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  1. Re:teco? on Learning GNU Emacs, 3rd Edition · · Score: 1

    More comprehensive and only slightly less accurate answer: the answer to "Does emacs have a foo mode?" is "yes" for all possible values of foo.

  2. Re:is MD4/5 really encryption ? on Microsoft Drops Aging Encryption Schemes · · Score: 1

    It would be better worded as "anything that has a valid decryption with a public key must have been encrypted with the private key", but it's true of PKCS#1 RSA, not just plain-vanilla X.509.

    (He didn't claim they were interchangable. Though if you use a random RSA "public" exponent, you can generate a key pair and then decide which half to publish. In practice no-one does that of course.)

  3. Re:Inventor misquoted? on Ladies and Gentlemen Allow Me to Introduce the Cat Car · · Score: 1

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/15/cats_fuel_ diesel/ says this guy is saying basically the same thing - in principle, any organic waste would work, including dead cats, but he isn't actually using cats.

  4. Re:Not Too Much Left on Marvel Gets Cash to do 10 Films · · Score: 1

    Is that really enough to sustain an Ant-Man movie and an Avengers movie? Maybe Ant-Man as the founding of the Avengers and Avengers as a sequel wouldd work.

  5. Re:Sophistry at its finest... on SpamSlayer - should we DDOS spammers? · · Score: 1

    You are right about SQL injection, but where's he going to find a spammer who actually tries to remove addresses sent for removal?
    So if they don't protect against injection, using a remove request like that is actually more likely to set the whole database to "verified real address" than wipe it....

  6. Re:Piss Christ on Biases in Simulation Video Games · · Score: 1

    > Being that creation cannot be proven OR disproven, it remains in the state of a hypothesis.

    Given that it can not be disproven, it doesn't meet the "whose merit is to be evaluated" or "requires more work by the researcher in order to either confirm or disprove it" description.
    You say "a hypothesis can be torn apart if you have data that nullifies it". "God did it and faked any possible evidence to the contrary" can't be nullified by any possible data.

  7. Re:Wait, what? on Carter Copter Breaks Mu-1 Barrier · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's backwards in that air is flowing from what would normally be the back edge of the airfoil section. It's the retreating blade so the back of the wing is towards the front of the aircraft - so moving forwards overall means moving backwards compared to its usual direction through the air.
    The diagrams worked for me just now.

  8. Re:Cut to the chase - $3.4 million on How to Become A Real-World Superhero · · Score: 1

    They skimp badly on most of the stuff, not just the suit. Training for example, Batman is supposed to be a detective, and has major input into his companies inventions and tech, as well as being one of the world's greatest martial artists. Some of that's just because he's a genius, but it takes training as well.

  9. Re:SMS on Google Maps, Local Expand To UK · · Score: 1

    Yes, and if you are going to cheat, you could already use Google anyway, just text a friend.
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/graphics/2005/04/ 15/calex15.gif

  10. Re:Maximum number of regenerations on Dr. Who Series Star Quits · · Score: 1

    We might even get to find out if Susan was literally his granddaughter.

  11. Re:The wheel of politics on General Motor's EV1 Electric Cars Scrapped · · Score: 1

    > On the other hand, you have groups of environmentalists who don't want these things because Birds get caught in the turbines/propellers, or because hydroelectric plants require damming rivers, thus altering habitats.

    They'll change their minds when the oil runs out, or they'll freeze in the dark. (They might change their minds about atomic power rather than about habitat preservation.)

  12. Re:The GPL is not a toy. on Clash of the GPL and Other IP Agreements? · · Score: 1

    I think it's equally fair to say we see companies fixing their violations and copyright holders then giving them permission to continue, because all they wanted was for the GPL to be obeyed and they are happy now it is.
    While your scenario is possible, I think "company distributing MyApp in violition pays damages" is more likely as the alternative to just letting it go. With a permanent injunction, someone probably just starts up a new MyAppCo, wholely owned by the first company but a new legal entity with no injunction against them, and then the new company complies, so you are back in the "go on as if you had obeyed it all along" scenario.

  13. Re:yeah.. right.. on New Dr. Who Episode Leaked · · Score: 1

    There are signals reradiated back up the aerial the detectors can pick up. But with so many TVs in use these days they usually just rely on picking on anyone without a licence whether they have any particular reason to think they have a TV or not.

