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  1. Re:Bad for security... on Microsoft Source Follow-Up · · Score: 1

    Apparently the leaked files are only the ones changed between Win2k gold and Win2k sp1.
    Since most of these have been changed in the meantime by sp2/3/4, many exploitable places will have been fixed, and more importantly will have changed offset in the address space of the dll(s), making this code much less usefull for developing exploits.

  2. Re:The desktop is a personal thing on Whose Desktop Would You Most Like To See? · · Score: 1
  3. Smashing Pumpkins on What Was the Very First MP3 You Downloaded? · · Score: 1

    "Bullet with Butterfly Wings", at 112kbps, played with fraunhofer's winplay3 player on my 486.
    I figure that was back in '95.

    (and yes, I own all their albums :)

  4. Prices in Denmark on Broadband Pricing Across The World? · · Score: 1

    Here in Denmark I pay around 100USD for 2mbit/256k DSL.
    Pretty expensive, but it does have impressive uptime and stable bandwidth + true unlimited quota, so I guess it's not too bad.

  5. Re:What I'd like to see on Colorization of Mars Images? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The rover is solar-powered.
    (they're too cautious to use battery power to take relatively useless night images)

  6. Re:Why? on New Sony Minidisc Players · · Score: 1

    It's mainly for the japanese market afaict, they loves them some minidiscs (like they still love laserdisc and sundry other weird formats/systems that flopped outside of asia)..

  7. Re:Alcohol on What You Can't Say · · Score: 1

    You should be careful of what you wish for; observe the nordic countries (specifically Denmark and Finland):
    Alcohol is abundant and cheap, and the legal drinking/purchasing age is afaik 15 years. This causes the city streets to overflow with kids often even younger than 15 hammered out of their skulls, every single friday and saturday.
    Empirical evidence shows, at least to me, that children under 21 cannot resist vices.
    (as they are intensely careless and stupid most of the time, I support driving and voting ages of 21 as well).

  8. Re:They knew about the storm? on Beagle 2 Probe Lands; No Signal Received Yet · · Score: 2, Informative

    As far as I can tell, everything was preprogrammed and designed specifically for the insertion which occurred, therefore they couldn't have done anything regardless of what weather conditions are right now.

  9. Re:Similar IE bug on New IE Bug Hides Real Site Address · · Score: 1

    How about this ancient lo-tech trick:
    <a href="http://www.yahoo.com **lots of spaces here** @www.goatse.cx">www.yahoo.com</a>
    That' ll push the @blah stuff out of the status bar..

  10. It's not a "home" on Pre-Fab Homes? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It's a HOUSE you fucking american cunts.
    Stop this bullshit sentimentalizing of every aspect of your culture!

  11. Re:Sounds good... on Not Just Eye Candy At Freedesktop.org · · Score: 1

    Yes but even so, they all look more or less the same, with the same 3d-styling, the same color palette, the same font, the same names and layouts for common features, etc.

  12. Re:Proxomitron? on IE To Block Pop-Ups · · Score: 1

    Right on! This guy must have a 486 to notice any slowdown... I was using a set of 30 (rather simplistic) custom filters at one time, and never noticed any slowdown.
    This was on a duron 900mhz..

  13. Re:Interesting... on Martial Arts Robots · · Score: 1

    "One man's "magic" is the other man's engineering. "Supernatural" is a null word."
    - Heinlein

  14. Re:Interesting... on Martial Arts Robots · · Score: 1

    You sir, are a moron.

  15. Pentel Tetras D Stylo on When Word Processors Are Out: What's The Best Pen? · · Score: 1

    Like a hybrid between a fountain pen and a ballpoint, with a nice pointy nib but without the blotching of the paper :)
    I'm mad about the things.. Have 3 spares ATM.

  16. Re:Does it really matter? on Half-Life 2, ATI, NVIDIA, and a Sack of Cash · · Score: 1

    That's bullshit. I had a VR card as well, and Quake ran absolutely fucking great on it.
    (as well as a lot of other games which had accelerated versions).

  17. Worst M.B article yet on Distribution of Wealth in a Robot-Driven World · · Score: 1

    This cross of robot utopia and american capitalism Brain proposes is nothing short of idiotic and demonstrates a remarkable lack of vision.
    Why must he bring up such things as advertising on dollar bills, free-market economy, free choice, when these concepts cease to exist in a society where humans are as good as superfluous?
    Think about it; when in say 50 years everything can be done robotically and computerized, what purpose do humans serve (another question might be what purpose does anything serve, but let's not get into that)?
    Pretty much the only "solution" is to pacify and contain the bulk of the useless populace while preventing further expansion.
    Boring malthusian hive-society ahoy!

  18. Re:Management's decision not to image on Failure Is Always an Option · · Score: 1

    That's not entirely correct.
    There are always sattelite launch rockets in various stages of prep sitting around the launch sites of the world (yes, the vast majority of launches occur off the cape).
    Such a cargo vehicle could easily lift supplies which the shuttle crew could have retrieved with the cargo bay arm or by space-walking and getting it manually.
    Secondly, some of them could stay on the ISS for a while.
    Thirdly, a soyuz can carry three, and they're rather cheap and reliable.
    I actually think it'd be cheaper and faster to conduct the entire thing without using another shuttle.

  19. Re:Goes around, comes around on Zalman TNN 500A - Complete Heatpipe Cooled Case · · Score: 5, Informative

    Zalman is a South Korean company.

  20. Re:Saved? on WindowsUpdate.com Secured, Permanently · · Score: 1

    Microsoft have a windows media 9 codec redistributable on their site which works with wmp6.4 (it's "unofficial", and doesn't download automatically in wmp6.4 like other codecs, but it works just the same)

  21. Re:Here is how to bring it down... on Clock Ticking for Hubble · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's going to need a bit of polishing, a space telescope isn't exactly suited for that kind of rough re-entry.

  22. Re:Airplanes != Public, hence your leave your on Southeast To Start Video Monitoring Flights · · Score: 1

    What then when all companies in a particular market collude to the detriment of the consumer, as is increasingly the case in many markets...?

  23. Meh on RMS Calls On Linux Developers To Replace BitKeeper · · Score: 1

    Larry McVoy is always arguing with people on the LKML, big whoop.
    Nothing ever seems to come of it, and BitKeeper is still the best tool for the job (or so i'm told :).

  24. Re:Lack of coverage on DMCA-Alikes Sweep Europe · · Score: 1

    Here in Denmark the coverage has been close to non-existant.
    Everything I know about this euro-dmca and it's american counterpart is from reading slashdot and other tech publications on the internet..
    Newspapers gloss over the subject in a half-column article somewhere on page 16 :)
    Even worse, i'm the only person I know who actually knows that this law exists!
    Even geek friends of mine who work as sysadmins and programmers didn't know anything about it until I told them myself. (as for non-technical people I could just as well be speaking swahili, zero comprehension..)

  25. Re:wildtangent on The Rise of Casual and Mobile Gaming · · Score: 2, Informative

    Wildtangent [webdriver] = spyware.