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  1. Sometimes Java Integer makes sense to me... on Slashback: Highness, Hominess, Hole-ines · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Tight code is great, but:

    - static u_int16_t n = HASH_MINSIZE / HASH_ENTRYSIZE;
    + static u_int32_t n = HASH_MINSIZE / HASH_ENTRYSIZE;

    Seems a bit zealous.

  2. Re:Patented hairdo (was Re:Prior Art?) on SONICblue Granted Broad Patent on DVR Technology · · Score: 1
    Scary, huh.

    Yup. It seems this is about someone who got to the patent office first with their papers in order, and made the idea work as more than a casual item on their TODO list. This is how it has always been done here.

  3. Re:What has javascript has to do with security? on Information Security On An Olympic Scale · · Score: 1
    So certain are you.

    Of course not. It seems this issue has been discussed before, and that I am in over my head. I will shutup now.

  4. Re:Security already not so great on Information Security On An Olympic Scale · · Score: 1
    Flamebait? Good grief, not even the athlete's own web is on SSL. It's friggin' Basic Auth.

    I aint tryin' to bash anyone here, just looking at ways to maybe help. I'd be happy to volunteer some time for this, if I lived closer to SLC.

    Is there no way we can help with this in a nice way?

  5. Re:Security already not so great on Information Security On An Olympic Scale · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Wow. This link really tells a story. Looks like they switched from Solaris and Linux, around July, and since then don't have an uptime worth a darn.

    A clean and stable games is one of the most important things we can do right now.

  6. Security already not so great on Information Security On An Olympic Scale · · Score: 4, Informative
    Just looking at the Saltlake official webpage, I see only one link which uses encryption, and that's the signup link so that you can download a screensaver and get some kind of updates. Theres a tremendous amount of javascript there, and it's clearly being served already from M$.

    We might already be too late to help them. :-/

  7. To monitor mail transactions on On the Problems with Laptops in School? · · Score: 0

    $ tail -f /var/log/maillog | grep rotten_bastard@fascist.edu

  8. This sounds better than... on Ground-based Telescope as Sharp as Hubble · · Score: 1

    a funhouse!

  9. This is it? on Rent Music Over the Net · · Score: 2
    I dont think so. Until music becomes available in electronic format that can be used on portable players, people will resist. But this is a step in the profitable direction.

    E-Music doesn't stand a chance. The only way it could work is iff you agree to buy at least 100 more songs, after you get your first 100 for free, at "Regular Club Prices". Even then, it probably will be regulated further to purchasing at least 5-10 songs per artist, like a static compilation. (Even some of my fave albums have songs I'd rather skip over)

    Once they get you into a membership, it doesn't matter if the songs can be passed around freely anymore, because it'll be so easy and simple to just pay the club.

  10. Re:Is locust doomed anyway? on World's First SMS Text Messaging May Fade Soon · · Score: 1

    SMS works fine on GPRS phones. It's not going away, it's being enhanced and extended.

  11. Re:Why is this Science?! on World's First SMS Text Messaging May Fade Soon · · Score: 0

    It's more than a "Handhelds", but less than a "The Almighty Buck"?

  12. This is not a WAP portal on World's First SMS Text Messaging May Fade Soon · · Score: 5, Insightful
    and therefore, it's got to go.

    Why? The WAP portal is where the Euro providers really want their subscribers to go for information, news, etc. GPRS will give WAP some semblance of usability, after the initial flop, and many Euro providers, including the one I work for, have invested millions in their portal offerings. The old style SMS messaging services like this one are OK, as long as you agree to pay for the messages they send you, but anything that detracts from the portal is definitely not on the A-list.

    Bottom line, the providers gotta pay down the G3 licenses, and SMS (eventually packetized SMS) is probably the best way to "migrate" the population slowly into G3 without losing the SMS-crazed kids who pay the bills.

  13. Re:They found a market..Now can they keep it? on Maine buys 38,600 ibooks for Public Schools · · Score: 1
    Maine would probably dump their Apple order

    Disagree. Apple has always been easier to use, especially at this age. I don't see the practicality of distributing laptops to be hastily stored between classes in someones fuzzy teddy-bear bag. No. iBooks has found a market here, even if I did take a lashing for FP. heh.

    My only concerns are eye-strain on children, and the implications for major publishing houses delivering electronic textbooks. (no money lost there, eh?)

  14. They found a market on Maine buys 38,600 ibooks for Public Schools · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The whole semesters reading assignments on the first day. Good!

  15. Re:Duck and cover! on "Bronze Age Pompeii" Discovered · · Score: 1

    Pyroclastic flows do solidify eventually. And they move quickly, too. But the body cavities are interesting. Think of the positions.

  16. Re:Back then? on Sci Fi Gives Green Light To "Children of Dune" · · Score: 1

    Ah, so all the dates are based on AD, then. Good. I always wondered about that.

  17. Re:Lynch mob? on Bruce Sterling on Geeks and Spooks · · Score: 1
    A device is ok, if I can make own keypair, have it signed by "authority", and then install it into the device. The device can be transferred.

    I would use no key but one I have created myself with software I trust.

    Our Bruce fails to mention this, I believe. In fact, he proposes builtin keys.

  18. Re:Spin-offs and the big payoff on Unwinding Cisco's Not-So-Simple Beginnings · · Score: 1
    Ah yes. Good. Mod parent down as troll, then.

    The article was pretty pathetic in some places, and it was actually hard to imagine Stanford not rakin' it in.

    It was a good stab at at an historical accounting, I guess, but Cisco will live on. Business is business.

  19. Re:The thousand sons of Duncan Idaho on Sci Fi Gives Green Light To "Children of Dune" · · Score: 1

    No romans back then.

  20. What I'm really interested in is... on Bruce Sterling on Geeks and Spooks · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    what's the AC take on this?

  21. Re:Executive summary on Bruce Sterling on Geeks and Spooks · · Score: 1

    Sterling makes a statement of his own at the end. And proposes something useful.

  22. Spin-offs and the big payoff on Unwinding Cisco's Not-So-Simple Beginnings · · Score: 3, Troll
    From the article: Cisco experience has done unseen damage to Stanford in the form of creating inhibitions against sharing ideas, information and developments with possible commercial value [...]

    MIT seems to have excelled the best at making "spin-off" projects. I suppose they probably feel they've been burned by some of their startups, too. The same with NCSA.. heh.

    When Standford lost their cherry in this game, they should have laid down again and found new partners.

    I dont know the status of Stanfords holdings today, but rejecting as a matter of policy founder shares in Cisco was just plain bad for business. Seems they could have been giving away alot more free education today, and that would have been the best payoff imaginable.

  23. But the really big question is... on Sci Fi Gives Green Light To "Children of Dune" · · Score: 1

    Who will play Alia, and what will her knife look like.

  24. The thousand sons of Duncan Idaho on Sci Fi Gives Green Light To "Children of Dune" · · Score: 2

    Probably reduced to two or three. But Ix. I want to see Ix.

  25. Re:New for Nerds? on Good Games For Christmas? · · Score: 1

    Nobody says they got it around here, without receiving some amount of feigned disinterest.