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  1. Who is this article about? on Benchmarking Power-Efficient Servers · · Score: 1

    According to the EPA, data centers -- not including Google et. al
    So data centers, excluding large data corporations, are going to use a lot of power? ???
  2. Re:You can use Flash on AMD64 Firefox on Flash Player 9 Gets H.264 Support · · Score: 1

    At this time, mozilla-plugin-gnash works on youtube, at least for Gutsy. Youtube was the one site that I really had to have flash for, and now there's an open-source solution for that!

  3. What?? on Building a Fast Wikipedia Offline Reader · · Score: 5, Funny

    TFA is:

    1. Not a thinly-veiled attempt to advertise a crappy product
    2. Not bashing Microsoft
    3. Not about somebody who is trolling open-source (i.e. SCO)
    4. Not about Bush taking away all our rights and ending freedom
    5. Not about voting fraud and the end of democracy/America/the world
    6. Not decrying Vista DRM and its ties to the MAFIAA
    7. Posted on Slashdot

    Furthermore, TFA is interesting and informative.

    Am I in heaven?

  4. Re:End-Of-Life on an O/S seems bizarre on Why is Microsoft Patching XP? · · Score: 2, Informative

    The End-of-life date for XP is due for 2014. I think it's fair to say that if MS continues to provide patches until then, it has done a good enough job and doesn't need to continue for the rest of eternity. The end-of-life mentioned in the summary is just about the end of being able to acquire additional new licenses.

  5. Re:Power-of-10 prefixes are the norm in IT on Terabyte Hard Drive Put To the Test · · Score: 1

    650 MB CDs are actually 681 * 10^6 bytes. The MB here means 2^20 bytes, not 10^6.

  6. Re:Cool! on Chinese Pirates Copy iPhone, Make Improvements · · Score: 1

    hey should be dealing with inflation problems because their economy is growing so fast. But they're not, because they keep the value of the yuan artificially low

    I know you're just a xenophobic troll, but you do realize that inflation causes the yuan to be worth less, right? To prevent inflation as you claim, China would have to keep the value of the yuan "artificially" high, not low.

  7. Mandatory? on Nissan Turns to Technology to Stop Drunk Driving · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I really hope this doesn't ever become mandatory in new vehicles in the future. I don't want to pay $2000 extra for my car when I don't drink. But if it's not made mandatory, who would buy it?

  8. Re:News of the Day on Japanese Auto Makers Teaming Up To Create Standard OS · · Score: 3, Funny

    Fitting, since 90% of BSODs are caused by faulty drivers!

  9. Re:Not Sophisticated At All on Sophisticated, Targeted Breakins Uncovered · · Score: 2, Informative
    How did you get modded +5 Insightful? From the link you posted:

    Also, some older virus scanners simply report all compressed executables as viruses because the decompressor stubs share some characteristics with those. Most modern virus scanners can unpack several different executable compression layers to check the actual executable inside.
  10. MAC filtering is not a solution on IPhones Flooding Wireless LAN At Duke · · Score: 2, Informative

    For all you saying "It's Duke's fault! Secure the network!" maybe you should consider that Duke provides wireless access to something like 15,000 undergrads, grads, faculty, etc. Duke's network is set up so that you can connect to a pool of internal IPs with no authentication, but before you can actually go to any sites other than the network registration site, you have to type in your Duke ID and password.

    This is an effective solution. Can you imagine if Duke locked down APs with MAC filtering? You'd have 10,000 "authorize my MAC" requests between August 15 and 30 each year on an already-overwhelmed IT staff, and you can spoof MACs anyways. How many people actually know what a MAC is and how to find it? Sure, they could provide a tool that automatically detects your MAC, but how are you going to download it if you can't get on in th first place?

    Also, please don't suggest WEP/WPA, because distributing a password/passkey amoung that number of users is as good as not having one at all. And a more complex solution, like PKI or smartcards, is going to create more headaches than it's worth when deployed to this number of users.

  11. Re:Grow up! on Tech Writers Spreading FUD About GPLv3 · · Score: 1

    FUD isn't slang for something you don't agree with.
    You much be new here...
  12. Re:Two options on Scanner Spots Open Source Installations · · Score: 1

    Who are these companies who don't allow open-source software? Even Microsoft makes extensive use of GPL software.