  14. Re:Requisite server joke on 5 Simple Steps to a Quieter PC · · Score: 1

    > If you're lucky, they'll just up and stop spinning. If you're unlucky, they'll continue spinning, but with a strange squeek or hum as they march toward death.

    Alternatively, if you're unlucky, they'll just up and stop spinning and then your northbridge will die from overheating. If it worked reliably without a fan, they'd have skipped the cost of even a cheap fan. (If you are lucky, they only put the northbridge fan on to work reliably with no case fan, and you have a case fan.)

  15. Re:hardly unfortunate on How Not to Write FORTRAN in Any Language · · Score: 1

    But then you are back into the extra dereferences not allowing the compiler to be as aggressive with optimization as with the Fortran version.

  16. Re:Where's the buggy-eyed smily when you need it? on Man Reportedly Jailed for Using Lynx · · Score: 1

    > you can't just say 'that's a suspicious note, I'm not going to accept it'.

    You can, however, just say "I'm sorry, we don't accept Scottish notes" if you have no particular reason to think it is a forgery and couldn't possibly spot one.

  17. Re:Crack? on Decrypting Kryptos · · Score: 1

    The LARP I used to play in it was "If it moves, hit it until it stops. If it doesn't move, hit it in case it starts."

  18. Re:UI Responsiveness on Ars Technica Reviews AmigaOS 4.0 · · Score: 1

    With preemptive multitasking but no memory protection (like the Amiga), one bad app that tramples memory and you are screwed.
    But in both cases, most of the time it works out well enough, and given the hardware of the time, had advantages in speed that balance the downside. Zealots even claimed they were good things because they discourage badly written applications, but that's going too far (and naturally, Amiga zealots thought preemptive multitasking was vastly superior while defending lack of memory protection).

  19. Re:Too little, too late on Ars Technica Reviews AmigaOS 4.0 · · Score: 2, Informative

    As a couple of Anonymous Cowards have said, the T-shirts have shipped. Maybe when I get home I'll actually try digging my Amiga out of the cupboard and see if it still works (the 1084 monitor does, it's being used with a Playstation). I might even get as far as making a ROM file and playing with UAE sometime, and/or AROS.
    But buy a new Amiga? What for?

  20. Re:No on Do You Want to Live Forever? · · Score: 1

    I'm with Woddy Allen: "I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying."

  21. Re:The obvious? on Sleep Less, Eat More? · · Score: 1

    A friend of mine with sleep apnoea finds he is finally losing weight now it is being treated (instead of being told "the sleep problem is because you are overweight, lose some weight first and then we'll consider it") for two reasons. Firstly he isn't eating to try and get more energy to substitute for sleep, and secondly he isn't too tired to exercise much. I don't think sleeping better gives him less time to eat (at least not directly - not being so tired means he now spends more of his time awake doing other things, including exercise, but he could spend it eating if he wanted), it's just that he now gets to spend time actually sleeping, not merely trying to sleep.
    (Sleep patterns and eating patterns both vary from person to person, and the "more time available for eating" might well apply to lots of other people.)

  22. Re:"Spamford" Wallace has promised to stop before. on "Spam King" Agrees to Stop Spamming For Now · · Score: 1

    > What career opportunities exist for reformed spammers?

    Reactor shielding?

  23. Re:Buy them a Mac on Best Live Linux For Christmas Giving? · · Score: 1

    Slightly more useful for playing the games on my children's wishlist ("About Christmas they may also have more time to try it out too" - NO chance) than a Linux CD, but not very much.

  24. Re:note to parents on A Review of "The Incredibles" · · Score: 1

    > This isn't "Finding Nemo" - it has people getting killed. It shows parental fear & inability to protect children.

    Clearly not "Finding Nemo" then, since that shows parental fear & inability to protect children, but only has fish getting killed.

  25. Re:twin primes. on Twin Prime Proof Proffered · · Score: 1

    Read it more carefully. Your example is correct, but not a counter example to what he actually claimed (a prime q less than or equal to p1*...).

    (Explanation - the number constructed isn't exactly divisible by any of the primes used to construct it, since it is one more than a multiple of all of them, so either it is prime itself, or it has prime factors which are larger than the "largest prime" used to construct it. So there is no "largest prime".)