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  1. Re:Obvious? on Hacker Bypasses Windows 7/8 Address Space Layout Randomization · · Score: 3, Interesting

    True, but that just shows how often demands for memory can happen in a modern multi-core machine.
    Microsoft didn't implement ASLR until 2007 (Vista).

    With so much multitasking going on under the processors of that time and today, it would suggest that any attempt to saturate memory would inconvience many tasks, many of whom would have allocation requests pending, probably for smaller chunks than your rogue task would require. These would stack up while your were saturating memory, and be serviced upon first, as soon as you released your block. There is no way you can do a system call tor free-memory AND follow it with DLL load command without yielding some time slots on the processors and memory allocation routines. The busier the machine the more likely this is to fail because allocation requests are always in flight.

  2. Re:Thanks, Antigua! on Responding to US Gambling Law, Antigua Set To Launch "Pirate" Site · · Score: 1

    Nope.

    Nothing in the treated required signatories to re-write their fundamental charters of existence.

  3. Re:Thanks, Antigua! on Responding to US Gambling Law, Antigua Set To Launch "Pirate" Site · · Score: 1

    At last, someone who can actually READ.

  4. Re:Thanks, Antigua! on Responding to US Gambling Law, Antigua Set To Launch "Pirate" Site · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you should have stayed in school too. You seem to have a problem parsing the English language.

  5. Re:Thanks, Antigua! on Responding to US Gambling Law, Antigua Set To Launch "Pirate" Site · · Score: 1

    You almost translated it correctly.

    Proper English interpretation would be

    " in spite of anything the Constitution of any state, or the laws of any state, may say to the contrary".

    The word Constitution in the quote referred to the STATE Constitutions, not the Federal Constitution.

    It is clear the founders used this language to apply to STATE Constitutions, not the Federal Constitution.
    There were several states that had created treaties with foreign powers as of the date the US Constitution was written,
    and several states granted themselves the power to do this.

    State-made pacts often conflicted with peace and trade treaties wanted by the Confederation
    Congress for the benefit of all thirteen states, making it hard for Congress to consummate better
    agreements with other nations. This also led to fierce contention between the states in their effort
    to monopolize the import of goods from Europe and the Indian tribes.

    The Confederation Congress, under the Articles of Confederation, frequently attempted to nullify state-made treaties in the state courts (there were no federal courts). But as might be expected, the state judges ruled inevitably in favor of their own states, pursuant to the state laws and constitutions.

    This language in the Supremacy clause merely put the states on notice that the US Constitution would over-ride their
    state constitutions with regard to international treaties.

    During the ratifying debates, James Madison answered questions regarding the new national
    charter and commented on the extent of the treaty-making power under Article VI:
      “I do not conceive that power is given to the President and Senate to dismember the
    empire, or to alienate any great, essential right. I do not think the whole legislative
    authority have this power. The exercise of the power must be consistent with the object of
    its delegation.”

    Thomas Jefferson: “I say the same as to the opinion of those who consider the grant of treatymaking to be boundless. If it is, then we have no Constitution.”

    Reid v. Covert, 354 U.S. 1 (1957), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court once and for all ruled that the Constitution supersedes international treaties ratified by the United States Senate.

  6. Re:Historicaly accurate on Steve Jobs Movie Clip Historically Inaccurate, Says Woz · · Score: 1

    Did you mean many decades TOO late ??

    Also, don't minimize the amount of hero worship that Tesla is now receiving. Not all of it is warranted.

  7. Re:Historicaly accurate on Steve Jobs Movie Clip Historically Inaccurate, Says Woz · · Score: 1

    if people knew the real Steve Jobs. You know the guy that stole other peoples ideas, actively suppressed worker wages, humiliated employees and random people he met, screwed over Steve Jobs,

    Wait, he screwed over himself?

    You mean screwed over Steve Wozniak I presume.

  8. Re:Apple summed up in one breath! on Steve Jobs Movie Clip Historically Inaccurate, Says Woz · · Score: 5, Informative

    Ok, the Apple Mod Army will be here any minute now. Grab your ankles.

    Aggrandizement of Jobs was probably the only option open to the screenwriters.
    If the movie were written to show the real Jobs, they would have been sued into oblivion.

