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  1. grass-free and eco-friendly landscaping scheme on Officials Sue Couple Who Removed Their Lawn · · Score: 1

    only if eco is short form for economy. The fact that they destroyed all grass on their land is not ecologically friendly. By not maintaining grass they are only worsening region's drough issues.

  2. why browser knows captcha id on Scalpers Earned $25M Gaming Online Ticket Sellers · · Score: 2, Interesting

    why user agent knows all info required to identify captcha and why this identification info is unique. Somebody designed weak captcha system and it was broken. End of story.

  3. Re:Food for conspiracy theorists: on The LHC Is Back Online · · Score: 1

    There were 18 in 2007, and 4 of those were 8.0+ quakes.

    Now limit statistics to 2010-02-27 and you will get one 8.0+ quake a day. Horrible. End of the world is coming.

    If you want to see impact of LHC to earthquakes, you should not limit your statistics to 8.0+ or 7.0+ quakes. How activity of LHC relates to Earth activity? Are you sure that there were no such periods of increased quake activity before LHC was built?

  4. Re:Worst. Name. Ever. on LG's Windows Phone 7 Series Early Prototype · · Score: 1

    Let us consider: Microsoft is normally ridiculed for inferior products, yet frequently has dominant market share. So how is Microsoft marketing a failure?

    Microsoft got its first dominant market share because there were no low cost usable alternatives. Their contractor lost monopoly on hardware, but microsoft software monopoly remained and they benefited from expanding hardware market. After that company abused in dominant market position to push products into other markets, to fight competitors and to sponsor products that don't produce enough income to cover expenses. MS marketing is a failure, because it is over budget and can't come up with good product name ideas.

  5. Re:That's true, not funny. on Killer Apartment Vs. Persistent Microwave Exposure? · · Score: 1

    But it's also true, I just can't find the reference.

    It was a joke. I am too lazy to search in anekdotov.net for a reference.

  6. Re:Food for conspiracy theorists: on The LHC Is Back Online · · Score: 1

    Has anyone noticed that

    citation needed

    Show stats that prove what you are saying, put :) on your post or stop FUD.

  7. cell tower next to village on Killer Apartment Vs. Persistent Microwave Exposure? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Mobile company raised cell tower next to some village. Locals complained about health problems caused by this tower. When contacted cell company CEO replied:
    - That's nothing. Wait and see what happens when we turn it on.

  8. Re:Next US war on Delta Rocket Crashes In Mongolia · · Score: 1

    On February 20th Mongolia surrendered to the US and demanded war reparations totaling 20 billion dollars

    They could also bill US for littering.

  9. Re:Contingencies on Microsoft Secretly Beheads Notorious Waledac Botnet · · Score: 1

    Who said anything about a hardcoded IP leading to the bot-master's own computer?

    It is a lot easier to trace IP address and to identify bot owner. If "owner" is just another victim, it can be shut down just like domains. Domains can jump from one location to another. Safer way is to generate new domain name. Then authorities must block new domains in order to make sure that botnet remains disabled.

    Blog controls might require more advanced bot client.

  10. Re:Contingencies on Microsoft Secretly Beheads Notorious Waledac Botnet · · Score: 1

    Even if the control machines loose DNS resolution, might not the botnet be configured to fall back to connecting to well known IP addresses to accept commands? Seems like the logical thing to do if you are creating an illegal network...

    Hardcoded IP address allows to trace bot master. Fallback to master's address is not logical. It is dangerous and unsafe. Logical thing would be to start new botnet when original botnet is targeted by authorities.

  11. Re:Just like desktop linux. on Google Android — a Universe of Incompatible Devices · · Score: 1

    Except a Win32 binary will Just Work....

    If it does not depend on some VC, .NET or DirectX libraries or some system calls. Are you sure that putty works on Win95 without winsock2 updates.

  12. Re:pfffft twatter tweeter on How Twitter Is Moving To the Cassandra Database · · Score: 1

    Is there really a huge issue with rdbms speeds? Well if there is something there, that's what needs to be looked at. If RDBMSs are not fast enough, that's just an opportunity to work more on them to speed them up.

    WW2 and Korea called.

    Is there really huge issue with those propeller plane speeds. We can always speed them up, right. Fastest prop planes reach 850-870km/h. me-262 reached 900 km/h. Mig-15 went to 1075 km/h.

    If other tools are faster and better than rdbms, then why people should waste their time with slower option.

  13. Re:Fly-by-wireless-link for the win! on What Happens In Vegas Happens In Afghanistan · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The Geneva convention ...

    Convention favors supreme military force. It was written before people started using asymmetric warfare to fight aggressors that were using their military advance against others.

    Yes. Asymmetric warfare militants are illegal according to Geneva convention, but it is the only way they can effectively fight against aggressor. You cover your advanced military ass with convention and hope that others will play according to your rules that are designed to work against them.

  14. Re:P4 and MythTV on Today's Best CPUs Compared... To a Pentium 4 · · Score: 1

    It often records four high-definition over-the-air or FireWire MPEG-2 streams while playing back another.

    You should praise your hardware MPEG encoder card and not CPU.

  15. Main memory user on 86% of Windows 7 PCs Maxing Out Memory · · Score: 1

    And main memory user is some xpnet-bot.exe process.

