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  1. Re:huh? on Has the Glory Gone Out of Working In IT? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If you'd find something you like doing, you could end up having fun at your job, and kill 2 birds with one stone, maybe ? At least, that's what the IT field is for me!

  2. Re:What about Flash? on Microsoft Says Google Chrome Frame Makes IE Less Secure · · Score: 1, Informative

    Nop, the multiplier would be much bigger than double.

  3. Re:Viral videos! Or, How the Future Looks on Gene Therapy Cures Color-Blind Monkeys · · Score: 1

    Taking it one step further, why not give them (tomorrow's warrior) the unmutated myosin gene, thus able to be 5 to 7 times stronger kilo for kilo of muscle?

    Or we could just help people with genetic problems, making the human race just a little better as a race. (hopefully)

    Because they will simply break their bones when excerting their force ?

  4. Re:Err, what? on Russia's New Official Holiday — Programmer's Day · · Score: 2, Insightful

    255 is the 256th value on the counter, thus that's why you chose the 256th day, no matter which exact date it is.

  5. Re:Server? on New iPod Touch Has an 802.11n Chip · · Score: 1

    The ipod touch right here would support

    2. 480i/576i.

    On my nice 1080p TV. I'm so going to downgrade the latest bluray to 480i !

  6. Re:Humm .. on Russia's New Official Holiday — Programmer's Day · · Score: 1

    You`ll get a lower average holidays per year .. On Earth we are at 2.47% with my proposition, vs only 1.28% on Mars!

    Time to get back ?

  7. Humm .. on Russia's New Official Holiday — Programmer's Day · · Score: 4, Funny

    I would have had it on the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 8th, 16th, 32th, 64th, 128th and 256th day of the year, if I was to choose ;)

  8. Re:Misses the point on Risk Aversion At Odds With Manned Space Exploration · · Score: 3, Informative

    Well, you missed the small text at the bottom of the page that said "*** per component" !

  9. Re:and THAT is why... on Apple Announces iTunes 9, "LPs," Video Camera For the iPod Nano · · Score: 1

    You've bought everything yet you violated that song copyright for your daugher ? You are not allowed to use the songs you buy in any public performance, they are for your sole ears. =)

  10. Re:Shooting themselves in the foot on Placebos Are Getting More Effective · · Score: 1

    The test for two population would be simply to find how what is the ratio of the placebo effect in each. With that I mean take the 2 population, for a number of different illness. Offer them each the placebo, and see, for each of the illness, what's the ratio of people that it helps. With this kind of test, you could even differentiate between type of illness, thus seeing if the advertisement or way of life were causing the most change.

  11. Re:Blaming the tools, instead of the behaviour... on Password Hackers Do Big Business With Ex-Lovers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    GMail has a nice line at the bottom, telling you from which other computer you are connected, when you last took any action, and then some more details. Anyone can take a look at it, but I don't expect much of their users to know what that is for, nor to check it everytime they login ...

  12. Re:Good luck on Running Old Desktops Headless? · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I'm sorry but real geek will user a butterfly. (This time, x-emacs ain't started!)

    See http://xkcd.com/378/

  13. WTF is ELF on ELF Knocks Down AM Towers To Save Earth, Intercoms · · Score: 1

    While the full name is spelled out in the summary, I just decided to check on google if there was any info on them. Well, even the Endangered Language Fund is listed before anything related to them when searching for ELF. Just get rid of them already!

  14. Re:Completely off-topic on Mozilla To Protect Adobe Flash Users · · Score: 1

    What's the alternative to Photoshop CS4 ?

    That could really be usefull!

  15. Re:I'm all for it... on Sending Astronauts On a One-Way Trip To Mars · · Score: 1

    I'm sure we could find you seven virgins that would also match the old enough so that they don't have much longer to live criteria.

    Are you sure ?

  16. Re:How to fix this on Personalized In-Game Advertising In Upcoming Titles · · Score: 1

    You forgot step 2 of plan c...

    End up in jail :\

    Notice that there's no .... profit ! in there!

  17. Re:Its been done for years already on Apple Kicks HDD Marketing Debate Into High Gear · · Score: 1

    For what reason do you expect any filesystem browser to report the exact number of bytes in a file? I'm almost always more interested in knowing how much disk space is used by the file - 16k in your example. In a filesystem like JFS that dynamically allocates inodes, I might even expect it to report the space used by the inode. FWIW, 'du' will report 16k in your example as well. Is 'du' wrong too?

    There's some that come to mind.

    First of all, did that copy work out correctly ?

    Change date is the same, but did I really sync the file ?

    I'm building up a raw data file (whichever format), is it the correct size for the expected content ?

    If the report was space used on disk, it would be useless to me. So, both measures are actually usefull.

  18. Re:haha yeah right on NVIDIA Predicts 570x GPU Performance Boost · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Stupid I know, but I would have had more confidence in a 500x increase, just because there's less significant digits and a wider error margin.

  19. Re:Very clever idea. on Using a House's Concrete Foundation To Cool a PC · · Score: 1

    Cost.

    At some place, just the drilling will cost you 40$ per feet. Then you need the piping, and there's a high maintenant cost. Digging + land ownership will cost you less initially and also most probably in the long run too.

  20. Re:Virus on MAC ? on Report That OS X Snow Leopard May Include Antivirus · · Score: 1

    2 days of being public, but months discovered.

    What about the multiple exploits for adobe product that also existed on mac ? While it's true that they existed for PC also, it does make the macs immune.

    There's been multiple PDF exploits, multiple flash apps too.

    Recently there's been a java jdk exploit which allowed root control of any computer with the jdk exploited, and multiple releases that were targetting macs.

    Also, there's been a botnet build from people installing pirated software on their mac (http://blogs.zdnet.com/Apple/?p=3745), and unless saying that everyone installing pirated software are idiots (there's many other thing we could call them, though), the system can't protect against this either.

  21. Re:Virus on MAC ? on Report That OS X Snow Leopard May Include Antivirus · · Score: 2, Informative

    There's been multiple viruses using failures in the system to install themselves on the apple hardware without any user input.

    My favorite is the iphone exploit where somebody could root your device & record everything barely by sending an IM :)

  22. Re:Pretty easy on Thanks For the ... Eight-Track, Uncle Alex · · Score: 1

    Make sure not to throw the hardware too hard in there, else you'll just be stuck with even more useless stuff :p

  23. Re:Touch is only part of it on Windows 7 Igniting Touchscreen PC Market · · Score: 1

    I have not seen a single transfer on the imac survive the switch. Files being transferred from a sambda ressource, plugin in the network, it keep downloading from the wifi. Disabling the wifi, it kills the xfer, and we need to start it again.

  24. Re:Touch is only part of it on Windows 7 Igniting Touchscreen PC Market · · Score: 1

    Have you switched between ethernet and wifi on the imacs ? I just keep hoping they could put a simple meta key as most notebook to switch it by default, as it's a PITA. And it's sometime not even switching automatically if it lose the wifi :\

  25. Re:Touch is only part of it on Windows 7 Igniting Touchscreen PC Market · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Are you saying that wifi switches on notebook are useless ?

    I like being able to just plug the network and close the wifi, so that it will switch my file copies over to the much faster network, without requiring to pick up the mouse and go change any property.