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  1. Re:Where's the accompanying spike in crime? on GTA: Vice City Sells 8.5 Million Copies in 3 Months · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And then come to another country, very similar, but slightly different in a few critical social ways... which is exposed to just as much desensitizing viloence, and see much, much less of said gunshot victims.

    If you can't figure it out - go north, and don't blame the games for your overall culture.

  2. Re:at work? on The RIAA and MPAA Target Day-Job Downloaders · · Score: 1

    Sure, on your PC (if it's running, and updated, and hasn't been trojaned by something). I'm talking about corporate filtering measures, to allow the company to be confident in the usage of the service.

    Such gateway/proxy programs exist for HTTP and SMTP - but not P2P.

  3. Re:at work? on The RIAA and MPAA Target Day-Job Downloaders · · Score: 1

    Show me a P2P antivirus/malware filter. I can show you many, many such items for web surfing or email servers.

  4. Re:Actually he isn't being melodramatic enough on Carmack Needs Rocket Fuel · · Score: 1

    Sure, but he's acting like the handling of chemicals that dangerous is something rare. It's not.

    Industry does it all the time, day in and day out. Those black liquid cars on the trains aren't all carrying oil. Those tanker trailers aren't all milk and gasoline.

    The infrastructure exists to get it there, and provided he's got what he's required to for handling it as an industrial entity, then the company should stop stonewalling him.

  5. Re:I know where he can get it on Carmack Needs Rocket Fuel · · Score: 2, Informative

    Uh, no. :) I believe hydrogen peroxide as a fuel needs to be 70% or better.

  6. Re:No, I would not. It's too dangerous. on Carmack Needs Rocket Fuel · · Score: 1

    I think you're being a bit overly dramatic about this.

    Yes, it's a hazardous material.

    Industry works with hazardous materials day in and day out.

    From reading the thread, one of the annoyances John is working within is that they only sell by the RAIL CAR. Sounds to me like this stuff gets used in volume, regularly, and is shipped normally.

    Also, when you say "you won't find it available over 35%" - do you mean for consumer purchase, or for industrial purchase? You can get nasty, extremely powerful chemicals at very strong concentrations - so long as you buy in industrial size bulk lots.

  7. Re:What kind? on Carmack Needs Rocket Fuel · · Score: 4, Informative

    Hydrogen peroxide - H2O2.

  8. Re:trying to crack down on reselling on Remotely Counting Machines Behind A NAT Box · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Only?

    The always-on, low-latency nature isn't a selling point to you?

    Rapid website access isn't a selling point?

    I had the dubious pleasure of being re-acquainted with 56k access on a trip to my parents house, out in the sticks where they're just too far to get any broadband. I rapidly realized that I'm accustomed to -always- being online when my computer is on, and that websurfing is excruciatingly slow in comparison to broadband. No thanks!

  9. Re:It depends. on Ask Internet Expert Dave Barry · · Score: 1

    I should hope you wouldn't use #3, since it's already in use. ;)

  10. Dell's Inspiron batteries are rated for 400 cycles on IBM 600 Series Laptops and Flaky Batteries? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Dell's Inspiron batteries are only rated for 400 cycles (ctrl-f for "battery life") of charge/discharge.

    That's not long at all, especially if you consider the transit commuter, using his laptop on the ride to and from the office - that's only 200 working days.

    I just wish I knew where the "1.5/3 hours" figure comes from though. Even brand new, I was lucky to get 45 minutes, and that's minimal hard drive activity... although I suppose Linux could just be sucking more power (more threads in the background or something) than Windows does.

  11. Re:not that impressive on .org TLD Now Runs on PostgreSQL · · Score: 1

    Having worked with one of the new .ca registrars when the whole thing opened up (I was the firewall admin at their site, and general server admin), the insanity that CIRA required for a network config makes the parent comment far, FAR too believable.

