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  1. Re:Two key differences on What the Pirate Bay Verdict Could Mean For Google · · Score: 1

    not really.

    The tracker's purpose is to federate the downloading process. If there is no DHT, it's the tracker which tells who else is connected to the torrent so you can effectively get your parts. The tracker is a functional part in the downloading process.

    If TBP get judged, it should not be because of the search engine, but because of the tracker.

  2. Re:What does it mean for Google? on What the Pirate Bay Verdict Could Mean For Google · · Score: 1

    hmm, cool, so just adding the complete web index into piratebay's search engine will make it legal?

    Will a search page frontend to google which adds filetype:torrent to the search be illegal?

  3. Just look at this article's title. Arial sucks! on Comic Sans, Font of Ill Will · · Score: 1

    At least on my browser, the article titles on the main pager are in Arial or similar. I (capital i) and l (lower L) are the same. I had to read the title 3 times before understanding the words!

    This is 3 times written differently...

    Font of III WiII
    Font of lll Will
    Font of Ill Will

  4. Re:so its ok i put a camera in your car? on MIT Tracking Campus Net Connections Since 1999 · · Score: 1

    not a camera but those cars actually may already contain GPS home tracking devices. So when you steal instead of rent the car or when you go missing (tourist getting lost in the desert) the car can be tracked down.

  5. 150mph = slow! on Obama Proposes High-Speed Rail System For the US · · Score: 1

    In Europe we run already at 200mph. USA can't be left behind that!
    Interestingly the article mentions Japan, Germany and China but misses France which runs that service.

  6. Re:Absolute worst, as far as I am concerned. on Worst Working Conditions You Had To Write Code In? · · Score: 1

    I took the toilet deodorant spray and just prayed the whole office full. That made everyone flee including the offices around mine. I didn't mind the smell, was more pleasant than cigarette.

  7. Re:It's a Turing test on Why the CAPTCHA Approach Is Doomed · · Score: 1

    ok, a human detects if it's a human through a turing test.
    so the computer should check if it's a computer with a captcha.

    But currently computers try to check if it's a human.
    We should create captchas which are difficult for humans and easy for computers. If the answer has a little glitch in the solution, then it's a human :-)

  8. Re:(Repost) A Few Common Captcha Fallacies on Why the CAPTCHA Approach Is Doomed · · Score: 1

    how does rePAPTCHA hold up against your arguments?
    The captcha solvers (be it legitimate or not) all the time fill up the set, rendering it virtually infinite.
    It contains patterns which are known not to be solvable by machines.
    Also it's easy solvable by a human as it not a random mix of characters.

  9. Re:Here's what I use... on Why the CAPTCHA Approach Is Doomed · · Score: 1

    in a fairly standard guestbook script I wrote on the filed for URL "if you are a spammer, put your URl here, else leve blank"
    Of course all spammers searching google for this guestbook script will simply insert the URL, and be classified to /dev/null

    So the genuine user has *less* work to do and the sophisticated spammer bots get captured due to their sophistication.

  10. Not only Ireland... on Irish Domain Registry Banning Adult Domains · · Score: 1

    Luxembourg's registrar is not allowing the registration of sex.lu

  11. did not stay in space on Space Bat Tribute Will Make You Cry (youtube.com) · · Score: 1

    dumb bat gripped on the external fuel tank (instead of the shuttle) which is dropped and burns up in the atmosphere. Sad space story...

  12. the cause is mobbing on German Police Union Chief Wants Violent Game Ban After Shooting · · Score: 2, Insightful

    the kid was mobbed by his class and his teachers.
    That's why he went to his former school to kill his harassers.

    In total he played 10 minutes of FPS as shows his online counter.

  13. Re:do it the unix way, use pipes! on Windows and Linux Not Well Prepared For Multicore Chips · · Score: 1

    true.

    What is needed is a language which is effective and also uses streams as it's main object/function/communication call. Rendering it easier to pass data via this scheme. That way the classic malloc, file or whatever data structures exist, which do not easily enable multi processing, are less used. Programmers are lazy...

  14. universal remote for PS3? on Universal Remote's Days Are Numbered · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The PS3 may be a nice BlueRay player but it does not nicely work together with the rest of appliances: it's remote is bluetooth.

    Is there a universal remote which includes a bluetooth module for the PS3?

  15. Re:This is incorrect on Windows and Linux Not Well Prepared For Multicore Chips · · Score: 1

    unix didn't have threads for long time because it simply uses complete processes. Process creation is not requiring a big overhead.
    Of course threads are faster and data interchange is better. But in every unix programming class you got to see the inter process communication stuff and how to make several programs cooperate. It's a basic functionality of unix.

