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  1. Re:Ahh, Pentium. on Intel's Pentium Chip Turns 20 Today · · Score: 1

    Somehow I suspected that this thread will be rich in low UID's ;)

    (my first one was 5 digit one which I carelessly lost by forgetting the password)

  2. Re:Boost Sucks on Comparing the C++ Standard and Boost · · Score: 1

    how ridiculously easy it was with openssl

    That's the first time I've seen 'easy' and 'openssl' in the same sentence...

  3. Re:Wordstar on a Cromemco Z2-D on What Early Software Was Influential Enough To Deserve Acclaim? · · Score: 1

    Why was this downvoted? CP/M was quite impressive and a requisite understanding in the history of OS's.

  4. I hate to be _that_ guy... on Open-Hardware Licensed Handheld Software-Defined Radio In the Works · · Score: 1

    But perhaps there's a text article somebody could link to instead? Video is an unbearable format when it comes to technical news - just stop doing that (although the fact that reading (and writing) is hard is understandable...).

  5. Re:$2.2 million to develop a modern PC/Console gam on Elite Looks Set To Make a Comeback · · Score: 1

    The whole concept of 1k v 1k battles is just one of the things that put me off eve outright. Sure, there will be gaming addicts happy to pay for subscription in exchange of grinding for 5 hours every night, but I guess I'm not the dollars these games will ever hope to get.

  6. Re:Anybody using Ada? on Ada 2012 Language Approved As Standard By ISO · · Score: 1

    Okay, I can agree with that. Still curious about which languages you'd consider to be better designed and more suited for the task.

  7. Re:Anybody using Ada? on Ada 2012 Language Approved As Standard By ISO · · Score: 1

    Pathetic.

    I don't care about your religious view with regards to 'free' being the holy grail and everything else not worth even considering, I was rather more curious about the better-designed part...

  8. Re:Verify your telephone number on Give Us Your Personal Data Or Pay Full Fare · · Score: 1

    not quite - you can skip that page just by clicking on your profile link.

  9. Re:Better than Intel on Samsung Reaches Milestone For 14nm Technology · · Score: 1

    I've got an Acron box within 3 feet if me (oh, sorry - my last day in the office was Friday).

    Regardless - they were sweet little things.

  10. Re:Anybody using Ada? on Ada 2012 Language Approved As Standard By ISO · · Score: 1

    These are the languages that people should avoid - which isn't much of a loss, because all of them have already been surpassed by better-designed languages that come with no coercive demands attached.

    [Citation Needed]

  11. Re:Start betting on where it'll land? on North Korea's Satellite Is Out of Control · · Score: 1

    X37 launched yesterday...

  12. Re:Good You Say "Nuclear" Subsidies on A Twisted Clean-Tech Tale: How A123 Wound Up In Bankruptcy · · Score: 1

    I always explained the greenpeace, peta and the likes as being a result of secret government experiments to determine how retarded you can make a person that still remains 'functional'.

  13. Re:Better get used to it, THQ on THQ Clarifies Claims of "Horrible, Slow" Wii U CPU · · Score: 1

    When they are available, of course.

  14. Re:Age vs experience... on Hounded By Recruiters, Coders Put Themselves Up For Auction · · Score: 4, Insightful

    But of course - in a body shop you don't want experience, as your product is billable time, not results.

  15. Re:Direct link for pledging on Star Citizen Takes the Crowdfunding Crown, Raising More Than $4M · · Score: 1

    Nice try with that ?rid=x bit ;)

  16. Re:Dammit! on New WiFi Protocol Boosts Congested Wireless Network Throughput By 700% · · Score: 1

    The same 47% that actually click on ads?

  17. Re:Research project != practical application on New WiFi Protocol Boosts Congested Wireless Network Throughput By 700% · · Score: 1

    And now this just screams 'in these particular circumstances'...

  18. Re:Best example of Vaporware I've heard in a while on New WiFi Protocol Boosts Congested Wireless Network Throughput By 700% · · Score: 1

    Interesting take. I've always lived by the gospel that if you put a packet on the radio you are playing it mighty close and packet loss will trigger the congestion avoidance sooner or later. AFAIK most mainstream congestion avoidance implementations will actually happily take into account late replies (causing recalculation of mean RTT) and adjust accordingly. Anything I'm missing?

    (also - burn the bastards who like to put extra buffers and proxies in _MY_ TCP conversation)

  19. Re:Best example of Vaporware I've heard in a while on New WiFi Protocol Boosts Congested Wireless Network Throughput By 700% · · Score: 1

    Ooooooouch...

  20. Re:A lot of apps use SSL on Poor SSL Implementations Leave Many Android Apps Vulnerable · · Score: 1

    Fix the way Android threats CA's first, then speak.*

    *subject to whims of operator, out-of-date root CA's, sets of devices support one CA, sets - somebody else (and I'm talking here about the support of first name operators).

  21. Re:The certificate is not the problem; IPv4 is on Poor SSL Implementations Leave Many Android Apps Vulnerable · · Score: 1

    What does it matter if 70% of android phones sold doesn't include even current root CAs of the recognised authorities. Not even touching on the subject of what makes them 'trusted'

  22. Re:A lot of apps use SSL on Poor SSL Implementations Leave Many Android Apps Vulnerable · · Score: 1

    With android a common problem is which CAs are recognised, which versions of their root certs and which operators have decided to fuck up the cert chain due to political reasons.

    Also - whether webview in applications support the same cert chains that browsers do or subset at mercy of 3 year old out of date build.

    So yeah, as far as I'm concerned the SSL on android is generally useless. Due to SSL being unusable in real world more so than due to 'lazy devs'.

  23. Re:That's a bit beyond a 'performance machine' on Will EU Regulations Effectively Ban High-End Video Cards? · · Score: 1

    Apart from the PSU requirement* (really, WTF? The rest describes a 500W system at peak load max) it's not a high end system - a mainstream system within 18 months max.

    * Then again, cheap 1000W PSU's are only reliably capable of 500W or so anyway. Which actually translates to approx. 150W for the system + 200-250W to the GPU at the peak load + margin.

  24. Yes, Hans Reiser was convicted on Reiser4 File System Still In Development · · Score: 0

    As far as anybody should care this does not matter much - it says fairly little with regards to whether he actually did or did not kill his wife and unless there's a body and physical evidence (and as far as I know there is only circumstantial - his wife has been in his car, yeah, surprise), this will remain a not quite shut and sealed matter.

    If the filesystem is any good the issue above is moot regardless. Just stop with the cheap puns. Guilty or not, being convicted is a very shady metric to determine it reliably.

  25. Re:Meanwhile, in Persia... on US Navy Cruiser and Submarine Collide · · Score: 1

    First they changed the rules to not look stupid (and managed to look very stupid). Any change of tactics is (hopefully) still classified.