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  1. Re:How do I love thee? on New Dating Sites Match People Through DNA Tests · · Score: 1
  2. How do I love thee? on New Dating Sites Match People Through DNA Tests · · Score: 1

    Oh how do I love thee? Let me spell the ways: GATTACA

  3. hype alert on Quantum Cryptography Broken, and Fixed · · Score: 2, Informative

    The title of their paper is "Security Aspects of the Authentication Used in Quantum Cryptography." That would make an awesome title for a book that aimed to cover every single security aspect of the authentication used in QC, but not a paper that simply points out that (duh!) you shouldn't allow the eavesdropper to see the key.

  4. Re:It doesn't take days on Building a Fast Wikipedia Offline Reader · · Score: 1

    By the way, he could have saved himself a lot of time if he would have just purchased a WikiStick http://www.wikistick.com/

  5. It doesn't take days on Building a Fast Wikipedia Offline Reader · · Score: 4, Informative

    It only takes days if you use the php import script to import the sql dump, which was not designed for importing the entire dump.

    Use the ANSI C implementation, which takes about 20 minutes to convert the XML to SQL and then takes a few hours to import into MySQL. Please not that you need a properly configured MySQL server in order to efficiently run a local copy of Wikipedia, which must have at least 8GB of ram.

    http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Xml2sql

  6. visual complexity on Visual Exploration of Complex Networks · · Score: 3, Informative
  7. Google is useful for searching code on Search Engine For Coders to Launch · · Score: 1

    A friend recently asked me about Python's thread.start_new_thread. Google is perfect for finding hundreds of examples. Try this query:

    filetype:py thread.start_new_thread

    . The syntactical portions come up in the results, and you can copy those to your clipboard to then find the exact thing you're looking for in context in the source. A similar search on Koders, a search engine supposedly specializing in source code search, returns useless results.

  8. Some human rights don't exist. on Google's Action Makes A Mockery Of Its Values · · Score: 1

    The Chinese government is already blocking these web sites. Google is now blocking the meta data of these web sites. Why is it necessary? They are being strongarmed by the government. Block access to the metadata and deny that these websites even exist. If you do not we will instead deny you access to millions of potential searchers. Google has taken the top-down view that hey, if we don't pretend that some websites don't exist, we can't even tell these searchers that /any/ websites exist.

    But wait a second - Google Corporate says that Google's mission is to "organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful."

    Google has organized this set of information. However, they are not making it universally accessible because they are pretending some of it does not exist. The layman's reading of Google's mission, which is the intended reading, leads to the thought that Google is violating it's core ethos. That Google is willing to accept two wrong's /can/ make a right.

    Of the comparison filtered queries Philipp showed us, the one that strikes me as most awful is "human rights." When you pretend that some human rights don't exist, you can count on the fact that you have done something evil.

  9. Re:People largely get mad due to fixable things. on Computers That Feel our Mood · · Score: 1

    Microsoft's online documentation is actually quite fantastic. In fact, and much to their credit, I highly doubt you can point to a better documented family of software than Microsoft has. Google has indexed all of it, and the query prefix site:microsoft.com brings up what I'm looking for most of the time. I admit this isn't often of late, having made the switch to FC4. Fedora, and Linux in general, has really crummy documentation. Enough so that you shouldn't be criticizing MS at all

  10. Re:They do have a point on Webhost Sues Google · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Showing the IP addresses would be a violation of Google's privacy policy. This is the same reason IP addresses are not shown in Google Analytics.

    Google only shares personal information with other companies or individuals outside of Google in the following limited circumstances:
    [...]
    We have your consent. We require opt-in consent for the sharing of any sensitive personal information.

  11. Row row row your... on Singing Science · · Score: 1

    We love DNA, Made of nucleotides, A phosphate, sugar and a base, Bonded down both sides. Adenine and Thymine, Make a lovely pair, Guanine without Cytosine, Would be rather bare.

  12. It's not the toolbars on Google Paying for Firefox Installs · · Score: 1

    You seem to have overlooked the most common factor always present at the unstable systems you have worked on.

  13. Re:Wikipedia's total bandwidth ? on Yahoo! Orders Wikipedia Hardware · · Score: 2, Informative

    Up until recently when they moved to a new co-lo this data was out there, but it is unfortunately no longer available. I can say as a fact though that they are currently pushing out about 17 terabytes per month and growing strong. There's a bandwidth graph and instructions to read it on this page of my site.

  14. Typo on Yahoo! Orders Wikipedia Hardware · · Score: 1

    Google has provided --> Yahoo has provided.

