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  1. Re:Beware: probable phishing attempt on Google NASA Partnership Announced · · Score: 1

    Yeah and as of this writing, the DotNetNuke site is down... Looks like their error log database filled the filegroup. Poor SQL server.

  2. Everything Enabled? on Longhorn Beta Begins · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Have they disabled a lot of stuff like they have in the 'rc' releases of longhorn? Or is all the 'glits' tossed in (visual effects and the like)?

  3. Re:OT: star trek sounds, and computer voice on Searching for a Satellite Pager? · · Score: 1

    I'd imagine you could write Majel Rodenberry and get her to record "the server is down" for a tidy sum :)

  4. Re:They took too long on Blackbox (Finally) Updated · · Score: 1

    what's so bad about the alt-tab model in fluxbox? you want it to be across all virtual desktops? other than that it seems to work as well as any other that i've seen

  5. Re:Fine, then on AIM's New Terms Of Service · · Score: 1

    it uses NSS 1024-bit RSA implementation, that's not exactly 'home-rolled'

  6. 4 years, $whatever per copy distributed on First BitTorrent Arrest in Hong Kong · · Score: 1

    what if he never fully distributed a copy? say the last chunk of the file (however big, depends on the chunk size in the .torrent) didn't get sent out by him ... I would think the burden to prove that he send out *full* copies would be on the prosecution, and almost impossible to prove. unelss they simply went on the amount of data he sent out, then it could not be pretty

  7. Re:ARGH!!!!!! on Developing for Healthcare - .NET vs J2EE? · · Score: 1

    Not to fuel the war, but when you code for the general case (templates) you aren't as fast as your hand optimized, coded for each data type algorithm. This is a simple fact.

  8. Re:ARGH!!!!!! on Developing for Healthcare - .NET vs J2EE? · · Score: 1

    With the long list of potential arguments with this post, all I can say is that nobody said you had to use XML to do your message passing, there's always RPC or just use a custom protocol.

    Regarding mono and patent issues with their version of the .Net framework? What issues? wxWindows buttons look like windows widget set, as do many other graphical toolkits.

  9. Re:Yay on Guide to your Perfect Digital Camera · · Score: 2, Informative

    this was a fun break from my finals ...

    A Tale of Two Cameras
    The guide to your perfect digital camera

    It was the best of times, it was the worse of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness...

    There has never been a better time to buy a digital camera. The technology has matured and there is no longer any debate that digital photography is not simply and alternative to film, but its replacement. Digital cameras offer more value today than they ever have, and you can buy a camera today without having to worry about it being obsolete. Unfortunately, like the famous opening line from Dicken's classic novel, it's also a difficult time to find the right digital camera. Never have there been so wide a range of options andn so wide a range of quality. Fortunately, with Pfucata as your personal guide, you'll easily be able to find your perfect digital camera and it begins with by realizing there are two different types of cameras.

    The Mental Image
    We take our cameras to events and vacations, hoping to capture memories that will help us share and re-stimulate the emotions of the day. When we take a picture, we all have a vision of what we hope to share with others through the final photo. Knowing what you mental image looks like will help you decide whether the right camera for you is a standard digital camera or a digital SLR. Only the right camera will take pictures that tell your story.

    A common mistake is to focus only on megapixels (MP) when shopping for a digital camera. This would be identical to buying a diamond ring by counting the number of stones in the piece and ignoring the carat size, clarity, and color of the gems.

    Imagine that a 4MP digital SLR and a 4MP standard digital camera were both rings fitted with 4 diamonds. The "SLR" ring, however has stones that are 9 times as large and several grades better in clarity and color.

    Digital cameras have an imaging sensor that actually captures the image. A typical digital SLR uses a large imaging sensor 9 times as big as the sensor in a standard digital camera. The larger sensor provides better image quality, which allows a 6 megapixel digital SLR to provide better ovaerall image quality than an 8 megapixel standard digital camera.

    Although digital SLRs have a rear LCD screen ,it cannot be used when taking pictures -- it only lets you review images. Only a standard digital camera will let you use the LCD screen to see live video of what the shot will look like.

    More importantly, differences in sensor size has consequences on depth of field, the way objects appear in or out of focus. This part is a bit technical, but this is what will determine which camera will tell your stories best.

    Your eye has a lot of depth of field. Everything you see is sharp and in focus. The laws of physics make it impossible for a camera to do this.

    A digital SLR has a shallow depth of field, which means it can be more difficult to get everything in focus. This is sometimes good and sometimes bad. Don't worry, this will make sense on next page...

    Shallow Depth of Field
    With a shallow depth of field, only a small part of the scene is in focus. In the photo of the red poppy on the left, notice how the details in the background are out-of-focus. Shallow depth of field is an effective way for drawing attention toward the main subject and removing the distrations from the background. When Hollywood filmmakers change the focus from the foreground to the background, they are taking advantage of a shallow depth of field to tell their story.

