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  1. Re:XP, then Linux on The Death of Windows XP · · Score: 1

    exactly. Other than the current battle.net issue with WC3 (Planned to be fixed before 1.0) WINE works just fine for everything I play. I finally fully switched to Linux 2 days ago, (I'd used it for non-gaming stuff before) and am quite happy with it.

  2. Re:Where I live the lights arent to prevent accide on A Super-Efficient Light Bulb · · Score: 1

    Maglite. Get a big one, say a 6 D-cell one. It's bright, has wide area illumination, and doubles as a very solid club.

  3. Re:Halving power usage of streetlights, easy. on A Super-Efficient Light Bulb · · Score: 1

    6 D-cell maglite. It's a club and a torch combined. And if someone is going to attack you, street-lights aren't going to stop them. They'll just attack in the shadowy point between lights, or simply not care. Going armed is far better protection than hoping the attacker will be deterred by a simple lamp.

  4. Re:question on A Step Towards Proving the Riemann Hypothesis · · Score: 1

    He used TeX formatting. Put that post through any TeX/LaTeX interpreter (like LyX) and you should get readable math formulae.

  5. Re:Laser diodes == BAD on Questions Arising On Mercury In Compact Fluorescents · · Score: 1

    Red + Green + Blue light = White light. Red + Green + Blue pigment = Black. Cyan + Magenta + Yellow pigment = White. The effect you are describing has nothing to do with the inability to make white from RGB (hint: Your tv/computer monitor does that quite well) and everything to do with the way pigments work. Yellow objects reflect only yellow light. Red+blue pigments mixed will seem to be yellow to the eye (the reflected red and green light in white light mixes to form yellow) but when ONLY yellow light is shined on that mix no light will be reflected, yielding black.
    White light LEDs are done with the UV LED+Coating because making 1 LED emit 3 coulours of light and blend those 3 properly (without spots, etc) is hard. It makes the LED look funny. Small clusters of LEDs will seem speckled unless the LEDs are quite small. Thus, the single white-light LEDs are done using the flourescent coatings.

  6. Re:Nice. on FBI Posts Fake Hyperlinks To Trap Downloaders of Illegal Porn · · Score: 1

    If the link is described as CP (EG the link they used was "4yo_suck.rar.html") then report it without clicking. If you get tricked into clicking, report it & wherever you got tricked from (or whatever poster posted it, etc.) and report it to the owner of the site.

  7. Re:I would have read the article before replying on FBI Posts Fake Hyperlinks To Trap Downloaders of Illegal Porn · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And all the people with link prefetching (like myself) turned on just "clicked" that link from the point of view of the FBI.

  8. Re:Pertinent word... on Unreleased iPhone 2.0 May Already Be Hacked · · Score: 1

    There's this concept in the US. Innocence is assumed until guilt is proven. You might want to try it sometime. Also, the iPhones were hardly bricked. Bricking a device means it is useful only as a paperweight or doorstop without physically replacing parts. Since a simple software update could make the iPhones operable again they weren't bricked.

  9. Re:Screw civic duty on Wikileaks Airs Scientology Black Ops · · Score: 1

    Pie doesn't lie. Choose pie. There are pies for everything. Meat pies. Fruit pies. Vegetable pies. Ice-cream pies. PIE!

  10. Re:because they've been conditioned on Why Is Less Than 99.9% Uptime Acceptable? · · Score: 1

    I last rebooted this win XP box 24 days ago. I was flushing the water-cooling system. Before that, it had gone 37 days without reboot. I'm only getting 98% uptime (actually probably less.) That's horrible. And that's with using WhyReboot and such to avoid unnecessary reboots. If I rebooted every time a program install/uninstall wanted me to I'd be rebooting once a week.

  11. Re:Pricetag in summary doesn't match article... on OCZ Prepares Neural Impulse Actuator for Shipping · · Score: 1

    Projected change in value of the US dollar over the next 2 weeks perhaps? I didn't think it was falling quite that fast though, it will probably only be $500.

  12. Re:April Fools!? on OCZ Prepares Neural Impulse Actuator for Shipping · · Score: 5, Informative

    Not necessarily. There have been devices like this for paralyzed people for years. The big innovation would be making it small and cheap enough to sell, which they say they have done.
    A more detailed review might help.

  13. Re:Isn't it as easy as on Taliban Demands Downtime on Afghanistan Cellphone Networks · · Score: 1

    Pesach involves at least 4 cups of wine, generally more. They were drunk unless they could hold their liquour quite well. Maybe not very drunk, but drunk enough.
    4 cups for the seder, but extras tend to get drunk as well. You say a blessing, the wine is part of it, so bless the table, the chairs, the guests, bless everything! Mel Brooks wasn't really joking in M"en In Tights".

  14. Re:Isn't it as easy as PRedator? on Taliban Demands Downtime on Afghanistan Cellphone Networks · · Score: 1

    It is already a movie, it happened in WW2. BBC article about the medals. The Aussies have given medals to pigeons too.

  15. Re:This is all ridiculous and breeds future behavi on Internet Pranks in Schools · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's not legal to claim someone is a criminal with no evidence, then post posters describing that with falsified evidence around the town.
    That is libel. And some of these kids have done essentially that.

  16. Re:Carbon sequestration on The Century's Top Engineering Challenges · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The problem is the large amount of energy used in creating synthetic diamonds. That's almost certainly enough to release more carbon than one would be storing.

