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  1. Re:propreitary on Coming Soon: An Open-Source, Reverse-Engineered Mali GPU Driver · · Score: 0

    Not that i would trust Intel, or the rest for that matter, at creating a generic compiler.

    Seems the Intel compiler ends up defaulting code back to 386 if the cpu do not provide the right "id".

  2. Re:why phase out DVI? on VGA and DVI Ports To Be Phased Out Over Next 5 Years · · Score: 1

    Yes and no. There are a group of contacts that carry VGA alongside DVI. If those are not present, you get no analog signal out of the DVI what so ever.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Visual_Interface

    The contacts in question are the 2x2 to the right of the main cluster in the pin out. Those carry analog RGB.

  3. Re:Evidence on What Happens To Your Files When a Cloud Service Shuts Down? · · Score: 1

    Could be that more than a few live behind a minimal connection with a traffic cap.

  4. Re:U.S. law is the new international law on Megaupload.com Shut Down, Founder Charged With Piracy · · Score: 1

    I wonder how many of those politicians where photographed in politically inconvenient actions involving young hollywood et al hopefuls and drugs, at various times in those politicians careers.

    Now that is a interesting angle.

  5. Re:In Germany they'll put a house up in 8 hours on Printing a Home: The Case For Contour Crafting · · Score: 1

    30 story hotel in 15 days: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hdpf-MQM9vY

  6. Re:Thanks a bunch on Symantec Admits Its Networks Were Hacked in 2006 · · Score: 1

    Never mind the chance that a backup actually houses a copy of the malware in the first place, and so restoring from backups may well bring the nasty right back...

  7. Re:Thanks a bunch on Symantec Admits Its Networks Were Hacked in 2006 · · Score: 1

    Funny thing is, i read recently of a botnet that used boot sector infections as part of its distribution strategy. And it works, because it seems that various security companies have stepped down their boot checks because nobody used those kinds of attacks any more...

  8. Re:So in other words on Genes About a Quarter of the Secret To Staying Smart · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Makes me wonder if one can pull of something similar to that using direct brain stimulation, and so train someone in a similar way to uploading a program.

  9. bah... on US Losing R&D Dominance To Asia? · · Score: 1

    Corporations have no nationality any more. They wrap themselves in flags of convenience, and play nations against each other in much the same way as they did US states to get wider and wider charters.

    Face it, we are heading towards a time of corporate aristocracies.

  10. Re:Ban the use of faucets! on Megaupload.com Shut Down, Founder Charged With Piracy · · Score: 1

    IMF mandated water system privatization, anyone?

  11. Re:U.S. law is the new international law on Megaupload.com Shut Down, Founder Charged With Piracy · · Score: 1

    That, and uploading to 2-3 different sites in case one of them goes suddenly dark.

    Btw, there is a whole bunch of non-encrypted private files floating around on dropbox. And i think the company has basically said that if FBI comes knocking, they will hand them over...

  12. Re:U.S. law is the new international law on Megaupload.com Shut Down, Founder Charged With Piracy · · Score: 1

    No, because he did not kill, rape or steal, he aided in infringing copyright! /s

  13. Re:U.S. law is the new international law on Megaupload.com Shut Down, Founder Charged With Piracy · · Score: 1

    Heh, maybe Somali pirates should stop hijacking ships and start providing file locker services?

    I wonder how long before a US lead coalition invades "for the good of the people of Somalia"...

  14. Re:Rationale from the article on Megaupload.com Shut Down, Founder Charged With Piracy · · Score: 1

    So your advocating a one world government with a "guilty unless proven otherwise" stance on crime?

  15. Re:U.S. law is the new international law on Megaupload.com Shut Down, Founder Charged With Piracy · · Score: 2

    It is the great ironies of all this. If two kids fight over a toy, they are told to share. But if two adults share a computer file, it is prison time for both.

  16. Re:U.S. law is the new international law on Megaupload.com Shut Down, Founder Charged With Piracy · · Score: 1

    And this is why a "leftie" president has implemented more "rightie" laws than ever before.

  17. Re:U.S. law is the new international law on Megaupload.com Shut Down, Founder Charged With Piracy · · Score: 1

    I Think his point is that if he broke German law via the net, and Germany dialed up Washington to have him handed to them as air freight, they would simply be dismissed as nuts.

  18. Re:U.S. law is the new international law on Megaupload.com Shut Down, Founder Charged With Piracy · · Score: 1

    Never mind that US politics seems to treat non-national TLDs as if they are US national TLDs...

  19. Re:U.S. law is the new international law on Megaupload.com Shut Down, Founder Charged With Piracy · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Hiding money, eh? Reminds me that a certain actor has not been payed for a couple of movies because the studio is using accounting tricks to hide their profits. Sometimes i wonder if not organized crime is the more honest of the bunch.

  20. Re:With people like these... on Man Charged With Stealing Code From Federal Reserve Bank · · Score: 2

    then USA has a very serious problem on their hands.

  21. Re:And? on The Headaches of Cross-Platform Mobile Development · · Score: 1

    Never mind things like ALT+number is tab change in Linux Firefox, but CTRL+number is what is needed in Windows...

  22. Re:If you're gonna do it, do it right on The Headaches of Cross-Platform Mobile Development · · Score: 1

    Is the back button there pr app in iOS, or OS provided like in Android (either hardware, or optionally, as one move to 4.x, software)?

    If it is OS provided in both, i am not sure i see the problem. Unless one worry about putting a in app ui element confusingly close to a OS element.

  23. Re:Great!!! on Launch Your Own Nanosatellite Into Space · · Score: 2

    Hmm, bumping torrent trackers into space...

  24. Re:And they wonder why people pirate on Ubisoft Has Windows-Style Hardware-Based DRM For Games · · Score: 1

    Their basic across all the entertainment industries is that they, thanks to public domain and similar, are their own competition. They have churned out so much content that if it actually enters public domain, and so becomes usable and convertible for the foreseeable future, there is no real need for the coming generations to buy anything new.

  25. Re:Community resistance on Tackling Open Source's Gender Issues · · Score: 1

    RMS also believes in legalizing pedophilia and possession of child pornography [wikiquote.org]--probably not the most palatable spokesperson to get behind in the first place).

    His view, from the quote, appears to be more nuanced than you let on. Note that he requires it to be without coercion. And he considered various medical issues regarding the topic. As such he comes at it from a scientific direction rather than a moral, except for the coercion bit. Never mind that depending on local law, there can be as many as 5 years between when we are biologically interested in sex and are legally allowed to agree to it. Do it with someone that is one month way from legally able to give consent, and someone a month before the biological onset of puberty and is treated the same legally. Never mind the whole mess about similarly aged people getting brought up on charges for sharing images of their naked bodies with each other. The whole topic is a mess of pre-scientific moralist laws, that makes anyone coming at it from a pure scientific angle look like a monster...