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  1. Re:Please widen kde.org! on KDE 4.7.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Your link tells me that >85% have _more than_ 1024 horizontal pixels. Include all those that have 1024 (which is still 25% wider than 800), you got notreason for 800 pixel site width.

  2. Re:Of all the choices, why pick on JSTOR????? on Release of 33GiB of Scientific Publications · · Score: 2

    Before 1933 implies old books, etc.

    Not a stack of papers you can just put through a feed-in scanner.

  3. Re:Optical is taking a long time... on A High-Bandwidth Interplanetary Connection · · Score: 1

    Well... if they had more bandwith, they could send more than the occasional photo.

    Those landers on titan only could send 10Mbyte or so during the decent.

    New horizons has a multi-GB solid state drive. It will fill it up during Pluto flyby (limiting the amount of data it can aquire), and will then spend _months_ transmitting it back a modem speeds.

    With a real time data link, those probes could have / would be able to transfer orders of magnitude more data back home.

  4. Re:Plugins needlessly broken by new version number on Microsoft Exploits Firefox 4 Uproar, Beats IE Drum · · Score: 1

    Too bad that Mozilla does not allow _any kind_ of "+" in the compatibility settings. Include future version-> get booted out of the addon library.

  5. Re:Plugins needlessly broken by new version number on Microsoft Exploits Firefox 4 Uproar, Beats IE Drum · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Do not talk about shit you have no idea about.

    Mozilla _forbits_ addons to be compatible with future versions. If somebody uploaded a addon during 5 beta that tells "I am fine with 5.0 final", it was rejected.

    Thats why _every_ addon needs to be updated _after_ the release of the final version.

  6. Re:"wiggler" on Boeing's Enormous Navy Laser Cannon · · Score: 1

    Well, I think thats a bit of a mislabeling, anyway.

    An FEL needs inter-bunch coherence in the insertion device.
    Therfore, a K factor smaller than one would be required for efficient emission.

    This would make the ID an Undulator, and not a Wiggler.

  7. Re:Is it feasible to bounce the beam off satelites on Boeing's Enormous Navy Laser Cannon · · Score: 1

    I would not want to be the guy flying the giant-mirror-for-the-superlaser aircraft

  8. Re:Where is the price crash ? on Bitcoin Price Crashes · · Score: 1

    Its as 17 because:

    a) there is no way to cash out on weekends
    b) Most assets are frozen on Mt.Gox
    c) Gox is holding up the market by their $17.5 price guarantee.

    My guess is that after the rush of people getting away from Mt.Gox, they wont have enough reserved to cover the 17.5 guarantee, after which the real crash will happen.

  9. Re:Growing pangs on Bitcoin Price Crashes · · Score: 1

    It is, as the founders of bitcoin could crunch on difficulty _1_ for almost a year. Now we are at difficulty 800k. Meaning that they get a million times higher payoff for being in early.

    The whole scheme _needs_ more people coming in to keep up the demand.

  10. Re:buh? on Bitcoin Price Crashes · · Score: 1

    Even worse. The price shot down to 1.2cent/BTC.

    Thats down to 0.1%. They could have gotten 100k BTC out of it in those $1000.

    And I think you are exactly right: They got some accounts from the top of the pyramid (as the oldest accounts had no salt in their hash), dumped the price down to zero and then cashed out the maximum possible amounts of BTC.

  11. Re:CSRFs in Lead Bitcoin Dev's Escrow service on Bitcoin Price Crashes · · Score: 1

    And the funny thing is, those early accounts are on the top of the pyramid scheme, as with the current price a simple desktop was crunching $100k a week or so a year ago...

  12. Re:Takes a look at photo from the article ... on Infertile Daughter To Receive Uterus From Mother · · Score: 1

    As her sickness seems also to encompass "lack of vagina", I would assume that sperm donation would not encompass penis->vagina action.

  13. Re:well ... on Infertile Daughter To Receive Uterus From Mother · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Made the same mistake in my comment below, before looking up the Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser syndrome.

