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  1. Re:this should not be possible on Staged Hack Causes Generator to Self-Destruct · · Score: 1

    Being part of PSTN may not be any more privat than being part of internet. An T1 is like an VPN. A black fiber is "fully-private" until someone hook an sniffer on it. On PSTN you switch ATM-cells, on internet you switch IP-packets, same-same...

  2. Whats matter with /. .... 500 comments later: on Closed Source On Linux and BSD? · · Score: 1

    > 3. Can I obfuscate my code (e.g. encode it)?

    use perl.

  3. Re:Isnt this called Cron ? on The Completely Fair Scheduler · · Score: 1

    Welcome to psdoom !

  4. bofh on Exhaustive Data Compressor Comparison · · Score: 1

    /dev/null beats them all in time and space.

  5. opennms vs HPOV NNM vs IBM Netview on Open Source Network Management Beats IBM and HP · · Score: 1

    HP openview is a framework, so is tivoli. Those two have functions far beyond opennms and shouldn't be compared.
    Compare opennms functionallity with HP Openview NNM and IBM Tivoli Netview.
    Btw, Netview and HPOV NNM is almost same product when ibm bought an old license and forked.

  6. finally some diy's on DIY Laptop · · Score: 1

    more of this..

    How is the wetware-diy scene doing ?

  7. inefficiency on Using Gym Rats' Body Power to Generate Electricity · · Score: 1, Informative

    The muscle has a efficiency far below 30%.

    Though if they could somehow manipulate the dna to create brainless bodies, those could be used as warming bags. You would put a few of them here and there in your home to heat it up. They would be connected to a food and waste facility. And with an intact immune-system and other body functions they would be maintainance free.

  8. Divisions in the LAYMAN community on Why the Word 'Planet' Will Never Be Defined · · Score: 1

    To an scientist everything is an object with properties.

  9. linux embedded pacemaker.. on Safe Computing For the Elderly? · · Score: 1

    that is Safe Computing For the Elderly.

  10. Re:What do you mean, "suitable for Linux"? on Sun Open Sources Java Under GPL · · Score: 1

    v java-compiler
    p java-compiler-sun
    p java-compiler-gcc
    p java-compiler-kaffe

  11. Humankind has failed. on A Sunshade In Space To Combat Global Warming · · Score: 1

    Homo Sapiens is a true parasitic specie.
    Unlike other species it totally lacks the ability to adapt and interact with the environment in a durable way.
    Maybe it is time for us to step down and let evolution rectify this mistake.

  12. it started long before that on Testosterone Tumbling in American Males · · Score: 1

    with duke nukem where you would often find testosterone ampuls..

  13. Re:As if PERL wasn't hard enough to read... on Asynchronous Programming for Spam Elimination · · Score: 1

    Actually, threads is something perl has got right, compared to most other languages.
    Perl threads is also very easy to understand.
    Simply put, nothing is shared between threads.
    If you want to share data between perl threads you must explicitly say so:
    my $foo : shared = 1;

    though if you're stuck with perl version 5.6.0, dont use threads.

  14. pinball dreams on EA Finishes Acquiring DICE · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Was dice first game. Those were the days, small studio, great games.

  15. "no gifs due to patent problems" on The GIF Format is Finally Patent-Free · · Score: 0

    GNU should be the happiest.

  16. Why erlang is far ahead on Intel Pledges 80 Core Processor in 5 Years · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Erlang already support multiple cores, it used to be that you had to start an erlang node for every core/cpu. Today a single erlang os-process will scale to the cores available.

    But from the programming point of view, erlang has supported multiple cores for as long as it has existed.

    In erlang when you send a message to another process, you don't know if that other process is executing within the same OS-process or is executing in another OS-process, or even running on an distant machine. That is very good, because you don't have to rewrite anything to support distribution.

    Concurrency is one of many features where erlang makes things easier for you.

    On the other hand.. if you look at java or perl, those green processes or real threads (pthread) is just slapped on, like any other library. The language doesn't have any support for processes/threads nor is it oriented around processes/threads. This doesn't exclude you from doing erlang like stuff. It is just that an 10 line erlang-hello will expand to an 100 line pthread beast with sharp mutexes slashing around.

    References:

    New smp feature in erlang:
    http://www.erlang.org/doc/doc-5.5.1/doc/highlights .html

    Look at chapter 3, you don't have to understand erlang to follow:
    http://erlang.org/doc/doc-5.5/doc/getting_started/ part_frame.html

  17. Time to learn erlang... on Intel Pledges 80 Core Processor in 5 Years · · Score: 1, Insightful

    or find out what smalltalk or even prolog is really about...

  18. Re:rather perl on Draft Scheme Standard R6RS Released · · Score: 0

    $a = sub { "yes"; }; print &$a;

  19. rather perl on Draft Scheme Standard R6RS Released · · Score: 0

    I rather program in an modern language that has invented closures and anonymous functions, like perl.

  20. Goatse on Concern Over Creating Black Holes · · Score: 0

    has definitely taken over Slashdot As We Know It.

  21. and on Hardware Virtualization Slower Than Software? · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    my native wrist watch tells me its time for lunch.

  22. Re:The Telcos have known this for years on DC Power Saves 15% Energy and Cost @ Data Center · · Score: 1

    thats because you receive 90V that is powering the bell.

  23. soup of nerve-friendly chemicals on Stem Cells Cure Paralyzed Rats · · Score: 5, Funny

    thats what i'm going to call long island ice tea from now on.

  24. mplayer as stream-analyzer on MPlayer Developers Interviewed · · Score: 1

    I've played with "mplayer -v -vo null -ao null udp://224.1.2.3" as a frontend for analyzation of live streams. Pipe the stuff to a script. Put it in an loop so it restarts if mplayer dies. Its coarse, but it works.

  25. Commander of cmd on Bill Gates to Receive Honorary UK Knighthood · · Score: 1

    Building windows ontop of command, from windows 3.11 to todays windows XP has finally payed off!