  12. Re:!!! Incoming News Flash !!! on 98% of DNS Queries at the Root Level are Unnecessary · · Score: 1

    A very essential protocol, for the operation of any Baboon-Wolf Cluster (the Baboons ride the Wolves like Orcs on Worgs... very impressive to watch, and the distributed destruction capacities per gold crown are unmatched by the old "Siege Elephant" technologies).

  13. Re:I have no idea what this article means ! on Using Redundancies to Find Errors · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And moreover, in the areas where you find these mechanically detectable bugs, the likelihood of more subtle bugs is higher, as these errors are made when the programmer isn't really thinking about what he's doing. It's like triaging your wounded code, to fix the worst first.

  14. Re:uh... don't be dense on Michelin to Include RFID Transmitter in Every Tire · · Score: 2, Insightful

    While humorous, RFID is one hell of a lot more reliable (on short spans) than OCR. It's also easy to embed it such that you can't tell it's there, while a camera can usually be noticed by the observant.

  15. Re:Stop spam? on Plan for Spam, Version 2 · · Score: 1
    I can't remember ever thinking "Oh that bastard cut me off! I'll help him increase his penis size, then give him a work-at-home job! Oh I'm JUST SOOOO ANGRY!"
    Man, what a time to be without mod points!
  16. Re:Ok, what ithe heck on Competition To Find Aussie PM's Email Address · · Score: 1

    Rather than "the President" (proper noun), it's my opinion that 'president' is an excerpt from 'president@whitehouse.gov' or whatever it is. That's why it's in quotes - it's a quotation.

  17. Re:WHY WHY WHY WHY??Pic included on Nvidia Talks About Next-Gen Geforce, Plus Pics · · Score: 1

    Theres a difference between common practice, and what the standard allows, though. I don't know for sure, but it's a possibility.

  18. Re:WHY WHY WHY WHY?? on Nvidia Talks About Next-Gen Geforce, Plus Pics · · Score: 3, Informative

    Presumably, the spec for the motherboard doesn't guarantee that the area on that side of the AGP slot will be free and open - CPU's may be allowed to be there, and thus either their ring of capacitors, or heat sink, would get in the way.

  19. Re:filters on MIT Spam Conference Conclusions · · Score: 1

    Presumably, the email referred to - coming out direct to an MX from an AOL client - doesn't have an @aol.com address. It just originated in their dialup space, probably then going through an open relay (via port 25) and off to the victim.

  20. OT: posts at 1 on The End of the Free PCI Device List (Update) · · Score: 1
    And why do my posts start at 1 all of a sudden. The worlds gone mad, and I never noticed.....

    You too, huh? I just noticed that last night. Guess they decided to change the default state of the checkbox.

    I'd decheck for an OT response like this, but that choice seems to have been removed from my hands. :)
  21. Re:Enforceability on Hiding Your Choices And Saying You Made Them · · Score: 1
    @nd Circuit

    Is that the new court dedicated to Internet issues? About time!
  22. Re:'Bout time someone noticed this on SMS Messaging Unreliable · · Score: 1

    British Columbia, actually. Note I said "NorthAm". :)

  23. Re:'Bout time someone noticed this on SMS Messaging Unreliable · · Score: 2

    Yep.

    The selling point of "they all do it that way, so you have no choice".

    Cell service really isn't all that user-friendly in NorthAm.

  24. Re:Wax byproducts? on NASA Announces Enviromentally Friendly Jet Fuel · · Score: 2

    Don't forget the timeless classic...

    "She had blue eyes. One blew east, the other blew west."

    Sometimes, humor's the only way to cope with the pain.

  25. Re:Interior photos on Review Of GM's HyWire Hydrogen Concept Car · · Score: 2

    If you look closely at the rear doors, though, they appear to have an inside tab that sticks forward to the front door - you can't open the rear doors without opening the front first.

    That doesn't completely remove the problems with that design, but it does make some inroads.