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  1. Re:Isa this parallelizable? on Distributed DVD Back-up Solution? · · Score: 1

    Would multicasting work though? From my understanding multicasting needs multiple hosts to be sent the same data...

  2. Re:GDS also as ha plugin architecture... on Rave Reviews for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger · · Score: 1

    Oh ok, I didn't know about that.

    However I doubt that it is as fast as indexing as the file is modified.

  3. Re:Instead of having a computer chip monitor... on Software V-Chip for PC Games? · · Score: 1

    There's a difference between trusting someone and being comfortable with them knowing something.

  4. Re:She looks cold. on Review: Jade Empire · · Score: 1

    MGS2 (I haven't played any of the others) almost made it there. You could get sick from being outside too long, and you would start coughing. You could also smoke as well, damaging yourself of course ;)

  5. Re:How is Spotlight any different.. on Rave Reviews for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's built in at the filesystem level, and as a result files are indexed immediately when they are modified, rather than at the next search pass.

    Spotlight also has a plugin architecture so that developers can add new file format parsers.

  6. Re:And to think I used to worry about this... on Microsoft Scales Down Palladium · · Score: 1

    Unless it's a Microsoft Broken Clock, in which case it will helpfully skip ahead 6 hours whenever it the right time approaches what is on the clock.

  7. Re:How is this justified under privacy? on Judge: Schools Don't Have to Help Music Industry · · Score: 1

    How is just giving personal details to a corporation just because they ask justified?

  8. Re:is anyone truly copying? on Jobs Claims Microsoft Is Shamelessly Copying · · Score: 1

    As much as I agree with you on the rock music, I'm afraid your comment on Britney Spears will result in your immediate removal and re-education.

  9. Re:Instead of having a computer chip monitor... on Software V-Chip for PC Games? · · Score: 1

    There are plenty of things a kid probably shouldn't tell people about, but it's not like they should have to keep that secret from their parents

    Ok, I'll have to admit I'm somewhat biased on the matter (I'm 15). I have things I don't feel comfortable letting my parents know about. If I'm having a fight with my girlfriend over MSN, isn't it reasonable that I would prefer that my parents aren't reading my every word?

    If all people did was exactly what their parents say to, then no-one would learn to stand up for themselves.

  10. Re:Boycott Trusted Computing on What to Expect from Linux 2.6.12 · · Score: 1

    How can it be used for evil if you control the key?

  11. Re:Hah! Smart enough? on Web Site Attacks Are On The Rise · · Score: 1

    Wait...you've got right-wing teenagers in the US?

    Interesting concept, although I've never come across any cases of that in Australia ;)

  12. Re:Careful! on Web Site Attacks Are On The Rise · · Score: 1

    But then they would start charging more for the open access....

  13. Re:Schoolboys? on Web Site Attacks Are On The Rise · · Score: 1

    As opposed to someone who might...say...disallow people from attending a techincal conference based on their political opinions?

  14. Re:Instead of having a computer chip monitor... on Software V-Chip for PC Games? · · Score: 1

    I was not quite so lucky. However if I stuck to vi and perl for making my emails (so it was a scrambled mess while it was on-screen) I could actually write emails in private.

    Not enough privacy is ALSO a bad thing.

  15. Re:Instead of having a computer chip monitor... on Software V-Chip for PC Games? · · Score: 1

    I would consider it an invasion of privacy when the justification is "If you don't want me to see it, you shouldn't be doing it".

    Everyone has secrets.

  16. Re:I agree on Software V-Chip for PC Games? · · Score: 1

    Yeah...my parents used to watch me all the time, made me just hide in my room, it almost made me turn to suicide.

    Constant supervision is a bad bad thing. So is none. You need to strike a balance.

  17. Re:Ridiculous on Software V-Chip for PC Games? · · Score: 1

    Likewise giving kids no time at all without supervision is somewhat damaging...far more so than the games.

  18. Re:Instead of having a computer chip monitor... on Software V-Chip for PC Games? · · Score: 1

    If you wouldn't want me seeing it over your shoulder, it shouldn't be there.

    Because if kids want ANY privacy, it's evil evil evil!

  19. Re:Good! on Interest in CS as a Major Drops · · Score: 1

    on a Win 3.x machine

    I doubt it would be gigabit ;)

  20. Re:This just keeps getting better on Nikon Responds to Encryption Claims · · Score: 1

    Because capitalism is supposed to be about making money and not helping the government?

    And isn't Toshiba a Japanese company anyway?

  21. Re:Not impossible but... on OpenOffice vs. MS Office for Education? · · Score: 1

    Uhhh...lessons? On word processing? What's going on in your schools?

    I'm at a school where they teach VB6 but it's still assumed that you can use a word processor.

  22. Re:I am so happy!!! on GCC 4.0.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Or he was the mother.

  23. Re:actually.... on Ameritrade Customer Data Lost · · Score: 1

    Yeah well if you don't find out until after your payment is overdue....

  24. Re:I am so happy!!! on GCC 4.0.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Appears to have had rusty-nail abortion.

  25. Re:Must be over 18? on Turing's Original Test Played First Time Ever · · Score: 2, Funny

    Judging by your UID, I think you would have had to endure quite a lot of suffering from the proponents of that strategy ;)