  16. Re:Origin of Mines? on Robots To Clear the Baltic Seafloor of WW-II Mines · · Score: 1

    Are these mines that were intended to damage surface ships that sunk after time, or were they intended to get subs? Skimmed the article but didn't see that detail. Seems they're a bit too deep to be intended for surface ships, yeah?

    Baltics is not only full of WW2 mines. It is also post-WW2 munition and arms dumpster. Sinked ships and weapons. Chemicals that are prohibited by international conventions. Any person doing stuff on the bottom of Baltics should be concerned about not hitting some amo dump.

  17. Re:reasons why gmail isn't the best idea on Yale Switching To Gmail, Not Without Opposition · · Score: 1

    Sounds to me like one BOFH that has been using his spare time reading student emails for juicy stuff is not happy that he no longer gets to read 'private' emails of his users.
    I get the feeling that there is a greater risk of private emails being read by an administrator than by google.

    Admins of university network vs all google admins and marketing staff. Guess where probability of having BOFH is greater.

  18. Re:VirusTotal on Rootkit May Be Behind Windows Blue Screen · · Score: 1

    Here's a link to the report from VirusTotal

    Half of most commons antiviruses don't think that is malware.

  19. Re:WAT is Voluntary and Doesn't Impact OS Usage on Anti-Piracy Windows 7 Update Phones Home Quarterly · · Score: 1

    1. Voluntary patch

    Yeah. right. Voluntary patch listed as security update. It automatically voids your points no.2-5. If they say patch is voluntary and put it on Windows Update as Security update, they can also do any other shit in that patch.

    WGA was "voluntary". Tried to install itself several times even after putting it on ignore list.

  20. Re:Pink submarine on Directed Energy Weapon Downs Ballistic Missile · · Score: 3, Informative

    I always wondered, would a laser be defeated if you gave the missile a mirror paint coat?

    If you can create a perfect mirror, which can also stand temperatures of reentry into atmosphere without losing reflective quality, then yes. But we live in a real world and mirrors are not perfect and are not that tough. They don't deflect 100% of light. High power laser beam will melt mirror. Mirror might reflect laser for some really short period of time. Once mirror starts melting, it will stop deflecting laser.

  21. Re:Why does OpenOffice need 350MB, anyway? on Google Docs Replaces OpenOffice In Ubuntu Netbook Edition · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Why is "soffice.exe" 7MB in size? It's just the launcher. The work is done in "sdraw.exe", "swriter.exe", etc.

    ~$ ls -l /usr/bin/ooffice
    -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 52 2009-07-26 14:50 /usr/bin/ooffice

    Maybe you look at the wrong file. OpenOffice files are in /usr/lib/openoffice and not in C:\Program files. soffice.bin is less than 500KB, soffice is 10KB shell script.

    sdraw and others are just launchers. OpenOffice is derived from StarOffice and StarOffice had all programs and desktop environment in one place.

    Netbooks don't need OpenOffice. Gnome Office works just fine.

  22. Re:vim/EMACS? on Eight PHP IDEs Compared · · Score: 1

    You do realize that there's nothing you can't do in vim you can do in any of these IDEs.

    Maybe. Not sure about code analyzer (unused global declarations and undefined variables stuff). I can do other things in vim with help of some PHP extensions, but with Zend Studio I can do same thing faster. If I do it faster, I have time to do more.

  23. Re:vim/EMACS? on Eight PHP IDEs Compared · · Score: 1

    I use vim as my IDE for damn near everything. I get syntax highlighting, code folding, profiler, and debugging.

    You don't use Zend Studio. I use emacs and that's why I said "I think" when I talked about vim.

    Yes, you can debug things with exit and var_dump. Yes, you can profile code with apd, if you add custom code unsuitable for production code and then decompile profiling dumps. With Zend Studio I can profile complex code which must be executed in specific environment with just one click. No custom code in tested program. I get graphs with load and execution times expandable down to files and functions.

    Can you trace all unused global declarations in 500KB codebase? Zend Studio 5.5 can.

    You can write PHP scripts with plain text editor. with IDE you can also maintain, debug and improve that code and write more complex code.

  24. Re:vim/EMACS? on Eight PHP IDEs Compared · · Score: 1

    I know this is PHP, so it might be expecting too much, but what ever happened to using vi?

    I think, vi does not have function name completion, code folding, integration with Zend Platform, debugger, profiler, phpdoc support, code analyzer, etc. Emacs does not have all features of Zend Studio. for me the only thing where emacs beats zend studio 5.5 is customizable white space highlighting.

  25. Re:Problem is on OpenOffice Tops 21% Market Share In Germany · · Score: 1

    No, my "assumption" is from deploying Office 2007 as a replacement for Office 2003 at multiple companies and hearing user feedback.

    Then you should hear different type of feedback. In office 2003 I can format document and create content table faster than in office 2007. In office 2007 I am wasting my time trying to set styles correctly. Ribbon takes too much space on 1024x768 screen.

    If your users use Word just for typing documents they should stick to wordpad or typing machine.

    Current microsoft products (Office 2007+ and Windows 7) are created by new generation of developers. They assume that users care only about the looks and they can replace all menus with bulky toolbars that limit user options.