    Scary part: Relevance 1 in 5000. Main symptom: no uterus _and_ no vagina.

    Wikipedia has also the following insane story:
    "In 1988, a teenager living in the small southern African nation of Lesotho came to local doctors with all the symptoms of a woman in labor. The doctors were puzzled, however, because she did not have a vagina, only a shallow skin dimple. Doctors traced her pregnancy to a knife wound to her abdomen 278 days earlier, after she had practiced fellatio on her boyfriend. The sperm had leaked from her stomach to her abdominal cavity and fertilized one of her eggs. This case was reported by Dr. Richard Paulson, head of the University of Southern California Fertility Program in Los Angeles, February 3, 2010.[3]"

    Sounds just like something from House...

  14. Re:So, daughter's husband dropping his seed into.. on Infertile Daughter To Receive Uterus From Mother · · Score: 1

    Yup.

    Plus the woman will be able to do a chinatown... "She is my daughter.... and my sister..."

    (ok, actually not, as she does not have a genetic contribution its not her biological daughter...)

  15. Re:Better video on Massive Explosion On the Sun · · Score: 1

    And some of the flashes are as big as the earth...

    This 2nd movie truely is the most impressive one I have ever seen of the sun.

  16. Re:$75000 per gigabyte on Usenet With a 30 Year Lag · · Score: 1

    Well, you have to consider this was definitively not 3.5"...

  17. Re:Debunked already on Collatz Proof Proposed: Hailstone Sequences End In 1 · · Score: 1

    If you (metaphorically) go on the podium with your fly open and your dick hanging out, you deserve to be laughed off the stage.

    I am waaay behind in my mathematics (since university), but even to me the paper looked rather fishy. If a problem has not been solved for decades, a prudent researcher would not push a paper like this out. And he surely wouldnt give interviews in the press talking how good he is and how he only recently started working on the problem...

  18. Faulty Assumtions on Cheap GPUs Rendering Strong Passwords Useless · · Score: 3, Insightful

    A 6-7 letter password only using letters and numbers is NOT strong.

    It would be trivial to cover it with rainbow tables and have near realtime cracking even without GPUs.

    _Not weak_ would be 10 letter+, with a salt. Would make brute forcing not really that easy anymore...

  19. Re:I say the oppsite on Microsoft and Nvidia Have Acquisition Pact · · Score: 1

    Your post radiates dumbness like the fire of a thousand suns.

    I was contemplating about writing a respons to the stupidity, but I really did not know where to start.

  20. Re:I've been waiting for these on OCZ Couples SSD, Mechanical Storage On a PCIe Card · · Score: 1

    Sorry, but the cache of the XT is besically useless in most cases, as its FAAAAR to small.

    The only thing it really would get 2/3rds of the performance of anything SSD is when you have a benchmark repeated for the 2nd run.

  21. Re:I've been waiting for these on OCZ Couples SSD, Mechanical Storage On a PCIe Card · · Score: 1

    You dont seem to grasp what "cache" means.

  22. Re:two weeks without KDE... and not missing it on KDE 4.7 – a First Look At Beta 1 · · Score: 1

    You are really so funny.

    You use a system that is so unstable that you dont even dare to login in GUI (as its broken so often due to all the reasons you list), and still feel superior about it.

  23. Re:Security through obscurity on Siemens SCADA Hacking Talk Pulled From TakeDownCon · · Score: 3, Informative

    And stuxnet was transmitted via USB sticks doing the sneakernet stuff...

  24. Re:WHAT! on How Windows 7 Knows About Your Internet Connection · · Score: 1

    You can just boot from your windows CD and open regedit...

  25. Depends on commit style on 10,000 Commits To an Open-source Project · · Score: 1

    I am watching a rather basic open source game and the creator makes _everything_ into a atomic commit.
      Most commit change logs are only a few characters.

    Clocked in 2k commits in less than a year and still only basic functionality...