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  1. Re:It just won't work on Microsoft's New Mantra - It Just Works · · Score: 1

    I guess WinFS will store the preiew icons as long as the file isnt changed.

  2. Re:Quite the interesting point on Human Hibernation on the Horizon? · · Score: 1

    ah, well. I didnt think that way, but my point is still valid: Why setting up a infusion if you can just put some drops in the drink?

  3. Re:Quite the interesting point on Human Hibernation on the Horizon? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What is your point?

    If anyone wants to kill/silence/ect you, he could just inject some air to kill you or some normal sedative and than do whatever he wants in as much time as he wants.

    So why does the facts that the hibernation can be started by injection make it in any way abusable? Wouldnt airborne starting much worse?

  4. Re:Translation on Havoc Pennington on GNOME 3's Future · · Score: 4, Funny

    hm.
    The strange thing is that i remember this whole now "spacial" thing since windows 95.
    Back than it was called "why the fuck does this damn explorer open every folder in a new window" and was usually disabled by every computer literate after 2 hours....

  5. Re:Other effects on Asteroid 2004 MN4 May Hit Earth After All · · Score: 1


    Er. What has chemistry to do with it (answer: nothing, they are just idiots too stupid for quantum mechanics). (and also: you sound like somebody who never even heard a QM lecture, not to speak of passing...)

    Why do you "know" how much space the nucleus occupies? Right. Do some scattering, probe the potential well. But its just the same than with the electrons, just on a higher energy scale.

    And the rest of space isnt EMPTY, goddamit. It just has a lower density, which can be descripted by the particle wave of the electrons in it.

  6. Already here. on Sony Online To Sell Virtual Property · · Score: 2, Informative

    In gunbound you can buy "gold" for $$$.

    And yeah, whats so bad about it? You can invest either lots of time or money for the same result.
    And yeah, some people would rather spend 20$ than 5hours of grinding...

  7. Re:Other effects on Asteroid 2004 MN4 May Hit Earth After All · · Score: 1

    Well, then of course you could also say: "forget the nucleus, there is sooo much empty space between the quarks".

    But its unimportant.
    The same with your electrons. "forget the electrons" you say, but they are the VERY basic thing that is "matter" as we use to descripe it.
    If it where anything else, you would fall through all those "space" in the atoms to the center of the earth.

  8. Re:Other effects on Asteroid 2004 MN4 May Hit Earth After All · · Score: 1

    Of course this isnt true at all, because there is no such thing as time points of electrons flying around, so the area with enough probability amplitude should considered filled, not empty.

    Also, the solar system is a damn tight space compared to space in general... he here are WAY up from the standart 2.7*10^-27 kg/m^3 thats there in average.

    Also, whatrs wrong about exclaiming about an asteroid the size of texas? Its a rare event, i too wouldnt expect a rogue body that big in a collision orbit. There aint that many of those around in our solar system...

  9. Re:Actual energy yields: on Asteroid 2004 MN4 May Hit Earth After All · · Score: 4, Informative

    Difference:
    The energy of the MN4 impact would be delivered into the athmosphere, a VASTLY less stable enviroment than the earth mantle.
    Not to mention dust|chemical alteration problems...

  10. Re:Not about hashes on Finnish Firm Claims Fake P2P Hash Technology · · Score: 1

    Er, all the hashes are in the torrent file.
    So even a compromised tracker wont result in a wrong file (it just will give an error, but if you can compromise the tracker, you can shut him down without anymore problems).

    And well, gnutella still seems to be dwelling in the last century, in fact i didnt bother installing a client the last 5 years or so. Depricated.

  11. Re:Not about hashes on Finnish Firm Claims Fake P2P Hash Technology · · Score: 1

    Welcome to the 21th century.

    Bittorrent uses hashes per Block (most ofen 256Kbyte).The worst case that could happen would be a blockloss. Nothing like "the file has to be scapped". It just redownloads this block.
    THe same with emule (and newer emules have a secondary hashtree that limits loss to at most 200kbyte more than the actuall corrupted data, so not even a full 6MByte block is lost).

  12. Re:Sharing on Finnish Firm Claims Fake P2P Hash Technology · · Score: 1

    what are you talking about?
    People dont just "whoa" find 100s of gigabyte of date to share...(and it would be useless if they dont have massive upstream capacity).
    People just add one file, than another, ect.
    ANd i dont know what YOU are using (or "some people you know"), but MD5 hashes with about 30MB/s with a Athlon xp2000. In the background on nice. So half a minute for a cd. Doesnt sound like a lot of "commitment" to me.

