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  1. Re:ocr and pdf on Where Did Affordable OCR Go? · · Score: 1

    no, the point of OCR is to make a file smaller than the image, not larger as always happens with a pdf

  2. Re:The W3C isn't that bad! on MSIE 7 May Beat Longhorn Out The Gate · · Score: 1

    Indeed, creating an extra span element and CSS class is overkill for italicizing a single word, but that's not really the purpose of CSS. If you want to change the color of 100 elements each on 1000 pages, having them all linked to the same class selector in a central stylesheet file is a lot more efficient than having 100000 tags.

  3. Re:Article summary--uh, "recent mass migration?" on MSIE 7 May Beat Longhorn Out The Gate · · Score: 5, Insightful

    IE 6 hasn't dropped at all and is still massively slaughtering the competition.

    It's not slaughtering the competition, it's slaughtering it's ancestors. IE 4/5 are dropping, netscape/mozilla are steadily rising.

  4. Re:How about drivers for the current crop of hardw on HP Releases Linux-Based Notebook · · Score: 3, Funny

    So that's how they make it "secure." No one knows how the cards work, so they can't steal your data.

  5. Re:Not quite ... on Laptops with the Longest Battery Life? · · Score: 1

    Actually, isn't it more of an "advertising gimick" than a "platform?"

  6. Re:the real question is: on AMD Beats Intel in CPU Sales · · Score: 1

    That will happen shortly after the devil gives free sleigh rides once Hell freezes over.

  7. Re:"improved wireless support" for a chipset? WTF? on AMD Beats Intel in CPU Sales · · Score: 2, Informative

    That's still wrong. The so-called "Centrino wireless card" is just a Mini PCI Wi-fi adapter made by Intel with no Linux support. No fancy high-speed integration with the motherboard. Power consumption? Who knows...

  8. Re:Statistical outlier on AMD Beats Intel in CPU Sales · · Score: 1

    So this is what we already suspected. People who build their own computers know that the Pentium 4 was a failure in terms of performance so they buy AMD chips. If you similarly misquoted a story about server OSs, you could say Linux is more popular than Windows.

  9. Re:The Year of the Linux Desktop on Linux on the Desktop: More Balls Through Windows · · Score: 1

    Bill Gates also said that the obvious mathematical breakthrough needed to break RSA encryption would be a way to factor very large prime numbers...

    And we all remember the 640k remark. Don't trust him when it comes to numbers.

  10. Does this count? on People with real l337 speak names? · · Score: 1

    My school ID number is '1337'

  11. martian hackers on Mars Rover Spirit Back Online · · Score: 1

    There goes my theory of an alien changing inittab to make it to boot to runlevel 6.

  12. Re:Awe Inspiring on Spirit's First Mars Images · · Score: 1

    How many golf balls have retro-rockets, guidance computers, parachutes, etc?

  13. while they're at it... on RIAA Parses 'P2P' As 'Peer 2 Porn' · · Score: 1

    shut down usenet, irc, email, ftp, and every other system that could be used for trading pr0n/music. why don't they just unplug the whole fucking internet

  14. Re:Complicated by Columbia? on Clock Ticking for Hubble · · Score: 2, Informative

    It doesn't include anything to bring it back, and we don't have anything that can go out there and get it. Seems like a major problem to me, since Hubble wouldn't be nearly as useful as it is today if it couldn't be serviced.

  15. A new form of the 'remote control' syndrome on The Impending IP Crisis · · Score: 4, Interesting
    A similar revolution to what you are describing has already happenned in the audio/video/home theater industry. Remember when your VCR had that little door on the front that covered that huge array of tiny buttons for things like tracking, timers, tuning? Remember when you used a vcr? Now they have power, eject, channel, and transport controls. Everything else is on the remote that your universal unit can't emulate. Eventually the control panel on the washing machine will disappear in evolution, and you will have to run over to your pc, log into your washer, ener a password, start the cycle, etc. Or grab your cellphone and dial into your network's internet gateway (maybe dozens of routers away in timbuktu), connect to your home computer...

