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  1. Re:It's the keyboard, stupid. - And he was BOTTING on Banned From WoW For WINE & Programmable Keyboard · · Score: 2, Interesting

    So you are actually required to 1. Be able to read english, 2. Give a crap about some random guy messaging you?

    God damn I'm glad I'm not playing WoW any longer.

  2. Re:Innovative dick comparison on Intel Unveils New Chips to Battle AMD · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The buzzword you are looking for is Extreme Multiprogramming. (Well ok, two words).

    Not to be mistaken for extreme programming. It's based on CSP (Communicating Sequential processes) - Occam, c++csp, jcsp etc. support this model originally made for transputer.

  3. Re:Same problem as with other "alternative fuels" on Researchers Make Gasoline From Cow Dung · · Score: 1

    Don't have a cow, man! -- Bart Simpson

  4. Re:You think it's bad *now* on College Student Receives Email of the Lost · · Score: 1

    Excuse me, but why the F*** do people accept those rates?

    Here in Denmark I pay 0.10 DKR per sent message and nothing per recieved - 630 DKR to $100. My monthly bill is rarely above 40DKR - thats less than $7 US. Ohh and we got about 99% coverage including the sea. (Granted its a small country, but still..)

  5. Re:You think it's bad *now* on College Student Receives Email of the Lost · · Score: 1

    Thats a load of bs.

    I've had my domain for more than 4 years now, when the spam I get peak, its about 4 messages a month.

    Graylisting and carefull about who gets my emailadress works like a charm.

  6. Re:Tor? on UK Government Wins Villain of the Year · · Score: 1

    No,
    Herbivore provides strong anonymity by using Dining Cryptographers principle, problem is it requires alot of broadcasting, and the way you do that in Herbivore is having one client copying data to all.

    TOR provides anonymity by doing a multihop proxy, the problem with that is you can figure out who does what with enough resources - Even if you got acces to the networklines in Herbivore you only know that someone send a message, not who. Even cracking the message wont tell you who sent it unless sender includes return address...

  7. Re:Tor? on UK Government Wins Villain of the Year · · Score: 1

    It really isnt hard to make a working implementation - the problem is it costs 2*(k-1) bits per bit with a clique size of k to send. That is, if I want to send 100MB of data in a clique of 80 people, its going to require sending a total of 7.9GB of data in the clique, that just isn't going to happen.

  8. Re:Tor? on UK Government Wins Villain of the Year · · Score: 2, Interesting

    My bachelor project (masters?) was about makeing TOR run on a router using Dante, all TCP traffic gets multiplexed over TOR.

    Only downside on the implementation is its only running through socks4 - so DNS gets routed through the normal path rendering it a bit useless.

    Also, TOR is by no means strong anonymity, if you want that go have a look at Herbivore.

  9. Re:What a bunch of dorks on Yahoo Reverses Allah Ban · · Score: 1

    Because google sucks more in the US?

  10. Re:Server vs PC on Sun to Give Niagara Servers to Reviewers · · Score: 1

    The point of having more threads is when one needs I/O it the core shifts to the next thread and tries to work on that. Yes you might end up with 4 threads waiting on I/O but you are more likely going to have something being processed all the time.

    Ohh and on that topic.. Why only 4 hw threads? why not 8 or 16? Think of the power you would have with c++csp, occam or jscp! *drooool*

  11. Re:Er... so what? on World of Warcraft Teaches the Wrong Things? · · Score: 1

    I bet you never took those HCI courses? Or introduction to algorithms?

    Waaaay to much crap that needs to be done - and on top of that, one player figures out how to do it, scriptkiddies just copy + paste...

    Ohh and all this about time>skill etc... its bullshit - the AD spent most of his/her life to get to where he/she/it is, Ill bet ya they have used many more hours to be able to do stuff like http://www.oio.dk/ in 1 hour than the average Joe has to put in to get remotely near that...

  12. Re:Sue Greenland! on Greenland Glaciers Melting Much Faster · · Score: 1

    You better get your hands off our island!

    Beet us in hockey all you like, but that island is ours, if you fail to comply we might just sail "Sælen" up one of your rivers and look mean!
    http://www.navalhistory.dk/Danish/Historien/1989_2 003/SaelenPaaPatrulje.htm/ (Its in danish, but I think the first picture speaks a million words ;))

  13. Re:You're on it baby.. on Creating a Backboneless Internet? · · Score: 1

    Tor is good but it doesnt provide strong anonymyty (how the hell do you spell that?) - Herbivore provides strong anonymity - at the cost of bandwith (something in the order of 2(k-1) bit needs to be transfered for every bit you want to send where k is the size of the clique you are in)

  14. Re:Could someone sue StarForce spreaders please? on Sony Rootkit may Lead to Regulation · · Score: 1

    While I do agree with not supporting the starforce thing - why the hell did you link to some writeup instead of the real site?

    http://www.glop.org/starforce/ is the correct one.

