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  1. Re:Comparing Apples to Apples on A Quantum Linear Equation Solver · · Score: 1

    Let's say the probability is 1/2. The solution to the system can be verified in polynomial time. If the solution is incorrect, run the algorithm again.

    After you run it N times, the probability of error is 1/(2^N), and you only wasted polynomial time on verification. Clearly, when your probability of error is smaller than the cardinality of possible outcomes, the algorithm will perform as designed in a sane amount (polynomial) of time.

  2. Re:2o7.net *Not* 207.net on Adobe Quietly Monitoring Software Use? · · Score: 5, Informative

    I've sniffed the data sent to that address. It includes the serial number of the software:

    GET /b/ss/mxcentral/1/F.3-fb/[sn-here]?[AQB]&purl=mm&pccr=true&c2=dw&c3=9.0&c4=win&c5=en&c6=full&c7=&c8=&c9=dw_9.0_win_en_full__[AQE] HTTP/1.1
    Referer: http://www.adobe.com/startpage/dw_content/dw_90_full_default.swf?prod=dw&ver=9.0&plat=win&lang=en&stat=full&tday=&spfx=&productName=dreamweaver
    x-flash-version: 9,0,45,0
    User-Agent: Shockwave Flash
    Host: 192.168.112.2O7.net

    and returns a 2x2 pixel blank GIF.

  3. Longevity of NAND flash on Top Solid State Disks and TB Drives Reviewed · · Score: 3, Insightful

    NAND flash deteriorates with use. When used in a high-I/O situations like hard drives, just how much time will it be able to work correctly? If I recall correctly, NAND blocks are guaranteed to the order of 100000 writes.

  4. Re:What if she doesn't actually know? on First Use of RIPA to Demand Encryption Keys · · Score: 1

    Helium is an inert gas, did you mean hydrogen?

  5. Re:They still don't give the exact byte downloadli on Comcast Slightly Clarifies High Speed Extreme Use Policy · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I agree wholeheartedly. As a non-US person who is always hearing about the litigiousness of US citizens, how has this not happened yet?!?!? The ISPs claim that the term "Unlimited" is described as meaning "Unlimited right of access", "always-on", "available 24/7"; as opposed to offers which limit the amount of hours you can be online.

  6. Re:It's a game-flavored ad on Companies Offer AAA Games For 'Free' · · Score: 4, Informative

    The ads are laughable. All of the advertising is done by DFHEngine.dll, which hooks D3D9 renderer to do its bidding.
    The main game executable has a call at the very beginning to DFHInitialize. Removing that removes all the ads.

    Enjoy.

  7. Starcraft 2 on Blizzard Announces StarCraft 2 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I only hope that Blizzard won't try to mix&match genres in an attempt to gain wider audience. The fact that in WC3, the game degenerated into Hero rush is what kept me from playing it.

    They should look at the original Ground Control for an idea of a good strategy game

  8. Re:20 minute phone call on Cable Packet Shaping Causing Slowdowns · · Score: 1

    I had the same experience (012 cough cough cough cough)

    Microsoft's case is simple - they use Akamai cache - a simple tcpview dump with clear "akamai.microsoft.com" connection visible shut them up

    In my case, 012 decided to throttle traffic (all traffic) on high ports. I simply asked my friend abroad to send me a file twice, once with me listening on port 80 and once with me listening on port 3000. With this data, I went to them and magically the throttle was lifted.

  9. Re:The first advice is also the most important one on Jeremy Allison's Advice to Young Programmers · · Score: 1

    In C++, your friends can touch your privates
    However, your father's friends can't.

  10. Re:small addition on Surprise, Windows Listed as Most Secure OS · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Actually, the comparisons of the security vulnerabilities usually go as following:

    Guy 1: Windows had 50 security patches last month
    Guy 2: RHEL had 500 security patches last month. Out of those, 5 were for the Linux kernel and critical system software. Rest were for Frozen Bubble and GIMP
    Guy 1: Who cares, nobody will know the difference, let's say RHEL had 500 security patches

    Funnily enough, Windows security comparisons never take any third-party software into consideration, while all Linux security comparisons do.

