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  1. Re:Next up: a computer on Building a Telegraph Using Only Stone Age Materials · · Score: 2, Funny
  2. Re:Cloud will kill the model on Red Hat CEO Says Software Vendor Model Is Broken · · Score: 1

    That ease in the cost of deployment, coupled with the flexible infrastructure the cloud supplies, will eventually mean the death of the traditional "per-proc" style of enterprise licensing.

    They will likely be replaced with a "per transaction" style of licensing. I'm not sure this is an improvement.

  3. Re:WHAT vendors? on Red Hat CEO Says Software Vendor Model Is Broken · · Score: 1

    And it wasn't possible to extend the software to accept dates in the short format, and transform it to the longer format before sending it to the data base?

  4. Re:That won't work on Un-killable 'Evercookie' Killed ... Sometimes · · Score: 1

    What sucks about the EverCookie is that there is no browser extension to selectively block or clear history or cache; so to clear them, you have to wipe everything.

    The Web Developer extension has separate options for clearing history, cache and HTTP authentication.

  5. Re:What the heck happened to the comment system? on US, China Working On Intellectual Property Rights · · Score: 1

    Of course if he can read your answer his problem is already solved ...

  6. Re:FP on US, China Working On Intellectual Property Rights · · Score: 1

    Prepare for a lawsuit by Anonymous Coward for violating his IP for first posts.

  7. Re:Expectation of privacy on Australian Visitors Must Declare Illegal Porn To Customs Officers · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "This file seems to be encrypted. I suspect you want to hide something illegal there. Please give me the password, otherwise I cannot let you pass."

  8. Re:Physical recursion! on A 3D Lego Fabricator Made of Lego · · Score: 1

    I seem to remember something about a Lego Turing machine. Use that to control the Lego fabricator!

  9. Re:That won't work on Un-killable 'Evercookie' Killed ... Sometimes · · Score: 1

    RequestPolicy blocks anything going to third party sites (i.e. anything not from the domain in the main page's URL), unless you allow it. Unless the site relies on the external site which sets the evercookie (in which case you'll have to either allow it or just live without that site), with RequestPolicy that site will never be able to set/get evercookies because it won't ever even get contacted. That takes care of any cookie mechanism ever invented, and every cookie mechanism ever to be invented, as long as it's from a third party (which is the case you'd care most about).

  10. Re:Evercookie = Nevercookie on Un-killable 'Evercookie' Killed ... Sometimes · · Score: 1

    While I'm using those extensions as well, it's not something for everyone. Sometimes it can take some time to find out all things to enable so that the site works.

  11. Re:Ways to kill evercookie on Un-killable 'Evercookie' Killed ... Sometimes · · Score: 1

    1) Reformat and reinstall OS
    2) Restore HD backup (yes, some of us back up our data)

    Wouldn't you restore the evercookie as well, then?

  12. Re:"Integrated" sounds better on Steve Jobs Lashes Out At Android · · Score: 2, Funny

    Actually it's quite easy to fragment an iPhone. You just have to throw it against the wall really hard. :-)

  13. Re:No, they don't. on Steve Jobs Lashes Out At Android · · Score: 1

    Well, did you ever wonder why geeks tend to have no girl friends? Well, at the first date, they always ask for her source code.

  14. Re:That's fine on Steve Jobs Lashes Out At Android · · Score: 3, Funny

    I refuse to use Android or iOS.

    I didn't think either was an option on your Bakelite rotary dial phone.

    That's so typical. Just because you have an older phone, they don't support it.

  15. Re:LOL on Thief Returns Stolen Laptop Contents On USB Stick · · Score: 1

    He probably wasn't creating movies. Do you have an idea how much text you get into a gigabyte?

  16. Re:Wait a minute... on Ontario School Bans Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    I get about 1.5 kilometers, which is more than a few meters, but still tiny in astronomical scales.

  17. Re:Wait a minute... on Ontario School Bans Wi-Fi · · Score: 2, Informative

    But that's close to the hole. At the distance of Earth, a black hole with the same mass and angular momentum as the sun would have the same gravitational effects as the sun. The region where those massive distortions would happen is inside the volume which currently is occupied by the sun.

  18. Re:Is Julian Assange blacklisted? on Assange Denied Swedish Residence On Confidential Reasons · · Score: 1

    Well, if he can't get Visa, maybe he should try to get MasterCard instead.

  19. Re:Archimedes, again? Really? on President Obama To Appear On Mythbusters · · Score: 1

    What they didn't tell Obama: He will be the target.

  20. Re:Wait a minute... on Ontario School Bans Wi-Fi · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, we should not simply block the sun. We should switch it off.
    * It runs on nuclear (fusion) power.
    * It generates radioactivity.
    * It is responsible for many cases of skin cancer.
    * It is the power source for hurricanes, which cause lots of damage.
    * Its radiation plays a major role in the chemical processes which cause the ozone hole.
    * It is already known that one day it will destroy the Earth.

  21. Re:Ridiculous on Humans Will Need Two Earths By 2030 · · Score: 1

    Yet here we are with humanity intact, where life has never been better.

    Tell that to those living in slums. Or in some third world country.

  22. Re:Noo! on Humans Will Need Two Earths By 2030 · · Score: 1

    AC, on the contrary, is absolutely necessary (at least in some form) for the type of analysis needed to support physics, and even more so for things like Quantum field theory.

    Is it? I don't think anyone has ever studied if a non-AC type of analysis powerful enough for describing physics can be found, mostly due to the fact that it would be wasted effort: the AC version works quite well. However, if you want to state that it's absolutely necessary (as opposed to simply, we depend on it for our descriptions) you'd have to proof that it is not possible to create such a theory.

  23. Re:fark reported on this yesterday...and got it ri on UN May Ban Blotting Out the Sun · · Score: 1

    So I may not use sunblock at the beach any more?

  24. Re:Grid doesn't even carry electrons exactly... on Smart Grid May Also Carry IPv6 Traffic · · Score: 1

    Actually it doesn't carry those waves, it only guides them. The electromagnetic fields are mostly outside the wires.

  25. Re:Repost on MS Gives Free Licenses To Oppressed Nonprofits · · Score: 1

    It doesn't if you make it a proper link.