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  1. Re:Almost... on Public Exploit For Windows JPEG Bug · · Score: 1

    I actually tried Gaim (v0.76-0.78) seriously for a while. I found it too buggy to be useful. I like the open source concept, but the problem with Gaim (and a lot of other OSS) seems to be that they don't stabilize their sources. I mean that they fix bugs, include a lot of new features, and introduce a whole lot of new bugs along the way. I don't really blame them, they're a small team with a large user base. Just to say open source isn't necessarily more secure.

  2. Re:Terminal Velocity on Swimming As Easy In Syrup As In Water · · Score: 1

    side effect, unless the marrow is given a new portion of the body to reside in, our immune system would have some serious issues

    Note: Although bird bones are mostly hollow and filled with air, they still contain marrow (but the marrow cavities are smaller).

  3. Re:Thank you Mozilla on Batch-o-Moz: Firefox, Thunderbird, Suite Released · · Score: 1

    [...] to have all pages displayed correctly.

    Except this one :(

  4. Re:42 on New Trailer For Upcoming Hitchhiker's Episodes · · Score: 1

    You're right. To think he even spelled it out in his book. My bad! (In my defence, apologize is the US form.)

  5. Re:Douglas Adams Cameo on New Trailer For Upcoming Hitchhiker's Episodes · · Score: 1

    It's not a Cameo. He recorded the part of Agrajag, and it really was the intention to use it in the new play. You can hear him on the trailer.

  6. Re:42 on New Trailer For Upcoming Hitchhiker's Episodes · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oops, apologize.

  7. Re:42 on New Trailer For Upcoming Hitchhiker's Episodes · · Score: 4, Funny

    We appologize for the inconvenience.

  8. Re:Not pigs, but cigarettes on Cleansing Hardware Of Dead Pig Odors? · · Score: 1

    Lol, what movie did you watch yesterday? James Bond? As if the Russions would allow FBI agents (or any Americans) in their nuclear weapons facilities. Would make a nice movie though!

  9. Re:Larry Niven's Known Space on Ringworld's Children · · Score: 1

    They already made a gameabout it (kinda).

  10. Re:Pixels don't matter on How About a Gigapixel Digital Camera? · · Score: 1

    Seems to be the L1 lagrange point. A satellite here would stay in place, relative to the sun and earth. SOHO for example is also in L1 orbit.

  11. Re:No sample code or algorithm? on General Solution for Polynomial Equations? · · Score: 1

    There are no software patents in Europe (yet, and hopefully never). And if I'm not mistaken, the Dutch got rid of all patents.

  12. Re:Stupid Question on New Ring Discovered Around Saturn · · Score: 1

    "a celestial body orbiting another of larger size"

    By that definition, the Earth is a moon of the sun...

  13. Re:NASA has received logs... on Genesis Capsule Crashes; Chutes Blamed · · Score: 1

    Actually Agrajag was the bowl of petunias in that story, and it was his first incarnation, so he wouldn't think Dent killed him again...

  14. Re:NASA has received logs... on Genesis Capsule Crashes; Chutes Blamed · · Score: 0, Troll

    You mean your inflatable sperm whale, no? Make sure to give her a nice bowl of petunias...

  15. Speaking of power supplies on IBM Recalls 553,000 Laptop Power Units · · Score: 1

    The PSUs for desktop PCs seem to get worse and worse. The cheaper they get, the less protectional components they include. A few months ago I had an overheated PSU burn out itself, the main board, and basically everything connected to it (only the RAM and the floppy drive survived). A few fuses or voltage-limiting zeners could have saved my PC. Too bad the PSUs all look the same from the outside. The only good thing about it was that my current computer plays Doom3 nicely :-p

  16. Re:Microsoft had this for years :-) on NX - A Revolution In Network Computing? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I assume this is an artificial limitation

    Indeed, the winlogon process does an RPC call to the termsrv module to check if an additional connection is allowed. Termsrv is statically linked to the licensing module. Some beta versions op SP2 enabled multiple connections. More specifically, replace \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\TERMSRV.DLL with version 2.1.2600.2055 (find on internet, replace in command line safe mode) and the registry key below to enable it (Requires Windows XP SP2 (RC), fast user switching, non-empty user passwords).

    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ SYSTEM\ CurrentControlSet\ Control\ Terminal Server\ Licensing Core]
    "EnableConcurrentSessions"=dword:00000001

  17. Re:Optical SETI on Should SETI Be Looking For Lasers Instead? · · Score: 1

    It just occurred to me that if alien civilizations actually manage to make Dyson spheres, then this could account for some of the dark matter in the universe (although the spheres will probably glow in infrared).

  18. Re:Wrong on Japanese Deploy Solar Sail · · Score: 1

    Uhm... I think you make some wrong assumptions here. What about this:
    To get from speed 0 (on Earth) to light speed, using an acceleration of 1g (one time the normal gravitational acceleration), we would need 3.0e+8/(1*9.8)/(3600*24), which is about 354 days.
    The human body would do just fine under those conditions.

  19. Re:No due diligence on The Saga of Katie.com · · Score: 1

    You should make her a seven figure offer if it is so important to your business model.

    She better not accept it... This is the trick MS pulled on Mike Rowe (mikerowesoft.com). You're not allowed to sell domain names. If you do (or even just accept to), you'll lose the registration.

  20. Re:IITYWTMWYBMAD? on PHP Not Moving To The GPL · · Score: 1

    Even DOS didn't have ONE remote hole in 20+ years!

    LOL!
    Probably because DOS doesn't know your NIC exists :-p

  21. Re:Courtesy of Ellen Feiss on Mozilla Foundation Seeking Switch Success Stories · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I have also heard of people running mozilla from a USB key!. I am going to try that one myself

    Make sure you don't put the cache folder on the USB key, or it will dramatically shorten its life (since it's flash technology with limited erase/write cycles).

  22. Re:Ringing In Ears on Early Blindness Sharpens Sense of Sound · · Score: 1

    No, I have pretty good hearing, and I hear it too. My guess is that it's the high-voltage transformer for the CRT. After a while, your brain filters it out, but if you get closer and move your head, it is clearly there (mute on).

  23. Re:Careful on Antarctic Lake Actually Two in One · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The conditions in a near-freezing lake at high pressure are very different to those in the human body. So, although it's possible that such microbes would thrive in the human body AND cause lethal illness, it is very unlikely. Then again, there's Murphy's Law (anything that can happen, will)...

  24. Re:Life expectancy? on Fetuses Provide Stem-Like Cells to Mothers · · Score: 1
  25. Re:Boy on Requiem For A Motherboard · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hours of my life, wasted.

    Good thing you have /. for that now ;-)