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  1. Re:Why are they announcing this stuff ? on Wikileaks To Name Swiss Bank Tax Evaders · · Score: 1

    I do not understand why wikileaks is telling everyone what they will reveal later.

    That's a nice car you have outside. It would be a shame if something happened to it.

  2. Re:Hit them back on Wikileaks To Name Swiss Bank Tax Evaders · · Score: 1

    Who cares about the motivations? We don't have to like Assange or Elmer to appreciate the disclosure of the info.

    RICO act was registered in US for some good reasons. The fact that wikileaks guy has some classified info should not make him untouchable.

  3. Re:New business model: on Google Pushes New Chrome Release, Pays $14k Bounty · · Score: 1

    Yes, that's right. No step 4.

    You still have to convince manufacturer that your reported bug is a bug and not a feature.

  4. Re:This is absurd. on Assange Could Face Execution Or Guantanamo Bay · · Score: 1

    Equating "looking into him" with execution IS FUD.

    Thinking that there is nothing wrong with US Legal system or Gitmo is not FUD. It is plain stupid.

  5. Re:I have a better idea on New Laser Makes Pirates Wish They Wore Eye-Patches · · Score: 1

    that's non-sense. These pirate boats are six meters per TFA.

    Sniper will have to hit the person on that boat and not the boat itself. If he hits boat with .50 cal, it should pass boat through and make only one small hole. If he tries to hit with smaller caliber, water will stop bullets (tested by Mythbusters). If he tries with larger caliber, that weapon will be called autocanon and it is not sniping.

  6. Re:*Now* can we admit PHP sucks? on PHP Floating Point Bug Crashes Servers · · Score: 1

    If you're using less then 5.3 then you're using a php version that is no longer being supported (with the exception of the emergency fix for this bug).

    Version I am using works. I don't see point for upgrading to newer versions.

    I don't write code which limits interpreter choice only to newest version (it would limit my user base) and I despise coders who put unneeded language constructs that break older versions. It looks funny when person maintains two library versions and the only differences between them are bugs fixed in PHP5 library version and language constructs from PHP5.

  7. Re:*Now* can we admit PHP sucks? on PHP Floating Point Bug Crashes Servers · · Score: 1

    PHP has namespaces

    Only if you limit your code to newer PHP versions.

  8. Re:Why does this code even exist? on PHP Floating Point Bug Crashes Servers · · Score: 1

    If I were to guess, my guess would be that some of the target platforms for PHP/Zend are deficient in these areas.

    Deficiency never stopped PHP from using native strcasecmp() and repeatedly fsking up

  9. Re:Move to quantified data on Hackers Find New Way To Cheat On Wall Street · · Score: 1

    Imagine you were cashing out your 401k during the 'accidental' crash last year. One second stuff is at 1000, the next it's at 300. In the time it took for electrons to travel from your broker to the market.

    That's why people set price when they sell their stocks. Correct oops should be different. It is when you see current price at 300 and next second it is 1000.

  10. Re:HHGTTG Connection as well... on Doctor Marries Doctor's Daughter, TARDIS Explodes · · Score: 1

    She's also the daughter of Trillian

    Good to know that I am not that old. For me Trillian is associated not with Sandra Dickinson.

  11. Re:shortcut to the famous quote on Houston We Have a Problem · · Score: 1

    Houston, we've had a problem. We've had a MAIN B BUS UNDERVOLT.

    Can we hear uncensored version? :) People under stress don't shout "MAIN B BUS UNDERVOLT", they say something that starts with f.

  12. Re:Long term hotmail users? on Some Hotmail Accounts Wiped · · Score: 1

    I looked into the issue there seemed to be some lack of standardisation when looking for an open 'email archive' format to use.

    RFC822 and RFC3501 look like standards.

    You will need Cyrus or Dovecot, if you want faster fulltext search.

  13. Re:Long term hotmail users? on Some Hotmail Accounts Wiped · · Score: 1

    I would have thought that any long term hotmail users must have been in the dark a long time ago, not to see the light of gmail.

    What light? You are replacing one third party email provider with another and see the light in it? Maybe you see the light comming from the end of tunnel, but I will disappoint you. You are still going to hell.

