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  1. Re:How many photos fit on a 500GB HD? on Bad PC Sales Staff Exposed · · Score: 2, Informative

    I feel like you didn't read your parent post before replying angrily to it.
    He said:

    Reason: The type of people who have to talk to a sales person, will run windows in a single partition, and will have to reformat before filling their drive.

    He didn't say, all people who run windows can't manage their pc and should be put out to pasture.

  2. Re:Dictionary on Schneier On Un-Authentication · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I disagree. Google is a search engine and doesn't always know which is the best answer (or even the right one).

    A Merrian-Webster dictionary or OED is considered a primary source for standard word definition (or existence). In the academic and engineering world we care about where the 'facts' come from. So sources do matter.

    If you know where to look in a trusted and accurate source, you should always go there before a search engine. Yesterday, I needed to know the syntax for srncpy. So I typed man strncpy, I didn't goto google.

  3. Re:what I want to know is. . . on AIDS Vaccine Is Partially Successful · · Score: 1

    http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/bioterror/vacc_nf.html is the best description I found of how vaccines are made.

    As a side note, all the new biology books that I've seen (2) don't consider viruses to be alive. So instead of alive/dead, they are active/inactive.

  4. Re:Repeat after me, on Firefox To Replace Menus With Office Ribbon · · Score: 1

    As I said to @clone, although I don't know:

    It says toggle, I'm assuming the idea is that you hold it down for a second and then the menu switches from one to the other ( until you do that again). Like all mozilla options, it will probably be set-able in about:config.

  5. Re:Repeat after me, on Firefox To Replace Menus With Office Ribbon · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It says toggle, I'm assuming the idea is that you hold it down for a second and then the menu switches from one to the other until you do that again. And like all mozilla options, it will probably be set-able in about:config

  6. Re:Freeware will not eat your children on Nominum Calls Open Source DNS "a Recipe For Problems" · · Score: 2, Informative

    Breaking out of a chroot jail requires a program with root privileges, that is, it requires another security hole to exist to allow you to get out of it.

  7. Re:Repeat after me, on Firefox To Replace Menus With Office Ribbon · · Score: 4, Informative

    It is an option.

    "Though it will be turned on by default for Windows 7 and Vista users, they will be able to toggle between the old and new interface by holding the Alt key."

  8. Re:Windows-only? on Firefox To Replace Menus With Office Ribbon · · Score: 1, Redundant

    From TFA:
    "Though it will be turned on by default for Windows 7 and Vista users, they will be able to toggle between the old and new interface by holding the Alt key."

  9. Re:Fine! on RIAA's Elementary School Copyright Curriculum · · Score: 1

    In someway, I see the source of that angst then. A revealing documentary simply tells the truth, and the truth should be free. But the reality is that a reporter of some sort needed money to make that movie. [s]he needed it to provide for his or her responsibilities and to cover the expenses of such an endeavor.

  10. Re:Pity this is AC on Most Detailed Photos of an Atom Yet · · Score: 1

    AFA the math being right. Have you ever looked at how the images on an MRI are actually made.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_resonance_imaging#Imaging
    You arn't just taking a signal from a sensor and directly making an image from it. Sometimes it is more complicated.

    Another example is SAR/iSAR (synthetic aperture radar). You won't an direct image back from that w/o doing the right math.

  11. Re:Some people. on Skype Founders File Copyright Suit Against eBay · · Score: 1

    You seem to know a lot of about the personal income of porn stars...

    How much do adult film stars make?

    This must be the only place in the world where guys get paid less than girls, and we call all the shots. (feminists take note!) Guys get a couple hundred per scene. New girls can get between five and six hundred for a boy/girl scene, and the rate jumps as you become a bigger star. Contract girls get paid by the movie, instead of by the scene, and they make thousands of dollars per movie. Then the stars go on the road dancing, which earns from $2500-$15,000 a week, not including tips, polaroids, etc. It's good money, but remember, when you're still working at 40 or 50, we're out of a job!

    http://www.asiacarrera.com/faqs.html

  12. Re:Fine! on RIAA's Elementary School Copyright Curriculum · · Score: 1

    I paid for someone to build my compute and ship it to me. I pay my ISP to be connected to this internet.

    Your evaluation of movies or music being bad/'cook'e cutter rehash sequels'/ doesn't give you the right to have a copy of their music. In fact, if you truly stood behind that, you wouldn't watch modern movies, or listen to modern music, and there for wouldn't give a damn about what the RIAA/MPAA are doing.

  13. Re:Basically on Skype Founders File Copyright Suit Against eBay · · Score: 4, Informative

    You are probably right about the originators being able to tell. I should have quoted what is different about this animal.

    When you said, "Assembly code is always available via debugger like ollydbg or others."

