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  1. Re:Calling all OiNK ex-admins! on Italian Parliament To Mistakenly Legalize MP3 P2P · · Score: 1

    Wrong. Your CDR drive has to convert that digital signal coming from the rest of the computer into an analog signal. Add into that jitter, noise, vibration, and any number of other sources of entropy that play in CD burning, and you do NOT have an exact burn.

  2. Re:Adam Smith sez... on The True Cost of SMS Messages · · Score: 1

    Well, it doesn't matter if the other person is talking. If it did, talk radio, advertisements, and DJs should be just as shunned.

    What is more important is whether or not the driver can focus when required. I've pissed off the other person on the line plenty of times by completely forgetting what was being talked about - because I needed to focus on the jerkoff who just cut me off.

  3. Re:Bummer :-( on iPhone Application Key Leaked · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you should have held off buying an iPhone... you would likely be happier to watch this mess from the sidelines.

  4. Re:Nuclear Power and Global Warming on Suppresed Video of Japanese Reactor Sodium Leak · · Score: 1

    I do, now.

  5. Re:Safe Nukes on Suppresed Video of Japanese Reactor Sodium Leak · · Score: 1

    Never mind, I'm an idiot. I was confused, these ARE for power, but can be used for weapons.

  6. Re:Safe Nukes on Suppresed Video of Japanese Reactor Sodium Leak · · Score: 2, Informative
  7. Re:Nuclear Power and Global Warming on Suppresed Video of Japanese Reactor Sodium Leak · · Score: 1

    You realize breeder reactors are used for producing plutonium, and NOT for power generation?

  8. Re:radioactive sodium too on Suppresed Video of Japanese Reactor Sodium Leak · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Na-24 has a half-life of only 15 hours.


    What does Na-24 decay into, and how dangerous is that? How long does that stick around?
  9. Re:Good for them! on Smartphones Patented — Just About Everyone Sued 1 Minute Later · · Score: 1

    Hey now, no metapatenting!

  10. Re:Maybe it's just me... on MySpace Private Pictures Leak · · Score: 1

    Well then what you have just described is NOT a port scan. A port scan simply sweeps for ports that are open/closed/other.

    You are describing a finely-tuned reconnaissance tool combined with a service/version probe.

  11. Re:Anti-Fragmentation? on Linux Kernel 2.6.24 Released · · Score: 1

    Correct, but unlike your hard drive, RAM is fetched into cache for processing in "rows", and there is only room for so many rows. The more related stuff is together in RAM, the less "swapping" rows in/out of cache occurs. With multicore systems, this is even more important, as processors must synchronize to be sure they don't manipulate data cached by the other core... further dragging things down as more RAM access occurs.

    Just like the hard drive is orders-of-magnitude slower than RAM, RAM is orders-of-magnitude slower than cache, is only read/writable 20% of the time or so (refreshing, row/column selecting, etc)

  12. Re:Anti-Fragmentation? on Linux Kernel 2.6.24 Released · · Score: 1

    It does make sense. When your ram passes a row to the CPU caches, it's nice when most of that row is related somehow. The large blocks of free space help ensure that A/B/C/D/E don't get all mixed up next to each other.

  13. Re:For someone who's obviously new here... on KDE Goes Cross-Platform, Supports Windows and OS X · · Score: 1

    Longer, probably wrong answer: Yes, if you run xming-opengl on the system as well

  14. Re:Um, what? on Bionic Contact Lens May Lead to Overlay Displays · · Score: 1

    It's not so much that our eyes can't do it, but our brain isn't wired for it...

  15. Re:I am Netflix's complete lack of selection. on Netflix To Lift Streaming Limits · · Score: 3, Informative
    Too bad.

    Several quotes:

    We don't know exactly how this will all work, and a lot of it really depends on you.

    We're excited about this, and see huge potential for this system. From user feedback on articles, to comment moderation, the system is really limited only by your participation, and our database hardware!

    Other tagging systems let users make up any tags they want, and punt on the issue of objective meaning. So the tag "foo" means for each user whatever they want it to mean, and to the system it means nothing at all, it's just an identifier.

    Yes, that's pretty arbitrary. We'll spell out policy as this evolves. For now, the deal is: tag in good faith, and if there's abuse, we'll deal with it in good faith.
  16. Re:Well... on Student Expelled For Facebook Photo Description · · Score: 1

    It makes the student look really bad, regardless of whom was really at fault - if anyone even is.

  17. Re:The solution: on Gentoo in Crisis, Robbins Offers Solution · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Moderation isn't enough. These jerks need to be flayed.

  18. Re:Encryption on remotes? on Long Term Effects of Gizmodo CES Prank · · Score: 1

    Well, thats 30 feet (or 300 feet at higher power use) through clear air. Meat (you) and other construction materials significantly decrease the usable range, especially when you have other things (like microwaves, refrigerator motors, heating/cooling, etc) producing noise that further complicates matters.

    I don't have hard numbers, this is all conjecture...

  19. Re:Boo-hoo on SimCity Source Code Is Now Open · · Score: 1

    I could probably get you a decent 757-like airplane myself, if it comes to that.

  20. Re:The Brown Sheet of Paper on SimCity Source Code Is Now Open · · Score: 1

    Or, if you wanted to be REALLY silly, create a counter-function that will generate a key, and feed it back in.

  21. Re:Boo-hoo on SimCity Source Code Is Now Open · · Score: 1

    Keep in mind that was removed from the version EA released. I bet it won't take long for someone to patch it back in...

  22. Re:WARNING: MYMINICITY LINK on SimCity Source Code Is Now Open · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    above poser does not hide it.

    (poser was a typo for poster, but i just can't find it in myself to correct it! so perfect!)

  23. Re:Version? on SimCity Source Code Is Now Open · · Score: 3, Informative

    And, because nyud.net is slow-as-hell, here is a direct link.

    (there is a larger version on the website but I'm trying NOT to set fire to his provider's systems)

  24. Re:Version? on SimCity Source Code Is Now Open · · Score: 5, Informative

    had you looked at the links, you would see this screenshot.

    Looks a lot like Classic.

  25. Re:And US Junk? on US Satellites Dodging Chinese Missile Debris · · Score: 1

    That 20% increase is with ONE TEST.

    Kinda puts it to scale for you, doesn't it?