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  1. Re:How much is your time worth on Handmade vs. Commercially Produced Ethernet Cables · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I believe that was not the comparison he was making.

    The point was that if you earn more than $20/hour it is a waste of your valuable time to be making cables whilst you could be doing the work you are paid to do.

  2. Re:concerns alleviated... on Google Open Sources Updater · · Score: 2, Informative

    Still would not validate.

    Theirs is digitally signed and has date stamps in.

    I think the only options is to use something like bindiff, which excludes comparisons of much of the PE metadata.

  3. Re:Using the wrong touch screen technology on Voting Machines and 'Calibration Drift' · · Score: 1

    Ah glad someone else wanted to point this out too.

    I work with touch screens pretty much daily and even small temperature changes cause the calibration to drift by a few centimeters on a 17" screen.

  4. Re:This is sick on Konami Announces a Game Based On a 2004 Battle In Fallujah · · Score: 1

    If I lived in the US, indeed, I would feel compelled to sign up, uniform up and join the forces if my home country were being unfairly invaded.

    And yes, I do believe they would be justified in killing anyone who is not demonstrably surrendering unconditionally at that point.

    A tad extreme, but also the safest way to wage war in a difficult situation for the invading force. That actually is the point of invading a country, to achieve compliance within the current populace, assuming you want to keep them alive.

    If you're losing in a war in an invaded area, and you are not a soldier, generally you are given the choice of surrendering or dying.

    I'm not sure what your idea of a fair war is? Care to explain?

  5. Re:This is sick on Konami Announces a Game Based On a 2004 Battle In Fallujah · · Score: 1

    Keep telling yourself that, and you might even begin to believe it's true yourself.

    If you were less hasty, and not quite so prone arguing the irrelevant, you would have noticed I said "definitions", not the "usage notes" that you seem to be quoting as truth.

    If only you took the advice in your own sig...

    "Please read and at least attempt to understand comment before replying, kthxbye."

  6. Re:This is sick on Konami Announces a Game Based On a 2004 Battle In Fallujah · · Score: 1

    Take a look at how many people are currently calling for Bush to be tried as a war criminal.

    Spain is currently pushing for exactly this.
    Take a look at
    http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2007/03/spain-judge-says-bush-and-iraq-war.php and
    http://harpers.org/archive/2009/03/hbc-90004640 for example.

  7. Re:This is sick on Konami Announces a Game Based On a 2004 Battle In Fallujah · · Score: 1

    You think people hiding amongst the populace to force an enemy army to constantly expose themselves to danger whilst being unable to identify their enemy does not fit that very definition?

    That is exactly that, a threat of force from an enemy you cannot retaliate against.

    You should spend some money learning to understand the dictionary you obviously wasted all that money on.

    PS. Adding an unqualified "Fucking retard." to the end of your post does not help your argument. At least you're just another troll.

  8. Re:This is sick on Konami Announces a Game Based On a 2004 Battle In Fallujah · · Score: 1

    So why does the very definition you link to not actually say that? Are you kidding me?

    noun
    1. the unnecessary, indiscriminate killing of a large number of human beings or animals, as in barbarous warfare or persecution or for revenge or plunder.
    2. a general slaughter, as of persons or animals: the massacre of millions during the war.
    3. Informal. a crushing defeat, esp. in sports.

    verb (used with object)
    4. to kill unnecessarily and indiscriminately, esp. a large number of persons.
    5. Informal. to defeat decisively, esp. in sports.

  9. Re:Are you really that stupid on AP Says "Share Your Revenue, Or Face Lawsuits" · · Score: 2

    Who's republishing your comments?

    Hmm, no-one, because they have a near trivial value?

    If someone is republishing your entire output, it has value to them.

    Slashdot stories might have made a better argument - but they are "paid for" by the site link the submitter gets.

  10. Re:This is sick on Konami Announces a Game Based On a 2004 Battle In Fallujah · · Score: 1

    Massacre has no implication that people were not fighting back.

    A 13:1 KD is still extreme, especially when it is often reported that those killed were non-combatants.

    To jump the gun a little, yes I am well aware that during insurgent occupation it is impossible to distinguish between combatants and non-combatants.

    There are very difficult choices to be made too - if locals are not showing you who the terrorists are, they're enemies. Irrespective of the threat they are no doubt under from these terrorists.

    As soon as you are a fighting force hiding amongst the populace you are no longer part of a legal army, you are a terrorist, and anyone assisting these people are also the same.

    If you're getting 13:1, you're killing huge numbers of people very easily, be that because of better training or because they are unarmed enemies. That still makes it a massacre.

  11. Re:Too late FBI on FBI Seizes All Servers In Dallas Data Center · · Score: 1

    Guess you did not been read the news later in the day. Turned out the whole raid was actually over a large fraud investigation into unpaid telco fees for VoIP operators, whose large number of servers were taken.

