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  1. Re:That is SO 2003?! ? Try something 1970's. on It's 2006 and Backups For Home User Still Tricky? · · Score: 1

    At work we've got a 80/160 Gig tape drive along with a 10 disk changer. That's about 1.5 teras. Just pick some backup software and check the hardware compatibility list and find something in your price range. Fwiw, we're switching to a hard drive backup system.

  2. Re:Jewel^WGold Rush on The Game Design of Survivor · · Score: 1

    The example they gave was a specific hotel room. You could have a camera crew hanging out there until someone shows up. You're going to have only a tiny chance someone will go to that room without knowing its purpose.

  3. Re:What is the deal with 64 bit? on Merom in MacBook and MacBook Pros in September? · · Score: 1

    you address based on bytes, so it's 2^32 bytes

  4. Re:My Personal Victory on How to Deal w/ Dubious 'Contracts'? · · Score: 1

    I recently moved into a house and the gas and utility companies both said that I'd have to pay a deposit if my credit was bad or if I refused to give an SSN. So there's the consequences of that.

  5. Re:More details? on Ants Use Pedometers to Find Home · · Score: 1

    if you crush an ant, it produces alarm pheromones. Ants will panic when they detect it (though some species will go into attack mode).

  6. Re:In other news... on Office 2007 Delayed Again · · Score: 1

    You should put your url in a sig instead of manually attaching that to your posts.

  7. Re:"Convenience" fees! Heh. on Top off Your Parking Meter with a Cell Call · · Score: 1

    but it's cheaper than refined sugar (in the US) and arguably worse tasting and worse for your health.

  8. Re:Hand holding. on What Do Geek Squad Technicians Actually Do? · · Score: 1

    byu = Brigham Young University, which is named after an important person in early Mormon history. Also take a look at some of the links on the front page of the site. It's really geared toward Mormons and is likely a private university intended for Mormons. However, I'm too lazy to actually research it.

  9. Re:Distribution costs are capped, too. on GPL Causing Problems for Derivative Linux Distros · · Score: 1

    from 3 b:
    b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,

    emphasis mine

  10. Re:Publish and Perish on Defeating China's National Firewall · · Score: 1

    what about honeytokens?

  11. Re:"Convenience" fees! Heh. on Top off Your Parking Meter with a Cell Call · · Score: 1

    In the states, very few soft drinks actually use sugar. Most use High Fructose Corn Syrup.

  12. Re:"Infinite" loops on Software to Make Blue Gene Top 200 Teraflops · · Score: 1

    yarbo@oxygen /crap/src/temp/inf $ cat inf.c
    int main(){
                    int n;
                    for (n = 1; n > 0; n++) ;
                    return 0;
    }

    yarbo@oxygen /crap/src/temp/inf $ time ./inf

    real 0m6.761s
    user 0m6.748s
    sys 0m0.003s

    #and just for fun
    yarbo@oxygen /crap/src/temp/inf $ gcc -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer inf.c -o infO2
    yarbo@oxygen /crap/src/temp/inf $ time ./infO2

    real 0m2.736s
    user 0m2.720s
    sys 0m0.003s

    #all tests ran on a dual AMD K7 1.6Ghz with 2 gigs of RAM

  13. Re:About CSS2... on Interview with IE Lead Program Manager · · Score: 1

    How about a plugin that emails them with a thank you every time you start it up?

  14. Re:Neither product claims to support gaming on Choosing Parallels Over BootCamp for OS X · · Score: 1

    So a beta program (boot camp) that can screw up your system is good for work stuff? Where a system going down can cost you lots of productivity? I'd imagine it's more common and makes more sense to use it to play games.

  15. Re:This is why we're fighting against REAL ID as w on NSA To Datamine Social Networking Sites · · Score: 1

    It's a libertarian movement, so I'm sure those are all goals of theirs.

  16. Re:Hitmen? on Games Seized Following Murder · · Score: 1

    If you shoot a person in the face he can't have an open casket funeral.

  17. Re:I predicted dual video cards was a fad on 'SLI On A Stick' Reviewed · · Score: 1
  18. Re:Total agreement about the violence. on Leisure Suit Larry's Maker On Wedgies v. Bullets · · Score: 1

    In GTA:SA, you could get a girlfriend. I'm pretty sure the hot coffee game in the mod was something that only happened with your girlfriend(s).

  19. Re:The following.... on What Should One Know to be Truly Computer Literate? · · Score: 1

    I learned that @ = atmark a long time ago. I found this while googling which has some alternate names. this is also quite interesting.

  20. Re:Not being a chemist on Hydrogen Fuel Balls from a Gas Pump? · · Score: 1

    There was no cold fusion occurring in their experiments.

  21. Re:Are you a discrete mathematician? on Americans Not Bothered by NSA Spying · · Score: 1

    The Erdos number only deals with people who publish research. I know someone with an Erdos number of 4, but I haven't published anything. That means I know loads of people who aren't into math or science at all that are at most 6 connections away from Erdos. From what I remember, Erdos didn't really have much of a social life, but I'd imagine there are loads of people with an Erdos number of 2 that do have a social life and thus there are a lot of people 3 connections away that don't know anything about math.

  22. Re:One Ring to Counterfeit Them All on Are National ID Cards a Good Idea? · · Score: 1

    I was talking to a Finnish girl who told me a story about when she was in the US. She had been using a fake ID during her trip to buy booze and it was working fine and then one liquor store pulled out a book full of IDs from different countries. She realized she was going to be screwed, she had a bad fake, so she said, "Oh, my country's ID won't be in there. We just got our independence. I'm from.. Yuko..stonia." The clerk congratulated her on her independence and sold her the booze.

    Anyway, my point was that there should be a book on what different states' IDs look like and hopefully their security features for instances like that.

  23. Re:Microsoft on Macs and a Google blog?!? on A Tour of Microsoft's Mac Lab · · Score: 1

    This bank is one of the largest in the world, but on the offchance it burns Enron-style, I want to know that my money is safe somewhere else and I am not completely wiped out of my job, my 401k, and my savings.



    Your bank isn't FDIC insured? or you just have more than $100,000 sitting in your account?

  24. Re:What's being ignored here. on An Alternate Human · · Score: 1

    Predators usually have their eyes facing more forward (dogs, for example), prey usually have eyes closer to the side (rabbits, for example).

  25. Re:I know... on Reverse Multithreading CPUs · · Score: 1

    You can have several units like that. If one has a contradiction, take it offline and bring in a spare.