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  1. Re:Seriously? on Fallout 4 Wins Best Game At Bafta Awards (bbc.com) · · Score: 1
    You can see the jury for all the awards on page 34 of the awards brochure. https://issuu.com/bafta/docs/b...

    Bloodbourne won the game design award but wasn't nominated for best game.

  2. Re:misspelling on Doxing Victim Zoe Quinn Launches Online "Anti-harassment Task Force" · · Score: 1

    She retweeted the article not realising the streetview on the page was his house and deleted the tweet as soon as she realised it was. Not sure that is really encouraging it.

  3. Re:misspelling on Doxing Victim Zoe Quinn Launches Online "Anti-harassment Task Force" · · Score: 2

    No. Zoe didn't doxx anyone http://idledillettante.com/201...

    And it doesn't even look like there was a SWATing attempt http://idledillettante.com/201...

  4. Re:I'm safe, in my ADSL utopia on BIND Still Susceptible To DNS Cache Poisoning · · Score: 1

    So, if you have a GigE lan, any trojaned machine can poison your DNS during one night...

    People at home are safe though - that's the main thing. People on the local net at home are generally known people, with access to your house (WiFi excepted), and could probably find easier ways to steal your identity, capture keystrokes, etc. And you're safe from Internet people too - at the end of my 8Mb connection, I think I'd notice a Gb of traffic heading my way, to say nothing of it taking 125 times longer anyway.

    Unfortunately most people on ADSL don't run their own name server, and instead use their ISPs nameserver. Hopefully not too many people will have GigE access to the ISPs nameserver so this attack probably won't work anyway.

  5. GigE on BIND Still Susceptible To DNS Cache Poisoning · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It seems that this only works so quickly because he had 2 machines connected to the server via GigE. Which I would guess means most DNS servers can't be poisoned like this.

  6. Re:Call me crazy, but... on Yahoo Introduces Competitor for iTunes · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Every one seems to have missed that the Yahoo Music Engine is not just a music service, but is also a jukebox.

    It does support the iPod as lond as you use non DRMed MP3s or even AACs. See this screenshot.

    It's only buying DRM tracks from a music store that "locks" you in to a player. If you buy your CDs online and rip them yourself you probably end up saving money and don't have any DRM issues.

  7. Re:Better analogy on The Return of Free Internet · · Score: 1
    Even if you never use the Television set for anything more than watching your own DVDs you will have to pay the annual TV-license fee of just over 100 pounds.

    If you just use the TV to watch DVD's and don't have an aerial plugged in then they don't make you get a Licence, but you to have to notify them

  8. Re:Firewalls/routers on Solid-State Mini-ITX Linux Recording Studio HOWTO · · Score: 1

    Or you could get a Soekris 4501 and case, then install a really small linux distro like Pebble linux and have a homemade solid state firewall/router in a really small form factor.

  9. Re:Agnula gone... on Solid-State Mini-ITX Linux Recording Studio HOWTO · · Score: 2, Informative
    Although the first thing written on the site is that it has closed, is is in fact still open. They have replaced their frontpage with a protest page and provided a click through to their real home page.

    Although they do redirect you to a page about software patents in Europe if you don't click though in 15 seconds.

  10. Re:Injecting harsh realities on Voice Over IP On Wireless Mesh · · Score: 1

    Indeed, the biggest problems with adhoc mesh routing protocols are unidirectional links and routes needing to be reformed due to mobile nodes. Fortunatly the kind of mesh networks locustworld are dealing with will be fixed so there are no mobile nodes, and unidirectional links can probably be dealt with.

  11. Brand Communications on UK Trains Take WiFi Route To Connectivity · · Score: 4, Informative
    At the WLAN event in London on the 6-7 April, this is exactly what Brand Communications said they are going to be doing. In fact a quick look around their website turned up this press release from 1st December giving some details.

    The press release states "The latest trials were held on route between Edinburgh and London Kings Cross and achieved realistic data rates and speeds, with over 18 GigaBytes of data being sent to and from the train."

    I got the impression from the people on the stand that they will be using WiMax to get the signal to the train passengers, and then standard 802.11b inside the carriages.

    If it all works out it should make train journeys a bit more interesting, but there goes my excuse to get out of doing any work.

