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  1. Re:Hmmm...I don't think so on Researchers Suggest P2P As Solution To Video Domination of The Internet · · Score: 1

    I kinda like this idea, though, if for no other reason than it puts the focus back on consumer upstream bandwidth. Not much point using P2P when people are stuck with ridiculously asynchronous connections (ie. 10mb/512kb), so hopefully upstreams and downstreams will start to come closer together again.

  2. Re:If the ice melts and there's nobody on the beac on Impassable Northwest Passage Open For First Time In History · · Score: 1

    If you think discussing the possiblity of a global famine is hyperbowl

    Is this some new sequel to the superbowl that I haven't heard about?

  3. Re:Synergistic Web 2.0 Blogosphere Jargon on Google Quietly Closes AdSense API to Small Sites · · Score: 1

    Everyone knows that mashed potato, when squeezed, moves *out* of a sieve. It's really quite simple.

  4. In other news... on Virtually Non-Stick Gum Created · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... Singapore police begin strong lobbying to ban this dangerous substance from their streets.

  5. Re:It's maths. on Brain Differences In Liberals and Conservatives · · Score: 1

    Name three.

    Israel, Finland, Sweden, Norway. (You got one extra for free)

  6. Re:It's maths. on Brain Differences In Liberals and Conservatives · · Score: 1

    When the media and most people seem to represent the Reps/Dems as if they were atomic, distinct entities, and whatsmore they call themselves 'parties', which in most places means a close-knit group of people who generally agree on most things, I think one can be forgiven for thinking that these two groups do indeed cause a black/white divide in US politics.

  7. Re:Open source on BBC's iPlayer To Be Crossplatform · · Score: 1

    you have to allow an inspector into your house to prove that your tv is incapable of receiving the BBC.

    Heh. Only if they get a court warrant and accompanying police officer. Otherwise, they get a door slammed in their face.

  8. Re:Why the adjective? on Nmap From an Ethical Hacker's Point of View · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'd leave "ethical rapist" as an exercise to the reader.

    James Bond?

  9. Re:The article you reference contains the solution on Vista Bug Costs Users In Swedish Town Their Internet · · Score: 1

    So Vista isn't (formally) going counter to protocol, it's just going counter to a 15-year old custom. Nonetheless, Vista *can* cooperate, it just needs to be told not to raise the DHCP BROADCAST flag. And yes, that route goes via a registry modification.

    In summary: a tropical storm in a teacup.


    Yeah, and it's fine anyway. Microsoft will soon have this fixed via a Windows upda... oh, wait.

  10. Re:LIberalism/Libertarianism *isn't* simple on Why Are So Many Nerds Libertarians? · · Score: 1

    Lets take a flock of birds as an example. The flock itself is a complex, dynamic and extremely confusing system but the rules which govern that behaviour are very simple.

    http://www.red3d.com/cwr/boids/ [red3d.com]

    It's a similar principle with libertarianism, the result is emergent behaviour.


    Come on. You don't seriously think you can take one small tenet of a bird's behaviour, and apply it to the whole of human society, do you? It just doesn't work! Whilst it may be good for the whole flock for each of them to behave in such a way that they fly together, you can't extend that principle to all human behaviour. If I want to rape someone, that desire may well overcome any perceived benefit to the 'flock' of not raping someone, without further preventative measures in place.

  11. Re:Not likely on U.S. Attorney General Resigns · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The end result would the reduction of almost all of the interior states to irrelevance, both during the campaign and also the election.

    Tragic. They'll have to feel how 47/48 non-swing states feel right now.

  12. Re:Gaming the system for fun and profit on Valve Says Choice to Make DX10 Vista-Only Hurt PC Gaming · · Score: 1

    For me, not using Vista is more than just being a smart consumer, it's a political statement.

    Richard Stallman?

    </joke>, I actually agree with you.

  13. Re:Delta/Song already uses Linux on Airbus 380 To Have Linux In Every Seat · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm a unix guy all the way, and they told me I could not have access to the plane's
    media 'mainframe' or I would have had a look to see what was wrong.


    Wow, they sound like idiots. What airline wouldn't want a random passenger given root access to their systems?

  14. Re:some code on Content-Aware Image Resizing · · Score: 2, Funny

    jpegin = fopen("test.png","rb");
      jpegout = fopen("out.png","wb");
    WTF?
  15. Painful strike on New York Taxi Drivers To Strike Over GPS · · Score: 1

    One organization of taxi drivers plans a 48-hour strike, while another opposes any such action.

    So this'll bring the taxi:people ratio in New York down to about 2:1? Good lord.

  16. Re:No, really on New Method To Detect and Prove GPL Violations · · Score: 1

    Making the code freer than the GPL lets eg. Microsoft's embrace, extend, extinguish a whole lot easier. Now they just have to copy/paste and slightly modify the code, compile it, and pass it off as theirs. Some of us don't like that.

  17. Re:Perception on Teen Hacks $84 Million Porn Filter in 30 Minutes · · Score: 2, Funny

    Perhaps it took Tom Wood the 30 minutes to discover that the filter did in fact *consist* of the system tray icon, nothing more.

  18. Re:Ceased Computer Publications on Sys Admin Magazine Ceases Publication · · Score: 1

    www.myfavouritemagazines.co.uk (note the English spelling of 'favourite')

    Good job they didn't use the French spelling. :-)

  19. Re:RFC-Ignorant.org on DynDNS Drops Non-Delivery Reports · · Score: 1

    If you're gonna rely on the sender's ISP knowing who the sender is, why not just rewrite the From: header to be correct?

  20. Re:Jail for movie piracy? WTF? on Pirate Banned From Using Linux · · Score: 2, Insightful

    They're already saying that; the problem is they're not going any further.

  21. Re:And we care...why? on Antigua May Be Allowed To Violate US Copyrights · · Score: 1

    The US has an enormous trade deficit, meaning that you are very much part of this 'world' thing, especially when it comes to trade. If you cut yourselves off, you'd notice very fast.

  22. Re:In other news on Antigua May Be Allowed To Violate US Copyrights · · Score: 1

    Where the hell is 'Antequa'?

  23. Re:Is is disclosed? on Wal-Mart Ditches DRM, Keeps Censorship · · Score: 1

    Alcohol often lets a very shy person open up and talk to people they never would normally, therefore breaking an initial barrier

    And so do Ecstasy and cannabis, but you don't see many people arguing for them to be made legal.

  24. Re:I remember this episode.... on Nuclear Info Kept From Congress and the Public · · Score: 3, Funny

    Actually, I think the appropriate quote is from 'Homer at the Bat': :-)

      At the plant...

          Mike Scioscia: [pushing a wheelbarrow of glowing green goop]
          Karl: [pulls up beside him with his own wheelbarrow of glowing green goop]
                        Hey, Scioscia. I don't get it. You're a ringer, but you're here every
                        night in the core, busting your butt hauling radioactive waste.
          Mike Scioscia: Well, Karl, it's such a relief from the pressures of playing
                        big-league ball. I mean, there, you make any kind of mistake, and
                        boom, the press is all over you. [accidentally spills his goop]
                        Uh oh...
          Karl: Ah, don't worry about it.
          Mike Scioscia: Oh man, is this ever sweet...

  25. Re:Yes! on YouTube for Science? · · Score: 1

    A video (mainly of the researcher explaining things in their own spoken words) is worth a thousand words.

    Something doesn't seem quite right here.