    I thought to myself: yeah, for my programs, but skype is a different animal.

    But if you already know this, then I can only hope someone else on /. found it interesting (I know I did when I first read it).

  14. Re:Some people. on Skype Founders File Copyright Suit Against eBay · · Score: 1

    Damn I forgot my factor of 10 in the first calculation. The second one is a better way to look at it anyways.

  15. Re:Some people. on Skype Founders File Copyright Suit Against eBay · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If I wanted to buy a person. I would take the amount of money they would need in a life time to support a family, and multiply it by 10. That should allow you to find a naked woman to by. Beauty is subjective. Let's say for here: http://www.livingwage.geog.psu.edu/counties/12086 (Miami-Dade, Florida). So about 3 million dollars. For 2.6 billion, you could have about 867 naked women MAX

    For a minimum, I'ld look at what porn stars get paid. A good porn start can make about 750K/year. Assuming that you want top quality women for the rest of your life (50 years), you could have 69 women minimum (rotating the old ones out and new ones in as they age and your preferences change).

  16. Re:Basically on Skype Founders File Copyright Suit Against eBay · · Score: 5, Interesting

    you've clearly never tried to look at skype's code then. It has multiple levels of code obfuscation.

    Last I checked the majority of the program's contents are encrypted. The loader decrypts it into memory, and also deletes the boot-loader from memory. Additionally, the the program will try and detect if you are running it in a debugging environment and jump into random pages. This in turn is hard to detect because seemingly random jumps are all over the code from checking checksum's on itself (to make sure you didn't put in software debugging).

    I'm not even explaining this fully-
    from: http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/355
    read: http://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-europe-06/bh-eu-06-biondi/bh-eu-06-biondi-up.pdf

  17. Re:Fine! on RIAA's Elementary School Copyright Curriculum · · Score: 1

    Not trying to be an RIAA lover but:
        Times have changed since then. It wasn't possible to copy someones invention so perfectly without a lot of work. Now, I can download someones whole discography if I know the right website without so much as leaving my combination toilet+fridge+chain.

  18. Re:When I was in elementary school on RIAA's Elementary School Copyright Curriculum · · Score: 1

    Share all you want. Bought a CD? Give it to a friend.

    But copying isn't "sharing". It's stealing.

    Obviously an AC, because copying isn't stealing/theft. It is breaking copyright law and licensing agreements.

  19. Re:It should be okay for the kids on RIAA's Elementary School Copyright Curriculum · · Score: 1

    Funny + Insightful + Flaimbait-- and more importantly, Exactly what I was thinking.

    Why is there a huge ?conservative? reaction to the president trying to motivate kids, but I only hear /. complaining about RIAA poking their biased noses into kids education. I'm probably just young and naive.

  20. Re:Pity this is AC on Most Detailed Photos of an Atom Yet · · Score: 1

    It is an image if the math is right. Some people have a hard time with images once you go outside of the "illuminate with X, detect with Y" paradigm. But if SEM/TEM PET_scans and MRIs are images, so is this.

  21. Re:Seems like a cool idea... on Student Designs Cardboard Computer Case · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Not mine, Enough of mine is made out of plastic for it to be completely worthless. But even if it wasn't, Depending on the frequencies you are trying to shield, your current computer case is a pretty horrible fariday shield as it is. Every hole, slit and opening for ventilation or other purposes allows EM to radiate or re-radiate out of it at a wavelengths of that size.

  22. Re:fat cells and muscle cells, too? on Birdsong Studies Lead To a Revolution In Biology · · Score: 1

    I think if you are going to be that pedantic. then it is still ok because of what knowledge means.
    Knowledge does NOT mean "what is true."

    Knowledge is what is in your brain after learning from the outside world, and reasoning it out yourself.

    It is very possible to learn things, and commit them to your knowledge, and still have those things not be completely true, or down right false.

  23. Re:Wifi B/G can't cut it. on Is City-Wide Wi-Fi a Dead Idea? · · Score: 1

    Be careful with that example because there are two things going on here.
        The length of the antenna does change the antenna pattern at a particular bandwidth, but it is also a function of the carrier frequency itself. Specifically, longer wavelength (AM/FM) need longer antennas than shorter wavelength (802.11 b,g,n @ 2.4/5 Ghz).

  24. Re:broken by design on eBay Denies New Design Is Broken, Blames Users · · Score: 1

    I get your point now; I either misunderstood your previous post, or it wasn't explicit...doesn't matter now.

  25. Re:Fleeing "Power Sellers"? I'm OK with that. on eBay Denies New Design Is Broken, Blames Users · · Score: 1

    You have no fucking idea of who or what you are talking about...

    You talk out of your ass.

    I'm not sure how angry this made you, but I feel you only needed one or zero personal insult.