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  1. Re:0 slowdown for me on How Much Are Ad Servers Slowing the Web? · · Score: 1

    The problem with these big hosts list files are you don't know specifically whats been added and cannot reliably tell whether a server is not responding because of a host hit or a broken server.

    When I find a slow ad site I add that single ad specific site to my blocked hosts.

    I have a custom list of about 40 ad specific sites added at the moment and that generally handles it.

  2. Re:How long on Microsoft Opens Up Windows Live ID · · Score: 4, Funny

    You are right.
    Just sign into http://paypalhardware.com/ with your credentials and they will send one out to you :)

  3. Merge the files on Watermarking to Replace DRM? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Firstly, there is nothing wrong with Watermarking and steganography.
    its just a way of hiding information.
    reading up on it says nothing bad.
    Situations may arise when it will be used incorrectly.
    To be certain though we should filter out the bad stuff.

    Perhaps a better way would be doing nothing.
    or maybe we can filter them out
    Suppose we find multiple files and merge them.
    That would work wouldn't it?

  4. Re:Firewalls are fail on TJX Security Breach Described · · Score: 1

    Application security is only part of the problem.
    It appears as though a physical breach occurred.

    As you know once you have your hands on the hardware, all bets are off.

    "The people who started the breach opened up the back of those terminals and used USB drives to load software onto those terminals,"

  5. Re:HuH? on A First Look At Red Hat Developer Studio · · Score: 1

    Wasn't the .net CLI going to be called gonad or something?

  6. Re:I personally like the homepage on Yahoo Edges out Google in Customer Satisfaction · · Score: 1

    I changed my homepage from Yahoo last year when they updated themselves.
    For a quick overview of news I now have myway though for search its crappy and I still use proper google.

  7. Re:Ummm... Who Cares. on British Report Details the Stress of Email Communication · · Score: 1

    I wish I was trolling, it really is that bad.
    I only mentioned VS because thats what I work with for most of the time.

    I have similar gripes with outlook (on-topic) if you want to hear them?

  8. Re:Ummm... Who Cares. on British Report Details the Stress of Email Communication · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Replace Hammer with Visual Studio 2005 and I will hold my hand up.

    Its a pile of half hearted wank and my productivity drops when I use it.
    The whole .net enterprise feels half finished and lacks important development features whilst emphasizing the shiny.

    The help documentation is a joke, the editor routinely makes me want to pull my hair out (whats the point of an indenting editor if it drops the indent after 1 line?), where tooltips actively block the data I am trying to click on and the intellisense gets in the way.

    Its like the developers took all the good stuff from the original Visual Studio environment and actively coded around them.

    just grrrrrrrrr

    Actually, having said that it sounds like most recent MS stuff.

  9. Re:E d i t o r s on Echeria Coli Co-Opted To Make Gasoline · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    if your going to use formatting tags, use them Correctly .

  10. More incredible on Why is Microsoft Patching XP? · · Score: 1

    I find it more interesting that when they were planning XP they knew how many keys they would need before they released it.
    If things had gone according to plan, this would not be required and we would not have heard about it.

    I am dubious that this is the real reason.

  11. Re:uh... on The Future of C++ As Seen By Its Creator · · Score: 5, Funny

    Good afternoon everybody, I would like to start by including iostream.h into the discussion.

    After this we can get onto the main proceedings which might or might not return anything.

    We move to the future by emitting a string of "Hello world" before returning zero.

    This is the end of the discussion I hope it was informative.

  12. Linus shutting down Linux on Google Video Store Shutting Down · · Score: 2, Funny

    In an announcement today, Linus said that he is closing down the Linux kernel.
    Any users who are currently running this kernel are to reformat their machines.
    Linus said the DRM* built into the kernel will ensure this occurs.

    *DRM is based upon the honour system, operators are forced to stop using it.

  13. This is the reason closed source is good on Buffer Overflow Found in RFID Passport Readers · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    With closed source protected access software this kind of thing would not happen.
    The open source commie pig brigade can't go messing with your plans.

    (tongue in cheek of course)

  14. The Last Days of the Permanent Floating Riot Club on Police Data-Mining Done Right · · Score: 3, Interesting

    "I'm losing my nerve," Benny said mournfully. "Six times this past year we've flicked into flash crowds, and three times I threw away everything I had because it looked like the cops had time to put us under riot control. Once I was right. Twice I was wrong. That's just not good enough." He braced himself. "I think I'll quit." There, he'd said it.

    A hole in space. Larry Niven.

    Are the police going to share the location information?
    I might want to watch. Cops live!

  15. Re:Y2k? on Blogger Finds Bug in NASA Global Warming Study? · · Score: 2, Funny

    This is the same NASA that would not fly the shuttle over the new year.

  16. Re:Wii-tards on Gamers Don't Know Their Own Consoles · · Score: 5, Funny

    Correction: people buy the Wii because its peppy!

  17. Thoughts about the delay? on Industry Fallout from GTA IV Delay · · Score: 1

    My thoughts about the dealy, I am frikkin livid about it.
    I was jacking a car from some muppet this morning when he told me about the delay.
    I shot the fucker right there and then.

  18. Re:So (a real comment)... on Optical Solution For an NP-Complete Problem? · · Score: 2, Funny

    You just don't get it...
    The travelling fibre layer must visit every city from every other city making his journey MUCH longer than the original salesman.
    Might be easier just giving the fibre fitter a second moonlighting job as a salesman.

  19. So (a real comment)... on Optical Solution For an NP-Complete Problem? · · Score: 5, Funny

    So, to find out the shortest path for a travelling salesman you have to have a travelling Fibre fitter installing cables between all the cities?

    What is the optimum path the fibre fitter must take to lay all the cables and reduce his mileage?

  20. Article is also NP-Complete Problem on Optical Solution For an NP-Complete Problem? · · Score: 4, Funny

    In order that you can solve the article and produce feasible text in quadratic time you have to use a novel technique of installing a PDF reader.

  21. Re:Sure on How To Turn a Mini Maglite Into a Laser · · Score: 1

    I agree about the better batteries lasting longer.

    I have modded an old nokia phone to power my laser pointer.
    The current phone charger plugs into the phone and charges the battery as normal, but now my laser lasts practically forever (I was fed up with pissing away money on button batteries for 5 minutes).

    I charged the nokia once and its so far lasted long enough for the cats to be bored without going flat.

  22. Re:NoScript, but they don't work on The Java Popup you Can't Stop · · Score: 1

    Auto hide or not, right clicking when the focus is being eaten makes the menu flash on then off almost instantly.
    It does appear to operate differently on some machines, and ours seem to be worse than others.

  23. Re:Expensive? on Imaging Breakthrough "Sees" Lung Disease · · Score: 1

    $40,000 is not a lot for an MRI, but its a hell of a lot for a stethoscope.

  24. Re:NO! on Storm Worm Rising · · Score: 1

    update: it DOESN'T work.

    I tried to use the attachment I added at work to a draft when I got home and it made Firefox vanish!

    There is a crash happening somewhere...

  25. Re:NO! on Storm Worm Rising · · Score: 1

    I just tested it, it works nicely.
    Google warns you if you try sending though...