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  1. Re:To evade whitelists on DIY CPU Demo'd Running Minix · · Score: 1

    I can see the foam on your mouth.
    Sentence lenght without interpunctation is a nice gauge for that.

    Not that your argument makes any sense, anyway.

  2. Re:She's in Russia on Hans Reiser Interview on ABC's 20/20 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well, the thing is, everything hints to the fact that the seat had to be disposed because of the gore that couldnt be cleaned.
    Its been a while since i have read up on the case, so i might be wrong, but IIRC, he claimed that he "spilled something" on it, and it had to be removed.

  3. Re:Renaissance man, indeed. on Hans Reiser Interview on ABC's 20/20 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    No, you asshole (sir is to good for you) are an idiot.

  4. Re:She's in Russia on Hans Reiser Interview on ABC's 20/20 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Of course she also removed his car-seat, and put that "how to dispose a body" book into his stuff, too...

  5. Re:Damnable Security! on Picture Passwords More Secure than Text · · Score: 1

    Either you are to anal about stroke positions and lenght (and nobody will be able to remember their picture), or most smileys will work as the same.

    Its not a single bit easier to remember "I have to set the eye in cell 12/54, the other one in 33/54. After that the circle should go up to row 10 and down to row 65 , ect..." that to remember a complicated password.

  6. Mod up parent on Citizendium After One Year · · Score: 1

    Sorry, i am out of points, so i cannot do it myself.

    Larry has invested so much clout in this project he will defend it till the end, no matter much much it sucks.
    German wikipedia had a very similar case: Mr. Fuchs, an ex-moderator and oppinion-troll (is main idea was "TOO MANY ARTICLES! DELETE DELETE DELETE". To explain his idiocy: For him, the only notable movies are those who won academy awards...). Well, his wikiweise looks the same like this now: After 2 (or so) years, 50% of the edits are now done by 4 persons, one of them himself.

    But you will never hear him accept any kind of misstake, even now. And he still has a blog where he rants about how poisoned the wiki is by bad information...

  7. Re:Wholesale slaughter of millions of people on The Real Mother of All Bombs, 46 Years Ago · · Score: 1

    Well, its not cost efficient.
    All the "wholesale slaughters" that have happend up to know were done very low tech.
    Whether its by using pesticides, or ordering 100 thousands of manchetes in china for your people the cleanse the country (like done in Rhuanda), the real mass murderings are always close and personal.

  8. Re:Somethign doesn't add up on The Real Mother of All Bombs, 46 Years Ago · · Score: 1

    Sorry, i remembered that wrong.
    I discriped the "big" version of the tzar bomb, but the one really detonated was downsized and had no functional 3rd stage.

  9. Re:Somethign doesn't add up on The Real Mother of All Bombs, 46 Years Ago · · Score: 1

    Sorry, but thats not true. (at least to my knowledge)
    The Tzar bomb was a 3-stage design.
    Fission trigger, internal fustsion, plus absorption cladding that gets "breed" up to fissable material.
    Thats the reason it was so damn heavy: there were many tons of Uranium around the bomb, which capture escaping neutrons from the inner reaction and produce a significant part of the energy after a few 100 ns.
    Thats also the reason why those bombs never went off afterwards: Its a real waste of material, and creates _massive_ amounts of fallout.

    Your 3% figure for fission would make sense if it were only for the primer (not counting the 3rd stage)...

  10. Re:Trivipedia on Call For Halt To Wikipedia Webcomic Deletions · · Score: 1

    The problem is that people dont really want to see something that is true, but something that is entertaining.

    A high traffic "triviapedia" wouldnt mean jack.
    Just like 4chan is more popular than slashdot doesnt mean that the /tech board there is the better solution...

  11. Simple reason: on Gaming Mag Circulation Numbers May Not Mean That Much · · Score: 1

    Gaming magazines consist EXCLUSIVELY of two parts: Advertisements, and articles they are paid for (i.e. hidden ads).
    While the internet isnt any better, at least there are usually the user comments/reviews that give hints if something is fishy (like the 9.8 game having 5.5 user average...).

    I have been reading computer mags, and game mags, for 20 years now.
    The quality was never really good, but with the competition against the internet things became a lot more ugly.

    The mags NEED exclusives to compete, and they will whore themselves out to get those exclusive demos, previews, reviews, ect. (the fact that there are a lot of strings attached, in the line of "give us 5 pages of previews" or "no result less than 85%" is hidden from thr reader).

  12. Re:Overkill? on Cheap New GeForce 8800 GT Challenges $400 Cards · · Score: 1

    Play the crysis demo.

    Then you realize two things:

    a) you have seen movies with worse graphics
    b) there is no graphic hardware in the world that can enable all details.

    Just like in the sweet old times. All those cards running the latest games at 200fps gets boring once in a while...

