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  1. Re:False equivalence, and you know it on PR Firm Behind Al Gore YouTube Spoof? · · Score: 1

    You have yet to provide evidence for the systematic propogation part. You seem to be confused about the difference about stating something and explaining something. And your personal style of argument is loathsome. You're a good use of a foes list.

  2. Re:Misconceptions by users on Less Than a Minute to Hijack a MacBook's Wireless · · Score: 2, Informative

    First, the very FIRST worm was a worm that propogated on a flaw in sendmail. Second, you must consider that a worm doesn't have to propogate on 10% of machines just once. every time it spreads, less than 10% of it's targets are acceptable. this has an exponential limitation on the spread of the worm, not a linear one. If you had chosen any type of problem other than worms, your statement would have been valid. (trojans, standard ride-along viruses, spyware, adware). those are valid things to point to, but not worms.

  3. Re:Backfired? Hardly. on Stephen Colbert Wikipedia Prank Backfires · · Score: 1

    lutheranism is split up among more than article, per wikipedia's non-paper rule. There's more about lutherans than there is about truthiness, just less in one article.

  4. Re:Is this on the level? on Stephen Colbert Wikipedia Prank Backfires · · Score: 1

    Actually, he could have had the edit pages up already, prepared by a staffer and just used the alt-s keystroke. with a fast enough connection, it would be beleivable. and the edits did occur 4 hours before the show aired.

  5. Re:Yeah Apple is going care. on One Laptop Per Child Gets 4 Million Laptop Order · · Score: 1
    In the worst case, you end up carving your addressing space in half; but even just 2**47 words of addressable memory and a 2**46 word framebuffer ought to be enough!

    in my day 640k was enough for anybody
  6. Re:It's obvious why they're *really* doing this on Cheyenne Mountain Shutting Down · · Score: 1

    Not that we'd mind George Bush being in another sort of cannon.

  7. Re:Why... on Possible Hole in Black Holes · · Score: 2, Informative

    IANAP(physicist) but my understanding of black holes is that the angular momentum is what causes ejections. A non-spinning black hole would have a perfect event horizon and nothing could ever leave even as elementry energy carrying particles. The "poles" are just like earth's rotational poles, they form the endpoints(when extended to the even horizon) of the axis of rotation. Why this affects gravitation (or the escaping particles) I don't know, but it probably has something to do with that satelite they sent up that measured the effect of the earth's rotation on it's gravity

  8. Re:Barely news on New Xbox Live Game Every Week · · Score: 5, Funny

    Haven't you heard? this is part of slashdot's new dupe each article once a week program.

  9. If it involved boiling the water... on New Nano Desalinization Method · · Score: 5, Funny

    We'd probably call it vaporware

  10. Re:Last time i checked... on Microsoft Makes Surprise CE 6 Release · · Score: 1

    Actually, what microsoft calls it, is a solution. A set of packaged technologies that are supposedly designed to work together for a better business experience or some other crap like that.
    .NET VM is one of their present technologies that's designed to knock off java, but far from the only thing present. Including a lot of things that people already pay for, such as visual studio.
    If you go to the .NET homepage, you'll not see any sort of runtime environment mentioned.

  11. Re:Sounds very sick on Microsoft Seeking to Patent Automatic Censorship · · Score: 2, Insightful

    you are aparently one of those people who doesn't know there's such a thing as games rated less than M. If they want to release a game that's rated E, like some kind of racing game, it'd be a nice feature to flip a switch and not have to worry about hearing "you're a gay nigger jew" from every 20th person. I'd further submit that the alogirthms to do this are not intuitive. If you think censorship is bad, make you you make it clear to microsoft that this technology should be able to be turned off.

  12. Sorry on DirectX 10 & the Future of Gaming · · Score: 1

    The article says that's just not very likely to happen because directX 10 is integrated with the structure of Vista. You'd be liklier to find WineX 10 first.

  13. Re:Rolling Stone said it best... on FBI Releases Secret Subpoena Information · · Score: 1

    Dear sir, you hugely overestimate the average slashdotter's attention span.

    You take that back! I'll have you know...

    OOH SHINY!

  14. Re:Worrisome on Under the Hood of AT&T's Monitoring System · · Score: 3, Insightful

    in fact, forget whose fault it is anyways, just elect someone who will promise to stop it. As far as I know, there's no one like that up and running. We need someone.

