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  1. OF COURSE it's less than 10 percent on Does Going Digital Mean Missing Music? · · Score: 1

    files in a compressed format contain 'less than 10 percent of the original music on the CDs. -- That's because an MP3 generally only consists of one track, rather than the 10+ on the original CD.

  2. Re:I VOLUNTEER! on Google's $10 Local Search Play · · Score: 1

    I would assume Google wants photos of the _exterior_ of the business.

  3. Re:Trackball on Mouse or Trackball? · · Score: 1

    You can't hope to achieve smooth 360+ degree rotation on an fps. You have to move your thumb at some point. The ball has inertia, though. I don't play fpses, but I can get the pointer to move smoothly even over distances where i have to move my thumb. The action has a similar rhythm to it as a double-click.
  4. Re:use a line printer on DSS/HIPPA/SOX Unalterable Audit Logs? · · Score: 1

    That proves that the logs weren't tampered with, but it doesn't tell you what they were before being altered. Um... if you have proof the logs were NOT tampered with, then what they were before NOT being altered is the same as what they are now.
  5. Re:The open source competition is too much for MyS on Open Source Community's Double Standard · · Score: 1

    It's time to move on, lets fork SQLite, add networking and support for multiple users and relational integrity, and strong typing, and ALTER TABLE, and a date type, and nested transactions,

  6. Re:not bad... on The Future of C++ As Seen By Its Creator · · Score: 4, Funny

    (should have been named ~C) And Godwin's law has been invoked/fulfilled/whatever.

  7. Re:I don't understand... on American Red Cross Sued For Using a Red Cross · · Score: 1

    I mean, I may as well patent all green rectangles and sue everyone with a lawn. Shh! Don't give them any ideas!
  8. Re:XHTML/HTML divergence on Finally We Get New Elements In HTML 5 · · Score: 1

    HTML5 explicitly defines how formatting tags are handled, in such a way as to allow not only ... but also ..........

  9. Re:Excellent! on Finally We Get New Elements In HTML 5 · · Score: 1

    an 8khz 8bit mono WAV takes no more space/bandwidth than a 64kbps MP3.

  10. Re:Ummm.. on Replacing Atime With Relatime in the Kernel · · Score: 1

    I thought the read state in newsgroup messages was stored in the newsrc - As recently as a year ago I was able to synchronize (after a fashion... never got around to writing that merge tool) thunderbird with slrn by copying the newsrc files back and forth.

  11. Re:This may be why the United States is failing on New Explanation For the Industrial Revolution · · Score: 1

    Um, [...] Germany [...] experienced massive increases in credit and money supply in the 1920's, and subsequent hyperinflation but none started any "random" wars. You really can't think of any wars any of those states got into in the following decades?
  12. Re:always be a "???" on William Gibson Gives Up on the Future · · Score: 1

    You now have a machine that is slightly more intelligent than a human. No you don't. You have a buffoon who wants to watch 30 episodes per second of Big Brother. And the difference is (given the average human, and that the machine is at least wasting less wall time on it)
  13. Re:Ask Slashdot: Pause a running Javascript on DNS Rebinding Attacks, Multi-Pin Variant · · Score: 1

    And how do you pause a running script without knowing where to set a breakpoint - or for that matter how do you pause a timer (setInterval) at all?

  14. Re:Not censored, I tried it myself on MSN Censors Your IM · · Score: 1

    It might vary per server. I saw this story somewhere else and .info wasn't on the "full list" from someone who actually hacked a client to ask the server for the whole list

    http://forums.worsethanfailure.com/forums/18/ShowF orum.aspx

    http://www.amsn-project.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t =157&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=30

    "image001.png" is blocked - because no-one ever uses a filename for something other than what someone else has used that filename for, no matter HOW generic it is, once someone's used a filename it's "taken" forever and always refers to that one evil exploit it was used for.

