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  1. Multi-CPU friendly on PC Bioshock Demo Now Available · · Score: 1

    I have an AMD X2 4400+ - the game used about 90% of first CPU and about 60% of the other. It ran beautifully on my 6800GT with 2GB of RAM.

  2. Re:Still gets the 5th on Bush Commutes Libby's Sentence · · Score: 1

    Not only that, but Bush can continue to not talk about the case, as he has in the past. He refused to comment because it was an "ongoing investigation" - and it still is.

  3. Re:Gates onto something?? on Crackers Cause Pentagon to Put Computers Offline · · Score: 1

    That's called closed storage. I've worked in environments where you can only leave stuff unattended (bathroom break) for 2 minutes max - any longer and everything has to be shut down and put away in a safe. Open storage requires more detailed security approval, including armed guards and multiple criteria required for entrance to the space. For the space where I work you need an employee badge to get into the hallway, a sequence of buttons to be pressed on a 5-digit cypher lock, a combination lock to the room, and a special code to be entered into the ADT-like alarm panel upon entry to disable the motion detected alarms.

  4. Re:180 degrees? on Google Instant Messenger Coming Really (or Not?) · · Score: 1

    My 17 year old kid has 200 names in his AOL IM address book. Think he'll ever pick up a new chat client? I don't think so.

  5. Re:The problem is that a lot of people are taking on House Shoots Down Draft, 402-2 · · Score: 1
    Yes, it is amazing to watch the leap of logic required to believe that Kerry is going to convince nations (with their own self-interest) to send their troops into the mess that is currently Iraq just so the US can lower its percentage of the casualties.
    Bush has a history of making pre-emptive attacks with limited and/or fabricated evidence without UN approval. A vote for Kerry makes the risk of that happening again lower, IMO.
  6. Re:mpaa in denial on Night Goggles Capture Spider-Man Movie Bootlegger · · Score: 1

    Maybe 92% of the inventory that they found were hand-cam copies. All the good copies, from promo DVDs, had already been sold. What was left is the crappy hand copies.

  7. Re:Area 51 is a hoax by the goverment on Area 51 Hackers Map Buried Surveillance Network · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Don't knock the USPS.

    Go Lance! 6th Tour de France next month.

  8. Re:When I was working in IT on Passwords That Should Never Be Used · · Score: 1

    Add to the list all the people one has ever had sex with, and I think you're right.

  9. Win2K on Projected 'Average' Longhorn System Is A Whopper · · Score: 1

    "dual-core CPU running at 4 to 6GHz"

    Just imagine how fast Win2K would run on this hardware. I have yet to see any reason to install anything newer.

  10. Re:sorry for what on Author signs MyDoom virus · · Score: 1
    As many other has commented, the ability to click-and-run executables from the email clients is not the only reason for virus/worms spreading. Even with only 'save to disk' functionality, people will still run these binaries.
    Come on, the sort of people who run programs they download from strangers can't even find them after they've saved them to their disks because they're buried 6 directory levels deep in the "My Documents" directory. God, I hate that dumb-down "My Documents" crap...
  11. Re:dyslexic hackers UNTIE! on Should Hackers Get Their Own Logo? · · Score: 1
    Which makes me wonder why ESS picked that particular direction/orientation. Surely the choice was not politically motivated, since the arrow points to the right (lower-right, yes, but definitely not left as one might expect). Then again, you might say the vertical element sort of leans left, so that would be appropriate. :)
    It's phalic - his dick lays to the right.
  12. Re:Windows' use of CTRL-ALT-DEL on The Guy Responsible For Ctrl-Alt-Del · · Score: 1

    CTRL-ALT-DEL is can never, ever be trapped by an application

    DEC's VAX/VMS did this years before that with the Break key. Maybe Dave Cutler merely ported an existing idea to his new job.

  13. Minivan on Phillip Greenspun: Java == SUV · · Score: 1

    What's wrong with being the SUV of programming languages? I like SUVs. But if he called Java the Minivan of programming languages I'd be offended.

  14. Why Spam? on P2P Spam? · · Score: 3, Funny
    Is spam that hard to send that someone had to build this virus - in 6 steps, no less - just to send it?
    Think of all the things you could do with 1000s of slaves getting instructions from systems on the internet.
    • DOS attacks on .gov or .mil sites, as well as all the .coms.
    • Blackmail or they get DOSed.
    • Solve complex mathematical problems grid-like - maybe for cracking passwords or something.
    Spam seems to be the mildest thing they can mention to the public - the possibilites for much worse things is there.
  15. 128+4 on Supercomputer Breaks the $100/GFLOPS Barrier · · Score: 1

    What're the extra 4 for? They don't mention it. Hot spares? Command + control? Scheduling?

  16. J# on Four Microsoft Programming Languages Compared · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Class library support. Independently developed class libraries designed to provide the functionality of most Java Development Kit (JDK) level 1.1.4 class libraries and many of the classes in the JDK 1.2 java.util package specified in College Board's Advanced Placement curriculum for Computer Science.

    JDK 1.1.4 is at least 5 years old. How do they expect anybody to port their Java app to Microsoft J# if their Java is 3 versions behind? A lot has happened to Java inbetween their supposrted version and the current release from Sun.

  17. Re:Odds are on Windows XP SP2 Delayed Until Late 2004 · · Score: 1
    Eh, it's just a service pack...
    Service packs are Microsoft's intermediate releases. Like when VMS went from 4.1 to 4.2 to 4.3... - MS releases SP1, SP2, SP3. The service packs are more than just bug fixes, they're also new functionaity.
  18. Re:World Domination Will Come When Copy & Past on Worst Linux Annoyances? · · Score: 1
    This last thing I try to do quite a lot to paste a new URL into the URL textbox of a web browser, so I can replace the old URL with the new URL I want to visit. However, in X11, highlighting some text makes it "the selection", so a paste will just paste in the text I'd selected, which was the text I wanted to replace.
    Here's how to make it work (Mozilla, anyway). Select URL test with Left Mouse button. Go to Mozilla and Middle Click in the body of the browser page, not in the URL area. I.e., where this text is on the screen.