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  1. lossy compression on Compress Wikipedia and Win AI Prize · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Using the same data lossy compressed, with an algorithm that was able to permute data in a similar way to the human mind, seems like it would come closer to real intelligence than the lossless compression would

  2. Re:iMac? on The 25 Greatest PCs of All Time · · Score: 0

    I was talking about the 1st generation iMac in the honorable mentions.

  3. iMac? on The 25 Greatest PCs of All Time · · Score: 0

    Why is this on here? Lollipop-style colors for computers isn't necessarily a good thing, and those were god awful slow, even for powerpc architecture. I'd take a G3 any day.

  4. Re:The GPL needs to go on Torvalds Critiques of GPLv3 and FSF Refuted · · Score: 0

    I read this in shock and awe. I guess you could say I was dumbstruck by a dumb*uck.

  5. Jet Pack Man on Another Pass at the Personal Jetpack · · Score: 0

    Funny time for this article, as here in Colorado someone flew a jet pack on a local radio station. The website of the station has a link to the video: http://www.startcolorado.com/iac/KBPI-FM/v/Jetpack man.wmv/ I haven't seen it yet, but what I heard on the radio was hilarious.

  6. Array of fans on Icy-Flo - The solution to this summer's heat · · Score: 0

    He should've made a large array of 80+ cfm fans. Then he'd be cool.

  7. Non-stimulants on Psychopharm Going 'Mainstream' In Schools? · · Score: 0

    A lot of people I know use drugs which aren't stimulants, such as hallucinogens, when doing activities that require out of the box thinking and creative solutions, such as code exploitation. While they may be becoming more mainstream for common tasks like school, seems like they already are mainstream on the underground.

  8. lost a patch server before? on Overconfidence in SSH Protection · · Score: 0
    So the DMZ box gets patches and can kick off commands against the patching server itself. The patching server for the entire company. The one safe source for binaries for all servers and client PCs. That one.
    Almost sounds as if he's speaking from past experience
  9. Re:End of OSS? on McAfee, Macromedia Flirting With F/OSS Community · · Score: 0, Troll
    No kidding. The article by John Dvorak was way off. People like him are writing influential articles based on opinions without any knowledge.

    The Mac OS was built around a Unix kernel not unlike Linux, but with a very advanced and slick user interface. The normal Apple menu structures and way of doing things are what the majority of both Mac and Windows users expect to see. The operative word is "intuitive." The Linux world suffers from a lack of modern intuitive menus and commands.


    Shows his lack of background knowledge. He brings up the fact that Mac OS X uses a BSD kernel (which, if you've ever written assembly code on both platforms you know it's very unlike Linux), and then somehow tries to relate that to Linux's lack of easy-to-use menus?

    Newsflash. The kernel doesn't make the menu look slick.
  10. Re:It can't work on Anonymous Library Cards An Option? · · Score: 1

    Oh, Screw the interest. I think I've found a new bank.

  11. Re:The OpenBSD project doesn't seem to agree. on Porting Open Source to Minor Platforms is Harmful · · Score: 1

    I agree. Writing code that works on many platforms allows you to make sure your code is solid. Sounds to me like Ulrich has been corrupted by the business mindset. He'd rather have quick updates then good ones. Like everyone else has said: Just because you don't catch the bug doesn't mean it's not there. I knew OpenBSD would come up before long. It seems like one of the last pure strongholds for the OSS community. RedHat has began to adopt the Microsoft outlook (har-har) on software development. As long as nobody knows about it, it's not a bug. So forget it and move on. Written on OpenBSD.

  12. Logic like this is the enemy of thought on HP Announces National Id System Built on .NET · · Score: 1
    .NET is the most powerful environment around
    Based on what?
    the only other choice is JAVA
    For one thing, Java is developed to be as OS-independent as is possible, so saying because it's going to be implemented to work with Windows doesn't rule out Java at all. For another thing, why is Java the only other language possible? Maybe it's just the only other language HP knows about.
    if the developed application is insecure it will be because of poor design not .NET.
    As far as I'm concerned, anything as high-level as .NET or Java is already insecure by design. You cannot possibly control the secure development of code when your code is a frontend of a backend of a backend. Secure code is written from the ground up. I agree with the original poster of this thread. If it's going to contain important data, it absolutely has to be secure--Especially if that means leaving out HP, and Microsoft, and cluttered, high-level languages.
  13. Re:Hmm on OpenBSD 3.7 Released · · Score: 1

    Also weird, why aren't any of the packages for X in the cksum or md5?

  14. Re:Ask Nicely on Winelib Hobbled by Exception-Handling Patent · · Score: 1

    Now correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't animated GIF's unable to be displayed (properly, anyways) because they're decompressed using the closed source LZO algorithm?