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  1. Vista won't be on AMD systems then on Vista Licenses Limit OS Transfers, Ban VM Use · · Score: 1

    From AMD quad-core Opteron will support FB-DIMM

    However, Barcelona will also incorporate hardware-controlled memory page nesting to accelerate the manipulation of memory addresses when the CPU's virtualisation technology is in operation.

    Hardware virtualisation will kill Vista is it's not allowed by the EULA, I can't wait for some stock analyst to realise MSFT has just slashed it's own throat by making it verboten.

  2. Re:Someone should tell bush about WMD on Mars on Bush Reveals New Space Policy · · Score: 1

    The Martians are in league with The Terra-ists!

  3. What you need to do on Satellite Internet for Gaming? · · Score: 1

    is check the availability/price in order-

    freind/girlfreind with DSL/cable
    WiFi
    ISDN (bonded if possible)
    3G
    T1 (fractional is possible)
    Satellite

    Honestly if your parents chose to move to a place without broadband and you're a geek, and they don't get that broadband is a requirement for your life I would leave as soon as humanly possible.

  4. Spectacles, testicles, brandy, cigars on "Xena" To Be Named Eris · · Score: 1

    you're all popes!

  5. Re:And YOU forgot... on How Do Businesses Scale Their Bandwidth Needs? · · Score: 1

    It depends, for example listening to IT Conversations while having lunch at their desk is quite reasonable, certainly more reasonable that sending people to conferences all the time.

  6. BBC/Reuters error not mine on Judge Creates Own Da Vinci Code · · Score: 1

    As the BBC story did not contain the ciphertext I copied it from another story at Reuters if you look at the bottom of that page the paragraph reads-

    He said Smith told him to look back at the first paragraphs. The italicized letters scattered throughout the judgment spell out: "smithcode Jaeiextostpsacgreamqwfkadpmqz".

    So actually it was Reuters or the BBCs mistake not mine.

    I have used Google news and from the reports it seems there is not a consistant agreement on the ciphertext for example-

    smithycode JaeiextostgpsacgreamqwfkadpmqzviMi

    Smithycode Jaeiextostgpsacgreaamqwfkadpmqzv

    I don't have time to go through the whole pdf, so I'm not going to guess which one is correct. And yes, I added spaces to get round the lameness filter, ignore them.

  7. 4/20? That's the number of the beast on Seagate Announces 750GB Hard Drives · · Score: 1
  8. Re:I'm waiting. on Tiny Biodiesel Reactors · · Score: 1

    Moreover the oil companies are valued on their reserves, when you go from having reserves to making oil as required the valuations of the oil companies will take a huge hit, but don't worry, I'm sure their US/UK government puppets will have nuked the whole planet before ther oil Emperers are shown to have no clothes.

  9. Re:I see a reason.... on UK Government Passes ID Card Bill · · Score: 1

    Yes, showing V for Vendetta will probably be a crime soon, people will be forced to download a torrent if they want to watch such films, then again I expect copyright infringement will become a terrorist offense too, plus the thoughtcrime of watching subversive material.

  10. and to businesses as well on UK Government Passes ID Card Bill · · Score: 1

    Businesses will have access to ID database

    Just wait for the first data breach, 60 million ID thefts in one go, assuming an average cost of £10K per incident that's a nice £600BN, a nice little earner and enough to sink the whole economy, talk about a terrorists wet dream.

  11. 1984 Chapter 1 on UK Government Passes ID Card Bill · · Score: 1

    On each landing, opposite the lift-shaft, the poster with the enormous face gazed from the wall. It was one of those pictures which are so contrived that the eyes follow you about when you move. BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU, the caption beneath it ran.

    Inside the flat a fruity voice was reading out a list of figures which had something to do with the production of pig-iron. The voice came from an oblong metal plaque like a dulled mirror which formed part of the surface of the right-hand wall. Winston turned a switch and the voice sank somewhat, though the words were still distinguishable. The instrument (the telescreen, it was called) could be dimmed, but there was no way of shutting it off completely...

    Behind Winston's back the voice from the telescreen was still babbling away about pig-iron and the overfulfilment of the Ninth Three-Year Plan. The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it, moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard. There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live -- did live, from habit that became instinct -- in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.

