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  1. Re: blurry on First Doom 4 Production Shots Revealed · · Score: 1

    Nowadays, you're supposed to use the 3D glasses; they help you focus on that faraway stuff when the need arises.

  2. Re:Plane crashed YESTERDAY on February Deadline For Emergency Beacons Approaches · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    no no!
    This is actually the duplicate submission that got there a little too fast.

  3. Re:Open source and Lotus Notes? on Campaign to Open Source IBM's Notes/Domino · · Score: 1

    Native, OS-independent, application-level replication and clustering.

  4. Re:Would it help if on Why Use Virtual Memory In Modern Systems? · · Score: 1

    The micsosoft-provided ramdrive only allows for something like 32 MB (I forget) so I'd given up on the idea, but I would really love to try it out, especially on my 8GB boxes; any insight on a product or driver that's meant to create large(r) drives?

  5. Re: dictate swap file behaviour on Why Use Virtual Memory In Modern Systems? · · Score: 1

    system.ini:
    [386Enh]
    ConservativeSwapfileUsage=1

    Use this on WinXP to have it drop it's insecurities, and use paging only when it actually needs to.

  6. Re:Open Source DRM would be cool on Open-Source DRM Ready To Take On Big Guns · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's okay, since they've already planned to bundle a piece of "software" that prevents you from using a text editor, called OpenSony.

  7. B2B: IPs meant to be unique, not just public on Millions of Internet Addresses Are Lying Idle · · Score: 1

    Public IP addresses (ISP?) are needed to go from A to B on the Internet and back, private ranges get you around internally, and purchased address blocks ensure that business to business routes (private links between two partners) don't cause oddities in anyone else's networks.

  8. Re:Tax Dollars on Two Europeans Indicted In US For 2003 DDOS Attacks · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Perhaps it wasn't that easy to figure out the real $ource of the attack. --I am very curious as to what may happen to Orbit though.

  9. Mad Cow Syndrome on Virtual Fence Could Modernize the Old West · · Score: 1

    Just think of the impact to the tenderness of the meat: them cows 'll be lookin' left 'n right all day, all stressed-out, trying to figure out where them bees or snakes' be hiding at!

  10. It's not so much about you... on How Do I Talk To 4th Graders About IT? · · Score: 1

    It's more about the wonderful and mysterious world of IT.

    I'd turn it into a day-in-the-life-of story that I might deliver kinda like a play; and use paper cutouts for different characters.

    Say you involve your son, and he's plays the "server farm", you could dress him up in a cardboard box, something that says big-and-strong, and then you go about acting out different scenarios.

    You can tickle your son to represent how the system has bugs or viruses that you have to hunt down, at some point your son could act tired, and you could talk about how we're running out of power for all those servers and that we need to make better servers that use less of it, you can dress up with a white lab coat because you're an Internet (or information) scientist, the list is endless, ..., the idea is to ligth them up with a fun 20 minutes, slipping in some conceptual notions of what's possible at (your) work, rather than help them prepare for a job interview.

  11. Re: 2012 on Hackers Clone Elvis' Passport · · Score: 1

    Look, population was lower back then, and they just ran out of good lookin' "Mr. January"s, okay?

  12. Re:It make sense to me on Cheaper Car Insurance For Gamers · · Score: 1

    The first time I made a turn in a car, I was moving the stirring wheel and watching the result, then moving the wheel(s) again, rinse-and-repeat; therefore taking forever and losing track of anything else going on.

    I was told to stop staring at the car and look where I was going, thus breaking the near-hypnotic draw that the maneuver seemed to have on me.

    So yes, it might have taken some effort to break him out of his trance, but then again, "go faster" might have sounded like it would merely increase risk (to him).

    Anyhow, being in a completely new situation, be it in a game or at an intersection, is always going to require more CPU.

  13. Re: achieve ignition in open air on Strong Methane Emissions On the Siberian Shelf · · Score: 1

    I saw a special recently where they went to where pockets of methane were formed below the (thinning) ice surface of a large body of water; they broke the top of the ice in several places with a shovel and were able to light up each one of them with a regular wooden match; the pockets would burn up(ward), looking like someone had hid a hand-held torch in the whole(s) with the flame reaching no higher than a few feet, for several seconds each at least.

  14. goverments on Positive Rights News From Europe · · Score: 1

    "an agreement reached between the Swedish parliament and the sitting government"

    What, no standing ovation?

  15. patch? on Alarm Raised For "Clickjacking" Browser Exploit · · Score: 1

    how about something that disables (i)frames?

  16. Re:"Told to act suspicious"? on Homeland Security Department Testing "Pre-Crime" Detector · · Score: 1

    Seems to me that the only thing you can train a system to recognize, is unexpected or non-typical reaction in a controlled context.

    I was thinking about the casino monitoring systems (in the movies,) they use to watch for "genuine" winning expressions or reactions to sort out someone that might be counting cards or cheating somehow.

    What if the system watched as a given scenario was intentionally provoked; something as subtle as announcing a delayed flight, or more obvious, like an abusive/confrontational random search at an airport.
    Group behaviour can be pretty predictable in some of these cases, and would make individuals that are up to no good potentially stand out, as they act, react "against the grain" or even ignore the event.

  17. Re: state of peace on Homeland Security Department Testing "Pre-Crime" Detector · · Score: 1

    I'm thinking that instinct will also step in and make pulling that pin less than blissful; we're hard-wired to freak out, or at the very least react, when facing mortal danger.

    I suppose you're going to tell me that there's no study available that shows whether they wet their frocks before, or after the detonation?

  18. Re:You want a business case? on IPv6 and the Business-Case Skeptics · · Score: 1

    :) --I didn't wanna be too cryptic.

  19. Re:Holy *$&! on Human-Powered Vehicle Speed Competition · · Score: 1

    Tried downhill in-line skates?

    --
    kinda like rollerblades, but with 5-6 wheels minimum.

  20. Re:Defending file-sharers on Ray Beckerman Sued By the RIAA · · Score: 1

    Hmm. The notion of "software patents" somehow came up as I read your post, like reading exchanges on both topics made me feel the same way...

    What about a tactic or campaign to reduce the credibility of the justice system itself?

    A reverse grass-roots movement perhaps?

  21. Re:You want a business case? on IPv6 and the Business-Case Skeptics · · Score: 3, Funny

    Actually, that's Foobar Widgetz, and they've got really good items on their download page at:

    0:0:0:0:0:0:127.0.0.1

  22. Re: photographers on Scribbling On Digital Photos · · Score: 1

    The first time I got a digital camera and started worrying about tagging, I found that the click-around alphabetically method was too awkward for jotting down contextual data, so I got a good tool for doing it during import.

    Maybe a small (perhaps even wireless) phone-like keyboard could do the trick?

  23. Re: spare change on Tech Vs. Business? · · Score: 1

    very much off-topic, though I decided to share...

    begger: "Would you have some spare change for a penile enlargement?" ...

    begger: "I'm kinda short!"

  24. Re: Mac Pro on Intel Unveils 6-Core Xeon 7400 · · Score: 1

    Yeah, ..., A friend of a friend of a friend's neighbour's teenage son has a pre-release Mac Pro unit with the new chip, and he says that he can finally run Vista with all the features activated!!

  25. Re:Wattage on Intel Unveils 6-Core Xeon 7400 · · Score: 1

    Es-tu au courant?