  15. Re:Moore's "law" on Magnetic Processors - Computing's New Future? · · Score: 1

    Moores law died september 2004 when talking about CPU's - the intel 4Ghz should have been out then - and keeping on, that would be 8Ghz now - 2007 10Ghz and core temp of about 6000 celcius.

  16. Yeah right on Using Watermarks to Combat Piracy · · Score: 1

    Even the best-trained human eyes and ears, according to Kip, can't detect the change.

    Just like we can't detect the imbedded dots in movies? That system annoys the crap out of me, being a gamer I'm used to react to small fast changes, I always get distracted by them.

  17. Re:Could care less about size... on 7.5 Micron Thick RFID Tag · · Score: 1

    The problem there is somewhat limited in the sence that only one rfid occupice a certain amount of space.

    The rumor around here (DIKU - Computer science at the university of Copenhagen, Denmark (think cartoons?)) is that you can only have a very limited amount of rfids in the same place, when alot of them respond to an impulse you get all sorts of feedback (noise). Haven't really looked into it yet, but I am thinking of doing a project on RFIDS this semester.

  18. Re:My own favorite is 'top'. on Understanding Memory Usage On Linux · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Top will show you the same as ps does, ps calls /proc//statm and asks whats going on. The problem on linux is the copy on write principle wich saves heaps of memmory, but makes it virtually impossible to figure out what belongs to what. The thing is, when you fork it maps the memmory and marks everything as copy on write, when something needs to write to part of the memmory, then it will make the copy for each process.
    However asking the process how much memory it has allocated will show all memory including stuff that is marked copy on write - that is, I could have 100 processes showing they each use 1.4MB of memory, because they all share the same libray, but in fact, its the same copy they are all using so I'm only using 1.4 MB instead of 140MB (+PCB et. al)

  19. Re:Statistics.... on Firefox Slides, IE Gains? · · Score: 1

    I'm seeing more and more popups on my firefox. There are ways to fool it...

  20. Re:I remember exactly where I was... on Challenger Tragedy - In Depth, and Deeply Felt · · Score: 1

    I fail to see why this is such a big deal.

    Each and every bloody day more people die in trafic, and alot of them didn't sign up for a mission which is almost suicidal (strapping people on to a solid fueled booster is just asking for trouble).

    However - comparing this to 9/11 is bloody stupid.

  21. Re:For Non-US users : workaround on Fear of Girls, a D&D Documentary · · Score: 1

    TOR has exit points all around the globe, so I think you would be worse off with that.

    Fun stuff surfing google with it though - you get to see google frontpages from around the world.

  22. Re:Foreign languages are complex... on IBM Strives For 'Superhuman' Speech Tech · · Score: 5, Funny

    From boondock saints:
    Rocco: Fucking... What the fuck. Who the fuck fucked this fucking... How did you two fucking fucks...
    [shouts]
    Rocco: fuck!
    Connor: Well, that certainly illustrates the diversity of the word.

    Think that just about covers it...

  23. Re:Don't forget Transformers on Standby Electronics a Waste? · · Score: 1

    Well when I'm done using my stuff I shut it off on the wall contact - right now the only thing running back home is my refrigiator. And I know my mom does the same. So yeah some people do "unplug" their transformers. You should try it, saves alot on the electrical bill. (Of course here in Denmark you pay somewhere between 1,50 and 3 krs per kW/h - (between 20 and 50 cents))

  24. Re:How do they define a galaxy? on New Galactic Neighbor · · Score: 1

    I think the PS3 2 TFLOPS is a marketing gimmick - however, the new Dell beast due this spring packs around 5 TFLOPS on the GPU's.

  25. Re:Unrealistic test on High-tech Cars Replacing Driver Skill? · · Score: 1

    Here in Denmark its mandatory for new drivers to take a course in driving under slippery circumstances. You get to try to handle a car with all the gadgets turned off (ABS, TC etc.) under very slippery circumstances, but still controlled. You learn how to handle a car when things goes wrong.

    But they also teach you how the car reacts when gadgets are enabled - that is doing 70km/h and hitting the brake as hard as you can. First time you do that the car seems to be all over the place and the brake pedal seems to have its own mind. But once you've tried it you know why and whats going on.

    That has saved my ass a few times (well mainly from my father not killing me for denting the car) - ie. once I lost control on an icy road, but 1. didnt panic, 2. got the car under control. And another time when I had to emergency breake, the ABS kicked in, but I was prepared for it and nobody got hurt.