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  1. Really ? on IcedTea's OpenJDK Passes Java Test Compatibility Kit · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    > and behaves like any other Java SE 6 implementation

    Does this mean it consumes 2 GB of RAM to display "Hello World" ???

  2. Re:Did any of this need to be confirmed? on Wikileaks Gets Hold of Counterinsurgency Manual · · Score: 3, Insightful

    > iranian administration killed 500.000 kids

    Well, I'm living in a country which is PROUD of having sent millions (yes) of its children to death, and killed millions (yes) of children from several other countries, aguably with the generous help of some other western countries.

    In a few days the USA killed or injured hundreds of thousands of people : Nagasaki, Hiroshima, Dresden, to name a few...

    And you seriously think there's a problem with Iran ?

    The only problems are greed, political power and religion (all), especially whenever they mix together. Not a lot of countries still mix these three anymore, and the chief of them is certainely not Iran.

  3. Re:Can we do this with /.? on Visualizing Open Source Contributions · · Score: 1

    It would be interesting to plug this onto the #commits IRC channel of freenode, and see what happens.

  4. Time for me... on Trending Low-Volume Google Searches with Gootrude · · Score: 1

    to do something similar with my parody of google where search terms can be looked at in real time (empty or spammy search terms are replaced with fake words on display, but not in the history).

  5. Re:If the French people are on board... good on France's Citizens Expected to Help Build Internet Blacklist · · Score: 1

    > I don't know how popular this law is in France

    Well, it's unpopular amongst the vast majority of Net users. However a very small but vocal minority of "puritans" is certainely sufficient to censor whatever sites they don't like (things like Sam's "Tribute to Goatse.cx" comes to mind, unfortunately)

    As you may know already if you've learnt your history, in France, but I'm sure it's just as true in most other countries, you can easily find a lot of people willing to collaborate with the (towards a ???) police state...

    We'll see how it goes, probably bad though. Personally I'm willing to contribute the websites of all major newspapers and television channels to this blacklist. I hope many people will do the same. But really I don't think they will really allow end user submitted urls.

    What most people (knownledgeable Net users) I've talked with about this fear this will be used to censor things which are not child pornography.

    IMHO child pornography shouldn't be "censored", it should be stopped, and this has almost nothing to do with the Internet.

  6. Re:This is scary on 2008 Underhanded C Contest Officially Open · · Score: 1

    > Oh, and note to self, don't download any open source image editing software in the future ...

    You're right : you'll be much safer with closed source ones.

  7. track down the people who wrote the virus and for on Using Distributed Computing To Thwart Ransomware · · Score: 4, Funny

    Where's Jack Bauer when you need him ???

  8. Re:and piracy killed music on Open Source Killing Commercial Developer Tools · · Score: 1

    Then maybe "Pure free-market economics" is at fault, not Free Software.

  9. Re:Intel has always been a P.O.S. on Happy Birthday! X86 Turns 30 Years Old · · Score: 1

    Where are mod points when you need them ???

    You're right, I'm sorry.

  10. Re:Intel has always been a P.O.S. on Happy Birthday! X86 Turns 30 Years Old · · Score: 1

    You expressed politely and in a few words what I'm thinking for twenty years and didn't dare to write for fear of being REALLY FUCKING IMPOLITE ABOUT THE x86 !!!

    Thanks a lot.

  11. Re:Ugggggggggg WHY WILL NO ONE USE THE WII on Great Preview Video of Mario Super Sluggers · · Score: 1

    > and Metroid Prime as they actually used the aiming ability for it.

    I don't know for RE4, but Metroid uses the nunchuk for the grapper and even if a button would do the same, after all it's just a video game, the way you launch the nunchuk seems really realistic for me.

    BTW the Wii and Metroid in particular are what caused an old video-game addicted like me (during three years, 20 years ago) to become really addicted again. I couldn't stop to play until I had finished this damn game (33 hours, not so bad for an old man), and then I started again in hyper mode, then I finally realized what I was about to become again, and stopped altogether... Then I played Mario Galaxy and Mario Kart for a while, and I occasionally still do but not in a way that should be medically controlled :)

    Now I'm only internet-addicted again, instead...

    We bought the Wii for our daughters but I think it's me who uses it the most, I sincerely think the Wiimote has made playing to be fun again. I even want to bet that in five years from now all the consoles from the next generation will have a controller similar to or inspired from the Wiimote.

  12. Re:In other news on Search For RMS Titanic Was a Cover Story · · Score: 1

    Well, you're probably right. In any case they searched that sort of thing (I mean Oil).

  13. Re:In other news on Search For RMS Titanic Was a Cover Story · · Score: 1

    I thought they were searching for Olive Oil.

