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  1. Re:Slightly related question on Researchers Tracking Emerging 'Darkness' Botnet · · Score: 0

    In Soviet Russia credit card pays you!

  2. Re:Time to release our dark secrets? on 'I Just Need a Programmer' · · Score: 1

    Let them use VB but beware the NDA when giving advice.

  3. Re:C++ programming cultists? on Paid Developers Power the Linux Kernel · · Score: 1

    Many fields in a struct will not immediately cause the execution of a process to stop. For example you can corrupt an int and the program may keep running. Corrupt a float and you may or may not get a floating point exception but corrupt and then call a function pointer and its all over.

  4. Re:C++ programming cultists? on Paid Developers Power the Linux Kernel · · Score: 1

    C structs can't have member functions

    They can have function pointers and a better detector of memory corruption I am yet to see.

  5. Re:If that's their market... on Gentlemen Prefer Androids, Ladies iOS · · Score: 4, Funny
  6. Re:This is NOT about "intel" on With Better Sharing of Intel Comes Danger · · Score: 1

    Show me your tax return. Can I get that on line?

  7. Re:'WikiLeaks:TMZ' - SNL gets it right! on With Better Sharing of Intel Comes Danger · · Score: 1

    During the sketch, a message from President Obama (Fred Armisen) gives way to a staticky screen, which then reveals a greasy version of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (played by Bill Hader).

    "Hi America, I have taken over your airwaves," he says in an Australian accent. "The leaks did not inspire a revolution as I had hoped, so tonight I present a new WikiLeaks, where the leaks are even more embarrassing and the details are even more sordid."
    The screen flashes the title, "WikiLeaks: TMZ."

    Ha! Cue Dennis Hopper.

  8. Re:how do you disable writing to external drives? on With Better Sharing of Intel Comes Danger · · Score: 1

    None of that is hard to do. The US government could buy custom systems with exactly the external interfaces they need. They could install an OS which does only what they require. They could use thin clients everywhere and not provide a screen shot function.

  9. Re:This is NOT about "intel" on With Better Sharing of Intel Comes Danger · · Score: 1

    This is why the so-called open source movement is far more profound than people realize; it's not just about software, it's about putting an end to ALL secrets and finally achieving true freedom for all (as opposed to a few). We need open source government, and an open source government doesn't keep secrets and doesn't need information-sharing lockdown protocols.

    What color is the sky in your universe? There has never been an organization which didn't keep secrets. Many of us keep secrets from ourselves. A totally open government would quickly be destroyed by non open governments.

  10. Re:The government has vast resources on WikiLeaks Took Advice From Media Outlets · · Score: 1

    Even then from the looks of it Assange is accused of "Swedish Rape" which is as related to rape as "Swedish Fish" are to fish.

    After reading this artice I am not so sure. Perhaps many rape convictions rely almost entirely on the statement from the victim.

  11. Re:Natty uses Wayland? on Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) Makes a First Appearance · · Score: 1

    To be honest I think remote applications need a simpler rendering protocol, it's just not realistic to have an application look the same across a 56k dial-up link as it does locally where a thousand shaders can process 1 GB of textures to render something. Either you go down the VNC route and display the output our you need a simplified protocol which is better covered by web applications or some more "real" remote application protocol. X is neither, from what I gather most rendering toolkits no longer use the X primitives because they're too primitive, so they render it and send it as pixmaps anyway.

    Pretty small niche don't you think? Few people use a 56K link these days and those who do know exactly what to put down the line. Its hardly relevant to a debate about the latest Ubuntu.

  12. Re:Weird thread atmosphere here on Silverlight 5 — Back From the Dead? · · Score: 1

    What is good about WP7?

  13. Cryptonomicon on WikiLeaks Starts Mass Mirroring Effort · · Score: 1

    What we need is a cryptographically secure international currency. Julian Assange may be the person to make it happen.

  14. Re:Sauce for the gander on PayPal Withdraws WikiLeaks Donation Service · · Score: 1

    You can leave you geek card at the door on the way out.

  15. Re:Sauce for the gander on PayPal Withdraws WikiLeaks Donation Service · · Score: 1

    Ha! Thats two RAH quotes in a couple of pages.

  16. Re:Sauce for the gander on PayPal Withdraws WikiLeaks Donation Service · · Score: 1

    innocent != presumed_innocent

  17. Re:Sauce for the gander on PayPal Withdraws WikiLeaks Donation Service · · Score: 1

    And you know perfectly well that the rape charges are almost certainly false

    I know I am quoting out of context here but I thought this article from a couple of days ago is somewhat relevant. Two women have consensual sex. One of them decides to stop and accuses the other of rape for the contact after she claims she called it off. The result is a conviction for rape.

  18. Re:I'm missing something on Stable Roentgenium Claimed Found In Gold · · Score: 1

    I am thinking it would be more like uranium. If this state of roentgenium is rare and barely stable then injecting a small amount of energy may lead to it decaying to a different state and releasing a lot more energy.

  19. Re:Netcraft may have confirmed it, but on WikiLeaks Moves To Swiss Domain After DNS Takedown · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So why did they take that customer back?

  20. Re:Error in TFS on Stable Roentgenium Claimed Found In Gold · · Score: 1

    How could liquid gold not boil, if it is in a vacuum?

  21. Re:Neal Stephenson - The Baroque Cycle on Stable Roentgenium Claimed Found In Gold · · Score: 1

    When I go skiing its always "Treecrash".

  22. Re:Interesting if true on Stable Roentgenium Claimed Found In Gold · · Score: 2

    If it does have an obscure stable state it could make a fantastic rocket fuel.

    Or bomb.

  23. Re:I'll take two on Stable Roentgenium Claimed Found In Gold · · Score: 1

    Thats great I've got a hundred megabytes of the stuff in my mailer.

  24. Re:Not Phosphorus-Free on NASA Confirms Discovery of Organism With Phosphorus-Free DNA · · Score: 1

    Don't know. Didn't see it.

  25. Re:Assange a new Kennedy/Luthor King. on Moscow Has Eyes On WikiLeaks, Too · · Score: 1

    If Windows was such a brilliant operating system, why did the London Stock Exchange ditch it recently for Linux?

    Come on. Windows was never designed for that kind of engineering activity. Toyota didn't design the corolla for long haul trucking, either. The LSE should have known that in the first place.