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  1. Re:LOCs? on Scientists Unveil Most Dense Memory Circuit Ever Made · · Score: 1
    loosing their vocabulary


    On what are they letting it loose?
  2. Re:Which words? on Scientists Unveil Most Dense Memory Circuit Ever Made · · Score: 1

    word = 32-bits

    System/360 fo' life!

  3. Re:Really? on Scientists Unveil Most Dense Memory Circuit Ever Made · · Score: 1
    Default cluster size of NTFS is 4KiB. So, a 4096 byte large file will take the same amount on disk as the 1 byte file.


    It never used to - NTFS used to store the content of very short files in the MFT, so they only consume as much space as storing the name of the larger file.
  4. Re:Horeshit.....javascript is crap but....horeshit on AJAX May Be Considered Harmful · · Score: 1

    SQL is now used to select messages for delivery in JMS, which it wasn't designed for. It's difficult to do efficiently in that situation, and thus no-one has yet.

  5. Re:cameras on Apple and Google to Blog the World · · Score: 1

    There's an add-on for Nikon cameras which adds GPS information to the shots you take.

    I want a full-frame DSLR with GPS integration; Canon do the first bit, Nikon do the second, no-one does both.

  6. Re:cash cow? on Study Finds Linux 'Ready For Prime-time' · · Score: 1

    Yeah, Billy G would saw off his right arm to live in a world where he could apply the same licensing conditions to Windows.

  7. Re:cash cow? on Study Finds Linux 'Ready For Prime-time' · · Score: 1
    I wonder who they mean by cash-cow OS


    Almost certainly IBM z/OS.
  8. Re:Wheres my Wii... on Wii Owners Looking at a Nintendo Drought? · · Score: 1
    They invested their money on a risky proposition. It may not have paid off.


    I think it's worth mentioning that they have not taken any risk here. They buy from a store at $x, post it on ebay with a reserve of $y such that $y - costs of ebay > $x and return it to the store for a full refund if it doesn't sell. It's not possible for them to lose money.
  9. Re:Actually... on Chess Grandmaster Kasparov Versus President Putin · · Score: 1
    this denial leaves open the possibility they would use assasination on other types of enemies, an leaves what sets Litvinenko apart to the imagination of the listener.


    And to the listener who pays any attention to Russian politics, that answer is the strongest denial they could have reasonably made given that they recently passed a law allowing the KGB's successor organisation to assassinate terrorists abroad.

    Had he said they would never assassinate anyone that would have been an obvious lie.
  10. Irregardless is not a fucking word on Long-Term Wikipedia Vandalism Exposed · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Irrespective and regardless are words.

  11. Re:Slightly OT: Why isn't the language "more clear on Will Stallman Kill the "Linux Revolution?" · · Score: 2, Informative
    According to the westegg inflation calculator:


    What cost $20 in 1800 would cost $216.86 in 2005.

    Also, if you were to buy exactly the same products in 2005 and 1800,
    they would cost you $20 and $1.84 respectively.


    It's different, but not all that different really.
  12. Re:editors are for wimps on A Visual Walkthrough of New Features in Vim 7.0 · · Score: 1

    No, real programmers use XEDIT/VM or the ISPF editor.

  13. Re:Perspectives on Evolution No Longer Worth Learning, Says Government · · Score: 1
    That page defines Occam's razor like this:

    Occam's razor states that the explanation of any phenomenon should make as few assumptions as possible, eliminating, or "shaving off", those that make no difference in the observable predictions of the explanatory hypothesis or theory.


    That statement and mine are equivalent: if something makes a "difference in the observable predictions of the explanatory hypothesis or theory" it is "testable". If it doesn't, it isn't.
  14. Re:Perspectives on Evolution No Longer Worth Learning, Says Government · · Score: 1

    No it can't. Ever heard of Occam's Razor? It's the part of the scientific method which says you must discard any untestable part of a hypothesis.

  15. Re:at "that" online retailer, they probably know on Selecting Against Experience - Do Employers Know? · · Score: 1

    Very lazy. What do I win?

  16. Rest of the quote on Mozilla Developers Invited to Redmond · · Score: 1

    Your biological and technological distinctiveness will be added to our own.

  17. Re:Oh my god! on DC Power Saves 15% Energy and Cost @ Data Center · · Score: 1

    OK, now I'm not going to eat it.

  18. Re:I'll be playing as... on August 2nd Release For Street Fighter II · · Score: 1
    I almost blew Ramen noodles out my nose.


    Been there, done that. I threw away the t-shirt as I couldn't get the stains out.
  19. Re:More proof as to who is "helped" by copyright on ' Naughty Bits' Decision Not So Nice · · Score: 1

    Highways in the US are appallingly bad compared to those in the EU. Cars sold in europe typically have stiffer suspension for better handling in corners, yet the ride is better than in the US because the roads are smoother.

    All this is subjective and based on my personal experience of driving in the US and a few EU states.

  20. Re:You mean GayPal? on Google Launches Cost Per Action AdSense · · Score: 1

    I like to live on the edge

  21. Re:Lol, I read that as... on Stem Cells Cure Paralyzed Rats · · Score: 0, Troll

    You sir, are an idiot.

  22. You mean GayPal? on Google Launches Cost Per Action AdSense · · Score: 1

    I'll get my coat...

  23. Re:Good plan! on Gates' Replacement says Microsoft Must Simplify · · Score: 3, Funny

    DOS/360 I assume?

    Personally I prefer TSO.

  24. Nethack on Duke Nukem Forever Due This Year? · · Score: 1

    n/t

  25. noexec doesn't solve everything on Social Engineering Using USB Drives · · Score: 1
    Does Windows have the ability to attach devices with a "noexec" option? That seems like it'd be handy in this situation.


    If you have a Linux box, try this:

    1. Put an executable program on a filesystem which is mounted noexec
    2. Run /lib/ld-linux.so.2 /path/to/your/noexec/program

    Phil