    Or maybe it was only for Oil, I don't remember for sure...

  14. Re:Tower of Pis? on Leaning Tower of Pisa Secure For 300 More Years · · Score: 1

    Sorry if you didn't get the joke.

    bye

    Jerome Alet

  15. Re:Tower of Pis? on Leaning Tower of Pisa Secure For 300 More Years · · Score: 3, Funny

    I went several times to Pisa. Your drawing is incorrect, the tower leans to the opposite way.

  16. Don't use MS Office on Microsoft Office 2007 to Support ODF - But Not OOXML · · Score: -1, Offtopic



    We won't use MS Office anyway !
    We won't use MS Office anyway !
    We won't use MS Office anyway !
    We won't use MS Office anyway !
    We won't use MS Office anyway ! ...
    More lines like these

    </shameless>

  17. The missing half fell... on Hubble Survey Finds Half of the Missing Matter · · Score: 1

    aside of the toilet.

  18. Re:OpenMCU on F/OSS Multi-Point Video-Conferencing · · Score: 1

    > I hope you'll accept my apologies.

    Of course. Everyone has a bad day now and then...

    Thanks for your answer.

  19. Re:OpenMCU on F/OSS Multi-Point Video-Conferencing · · Score: 1

    > ... is as good as spitting in my face.

    Well, then maybe you are expecting too much from people who want to help YOU fix YOUR problem for FREE.

    I'm also available for consulting work BTW, and I'm sure a lot of other people as well. But maybe you don't value the work of other people enough, especially the guys who developped OpenMCU (I'm not one of them). This project sucks at least because it doesn't have useable documentation. Anyway at the time I answered your posting, it was the only answer containing the name of a software which does exactly what you want, if we except vic which is, historically, more related to multicast visioconferencing.

    I'll try to remember to not try to help you next time.

  20. OpenMCU on F/OSS Multi-Point Video-Conferencing · · Score: 1

    Install GnuGK and OpenMCU and you're done.

    Installing and configuring GnuGK is somewhat complex, but it works flawlessly (doesn't do multipoint videoconferencing but it's a gatekeeper, definitely needed IMHO)

    Installing and configuring OpenMCU is ..., how could I say this while still being polite... There's no documentation available to the best of my knowledge, and the --help command line switch doesn't seem to entirely match the openmcu executable... Anyway you can find some entirely outdated docs and combine them with what you obtain with --help, then hope for the best... and maybe read parts of the source code... I think it's the ONLY Free Software I've seen which made me want to have its development team hanged (just joking...)

    Anyway, I was able to make it work during tests, so if you've got some time to spare on this you could try it as well. It definitely does what you want to do.

    Now install GnuGK and OpenMCU (on two different boxen, unless you want to play with fire and complex port settings...), register your endpoints with the gatekeeper, and you'll have a working point-to-point and multi-point visioconferencing system.

  21. My thoughts on Fermilab Calls For Code Crackers · · Score: 1

    Each set of ticks has 8 lines. When you turn the image 90 degres to the right (works both ways), you could consider ' ' being 0 and '_' being 1 (or the other way around) in a set of bytes, one byte per line. This gives only 4 decoding possibilities for theses 2 sets of ticks.

    Of course the final code is probably not as simple as what I say above, but the 8 lines per set thing immediately made me think about this, and by the way this would finely match with all these hexadecimal digits.

    Definitely the work of a computer scientist or an IT person, IMHO.

  22. Re:People mess with thier own machines.. on Windows XP SP3 Creating Havoc · · Score: 1

    You seem to be suggesting that end users could be safe of such problems if they didn't install any software in addition to windows, these idiots !

    I'm not sure their computer would be very useful then, especially with the crap "applications" coming with windows...

  23. Re:Pop quiz for you litigation buffs out there on Florida Judge Smacks Down RIAA · · Score: 1

    This one made my day.

    Thanks !

  24. Re:Not exactly on Electronic Warfare Insects Coming Soon · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Excepted that when you send a nuclear device somewhere by pushing a button in your presidential or dictatorial office, you may risk receiving another back directly onto you as retortion.

    Instead, if you send poor guys on a distant battlefield to take lives and have theirs being taken, while staying in your office, the risk is not exactly the same for you...

    That's why people in charge of nuclear armed nations prefer the second solution : THEY won't die.

  25. Saving thousands of lives on a battlefield... on Electronic Warfare Insects Coming Soon · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    > that could become the eyes and ears of soldiers on the battlefield, helping to save thousands of
    > lives

    Silly me !

    I thought soldiers were on a battlefield precisely to take as many lives as they could...

    BTW if we look at History, we see that not many lives were saved on battlefields, so my thought was completely wrong : it is now high time to build these tiny electronic pests.