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  1. Re:So is this the time to bring up ... on SMS 4x More Expensive Than Data From Hubble · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think soon it might be cheaper to drive with non-branded printer ink.

  2. Re:What is Twitter? on Twitter Reportedly May Abandon Ruby On Rails · · Score: 1

    Say what? Me emailing you a message saying 'out of town this weekend.' is active, but if I use Twitter to do it, it is passive. How so? Twitter will actively send that message via email, sms, whatnot. I'd call that active messaging too.

  3. Re:Remarkably similar, except... on Orson Scott Card Blasts J.K. Rowling's Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    Originality or lack of it has very little to do with the entertainability of a written work.

  4. Re:Wish they line had a decent display-less produc on New 20" iMac Screens Show 98% Fewer Colors · · Score: 1

    A Mac mini with a MXM-module slot would be really nice. For unknown reasons Apple has always used subpar GPUs in their non-pro products.

  5. Re:so confused on Safari 3.1 For Windows Violates Its Own EULA, Vulnerable To Hacks · · Score: 1

    Noh, the B group is just loud.

  6. Re:Well... on The Death of Windows XP · · Score: 1

    WfW 3.11 and 4MB was plenty, perhaps with Trumpet Winsock and Netscape 1.0 you might have wanted to have 8MB, if you wanted run some other apps at the same time, but for normal use 4MB was more then enough. OS/2 Warp and 4MB was quite painful to use. And Windows 95 was ok with 16MB, though I recall dreaming of a Pentium machine with 32MB of RAM.
    I don't remember if I used WfW 3.11 with my 80286 with 2.6MB of RAM, but Windows 3.0 was running fine with dozen apps open simultaneously.

  7. Re:Illegal files? Illegitimate Requests! on Sweden to Give Courts New Power to Hunt IP Infringers · · Score: 1

    Just remember to make the copy of the original CD as making copy of the copy is illegal according to Finnish law.

  8. Re:Cookie Blocking on EU Approves Google-DoubleClick Merger · · Score: 1

    Why not block all cookies? And if that kills gmail, begin using it via IMAP-SSL or something.

  9. Re:meh, sounds a lot like bullshit on MacBook Air Confuses Airport Security · · Score: 1

    I've had my Psion Series 7 for about 5-6 years and it has SSD drive(s). Never had any trouble traveling with it.

  10. Re:they are too much optimistic on Norwegian Broadcaster Evaluates BitTorrent Distribution Costs · · Score: 1

    And you can use a tracker that will ban users if they don't seed to atleast 1:1, that would help to keep the number of leechers down, but ofcourse wont eliminate all of them.

  11. Re:youtube, anyone? on Jobs Says Flash Video Not Suitable for iPhone · · Score: 1

    Youtube when used with a "standard" browser uses flash video, when you use it with iPhone it probably uses something else, eg. embeds MP4-videos directly on the page or something, maybe iPhone has FLV (flash video format) player, but it doesnt have Flash-player. Flash is more than just a video player on a browser.

  12. Re:Is it suicide? on Is AMD Dead Yet? · · Score: 1

    Also it might matter if the application was compiled on Intel C compiler, as it enables SSE1/2/whatnot only if you are using an Intel CPU even if your CPU is SSE capable. Remove the cpuinfo test and suddenly your apps run faster on AMD.

  13. Re:It's theft of service on Apple Sends Cease-and-Desist To the Hymn Project · · Score: 1

    Depending where you live, it might have been complitely legal thing to do, but in many countries, it is copyright infringement. Oh, and ofcourse it depends where to you distributed those binaries and if you are willing to send the modified source code when requested by a person who has recieved those binaries.

  14. Re:Then it breaks SSL. on IPv4 Address Crunch In 2 Years, IPv6 Not Ready · · Score: 1

    In the past, it was impossible to run name-based virtual servers with SSL in a shared IP, but now it can be done, example here: http://www.g-loaded.eu/2007/08/10/ssl-enabled-name-based-apache-virtual-hosts-with-mod_gnutls/

  15. Re:Traffic Analysis on BitTorrent Devs Introduce Comcast-Proof Encryption · · Score: 1

    Do you happen to have any additional information about this? I glanced over the DOCSIS3.0 page on wikipedia, and I don't think it even operates on such a high OSI level that it would matter if you have 1 TCP connection or 1000 TCP connections. In any case, i am sure Comcast wouldn't like me as a customer as I run Azureus 24/7, usually with 5-20 torrents and have set my connection limit to 1516 simultaneous connections :)

  16. Re:Do arms races ever work? on BitTorrent Devs Introduce Comcast-Proof Encryption · · Score: 1

    I think you could easily look inside the UDP packet using port 53 and see that it isn't a DNS query. Also it might be somewhat suspicious if people suddenly begin transferring gigabytes of stuff via "DNS".

  17. Re:Flight Sims on Whatever Happened To The Joystick? · · Score: 1

    I also don't like WASD, instead I always use SZXC with D to jump, A to crouch and QWERFV for gun/item/reload etc controls.

  18. Re:Flight Sims on Whatever Happened To The Joystick? · · Score: 1

    Sure there were pads for C-64, I even had a pair of wireless pads, though I must admit that I preferred Competition Pro or TAC-2 for playing all those great games of that era.

  19. Re:sftp and ASCII mode transfers on Multi-Threaded SSH/SCP · · Score: 1

    But I like my umlauts and prefer them to be intact after file upload.

  20. Re:sftp and ASCII mode transfers on Multi-Threaded SSH/SCP · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The lack of ASCII transfer mode is a good thing. A LATIN15 transfer mode might be handy. Less time wasted and less confusion and complaints amongst my clients.

  21. Re:metadata on Canon Files For DSLR Iris Registration Patent · · Score: 1

    But the iris data is no proof of ownership, you could embed your own iris data to the stolen image after you've removed or corrupted (by editing the image) the original watermark. Or if this iris watermark is prof enough, then rip some famous picture that doesn't have iris watermark, add your own iris watermark, sue the publisher/photographer and profit???

  22. Re:Beauty of OSS on Linux Kernel 2.6 Local Root Exploit · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Though you can compile many parts as modules and add or remove them at will.

  23. Re:Let's test this out... on Yahoo Offers All-You-Can-Eat Storage and Bandwidth · · Score: 1

    That shouldn't be a problem in any smart filesystem that makes a sha1 or similar checksum of each block and only stores them once. Like filesystem of Plan9 OS and possibly ZFS. Also EXT2 with GZIP extensions would probably work quite well. Maybe even any filesystem with sparse file support, not sure though if they can do a sparse file like that.

  24. Re:I call shenangians on The True Cost of SMS Messages · · Score: 1

    The per year license cost of SMS gateway is rather steep, eg. gateway from one $VENDOR had a license that was based on maximum of simultaneous messaging queues, messages delivered per second and total messaging queue. This meant that the phone company had to questimate how many messages would be processed during xmas/new years/whatnot and buy license big enough to handle that load and the gateway would be running at 5-10% load most of the time.

  25. Re:Mod article -1, Troll on Can Sun Make MySQL Pay? · · Score: 1

    If they use MySQL via ODBC, JDBC whatnot and don't include the MySQL client libraries in their code, I don't think they need to get the commercial license. For example, Extensis Portfolio SQL Server on Windows uses MSSQL and on Mac it uses MySQL, but it doesn't ship with MySQL. It uses ODBC and the manual just says you need to get and install MySQL to use the product.