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  1. Re:Fix your tags on The Mathletes and the Miley Photoshop · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Do you mean the person simulates the use of quotes in real speech or the use of real quotes in simulations of speech? I'm confused.

  2. Re:hunter2 on Nielsen Recommends Not Masking Passwords · · Score: 2

    What ever happened to the chord keyboard? Does anybody still use them?

  3. Re:The ultimate irony on Kodak Kills Kodachrome · · Score: 1

    Really, you had your photographs in digital form 20 years ago, smartass?

    Not many on 5.25 floppies, actually, but you young sprats probably have only seen 9 track in movies. 20 years ago I had a Pixar rendering engine next to my desk, 32-bits per pixel: R-G-B-alpha. My point is that the digital data becomes useless long before the photographic print.

    The thing I have on 5.25" floppy that I can no longer use is the original Lemmings game.

  4. Re:hunter2 on Nielsen Recommends Not Masking Passwords · · Score: 1

    Good point. It is far too difficult for the guy with the telescope and photomultiplier tube to aim the thing at your keyboard, capture your hand motions and play them back at low speed. The dots are totally secure.

  5. Re:First Post! on Researcher Implants Laser-Activated Brain Cells · · Score: 1

    Can any system transcend itself? Can humans never understand consciousness? Isn't this the core of Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems? Aren't too many rhetorical questions annoying?

  6. Misleading headline on DHS To Kill Domestic Satellite Spying Program · · Score: 1

    Should be: "DHS Claims to be Killing the Domestic Satellite Spying Program"

  7. Re:The ultimate irony on Kodak Kills Kodachrome · · Score: 1

    And unlike negatives my digital files will never degrade (so long as I keep a decent backup).

    Yes. My pictures from 20 years ago are all safely stored on 5.25" floppy disks. It's a medium that will last forever!

  8. Re:Excellent.. on BIND 10 Development Now Fully Underway · · Score: 2, Funny

    Here's the entire code for Bind 1:

    grep $name /etc/hosts

  9. Re:Co(s)mic classification on Junior-Sized Supernova Discovered By New York Teen · · Score: 1

    The correct name is "chevynova"

  10. Re:Obvious on WHO Declares H1N1's Spread Officially a Pandemic · · Score: 4, Funny

    CDC?
    No. I'm too far inland.

  11. Re:The Mysterious Reoccurrence of Mr. Freckles on Most Blogs Now Abandoned · · Score: 5, Funny

    If only twitter were that good.

  12. Re:Seriously Java? on Java Gets New Garbage Collector, But Only If You Buy Support · · Score: 1

    One problem with toy benchmarks is that the working set for compiled code is so small it fits in processor cache. It doesn't give you any idea about how real world large applications perform. Processors are so fast that computation is essentially free and the limits are set by memory accesses and disk I/O.

  13. Re:7300 votes? on Voting Drops 83 Percent In All-Digital Election · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Maybe 44,000 people voted and the digital system lost 80% of the votes. How would they know?

  14. Re:Wait. What? on OLPC Spinoff Pixel Qi Merges E-ink With LCD · · Score: 2, Funny

    Haven't you ever seen Fringe?

    I think giant letters floating in the air would make navigating Boston streets much easier.

  15. Re:My hammer. on 45-Year-Old Modem Used To Surf the Web · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I would read it, but I haven't felt the same since my brain transplant.

    I recently read about some Buddhists who were turned down on historical status for their temple which has been torn down and rebuilt several times. They claimed that the materials that make the structure of the temple may be transient, but that the space enclosed is the important element and is therefore very old.

  16. Re:Real time is the key claim on IBM Wants Patent For Regex SSN Validation · · Score: 1

    That site even has an SSN filter which prevents you from putting in illegal characters as you type, so it doesn't need to highlight illegal characters. Not only is it prior art, it is done better than IBM's solution.

  17. Re:What if we assume they *are* on our side? on IBM Wants Patent For Regex SSN Validation · · Score: 1

    The US patent system was created by the Constitution.

  18. Re:No mention of memmove... on Microsoft To Banish Memcpy() · · Score: 1

    Pointers have size 4 or 8, but buffers are typically an array type, like char[80].
    That's why the macro is named COPYBUFFER and not COPYMEM.

    Obviously, once you use a pointer, you can stick anything in the dest size and have no way to check.

  19. Re:SOP for the FCC on FCC's Duplicity On BPL Revealed · · Score: 1

    They do select on the best available data. For example, this selection had 19 billion pieces of data submitted.

  20. Re:No mention of memmove... on Microsoft To Banish Memcpy() · · Score: 1

    #define COPYBUFFER(dst, src, len) memcpy_s(dst, sizeof(dst), src, len)

  21. Re:But does it work? on Court Orders Breathalyzer Code Opened, Reveals Mess · · Score: 1

    A := ((N-1)/N)*A + (1/N)*S

    can be rewritten like this to avoid floating point "noise"

    DELTA := (( S - A) / N)
    A := A + DELTA

    Another problem is when there is small variation around a large offset.
    Then you have to calculate the average difference from the offset and add
    it back at the end.

  22. Re:Paaaleeese on Rotten Office Fridge Cleanup Sends 7 To Hospital · · Score: 3, Informative
  23. Re:could someone explain what the issue is here? on Dealing With ISPs That Use NXDomain Redirection? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Depends on the VPN setup. I don't want my VPN clients sending all of their web browsing through the VPN and then back out through my firewall. I only want the traffic destined for my internal network. On their end, they should have a route table that sends traffic for me through the VPN and everything else through their normal ISP. I can support a lot more users that way.

  24. Re:Dont' bash CSS... on Styling Web Pages With CSS · · Score: 1

    Actually, the W3C tutorial is not a bad place to start. They seem to think they know something about CSS.

  25. Re:Yes! on Styling Web Pages With CSS · · Score: 3, Funny

    Also, I would like to announce the 10,000th reference to CSS Zen Garden which by law has to be mentioned in every /. story about web design.