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  1. Re:Soundcards? on Creative GPLs X-Fi Sound Card Driver Code · · Score: 2, Informative

    Lynx Studio's LynxTwo
    It's a VERY high-performance card. That said, it is a professional card, and thus rather expensive. Compatible with windows, mac os, Linux, and FreeBSD. Possibly other BSDs as well.

  2. Re:Not very good blocking software on Australian Censorship Bypassed Before Live Trials · · Score: 1

    no, you buy it from a hosting provider, or set it up on your home computer, or have a friend do the same.

  3. Re:Backlight on Samsung's New Carbon Nanotube Color E-Paper · · Score: 1

    Something like a Lightwedge could work well as a light for this. They're amazingly even in the light they put onto the page of a book, so would work well for epaper (though you lose any flexibility you may have had.)

  4. Re:Suggesting nightlies to regular users?! on Minefield Shows the (Really) Fast Future of Firefox · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Except that, you know, Minefield is the Firefox trunk. The same thing FF 3.0 branched from, and what 3.1 will be taken from as well. The minefield in the article is simply the current nightly for FF 3.1. So it still has the features, AND is fast.

  5. Re:The Numbers on Plasma Rocket Successful Full Power Test · · Score: 1

    Actually ~2.718281828 It's one of the easier numbers to remember, due to the repetition of the "1828" sequence.

  6. Re:Constant Boost? on Plasma Rocket Successful Full Power Test · · Score: 1

    "They don't. Correct (but old-fashioned) English usage has them both have the . inside the () or "". Modern usage, especially among science type, is to have the . outside any parenthesis, to keep the base sentence internally consistent (and other logical reasons)."

    Wrong. Old fashioned English usage is to place only those elements in the quotes which were actually quoted. Same goes for parentheses. See my quote of your statement above. Modern usage came from typography, and involves placing punctuation inside quotation marks and parentheses. This usage is being supplanted by the older usage for the reasons you stated.

  7. Re:100 times colder than what? on New State of Matter Could Extend Moore's Law · · Score: 2, Funny

    Space is very cold, but screaming for ice cream is useless.

  8. Re:Lines of Code on Linux Kernel Surpasses 10 Million Lines of Code · · Score: 1

    Or just stop using PERL.

  9. Re:No, just normal... on A Look At Google's Newest Data Center · · Score: 1

    The "secret location" thing doesn't make much sense, but reinforced concrete IS both a better insulator and harder to break than glass. This deters theft and keeps costs down.

  10. Re:Bollocks on Generic VMs Key To Future of Coding · · Score: 1

    Real men code in Lazy-k.

  11. Re:It's ok to develop stuff for a small user base on Schneier Calls Quantum Cryptography Impressive But Pointless · · Score: 1

    Ok, old system works like this:
    You get an expensive dedicated link between two sites, and use Diffie-Hellman for key exchange.
    New system:
    You get an even more expensive link between two sites, and use QKD for key exchange. No one can cut the cable and eavesdrop, but all other attacks still work.
    You may as well just invest in harder-to-cut cables. QKD is cable security. The switches are still insecure. The endpoint computers are still insecure. The people running those computers have the same problems they always did. You have a method that, if the attacker does not use a MITM attack at the switch, is perfect for key exchange. But Diffie-Hellman and a strong cable with breakage sensors that cut transmission when the sheathing is cut gives you the same thing, for cheaper.

  12. Re:Nope, he's right... on Schneier Calls Quantum Cryptography Impressive But Pointless · · Score: 1

    Except that you can eavesdrop at any of the switches, just like you normally can. And they're not efficient enough to use a one-time pad for all the data, so it just exchanges a key and uses normal encryption. So your endpoints and switches are still just as insecure, if not more so (side-channel attacks, as mentioned above) and you only stop someone cutting the cable and splicing in to watch. Which, in the vast majority of cases, is not going to be the problem.

  13. Re:The other half of the conversation on Machines Almost Pass Mass Turing Test · · Score: 1

    Look at a bell curve graph for IQ. Yes, 16% of the population DOES have an IQ of 85 or below. There are a LOT of morons out there.

