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  1. Re:SHA isn't encryption. on Ask Slashdot: Is SHA-512 the Way To Go? · · Score: 1

    > If you're going to work on cryptographic security or have even a passing interest in encryption, please don't

    fix it for ya.

  2. Re:Microsoft apparently disagrees on Windows 8 ARM Will Not Support Legacy Software · · Score: 1

    It will take two more days for the /. editor to pick up this "news".

  3. HTML5 support on NetBeans 7.0 Is Now Available · · Score: 1

    My vim have HTML5 editing support 10 years ago!

  4. Re:Next on Nokia Confirms Symbian Is No Longer Open Source · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Actually, they are following this guide: http://lwn.net/Articles/370157/

    If Nokia close Qt, the community win.
    If Nokia keep Qt open (but make it sucks), the community is destroyed.

  5. Trap? on FSF Suggests That Google Free Gmail Javascript · · Score: 1

    What trap? Like you can't check email with noscript?

  6. GE's response . on US Competitiveness Chief Immelt's GE Tax Bill: $0 · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://www.gereports.com/setting-the-record-straight-ge-and-taxes/

    - GE paid almost $2.7 billion in cash taxes in 2010 on a consolidated basis (almost 19% of pretax income from continuing operations).

  7. Re:THESE reactors should't have had a problem on A New Class of Nuclear Reactors · · Score: 1

    > ... 50 miles away and delivered via an underground cable

    50 miles away, be it underground or not, are prone to earthquake damage.

  8. Re:Blind leading the blind on Drupal 8 Development Begins — 15 Bugs At a Time · · Score: 1

    COUNT(*) count non null.
    COUNT(1) count all.

    In MySQL and all ANSI compatible database.

  9. Re:Not a Standard. on No More Version Numbers For HTML · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You missed all those XHTML 1.1 Modules. That's how W3C wasted all its time.

    Original HTML5 draft came from WHATWG, not W3C.

  10. Re:Wow this is a bit onesided. on The Ambiguity of "Open" and VP8 Vs. H.264 · · Score: 1

    Have you read the foreword in ANSI ISO IEC 14882:2003 ?

    Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of patent rights. ISO and IEC shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights.

    This different from standard to standards. C++ does not identify patent. Javascript and HTML5 does identify them. MPEG setup patent pool with MPEG-LA.

    Not identifying them does not means they don't exist.

  11. Re:A really nasty trick on Google To Drop Support For H.264 In Chrome · · Score: 1

    > x264 is an open source GPL-licensed H.264 encoder.

    dual licensed by x264 LLC.

    http://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/x264-devel/2010-July/007508.html

  12. Re:A really nasty trick on Google To Drop Support For H.264 In Chrome · · Score: 1

    x264 is an open source GPL-licensed H.264 encoder.

    dual licened

  13. Re:Tomcat? on Apache Resigns From the JCP Executive Committee · · Score: 1

    hm.
    I think Parrot VM performance is not good enough for production.
    Yes, there are pending optimization. But I won't deploy this on where I use jsp.

  14. Re:Science Journalism on Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Generates a 'Mini-Big Bang' · · Score: 1

    It is driven by the hate of American, not primly religion.

    Most of the Muslim never *think* about carry out a terrorist attack.

  15. Re:Not "errors" on Central Dogma of Genetics May Not Be So Central · · Score: 1

    What if we were not "copying"?

    When a student plagiarize others' work, he change some bits from the original. Is this an error?

  16. curl up books on How Much Math Do We Really Need? · · Score: 1

    > nor do they curl up with an algebra book for relaxation

    Is it a pun?
    I think algebra book don't teach vector calculus ...

  17. Re:Spec' Writing Course on FFmpeg Announces High-Performance VP8 Decoder · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "specifications" in business writing class is not technical specification.
    You don't describe how you convert colorspace, inverts the matrix, etc in them

  18. Re:Fear on Tunneling Under the Great Firewall? · · Score: 2, Informative

    "seditious Chinese website" -- like wikipedia, dropbox, archive.org, google cache, blogspot, sourceforge, freebsd.org, youtube, twitter, foursquare and facebook .

  19. Re:Oh, Google on Google Slams Apple Over iPhone Ad Ban · · Score: 3, Informative

    The version of Chrome you link to is a BETA release.
    If you don't like crashing, why not use the release version?

  20. Re:From here in China... on China Rejects US Piracy Claims As "Groundless" · · Score: 1

    For DVDs, it is a different issue...

    China have very strict (and arbitrary) rules for imported movies/books. It is impossible to import most of the DVD legally.

  21. Re:#1 Floating Point Rule on What Every Programmer Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic · · Score: 5, Informative

    Java have a strictfp keyword for strict IEEE-754 arithmetic.

  22. Re:Most important free software project? on OpenBSD 4.7 Preorders Are Up · · Score: 1

    GCC is more important, if you ask me.

  23. Re:OMG on Grimmelmann On Google Books Settlement Fairness Hearing · · Score: 1

    when we speak of Abandonware, it means the creator no longer interested in disturbing it.

  24. Re:Amazon can't eat its own dog food on Amazon EC2 May Be Experiencing Growing Pains · · Score: 1

    You means, virtualize their EC2 server using EC2?

    That's virtualization all the way down.

  25. Re:Not even Oracle is evil enough to try this on Why Oracle Can't Easily Kill PostgreSQL · · Score: 1

    PostgreSQL have a policy, all feature-changing commit must have the documentation included.