  9. Re:Obvious? on Hacker Bypasses Windows 7/8 Address Space Layout Randomization · · Score: 1

    I wonder if this would be reliable in a heavily used machine with lots of processes vying for memory. There may be demands for memory blocks in the queue which were waiting longer than your request which might get serviced first.

  10. Re:the only thing Microsoft and others can do is.. on Hacker Bypasses Windows 7/8 Address Space Layout Randomization · · Score: 3, Informative

    True, but you have to consider that ASLR was never intended as an unbreakable security feature. It was always just an impediment to an easy exploit of jumping to a fixed address. There are common tricks published for getting around ASLR to some degree.

  11. Re:WTF? on BitTorrent Launches Dropbox Alternative · · Score: 1

    On the other hand, if only PARTS of your file were stored on multiple different servers, each encrypted differently, its possible no one would have enough of the content to decode and assemble a whole copy.

    However, careful reading suggests its not meant for storage over the whole bittorrent network, but rather simply syncing your own files to your own computers located in several different locations.

  12. Re:WTF? on BitTorrent Launches Dropbox Alternative · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It would be stored only on your own devices or on the devices of someone you trust.

    securely back up and sync files over the Web, using BitTorrent’s platform as both a backup and shared drive.

    Its not meant for wide distribution, just syncing machines with backup copies.
    So its not going to be sitting on vary many servers, and the people to whom your reveal/publish the link would be the only people who
    would even know about it. Because its all your own storage (in multiple locations) there is no system imposed limit.

    Still this would seem to allow sharing of files and warez between consenting users by private seeds.

  13. Re:Thanks, Antigua! on Responding to US Gambling Law, Antigua Set To Launch "Pirate" Site · · Score: 1

    The US does not BAN gambling. It regulates it, Taxes it, and restricts it to certain areas.
    Antigua wants to avoid regulation, pay no taxes, and push gambling to areas where it is not allowed.

    Why does Antigua get to ignore US laws? Would you be ok with the US companies choosing to ignore laws in other countries and do as they wish? (like Google for instance?)

    Or would you be first in line to complain loudly?

    I'm betting you'd the the loudest complainer.

  14. Re:The key question becomes on Silicon Nanoparticles Could Lead To On-Demand Hydrogen Generation · · Score: 1

    Except this method doesn't release the oxygen. The oxygen gets bound into the acid. So when new water is created from the burned hydrogen, it comes from the atmosphere (or some oxidizing agent). With a net "loss" of oxygen to the acid.

    The wiki article on Silicic acids seems to suggest that in an aqueous solution, the silicic acids readily lose water to form silica gel.

    So it might be that most of the oxygen is returned to the water, leaving some small packets of silica gel labeled "do not eat" littering the roadway.

  15. Re:great idea on Peugeot Citroen To Introduce Compressed Air Hybrid By 2016 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yes, a hybrid of an internal combustion engine, and a hydraulic pump/motor unit recovers energy generated by the ICE and from braking and deceleration.

    PSA says for city driving, its Hybrid Air system provides fuel savings of 45 percent and increases a vehicle’s range by 90 percent compared to conventional engines with the same power rating. In standard body styles the company says the system achieves certified fuel consumption (combined cycle) figures of 2.9 l/100 km (81 mpg) and CO2 emissions of around 69 g/km.

    (The current voluntary target for CO2 in EC legislation limits average CO2 emissions from the European fleet of cars to 120 g CO2/km.
    Oddly, Peugeot chooses to mention this voluntary target rather than indicate the degree to which the obligatory standards would be met.)

    Mileage would be pretty impressive if they could actually achieve it in typical Euro city driving conditions. And it has the advantage of not requiring a heavy battery pack which can cost around 7 grand.

    Unstated is what percentage of the time the engine must run to accommodate the typical trip, and keep the air tank topped up.

  16. Re:Thanks, Antigua! on Responding to US Gambling Law, Antigua Set To Launch "Pirate" Site · · Score: 1

    Nice Romantic Idea.

    Now you just need to find on single square foot of planet Earth where this is true, move there, and be happy in your little prison away from the rest of us.

