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  1. Re:Web presence? on How to Fight Name Scraping Scammers? · · Score: 1

    Johnsmith.com seems to be taken, so now what? Oh, my realname.com site is also taken. What's a JohnSmith to do?

    Create a unique key and use that as part of your web presence.

    e.g.
    js101532

    HTH

  2. Re:Always use protection on 12,000 Laptops Lost Weekly At Airports · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Someone has to be sued first. No excuse these days.

     

  3. Re:Need on Dial-Up Users "Don't Want Broadband" · · Score: 4, Informative

    If we could dump all the extra garbage on most webpages, we could conserve a lot of bandwidth as it is.

    Edit -> Preferences -> Content

    Untick load images automatically.
    Untick enable Javascript.
    Untick enable Java.

    Edit -> Preferences -> Applications

    Remove any you don't like.

    HTH
     

  4. Re:Declarative languages is the answer on Intel Says to Prepare For "Thousands of Cores" · · Score: 1

    Bingo!

    Pull not push.

     

  5. Re:Seriously on Geomicroblogging, Buzzword or Reality? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "Mash up". It should have stopped before the words were ever uttered. I would like to know who it was that uttered them. Just an address, that is all I need.

     

  6. The Nokia N95, E61 etc on Geomicroblogging, Buzzword or Reality? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Already have GPSs on board, already have mapping on board, already have photo and video, already have a "lifeblog" on board to sync the phone info up with your favourite blog.

    What I'm saying is, it's been done already, you guys are so 2005.

     

  7. Re:unusually bloated ? on Microsoft Releases Pre-2007 Binary File Format Specs · · Score: 1

    Or because it uses the highly popular "Big Ball of Mud" software architecture so prevalent among Windows developers.
     

  8. Just run it over port 80 on Beating Comcast's Sandvine On Linux With Iptables · · Score: 1

    Like everyone else.

     

  9. Re:Please hold the milk on Dead At 92, Business Computing Pioneer David Caminer · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sorry,you can't possibly love English tea, at least not the real stuff. English tea cannot be drunk black. It is stewed in a teapot for 30 minutes specifically to turn the stomach lining to leather.
     

  10. Market price for securid fobs on Blizzard Introduces One-Time Password Devices For WoW · · Score: 2, Informative

    About $50 each at the moment. They obviously cost $0.10 to make, but you won't be able to buy them for that.

  11. one time passwords are a good idea on Blizzard Introduces One-Time Password Devices For WoW · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Anyway...

     

  12. Why not simply put a cage over the gutter... on IRobot Looj Gutter Cleaning Robot Review · · Score: 1

    AKA gutter guard, gutter strainer etc etc... Price from $2.39...
     

  13. But can they ship 100,000,000 phones per year? on What Happened To Palm? · · Score: 1

    Hmm?

    What would you write your apps for? Someone who does ship those kinds of numbers on a routine basis or... Sorry, no, it's a no-brainer.

     

  14. Martial arts are less to do with lighting reflexes on Studies Show the Value of Not Overthinking · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Than putting standard reflexes to work putting you in an advantageous position.

    e.g. The standard reflex might be to simply duck and cover your head. Someone trained in a realistic martial art (rather than playing tag) will certainly also duck and cover their head in exactly the same way in an identical situation, but may then follow that by trapping an opponent's arm and smacking them in the face with an elbow. For example the first movements of heian nidan/pinan shodan.

    It may look like lightning reflexes, but the reflexive part of it is identical to that of anyone else. What follows is trained to automatic. The point the grandparent post makes, well, yeah, time does slow down when the adrenalin hits, but if you have to think, you are seriously going to get your arse handed to you, don't rely on thinking faster than the other guy.

     

  15. He's probably making minimum 4-5 times your salary on NASA Tests Hypersonic Blackswift · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Jesus those people are dumb.

    Yacht, fancy house, nice car, holiday home etc etc.

     

  16. Are you running a TOR proxy on your PC? on Sourceforge.net Blocked In Mainland China · · Score: 1

    No?

    Something similar?

    No?

     

  17. Arrakis == Saudi Arabia on Mars Soil Appears To Be Able To Sustain Life · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The spice == oil etc.

    HTH
     

  18. Woohoo on ICANN Board Approves Wide Expansion of TLDs · · Score: 4, Funny

    A flat DNS. Just the way it was always meant to be.

     

  19. So... Where's the militia? on Supreme Court Holds Right to Bear Arms Applies to Individuals · · Score: 1

    And why aren't you a member?

     

  20. Re:If you want a job developing stuff on Does an Open Java Really Matter? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Why would you aim for 1/3 of the market when you can aim for 2/3?

    http://www.google.com/trends?q=java+developers%2C+.Net+developers&ctab=0&geo=all&date=ytd&sort=0

     

  21. If you want a job developing stuff on Does an Open Java Really Matter? · · Score: 1

    You need to know Java.

    It's that simple. It doesn't seem to matter that the typical Java app is N times larger than it's c++ counterpart or that you need a 64bit box with NGb of RAM to make it run acceptably. Corporate IT are basically only interested in hiring Java developers.

     

  22. China, India on Higher Oil Prices Are Starting To Bring Jobs Home · · Score: 1

    HTH

     

  23. Perhaps they're just a step ahead. on Nokia to Acquire and Open Source Symbian · · Score: 1

    Haven't you been watching what Nokia has been doing for the last couple of years? What gets me is just how much smarter than Motorola these guys are.

     

  24. Re:Diskless servers on Building the Green Data Center · · Score: 1

    Thanks. That's the ticket. I assume if it takes 15-30 minutes to configure, you are downloading and chain booting a disk image Kind of. The base OS boots and runs 100% from ramdisk, takes about 15 seconds to download and maybe another 30 to boot. About 100Mb or so uncompressed. Doing it from scratch keeps the underlying infrastructure OS small. What takes the time is the application image. It usually has some data attached with which it is packaged, anything from a few hundred mb to gigabytes. The local storage is purely for the application packages or VM images while they're hosted on that machine.

    What's got me curious is how to make the management piece redundant and load balanced as well. I'll just have to work on it. Not sure which load balancing you're talking about. If the control servers, think botnet. Take a look at energymech or eggdrop. If you mean load balancing for the whole system, well grid engine does the heavy lifting there.
  25. emergent behaviour on Whatever Happened To AI? · · Score: 1

    They are simply algorithms, they don't exhibit any emergent behaviour.

    I suspect though that if you get enough of these simple algorithms together they will be able to exhibit what we might call intelligence. Look, the human brain is made up of 100 billion or so simple neurons all interconnected vastly complex networks, what makes us intelligent are not the neurons themselves but the behaviour of the network.

    It's going to take vast computing power on current designs of hardware to simulate that and produce real machine intelligence.