  16. do it the unix way, use pipes! on Windows and Linux Not Well Prepared For Multicore Chips · · Score: 2, Funny

    Unix has for ages run on multi CPU systems. And it does this well. And with easy tools you can harvest the power of all CPUs: the pipe
    Every part of the pipe can run on another CPU.

    I recently came across fslint, which is a example of heavily piped shell.

    In short (leaving out the parameters and options) it runs
    find | sort | tr | sort | bash | merge_hardlinks| uniq | sort | cut | tr | bash | xargs | sort | uniq | cut | sort | tr | xargs | sort | uniq | cut | sort |tr | xargs | sort | uniq | cut | bash | sort

    That's a lot of CPUs :-)
    OK it's not a great example for CPU hungry programs. But the progress of the modern programming languages which tend to be monolythic beasts to do everything (perl, php, java) lead to programs not using pipes or other types of inter process communication because it's just cumbersome.
    The pipe concept enables multi CPU programming without even thinking about how to put tasks on different processors.
    Unfortunatly I have not found a language which sets such a simple concept as the fundamental programming principle.

    See the unix shell, without the pipe you can't really do much.

  17. 100 miles/gallon(US) = 2.3521458 liters/100 km on The Lightning Hybrid and the Inizio EV · · Score: 1
  18. Re:Zsh has had these features for years on BASH 4.0 Released · · Score: 1

    ok. how do you code this in bash?

    ls -l | while read a b c d e f g h
    do
        [ "$h" = "" ] && continue
        count=$((count+1))
        size=$((size+e))
        files="$files '$h'"
    done
    echo "$count files totalling $size bytes:"
    echo "$files"

    To try in ksh (ubuntu):

    sudo apt-get install ksh
    ksh

  19. echo test|read a;echo $a # now working? on BASH 4.0 Released · · Score: 1

    So is bash still the only shell getting pipes wrong.
    In all other shells, the last part of the pipe is in the current process.

    In bash, the first part of a pipe is, which is completely useless. If it's the last one, you can effectively modify variables and use them later.
    e.g.:

    ls | while read a
    do
        myls="$myls $a"
    done
    echo $myls

    ok, it's a silly example but what would you expect happens by just quickly looking at the code. The echo shows the ls? Well not in bash, it just is empty!
    But the bash people still ignore this bug, because in POSIX it is not clear which part of the pipe is in the current process. Well why don't they do it like all the others?

  20. Re:So Ireland isn't a free country once again on Music-Swapping Sites To Be Blocked By Irish ISPs · · Score: 1

    > prohibition

    Reminds me of the Simpsons episode with the bowling balls as beer containers.
    Just create virtual bowling balls and put the files in there (steganography or simple encryption)

  21. Re:Does Anyone Remember the Star Wars Defence Prog on Satellite Collision Debris May Hamper Space Launch · · Score: 1

    you can also blast against it when it's rising on the horizon (unfortunately then there's a lot more atmosphere to plough through). Then it's orbit velocity will be reduced as you are firing at an angle against it's direction of flight.

  22. search engine and tracker difference considered? on Pirate Bay Day 5 — Prosecution Tries To Sneak In Evidence · · Score: 1

    is the trial doing any difference between running the website with the search engine and browsing of torrents and running the tracker?
    * The website is just providing links.
    * The tracker is a helping agent to enable users exchange their files. (making available claim?)
    * One could even distinguish a 3rd entity, it's the "fileserver" or webserver actually deliverying the torrent files, which is different from an indexing site.
    It just happens that on TPB all those components are running in the same domain. Other websites just provide search but no tracker. Or a tracker without search.

  23. Re:Caught red-handed, some unofficial translations on Pirate Bay Day 5 — Prosecution Tries To Sneak In Evidence · · Score: 1

    and most funny is that their homework has been done by TPB who published on the website several mail exchanges with copyright lawyers. So the defendant position was and has always been very clear and did not chenge for this trial.
    Also the plaintifs position has not changed, still claiming the copyright infringement. Dumb lawyers indeed.

  24. Re:did that over 15 years ago on When Servers Explode · · Score: 1

    well that website is known to everyone at my company, it existed even before I applied for a job.
    If a company is not able to distinguish between fun an job, then it's the wrong company.

  25. did that over 15 years ago on When Servers Explode · · Score: 1

    Hey

    my site (just pictures) has been online for 15 years.

    http://www.cpu.lu/~gkes/pcrepair/

    Funny enough it is always on the fist links in google when searching "how to repair a pc" :-)