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  1. Re:Unix file philosophy on Shootout: 'rm -Rf /' vs. 'Format C:' · · Score: 2, Informative

    You can't use the same technique on Windows but there is an equivalent technique: rename the running exe or dll and copy in the new one.

    You still have to stop and restart the process for the update to take effect.

    If a sofware update on Windows requires a reboot it's because the author made it that way, not because Windows requires it. The differences are cultural rather than technical.

  2. Re:slow? on Shootout: 'rm -Rf /' vs. 'Format C:' · · Score: 2, Informative

    You can also speed it up by minimizing the window so that the screen isn't being updated.

  3. Re:WTF? Commercial spam? on Photoblog Revolution · · Score: 1

    The site is nothing to do with me.

    The interesting part is that individual photobloggers tag their pictures with keywords.

    You can then search on keywords to get a bunch of related pictures from different blogs. I admit there's no editorial control involved, but the results can be quite interesting. For example, Election2004.

    Or try your own search.

  4. Re:New Internet on Photoblog Revolution · · Score: 3, Informative

    People just like pictures

    But the novelty soon wears off. When was the last time you jumped at the chance to see someone's holiday photos?

  5. Re:I love photography but photoblogs bore me. on Photoblog Revolution · · Score: 1

    Thank you Flickr.

  6. Re:Waiting 16 years is ridiculous on Several Publishers Sued for Infringing 3D Patent · · Score: 1

    Evans and Sutherland were selling military flight simulators with 3D graphics in the mid 1970s. They did their research in the 1960s.

    By the late 1980s the techniques were so widely known that teenage hobbyists (like me) were coding this stuff.

    If the games companies don't settle, this should fail on prior art.

  7. Re:Odd... on Coating Promises Scratch-Proof CDs, DVDs, LCDs · · Score: 2, Interesting

    There was similar hype twenty years ago when CDs first came out, although that was based on supposedly miraculous error correction rather than a miraculous coating.

    A popular science program on UK television had a demo where they scratched CDs, drilled holes in them, covered them in jam, and Look! they still work.

    Of course, it all turned out to be cobblers.

  8. Re:Dude, I want that coating on Coating Promises Scratch-Proof CDs, DVDs, LCDs · · Score: 0

    You obviously have no other use for them.

  9. Re:While we're on the subject... on High-Tech Crimes Revealed · · Score: 0

    In the UK any reverse hacking attempt would be a criminal offense under the 1990 Computer Misuse Act.

  10. Re:Bush and I'm not afraid to admit it. on Pre-Election Discussion · · Score: 0

    > Since Saddam was never any threat to us

    You say this based on what? This statement is the epitome of a strawman.

    I say that based on the complete lack of evidence. The absence of any evidence of weapons of mass Destruction. The absence of facilities to create said weapons. The absence of any link between Hussein and OBL or any other terrorist or terrorist organisation.

    I'm sure you went over there and asked them yourself...

    Since you seem confused, that statement is the epitome of a strawman

  11. Re:Bush and I'm not afraid to admit it. on Pre-Election Discussion · · Score: 0

    Given a choice between "world" and "world minus Saddam Hussein", any sane individual will choose the latter. Sadly, this has little to do with reality, where the choice is "world" versus "world minus Saddam Hussein plus 100,000 innocent Iraqis dead plus total chaos and all Iraqis living in extreme terror plus 1000 US soldiers dead plus..." Was it worth it? Since Saddam was never any threat to us, the only people whose opinions matter are the Iraqis, and they don't seem to think so.

  12. Corporate shill on Working iPod Halloween Costume · · Score: 0, Troll

    I hope the money Apple are paying him covers his bandwidth bill.

  13. POTUS! on Clothing For Gadget Guys · · Score: 4, Funny

    From the site:

    Rumor has it that the POTUS himself spotted one of these garments on a Secret Service Agent and insisted on one of his own - complete with a presidential seal.

    That says all you need to know.

  14. Re:A Little Perspective on Titan's Smooth Surface Baffles Scientists · · Score: 0

    No matter how badly they might have wanted to know it, it was hidden from them.

    If they'd have been that bothered they would have asked the aliens who built the pyramids.

  15. Mod parent funny, siblings humorless on AOL Files First Spim Lawsuit · · Score: 0

    Idiots.

  16. About time on Caller ID Spoofing for the Masses · · Score: 0

    Caller id is provided by the originating PBX and has always been unauthenticated - that's why this service works. If you choose to withhold id, the system sends your id anyway along with a flag saying "please don't display this."

    The system has been broken for years. Now that's it's easily abused, maybe it will get fixed.

  17. Parent insightful? on What Makes Apple's Power Mac G5 Processor So Hot · · Score: 0, Redundant

    WTF? Mod parent funny or crazy.

  18. Re:Dr. Turvey was one of my professors on 2004 Ig Nobel Prizes Announced · · Score: 1

    It's held on the 38th Thursday of the year. Whether this falls in September or October depends on where the firsr Thursday of the year falls.