    Some devices weren't meant to be remote-controlled. And by some, I mean most. And even if they need to be, they don't need separate global IP's. People seem to forget that each of these 4 billion ipv4's have 65535 TCP ports.

  16. Re:Bigger numbers. on The Impending IP Crisis · · Score: 3, Informative

    2^128=3.4028236692093846346337460743177e38

    According to the chart, thats 340 undecillion

  17. Re:Netscape? on Netscape 7.1 Released · · Score: 1

    Netscape is used by people who like the stansards compliance of Mozilla and alternative to IE/Outlook, but don't want a potentially unstable version that you have to update every 3 weeks. My family consists of 2 mozilla users, 2 NS 7 users, and 1 IE user. Netscape is good for people who don't like M$|E but aren't hackerly enough for mozilla.

  18. Re:Someone's not paying attention on Is ROM Collecting Wrong, or Just Misunderstood? · · Score: 1

    You think Gameboy advance will be around 10 years from now?

  19. virtual desktops and such on School May Turn Down $43K In Free Macs · · Score: 1

    why don't they just do like my school library did last year and hook the macs up to a citrix ICA system on a win2000 server? Oh, I know why. People like me would hack it.

  20. Re:Plastic Notes work well on Counterfeiting With High Resolution Inkjets · · Score: 1

    I guess vending machines work better with all same-sized notes.

  21. Re:Why on Famous Last Words: You can't decompile a C++ program · · Score: 0

    So you can decompile your favorite closed-source unstable operating system and FIX WINDOZE! Ok, maybe you would need to completely rewrite it.

  22. Re:USENET is useful. on Spaf's Farewell, Ten Years Later · · Score: 2, Funny

    It would work even better if when you tried to post something, Google would say, "Someone asked this exact same question already" like /. does.

  23. TIA on Dutch Wiretaps: Too Many To Bother Counting · · Score: 1

    What if they had Total Information Awareness?

  24. Re:MIT on Arrested for Planting Spyware on College Compus · · Score: 2, Interesting
    The real thing to remember is to never, ever, ever use a public system. That is the most sure way to give up all privacy. Even if there isn't a 3rd party breaking into and modifying the public machines, the true administrator of the machine might have all sorts of logging software.

    My school library used to have about 20 workstations running windows 2000 hooked up to a Citrix Metaframe server (this year they just turned them into regular w2000 workstations you log on to, but with many security constraints). It didn't take long to figure out that the citrix client doesn't capture the windows key, allowing you to get the start menu of the local computer. One day, a friend and I were hacking around these things and got into the config dialog for the citrix client. There was a page with a bunch of logging options including log keystrokes, log bitmaps, log mouse actions. The school had never turned them on, and they probably wouldn't notice if we started logging keys and stealing hotmail passwords.

    One time, I wrote a little C++ builder program that could send and receive mouse instructions through a network connection. I installed it on several of the machines, then I could just start it up, connect to the machine next to me, click the send button, and the watch the kid freak out as his mouse started following mine. Or I could 'monitor' their mouse actions.

    They got rid of citrix before i was ablke to finish writing and deploy a network screen capture sending app.

  25. spam on AOL Reports Its First Drop In Subscribers · · Score: 2, Informative

    Jon Stewart said this on the Daily Show thursday.

    "AOL is an internet provider that can't control spam. They're on version 8 and they haven't figured out that I don't need my mortgage refinanced or my penis enlarged"

    The only things AOL hasn't been advertising are the things people could actually use, like popup and spam blockers, and other reasons I switched to mozilla, not to mention standards compliance. No one cares about parental controls or more smileys for instant messenger. People are finally realizing that AOL's browser and email, etc. isn't as good as other stuff out there.

    Its also slow