  15. Re:Heh on Yahoo! Orders Wikipedia Hardware · · Score: 1

    There was nothing unfavorable insinuated regarding Google here. It is actually the opposite, in my opinion. Google has provided and Yahoo hasn't, even though Google was the first to have the idea. Any perceptions that Yahoo was compared unfavorably to Google was yours, not mine.

  16. Re:faulty facts in summary on Yahoo! Orders Wikipedia Hardware · · Score: 1

    Sorry about that...flashback to the past...I knew better =)

  17. More information and photos on Wikimedia and KDE Cooperation Announced · · Score: 2, Informative
  18. Sanger is not co-founder on The Early History of Nupedia and Wikipedia: A Memoir · · Score: 2, Informative

    Jimbo Wales does not consider Sanger to be a co-founder.[1] Here Wales lambasts him [2]. In addition, Sanger is NOT involved in the encyclopedia in any way and cannot speak authoritatively on it. He has not edited in years and it has changed so much. All he does is critique the contents of our articles on Philosophy, but makes no attempt to fix them. He has stated publicly that, as an academic in the job market he is worried for his reputation. That is all this is about. You cannot insert yourself into history - Sanger was Jimbo Wales employee, but the fact of the matter is that he was not willing to do the job without getting paid. He has no place at Wikipedia anymore.

    Here is Jimbo Wales', founder of Wikipedia, exact quote:

    "It is not correct to say that 'With Larry Sanger, Wales in 2001 founded...' I founded Wikipedia, Larry just worked for me. The idea for using a wiki orginally came to me from an employee -- Jeremy Rosenfeld. I am adding a note to the Bomis article's talk page about this one as well.--Jimbo Wales 18:52, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)

    [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Jimmy_Wales#I_wa s_.2Athis_close.2A_to_editing_myself
    [2] http://www.kuro5hin.org/comments/2004/12/30/142458 /25/66#66

    /user Alterego

  19. No MediaWiki plugin on History Flow Shows How Wiki Articles Evolve · · Score: 2, Informative

    There is no MediaWiki plugin available atm.

  20. FUD, Faith, whatever.... on FUD-Based Encyclopedias · · Score: 1

    It's only important that he is an EX editor and we are all CURRENT editors :)

  21. Re:Essentially already done. on Skype-Ready Phones From Motorola · · Score: 1

    I have an h6315 and it simply doesn't have what it takes to transmit a clear voice signal.

  22. Re:Licensing? on Dvorak on Google and Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    This article demonstrates a sufficient ignorance and lack of knowledge of licensing models (GFDL in this case) that one wonders if the geek-world is slowly suffocating itself in a pedantic vortex of demise. What ever happened to the hero archetype who stepped in a saved the day - truly allowing information to be free. What i'm saying is, where are FPPs discussing the good possibilities of Google taking Wikipedia under its wing where no other would and where the help is severely needed? As a community we should save the conspiracy theories of corporate whoremongering for those who truly deserve it. What we shouldn't be doing is stabbing our friends in the back.

    And as they say, "keep your friends close and your enemies closer". I think I heard that in #wikipedia

    /Alterego

  23. Re:Random number machines predicting the future eh on Random Number Generator That Sees Into the Future · · Score: 1

    Mod parent up. Parent's parent is completely uniformed. "He's his own grandpa", unfortunately.

  24. The Global Consciousness Project on Random Number Generator That Sees Into the Future · · Score: 5, Informative

    Geeks will appreciate that you can download the raw data from the Global Consciousness Project and analyze it yourself. They even provide you a head start in your programming with their C++ package. In addition, there is a realtime driven display coded in Java, and "data driven music."

    The entire premise behind the Global Consciousness Project is that the Noosphere exists, and that, when a large amount of people are focused on the same thing it effects things in ways that are difficult to measure. There are dozens of these eggs (64) all around the world returning truly random data to the princeton server, which is inside a special casing to protect it from any extraneous waves/radiation/youname it. Their data purport, and indeed seem, to show that during times when many people are focused on the same thing, this random data is suddenly "less random". This typically means that when people start hearing about a globally impacting event on the news, the data becomes less random.

    Using current methods it is impossible to prove that this is what they are measuring. But the data goes to show that they are measuring something. If you don't believe me or the news article, download the data and analyze it yourself, and if you're feeling the tingling of those psychic wavelengths, you can even register a prediction of your own ;)

  25. Re:More info on Google Donating Bandwidth and Servers to Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    i fixed it on my website earlier. brain-fart :)