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  1. What the hell? on Federal Agencies Must Use IPv6 by 2008 · · Score: -1, Troll

    Which nerd lobbied hard and sucked enough cock to get that announcement?

    You'd think out of all the things that are important, IPv6 would not be one of them. Good on them though. It takes one hell of a push to get people out of the mediocre and onto something better because it offers no immediate benefit to them.

  2. To a second hard drive? on Best Way to Back Up Photos and Video? · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Seriously. Where have you been for the past 5 years? We've all fucked off optical media for its unreliability. Hard drives have a decent cost per gigabyte storage and onboard RAID makes it easy to just RAID 1 your drives or backup to a RAID array. Don't have drivespace? BUY ONE OF THE THOUSANDS OF FIREWIRE HARD DRIVES OUT THERE.

    Sheesh. Talk about your "fucking duh" questions.

  3. Re:Thunderbird on Firefox Faces Trademark Issues · · Score: 1

    Not unless the next version is a dashboard widget :D

  4. Re:Eliza on $100,000 Poker Bot Tournament · · Score: 1

    You sound like the indian call centre of my cell phone company.

  5. Re:What could possibly go wrong? on Spielberg & Lucas Approve Indy 4 Script · · Score: 2, Informative

    It said "directors"

    Spielberg did AI.

  6. Re:That's all well and goo, but . . . on iTunes 4.9 To Support Podcasting · · Score: 2, Informative

    Indeed, when will it provide a decent enqueue system?

    Right click on song, click on "Play Next in Party Shuffle"

    There you go.

  7. Re:Agile? Doing citywide wireless? on Adelaide Gets a Taste of Free WiFi · · Score: 1

    Firstly, there are another ~40 planned for 2005, and these are being held up by the evil oligopolistic Telstra.

    Oh noes! Not Telstra!

    So if Telstra is so evil why are iiNet so far along in their ADSL deployment?

    I'd wager a fifty that its because they get on with the job rather than spouting hot air and bitching about Telstra.

  8. Agile? Doing citywide wireless? on Adelaide Gets a Taste of Free WiFi · · Score: 2, Interesting

    From the people who brought you "extreme ADSL2+" while only enabling 4 actual exchanges.

    This oughtta be a laugh.

  9. Re:i486 SX vs DX? on Faulty Chips Might Just be 'Good Enough' · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Eventually, there would be a unique die for the 486SX and it wouldn't have an FPU at all. I kind of doubt this ever happened.

    It did. By late 1991 the 486SX die was completely different with the co-processor removed.

  10. Re:Just ban rebates on FTC Tells CompUSA to Pay Up QPS Rebates · · Score: 1

    The worst is when your boss buys the company computers on his credit card for frequent flyer miles.

    Buying them 1 at a time because he only has a $2,000 limit and then having to wait for the beancounters to reimburse him is teh suck.

  11. Re:Google on the brain on Google Calendar Coming Soon? · · Score: 1

    Personally I wouldn't mind because I know the Google noddles wouldn't taste like shit, the googlebrand dishware wouldn't let dirt and grease cake into it, the google brand clothing wouldn't rip or tear, the detergent would get perfect results every time with no streaking using only the tiniest drop.

  12. Re:I wonder... on Experts Suggest Replacing Definition of Kilogram · · Score: 4, Informative

    Given that the kg prototype has lost 50 micrograms over the last 100 years I'm guessing 0.999995kg?

  13. Re:And in other news... on Experts Suggest Replacing Definition of Kilogram · · Score: 3, Funny

    <Frink> PI IS EXACTLY 3!
    *Gasp from scientific community and silence*
    <Frink> Sorry it had to come to that people.

  14. Re:Online authentication unavailable for one night on Steam Users Steamed · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Anyone who plays MMORPGs knows what they're getting into before they buy the game.

    One doesn't go buy a boxed copy of a single player game expecting to find themselves unable to play it because some dodgy auth server down.

  15. Re:Yes but... on High School Dropout, Self-Taught Chip Designer · · Score: 1

    For anyone that doesn't understand the joke, the license plate reads "MOS 6502".

    This chip was used in the Apple II and a number of consoles in both in slightly modified forms. The Nintendo had an 2A03 which was a 6502 with no decimal mode and 23 more memory mapped registers, The Atari 2600 had a 6507 with a slightly modified pinout and only able to address 8KB of RAM.

    It was a kickass CPU at the time given that it had a feature where there was a delay with the CPU accessing the bus and you could guarantee that the CPU was not touching it. During this time you could shift video information over the bus without having to pause the 6502.

    It went on to a few successors to. The 6510 was in the C64, the 65816 was in the SNES and the 65xx architechture was the inspiration for the StrongARM architechture.

  16. Re:Still no indication of battery life on PSP Opened up and Exposed · · Score: 1

    The 3D screen is run using an ARM-9.

    The other screen is run using a GBA spec ARM-7.

    You retain 100% GBA compatability and the DS games fire up the ARM9 and use both screens.

    Quite an elegant solution if I do say so myself.

  17. Re:Still no indication of battery life on PSP Opened up and Exposed · · Score: 1

    Well Nintendo quote the life of the GBA's battery as 10 hours.

    My first save on a game I was playing from full battery to empty was 9:23 (I saved once the light was red) and it went out 15 minutes later.

    I think its very easy to overstate the battery life of the PSP since the motor for the optical drive drains such a large proportion of the battery life. However long you use that motor is however long you'll be able to play the PSP basically.

  18. Re:Adblock/Flashblock on Flash Makes Splash in Gadgets · · Score: 1

    All the Coles outlets here have them.

    It's nice having the LCD screens clearly showing everything. It's like watching your receipt coming up.

    POS designers need to start hiring graphic designers though. Some of the interfaces are god damn ugly and unprofessional. You'd think with the bucks Coles makes they could afford 5 grand for a decent looking interface.

  19. Re:Kazaa on Tougher Copyright Laws for Australia · · Score: 2, Informative

    Kazaa is a funny thing.

    It's registered in Vanauatu. The entire thing is coded by outsourced coding team LEF Interactive.

    When users clickthrough the Kazaa EULA they are bound by the laws of New South Wales. Everything about the company is basically mercenary, even the CEO.

  20. Re:Duh... Simple solution on Is RSS Doomed by Popularity? · · Score: 1

    Ummmm....

    If a site is being hammered by RSS traffic do you think it would be a bit too much to just implement a script that implements crude version control?

    After all, scripts have to make the RSS XML files in the first place. Why you couldn't just drop in version control into that I don't know.

  21. Duh... Simple solution on Is RSS Doomed by Popularity? · · Score: 1



    There we go. You now have version control.

    Keep copies of the RSS on the server for 30 days.

    http://www.mysite.com/requestfeed?myversion=2004 12 061753

    diff the new version from the old version. Send whats changed.

    How fucking hard is that people?

  22. Re:Countermeasures? on Color Laser Printers Tracking Everything You Print · · Score: 1

    Yahoo news reports that Kinkos has stopped accepting cash as ordered by the Department of Homeland Security.

    Also, all printers are to be registered before being sold.

  23. Re:No net connection on Half-Life 2 Finally Activated · · Score: 1, Funny

    I call shenanigans! The latency using an RFC 1149 compliant transmission method would be far too great to achieve a first post.

  24. Re:you can buy it.. but you can't play it on Half Life 2 Available, Delays Not Valve's Fault · · Score: 1

    Windows XP has activation?

    I mean... I bought my Windows XP legally on the shores of Bali!

  25. Re:1.0 right now on Firefox 1.0 Released · · Score: 1

    It did for me.

    It's reporting itself unable to work with 1.0 though.