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  1. Re:Damn you 2s Complement! on Comair Done In by 16-Bit Counter · · Score: 1

    Yes, it retuned NULL. Usually malloc won't be able to obtain the allocation from the OS and will fail gracefully.

  2. how linux torrent sites can defend on LokiTorrent vs. MPAA · · Score: 1

    1) Keep their trackers on authorized-upload-only mode 2) Play some video games or something, I dunno 3) Not get sued!

  3. Misinterpretation? on Subatomic Darwinism · · Score: 1

    I was under the impression that it wasn't so much about 'observing' something than it was about altering it - and why can't the universe just be a probability distribution, anyway? We'd never notice the difference.

  4. Re:Closing in advance of raids on TorrentBits.org and SuprNova.org Go Dark · · Score: 1
    The best community sites kept track of ratios to encourage people to upload. Suprnova didn't, but torrentbits did. Unfortunately, that means that the sites maintained databases of everything users downloaded.

    Actually, it's much easier just to keep a counter of how much has been uploaded and downloaded so far - two 64-bit unsigned integers. Simple. And doesn't help the *AA much.
  5. Re:Why pick on us .nets? on ICANN Plans to Charge Fees to .net Domain Owners · · Score: 1

    Technically .org is closer - .net is for networks, which you likely are not. Or maybe even .name?

  6. Re:Microsoft is so sweet on New Spoofing Vulnerability in IE · · Score: 1

    Someone needs to make that into an extension

  7. Re:It wouldn't stop... on ICANN Plans to Charge Fees to .net Domain Owners · · Score: 1

    copy and Paste, evidently.

  8. Re:How does this work? on Evolving Swarms with Swarmstreaming · · Score: 2, Informative

    mplayer or vlc plugins

  9. Re:How does this work? on Evolving Swarms with Swarmstreaming · · Score: 1

    The amount of time needed to decode a frame of media is non-zero. This will always be the lower bound for a buffer.

  10. No effect on New Vulnerability Affects All Browsers · · Score: 1

    Firefox 1.0, Gentoo Linux, no bug. And I doubt lynx would be affected either.

  11. Re:Shortsighted move... on GameSpy Attempting to Dump Mac Gamers · · Score: 1

    There is no POSIX GUI standard.

  12. Re:Shortsighted move... on GameSpy Attempting to Dump Mac Gamers · · Score: 2, Insightful
    What with Mac these days being a Unix workalike
    Not when it comes to graphics, sound, or UI, it isn't.
  13. Re:Paperweight. on Photos and Commentary On AMD's PIC · · Score: 1

    Then put the restrictions in Windows, not the BIOS. Linux still runs, worms don't. Simple.

  14. Re:Beginning reverse engineering on Photos and Commentary On AMD's PIC · · Score: 1

    Companies are not altruists. They do things because they think they'll get money. Period. If they've convinced you that they are altruists, of course, you might buy their products. Which makes them money. Which means it's all well and good for a company to pretend to be altruistic, but somewhere in the accounting department they have a positive dollar figure for every move they make.

  15. Re:Beginning reverse engineering on Photos and Commentary On AMD's PIC · · Score: 1

    It's not like these machines are a limited natural resource. If they run out, they'll just make some more. Duh.

  16. Re:Azureus doesn't.... on Given Up to Spyware? · · Score: 1

    Except the GPL permits bundling.

  17. Re:A waste? on Search Engines for Handwritten Documents · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Um, that's almost certainly what they did. Running an OCR over 14,000 pages every time you do a search is nearly impossible. I only say nearly because, in theory, you can do it, but then searches days a few days to complete for zero net gain.

  18. This is nothing new on Search Engines for Handwritten Documents · · Score: 2, Informative

    Google already did it! Well, it's not handwritten, but that's just a logical progression.

  19. Deep linking on Google Revises Usenet Search · · Score: 1

    Deep linking to posts is still possible, just a bit trickier. Go to more options->show original, then view parsed.

  20. Re:TV piracy is next? on TV Piracy is Next · · Score: 1

    Bittorrent runs plenty well already. Give it a beefier tracker, and a colocated seeding host, and it'll run plenty quickly.

  21. Re:Copied games? on First Mod Chip For GameCube · · Score: 1

    They don't spin backwards, but I've heard they use a different laser, which is much harder to circumvent.

  22. Re:What I get for not pressing "Preview" on Home-made Portable PlayStation 2 · · Score: 1

    It's missing some images on pages 2+...

  23. Re:LANning with your bro allowed? on Half-Life 2 Finally Activated · · Score: 1

    Hm, perhaps I was remembering it wrong. What was the named pipe for? I usually use this on XP machines to escalate from Administrator to SYSTEM, mind.

  24. Re:LANning with your bro allowed? on Half-Life 2 Finally Activated · · Score: 1
    Power users can escalate their priviliges to SYSTEM under the default configuration. Try this at the command prompt:

    at /interactive (one minute from now, 24-hour time) cmd


    You'll get a SYSTEM-level prompt.
  25. Re:Free as in what?? on Solaris 10 Released, Updated & Free (Like Speech) · · Score: 1

    Nah, it's like drinking beer for free then paying for your detox treatments periodically.