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  1. Re:Swastika's are a legal issue. on Russia Recalls Modern Warfare 2 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Its actually illegal to display swatika's in public in Germany and Austria.

    Here in India, where the Swastika originated, it denotes good luck.
    Heh, I've always wondered what would happen if my ex-colleague visited Germany. Swastika is her name.

  2. JPG screenshot? WTF? on First Look At Firefox 3.0 Beta 2 · · Score: 1

    I usually don't read TFAs. But when I noticed that the author has used JPEG encoding for a screenshot, I didn't bother to read what he has to say.

  3. Re:Sweet on Google Earth Flight Simulator · · Score: 1

    Yes, I did. You probably pushed the elevator up accidentally using the mouse or keyboard.
    It's more fun when you start from Kathmandu airport. You can literally climb the Himalayas on your F-16!

  4. Re:Sweet on Google Earth Flight Simulator · · Score: 1

    Exactly, not much has been added to what is already available in GE.
    Even the ground is pretty much flat. I started on an F-16 from the London Heathrow runway and deliberately did not lift-off. Soon I was 'cruising' through houses and even on the river Thames at 400kmph!

  5. Re:our brains aren't wired to think in parallel on Is Parallel Programming Just Too Hard? · · Score: 1

    but can you talk (perhaps reciting something from memory) at the same time you are listening to something?
    That's what interpreters do all the time.
  6. And Digg capitulates to diggers' pressure on Digg.com Attempts To Suppress HD-DVD Revolt · · Score: 1
    In the digg blog, Kevin Rose, the founder of digg goes on to say:

    ... today was a difficult day for us. We had to decide whether to remove stories containing a single code based on a cease and desist declaration. We had to make a call, and in our desire to avoid a scenario where Digg would be interrupted or shut down, we decided to comply and remove the stories with the code.

    But now, after seeing hundreds of stories and reading thousands of comments, you've made it clear. You'd rather see Digg go down fighting than bow down to a bigger company. We hear you, and effective immediately we won't delete stories or comments containing the code and will deal with whatever the consequences might be.

    If we lose, then what the hell, at least we died trying.

    Interestingly, the digg site is currently down with an "Out of Service" notice.

  7. The Song on Censoring a Number · · Score: 3, Interesting
  8. Re:Great news for open formats on Word Vulnerability Compromised US State Dept. · · Score: 1

    Well this should push everything towards open document formats a bit more, so it might just be a good thing...

    What has a file format to do with vulnerabilities? The vulnerability is in the program that reads the document. What is the guarantee that using open document formats will reduce vulnerabilities, assuming the program is still closed source?

  9. Re:Great sense of direction on Ants Use Pedometers to Find Home · · Score: 4, Interesting
    So if you let an ant crawl onto your hand, then place it down somewhere else.. it will get lost?

    In fact I used to perform such "experiments" with ants. The ants at my place used scent trails. If I rub-off the scent trail left behind, the ants coming behind get dis-oriented for a while.
    And when I transport an ant manually to an unknown territory, it raises its head and looks around for familiar landmarks.
    Not all ants use scent trails. I found that the larger ones use the direction of a light source (or their shadow) to navigate to a place.

  10. Re:works in older acroread too on More PDF Blackout Follies · · Score: 2, Informative

    i hate the new acrobat reader. some claim it calls home to the mothership(Adobe) which i dont approve of either (spyware)...

    Then you should try Foxit Reader. Apart from being free, light-weight and best for everyday use, it also has got a 'Fox' in its name. :)

  11. Re:Firefox extensions I can't live without on Mozilla Announces Extend Firefox Contest Winners · · Score: 2

    Surprised that All-in-One Gestures didn't make it.
    Can't live without it.

  12. Re:"Quick Tab" on Microsoft IE 7 Goes (More) Beta · · Score: 2, Informative

    Or you may try the Reveal extension.

  13. Earth First! on Plan To Bomb Mars For Signs of Climate Change · · Score: 2, Funny

    We'll ruin the other planets later.

  14. Re:10 million? on New Possible Record Prime Number Found · · Score: 1

    Personally, I'd like to see a huge prime with a prime number of digits...

    Prime number of digits when expressed in which base?

    ;)

  15. Use an IP messenger on What Makes a Good IM Client? · · Score: 1
    ...IM is a pretty integral part of communicating intra-office.

    Why use an IM for communicating intra-office? An IP messenger can be used instead, as they do not tax the network as much as IMs do.

    We use the open-source IPMSG for Windows
    Turbo Note+ is also a good alternative.

  16. Re:Fess up on What Makes a Good IM Client? · · Score: 1

    You mean your girlfriend reads /.?

  17. Bumper Sticker on Warming Up Mars With Greenhouse Gases · · Score: 1

    Earth First! We'll Ruin the Other Planets Later.

  18. Re:Here's a sample... on How To Conduct Your Very Own Buffer Overflow · · Score: 1
    If you look at the memset before the function call, I set the entire 8k buffer to zeros, and then when I call overflowMe(), I copy 8k - 256 bytes beyond the 256 byte local buffer, extending well past over the return address.

    Hate to nitpick, but that was a 4k buffer.

    Further, is zeroing a global array necessary? I thought global variables are implicitly zeroed.

  19. Re:On another note on Gordon Moore: Moore's Law is Dead · · Score: 1

    Meanwhile I suspect that the number of articles saying Moore's law can't go on forever will double every month on /. starting now.

    Here's your chance for immortality. Quick! Before anyone else does it - christen it as 'Nimloth's Law'.