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  1. How does 3.0 beta compare with go-oo? on OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta Released · · Score: 1

    So how exactly does the 3.0 beta release compare with Go-Openoffice.org 2.4?

  2. Re:Imagine turning this technology into a mouse on Gaze Gaming Tech Promises Faster Eye-Controlled Interaction · · Score: 1

    If you don't want electromagnetic radiation, turn off the lights.

  3. Outsource it on US To Employ Overhead Spying Domestically · · Score: 1

    I'm sure that the US government spying on its own citizens gets expensive after a while, then they will need to cut costs by outsourcing it to a foreign country.

  4. Re:Lets redefine Comcastic! on Comcast Blocks Web Browsing · · Score: 1

    I'm sure every Comcast customer does this already.
    "The cable went out! That's comcastic!"

  5. Flash Video is a huge CPU hog on Jobs Says Flash Video Not Suitable for iPhone · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Flash is a huge, huge CPU hog for playing videos. It is also not the only way to play flash videos.
    I have done comparative performance tests.
    In one corner: Youtube's flash-based player
    In the other corner: Windows Media Player + Gabest's FLV Splitter + FFDSHOW.
    When playing the same flash video, Flash took 40% CPU usage, and Windows Media Player took 5% CPU usage.
    This just shows that Flash Player is extremely inefficient. Its performance gets much worse when showing a video in full screen.

  6. Re:Simple fix, no? on Cold Reboot Attacks on Disk Encryption · · Score: 1

    You pop the RAM out and stick it in another machine which does not clear the RAM.

  7. Re:Who says assembler is not used for applications on Obsolete Technical Skills · · Score: 1
    I've actually found that C++ itself can be quite lean, as long as:
    • You never ever use iostreams, which includes a lot of "locale" baggage and other junk
    • You don't instantiate global or static instances of a class.
    • You use a leaner C or C++ library
    • Don't use exceptions or run-time type identification

    In a static linked program, I've seen the linker add as little as 8k of library code to a C++ program. So from there, it's up to the programmer to write efficient C++ code instead of watching the linker adding 500k of unused crap onto your program.
  8. Fill their inbox with crap on Spies In the Phishing Underground · · Score: 1

    So if these phishers are using low-tech stuff like Formmail, then you should just autofill their forms with randomly generated bogus personal information for hours on end. It would make it very hard to sort the legitimate data from the trash. Assuming of course that their sites don't store IP information in the email messages.

    Only thing to worry about would be getting DDOS'ed by a less clueless phisher.

  9. Needs antispyware on Startup Offers Instant-Boot Windows Alternative · · Score: 1

    Throw in a file manager, and a way to run an anti-spyware/antivirus application, and you got yourself a winner!

  10. How can you be sure on Open Source Voting Software Success · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How can you be sure that the program you are running really is the program that you think it is, and not a modified copy?

  11. Re:Hope this makes it. on How to Recognize a Good Programmer · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yay! Comparing a const char*const to an arbirary pointer! That will work great in C!

  12. Re:Why, again, is Windows desirable for this marke on OLPC, Microsoft Working Toward Dual-Boot XO Laptops · · Score: 1

    This thing easily has adequate specs for running Windows XP or FLP. It just won't have the cool collaborative sugar UI.

  13. Re:The origin of species on AOL to Shut Down Netscape Support/Development · · Score: 1

    Wow, this version is so old it fails to load any website with "text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1", instead of plain old "text/html". No google.com for you.

  14. Re:From the Firefox 2 source code... on First Look At Firefox 3.0 Beta 2 · · Score: 1

    Dude, that's only 400k of RAM usage right there.

  15. They need to do way instain mother on Yahoo! Answers, A Librarian's Worst Nightmare · · Score: 4, Funny

    They need to do way instain mother> who kill thier babbys. becuse these babby cant frigth back?
    it was on the news this mroing a mother in ar who had kill her three
    kids. they are taking the three babby back to new york to lady to rest
    my pary are with the father who lost his chrilden ; i am truley sorry for your lots

    Anyone who reads somethingawful's weekend web should know how good Yahoo Answers is as a source of information...
  16. MRAM is actually used on NEC Develops World's Fastest MRAM · · Score: 5, Informative

    For small sizes (32KiB), MRAM already has a wide use in Game Boy Advance cartridges as a replacement for battery backed RAM.

  17. Re:So did... on Game Boy Zelda Comes With Source, Sort Of · · Score: 1

    It's much easier to directly read a cartridge to dump a ROM than to watch images on a TV screen, even if what flashed on the screen was the entire object code.

  18. This is a non-story on Game Boy Zelda Comes With Source, Sort Of · · Score: 4, Informative

    This is a non-story. This only applies to a specific Pirate ROM Dump of Zelda DX. The clean dump does not contain any embedded source code.

  19. Air Fortress (NES) had exact same issue! on Game Boy Zelda Comes With Source, Sort Of · · Score: 4, Informative

    Air Fortress (Famicom version) also included a portion of the source code due to not clearing memory before linking.

  20. Re:Three Intel MYTHs Busted Here on Intel, Microsoft Despised the XO Laptop · · Score: 1

    If you want ARM, you have to pay big licensing fees.

  21. Sim Earth on Hidden Music Claimed In Da Vinci Painting · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I remember that Sim Earth had the ability to play your planet's current statistics as a song, more like a series of notes based on the content of the Y axis. I bet it the hidden song in the painting would be just as nonsensical and unmusical as playing a scatter plot as if it were music.

  22. Re:My Indie Band Tried this as an Experiment -Resu on 38% of Downloaders Paid For Radiohead Album · · Score: 1

    You're missing step 2: Get a really good flash animator to make a music video, then put it on Newgrounds.

  23. Re:Lack of process isolation? on Virtualization Decreases Security · · Score: 1

    They stopped working the minute the program finds a privilege escalation exploit to run kernel code.

  24. Re:still has legacy components on AMD Ships First DTX Form Factor Prototypes · · Score: 1

    Then you probably don't have a GSM phone. Those things interfere with EVERYTHING. Musical keyboards, computer speakers, even clock radios. Furthermore, if you put one by a mouse, it even causes "scroll wheel downward" events repeatedly trigger while the phone causes buzzes in nearby speakers.

  25. Re:Open Source / Closed Source on OSI Approves Microsoft Ms-PL and Ms-RL · · Score: 1

    No, open source means the companies can steal whatever they want, then not have to give anything back if they do not distribute the binaries to the public.