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  1. Re:I can also produce a pdf with the same title on Google Accidently Revealed As eBay Critic · · Score: 5, Informative

    Did you actually RTFA ? Google provided the governement with a document (original form is unknown, as the governement can save it as a doc, if you'd have seen the title you'd understand) and the 'watchdogs' made a pdf out of that document, which used the original government provided filename as the title.

  2. Re:Seems like the complexity is lower on Samsung 256GB SSD is World's Fastest · · Score: 1

    You can have 100 cassettes with non-free content for less than 20$ at any (old) yard sale!

  3. Re:I played AoC's beta... on Age of Conan's "Kinda" Launch and Massive Pre-Orders · · Score: 1

    Next to me is sitting a computer with much lower specs than that one, and it's doing fine in every of the place you mentionned, and it was doing fine in 40 mens runs too.

    I though slashdot members knew how to get rid of viruses / trojans / whatever was slowing your computer ?

  4. Re:Well, obvious stuff: on Fermilab Calls For Code Crackers · · Score: 1

    I was searching out on how to obtain 114 characters, in case it was blocks of 3. I used the following and got those results

    323 233 331 112 132 WQXAG
    333 231 322 123 312 ZOVES
    111 331 132 312 233 XGSQ
    333 212 123 213 113 ZJEKB
    311 333 313 331 111 RZTX
    211 333 323 232 211 IZWPI
    232 313 213 112 123 PTKAE
    133 231 312 HOS

    I had the 27 possible rotations but slashdot filters won't let me paste them :\ Neither in upper case, and now I fail the awful long string of letters :(

    Have fun with that fast ruby hack

    def print_and_rotate(str, cnt = 27)
        print "#{str.downcase}\n"

        res = str.clone
        (0..res.size-1).each do |i|
            if res[i] == " "[0]
                res[i] = "A"
            elsif res[i] == "Z"[0]
                res[i] = " "
            else
                res[i] += 1
            end
        end
        print_and_rotate(res, cnt - 1) if cnt > 0
    end

    print_and_rotate("WQXAGZOVES XGSQZJEKBRZTX IZWPIPTKAEHOS")

  5. Re:Though is some places? on Nevada Governor to Bill Fossett Widow For Search · · Score: 1

    86.9% of all the statistics are made up on the fly, did you knew that ? =)

  6. Re:Not very good reasons... on Performance Showdown - SSDs vs. HDDs · · Score: 1

    I can't find a single CRT that beats up my 3007 WFP at 2560x1600, and I have much more space available on my desk than with the old 19" trinitron at 1940x1600!

  7. Re:Microsoft's Official View of the Situation on Half a Million Microsoft-Powered Sites Hit With SQL Injection · · Score: 1

    posterior. It's not a good product.

    Prepared statements are a good thing. The real fix, though, is to prevent the usage of SQL for database modification, but force this activity to occur through the usual data handling methods for their programming language. Eg: if you are inserting a string into your database, then you should need to pass a string as a variable to a function, and not be allowed put it in raw into an SQL query.

    Hehum. Your proposal would do nothing to fix the problem. You are still able to send a string which contain quotes (yes, quotes are characters and parts of a string!) so it's still possible to exploit.
  8. 20 minutes, test not yet passed.. on Next-Generation CAPTCHA Exploits the Semantic Gap · · Score: 2, Funny

    They might have a good captcha but it's already broken: they are unable to serve it as fast as required, which prevents legitimate users from accessing a real server content... No user on any site would wait so long just to pass a captcha test.

  9. Re:Where's the math? on Schoolboy Corrects NASA's Math On Killer Asteroid · · Score: 1

    There's nothing said about the base collision probability of 2036 I believe

  10. Re:Friday the 13th on Schoolboy Corrects NASA's Math On Killer Asteroid · · Score: 1

    Well ... 1 Mt St Helens up, 1 Mt St Helens down, they cancel each other so that gives 0 Mt St Helens!

  11. Re:Grounds to contest? on Cities Tampering With Traffic Lights To Generate Revenue · · Score: 1

    It depends. Some people have really bad braking habits and will keep the tire sliding on the road (whatever may it be, snow / ice / water or normal) and the sliding coefficient of friction with the surface is much lower than that of a normally rolling tire. So, in the case of people sliding, they will take much more time to come to a stop than an ABS system which will automatically decrease the braking level until the tire starts rolling again, thus increasing it's friction and the speed at which you can slow down...

  12. Re:No, it's not drug abuse. on Many Scientists Using Performance Enhancing Drugs · · Score: 1

    there, another plane that you missed ;)

  13. Re:This is a untrimmed thing. on Spreading "1 in 5" Number Does More Harm Than Good · · Score: 1

    Grass untrimmed in the drought season ? It's not even growing anymore and if you cut it you kill it..

