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  1. How you disassemble 6502/6809 code nowadays on Convergence of Biology and Computers? · · Score: 1
    (For ROM based targets anyway):
    1. Download the source to mame.
    2. Add some profiling code that keeps track of data/opcodes/jump targets; fix the disassembler so that it takes this into account when you dump a disassembly.
    3. Run the target game^h^h^h^hprogram. Try to get as much coverage as possible - play an inp file of some top players of the game (in non-throttled mode), play the game yourself badly, also in two player mode, cocktail mode, run through the test mode, high score etc.
    4. Dump the code. Then assemble it to make sure it matches up with the binary.

    With any luck you will have a much better base to build on.

    I think biologists are trying the same thing - they are trying to "run" the genome rather than statically analyse it. So they knock stuff out to see if it has any visible effect, etc. But I think they are probably getting pathetic percentage coverage of gene expression compared to the 90% or more you would get from that mame run.

  2. Relevancy on Sex.com Case Finally 'Over' · · Score: 1
    Hey, I've heard of Alan Greenspan even though I'm not a left-ponder.

    Surprisingly enough google agrees with you, as your eddie george (a college drop-out who apparently runs around a sports pitch or something) (ok he went back to school to finish, which is admirable) outranks him by 18 places, and my one (who controls interest rates and the banking system of the united kingdom) only gets a mention at 19 for opening a building (!). google has spoken and I bow to the wisdom of the populance.

  3. Your sig on Sex.com Case Finally 'Over' · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Defeat Eddie George to win? I have visions of Wim Duizenberg (smoking) and Eddie George in a boxing ring with Gordon Brown and Giscard dEstaing in the corners... is that how we are supposed to decide Euro membership?

  4. Re:Pr0n connection? on Los Angeles Gets Own TLD · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Not most of the world's watchable pr0n. My vote goes to Prague ;-)

  5. Or Dubya on Matrix Gets Egyptian Ban For Explicit Religion · · Score: 1

    launching a "crusade" against afghanistan. Oops.

  6. Re:large users???? on UCITA Stalled At State Level · · Score: 1

    I seem to recall under US law you're allowed to kill people if you've eaten a Twinkie (whatever that is)... and not just by sitting on them.

  7. Japanese vending machines on Inappropriate Spam Reaching Children? · · Score: 1
    In Japan, they have vending machines in the street for alcohol, cigarettes, porn and apparently used girls underwear (!).

    Either they trust their kids more or they don't give them vast quantities of cash to spend as they want... hmm, considering the success of Pokemon, it can't be the latter.

  8. Envelopes on Why Johnny Can't Handwrite · · Score: 1

    Since addresses on envelopes are mainly read by machines until they get down to the individual walk, you might find it more reliable to print addresses (especially zip/post codes) rather than use cursive.

  9. 11th February then on Bruce Sterling On Total Information Awareness · · Score: 1

    Since 112 is the EU emergency number (I think in the UK 999, 911 and 112 all go through to the same number).

  10. 616 David Nelsons in the UK on False Positives, Few Matches Plague 'No-Fly' List · · Score: 1
    (plus 2 dave nelsons). Which is not many compared to 12872 David Jones or 12547 John Smiths (and scarily enough 1 Joseph Dredd and 1 Sidney Death (that's gotta be a deed poll job!)).

    I don't know how many there are in the USA though...

  11. Cool, so on 43 Million Americans Use P2P Software · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    43 million people lose the right to vote? Dubya will be a shoo-in for the next election!

  12. Evidence on SCO SCO SCO! · · Score: 1

    So where are these alleged weapons of mass destruction my tax money was spent levelling Iraq for?

  13. Martha Stewart on Copyright Defeats? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Doesn't she make cake-mix or something?

  14. Yup on Microsoft Orange SPV Phone Review · · Score: 1

    Last weekend my wallet got nicked, from inside my trousers, while I was at the pub. I don't know how; I'm fairly paranoid, and that hasn't happened for years. But at least my travelcard, work id and house keys were in the other pocket, and the phone was in my bag, so the damage was limited to cash and calls to cancel cards.

  15. Re:Stupid Idea on Universal Alphanumeric Postal Code Proposed · · Score: 1
    Don't tell Ian Paisley that... Northern Ireland is part of the UK but not part of GB. Of course some other people would rather that situation was different.

    Strangely, films from the 1960s show "Great Britain" rather than UK at UN meetings, and .gb was allocated to the UK (and is still the official ISO code). But I guess when people started getting bombed over the situation the authorities decided to get a little more accurate.

  16. Policemen on Universal Alphanumeric Postal Code Proposed · · Score: 1

    That's why they have a police station on every corner of every street, with two guys in it and a very big map on the desk. I think japan has one of the highest cop ratios around (and strangely enough, one of the lowest casual crime rates), and this might be part of the reason why they need it.

  17. Re:Summit on FCC Approves Media Consolidation · · Score: 1

    Oops, I should have said the summit was in France but they had to hold the riot in Switzerland since everyone is always on strike in France.

  18. Re:There's plenty of diversity on the radio on FCC Approves Media Consolidation · · Score: 1

    As long as they play both Classic Kylie (Stock Aiken Waterman) and Modern Kylie, who would complain? :-P

  19. Summit on FCC Approves Media Consolidation · · Score: 1

    I thought the summit was in Switzerland, but the riot spilled over into France, where it sort of petered out because everyone was on strike (well, it is summer) :-)

  20. Teach a man to fish on Three Gorges Dam Begins Storing Water · · Score: 1
    Tell that to the EU, who have had to pay people not to fish, on account of they've all been caught. There are problems in several places with fish stocks, in particular the north sea, the grand banks (off canada) and west africa.

    Someone needs to update that saying to something more realistic.

  21. Re:lamenating progress on Three Gorges Dam Begins Storing Water · · Score: 1

    Kalgoorlie must be a bigger electorate though; it covers half of western australia (from sea to shark-ridden sea)!

  22. Chungking on Three Gorges Dam Begins Storing Water · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Hey, I was in Chungking house at school :-) the others were Peiping (Beijing), Namking and Sian (Xian).

  23. Dr. Cat on Game Originality: Any Left? · · Score: 1

    Are you the Dr Cat from Austin TX I visited in 1996 when we crashed Richard Garriot's roller blade party? :-)

  24. Re:So is the US on The Changing Definition Of 'Kilogram' · · Score: 1

    But it makes such a pretty colour!

    Well, according to Ponappa, Brzozowski and Finer Transient expression and stable transformation of soybean using the jellyfish green fluorescent protein anyway...

  25. Star Wars Junior on E.U. Agrees To Launch Galileo Satellite Location System · · Score: 1

    That's why Bush is planning to build space-lasers etc.