  12. Re:Too late FBI on FBI Seizes All Servers In Dallas Data Center · · Score: 1

    I wish I had not already posted in this thread, or you would definitely be getting some of my mod points... Let's hope someone else notices you post! :)

  13. Re:Too late FBI on FBI Seizes All Servers In Dallas Data Center · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I think perhaps the fact it's largely other people's UNRELATED stuff is where the issue really begins to rub people up the wrong way.

    There were a bunch of raids like this in the UK. The police keep taking entire sets of Indymedia servers and not giving them back for ages.

  14. Re:5 years of searchable private emails on Gmail Marks Five Years In Beta · · Score: 1

    It does constantly amuse me how the targeting is rather lacking in intelligence.

    My last name happens to be the same as a region of the UK - I am forever seeing adverts relating to this region.

    Clearly the rest of my e-mail is too mundane to trigger and product keywords! :(

  15. Re:First! on Ubuntu vs. Windows In OpenOffice.org Benchmark · · Score: 1

    On Windows, you will largely find that although the data is in the same file, it is not actually part of the executable image, so the situation is a little different to what the GP is talking about.

    If you check the headers with a PE header dump tool, you normally see the pile of installer data on the end is that - data appended after the end of what is technically the executable.

    The GP is discussing actually large executables, where one of the actual segments in the PE is big. The OS only loads required pages - when a non-loaded page is generated, a page fault occurs which is trapped by the OS, which loads the relevant part of the image into memory.

    Multiple copies of the same EXE can actually use the same copies of the pages too - they are write protected initially, and if the program modified them the OS traps it, creates a copy of the page allowing the modification and continues (Copy On Write - COW).

  16. Re:i find it so hard on Taming Conficker, the Easy Way · · Score: 1

    It is not necessarily a grand activation date.
    It is just one of the (many) predefined dates where the worm switches auto-update mechanism.

    It has a current auto-update mechanism, so a new payload could be handed out anyway, whether or not the April 1st code exists or not.

  17. Re:Competition is good.. for us on NVidia Considering Porting PhysX To OpenCL · · Score: 1

    Wish I still had modpoints, as far as I am concerned you have hit the nail on the head.

    Considering the direction of 3D hardware is now pretty much determined by meetings about DirectX specs between MS & ATI / MS & nVidia, the OpenGL might as well follow along closely.

    Once they know it's going to appear in each manufacturer's silicon, what is the point in not supporting it ASAP.

  18. Re:First post. on Mozilla First To Patch Pwn2Own Browser Vulnerability · · Score: 1

    The officially released point betas actually have had testing.

    Security and stability are two very different things.

    Betas do not have deliberate mistakes - once an issue is known, it would seem sensible to fix it in active branches with an update mechanism, which notably includes the official beta.

    Fair enough, nightlies and stuff don't have such an update mechanism and I would not expect one.

  19. Re:First post. on Mozilla First To Patch Pwn2Own Browser Vulnerability · · Score: 1

    Although I do notice the Firefox 3.1 Beta 3 has no update yet - I just tried the PoC, it is definitely vulnerable.

    Maybe it's time to start using nightlies if you are a 3.1 beta user?

  20. Re:why? on New Lossless MP3 Format Explained · · Score: 1

    I imagine it contains the significantly smaller deltas between the output of the lossy codec and the the exact audio data?

    The use case is presumably to not require 2 copies of the same data to maintain backwards compatibility.

  21. Re:You have the date. What's the next instruction? on Researchers Ponder Conficker's April Fool's Activation Date · · Score: 1

    There is one HUGE motivation to defeat the botnet. You seem to be ignoring the fact that this would be extremely profitable to another botmaster. This serves two purposes, firstly eliminating part of the competition, and secondly strengthening the botmasters herd.

    To respond to the crypto comments, taking a simple example, I believe DSA's only known weaknesses are where Oscar can choose the text that Alice will be signing, or it is very short plaintext to be signed. If you know otherwise, it's worth a lot of money publicly and a lot more privately. I think if the schemes we use today were widely broken, there would be a lot more visible evidence.

  22. Re:You have the date. What's the next instruction? on Researchers Ponder Conficker's April Fool's Activation Date · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Except that any botnet author with half a brain in the last few years has stopped you from stealing their botnet by only accepting digitally signed commands and updates.

    It is a bit of a catch 22 - if you had their botnet, you might be able to crack the private key in a reasonable amount of time.

  23. Re:Great on Firefox 3.1 Beta 3 Released · · Score: 1

    Great comment spam on slashdot... just what we all need.

    I even have mod points, but as I'm the GP, can't even mod it. :(

  24. Re:Sarcastic or not? on How $1,500 Headphones Are Made · · Score: 1

    If you look at picture of the connector kindly linked by "ottawanker", you can see the two signal cable paths remain entire inside the grounded outer.

    Considering how much of the cable must be exposed at other points in the system, I would guess a centimetre or two of exposed signal cable would introduce significant quality loss, but then I'm not paying $1000 for headphones.

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/the-jude/3254384356/sizes/l/in/photostream/

  25. Re:Great on Firefox 3.1 Beta 3 Released · · Score: 1

    /s/and/the/

    That'll teach me to post on auto-pilot through the preview in the early hours of the morning!