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  1. Re:vmware with no HD image perhaps? on USB FlashDrives The New PC? · · Score: 2, Insightful
    How about a battery backed-up PSU, with the battery inside the PSU itself? The host OS detects that AC power drops out, simulates no-power. When AC power returns, "start computer". Yes it's unlikely, but not particularly difficult, and some people need to worry about it actually.

    If you can find a way to easily make sure that the thing has no power left inside, and it looks like commodity hardware, then it's probably ok. But even then, what if it doesn't have a normal BIOS, but instead boots straight into an emulator?

    The possibilities are endless...

  2. Re:How would this help linux-on-Xbox? on 10 Xbox 360 Dev Kits Stolen in Germany · · Score: 1

    Or mod the chip that handles the code authentication.

  3. Re:Doesn't matter on Dell's Open PC Costs More Than Windows Box · · Score: 1

    Damn you. Now that I read your post I did so too.

  4. Re:China on Why Microsoft Hates Blu-ray · · Score: 1

    The content will be on Kazaa, sized to fit on the Chinese disc media.

  5. Re:sobleq??? on Protothreads and Other Wicked C Tricks · · Score: 1
    Here's a much handier assembler statement:

    Jump And Verify Accumulator If Shift By Eight Totals Three Empty Registers

  6. Re:Editorial control on Nitpicking Wikipedia's Vulnerabilities · · Score: 1
    After having looked at that website, I fully understand you. It's truly a tool for advanced object oriented design.

    In fact, it's so advanced that I have no clue what it does! (though it looks like a UML-tool of sorts)

  7. Re:Sweet! on First PSP Trojan Reported · · Score: 1

    ..and a mouth! But you have to twist it to feed it.

  8. Re:Cue Laughing Man... on Japan Will Stage Mock Cyberattacks · · Score: 1

    I never relly understood that one. Was there a meaning to it, or just a random blurb for his logo?

  9. Re:I'd buy good software that runs in Linux... on No Office For Linux, MS Patents Rejected · · Score: 1

    Yes, there's a lot of good software that doesn't exist on linux. You say Acid, I add Renoise, VST and DirectX plugins.

  10. Re:the following week's headline on PS2 Mod Chips Legal In Australia · · Score: 1

    Children getting increased sunshine exposure in Australia would give improvement in health?

  11. Re:Sun's OpenOffice? on Google Declares War on Microsoft · · Score: 1

    The use of a term or expression can be said to be loose.

  12. Re:AJAX BROWSER ALREADY EXISTS, here's the LINK on Google Declares War on Microsoft · · Score: 1
    While interesting, that browser only presents another page in a frame, it doesn't actually render it itself. Now, if someone creates a html rendering engine in Ajax, then I'm impressed.

    Besides, I made the joke up myself, haven't heard it before, and I'm a regular. Did I miss something, somewhere?

  13. Re:Sun's OpenOffice? on Google Declares War on Microsoft · · Score: 5, Funny

    Will this be a web-based browser?

  14. Re:Google Kowtows to China on Taiwan Irked at Google's Version of Earth · · Score: 1
    Actually they're not doing any evil, they're simply following standard practice. They don't have to be the ones to create eternal peace just because they say "Do No Evil". Notice that they're not saying "Do Only Good And Be Perfect".

    Effectively, this is not their problem, it's an issue between China and Taiwan.

  15. Re:Simple solution on Taiwan Irked at Google's Version of Earth · · Score: 1

    I would say that just because the US government is insidious and aggressive, doesn't mean the chinese government isn't.

  16. Re:Don't know Japan, but Korea's biggest problem.. on South Korea Introducing Robotic Teachers · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Yes, you are way too cynical. You fail to remember that talking about your favourite foods and how to make them is a safe field because it's easy, not because it's the only non-taboo topic. Try talking about the recent development in the relations between Japan and North Korea, and how to go about reunification in a foreign language. This won't be a problem in Japanese (unless hte person is completely uninterested), but it is in English. Discussing complicated topics requires Deep Insight in a language, and since many Japanese don't have this (for English), it's safer and more convenient to talk about easy stuff, or keep silent.

  17. Re:What the heck does that mean? on Sharp LCD Display with 1,000,000:1 Contrast Ratio · · Score: 1

    "My eyes! The goggles do nothing!"

  18. Re:Inaccurate Analysis on Sharp LCD Display with 1,000,000:1 Contrast Ratio · · Score: 1
    In that case I can suggest a non-electronic display.

    Your window.

  19. Re:Extremely sceptical on Stem Cells Restore Feeling In Paraplegic · · Score: 1

    Thank you :). This is in fact one of the 10 most misunderstood things about relativity, including the fact that the Big Bang wasn't an explosion from a point. I read an extremely good article explaining all this in SciAm, perhaps last year or so.

  20. Re:Two Things on FCC Giving Veto Power to FBI Over VoIP? · · Score: 2, Funny
    1) Is FBI over VOIP a new protocol?

    Yes, it runs on Veto Power(tm).

  21. Re:"silent" on Silent 500W Power Supply · · Score: 2, Informative

    Liquid cooling. Moves all the heat to a convenient place for dissipation.

  22. Re:Extremely sceptical on Stem Cells Restore Feeling In Paraplegic · · Score: 5, Funny
    It works in the same way as how distant galaxies move away from us. The distant galaxies are moving away at faster than light speed, but it's because the space in between is stretching, not because of actual FTL movement of the galaxy.

    In the same way, a kid can grow fast, and the nerves will seem to grow faster suddenly, but actually they are merely stretching out. This is what causes hypertension by the time they reach their early teens.

    As the kid gets older, and eventually middle-aged, the nerves grow and catch up with development. In later years, the nerves will have grown so long that singnals will take longer time to reach their destination, causing longer reaction times. On the other hand, there is the benefit from increased wisdom, coming from the ability to hold longer thoughts in the nerves.

    As the peron is reaching the endpoint of his life, at around 80 years of age on average, the nerves will have grown immensely, making him a treasure trove of deep thought and information. This can be hard to ascertain though, as the sheer nerve-length means they now have to grow in circles in the limited space of the human body. This means that you will often hear the wisdom of the past, as thoughts that started in one end, reach the other. The cramped conditions also predispose for spontaneous reconnections between nerves, causing apparently random changes of subject. Moreover, the spiralling structure of the nerve system entail a circular nature of the information coming out, meaning you'll have to listen to the same story multiple times.

  23. Re:Too divided? on Euro-Russian Manned Space Vehicle Planned · · Score: 1

    Is the EU somehow involved?

  24. Re:So, there is no benefit at all to this technolo on Flash Memory with Copy Protection · · Score: 1

    But you won't get any details from the manufacturers unless you enable the NDA suppository.

  25. Re:So, there is no benefit at all to this technolo on Flash Memory with Copy Protection · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And the encryption stuff won't be available for linux.