  13. Re:Who the heck is buying these cards? on Cheap New GeForce 8800 GT Challenges $400 Cards · · Score: 1

    Counter question:
    Who is buying Wii-Priced games anyway?

    If i buy one game a month, the card will have paid for itself.

    Not to mention that for Wii-like games, intel integrated graphics would be plenty.

  14. Re:We already have handheld supercomputers on Handheld Supercomputers in 10-15 Years? · · Score: 1

    No, it doesnt have a that meaning.
    _You_ just bought some meaningless bullshit a few years back, but that doesnt make it right.

    The Gigaflops range was NEVER the definition of a supercomputer.
    And you seriously make a joke out of yourself with all you bullshit posts in this topic.

  15. What a fanboy wank... on Know Any Hardware Needing Better Linux Support? · · Score: 1

    Seeing about 50 modeded up replies here, all of them are like "yeah, your stuff doesnt work, but thats the _wrong kind_ of driver missing, go away!", or "Kernel drivers vs userspace drivers is like race driving vs surgery, NOTHING AS ALL IN COMMON" (yeah, with the exception that its programming, in the same language, using similar interfaces, for drivers. If you arent that flexible, go ahead and die) is really sad. In fact, it borders on microsoft-like doublespeak. "there are no bugs, its a feature all those drivers are now in userspace and not our concern anymore".
    Well, i gues that why everybody seems to like the microkernel concept. In that, they wont have driver problems ever again, by definition...

  16. Re:no surprise there on Apple's OS X Leopard In Depth · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Sorry, if that kind of computer wouldnt be "quite snappy", it would be an utter disgrace...

  17. Re:Linux isn't done yet on Where Does Linux Go From Here? · · Score: 1

    The thing is that this method just makes you an mindless slave of your ditro. If the developers of the app dont get the distro-makers to like it, it might not exists at all. No way to put an "intstall.exe" on your homepage and be done with.

    Thats a worse groupthink then even apple ever had.

  18. Re:So what's the control? on Radiohead May Have Made $6-$10 Million on Name-Your Cost Album · · Score: 1

    Do you really think they get 30% of the retail album sales price?
    I think 10% might be a realistic value, and just because they are a big-name group.

    I mean, the retail chain alone eats up maybe half of the retail price, disregarding the whole MAFIAA.

  19. Kneejerk reactions... on RIAA Sues Usenet.com · · Score: 1

    Well, there is one thing as "enabling people to do piracy", and another thing to plaster stuff like "for only 5$ a month, with our service you can download all the warez and moviez you want" on your website.

    I personally remember usenet.com's homepage to be like that. Now it isnt, so i went to archive.org to see what it looked like a few months ago.

    And see, they aked archive.org to block their site. For some reason. Would surely not have anything to do with hide those sad little parts of their past that would look bad in court.

  20. "delivering energy directly to the battlefield" on Pentagon Urges Space-Based Solar Power · · Score: 2, Interesting

    is such a perfect euphemism. Those insurgents better get some suntan factor 2000 if our space ray starts delivering :)

    All jokes aside, this concept isnt really useful for general energy production until we can decrease the cost of delivering stuff into orbit by at least 2 orders of magnitude.

    And cost doesnt mean $, but also energy. People still believe the myth that solar cells dont yield their production energy cost in their lifetime. Thats not true for 2 decades now, but getting the stuff into orbit adds a huge factor in the total energy balance.

  21. Benchmark result: on Intel X38 High End Chipset Launch and Benchmarks · · Score: 2, Informative

    Same performance as any other board (inside the margin of error).
    Seriously, why even bother benchmarking?
    You buy those boards for compatibilty, or for their features, but not because they are _faster_....
    (extreme overclockers excluded. Some board may be better suited for FSB overclocking).

  22. Re:And... on New Car Sensor System Simulates Birds-Eye View · · Score: 1

    You did not read the article. Not even the _summary_.
    There is no flipping through views.

  23. Re:Nice to get a watt/CPU on First Actual CPU Energy Use Statistics Published · · Score: 1

    Every single component shows how much it will heat up your place. Its this little number with the "W" at the end.

    Why the hell you guys need two tollay different units for the same (Power) still eludes me, but i guess you just cant drop one with "british" in it...

  24. How i hated those trivia-shitpiles on Has Wikipedia Peaked? · · Score: 1

    Seriously. Ever goddamn serious article has some boil on the ass in the form of the Trivia section.
    Because you HAVE to know when looking up some building that this cartoon blew is up in issue 1314, or that that celebrity once got a nude photo in the internet.
    Most of it was crap, nearly everything urban legend or unsourced, and a majority just anti-knowledge.

  25. Re:Probably a good idea, provided you have PCIe on Is Video RAM a Good Swap Device? · · Score: 1

    IDE drives get >75Mbyte in the outer zones, and drop to the 50s in the middle.
    Some reach >60. So even UDMA66 would limit them non-trivially.