  17. Re:Assembly isn't obsolete! on Obsolete Technical Skills · · Score: 3, Insightful
    From TFA:

    Still used when the utmost performance or very low-level control (e.g. in bootloaders) is desired. Still may be used particularly for small, frequently used sub-routines. On simple processors (not Intel/AMD), it is still viable.
    They didn't forget, it's just a niche skill. Assembly is obsolete for most purposes. You don't see it in application programming. You rarely see it in systems programming. You never see it in web programming. Even games don't use it anymore.
  18. Re:How about a software solution? on Cracking a Crypto Hard Drive Case · · Score: 1

    People will compile themselves and check to see if the self-compiled exe file has the same hash as the downloaded one. That said, someone could exploit your compiler and have it add vulnerabilities.

  19. Re:Not "required" by the law on Finnish Censorship Expanding · · Score: 3, Informative

    About the site
    Lapsiporno.info is run by Matti Nikki to participate in the discussion of Internet censorship, child porn on the internet and the problems related to these things. Nearly everything is written in Finnish with a few pages in English when I've wanted to target it to a larger audience. My primary purpose has been to provide information and knowledge about the subject matter from my own point of view. It was my concern that all the factual information available was from childs' rights organizations and this information tended to be biased and overly supportive towards censorship.

    I started the site back in december 2005 with only one article online, outlining what I knew about Internet censorship and it would and wouldn't apply to child porn distribution. It has been my belief that censorship isn't any kind of solution to child porn, and I actually believe it'll only worsen the situation as it'll give a reason for the people involved to tighten their security and anonymity.

    Over the years I've covered a bunch of issues around the subject matter, and lately I've been writing almost daily about the Internet censorship since it unfortunately was finally implemented in Finland. One of the first things I did was to publish a list of a few hundred censored sites.

    Update 2008-02-17: I said above "one of the first things", I meant after the censorship was activated. Before this, I've written my opinions about why the censorship doesn't work and what should be done instead of it to fight the distribution of child porn online. Now, since I've seen some people thinking I published a list of child porn sites, I'd like to mention that nearly none of the sites on the child porn list seem to contain child porn. I certainly would not have published the full list had I considered it accurate!
    About the censorship

    The Internet censorship was being planned for years, and apparently three successive Ministers of Communications have been supportive to the Internet Censorship until it was finally implemented. When the ministry asked for statements about the planned censorship law from various parties, they were told by the Faculty of Law of the University of Turku that the censorship would be against The Constitution of Finland. Despite this, the ministry insisted there were no legal problems and that the censorship would be implemented.

    The Ministry of Telecommunications has ordered and published some investigations about the legal possibility of censorship, and made its own interpretations of what these investigations say. For example a document that goes by the name "Railaksen Selvitys" and dated 2005-12-16 lists several critical problems and unanswered questions regarding the censorship. These problems are listed in the very beginning of the document and include things like effectiveness of the filtering solutions, the problem of collateral damage when censorship affects more material than it should, freedom of speech, what kind of crimes the censorship should exactly target, etc. Most of these went unanswered and the problems are seen with the current implementation of the censorship. Some of the issues were only addressed partially, for example the freedom of speech regarding reception of illegal material was touched but the police has now been found censoring even sites that do not contain illegal material themselves. What is being practiced now isn't what was planned.

    Apparently the censorship had already been decided to be implemented even before the legality of the censorship had been touched at all. In the beginning of the resulting paper from the above mentioned investigation it's stated that "A decision of principle has been made to take action against distribution of child porn over telecommunication networks". Apparently the ministry had told the law firm that they will implement the censorship no matter what, and requested a paper to support it and to interpret the law in a way to make it look legal. Where this wasn't possible, the paper suggested w

  20. Re:well on Satellite Spotters Make Government Uneasy · · Score: 1

    Try the book "Alan Turing: The Enigma".

  21. Re:well on Satellite Spotters Make Government Uneasy · · Score: 1

    Space isn't cold. But it doesn't emit a ton of IR, since there's nothing there to emit IR. So space looks cold. Thus, IR emitters stand out. Space also fails to emit visible light, so visible light emitters (such as, oh, stars) stand out as well. That said, most stars emit a reasonable amount of IR, so to spot a satellite you have to see the moving IR-emissive stars.
    Also most of the interplanetary/interstellar gas is cold.

  22. Re:What is the problem here? on China Bans Horror Movies · · Score: 1

    On the other hand, the leaders of countries like the USA, Canada, Britain, France, etc. encourage free political speech, hold elections that the majority even of their opponents believe are free and fair, and do not intimidate or imprison peaceful dissidents; therefore they are not dictators, by my definition.


    Except that the USA does stifle free political speech (Free Speech Zones), rig elections (Diebold), and intimidate/imprison peaceful political opponents (Guantanamo, Syrian torture camps, extraordinary rendition, removal of habeus corpus...)

    Just because it's not as bad as china doesn't mean it isn't a dictatorship.
  23. Re:moto on Rush Limbaugh Begs Steve Jobs For Bug Fixes · · Score: 3, Informative

    ....- A Discordian shall always use the official Discordian Document Numbering System.

  24. Re:Here we go again... on SP1 Unsuccessful in Preventing Vista Hacks · · Score: 2, Informative

    The Install.exe files are actually MoPaQ archives. Just copy the install.exe from the broodwar CD to the starcraft folder and rename it to BroodWar.mpq

  25. Re:Ballmer: "Google's not a real company..." on Yahoo To Reject Microsoft Bid · · Score: 1

    Clever use of Dimension Door + Immovable rods. Those 2 can solve most problems with magical libraries.