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  1. Re:The EU is still beating this dead horse? on EU Wants Multiple Browser Bundling On New PCs · · Score: 1

    Microsoft is willing to commit economical crimes in many jurisdictions and gives billions of reductions to prevent that scenario from happening.
    They're obviously also naive as fuck?

  2. Re:"Even more attractive..." on Microsoft Kills 3-App Limit For Windows 7 Starter Edition · · Score: 2, Funny

    You need to get new astroturfing instructions.
    Head office has cancelled this feature and you're still advocating it.

  3. Re:How much money changed hands? on Asus Slaps Linux In the Face · · Score: 1

    I see no grounds for such an assumption. The whole domain and everything on it appears to originate from WA.
    Involvement of Asus in this is completely speculative as far as I can see.

  4. Re:First time? on EU Sues Sweden, Demands ISP Data Retention · · Score: 1

    I would for one would like to see such an exit strategy in the update of the Lisbon treaty. Not necessarily for France, but still...

  5. Re:How very... on EU Sues Sweden, Demands ISP Data Retention · · Score: 1

    How very wrong.
    The only political opposition against this data retention came from the EU parliament. The real scum are the 'democratically' unelected European commission and the different national governments and police forces.

  6. Re:"functional programming languages can beat C" on World's "Fastest" Small Web Server Released, Based On LISP · · Score: 1

    I had to change the array index i to i+5119. But then it works. I will replace the cout with a binary write and play around a bit.

  7. Re:Department of Redundancy Department on Documenting a Network? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, right.
    An old girlfriend tells you you need viagra, and you still dont't get it.

  8. Re:"functional programming languages can beat C" on World's "Fastest" Small Web Server Released, Based On LISP · · Score: 1

    Odd bit of code. I would expect to see a MOVDDUP instruction for the complex number math in sse. Did this actually work?

  9. Re:"functional programming languages can beat C" on World's "Fastest" Small Web Server Released, Based On LISP · · Score: 1

    Unlike all other people in this thread, I thought it would be fun so see if the 'challenge' would be taken.
    Of course it's not a benchmark, it just a test how fast the system can compute and write a simple floating point expression.
    I'm not sure why you think 'challenges make much more sense in the context of a task to be performed' when the parent post specifically asks for a bit of code, but I'll bet you two beers that your abstract analysis of the relative merits of performance measures is not going be received well in a pub challenge.

  10. Re:"functional programming languages can beat C" on World's "Fastest" Small Web Server Released, Based On LISP · · Score: 1

    In this little test the difference is in the quality of the implementation of the square root of complex numbers.
    The write call is different for each j, they open 100 different binary files and write 10240 complex numbers to them
    There is no termial I/O.
    You can use any compiler you like; I compiled it with 'gfortran -O3 -march=i686 -o co co.f'

  11. Re:"functional programming languages can beat C" on World's "Fastest" Small Web Server Released, Based On LISP · · Score: 1

    Ok, apparently fort77 doesn't do units above 99. just make the j loop 'do j=10,99'.
    Btw, I hope you're not running the f2c wrapper script called 'fort77'...

  12. Re:"functional programming languages can beat C" on World's "Fastest" Small Web Server Released, Based On LISP · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Funny, I always say the same about fortran. Here's a toy test program for stuff I often need. I would be impressed when C beats this.

          program co
          implicit none
          double precision mpi
          parameter (mpi=3.141592653589793238462d0/1.024d3)
          double complex r(10240)
          integer i,j
          do j=10,110
             do i=-5119,5120
                r(i+5120)=sqrt(mpi*i*j)
             end do
             write(j) r
          end do
          end

  13. Re:I always thought the difference on Should We Just Call Dog Breeds a Different Species? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Here's an elaborate example:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_species

  14. Re:Frequency of change is irrelevant! on Calculating Password Policy Strength Vs. Cracking · · Score: 1

    It's worse, requiring 90 day password changes will almost guarantee they will be written down on post-it notes stuck to the monitor.

  15. Re:Cool, but... on Judge Reviewing Pirate Bay Trial Bias Is Removed · · Score: 1

    No, not if you have installed your compulsory 'artblock' and 'nostory' plugins in firefox.

  16. Re:Seriously? on Judge Reviewing Pirate Bay Trial Bias Is Removed · · Score: 1

    This tactic might not work in the U.S.
    Well played, sir.

  17. Re:Plus for Theora on Adobe Uses DMCA On Protocol It Promised To Open · · Score: 2, Insightful

    DMCA is used only in USA
    Must be thanks to the best legal system money can buy.
    As an old Adobe hater I try to avoid their stuff, but I downloaded a source tarball for good measure anyway.

  18. Re:Good. on Right-to-Repair Law To Get DRM Out of Your Car · · Score: 1

    Don't buy X car because the throttle position sensor flips out
    Just got my 10 year old firmware updated for exactly that reason...

  19. Re:Don't use them on Study Shows "Secret Questions" Are Too Easily Guessed · · Score: 1

    I've posted this before, but people are just way too obedient.
    If you pick an answer it does not have to be true, it has to be memorable.
    Your first pet was obviously called 'twentythree', just like your mother.
    For that reason you must be born on 1-1-1970 (aka ctime of memset(&t,0,sizeof(t))

  20. Re:In Germany???? on Scientists Discover Common Ancestor of Monkeys, Apes, and Humans · · Score: 1

    The quality of the present day map should give you an indication.
    Africa has been moving away from South America and towards Europe since the opening of the South Atlantic in the Jurassic; removing a complete ocean ( the Western Tethys) in the process.

  21. Re:In Germany???? on Scientists Discover Common Ancestor of Monkeys, Apes, and Humans · · Score: 1

    two were a good amount closer then now
    Well, actually they were a good bit further apart, and separated by a lot more water; But these early primates lived all over the place.

  22. Re:Educational materials especially should be Free on What Can I Do About Book Pirates? · · Score: 1

    Don't worry, you're welcome to copy my car.

  23. Re:But did they press charges? on Man Arrested For Taking Photo of Open ATM · · Score: 1

    Yes, now we now; But only because we've seen the inside...

  24. Re:The French are in Full Retreat on French Assembly Adopts 3-Strikes Bill · · Score: 1

    No, that's the current data.
    If you really want to know about WW2: There were 80 million Germans; They incarcerated about 400,000 Germans citizens (and millions of citizens and POW's from other countries, but due to their efficient murdering methods never that many at the same time).
    Incarceration rate for German citizens must therefore have about 500/100,000. For citizens of occupied countries the number would have been somewhat higher, but on average not more than 700/100,000.
    So, in Germany the statistic has improved markedly since WW2.

  25. Re:The French are in Full Retreat on French Assembly Adopts 3-Strikes Bill · · Score: 4, Interesting