  12. Wow on Review: KDE 3.2 · · Score: 5, Funny
    My first impression is 'wow.'

    His second impression was, 'Noooo... my poor server, what have they done to you...'

  13. Re:New chips on the horizon on PowerBook Performance for Java Development? · · Score: 1
    I believe Apple will almost certainly have G5 notebooks by the end of the year.

    Right now they're just trying to get power consumsion down so the battery will last for more than 5 minutes.

  14. Re:So? on Microsoft Violates Human Rights in China · · Score: 1

    Mmmmm... But KitKat Chunkys taste so good though.

  15. Re:Makes perfect sense... on Confessions of a Mac OS X User · · Score: 1
    So you can copy the data from a Mac "labtop" over the network to a non-Mac and execute it without having to use some type of emulator?

    No, but I hear labtops are very cheap on ebay.

  16. Re:More like pseudo-Perl on Perl Haiku Poetry Contest · · Score: 3, Informative
    IIRC Perl poetry does not need to be valid Perl, let alone have an interesting effect, but merely interesting English that happens to use only Perl keywords.

    Erm, apparently there are 2 catergories, one the Haiku must be a valid perl program, and the other is a Haiku about perl (doesn't actually have to contain any perl). There is no category where you must use perl keywords and it doesn't have to be a valid program.

  17. Re:Apple patent on scroll wheel is ridiculous on Dcube: Portable Audio With Ogg And A Scroll Wheel · · Score: 1

    Yep, but in a circle with a button in the middle, acting as a scroll wheel.

  18. Re:Apple patent on scroll wheel is ridiculous on Dcube: Portable Audio With Ogg And A Scroll Wheel · · Score: 1

    I thought Apples patent related to the Solid State scroll wheel (no moving parts). Having no moving parts is a novel idea and should probably be allowed a patent. Now, I'm not sure if the scroll wheel in this device has moving parts, as my Korean isn't quite up to scratch, but if it doesn't and they haven't licenced it I'm sure they'll be hearing from Apple.

  19. Re:Thunderbird-featuritus on Mozilla 1.6 Released · · Score: 1

    Well, for an IMAP email account, that could make it so when you empty your trash folder it actually deletes the files off the server. For some reason you have to do "compact this folder" on the inbox to get it to do this.

  20. Re:WARNING: Don't apply on production systems! on Debian World Domination Plan · · Score: 1

    Or of course there is option B, the poster made that up, he didn't do that and therefore won't be fired. Maybe I should trust people more, but then maybe not.

  21. It probably seems like a good idea on Biometrics in the Workplace · · Score: 2, Funny
    Until one employee has a nasty accident with the deep fat fryer and can't clock in or out anymore.

    And they realise they have to draw up new regulations that prevents anyone with extensive acid burns to their hands being employed, errr, maybe.

  22. Re:Wrong percentages? on Hyper-Threading Explained And Benchmarked · · Score: 1
    Missed the full quote before, oops! So here it is with my point again (but I'm probably wrong)

    You could say that disabling HT makes this benchmark 39% slower. But the the increase by turning HT on is
    7125/4328-1 = 1.646 - 1 = 0.646 = 64.6 %

    Thats true, until you look at the fact there were 3 different tests, you looked at one of them, and they quoted an average.

    The 3 percentages are about 64.6%, 71.2% and 22.5%, which is 52.8% on average, which means them saying ~52.5% is actually right.

  23. Re:Wrong percentages? on Hyper-Threading Explained And Benchmarked · · Score: 1
    You could say that disabling HT makes this benchmark 39% slower. But the the increase by turning HT on is

    Thats true, until you look at the fact there were 3 different tests, you looked at one of them, and they quoted an average.

    The 3 percentages are about 64.6%, 71.2% and 22.5%, which is 52.8% on average, which means them saying ~52.5% is actually right.

  24. Re:Alcohol on What You Can't Say · · Score: 1
    I have never been drunk in my life, and never barfed in a toilet bowl

    Nor have I. I prefer the sink, there are faucets to hold onto.

    But the bits get all stuck in the plughole and might block it up. Toilet bowls get my vote.

  25. Re:Dear NWS on Linux To Power NWS's Storm Prediction System · · Score: 1

    Probably... Try debain, they seem to support the HPPA, apparently.