  15. No really.. on 2006 Chatterbox Challenge In Full Swing · · Score: 1

    you think you're being ironic or funny, but there is signifigantly less complicated conversation structure to be parsed around sexual conversation. mainly because it's generally limited to the two members of the conversation and a relatively small set of actions that can be performed. sex bots are far more likely to pass the Turing test than others, if the person on the other end is expecting that sort of exchange.

  16. Re:Thats because water vapor is a greenhouse gas. on Cleaner Air Adds To Global Warming · · Score: 1

    thanks for your 101 course information. However water vapor has a signifigantly more important effect than it's greenhouse one. Water vapor forms clouds. clouds have an albedo of nearly 100% except in the UV spectrum. As long as they reflect energy back out into space, water vapor results in cooling. For this reason, water is one of the biggest moderators earth has, and the main reason we even have a stable climate in the first place. when things get too cold the water isn't in the atmosphere to trap heat, and when things get too hot, the clouds block incoming light and thus control the in side of the equation. The big scare of carbon dioxide and methane, is that the only controls for those are living ones. namely bacteria for methane, and photosynthesis for carbon dioxide. Unlike water, these processes are not affected by global temperatures very much. whether these are valid concerns or not, i'm too ignorant to know. But the theoretical side of global climate change theories isn't wacky or weird. Even an extraordinarily simplified vision of this is a complicated differential equation with potentially unknown or undeterminable factors.

  17. Re:Limited application on New 25x Data Compression? · · Score: 1

    shouldn't there be 25 of these posts?

  18. Now... on ILM's Datacenter · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Now they can destory our childhoods with just computers.

  19. I think on Will Apple Disappoint on 30th Anniversary? · · Score: 2

    I think this story is a plant. To make people pay attention to the lack of announcements from apple but still pay attention to them the day they do announce something. Fan boys will love it. It's now garaunteed to be slashdotted when they do it. Forgive me if I don't trust reports of "nothing is happening" as being proper news.

  20. Re:Voicing my opinion on No More Next Big Thing? · · Score: 1

    heck, if you're going to read what's most natural, why not skip the middleman and go straight to the brain?

  21. Re:"Why pass what you know is flawed?" on Senate Passes Patriot Act Renewal · · Score: 1

    Actually I'd argue the exact opposite for why. we only have 2 factions and the majority faction gets to make all the rules(while the minority faction gets to make the rest). so rather than each issue being split independently on what seems most rational from a number of perspectives, it gets a lazy looking over from no more than 2 perspectives with only the absolute requirement of 1. I'm a democrat in my beleifs but i see just as much bad from the democratic party being in power absolutely. the checks and balances the constitution lays out just don't help when one party controls everything. A two party system just isn't right for the US.

  22. still a million reasons on Octopiler to Ease Use of Cell Processor · · Score: 1
    1. intensive memory management, while it seels like a pain, when dealing with fast exchances between various components of an architechture nothing is better or faster than memory mapping. The power of C/C++ is its greatest weakness. When you start treating things that really are numbers as abstract notions(like file pointers or functions or just about anything), you're really digging into your capacity to write efficient and platform specific code. One could make the argument that such platform depedent things should be part of libraries, but someone still has to write the libraries.
    2. program specific optimizations. you mentioned yourself automatic garbage collection, but you can easily not want to do time intensive collections during time critical parts of your code.
    3. the fact that anything really really abstract like you're talking about in games can probably already be done by licensing someone elses engine. The president of Epic games gave a presentation I attended recently and he mentioned that very point, their ps3 unreal engine has already been liscensed by many companies for making games with, and they haven't even finished it yet.


    the simple fact is that C/C++ is the standard for writing native code.
  23. Re:Anne Frank on Congressman Quizzes Net Companies on Shame · · Score: 1

    evil defines the goals of a group
    lawful defines the limits of their actions.
    They are lawful evil. lawful neutral would be holding laws as the highest authority, which is simply not the case. One might argue lawyers are lawful neutral.

  24. No... on Botnet Attack Shuts Down Hospital Network · · Score: 1

    Or blame society for having to use money.

    no. but i might blame a drug dealer who passivly suggests that they might rob people for more drug money.(while that seems like an extreme version of adware companies, shooting someone is far worse than hacking someone.)

  25. Re:Mod me up! on How Songs Get Popular · · Score: 1

    'tis moderated funny. but I've seen that effect before. once moderated things keep getting moderated in the same direction.