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  1. Wth dude? I've never seen a 419 come from Zim. They generally come from Nigeria, which is over 6000km from Zim. I guess you are one of these ignorant Americans who have never had a geography lesson in your life?

  2. Re:PoetterKits on Linux Distributions Storing Wi-Fi Passwords In Plain Text · · Score: 3, Informative

    Lennart Poettering has had nothing to do with NetworkManager: http://www.ohloh.net/p/network-manager/contributors

  3. Re:It's not negative, it's neutral at best on Carbon-Negative Energy Machines Catching On · · Score: 5, Informative

    No. The process creates charcoal, not ash. When this charcoal is used as a soil amendment, the carbon is fixed for approximately 10 000 years. Read more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biochar

  4. Re:How is this carbon negative? on Carbon-Negative Energy Machines Catching On · · Score: 2

    It is carbon negative if you bury the waste charcoal.

  5. Re:Multi-line lambdas on Interviews: Q&A With Guido van Rossum · · Score: 1

    SyntaxError: not a chance
    LOL !

  6. Re:I Can't Help But Feel on Blackjack Player Breaks the Bank At Atlantic City · · Score: 1

    The article states that he nogiated for a hand shuffled deck, and for a hand shuffled deck, card counting is more effective the more packs there are.

  7. Bad explanition of qubit superposition on IBM Touts Quantum Computing Breakthrough · · Score: 3, Informative
    Quote from article:

    A qubit, like today's conventional bit, can have two possible values: a 0 or a 1. The difference is that a bit must be a 0 or 1, and a qubit can be a 0, 1, or a superposition of both. "Suppose you take 2 qubits. You can be in 00, 01, 10, and 11 at the same time. For 3 qubits you can be in 8 states at the same time (000, 001, 111, etc.). For each qubit you double the number of states you can be in at the same time. This is part of the reason why a quantum computer could be much more powerful," Ketchen said.

    I find that to be a terrible explanation. What he said: "For each qubit you double the number of states you can be in at the same time." is also true for normal bits. Huh? Here is a better explanation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qubit

  8. Back up an tweeting. on Criminal Charges Against Speed Trap Tweeter · · Score: 1

    I't seems he is using a borrowed cellphone, and is retweeting. Go @PigSpotter! http://twitter.com/PigSpotter/

  9. Re:How is SQL involved? on SQL Injection Attack Claims 132,000+ · · Score: 2, Informative

    On the server end there is a SQL injection exploit being used to get the malicious code out there.

    My point being that you don't need to do a SQL injection to do this.

    To prevent a SQL injection, you need to change ' to '' on input from the user that you pass to sql.

    To prevent a HTML+script injection, you need to change < to &lt;, > to &gt; & to &amp; etc. on input from the user that render to the browser. The sites in question are not doing this, hence, just stick the code you wish to inject into at comment or some other user field. This has nothing to do with SQL.

  10. Re:How is SQL involved? on SQL Injection Attack Claims 132,000+ · · Score: 1

    You are right, that's not SQL Injection attacks, rather a HTML+script injection. A SQL Injection allows you to meddle with the sites database.

  11. Re:Well just download the ISO. on Canonical Halts Ubuntu CD Free-for-all · · Score: 1

    The artwork for the cd and the cleave are available, so you can print your own.

  12. Re:Yeah, right on Microsoft Says No TCP/IP Patches For XP · · Score: 1

    My local stores still sell NEW netbooks with NEW licenses of XP on them... where's bug support for the new buyers?

    Microsoft don't want you to buy the XP version, they want you to buy the Vista/7 version.

  13. Re:Cue postgres fan bois on Has MySQL Forked Beyond Repair? · · Score: 1

    The old Enterprise Manager had a feature that I used to use a lot. You could open a query designer. "Design" a select query (typically add a where clause or possibly a join and a where clause on the joined table.) Execute the query, check the results. Then you could change the query type, to a delete or update statement. If you had multiple tables, it would prompt you on which table you wanted to change. It would keep the rest of the query (from, where, etc.) in tack. I can't figure out how to do this in the new Server Management Studio - frustrating.

  14. Re:Excuse Me But... on Google Mows With Goats · · Score: 3, Funny

    All the RAMs have all ready been used in servers...

  15. Re:Focus on quality? on Microsoft Asks Open Source Not to Focus On Price · · Score: 1

    I'll bet you forgot to tell them that a few months down the road he will have no way to install an up-to-date application unless he updates the whole system. And that he will have to update (aka reinstall) the whole system every few months, since thats the usual duration his applications officially are up to date.

    I don't know about SuSe - but for Ubuntu - LTS releases are supported for 3 years. And if he wants to just update 1 application - he just needs to add the backports repository.

  16. Re:No net connection? on Wikipedia Releases Offline CD · · Score: 1

    You have never been to South Africa where internet is slow and expensive due to a monopoly[1]. I'm sure this will find it way onto the freedom toasters[2] where anyone can take a blank cd and get a copy burnt...

    [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telkom_(South_Africa)
    [2] http://www.freedomtoaster.org/

  17. Re:Don't stop at just the labels... on Download Only Song to Crack the Top 40 · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Oh come on. Without copyright there IS no closed source. There would be no law to keep me from using it.
    So explain to me how you fix a bug in a derived version that you only have a binary for? The main point of the GPL is not just to ensure freedom to redistribute, but to ensure other freedoms like the ability to improve the program, or to study how the program works.
  18. Re:Details on the vector capabilities? on Firefox 3 In Alpha · · Score: 1

    See http://www.mozilla.org/projects/svg/status.html From what I can see, pattern, and foreignObject support have been added since Gecko 1.8.1.

  19. Re:FLV? on VLC 0.8.6 Released · · Score: 1

    Seems to be fixed.

  20. MSI comming with 1.1 on Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.1 Cancelled · · Score: 1

    Windows Installer (MSI) packages will be availible with versions 1.1. These make it possible to do enterprise wide installs.

    These are currently availible on the trunk builds if you want to test them out
    firefox-1.0+.en-US.win32.installer.msi