  13. Units of measure on World's Fastest Broadband Connection — 40 Gbps · · Score: 1

    can now watch 1,500 HDTV channels simultaneously or download a whole high definition DVD in two seconds


    I think the real question is, how many Libraries of Congress per minute can she download?
  14. Re:Gore and public domain on Lawrence Lessig to Leave Copyright Sphere · · Score: 4, Funny

    It does not help my impression of Gore either to get the Inconvinient DVD that says "share" this movie with your friends, while the movie starts with a $250,000 FBI threat against sharing the movie.
    What kind of irresponsible site did you get your iso from? Mine just had the movie.
  15. Re:And the Pope is Catholic.. on Users Rage Against China's 'Great Firewall' · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Um, I'm an American and I've never seen a map where Tibet isn't within China's borders. What are you talking about? And the US doesn't even recognize Taiwan as a country, but that's more debatable than Tibet.

  16. Re:Any confirmation? on China Censoring Flickr · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yes, I first started noticing this at the end of last week (around Wednesday or Thursday). Flickr photos worked fine up until then; now all images (JPGs?) from flickr domains are blocked, even the logos, icons, buttons, and such that are part of the site layout. I'm in Shanghai.

  17. Re:I know where stuff is on Slobs Found To Be More Productive Than Neatniks · · Score: 1

    And if you're really efficient, you can actually have the trackball under an overhang of papers or other clutter so that the trackball doesn't hog the airspace above it!

  18. Re:Absolutes are almost never correct on Slobs Found To Be More Productive Than Neatniks · · Score: 2, Funny

    Now for the priority queue, when I'm a little messy, the important stuff floats to the top. As the mess gets higher and deeper, after a while the stuff on the bottom becomes unimportant, and can then be cleaned up (similar to garbage collection).

    ---

    The problem is that if you let the mess grow too large, it *WILL* impact your ability to operate efficiently. So every once in a while you need to do a house cleaning of your different paper stacks, your email, your desktop files, and whatever other info you use on a regular basis.

    So, if you let it become too cluttered, your priority queue degrades into a bubble sort?
  19. Only on slashdot... on Intel Squeezes 1.8 TFlops Out of One Processor · · Score: 1

    Only on slashdot will you find a post complaining about how bad of an idea an 80-core processor is. (On a side note, I'll finally be able to open PDFs in less time than it takes to go to the bathroom and back.)

  20. Re:As an aside... on The Pirated Software Problem in the 3rd World · · Score: 1

    I think the important point of this post is you admitting to have used WinME and formatted over Win2K to reinstall WinME.

  21. Re:If the picture doesn't match? on China Creates Massive Online ID Database · · Score: 1

    Although I generally agree with your point that Chinese do not all look alike, saying that there are 51 (there's actually 56) minority groups in China is not a valid argument as greater than 97% of Chinese are Han ethnicity.

  22. Re:Spam/Marketing? on China Creates Massive Online ID Database · · Score: 1

    You have a good point, but I'd like to point out a little thing regarding China -- If by mother's maiden name you mean last name, then 10 last names will probably account for half of China's population. That would only mean 10x more work for the botnet. (And in China, your mother didn't change her name when she got married, it stayed the same.)

  23. Re:3 was the last worthwhile version. on Netscape 9 to Undo Netscape 8 Mistakes? · · Score: 1

    I don't think 3.0 had Flashblock, NoScript, nor AdBlock.
    That's ok, because Netscape 3.0 didn't support Flash, JavaScript, or graphical ads either.
  24. Re:Obvious Solution? on RIAA Members Sue Allofmp3.com Over Infringement · · Score: 1

    How long before RIAA finds an envelope with nothing but a dime and a note that says "Here's what you wanted"?

  25. Re:NEWSFLASH - BBN re-discovers SMTP !! on Communicating Even When the Network Is Down · · Score: 1

    SMTP... (otherwise called email for those who don't remember TLA's)

    TLA... otherwise called Three Letter Acronym for those who don't remmeber TLA's.