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  1. Re:For the SI prefix challenged on picoGUI: An X Alternative? · · Score: 1
    The entire source probably looks something like the following: .


    No, for that would be one byte ;)
  2. Whoops, almost tripped... on Domino Day '02 Ends with a New World Record · · Score: 1

    I can just imagine the amount of people going "whoops, almost fell onto that domino there" right next to the primary domino when they were building it... and possibly the amount of people being beaten up for being stupid heehee

  3. Re:Aargh! on PumpkinPC v1.0 Makes Its Hallowe'en Debut · · Score: 1

    Yeah, kinda scary that its running...

  4. Re:A distinction... on Critical Kerberos Flaw Revealed · · Score: 1

    Fair enough, but the key word used was "Critical" rather than "fundamental".

    Fundamentally flawed definitely not like you say, but critically problematic definitely - as are all buffer overflows on serious systems as this

  5. Noise cancellation eh? on Next Generation Fans · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Hmm, noise cancellation... How about having some local noise cancellation *inside* the box? I've got a hunch that it would work, since its a relatively small enclosed area.
    Anyone ever tried this?

  6. Re:My theory on Tetris Is Hard: NP-Hard · · Score: 1

    I hate it when you *really* need a 1x4, but it gives you a 4x1. Damn, thats really teasing...

  7. Re:A distinction... on Critical Kerberos Flaw Revealed · · Score: 1

    "it's just a buffer overflow"

    What, like the same as

    "it's just a virus" or "it's just a DoS attack"

    ?

  8. Re:Unfortunately ... on UK ISPs Refuse to Monitor Users · · Score: 1

    In fact, he (apparently) knew all along that his phone (which, incidentally was a satellite phone - you aint gonna get any reception with orange in a cave in the middle of a desert now are you?) was bugged all along. He used it for family calls only apparently, to give the appearence of nothing dodgy going on...

  9. Re:ACK! I've been hacked! on Exchange Email Addresses With A Handshake · · Score: 0

    Hehe, gives a totally new meaning to being "r00ted"

  10. Re:Wow on Exchange Email Addresses With A Handshake · · Score: 1

    Ok, but the penis wins hands down (?) on the count of party trick ability. I cant imagine someone sending a 100mb file from, say their phone and going "hey, look at that go.. bet you cant do that ;)". But each to their own, I guess.

  11. 30-day contact lenses on Laser Vision Surgery for Developers? · · Score: 1

    This is possibly not an answer that you'd want but i'll say it anyways... In the last month or so, i've considered Laser Treatment but its too damn expensive for a poor student like me. I went to my opticians though, and he told me about some new lenses - ones that you can keep in for a month constantly - sleeping in and all. Its probably a good trade off between wearing lenses and not having the annoyance of taking them out. Oh, and they're 25 of your english pounds per month...

  12. Mess on 22lb Ice Blocks From the Sky · · Score: 1

    I seem to recall aircraft dropping their sweage as big frozen blocks. Make sure you dont get them mixed up, because otherwise its gonna get real messy hehe...

  13. Re:A double pointer? on That Link Is Illegal · · Score: 1

    Hmm, so how about linking to a google cache of the site? Im guessing that would be illegal on googles' part. Dodgy stuff

  14. Re:removable RAM? on Graphics Memory Sizes Compared: How Much Is Enough? · · Score: 1

    Now theres a thought... how about putting the gpu on a socket while we're there? Now, if the graphics motherboard was designed properly, we may be onto a winner... upgradability

  15. i r uberl33t0 on "L33T" Speak Invades Schools · · Score: 1

    There is no need for people to speak all l33t0 in todays world.

    Once upon a time when we use to connect to the interweb via smoke signals and a damn big fire, and a time where mobile phones didnt have predictive text et al. there was use for non-captitalisation and shorthand words.

    Now we have keyboards where it is no more efficient to type "you" than "u". We also have predictive text on mobiles, where it is just as fast to type out stuff properly. Most of my text messages are still within the 160-character boundary even if I type them out old stylee.

    We also have the development of voice recognition, and if this starts converting "you" to "u" automagically, I am going to go clinically insane.

    Damnit people, it bugs me when I have to decode this ugly pap, but I digress...

  16. Wouldnt it be funny... on Egyptian Pyramid Rover Finds... Another Door · · Score: 1

    ...If this rover thingymajigbob piled through loads of doors and three miles of corridors, only to end up at a 10ftx12ft chamber full of spare doors. We'd at least know that those ancients knew how to take the pish.

  17. Re:The writing on the wall... on Egyptian Pyramid Rover Finds... Another Door · · Score: 1

    You can go (N)orth or (S)outh
    >Go North
    You cannot go that way. Your path is blocked by a really heavy stone doors
    >Use Drill
    You drill through the really heavy stone doors and peek through, only to find another stone door.
    >Use Drill
    You havent got any drill left.
    >Go South
    You cannot go that way. Your path is blocked by a really heavy stone doors
    >Shit

  18. Re:I'm going to sue on Speed Of Light Broken With Off Shelf Components · · Score: 1

    Ahh but that begs the question... What happens if you decide not to go out into the sun *because* you have sunburn? Dont do it! Dont do it I beg you, for the love of the universe, dont do it...

  19. Re:finally! on Wireless Wales · · Score: 1

    Oops, someone said sheep cam... http://www.sheepcam.com/. A cluster of sheep servers... thats a funny thought. Or even p2p sheep file servers. Could be good news for all us budding mp3 farmers ;)

  20. Re:Yes... on The Casimir Effect · · Score: 1

    There is some research going on into mass being merely another property. Just like spin, charge etc etc a quark can have mass.

    Basically, it all stems from a particle that may exist called a "higgs boson". Then you have higgs fields just like e-m fields, where the particle of transport for e-m fields would be photons.

    So, if these higgs bosons do exist then all particles "exert" mass, just the same as all photons "exert" e-m properties on particles (heh).

    http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&i e= UTF-8&oe=utf-8&q=mass+higgs+field&btnG=Google+Sear ch if you care

  21. Dupe? on Ogg Vorbis For Hardware Makers · · Score: 1

    So is the other one, but I dont see any bloody warning there...

  22. Re:That's nothing... on Keep Playing With AI · · Score: 1

    Good going, except this version of your AI must be broken, it forgot to paste a big quote...

  23. Simple! Stupid! on Can Poisoning Peer to Peer Networks Work? · · Score: 1

    LoL although "it might be a bit harder for the labels to defend copyright claims for individual songs.", you may forget that this would mean that everyone who connects to the network is illegal, so the DMCA wouldnt even need to check if a user has been downloading illegal things, it would be implied :)

  24. Language ehhh? on 2002 ICFP Programming Contest · · Score: 2, Interesting

    First Prize ...
    Peer recognition: Finally, the contest judges agree to state at least once during the presentation of the awards that the winning team's programming language is "the programming tool of choice for discriminating hackers."

    Second Prize ...
    Peer recognition: The contest judges agree to state at least once during the presentation of the awards that the winning team's programming language is "a fine programming tool for many applications."


    Man, someone *must* do it in BRAINF*CK or even funnier... Visual Basic. You can just imagine them saying that "VB is the programming tool of choice for distriminating hackers"

  25. Re:Crash Windows on Microsoft News Update · · Score: 1

    I thought Windows already came with a code to crash it. That being Windows itself.

    Hehe thats what they want you to think. In reality its not the source code, its just the APIs(CrashWindow, BuggerUpWindowEx etc :p)