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  1. Re:Boyle's logic failure on What Would Have Entered the Public Domain Tomorrow? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    For old obscure out-of-print books, it's often effectively impossible to access them because no bookstore or library has them. For all practical purposes, they have been destroyed from the cultural record.

  2. Re:Note to submitter on Researchers Create Cheap, Flexible, Plastic Flash Memory · · Score: 1

    "EEPROM" is generally only used to refer to nonvolatile memories where individual bits can be erased. Flash memory has to be erased an entire block at a time (where a block is some size much larger than 1 bit).

  3. Re:Technical details: 512-bit RSA key on TI vs. Calculator Hackers · · Score: 1

    The TI-89 and TI-73 came out in 1998; RSA-155, a number of similar size to the TI keys, wouldn't be factored until 1999.

  4. Re:Internet Addition = Pornography Addition on First American Internet Addiction Treatment Center · · Score: 1

    Since people who are "addicted" to religion (the correct word is "belief", not "addiction") do not consider themselves to have a problem, nobody would ever go to such a clinic voluntarily.

  5. Re:Internet Addition = Pornography Addition on First American Internet Addiction Treatment Center · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Seumas said: They should have a service like this for religious people. So, in his world, if you're a religious person (any kind - he didn't add any qualifiers), you get put in a "treatment center". That sure sounds like prohibiting free exercise to me.

  6. Re:Internet Addition = Pornography Addition on First American Internet Addiction Treatment Center · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Hey Stalin, ever heard of the first amendment?

  7. Re:Just use '=' on Microsoft To Banish Memcpy() · · Score: 1

    You can't use assignment on arrays. (You could wrap an array in a struct just in order to allow assignment, but that's annoying, and it wouldn't help if you only want to copy part of an array.)

  8. Re:What would really be neat... on 45th Known Mersenne Prime Found? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The number of digits in a Mersenne prime is always a prime number, if it's written in base 2 ;)

  9. Re:Better Living Through Benjamins on Wikipedia 2.0, Now With Trust? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Plus, any kind of payment system would have people trying to game it, to the detriment of quality - if Wikipedia paid by the edit, they'd have people dragging out trivial changes through as many separate edits as possible, making the history tab practically unusable.

    Whereas on the other hand, if Wikipedia were to pay by amount of content added, this would be likely to lead to the rather undesirable consequence that editors of the aforementioned Internet-based encyclopedia might pad out their edits through the utilization of wholly unnecessary verbiage, guided by the realization that this practice would vastly increase their character count and therefore result in a larger payment to be made to the editors in question, granting to them a larger share of their economy's purchasing power - considered by many to be a desirable state of affairs, and certain to in some cases override any aesthetic misgivings that they might otherwise have had regarding the practice of composing overly long sentences such as this one.

  10. Electronic Freedom Foundation? on The MPAA and EFF Cross Sabers · · Score: 2, Informative

    You would think the BBC would get the names right. It's actually the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

  11. Re:Oh come on! on SCO Claims Ownership of ELF To Court · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually, ELF files start with 7F 45 4C 46 so it would be 0x457F.

  12. Re:Higher-ups Schmigher-ups on Nintendo of America Has a New President · · Score: 1

    Shigeru works for Nintendo Co. Ltd. (the Japanese division, sometimes erroneously called "Nintendo of Japan"), not Nintendo of America.

  13. Re:Why not bring wiki-benefits to YOUR organizatio on Put MediaWiki to Work for You · · Score: 1

    That site is about Wikipedia, not Wikis in general.

  14. None on MySQL to Adopt Solid Storage Engine · · Score: 5, Informative

    No matter which storage engine you use in MySQL, the SQL syntax is still the same. All you have to change is the ENGINE= line in your schema definitions.

  15. Re:postgresql...ease of use? on Oracle and PostgreSQL Debate · · Score: 1

    Even if MySQL used /etc/passwd for usernames and passwords, it would still need the internal database for permissions, what hosts each user can connect from, and stuff like that.

  16. "not long after Columbus..." on Remains of First African Slaves Found · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The remains, in a colonial era graveyard in one of the oldest European cities in Mexico, date between the late-16th century and the mid-17th century, not long after Columbus first set foot in the Americas.

    100 years is "not long after"? Has the length of the year changed since then or what?

  17. Re:Terri Chiavo on Thirsty People Feel More Pain · · Score: 0, Redundant

    RTFA, this was a study on people who still have their brain.

  18. Re:this port on Ports for Porn - Using Firewalls to Block Porn · · Score: 1

    69 is TFTP, 666 is Doom, 6660 is unassigned but in a range commonly used for IRC.

  19. Re:Fair Tax on CA State Offers To Prepare Simple Tax Returns · · Score: 1

    It will benefit everyone (except slimy DC lobbyists)...

    Or people making less than $200,000 a year.

  20. Re:Hunting on foot much safer on Internet Hunting Banned in California · · Score: 1

    It's not anonymous, you have to pay for it.

  21. Re:Impressions on Best Buy Has Man Arrested for Using $2 Bills · · Score: 1

    Tom DeLay is actually the majority leader of the House, not the Senate.

  22. Re:This version doesnt fix some new type of popups on Firefox 1.0.1 Released · · Score: 3, Informative

    That's not actually a popup, it's just an image inside an with CSS "position: absolute". There's no way to stop this unfortunately, blocking absolute positioning would screw up a lot of site's layouts.

  23. Re:An okay article, I guess.... on Delayed Password Disclosure · · Score: 1, Informative

    In IE and Firefox, you can hold down ctrl and move the mouse wheel to change the font size.

  24. Re:This bitch is going to be tossing salad on First Arrest Made in U.S. For Spimming · · Score: 0

    Not likely. This happened in the US - he'll probably just end up with a fine. "White-collar" criminals always get off easy.

  25. Re:I'm not normally a spelling Nazi... on First Arrest Made in U.S. For Spimming · · Score: 0

    It's not a mistake, "spim" is spam done over IM (instant messaging).