  14. Re:Déjà vu? on Master Diebold Key Copied From Web Site · · Score: 1

    You forgot to say that diebold dropped the voting system part of the company about 9 months ago because it was a low-margin business and hurting the image of the company =)

  15. Re:No taxes! on Creative Capitalism Gets Microsoft $528M Tax Break · · Score: 1

    Nothing... No, really .. They gave me tons of MS license so that I would maybe switch off linux!

  16. Re:And other things.. on Y2K38 Watch Starts Saturday · · Score: 0, Troll

    And did you knew that this amount is less than 0.5% of the cost of the war in iraq from the US alone?

  17. Re:But, but, but, on Thimerosal Does Not Cause Autism · · Score: 1

    if you look at it closely, beside hearing the plane over your heard going swooooshhhhh, you`ll see they`ve been referring to people not wanting anyone to take vacations...

  18. Re:My Experience on Are Spammers Giving Up? · · Score: 1

    Have you read any of your mail tagged as spam ? I've had received a few 'technological information news' treated as spam and I read a few of them before trashing all my junk. The next week those emails made it to my inbox, and I had to flag them as junk so they would not show up again.

  19. Re:New Analog Format on Vinyl To Signal the End for CDs? · · Score: 1

    LOL, WHAT?

    What you might be speaking of aren't of the speakers, but rather the cable joining both devices ? I've never seen a CD player requiring a specific type of speakers, you can buy thousands of them (any powered computer non-usb speaker system would do, or a power amplifier + any kind of non-powered speakers, or etc...) Even there, you even sometime have the choice to use a digital output of your cd player and chose a better DAC that what was available initially thus prolonging the life of your cd player ;)

  20. Re:I agree... on Will Wright Opines That Wii Is the Only Next-Gen Console · · Score: 1

    wow, you didn't knew how to talk with your pc .. anyway, how can you play any console games if you can't stand DRM ??

  21. Re:Tricky business on New Way of Extending Satellite Life Saves Millions · · Score: 1

    From TFA, satellites cost 100M and launching costs can reach that number, so if it does, you look at 200M for 15 years of work, which happens to be only 1.1M per month, not millions per extra months of life.

    While their income is higher than this per month (which has to be!), they would have sent another satellite if they had not extended those satellites live..

  22. Re:Counter-Strike on Ocarina of Time — Best Game Ever? · · Score: 1

    Here's a better value ...

    Players Servers Player Minutes / Month

    Counter-Strike 195,087 92,081 6.977 billion
    Counter-Strike: Source 67,707 45,510 2.116 billion
    Counter-Strike Condition Zero 27,763 19,659 902.376 million

    From the latest estimate done on world of warcraft players from a few of my friends, they concluded that about 60B of minutes were played on this game per month. It's been out for 2 years and I'm pretty sure that the total time played is already over CS total.

  23. Re:nVidia = crap analog output on Where Can You Find Cheap DVI Video Cards? · · Score: 1

    I never had trouble with my ramdac in any of my nvidia card. Most of the people with blurred LCDs are using VGA cable (which require dual convertion of the signal) and their LCD aren`t synchronized correctly. I'm running a 30" lcd (2560x1600 in dvi) and a 20" CRT (2048x1536 with a vga connection) from an nvidia card (7800GTX) and both are having crystal clear results. I've had a 6600GT before and it ws perfect on both a dvi 1600x1200 LCD, and 1600x1200 20" lcd 85hz VGA.

    Plus, don't forget you can play with the exact signal being sent from your video card to obtain the exact result you want, at least with nvidia.

  24. Re:The size will be the limiting factor not DRM. on The First HD DVD Movie Hits BitTorrent · · Score: 1

    VidéoÉtron, get rid of that shit. They are reporting your usage and fighting to go against the laws which protect you, against music sharing which is legal here, shape your traffic, have shady policies on the upload / download limitations (ie, we will not charge you if you download more then after 5-6 months you get a $300+ bill) and just plain suck. Get a good DSL reseller. I have one for CAN $30 which has 1. No Contract 2. No download/upload limit 3. No traffic shaping 4. No blocked port 5. No server limitations 0. All of this at 5Mbps/800kbps which I always top (475KB/s+) =)

  25. Re:Confusing transmission with encoding on PS3 Scales 1080i To 480p On HDTVs · · Score: 1

    It's even worst than that .. Most of the set said to be 1080i are effectively not even 1080i : they use 1368x766 to render, every 1/30 of a sec, a deinterlaced image coming from two sets of 1920x540, which means it is indeed a lower resolution than a 720p signal since this one would just be sent to fill up the center portion of your monitor.

    I've not seen a single set saying it was 1080i really displaying the whole thing, except if it was also a 1080p, in which case the latter would give you a better result provided you have the source.. =)