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  1. Re:Summary on Google Apps Deciphered · · Score: 1

    Seconded, I've read Markov chained texts that made more sense to me.

  2. Re:Air gap + Sneakernet on Greek Hackers Target CERN's LHC · · Score: 1

    Each of the 4 experiments at CERN will generate about 1 PB of raw data per year. Add analyzed data, backups, etc. and you need about 10PB of accessible storage.

    I suggest you invent a portable internet.

  3. Re:FUD on iPhone Takes Screenshots of Everything You Do · · Score: 1

    Or Dutch.

  4. Google Tech Talk on Scalable Nonblocking Data Structures · · Score: 4, Informative

    Click gave a Google Tech Talk last year on his lock-free hashtable as part of the 'advanced topics in programming languages' series. The one hour talk is available on Google Video here: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2139967204534450862 .

  5. Re:You must be a cdesign proponentsist on Ben Stein's 'Expelled' - Evolution, Academia and Conformity · · Score: 1

    He has opposing theories for many of the commonly held, but poorly supported, evolution-centric theories. Care to give a few examples? How do they involve a creator? What observations would falsify them?
  6. Re:Did I miss something? on Canadian Copyright Official Dumped Over MPAA Conflict · · Score: 1

    This actually is the current situation in The Netherlands: We do pay an extra tax for blank media (not on MP3 players yet), but we've also got the right to make a copy of any audio/video file (not software) for "home usage" without actually owning the original. This includes items borrowed from friends/libraries and files downloaded from the net. It is illegal however to upload or otherwise publish these materials.

  7. Re:How to hide files on Another Sony Rootkit? · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Or, you could always use NTFS's build in root kit 'feature': Alternate Data Streams.

    Virtually undetectable for the casual user:
    They don't show up in explorer and other file managers and task manager even shows the name of the host file.

  8. Re:Brazil on Do-It-Yourself Steampunk Keyboard · · Score: 2, Informative
  9. Re:unsure what category to place my question on Want to Take On An Open/Unsolved Problem? · · Score: 1

    I'd love to see Kari solve this one.

  10. First step: No commercial donations to politics on Politics and 'An Inconvenient Truth' · · Score: 1

    Regardless of the viewpoint, is it even possible that science can remain apolitical?A first step would be to disallow political parties taking money from corporations. I know this is what US politics is based on, but still, the rest of the world calls that corruption, or at least a conflict of interest... Political parties should never change their ideas or decisions to those of the highest bidder.

  11. Let's reverse that on Justice Dept. Rejects Google's Privacy Concerns · · Score: 1

    Send the request to Google China, and ask them to *start* and *stop* censoring information at the same time...

  12. Nothing beats... on Molecular Gastronomy, The Science of Cooking · · Score: 1

    Andrew Tanenbaum's cook book: "How To Prepare Your Input" (available here in PDF!)

  13. Re:Combine with Google Suggest? on Google's New Personalized Homepage · · Score: 1

    Try this:

    Replace the get_search_form function in the Greasemonkey Google Suggest script with this:

    get_search_form = function() {
    var f = document.evaluate("//form[@action='http://www.goog le.com/search']", document, null, XPathResult.FIRST_ORDERED_NODE_TYPE, null).singleNodeValue;
    if (!f) { // try normal search form
    f = document.evaluate("//form[@action='/search']", document, null, XPathResult.FIRST_ORDERED_NODE_TYPE, null).singleNodeValue;
    }
    return f;
    }

    Just a quick hack, but it works

  14. Re:Lets Move To France on P2P (More) Legal in France · · Score: 1

    That would be Vive la France...

  15. Re:Security against 'Big Brother' is a myth on Just How Paranoid Are You? · · Score: 1

    Nope, that's only true for a dozen of rogue states and the US...

  16. All-American? on Ham Operator Sets New Miles-Per-Watt World Record · · Score: 0

    From TFA: "I'm thrilled the record was set by an all-American team using all-American equipment."

    I've always wondered why you (Americans that is, but the British also do this) are so proud of everything you achieve. Anyone care to explain this? The fact that this was was achieved Americans is of absolutely no value to the story...

    On the other hand, maybe the fact that *you* achieved it may make the story newsworthy. ;-)

  17. Too bad on Rage Against the Machines · · Score: 0

    my monitor didn't survive my last outburst, so I could actually read the story...

  18. Re:Firefox Extension? on Google Suggest Dissected, Part II · · Score: 1, Insightful

    There already is: http://www.loconet.ca/. Actually, it was released a day of Suggest was introduced!

  19. Re:I'm actually somewhat impressed... on Flaw in Google's New Desktop Tool [Update: Fixed!] · · Score: 0
    Actually, I think Java is an extremely useful language for virus writers, here's why:

    - Java has numerous networking capabilities, making it extremely simple to integrate networking in your virus.

    - All java programs run from one or two executables (java.exe and javaw.exe on windows), so once you accidently permitted one of those access to the net, your firewall will not alert you if another (malicious) application tries to go online.

    - Java offers runtime URL classloading, so once a backdoor is installed, it is very easy to run Java code from anywhere on the net on the machine with the current user's rights; just set up a server port which listens for the URL and you have generic backdoor.

    - All java programs have the same signature in Windows Task Manager, making it hard to determine whether a process is malicious.

    People have actually done this (I've even played around with it myself) and I'm very surprised I'm not hearing more about it!

  20. Re:Story = Engadget Plug on How to Get Music Off Your iPod · · Score: 0

    Weehoo! Success is ours!

  21. Re:WARNING NOT SAFE FOR WORK!!! on How to Get Music Off Your iPod · · Score: 0

    basically it's a topless woman holding a string to barely cover some of her nipples And that's pornographic? If it is, most of our day-time television in Holland is! (Now don't get jealous!)

  22. How to Prepare Your Input on The Votemaster Is...Andrew Tanenbaum · · Score: 0

    I've been one of Andy's students at the Vrij Universiteit and one of best things from his hand that I've read must be How to Prepare Your Input (PDF), a cook book only available electronically. His FAQ is a really nice read too!

  23. Re:Delayware on No Half-Life 2 on Steam? · · Score: 0

    At this rate, HL2 is going to be the first game ever to be abandonware before it's even released!

  24. Neural Network? on George Mason University Speech Accent Archive · · Score: 0

    This sounds like a perfect collection to train a neural network on! Anyone tried that yet?

  25. Re:Does this work for non native speakers? on Can You Raed Tihs? · · Score: 1

    That's interesting, because English isn't my native language either (Dutch is), but I seem to have more trouble with Dutch texts. I figured this could be ascribed to a difference in the way one reads a foreign language, but apparently this doesn't apply to most people!