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  1. Re:How much of a loss was it? on Technocrat.net Shut Down · · Score: 1

    Bruce hardcoded it in and it was fed from technocrat.net itself. It wasn't a banner ad from one of the services, and AdBlock didn't catch it unless you explicitly blocked that ad. Bruce is a strong Democrat, and spent a good deal of time doing campaign calls in -- I believe -- Ohio and Georgia.

  2. Re:community on Technocrat.net Shut Down · · Score: 1

    I'd guess he was referring to Pres4242 & Tom Lord, though neither were trolls. Both just have, shall we say, firm viewpoints.

  3. Re:Netcraft on Is the Gaming PC Dead? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Maybe later. Right now the Netcraft guys are too busy getting noobed online by some 12-year old with a quad-SLI nVidia setup with built-in nuclear cooling towers. When they're done, expect a post extolling the virtues of text-based games, ASCII art and nethack.

  4. Re:Contradiction on What Restrictions Should Student Laptops Have? · · Score: 1

    Not if they've properly implemented TPM with a trusted boot path, they aren't contradictory. With one of those installed there is no such thing as "clean install" or "I'll just swap the hard drive". If they decide to be anal about it, they can lock them down tighter than a drum.

  5. Re:Damn on Why Climbers Die On Mount Everest · · Score: 5, Funny

    This depends on who you were in the shower with and what you were doing at the time.

    The low temperature and lack of oxygen preclude any such interesting developments on top of Mt. Everest.

  6. Re:it's called dsync on BitTorrent For Enterprise File Distribution? · · Score: 1

    Better to reply to you than to my own "where's the source?" post.

    Check this out: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dot-project/

  7. Re:it's called dsync on BitTorrent For Enterprise File Distribution? · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately there is a program out there called dsync, which isn't what you're referencing. This sounds very interesting. Any idea where to see sample source code?

  8. Re:NOT all open source on Best Open Source Alternatives To Enterprise Apps · · Score: 4, Informative

    DimDim went GPL and you can download the source from their website.

  9. Get Off My Lawn! on Why Auto-Scaling In the Cloud Is a Bad Idea · · Score: 5, Funny

    Someone get this guy a cane to shake at the whipper-snappers. "In my day, you learned proper capacity planning or you didn't enter the data center!"

    It can take up to 10 minutes for your EC2 instances to launch. That's 10 minutes between when your cloud infrastructure management tool detects the need for extra capacity and the time when that capacity is actually available. That's 10 minutes of impaired performance for your customers (or perhaps even 10 minutes of downtime).

    Like, you could do it so much faster than 10 minutes without auto-scaling. Bah! If you've read The Art of Capacity Planning you would've mailed in the coupon for the free crystal ball and seen this coming!

    Properly used, automation is a good thing. Blindly relying on it will get you burned, but to totally dismiss it out of hand is foolish.

  10. Re:Memory exists to be used on Why Use Virtual Memory In Modern Systems? · · Score: 1

    A matter of opinion.

    It should also note that the entire system has been idle for 16 hours, so don't bother paging out those idle apps because EVERYTHING is idle.

  11. Re:When will it become *our* phones? on Second Google Android Phone Revealed · · Score: 1

    Oh, man. That one continually shoots my blood pressure thru the roof. It does the same thing on QTopia.

  12. Re:What's the difference here? on An Ethical Question Regarding Ebooks · · Score: 1

    Please provide some verifiable data to back that tripe up. How many books have gone out of print in the last 50 years in the United States? How many were later brought back into print because of a resurgence in demand? And no, I'm not referring to a switch to mass-market paperback.

  13. Re:1 Answer: on Proprietary Blobs and the Pursuit of a Free Kernel · · Score: 1

    Yes, and provide detailed, superior documentation and man pages -- including ASCII art -- on exactly how to and what the most efficient ways of fscking yourself are.

  14. Re:Oh, well... on Apple Sued Over iPhone Browser · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's Hedley!

  15. Re:email is for communication... not documentation on Psystar Case Reveals Poor Email Archiving At Apple · · Score: 1

    Mmmm...then they're doing it wrong if they're forcing it on the client end.

    Postfix has a "BCC every message" at the server, where one of EVERYTHING is BCCed over to where you specify. Exchange has some decent journaling functions that handle this and you can always use a mail proxy, like Google's Postini to intercept everything at the threshold.

  16. Re:email is for communication... not documentation on Psystar Case Reveals Poor Email Archiving At Apple · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The financial industry requires all that. Where I work (broker/dealer and investment management firm) EVERYTHING is recorded. E-mail, phone calls, meetings, etc. IM and the like are forbidden. We even get copies of every fax sent/received and paper letter sent by investment advisers. All of it. Yes, it is a royal pain.

  17. Re:A "FETCH" unit on Dropped Shuttle Toolbag Filmed From Earth · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Since it was probably the metric set of wrenches, it wasn't that big of deal. They don't really use those anyway.

  18. Re:Amazing! They've invented... on Machine Condenses Drinking Water Out of Thin Air · · Score: 4, Informative

    Sir, I do think you just uncovered the long lost answer to:

    2. ?
    3. Profit!

    Hell, it seems to have worked for Lucas.

  19. Wales on Scientists Add Emotions To Robotic Head · · Score: 1

    My vote is for Wales. Any country whose language insists on running 6 consonants together in a row, then doing it again just for fun, deserves a good robot rampage every now an then.

  20. Re:What legitimate purpose? on Obama's Mobile Phone Records Compromised, Shared · · Score: 5, Funny

    Reverse traces.

    They were probably investigating a complaint from the Governor's residence in Alaska. All those mysterious calls that would just be insane, taunting laughter, then a hang-up.

    Probably just a wrong number, but still, you can never be too sure.

  21. Re:Yeah, well on Urine Passes NASA Taste Test · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Because he was only puking for an hour, not all day.

  22. Re:HOWEVER on Urine Passes NASA Taste Test · · Score: 4, Insightful

    From your high userid I can identify you as a noob. For future reference, these types of comments are best posted ANONYMOUSLY. God help you if anyone knows your real name. I foresee a future employer doing a google search on your various aliases and THAT comment turning up.

  23. Re:Motion blur on Grenade-Style Wireless Camera For Combat · · Score: 1

    That depends on how flat the arc is. If it is a lob or skyhook shot then you are correct, but if it is more of a 20 degree or so azimuth from ground then no, it won't.

    The gyroscope could compensate for spin, which would probably be a must.

  24. Re:Motion blur on Grenade-Style Wireless Camera For Combat · · Score: 1

    Yet, amazingly, the camera is still in motion in relation to what it is viewing. Depending on the relative speed you will get motion blur, just not jitter. You're talking about a steady-cam equivalent, which has nothing to do with motion blur.

  25. Re:This was on NPR a while back on Online Carpooling Service Fined In Canada · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No, just prostitution. Oh, wait. That one was the U.S. Our turn to be stupid, I guess.