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  1. 502 Error on Breaking Google's DRM · · Score: 2, Informative

    Is anyone else getting 502 error. Has Google really been /.ed. If so shame on them - Google seem to be losing the thread, first DRM and now system outages - all in one day :(

  2. Check the source! on S. Korea Claims N. Korea Has Trained 600 Crackers · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The source of the story is the South Korea's defence ministry, sworn enemy of North Korea. They know this will worry western govts and so turn them further against NK. What reason do we have to believe this story? FUD, FUD, FUD.

  3. Yoda? on 2.2 inch LCD Display featuring VGA Resolution · · Score: 3, Funny

    Casio took now the lead.

    Yoda? Sentance, only you mangle such.

  4. Alternatives on Does Google Censor Chinese News? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Those wishing to take a stand this this a viable alternative to Google.

    All The Web

    Remeber alternatives are what encourages competition and that can only be a good thing.

    Any other good search engines people can recommend?

  5. Spitting on Tuberculosis May Become A Global Threat Again · · Score: 1

    I live in London and I have noticed over the years an increase in people spitting in the streets. Now dispite being fucking disgusting I believe this has contributed to the increase in the number of TB cases seen in the UK.

    I wish these people could get a bit of class and just stop spitting.

  6. Re:No comments? on Saving Energy Without Derision · · Score: 1

    Actually you can have a multipart document - email clients do this the whole time - a single file can contain the html, images, css, flash whatever.

  7. xorg on GNOME 2.8 Released · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I know xorg 6.8 has only just been released but does this new version of gnome support any of the new features like transparency, damage or shadow?

    Either way it's an outstanding feat the gnome team have achieve - will in installing it tonight!

  8. None techie site - more representative on Firefox Browser On An Upward Trend · · Score: 5, Informative
    Here are some stats from a none techie site which gets a reasonable amount of traffic:
    MSIE 89.7%
    FireFox 3.1%
    Mozilla 2.2%
    Netscape 2.2%
    Opera 0.9%
    Safari 0.9%
    Unknown 0.4%
    Firebird 0%
    Konqueror 0%
    Others 0.1%
    Also more interestingly Firefox usage has for the last 4-5 months doubled month on month.
  9. Re:Short Sighted? on An Introduction to IPv6 · · Score: 4, Informative

    The most obvious distinguishing feature of IPv6 is its use of much larger addresses. The size of an address in IPv6 is 128 bits, which is four times larger than an address in IPv4. A 32-bit address space allows for 2^32 or 4,294,967,296 possible addresses. A 128-bit address space allows for 2^128 or 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,45 6 (3.4 × 1038) possible addresses.
    The population of the earth is ~6 billion (US billion). So 56,713,727,820,156,410,577,229,101,238 each

  10. Old but funny on Running Ancient UNIX On Nintendo Gameboy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Whenever I see stories like this I am reminded of Installing Linux on a Dead Badger.

  11. Gentoo fans on X.org X11 Server Release 6.8 · · Score: 4, Informative

    If you want to find out when it is available in portage without sync then check the portage database

  12. Helix to play RealAudio/Video on Ask RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Please open source these formats because I don't what to install a different mediaplayer for each format - it's boring.

  13. Re:Microsoft Tax on Alienware Reveals 4GHz desktop · · Score: 1

    I might think about it yeah. I don't play games no, but I quite like the cases - I like to have a fast machine because I do a lot of CPU intensive work (although dual CPUs would be better) such as Povray, PRP and large scale document indexing.

    My beef is not with Microsoft so much as the PC sellers (although I'm sure MS has them in an arm lock).

    Just because most people what to play games on them under Windows doesn't mean everyone should be forced to purchase one with Windows. I don't think that is unreasonable.

  14. Microsoft Tax on Alienware Reveals 4GHz desktop · · Score: 0, Troll

    I see Alienware PCs are subject to the Microsoft Tax (i.e you can't buy one and not buy Windows). I refuse to buy a piece of software I don't use and I refused to support a company I don't like the business practise of.

  15. Working Link on Alienware Reveals 4GHz desktop · · Score: 1, Informative
  16. Oh no! on The Science of Word Recognition · · Score: 3, Funny

    So are Microsoft going to patent the way we read and then sue?

    "If you are reading this then you owe Microsoft royalies"

  17. Re:Interesting... on Mozilla.org Relaunched · · Score: 4, Informative

    Does that mean that Mozilla will be superseded at some point by Firefox??

    Yes, this has been the plan for sometime. See the Roadmap in particular point (1.) under "a new roadmap" and also Rationale

  18. AVS on Searching For Trouble With Google · · Score: 2, Informative

    Any website that accepts credit card payments worth using will require an AVS number and address.

    As for coding these numbers on to other cards and using them in bricks and mortar shops, you would hope that the shops check that the embossed number matches. If they have checked all this, under UK law anyway, the CC company is liable.

    With chip and pin cards being introduced across Europe CC numbers are becoming more and more useless to criminals now.

  19. You heard it here first! on World's First Practical Plastic Magnet · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Coat your HDD in magnets...

    Disclaimer: don't try this at home kids.

  20. Security through obscurity on Jack Valenti: The Exit Interview · · Score: 2, Insightful
    From the article:
    I have said, technology is what causes the problem, and technology will be the salvation of the problem. I really do believe we can stuff enough algorithms in a movie that only the dedicated hackers can spend the time and effort to try to plumb through those 1,000 algorithms to try to find a way to beat it. In time, we'll be able to do this, because I have great faith in the technological genius that's out there.

    Do they really believe that security though obscurity is going to help them. For every "genius" they employ to obfusticate their format their will be 100 geniuses out there ready to write software to get round it.

    The fact that the media is in the physically possession of the users means that given enough time all security measures can be defeated.
  21. Re:banning on Top Banned Books of 2003 · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Morality is a personal thing, what is immoral to me may not be to you. Stopping a child that is not yours from reading a book because you don't agree with the content of the book to me is immoral.

    Oh and Godwin's law be damned!

  22. Re:banning on Top Banned Books of 2003 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Well yes, if your employer asks you to do something immoral or just plain wrong then you don't do it - seems simple enough to me - it's people blindly following orders that lets things like Hitler's Germany happen.

  23. Re:How will this work? on KDE Plans 'Google-like' Search Capabilities · · Score: 4, Insightful

    To many people google == search engine. The word is in the Oxford English Dictionary ffs. So like xerox, hoover and escalator the brand name has become (is becoming) the generic word too.

  24. Re:How will this work? on KDE Plans 'Google-like' Search Capabilities · · Score: 4, Informative
    Now, how is this going to work? First off, when I do a search on google there are dozens if not hundreds of PC's involved in various aspects of the search. I get my results in under a second. My computer - although fairly decent itself - is only a mid-tower. There is no way I can support even one PC to assist in searching.


    Having played with and done some work on the open source Nutch search engine I know from experience that you can return search results from ~10,000,000 pages in much less than 1 second on a mid-range desktop. It's all done with indexes in much the same way as relational DB have been doing it for years.

  25. Sender-ID adds very little if anything on MS Releases License For Sender-ID · · Score: 3, Interesting

    SPF works, it does exactly what it is designed to do what reason would there be to use Sender-ID?

    SPF works today with existing software - I'm at a loss to why anyone would want Sender-ID apart from Microsoft.

    I'm sure Microsoft people will install it all blindly (no change there) but if a significant number of mail servers don't implement and or deploy it then it has failed anyway.