  14. Re:Fuel economy on Fuel Efficiency and Slow Driving? · · Score: 1

    Ideally, you want to try to drive such that you don't use your brakes at all. After all, braking means you're converting your kinetic energy into heat (unless you're lucky enough to drive a hybrid with good regenerative braking). If you never brake, then that means you're never hitting the gas more than you need to, so you're not wasting.

    The second law of thermodynamics would like a word with you. Hybrids regenerate SOME of the energy, not all. It is better to not brake than to brake, even with a hybrid.

  15. Re:Overreaction... on Security Flaw In Yahoo Mail Exposes Plaintext Authentication Info · · Score: 1

    Most website logins are, but they shouldn't be. Something as simple as SAWASC or as complex as SSL can easily protect logins. If SSL is too processor intensive, use something like SAWASC (Shared secret authentication.)

  16. Re:ed -- the question mark! on The Thirteen Greatest Error Messages of All Time · · Score: 1

    Try reading the big lines at the bottom. ^ is control, so C-O C-X saves and exits.

  17. Re:Backwards? on Comcast Outlines New Broadband Policy · · Score: 1

    To be more specific: online games use almost no bandwidth. You aren't transferring screen images, just xyz co-ordinates and aiming vector, what weapon you have, what you're shooting, etc. Very low amounts of data for most games, especially FPSes. This will actually make your connection less likely to drop in the middle of a match. As for skype and other voip, perhaps, but you can reduce the quality of the codec you use to mitigate that.

  18. Re:10 megapixels? on Mobile Phone Users Struggle With Hardware Adoption · · Score: 2, Informative

    You can never add resolution. So if you have a 4 MP camera, and you crop the image, and then want to zoom, and then need to do something else (adjust white balance, etc, etc) you will get a lower-quality end result than with a 10MP. The higher the MP the more you can edit the picture after the fact.
    That said, most people don't edit much, so it won't be useful. Also, lens quality and sensor size tends to matter far more than MP number after 4-5 MP.

  19. Re:ARR, time to be talkin' like a pirate on Today Is International Talk Like a Pirate Day! · · Score: 1

    No one in the RIAA can sing a proper Arrrrriaa.

  20. Re:Simple start on Ubuntu To Pay for Upgrades To the Free Software User Experience · · Score: 1

    For me flash apps eventually just start displaying grey boxes, instead of the app. But I've never seen Firefox 3 crash (Kubuntu-kde4, 8.04, hardy-backports and launchpad kde4 repos enabled., AMD64) and when Flash does work it works fine. Restarting Firefox fixes it, and Session Manager addon makes that simple. Still a bug, but not a 98% crash.

  21. Re:How about some LHC@Home? on LHC Success! · · Score: 1
  22. Re:Finding the next line of text on Mozilla Releases Firefox 3.1 Alpha 2 · · Score: 1

    I use a 21" monitor. I also use Tree Style Tabs, so my tab bar is about 2" thick, on the right side, displaying a tree of tabs. Slashdot's text is about 7" across, I have no trouble reading this. YMMV, of course.

  23. Re:BFD(?) on Researchers Build Malicious Facebook App · · Score: 1

    http://www.foobies.com/ has plenty of free porn. Thank Drew Curtis.
    Oh, wait, supposed to ddos a victim. Nevermind then.

  24. Re:Confused on Every Satellite Tracked In Realtime Via Google Earth · · Score: 2, Funny

    Clearly not. Moons don't dress up in women's underwear.

  25. Re:Strange + Bottom ? on Physicists Discover "Doubly Strange" Particle · · Score: 1

    There are, in fact, two konami particles: the spin 1 and spin 2 konami particles. The spin 1 is up up down down left right left right A B Start, while the spin 2 particle is up up down down left right left right B A select start. The spin 1 particle mediates the cheater force between one player and Contra, while the spin 2 particle mediates the cheater force between two players and contra, at the same time.