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  1. Re:Mac OS? on Gates on Spyware and OS Competition · · Score: 1

    Before they made a bar popup at the bottom (I get a brief slowdown when the thing comes up), and before they had it look for text by default.

  2. Re:Gadzooks on Green Party Candidate David Cobb Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    I'd imagine there are more efficient methods of heating than resistance, but that is a point.

  3. Re:Gadzooks on Green Party Candidate David Cobb Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    What about the decrease in waste heat? That would require less air conditioning in hot places.

  4. Re:Oh No... on Microsoft's Lobbying Priorities: Limiting Open Source · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Wasn't he knighted? I don't think he can run for president.

  5. Re:people suck. on Kryptonite U-Lock Security Flaw · · Score: 1

    You know how hot it gets in Riverside, CA? I'd trade places with a Swede in a heartbeat.

    Finns inte dåligt väder, bara dåliga kläder!

  6. Re:people suck. on Kryptonite U-Lock Security Flaw · · Score: 1

    Which city are you from? I was living in Lund* for 6 weeks, and saw many unlocked bikes near the student housing (Sparta) and the train station.

    Now that I think about it, someone did steal the stereo from our kitchen.

    *for those unfamiliar with the area, Lund is a university town in the South of Sweden, near malmö.

  7. Re:people suck. on Kryptonite U-Lock Security Flaw · · Score: 0, Troll

    When I was in Sweden, I saw many bikes that weren't locked.

  8. Re:Encryption Circumvention Devices? on Longhorn's Copy Protection Standard · · Score: 1

    Try meeting people who like to cook. Over the summer, I met someone from my university who loves to cook and he showed me a few recipes. I learned pretty well from him, without having to put up with advertising or annoying commentary. Also, he happened to show me how to shop for some of the ingredients (I had no idea how to pick leeks).
    I don't think that everyone can just meet other cooks and hang out, but I just found I liked it much better than cooking shows (and I hate cookbooks).

    And thanks, for the scoop on JLo ;)
    I drastically cut down on my TV viewing after Family Guy was cancelled. I usually watch less than an hour a week, but that's mostly because my roommate is a TV addict (if he wasn't around I probably wouldn't watch any).

  9. Re:Encryption Circumvention Devices? on Longhorn's Copy Protection Standard · · Score: 1

    It's not very hard to ignore, just turn off the TV! I've never heard Ashley Simpson. I have no idea who JLo is married to, etc...

  10. Re:sigh... on RFID Not Just for Kids · · Score: 1

    Just throw the Finnish word in there. "Hän allows the child to wander off."

    But as I understand it, the Finnish usually use the word for "it" (se) in informal speech.

    En ole suomalainen ja en puhu suomea.

  11. Re:Enhacements against the Linux Entropy Pool engi on Debian Hardened Aims For Security · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://catlin.casinocitytimes.com/articles/1243.ht ml Someone once beat Keno 3 times in a row and won $620,000 by figuring out a weakness in the 'randomly' generated numbers.

  12. Re:A lot of people don't care on Analysis of Spyware · · Score: 1

    http://vigor.sourceforge.net/

  13. Re:# of registers is independent of word size on AMD and Intel Update CPU Roadmaps · · Score: 1

    In the x86 world, that's the only way to get more registers. x86 isn't best, but it's the most common desktop computer processor, and it gets a pretty nice performance boost from going to 64 bit in many applications.

    btw, word size is tied to number of registers. Each executable instruction that makes use of registers has to have the register number as part of the instruction (at least from the designs I've studied (LC2 and MIPS)
    (posted from a 32bit PPC)

  14. Re:What is with the 64-bit fetish? on AMD and Intel Update CPU Roadmaps · · Score: 1

    This has been brought up many, many times before. 64 bit processors also have 16 GPRs, which is a HUGE improvement over 8.

  15. Re:Sad news on DoubleClick Hit by DDoS Attack · · Score: 1

    You say you're ignoring the ads in newspapers, on tv, magazines, on highways; but the ads aren't there for you to immediately act on. They're there to build up brand recognition and you are being affected by them whether you realize it or not.

  16. Re:Well, he does have a point ... on Open Source a National Security Threat · · Score: 1

    done, never released though. It sounded like it would have been very difficult to detect

  17. Re:Probably worth it though.... on Google Sets IPO Pricing · · Score: 1

    are you sure it's not to make sure that the employees can't just take a $10 bill and never put it in the cash register?

  18. Re:Juggle on Workplace Monotony? · · Score: 1

    learn to juggle faster! I can get a 3 ball cascade going just a few inches above my hands, and a four ball pattern going that's lower than my shoulders.
    I can't do 5 yet, but I can do flashes of 3 that are only a few inches above my head.
    work on your speed at home for a week or two and before you know it, you'll be able to juggle 5 at work

  19. Re:If you (or anyone) want an invite.. on Language Tempest At Orkut · · Score: 1

    invited...

  20. Re:If you (or anyone) want an invite.. on Language Tempest At Orkut · · Score: 1

    invited..

  21. Re:If you (or anyone) want an invite.. on Language Tempest At Orkut · · Score: 1

    invited.

  22. Re:If you (or anyone) want an invite.. on Language Tempest At Orkut · · Score: 1

    invited

  23. Re:your sig on What's Your Favorite Open Source Game? · · Score: 1

    your sig has a mistake too, the last number listed should be 6, not 9

  24. Re:interesting question on Not-So-Clean Hard Drives For Sale · · Score: 1

    0s and 1s aren't always written to exactly the same place. Read heads aren't enough to discern the difference, you need more sensitive measurement tools.

  25. Re:Nothing is on Another Zero-Day IE Scripting Exploit · · Score: 1

    "and when we finally remove the Script encoding it looks like this which we immediately recognize as the adodb.stream issue I reported on Aug 26 2003!! (red. Microsoft where's the patch??)"
    source