    (also, one shouldnt scan the whole HD. think about it)

  13. Re:Seems bogus to me on Finnish Firm Claims Fake P2P Hash Technology · · Score: 2, Informative

    haha.

    A sha hash is what? 256bit?
    so you get 32byte per block.
    Now how many pertubation can you get...
    Lets assume your p2p software uses block sizes of 4byte. For a complete database you would need 2^32*32Byte=128Gbyte.
    For a complete 8byte set you would need 2^64*32byte.
    All the storage space in the world wouldnt even be enough for a 128Byte block, and bittorrent uses a minimum of 32Kbyte, edonkey even has a hash over the total filelenght.
    For 32Kbyte, there isnt enough matter inthe universe to store enough information to get even a 1:10^50 chance of getting a hit.

  14. Re:They have cracked strong hashes, huh? on Finnish Firm Claims Fake P2P Hash Technology · · Score: 1

    Well, nothing:
    The data is downloaded, indentified as fake and discarded.
    And yes, some clients drop peers with too much fake traffic.
    also think again: most people have much more down than upload. So you you cant really efficiently ddos the download pipe of all those cable/dsl users. They just download with 100 instead of 80 Kbyte/s and just drop the 20K. It wont be slower than without.

  15. Ok... on The Early History of Nupedia and Wikipedia: A Memoir · · Score: 0, Troll

    Now i dont think the submitter SERIOUSLY expects anybody to read that whole rant...
    Nupedia didnt work. Failed. Like dead. remember it. Happy week if there was one new article.

    No amount of blaming wikipedia will rewrite history. Nupedia had all the chances it deserved, it failed, so no need to shift blame elsewhere.

  16. Re:superconductor != 0 resistance on Quantum Wires · · Score: 1

    actually, the concept of superconductivity was NOT proposed long before it was discovered by onnes.
    There was the oppinion that metals should have zero resistance at 0K, but they didnt even think about the meissner ochsenfeld effect. So they just predicted a perfect conductor (using a wrong theory of electrical conductance), not a superconductor.
    (this perfect superconductor would flux-freece, not push out the fieldlines when becoming perfectly conductive inside a b-field)

  17. Re:Just use a solid state "disk" for this... on Best Motherboard for a Large Memory System? · · Score: 1

    Same price, a factor 100 slower.
    Whats the advantage?

  18. Re:Programmer Base 10 math Calculator on Tiger's 200 New Features · · Score: 0

    Was this supposed to be a joke?
    Or didnt you notice that the windows calculator does this if switched to scientific mode since win95?

  19. Re:We SORELY Need this Technology in the US on IBM to Help UAE Track Drivers on the Road · · Score: 1

    well, but the stupid kph doesnt have a meter anywhere, so it could be kilo everything.
    Not to mention that just "kilo" is most often associated with kilogram, not kilometer.

  20. Re:The $110 million mission on DART Succumbs to Fuel Problems · · Score: 2, Funny

    Building a fully automated probe: 70 Million$
    Lauch into LEO via rocket: 40 Million$
    One fillup with propellant for end-naviagation: 50$
    Failing the mission because you were cheap on the wrong end: Priceless

    (values guesses that should be in the right order of magnitude)

  21. Re:Slightly off-topic, but... on LED Evolution Could Spell The End For Bulbs · · Score: 1

    Well, if you make the plastic bigger, you have to get rid of the heat. Plastic isnt exactly a good heat conductor, and for the small ones, the pins are the main heat transport.

    But the new BIG leds (like the luxon star ones) more or less use the "just put a bigger die in" approach, but they are in SMD form factor and use the back for cooling.

  22. Re:LEDs are definitely becoming more powerful on LED Evolution Could Spell The End For Bulbs · · Score: 1

    wrong.
    Thats true for daylight applications, but if your eyes are night adapted , blue is the colour the eye is most sensitive for.
    The rods in the eye that are used for black/white vision are most sensitive at about 440nm.
    Thats the reason a green indicator might be more visible at day than a blue, but if you look at them at night, the blue one creates more illumination.

  23. I give a shit on Adobe Releases Acrobat Client for Linux · · Score: 1

    and prefer a nicely typeset pdf to any shit a browser renders from a html file

  24. Re:Catch-22 on Major Aussie ISP Disconnecting Trojaned PCs · · Score: 1

    why not just "sandbox" the user into a explanation site and update.windows.com?
    if all dns querys outside of this would be dropped from users that are flagged as bad, it would also make the dos ineffective in the meantime.

  25. That was my first thought, too: on Major Aussie ISP Disconnecting Trojaned PCs · · Score: 1

    And now im affected and the isp doesnt let me connect, how do i get some removal utility?
    Redirecting also is much more intuitive than a simple "cannot connect" error.