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  1. Alex Chiu? on Ask Aubrey de Grey About Longevity Research · · Score: 1

    Wait a minute... Didn't Alex Chiu master how to extend longevity years before this guy did?

  2. Re:Short memory on AVG Backs Down From Flooding the Internet · · Score: 1

    You just described Windows 95/98/ME. The NT series of windows is not a "Shambolic heap of MSDOS".

  3. Re:We should have recruted Al earlier. on Using AI With GCC to Speed Up Mobile Design · · Score: 1

    I looked at the PDF. Significant parts of it were unreadable on Foxit Reader! Are any other .pdf readers having trouble?

  4. Any impact? on Adobe Makes Flash Crawlable · · Score: 1

    Hasn't Google already indexed and crawled .SWF files? How would releasing the SWF specification make things any different than before, when there were other widely available free SWF parsing libraries?

  5. Re:Acid 3 on Mozilla Pitches Firefox 3.1 Alpha For July Release · · Score: 1

    Which program other than RealPlayer (since G2) does SVG animation?

  6. Re:D201GLY2A on What NAS To Buy? · · Score: 1

    I bought my stuff just before the Atom went on sale.

  7. D201GLY2A on What NAS To Buy? · · Score: 1

    I bought the Intel D201GLY2A Motherboard with preinstalled Processor, a 1GB stick of ram, two serial ATA hard drives, then re-used an old computer case.
    Then I installed Ubuntu on it. I also installed BackupPC on it as well.

  8. Re:Gold star for you on Your Online Profile Actually Tells a Lot About You · · Score: 1

    Quit misusing the word "Antisocial". Antisocial means you're a psychotic criminal who harms people or goes against society. The word you want is "Asocial".

  9. Re:Space-constrained? on Via Debuts Mini-ITX 2.0 · · Score: 3, Informative

    That has more to do with using crappy chipsets in the motherboard than the form factor itself.

  10. Obama better support this too on McCain Backs Nuclear Power · · Score: 1

    I once wrote a paper for a class about the importance of adopting nuclear power. If Obama is against this, I'm voting McCain.

  11. Re:The first blog posted today on UK's House of Lords Speaks To Voters Via YouTube, Blogs · · Score: 1

    "Flash Video" is nothing more than MPEG 4 video in a different container. It's about as proprietary as XVID.

  12. Hide the evil code? on 2008 Underhanded C Contest Officially Open · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm sure it would be nearly impossible to hide the evil code here, because anything that isn't a simple assignment loop is suspicious.
    Maybe stick in stuff in the image loader, image temporary copy code, and keep the blackener to the obvious implementation, then stick stuff in the saver.

    I thought some crazy stuff involving function pointers as the function to call to return a black pixel might be promising. Maybe use some out of bounds array math to change one function pointer to point to some other code.

  13. Re:Correction on SwiftFuel Alternative To Alternative Fuels · · Score: 2, Informative

    Demand for gasoline means the entire supply of ethanol would last that long.

  14. Motion sensative whip tricks? on Castlevania Coming to the Wii? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Super Castlevania IV on the SNES introduced the ability to do tricks with the whip by moving the control pad while holding down the Whip button.
    I wonder if a Wii version would allow you to whip the Wii-mote for a swing action, then do more whip tricks by flailing the Wii Remote around?

  15. Re:VLC is lacking (at least) one important feature on VLC Hits the Device Market · · Score: 4, Informative

    Do you really think that applying some lossless compression algorithm to a heavily compressed video file will save space? Un-rar your damn stuff. It doesn't get any smaller from being inside a .rar file.

  16. Avoid DD-WRT on P2P Traffic Shaping For Home Use? · · Score: 1

    Stay away from the third party "DD-WRT" firmware if you use any form of P2P. Due to some unresolved bugs in the firmware, any form of BitTorrent makes the router completely unresponsive, not even responding to the router's web interface.

  17. Re:What kind of malware? on New Malware Report Hits Vista's Security Image · · Score: 4, Interesting

    How about Wild Tangent bundled games that come with many PCs? Those trip up the spyware detectors too.

  18. Konami unavailable for comment on A Virtualized Linux System For Windows · · Score: 4, Funny

    The Ulteo Logo looks like a dead ringer for Konami's old logo.
    I guess this means you need to press Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A to get the thing to boot properly?

  19. Rationale for new packaging system? on New Linux Distribution — Exherbo, Announced · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'd like to see the rationale for creating yet another new packaging system. What's wrong with the current ways, and what will the new way fix?

  20. Re:Sometimes It Comes as an Easy Fix on Understanding How CAPTCHA Is Broken · · Score: 1

    Why on earth would a spambot care about a robots.txt file? Only reason I could think of was something popular a while ago, where people stuck a non-very-visible link on a website which generated loads of fake linked web pages, and garbage email addresses to try to trap harvesters in that section of the website.

  21. Re:What about a CAPTCHA made in flash? on Understanding How CAPTCHA Is Broken · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The only thing really protecting you is that your solution is not standard, so bot writers have to treat your website differently, so they won't be as easily able to post there. The instant your solution becomes more commonplace, bot writers will be able to parse your SWF files, read the images, or do whatever else it takes to solve it.

    It's a classic case of Security through Obscurity, and this time it works.

    However, SWF files have accessibility issues, and there are always people who love to block them.

  22. Re:Email is broken, captcha is pointless on Understanding How CAPTCHA Is Broken · · Score: 1

    It's not just email, it's also message boards, blog posts, and wikis. Those also have bots crapflooding them with spam.
    Bots don't even need to post a URL to get people to visit, they'll just stick in a stock ticker symbol for pump and dump scams, so methods involving blocking new users from posting URLs will still fail.

  23. Re:Exactly what Nintendo did not want on Disney Launches Online DS Community · · Score: 1

    Mario Kart DS has plenty of Hitlers on online multiplayer mode.

  24. Do it on earth with freefall? on Developing New Materials With Space Science · · Score: 1

    Can you get a similar gravity situation on Earth by having the chemical reactions happen in free fall?

  25. Re:Quite a few governments CRIMINALIZE encryption on After 3 Years, Freenet 0.7 Released · · Score: 1

    Covert channels FTW. Make it look like you're doing normal internet communication, but instead encode an encrypted and error-corrected binary stream in the form of intentional packet timing jitter.