  17. Re:Thanks, Antigua! on Responding to US Gambling Law, Antigua Set To Launch "Pirate" Site · · Score: 0

    Absolutely NOT.
    Treaties can not override our constitution, nor can congress override or amend the constitutional without approval of the states.

    http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/usconstitution/a/constamend.htm

    The supremacy clause of the constitution places it as the supreme law of the land, and no law or treaty can over-ride it.

    http://www.robertwelchuniversity.org/Treaties%20and%20the%20Constitution-final.pdf

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reid_v._Covert

  18. Re:Thanks, Antigua! on Responding to US Gambling Law, Antigua Set To Launch "Pirate" Site · · Score: 0

    Re read your own quote.

    "Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding."

    Treaties do not supersede the US Constitution. At best only state constitutions.

    The constitution does not give foreign powers the right to override our own constitution. That would be totally stupid.

    This is why reading is fundamental. Please stay in school.

  19. Re:Thanks, Antigua! on Responding to US Gambling Law, Antigua Set To Launch "Pirate" Site · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The fact that the US authorizes gambling in the US is not germane.
    The US Authorizes the sale of Cigarettes in the US too. Doesn't mean you can start mail ordering them over the internet.

    You conveniently seem to forget that Gambling EVERYWHERE in the US is regulated by the US, Various States, and Various Tribes under the BIA/OIG.
    And as such there is some measure of control and taxation, and control of the odds, inspection of hardware, etc.

    Antigua does not allow control or regulation by US authorities. Antigua want's to do business in the US, but ignore US law.
    Why is that so hard for you to understand?

  20. Re:Thanks, Antigua! on Responding to US Gambling Law, Antigua Set To Launch "Pirate" Site · · Score: 0, Troll

    US didn't tell these companies they couldn't pay the gambling purveyors. Just that they couldn't pay them on behalf of US citizens placing bets with US bank accounts.

    You seem to continue to side step the issue of the US having the right to control gambling within its borders. Yet you insist Antigua has the right to offer gambling services in foreign countries? I don't get the double standard. If the US offered betting services to French gamblers on french events via france's internet, in violation of french law, wouldn't you be among the first to condemn the US for violating French law?

  21. Re:Thanks, Antigua! on Responding to US Gambling Law, Antigua Set To Launch "Pirate" Site · · Score: -1, Troll

    Mod Illegal.
    The WTO does not have the authority to abrogate international copyright law and treaties.

  22. Re:Thanks, Antigua! on Responding to US Gambling Law, Antigua Set To Launch "Pirate" Site · · Score: -1, Troll

    The US illegally abuses Antigua over IP, so Antigua abuses back. If the US respected rule of law and such, they'd not have started this mess. What a way to build a country indeed.

    Wait, What?

    US has the right to control gambling within its borders.
    They pass a law limiting US based citizens from from accessing these sites and or banks from transferring money to those sites.

    I'm sure you would be the first to defend those acts if any other country but the US was involved.

    So Antigua now declares open season on any copyright held by a US citizen. So every struggling artist, game developer, author, now gets ripped off and denied remuneration, because Antigua is not allowed to bypass US Gambling regulations?

    And you are ok with this?

    Go back, reread what I just wrote, swapping Antigua for the US and vice-versa. Would you STILL feel the same way if the US declared all Antiguan copyrights fair game, simply because Antigua didn't want some predatory US industry doing business in their country?

    No? I thought not.

    Why don't you hold Antigua to the same standards you expect the US to follow? Why shouldn't Antigua honor US Gambling laws when doing business in the US?

  23. Re:Their conclusion, my conclusion. on Male Scientists More Prone To Misconduct · · Score: 1

    In most DV women are the initiators but they end up as a crime vicitms.

    Citation needed.

  24. Re:Facebook app? on CES: Automatic Plant Monitoring Through Your Computer or iPhone (Video) · · Score: 1

    Well on the other hand, signing up your plants for Facebook accounts is likely to be far more entertaining than the usual drivel posted on Facebook.

  25. Re:Their conclusion, my conclusion. on Male Scientists More Prone To Misconduct · · Score: 1

    In the sentence above the one you chose to quote.