    In the photo of the rose on the right, the photographer focused on the rain drops are the edge of the rose petal. Here, you can already see that the lower most petail is going out of focus while the background is so blurry, that it just looks like green velvet.

    Extended Depth of Field
    In this picture, the photogra

  10. Re:Well, I run this little 'Blog... on What Do People in the IT Field Do for Side Jobs? · · Score: 1

    you mean:
    slashdot ctrl+shift+enter ... right?

  11. Re:OFF:The first thing that came to on Statistics For Data Entry: The Brave New Step · · Score: 1

    yes, now they must start the journey to a better name ... like firefox, heh

  12. Re:RTFA on Breaking Google's DRM · · Score: 1

    and if you actually try to use the service, you can see that it doesn't hardly work period -- if someone is determined they'll get it in its as-served binary form ... take a look:
    http://www.google.com/search?q=books+%22rainbow+si x%22+tom+clancy

    and note that 'cleardot.gif' is the image of the doc, but the css url() background (mentioned above) is the real content ... they aren't even checking the referer [sic] field of the http header for some more protection, but that could cause more problem i'm sure

  13. Re:Duplicate or confirmation ? on Mac OS X Running On Xbox · · Score: 1

    but technically, if it doesn't make a word, it's an initialism, not an acronym
    (by the strictest of definitions ... but nowadays it doesn't mater anyway)

  14. Re:Katie.com on The Saga of Katie.com · · Score: 1

    who is to say what one can and cannot sell? at least here in the us nobody can stop me from selling something that i own (and isn't against the law to sell/possess...)

    from above, i'd say make a spoof site and claim it's a hoax, if they want to try to get you for it in the uk, change dns and hosting providers to the US, there are plenty of cheap ones, many with unlimited bandwidth for the site - or dns redirect to girl.com, and frame it with a 'katie.com striked out book cover with that title written in...) the possibilities are endless, and if the publisher says they're being defamed, they aren't the book is ... and the book should sill be property of the author...

    if i'm presuming facts, please correct me

  15. Re:crashes my browser on Halo 2 Website Puzzle Confounds · · Score: 2, Informative

    it's the embeded wav files ... dunno why but they crash mozilla, firefox, and opera (haven't tried konq, epiphany, or others ... links2 and w3m work though :)

  16. Re:v6 could help solve some net problems on IPv6 is Here · · Score: 1

    the trillion trillion (10^12 * 10^12) notation is a bit easier to concieve than a septillion (10^24) for most people

    25 thousand trillion trillion, 25x10e26, or 25 septillion ... my $0.02 :)

  17. Re:Sweet! on PhoneGaim Brings Phone Calling To IM Users · · Score: 1

    SIP is the service, PhoneGaim is (likely) just a plugin for gaim

  18. Re:SCO, a friend of yours? on Affinity Engines Says Google Stole Orkut Code · · Score: 1

    maybe SCO was using Affinity's social network, and that's how they met up...

  19. Re:Not where I get my info... on NASA Abandons SimCIty Microwave Power Concept · · Score: 1

    and this is where we comment about games driving innovation in the real world...

    so when do i get my levitation gun?

  20. Re:flamewar volley 1 on Searching for the Best Scripting Language · · Score: 1

    huffman encode the string, and write a huffman decode function... or huffman encode, decode, display...

    echo(huffmanize(dehuffmanize("Hello World!")

    or, even more inventive: Hello World![insert thousands more exclamation points]

  21. Re:WOPR's 'guesses' on The World's Most Dangerous Password · · Score: 1

    but, if it used something like a vinere square or similar enciphering concept, such a depiction is realistic (but it was brute forcing it if memory serves) ... oh well

  22. Re:Could be even worse on Shatner May Return to Star Trek (Briefly?) · · Score: 1

    Mod parent up!

    If you haven't heard/read/seen the 'Ballad of Bilbo Baggins' then you should :)
    QuickTime

  23. Re:Not to mention the submitter has it backwards on Worst Explanation From Tech Support? · · Score: 1

    not really, because i have a 256 kbit connection (it's what i pay for, and the modem confirms that's what it is running at) ... and I get right around 30-31 KiB/s on downloads (never hitting the theoretic 32).

  24. Re:Light-Years!=Time on Hubble vs. Webb - How Far Back Will They See? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    but is they can see objects 13.3 billion light years away even correct? since everything is movine away from the 'center' of the universe, 1. wouldn't the objects be farther away? and 2. we are seeing 'back in time' because the light took 13.3 billion years to get to us -- so we are seeing what was there 13.3 billion years ago -- not what is there now (a rather important distinction imho)

  25. Re:Question on Gmail Users Get A Storage Boost [updated] · · Score: 1

    999,000 MB ...

    oh, and prestige :)