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  1. Oh, sorry, that was HR29 "discretely" on House Passes Spyware Bills · · Score: 1

    and what i want to know is the meaning of HR744, section 2.c.

  2. phoning home allowed, "discretely" on House Passes Spyware Bills · · Score: 1

    See section 5, limitations.

  3. Re:Get out the stake on AdvantageSix Promises a Tiny ARM-based Computer · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but PDAs, small form factors, and low power are the future.

    This is more of a proof of concept than a product. This is what we will be seeing in the future, little boxes like these spread around the house. One runs the private PBX system and handles serving the family home page and mail, one handles the entertainment center, one monitors the utility systems, doors, fire alarm, etc.

    Processors will be a mix, but mostly ARM and Power. MSWindows will be represented, if at all, by a descendant of the thin client MS is now building, running on either Linux or a BSD.

  4. So, what about all the xSODs you on Windows XP Starter Edition Snubs P4, Athlon · · Score: 1

    haven't received reports on?

    It's not the times it works I'm worried about.

    On the other hand, "works well enough to sell this year" has been Microsoft's motto for a long time.

    {shrug/}

  5. Re:Yes, the world could be Apple II based, not PC- on Apple's First Flops · · Score: 1

    So, what you're suggesting is that the Apple IV should have had a 68008? With a software emulator for the 6502?

    Or that Apple should have sold a Model of Macintosh with one of the numerous AppleII/6502 emulators bundled?

    That might have worked.

  6. Re:Not a problem in practice, except on Windows XP Starter Edition Snubs P4, Athlon · · Score: 1

    Okay, let's think this through very carefully. Bugs in userland do not result in xSODs. Bug's in userland that cause processes to gimmick up result in exceptions that get written to some log somewhere.

    xSODs are bugs on the other side of the wall, the same side of the wall where the file system tables are kept, the same side of the wall where the swapping code runs, and where the tables that point to the segments of the swap files live.

    MSWxxx is monolithic. There is one wall. Until very recently, MSWxxx did not observe the conflict between writeable and executable, and there is still a lot of hardware out there that doesn't support the new (xpSP2) enforcement.

    MMUs protect RAM. They do not protect disk.

    In the moments before an xSOD, the processor has been out of control in system state. Very likely, it has been in system state trying to execute data or garbage.

    Do you really want to trust the MMU to protect swap space when the CPU is out of control in system state?

  7. stereotypes aren't meaningless, I guess, on Enterprise Finale Airing Tonight · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Replace "Klingon" with "man", and "human-betazoid hybrid" with "woman" in the above statement, and you've got a stereotypical heterosexual relationship.

    And vice versa.

    Which is probably the pith of the arguments presented by the homosexual movements.

    But also, conversely, probably the entire reason for sex.

    (I say as my wife expresses disgust that I would be reading /. and laughing about this Star Trek thread.)

  8. Post to /. with only one browser at a time? on Firefox Growth Slowing? · · Score: 1

    Dang, now I have to break out links so I can post with two browsers at the same time.

    Well, I could have done that if /. didn't make me wait two minutes.

    Heh.

    Okay, back to work.

  9. Post to /. with only one browser at a time? on Firefox Growth Slowing? · · Score: 1

    Dang, now I've got to break out links so I can post with two browsers at the same time.

  10. Not a problem in practice, except on Windows XP Starter Edition Snubs P4, Athlon · · Score: 1

    of course, when the processor is out of control. (As in the moments before a xSOD.)

    And, yeah, I can't tell my left from my right, either.

    (Migi? Hidari? Iya, Hilary janeyah. MUGI!)

  11. Re:Not arbitrary. Calculating. on Windows XP Starter Edition Snubs P4, Athlon · · Score: 1

    Miscalculated.

  12. And in what write-only memory is the pointer on Windows XP Starter Edition Snubs P4, Athlon · · Score: 1

    to the disk space reserved for swap?

  13. But Safari isn't intended to run in X11 on Safari vs. KHTML · · Score: 1

    X11 and Aqua are not compatible. Complaints that Apple's patches don't work in X11, well, okay, it's understandable to complain, but it's not reasonable to demand. You'd be asking them to make Aqua into another flavor of X11, and there are good technical reasons they shouldn't.

