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  1. Re:DDWRT gives you a GUI then you can.... on P2P Traffic Shaping For Home Use? · · Score: 1

    +1, absolutely true. Tomato is awesome.

  2. Re:QoS on P2P Traffic Shaping For Home Use? · · Score: 1

    If your provider is Comcast this will not work. Comcast is my provider in two geographically disparate locations ans so much as running a torrent at very low speeds will destroy my connection in both places.

  3. Re:All major clients, but it still requires talkin on P2P Traffic Shaping For Home Use? · · Score: 1

    This is total bullshit. uTorrent is the most popular bittorrent client by far for a very good reason. It's the best win32 client available. It was bought by Bitorrent inc, and is now their official client, afaik. Provide a reliable site, please.

  4. Re:Need more input! on P2P Traffic Shaping For Home Use? · · Score: 1, Informative

    To hack a wrt54g, you either need an old one (v1-3, I believe) or the hacker friendly WRT54GL. The newer versions don't run linux.

  5. Re:Stability on Linux? on Firefox 3 RC1 Out Now · · Score: 1

    Firebug has caused problems for me in the past as well, although the current beta seems to work very well with 3.0b5

  6. Re:Stability on Linux? on Firefox 3 RC1 Out Now · · Score: 4, Informative

    I had a similar problem. The solution was to right click on any flash applet, and "disable hardware acceleration"

  7. Re:They didn't like my idea... on Details for Guitar Hero 4 Released · · Score: 1

    that was Alabama, not Florida. World of difference.

  8. Re:Apple's gonna write their own flash player? on Adobe Opens the FLV and SWF Formats · · Score: 1

    I think you are mistaken. My n800 runs a complete implementation of flash 9 on a 400 Mhz ARM. Some extremely intensive flash applications exhibit slowdown, but it's perfectly usable, including youtube, and renders content identically to its desktop version. I'm not sure where you got the idea that flash was incredibly resource intensive, as it's been around since PCs were about as powerful as an iPhone. The iPhone is a more powerful machine than the n800, with graphics acceleration to boot. (although its low resolution is a minor handicap) Adobe would port it for them in a heartbeat. Apple doesn't want flash because it would reduce their control over the platform, no more, no less.

  9. Re:Apple's gonna write their own flash player? on Adobe Opens the FLV and SWF Formats · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Because *other* people use it extensively? Parent was talking about the iPhone, which does not support flash, yet easily could.

  10. Re:Down here... on Hans Reiser Guilty of First Degree Murder · · Score: 1

    I think 'habeas' is subjunctive, 2nd singular: "you must have"

    "do you have the body" would be, I think, "habesque corpus."

  11. Re:Lack of Flash?!?!?! on Negroponte Says Windows 'Runs Well' On XO Laptop · · Score: 1

    My dictionary gives as one definition:
    fuhn-duh-men-tl-iz-uhm n. strict adherence to any set of basic ideas or principles. Sounds quite straightforward to me. Maybe you need to lighten up.

  12. Re:Somebody please tag article on eBay Sues Craigslist · · Score: 1

    Why? they used a lava lamp RNG to determine which of the four phony lawsuits they were going to file and "Stock Dilution" came up. This process is generally considered *very* random

  13. Re:Adblock Plus on Firefox 3 Beta 5 Released · · Score: 2, Informative

    Disable version checking with extensions.checkCompatibility = false

  14. Re:I still beat him! on Rubik's Cube Proof Cut To 25 Moves · · Score: 1

    my caffeine dosage is nondecreasing at exponential rate.
    I'm sorry, but why are you are continuing to ingest increasingly large doses of caffeine after the test? That's usually when I take drugs to counter the stimulants, or at least stop chugging espresso. Perhaps your liver has shut down and your stomach is still absorbing the huge amounts of pure caffeine left in your belly, but that still wouldn't account for

    at exponential rate.
    Which would be very bad for your immediate welfare as geometric growth would run up against your LD50 in just a few iterations. Furthermore, talking about a nondecreasing exponential function is silly: exponential growth and decay is always strict.

    For your own sake I hope you meant that your caffeine levels are monotonically decreasing or something similar, and you were just letting some terms you vaguely remember bounce out of your head. It's OK, you probably spewed your knowledge all over the test form and don't have any left.

    Sorry for the pedantry and bile, I am bitter right tonight. Hopefully I'll get mine when someone even more pedantic will point out my mistakes.
  15. Re:Wait on Must a CD Cost $15.99? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I wanted to say something about GP's use of the term 'indie' to describe a band in his basement putting out 100-burned-CD releases. Those types of bands are more appropriately called "Garage Bands." Indie does not refer to any band not signed to a label. If it did, the term would be meaningless. Nine Inch Nails, for example, is not an indie band, nor am I when carrying a harmonica.

  16. Re:Amazed at ppl that get modded up on Mozilla CEO Objects To Safari Auto Install · · Score: 1

    I have a truly marvelous proof of why you're hideously wrong, which this comments database is too narrow to contain.

