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  1. Re:Detection on Vuvuzelas Blare On Pirated Copies of Music Game · · Score: 1

    There is no unreleasing, but there is releasing of "the one that works" torrents, labeled as such. Some people may even want the two versions.

    Cue to people sharing hints on how to beat the unbeateble copy protected version...

  2. Re:Playing games in Windows VMs on Linux on Vuvuzelas Blare On Pirated Copies of Music Game · · Score: 1

    Most old Windows games run well on Wine. Almost all old DOS games run well on DosBox.

    Now, if even then you need a VM, there is the kernel based one (I don't remember the name, it comes with any distro) that is fast, and qemu that is very compatible. But I've had more luck playing those games on Wine and DosBox than on any kind of VM.

  3. Re:already trivial to do on Why We Shouldn't Begrudge Commercial Open Source Companies · · Score: 1

    "Go it "Edit : Preferences : privacy." Uncheck "accept third-party cookies." Select "Keep until: I close Firefox." Under "exceptions," check "allow" for any sites that you frequently visit and want to stay logged in to between sessions."

    Instead, configure cookies only until you close Firefox, and install the Cookie Monster extension. That way, whitelisting a site is done with just a click.

  4. Re:WTF??? on Wikileaks Founder Arrested In London · · Score: 1

    They've aready helped Brazil on some criminal investigations. So, I'd say, since very recently, but before that current crisis.

  5. How can you be sure? on Wikileaks Founder Arrested In London · · Score: 1

    He's location is "unknown", but britsh and sweden authorities have access to him. That could very well mean that he's dead.

  6. Re:Sorry, no "dirty tricks" campaign here... on Wikileaks Founder Arrested In London · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Sweden laws don't make Interpol give the hightest possible priority for arresting a suspect of something that was reported as rape.

  7. Re:"Bullying And Manipulating" on Digging Into the WikiLeaks Cables · · Score: 1

    The ones where the US is pressing Brazil to aplly terrorist charges on real terorists. I (and nearly everybody here) assumed the terrorists were made up.

    Of course, charging people of "terrorism" is still bad. It is just less bad when the terrorists are real.

  8. Re:Bullied and manipulated other countries? on Digging Into the WikiLeaks Cables · · Score: 1

    By "common tools of statecraft" you mean governments selling their taxpayers rights in exchange of getting some perks for special interests. But anyway, the guilty party here isn't the US government, and I'm very glad that the information is being made public.

  9. Re:"Bullying And Manipulating" on Digging Into the WikiLeaks Cables · · Score: 1

    Talking about a South American country, the leaks about Brazil puts the US in a better light than the public discourse of your government. I was quite surprized by how incompetent your "coutry level PR" is.

  10. Re:Difference being... on 'I Just Need a Programmer' · · Score: 1

    "I like to think I'm a pretty good programmer, however I suck at coming up with ideas."

    1 - Get a governement job.

    2 - Make some common sense comentary.

    3 - Get labeled as a resourcefull revolutionary that must be stopped.

    4 - ???????

    5 - Profit!!!

  11. Re:Degenerate case on Medical Researcher Rediscovers Integration · · Score: 1

    Of course, you define things the way that leads to the easiest path for solving your problem. The only requirement is that you define them.

  12. Re:And he needs a computer to do it for curves on Medical Researcher Rediscovers Integration · · Score: 1

    He reinvented second order numeric integration. Maybe the GP didn't care to type the word 'numeric', since it is obvious.

  13. Re:And on Medical Researcher Rediscovers Integration · · Score: 2

    It is not only that they don't understand mathematics. They also learn from their teachers that mathematical models are useless, and distrust anybody that uses math on their research.

  14. Re:C++ programming cultists? on Paid Developers Power the Linux Kernel · · Score: 1

    Hey, now I understand. That makes a lot of sense. Thanks

  15. Re:C++ programming cultists? on Paid Developers Power the Linux Kernel · · Score: 1

    Sorry, I've written drivers, and etc, but never did any big kernel development. Yet, I don't have a clue why C++ (or better the subset of it that is C with classes - you can replace classes with C++ structs if you like, as you said, they are the same) is a bad laguage for kernel development. You don't gain only methods, you gain constructors and destructors whose execution are enforced by the compiler.

    I didn't yet see where control is lost. For me, it seems to be the other way around, the compiler will give you several constucts that will be used by developers, and gives you a default implementation, but full control if you want to customize things. It is way better than leting everybody create the same low level functions, with differing details.

  16. Re:Also, Microsoft is an American corporation on WikiLeaks Starts Mass Mirroring Effort · · Score: 1

    They already demonstrated the power to issue a patch to systems that had it disabled (an update of WGA on Win XP, it was covered by /. at the time).

  17. Re:Super on Rear-View Cameras On Cars Could Become Mandatory In the US · · Score: 1

    Well, I'd guess that anything taller than a few cm would be important. If it is not something that you want to preserve, it is at least something that would destroy your weels if you pass over it.

  18. Re:remarkable on Rear-View Cameras On Cars Could Become Mandatory In the US · · Score: 1

    "In my opinion, the rear view mirror in the car is a little bit of a crutch to help out people who don't know what the hell is behind them."

    And that opinion is wrong. Cars have some less usefull side mirrors, that are compensated by the rear view mirrors. Just because you can drive trucks without them, it does not means that car drivers don't need them. And if you are driving cars at hight speeds without using them, well, I hope you are doing that quite far from me.

  19. Re:C++ programming cultists? on Paid Developers Power the Linux Kernel · · Score: 2

    That would be a reason to not use templates... But the Linux kernel is already so dependent of GNU tools that it may not even be a problem.

    Really, classes are a very good thing to have. You don't need to throw it away with the rest of the C++ language.

  20. Re:first? or third? on The Starry Sky Just Got Starrier · · Score: 1

    Yeah, let's forget that one of the stated goals of the LCH is to observe dark matter.

  21. Re:first? or third? on The Starry Sky Just Got Starrier · · Score: 1

    Yep, dark energy is something that pulls things apart. It is a very weak pull, and is visible mainly in the huge spaces that exist betwwen galaxy clusters. Also, it fits some equations about mass creation after the Big-Bang to give us the observed distribution of background radiation.

    What you have it wrong is that there is no sensor to detect dark matter. It would be quite a hard sensor to construct, since dark matter affects what is around it only by gravity, and gravity being a very weak force, don't make any visible difference in any medium as it passes.

  22. Re:cannibalizing? on How Apple Had a Spectacular Year · · Score: 1

    "Why wouldn't you release the iPhone, a beefed up iPod + phone service, which gives you much larger profit margins, and having everyone who bought an iPod upgrade for a significant extra outlay?"

    I don't know it either. Go ask CEOs of big corporations why nearly no one of them wouldn't. That must need a different logic that only them know about.

  23. Re:Worried? on First Electric Cars Have Power Industry Worried · · Score: 1

    Yep, but that isn't a reason to accept people running around fighting against replacing gasoline ICEs with coal steam engines.

  24. Re:Windows or *nix mainframe... on Computer Glitch Leaves Some Australians Without Cash · · Score: 1

    Well, I've never heard about a Windows mainframe...

  25. Re:Despicable isnt it. on UK Asks News Outlets Not To Publish WikiLeaks Bombshell, US Prepares For Fallout · · Score: 1

    The good thing is, the more they tell people to supress the information, the more people will be interested on that information.

    They still didn't win. That we are talking about it is proof of that.