    As a matter of personal opinion, I would suggest that assigning a liaison engineer to help move code between the two forks (and help weed out the code that doesn't move) would be mutually beneficial. I think Apple is being shortsighted if they don't do it.

    But armchair quarterbacking never gets the job done.

  14. iNTEL pentium 4 on Yahoo Introduces Competitor for iTunes · · Score: 1

    are flash players.

    Hmm.

  15. How come we bash Apple? on Yahoo Introduces Competitor for iTunes · · Score: 1

    Making apple cider?

    You can get music anywhere. Apple competes with radios, CDs, antique tape decks, vinyl, not to mention mp3 and microsoft.

    microsoft competes with, uhm, microsoft. and itty-bitty-teensy-weensy bit players like Linux and Apple.

    And not praising wma to high heavens is somehow bashing microsoft?

  16. requirements on Yahoo Introduces Competitor for iTunes · · Score: 1

    IE?
    Latest service packs?

    No Linux? No BSD? No MacOSX?

    Competing for the majority desktop, yes, but with whom are the competing? malware?

    Perhaps the idea is that if enough companies come out with stores that compete with iTunes, there will be some some of critical mass and some sort of chain reaction.

    Heh. Chain reaction.

    No, this is primarily to distract us from writing our congresspeople about realstinkingIDiotcards.

  17. The constitution hangs by a thread. on Real-ID Passes U.S. Senate 100-0 · · Score: 1

    Hang your flags at half mast, upside down.

    Hide your guns where you can get them.

  18. IE and activeX always prompted you? on Malicious Web Pages Can Install Dashboard Widgets · · Score: 1

    I guess somebody takes the time to tighten up your internet settings.

    Our maybe you just haven't noticed when you weren't prompted in a theoretically "safe" zone.

    But I agree, somebody's copying cool features without thinking.

  19. wow, burning computers at new egg, appropriate for on The Pseudoscience of Intelligent Design · · Score: 1

    a flame fest.

    But one question for all of you who assert science has all the answers, what was before the big bang?

    In the end, we choose a place to end the recursion. Some find God there, some find random chance. The funny thing is that we basically all of us worship whatever we find there.

    Worship? WORSHIP AND SCIENCE DON'T HAPPEN IN THE SAME HEAD!!!!!!!!!!

    yeah, right.

    But ending the recursion is the wrong answer. It does not make things simpler. The are no turtles under the earth.

  20. Maui X-Stream, funded by on Maui X-Stream at it Again? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Microsoft, MPAA, and RIAA.

  21. The Microsoft business model? on Maui X-Stream at it Again? · · Score: 1

    Get lucky in getting the defacto industry leader to choose your product.

    Lie, and bribe others to lie about your product being fit for the application.

    Lie and bribe others to lie about your product being the standard.

    Dump to undercut the competition. When the competition goes to the dumping model in defense because the courts will take too long, use kickbacks, bribes, rebates, etc. to push your product. If dumping still doesn't work, bribe the police to look the other way and send some muscle around.

    When people complain, say it's "only software".

    Microsoft's business model will catch up with them, but as long as we roll over and let them run their "business", we pay the consequences as well.

  22. depending on the flaw, on Is the x86 Architecture Less Secure? · · Score: 1

    the answer would be yes, no, or it used to be.

  23. Re:I care because... on Converting Users to Open Source- Why Do You Care? · · Score: 1
    And you want someone to switch top open office because its "Adequate"?

    When you're talking about software, "adequate" is huge praise.

    Microsoft Office's greatest claim to usefulness is that it is inadequate in so many areas.

  24. Re:No need for a one-to-one mapping on China Locks in its Net-Citizenry · · Score: 1

    heh. Yeah, I know it's hard to read, I just forgot I had used the HTML Formatted.

    Anyway, yes, the only thing I can think to do is have the user chose his own latinized domain name.

    The registrar might provide a dictionary of suggested translations and a list of suggestions that haven't already been taken. But the customer would have to choose the actual latinization.

    However, if they are going to hide the .cn from those who access within China, that would make it rather awkward to map the TLDs to the latin/English equivalents.

  25. man flamebait on RealNetworks Invests in Legitimizing Free Music · · Score: 1

    No manual entry for flamebait