    (spoiler: it has to do with RDFs and massive amounts of kool-aid)

  17. 3G? on Edward Tufte Weighs In on Apple's iPhone · · Score: 1

    I don't have an iPhone, but if you look at the video provided, his network provider says 'ET 3G'. I thought that there was no 3G iPhone yet. Is Mr. Tufte privvy to pre-release products, or is that just a generic network identification that doesn't reflect how the data moves?

  18. Re:here's a screenshot on Microsoft to Spy on Employees · · Score: 2, Funny

    typing o for e is a dvorak typo. For such a user, mistakes just reveal his superiority.

  19. Re:I bet it's closer to 100% on Report Says 36.4% of World's Computers Infringe on IP · · Score: 1

    You mean 'how about censorship'. You don't have to visit anonymous URLs if you don't want to.

  20. Re:Not only that.. on Quoted in Google News? Post a Comment · · Score: 1

    We believe in nothing, Lebowski. Nothing. And tomorrow we come back and we cut off your chonson.

  21. Re:Legitimate use? on Deluge Anonymizing Browser Now Includes Bittorrent · · Score: 2, Informative

    The problem is you're defining 'efficiency' in a very limited and incorrect way. True, FTP is good at transferring a large chunk of data from exactly one host to exactly one more. But that is a trivial problem these days; Any network programmer could easily write a protocol/application that sends data from a server to a client as fast as the bottlenecks will allow. And yeah, that's "efficient," in a way because it maximizes your resources. But efficient peer-to-peer downloading is much harder. I suppose a 100% efficient p2p download ecosystem would be one where each and every downloading peer is saturating his download speed. FTP has *no chance* of ever achieving this for popular files, and could never near the level of data transferred on popular trackers without absolutely massive investment in geographically disparate clusters and bandwidth (e.g. akamai). BT accomplishes for free what could otherwise cost thousands of dollars for a content distributor. It sounds to me like you don't understand how BT works, or you're upset that it's the wrong tool for what you use it for. Anyways, if both your bittorrent clients are configured correctly, and the downloading one is the only one receiving from the other, you should achieve very similar speeds compared with FTP, as it just uses HTTP for sending data. Given your clear ignorance on firewall issues ( A good firewall doesn't allow any incoming connections. Really? How does such a host serve requests or recieve replies to sent packets? ), the disparity you report is probably best explained by PEBKAC issues.

  22. Re:Two points about the article's headline. on Exploit Found to Brick Most HP and Compaq Laptops · · Score: 2, Informative

    At the risk of speaking in absolutes, no computer hardware warranty can be voided by any software you install, even unauthorized hacked OSX. HP claims an 'unwritten rule' where linux voids your warranty, but they likely mean that they won't support the software, which is completely understandable. UK retailer PC World got kicked around in the press, then relented for refusing to fix a broken hinge on a laptop with gentoo installed. Even if anyone did give you shit, you can always just install windows then try again.

    Unless you mean installing on a PC voids your OSX warranty/license, which is almost certainly the case.

  23. Re:Wikipedia, eh... on Yahoo Becomes Apache Platinum Sponsor · · Score: 1
    The reason I still generally use WP's search function is the fact that it will take you directly to the article if you get the title correct, and to the results otherwise; quite useful in conjunction with smart keywords, where I can type wp Penguin to get directly at that article. This can be approximated with google's browse by name and I'm feeling lucky functions like:

    http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q=site:en.wikipedia.org %s
    and

    http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&btnI=&q=site:en.wikipedia.org %s
    , respectively. Both versions are more powerful than the wikipedia search function, but WP's is good enough for me, for the main reason that I'd rather not give google a list of every wikipedia article I look up, given that wikipedia lookups account for at least a third of my searches. I'm still searching for a replacement for 'I'm feeling lucky' un the URLbar, as it and GIS are the only things keeping me using Google; all normal searches go through the Scroogle Scraper, which is easy to setup with firefox and prevents most of the profiling google does. If only google would provide a way to opt out of storing search data, I'd happily go back, but ATM I'm wary.
  24. Re:Not all GPL violations get handled as smoothly on Beware of "Backspaceware" · · Score: 2, Funny

    I like how you backed your premise with anecdotal evidence to the contrary there.

  25. Re:Could go either way on Encryption Passphrase Protected by the 5th Amendment · · Score: 1

    But according to the article, a defendant can be compelled to reveal a combination to a safe - basically the same thing: an item in memory that allows access to evidence.
    Read it again. You can be compelled to produce a key to a safe, because it's a physical item. A combination is something that, unless you wrote it down somewhere, exists only in your mind, and as such requires your testimony to obtain, which is exactly what the fifth amendment allows you to refuse. In the safe analogy, of course, the distinction is purely academic, since they can use physical means to get at the contents. If what you said was true, this would be an open-and-shut case for the prosecution.