPAA Cracking Down on TV Torrent Sites · · Score: 1

    /. editors need to crack down on dupes.

  9. SGI used to sell something like that too. on Fun With Transparent Screen Backgrounds · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Not a laptop but a standalone transparent flat panel.

  10. Re:I was ready to say "Read a book". on Sources of Intelligent Audio for Commute? · · Score: 1

    Perhaps. But then you already know you can read a book while commuting.

  11. I was ready to say "Read a book". on Sources of Intelligent Audio for Commute? · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    But then I realised the author is an American, and as such, drives to work.


    Try recycling this waste first.

  12. Funny thing. on A Crazy Cambridge Contraption · · Score: 1

    This works out of the box on my Gentoo, erm, box. Go figure.

  13. It's not easy. on Mapping Google Maps · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The map is tiled, so you need to somehow produce a big image from all the pieces and then convert it to JPEG. Coding it in Javascript would be a real mess, and doing it server-side kinda defeats the point.

    You can easily convert PS or PDF to JPEG with ImageMagick (yes I'm a geek).

  14. There are all kinds of errors. on Mapping Google Maps · · Score: 1

    Renaming an actual street seems unusual, I agree.

  15. One word: White Pages. on Mapping Google Maps · · Score: 1

    Well, that's two words. So sue me.

  16. This might be intentional. on Mapping Google Maps · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Map publishers often insert small errors in their products to thwart copyright violations.

  17. Yeah right. on Artists Against 419 Releases Mugu Marauder · · Score: 1

    Let's just go ahead and hang all the people who we think might be criminals. Vigilante justice is soooo cool.

  18. man wget on Artists Against 419 Releases Mugu Marauder · · Score: 1

    /-D

  19. Pure functional languages. on How Heraclitus would Design a Programming Language · · Score: 1

    LISP is everything but (setq anyone ?)

  20. Somebody else is a dumbass. on Artists Against 419 Releases Mugu Marauder · · Score: 1

    THEY can't use your bandwidth. YOU use it by running javascript and suchlike crap you download from them. You don't have to, unless you're a dumbass.

  21. Please somebody DDoS them. on Artists Against 419 Releases Mugu Marauder · · Score: 5, Insightful

    aa419.org, that is. They apparently think it's legal and acceptable, so they won't complain.

  22. Good grief. on Cooling Down Hot Processors · · Score: 1

    If you're going to push a fundamental formula onto us unwashed masses, first make sure you haven't fundamentally forgotten it, OK?

    P=I*V.

  23. DDD? on Innovation in Open Source Software? · · Score: 1

    Meh. Stolen (sorry, innovated) from the CaseVision aka cvd on IRIX.

  24. Define "usable". on TCPA Support in Linux · · Score: 1

    If by "usable" you mean "able to misrepresent itself" then yes, it's useless. I don't necessarily buy your definition of usable.

    Also, define "work". If by "work" you mean "convince others to interoperate by lying about itself", then it won't work. Guess what? I don't buy your definition of work either.

    It's your responsibility to persuade others to talk to you. How do you do that is not anyone's business but yours.

  25. My oh my. on TCPA Support in Linux · · Score: 1

    Make a bootable CD that checksums your OS partition. Boot from it once in a while. Unplug the network cable and recompute checksums when you modify the OS. There, you just convinced yourself that your system is not hacked.

    If you want to detect hackage while the system is running, that's much more difficult, and the TCPA chip can't do it either. So you won't be able to tell if your bank is rooted by a script kiddie, because bank computers don't reboot very often.

    If the bank uses remote attestation as proposed by TCPA and only connects to trusted clients, its chances of being rooted will be reduced. But that's beside the point I guess.