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  1. Re:Small virus catcher (for DOS) on Smallest Possible ELF Executable? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Some viruses wouldn't infect suspected goat files; files with 'obvious' sizes. AV researchers would get the virus to infect the files - since the contents were known beforehand any changes were due to the infection.

    Of course this AV avoidance didn't work, as evidenced by the fact that viruses are now extinct and a footnote in the history of computer security.

  2. Largest? on Smallest Possible ELF Executable? · · Score: 0, Flamebait



    What's the largest? Windows.exe?

  3. Re:SVG? on Library of Congress Map Collections from 1500's · · Score: 2, Funny

    The SVG format hadn't been ratified 500 years ago, so some of the files would probably be unreadable in modern browsers.

  4. 500 years? on Library of Congress Map Collections from 1500's · · Score: 2, Funny


    Contentental drift will have moved things around since these maps were drawn, it will be impossible to recognise features now.

    Shame, I like maps.

  5. Vacuum? on Japanese Shuttle has Successful Test Flight · · Score: 3, Funny


    Are they crazy?!? Everyone knows wings don't work in a vacuum.

    They want to build a tall, manly, rocket; like the Saturn V. That works in space, I know, I've seen that film what has got Tom Hanks in it.

  6. Vacuum? on Floor Vacuum Robot for $200 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Are they crazy?!? Everyone knows that nature abhors a vacuum. When a vacuum and normal matter meet there's an enormous explosion. Or implosion. Or something.

  7. Vacuum? on THG Looks at ClawHammer Mobo · · Score: 5, Funny


    They have vacuum tubes on the motherboard for 5.1 surround sound.

    Are they crazy?!? Everyone knows that sound doesn't travel through a vacuum.

  8. outlook on System Adminstration and Corporate Ethics? · · Score: 3, Interesting


    You should have used MS Outlook, it is the most ethical email system since it has the "Recall" feature. The CEO could have recalled the email without presenting anyone with any ethical dilemas

  9. Ask Slashdot? ? on System Adminstration and Corporate Ethics? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    What's the question again?

  10. Re:So? on XML 1.1 Spec Hits Some Snags · · Score: 0, Informative

    0x85 is à (a grave). So everyone in France?

  11. Re:So? on XML 1.1 Spec Hits Some Snags · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If you used those characters for something in a 1.0 compatible file, they will be trashed with a 1.1 compliant processor.

  12. Serious! on OpenBSD Gains Privilege Elevation · · Score: 2, Funny

    This sounds like a serious one, I hope they fix it faster than Microsoft fixed their's

  13. Use the Phone. on Non-Invasive Networking - HomePNA vs. HomePlug? · · Score: 0, Troll


    Transferring data across the electricty cables is slow. Rates are limited to 60bps (50 in Europe) because of the frequency of the AC.

  14. Impossible on Lego Segway · · Score: 0, Insightful

    using only Legos, two cheap (~$40) custom sensors

    Two sensors? For an object to maneuver itself in 3D space it would need 3 sensors. 2 sensors is only sufficient to maneuver an object around in 2D space - this Lego toy will not be able to handle bumps or slopes.

  15. Oops. on Lego Segway · · Score: 1

    Now Dean is going to scoot round and slap down this; the patent on Lego.

  16. Re:No brainer on Ballmer Sees Free Software as Enemy No. 1 · · Score: 3, Insightful


    Quality is more important than price.

  17. Oh contraire. on Brains on a Chip · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Could this be a step toward computers that can learn as humans learn?

    No, it's a step towards brains that feel as computers feel.

  18. Re:The best ever book on computer programming... on Books on Programming Theory? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I did a DLA project for my Chemistry degree. I didn't do the triangualar and hexagonal grids, but I did do 3D square lattices. I needed to get time on the 3090 for that.

    What's even more surprising is that this comment is actually true; unlike everything else I've written today.

  19. Re:The best ever book on computer programming... on Books on Programming Theory? · · Score: -1, Troll

    The original name of the book is actually "Alice Through the Looking Glass". The name "Alice in Wonderland" came from the Disney film because it is shorter and snappier.

  20. Re:The Definitive... on Books on Programming Theory? · · Score: 1, Informative

    That is just a pre-order though; Mr Knuth has not finished writing the book yet.

  21. Obfuscation? on Microsoft Settlement Compliance Criticized · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's not like the APIs are obfuscated or hidden.
    Look at the protocols in question at

    http://www.microsoft.com/legal/protocols/

    Can the Samba developers really not work out what "RtlTimeToSecondsSince1970", for example, does without Microsoft explaining?

  22. Re:Better for the enviroment? on Jet Turbine Locomotives · · Score: 1

    Diesel is, roughly, a mixture if C16H34 to C20H42

    (IAAC)

  23. Re:Better for the enviroment? on Jet Turbine Locomotives · · Score: 5, Informative

    When hydrocarbons are burned throroughly, the only waste products are hydrogen and carbon. These can be safely absorbed into the ecosystem.

    Incomplete combustion results in particulate matter and cancer-causing inorganic compounds.

  24. copyright on Opera Software Brings Its Browser to Mobile Phones · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Bring one of those phones near my website and I'll have you in court - reformatting my lovingly crafted tables is violating my copyright.

  25. Why Palladium? on Questions for a Lecture on Microsoft's Palladium? · · Score: 5, Funny


    Why did you choose to build your new processor out of Palladium.

    Silicon, with aluminium or copper, is the more traditional choice.