  14. Re:Clumsy connector (or maybe just me) on Micro-USB Cellphone Charger Becomes EU Standard · · Score: 1

    Now try the same with a round plug

    Nokia 1208 has two round sockets. One of headphone and other for power. Try plugging round plug and hope that you don't confuse sockets.

  15. Next planet, please on 'Colonizing the Red Planet,' a How-To Guide · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Martian surface temperatures vary from lows of about -87 C during the polar winters to highs of up to -5 C in summers.

    Colony should be able to sustain itself someday. Top temperature of -5 C does not look like some place that can sustain people from planet Earth. They might be able spend some time there, but they won't last for long without supplies coming from Earth. I am even not sure if Mars atmospheric pressure level allows humans to breath without aids. Forget all Sci-Fi movies that you saw and look for better planet.

  16. Re:TL;DR version: on Lessons Learned From Skype’s Outage · · Score: 1

    Personally I think old versions should be blocked from making or receiving calls too

    Personally I think that new Skype versions are ad-ridden crapware. autostart, autoupdate, toolbars and fsking plugin manager would be the first things to disable in new Skype install. P.S. Linux Skype is still at v2.

  17. Re:Security on Thin Client, Or Fat Client? That Is the Question · · Score: 1

    wait, no, the switch is down.

    If citrix dies, users will see "meta window" or what ever error it throws. They still can work, if their primary work tool is on fat client. If vmware and citrix are on fat clients, do they trust their own tools?

    If vmware esx host is buggy and breaks linux guest, guest users will be fscked up. If guest and host are managed by two different departments, vmware department will point at guest and say that it is buggy instead of fixing their shit.

  18. only 10 years? on What's the Oldest File You Can Restore? · · Score: 1

    Have you personally/professionally had to recover something from 10+ years ago?

    Sourceforge started more than 10 years ago. CVS repository is still working.

    http://www.geocities.com is dead, but Unicode demo page from 1998 is in archive.org.

    I think I still can recover game I played on programmable calculator 20+ years ago. It is still somewhere in my papers. Calculator died more than 20 years ago.

  19. Re:Not all ethanol is created the same on Once-Darling Ethanol Losing Friends In High Places · · Score: 2

    Yeah. We use Ethanol in Brazil since the early 80s, making them from sugar cane and it is great. Now corn ethanol is ridiculous inefficient.

    Are you sure that you can grow sugarcane on same location that can grow corn? They have different climate requirements. What grows in Brasil does not always grow in Texas.

  20. Re:Is facebook really blocked? on Can Zuckerberg Leap the Great Firewall of China? · · Score: 1

    Do they block it in some places and not others?

    Chinese don't have to block it. They need to implement alternative version first. Then they can block the original.

  21. Re:Problematic Approach on Stuxnet Virus Set Back Iran’s Nuclear Program by 2 Years · · Score: 1

    Do you really want to force your enemies hand like this?

    That's how asymmetric warfare works. US can't find valid targets for counter attack and is forced to stay in defense. With every IED version increase the other side is more and more exposed and eventually US will find its target. IED should stay at v4 in order to avoid increased dependency on technology and increased exposure. Upgrade to v5 is not needed. v4 works and US does not have counter measures for it. Other side can go to v6 or v7 only when they are ready to fight US in open.

  22. Re:Perhaps "eden" ... on A Lost Civilization Beneath the Persian Gulf? · · Score: 1

    FWIW some geologists who compared the old testament to satellite images found some evidence suggesting that the rivers identifying the location of eden are consistent with rivers (current and ancient) converging on a location now in the Persian Gulf.

    Considering that religion came from same region it is highly unlikely that geography of old testament will be consistent with Caribbeans or Nasca.

  23. Re:Whatever sex crime he got arrested for... on Wikileaks Founder Arrested In London · · Score: 1

    I hope it was worth it and he had a threesome with those two women.

    It was not threesome. That why he got into trouble.

  24. Re:Reasoning? on People With University Degree Fear Death Less · · Score: 1

    A distant second is dying a horrible slow death, perhaps by starvation.

    Imagine death where metastasis cancer and constant pain drives you insane.

  25. Re:Here's an example break-in. on Doorways Sneak To Non-Default Ports of Hacked Servers · · Score: 1

    This is exactly the crap that Microsoft's genuine advantage is designed to stop.

    Go easier on stuff you are smoking. f..king WGA is designed to spy on end users and to increase profits.