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  1. Re:an alert border patrol officer on Sci-Fi Author Peter Watts Beaten, Charged During Border Crossing · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Alert != abusive

    Beating and throwing someone in jail on a charge like this doesn't protect anybody.

  2. Re:Too Bad pn Junctions cost more than magnets on Flash Drives in Future Apple Laptops? · · Score: 1

    Its likely that the lexar media chip is a controller of some sort, and the samsung is the flash. However, if you want to know for sure, post the part #'s. --Me

  3. Re:Fiber is great on Verizon: FiOS Access For Other ISPs in the Works · · Score: 1

    Umm, the parent is wrong as far as I know. A quantum fibre-optic network only works when both parties, lets call them alice and bob, are directly connected with a link that can preserve those quantum properties. The reason quantum encryption works is because an intercepter, we'll call her eve, cannot measure more then one property of the quantum state of the photon without destroying other information. Now, any repeater / fibre switch / anything will destroy that information. IANAQP [I am not a quantum physicist], but from what I understand, the above is true. Feel free to correct me if I'm incorrect. --David Carne

  4. Perhaps there is a reason... on DVHS on a Budget · · Score: 5, Insightful

    One might assume that there is a reason for these holes.. Perhaps SVHS media is not as high quality as DVHS?

  5. Re:ipodLinux, it's made out of... on Latest Version of iPodLinux Reviewed · · Score: 1

    The default IP over FW does not work as iPodLinux uses a modified protocol. [No hardware support for the full protocol]

    --David Carne [ex-ipodlinux dev]

  6. Re:It's possible to customize text also... on Hacking the iPod Firmware · · Score: 1

    I'm the author of said tool.. Its broken for anything above 1g and 2g. That code has been dead for at least a year now.

  7. Re:I'll try it... "-o" option of adduser? on Beware 'Fedora-Redhat' Fake Security Alert · · Score: 1

    "-o Allow create user with duplicate (non-unique) UID." From gentoo manpage for adduser.

  8. Re:I'm retarded on Beware 'Fedora-Redhat' Fake Security Alert · · Score: 5, Informative

    Preliminary analysis of inst.c: Decrypts a whole bunch of stuff (not sure where it all goes yet) and then splits off to /bin/sh with a command line of: /bin/sh -c exec './inst' "$@" ./inst

  9. Re:I'll try it... on Beware 'Fedora-Redhat' Fake Security Alert · · Score: 4, Informative

    [apologies for replying to myself]

    The makefile compiles an application called inst that seems to have been created with the shc script compiler.. its rather obfuscated.. attempting to reverse engineer now

  10. Re:I'll try it... on Beware 'Fedora-Redhat' Fake Security Alert · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Same here. Lets use this thread for a discussion of wtf it does.

  11. Re:Huh? on iPod May Not Have The Horsepower For Ogg [updated] · · Score: 5, Informative

    Speaking as a member of the ipodlinux project, there is a lot of room for optimization. 80% of realtime refers to running a decoder and linux on only 1 of the two cores ( the other is only running a dma-engine) currently. One of the next big tasks is to put both cores to work (for technical reasons, smp is most likely impossible).

    As well, the story is wrong about storing their code in flash. Only the bootloader is stored in flash, which bootstraps the os from the harddrive into sdram, so flash or not, its a non-issue.

    --David Carne

  12. If microsoft goes open source.... on What if Microsoft went Open Source? · · Score: 1

    Thousands of developers will die laughing.

  13. Sample program outuput on New Computer Program Determines "Hitability" · · Score: 2, Funny

    Input Breast size:
    34C
    Hit!

  14. Re:In this case, it wouldn't work. on MS Office for OSX? Why not for Unix as Well? · · Score: 0, Insightful

    Evidently YOU are the one not getting it. I am a mac programmer and Carbon IS Native to OSX. There are two languages used for programming mac OS X. Carbon and Cocoa. Carbon would be easiest to port, because all it requires is rewriting the gui. Cocoa would be NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE to port to unix because it is in OBJECTIVE C and it is deeply rooted in the event based model classes of mac OS X. Unless you think it is going to run in the terminal, M$ will have a hell of a time trying to port it to unix.