  15. Re:Fix what? on MSN Censors Your IM · · Score: 1

    PS. You can save yourself the trouble of replying if you're going to tell me Linux only allows the user to destroy all of his files and not the entire OS. Telling you that would be false anyway, see "Run this command as root: ..." or "type 'sudo rm ...' and then it'll ask for your password and type that".
  16. Re:How Medeco locks work on The Study of Physical Hacks at DefCon · · Score: 1

    Also minutes and seconds of time, in some cases (durations, not time-of-day). And the proper symbols are single and double prime, not typewriter apostrophes

  17. Re:I don't want EVERYONE to see my data!! on It's Time for Social Networks to Open Up · · Score: 1

    Actually, I think _they_ misunderstood their use of the word "content".

  18. Re:ASTROTURF ALERT!!!! on Open Standards Initiative Fails in Massachusetts · · Score: 1

    Not so much 1.0, but there's a lot of HTML 3.2 that's not in HTML 4.0 Strict [and Transitional is, just that, transitional. meaning in theory it's not supposed to continue being supported by all browsers forever] If critical layers of meaning are encoded in 'bgcolor' attributes, those might not show up in some future HTML-strict-and-not-transitional compliant browser, or with a browser that supports HTML 7.0 and has backwards compatibility for HTML 6.1 or whatever.

    Actually, as I look up HTML 1.0, how many browsers support the xmp or listing tags? or the plaintext tag (arguably more part of HTTP 0.9)? HP1 and HP2 for character highlighting?

    XHTML was a severe break with compatibility, lots of valid HTML is invalid XHTML, and just results in a YSOD or equivalent. (don't believe the people who say "well, img _really_ required a closing tag all along, we're just enforcing it now).

  19. Re:Cocoa and Carbon on Run Mac OS X Apps On Linux? · · Score: 1

    There is no "Posix layer" on Linux. Most of the APIs exposed by the linux kernel to user code _are_ POSIX. It might be worth bypassing glibc, though. That you'd still have to go through the (much heavier than anything else involved) X11 system to be able to present a gui to the user would make that a wasted effort though.

  20. Re:You want an explanation? Okay. on What's Keeping US Phones In the Stone Age? · · Score: 1

    Because square area is an exponential function, you need 100 times as many towers to serve a population that is 1/10 as dense. That makes no sense.

    If it's 1/10 as dense, that means the same population takes up ten times as much space. You seem to be saying that the same population takes 100 times as much area (which would be 1/100 as dense). Density is measured in people per square mile, not people per linear mile. If it's 1/10 as dense, that means it's the same number in ten times the AREA, not ten times the DIAMETER. which means ten times as many towers. not 100 times.
  21. Re:Some numbers for you... on Study Proves Having Fat Friends Makes You Fat · · Score: 1

    A disaccharide of fructose and glucose is NOT THE SAME THING as a mixture in 50% proportion.

    Unless you would like to drink a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen.

  22. Re:Password on Fox News' FTP Password Anyone? · · Score: 1

    I intended the phrase "getting caught" to include that.

  23. Re:BIGGEST SPOILER OF ALL!!! on Firefox Lite And Old PCs Could Crush IE · · Score: 1

    The boat sinks

    It's made out of people

    It's actually Earth in the future

  24. Re:Password on Fox News' FTP Password Anyone? · · Score: 1

    Right. And how many iterations can you make in 20 seconds, making a round trip to an FTP server on each iteration? Screw 20 seconds, how many can you make before getting caught?

  25. Re:The 'M' in WMD relates to quantity on Fox News' FTP Password Anyone? · · Score: 1

    It all comes down to whether "weapon of mass destruction" is a descriptive term or a term of art. If I have a car in my driveway lacking an engine, I could certainly claim I do not have on my property a motorized vehicle. I could credibly argue that it's not a "motor vehicle", too, but that'd be on shakier grounds.

    The problem is, we _have_ a term that fits the category that people are trying to repurpose "WMD" into a term of art for: "NBC". There were NBC weapons (well, only C, really). However, they were not "of mass destruction", as they lack the mass destruction nature.