  11. Fun! on A Morning With Microsoft Games · · Score: 1

    Fable 2 will be cut
    Shadowrun will suck
    Mass Effect..we shall see.

    Nothing surprising there.

  12. Re:Funny, but lame on How Can We Convert the US to the Metric System? · · Score: 5, Informative

    The SI unit for time is defined as the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the Cs-133 atom.

    If you can't remember this simple fact, you are not worthy.

  13. Re:I disagree on Inside The Game Copy Protection Racket · · Score: 1

    I guess you missed #1.
    Let me reiterate: the latest patch is freely downloadable. If you haven't activated GalCiv2 before (you have no sig.bin file in your GC2 directory), you will have to do it. Once. After you do it, no further patches will require activation.
    As for SDC, no reason not to trust it. All purchases are handled through the web site, the program itself is not aware of any credit card or other sensitive information.

  14. Re:I disagree on Inside The Game Copy Protection Racket · · Score: 2, Informative

    1) All GalCiv2 patches are freely downloadable now (but require the game to be activated - this is a one-time process)

    2) The Stardock Central application can download and install the game / the patches for you, and also requires a one-time activation.

    I don't see any "enter multiple times" anywhere.

  15. Re:Something seems strange with the move numbers on Celebrating Puzzles · · Score: 5, Informative

    The N-ring puzzle requires 2^N - 1 moves to solve. The article is incorrect.

  16. Re:Shared source? Here's one with no license at al on Windows CE Device Emulator Goes Shared Source · · Score: 1

    What he meant is, that ** is not part of the 'type' definition in
    char** a, b, c;

    After the above line, a would have type (char **), but b and c would be of type char - which can be a surprise for novice programmers.

  17. Re:Buran on Space Shuttle Gains Remote-Control Landing Capability · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I am not sure that "Buran" means "snow-storm" in russian, despite it was written like that on wikipedia and babelfish.altavista.com also translates it like that.

    It does. The Russian word for "bura" is "burya".

  18. Re:Why would you not reformat the drive? on AOL Tries New Tactic to Keep Customers · · Score: 1

    "I can't until we run diagnostics."
    Sometimes it means that he really can't - his software won't let him. Many tech support call centers have software that restricts the techs from 'straying away' from the routine path.

  19. Re:GUI look on Evolution installer for Win32 Released · · Score: 3, Informative

    Evolution uses GTK2 library, like the rest of Gnome-based apps
    That's just GTK2 with look-n-feel theme installed, that's not using base widgets. Nothing prevents you from using the wimp theme, which uses Windows' native widgets.

    On the other hand, Thunderbird doesn't have to look like Windows either - it all depends on your skin. The default styling though, uses Windows services to draw the widgets as well, or at least some of them.

  20. Here's how to delete a file on Windows Vista on Details on Refining Vista's User Control · · Score: 5, Funny
  21. Re:Undiscovered egg in River City Ransom NES on Great Gaming Easter Eggs · · Score: 1

    Similar to this, in Seiken Densetsu 3, when played on an emulator such as ZSNES, go to an inn and stay.
    During the animation, turn off BG layer 1 (I think), and you will see the characters sleeping in their underwear.

  22. Re:Exploits? on Spoofing Flaw Resurfaces in Mozilla Browsers · · Score: 1

    Didn't work for me, Firefox 1.0.4
    Possibly because I have Tab Mix, and redirect all new window openings into new tabs - both windows opened in different new tabs.

  23. Re:Scared? on IE7 Will Have Tabbed Browsing · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yes, it switches between open tabs.

    Would you like cheese with that whine?

  24. Re:downtime during backup? on Microsoft Releases Public Beta of Data Protection · · Score: 2, Informative

    I would imagine that xfs_freeze just redirects all write i/o to a snapshot volume and overrides all read i/o with data in the snapshot volume (if the data requested has been written since the execution)

    The applications don't even know what happened, it all happens at VFS level

  25. So.. on Indian Call Center Employees Hack US Bank Accounts · · Score: 5, Funny

    I really should update my account details in Citibank, as per the email that I got awhile ago.

    They said my monies will be stoeled if I don't