    1984 Chapter 1

  12. Re:What will ID card store? on UK Government Passes ID Card Bill · · Score: 1

    Pre-op transsexuals favoured with twin IDs

    Personally I can't wait for the fun and games when peoples biometric data changes, like you loose your arms in a car accident and the Police lock you up because you don't have any fingerprints to match, of course to be secure the database will have to be safeguarded against the data being changed so that unscrupulious staff arent payed to mess with the data by organised crime gangs etc ah the wonders of mutually exclusive requirements, plus of course anyone with access to the database will be able to blow the cover of undercover Police and spys.

  13. Re:A work-around on UK Government Passes ID Card Bill · · Score: 1

    Actually I have been toying with the idea to get people duel citizenship in another EU country that isnt so fascist, plus if we can get people paying taxes to that country we can kill the tax base of the government and circumvent the "Papers please" of these jumped up little Nazis in the government.

  14. Remember, remember, the fifth of November... on UK Government Passes ID Card Bill · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ...the gunpowder treason and plot. I know of now reason why the gunpowder treason should ever be forgot.

    Next time I'm sure will be much more successful.

  15. Re:I plead the second. on FCC Backs a Tiered Internet · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Oh yes, pleading with the US government, what will that get you? A SmartBomb(TM) down your chimney? Sent to Gitmo? You know what they say if you're not with them, you're against them, pleading will achieve precisely zero, zilch, nada except to put a damn big target on your arse. You want a realistic solution? Flee your 3rd world tyrrany and move to a 1st world country, that has freedom, human rights and democracy.

  16. Excellent! on IRS to Allow Tax Preparers to Sell Your Info? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Just think of the possibilities, like blackmailing people by telling them you will query their deductions with the IRS and get them audited, you could get a raise out of your boss, have random people give you money, get dates with pretty girls (hey this is /.), the possibilities are endless.

  17. you forgot Skype on Under 30 and On The Cutting Edge · · Score: 1

    and on the subject of Businessweek, it's an American cheerleader, nice looking, zero brains, it is what we would call "lightweight", over here in Europe we have more depth with publications like The Economist and what's going on in the rest of the world is quite interesting too, though I havent found much in the way of English speaking publications cataloging it, for example I just discovered that Winny the Japanese p2p program is used by ~600K users and that lots of Japanese government information, some of it classified is ending up on that network.

  18. Re:You must be new to /. on Penn and Teller's Long Lost Game · · Score: 1

    Like Duh Dude! The joke is about teen /.ers l33t BASIC coding sk1llz not mine!

    For the record I do it like this-

    #include

    void main(void) { for(;;} printf("Yeah, I would probably like it. I like repetitive things.\n");}

  19. You must be new to /. on Penn and Teller's Long Lost Game · · Score: 1

    10 PRINT "Yeah, I would probably like it. I like repetitive things."

    20 GOTO 10

    Now that's how we do it here...

  20. Re:not surprised.. on Total Information Awareness still Running · · Score: 1

    Yes it is a tautology.

  21. To quote Orwell on CIA Secretly Reclassifying Documents · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

  22. You forgot this is /. on Privacy Concerns On Google's 30 Day Data Policy · · Score: 1

    you need to add the adjectives inflated and petrified.

  23. Re:The Point? on Saying 'No' to an Executable Internet · · Score: 1

    He's 15 so it's "Like totally gross" you insensitive clod!

  24. Re:Bandwidth will stop this on Saying 'No' to an Executable Internet · · Score: 1

    That is contended, though uncontended bandwidth to a London DC is nearly as cheap now, you can get a gig-e for about £5K/month (8KUSD) these days if you shop around I expect even cheaper BW as people move over to 10gig-e.

  25. Would you trust someone... on Being Enron's SysAdmin · · Score: 1, Insightful

    ... whos "printer freindly" webpage ends as -

    KM

    In terms of performance mistakes, the operations guy says it's the developer's fault, the developer says it's the operations guy's fault. Whose fault is it?

    JJ


    whereas the non-"printer freindly" version continues with the interview, this is why I don't join the ACM, they can't even take 9 seperate pages and format them to be printed, I now re-christen the ACM - ABM, Association of Broken Minds.